Richard A Thackeray
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"I can see my house from here!!"
(on the aerial photo, in my post immediately above this)
(on the aerial photo, in my post immediately above this)
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NorthernDave
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The Scotsman: Bike storage on brand-new LNER trains ‘downright dangerous’.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/trans...new-lner-trains-downright-dangerous-1-5033451
Brand new trains, with an expected service life of 30-40 years and standard road bikes don't fit. Be interesting to see how they fudge, sorry fix, this.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/trans...new-lner-trains-downright-dangerous-1-5033451
Brand new trains, with an expected service life of 30-40 years and standard road bikes don't fit. Be interesting to see how they fudge, sorry fix, this.
NorthernDave
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Yet more trouble on the line...
Mirror Online: Leaks on new Hitachi East Coast trains spark safety fears - and could cost £8bn.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/leaks-new-hitachi-east-coast-20731266
Richard A Thackeray
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With regard to our visit to the Middleton Railway, earlier this year, on Saturday 22nd June
I found the tickets placed in a book
I thought nothing of them, until.... I put them down a red place-mat at the table
Note the Guards punch-mark...…..
Sorry, not the best of close-focus images
http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/
I found the tickets placed in a book
I thought nothing of them, until.... I put them down a red place-mat at the table
Note the Guards punch-mark...…..
Sorry, not the best of close-focus images
http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/
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NorthernDave
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Richard A Thackeray
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At the least, amusedI bet you were chuffed to spot that.
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60020 passing thru Yate this morning with the oil tankers from the Westerleigh depot.
Andy in Germany
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Meanwhile in Japan Japan railfreight is finally replacing my favourite diesel, the DD51. On the Plus side they are replacing them with Df 200 locomotives:
I like DD51's because in a country that likes everything to look the same, they're weird. They have a B-2-B wheel arrangement which shows up on some of the side images in the video above. Apparently this is so the pressure on the centre bogie can be adjusted, giving a lower axle weight on lightly laid industrial lines and then a higher weight for more adhesion on the main line. This would seem to be a bit of a handicap generally because they tend to be used in multiple when I've seen them. Despite this they've survived since the 1970's so they aren't doing so badly.
The DF 200's are a proven design having been used in Hokkaido, the northernmost Island of Japan which has he distinction of being freezing cold. It is also why the locomotives are called the 'red bear' after the Hokkaido Black Bear. Like a lot of Japanese locomotives they're a B-B-B design, C-C designs being out of favour, although there are some C-B diesels lurking about as large shunting locomotives.
Unfortunately this means I won't be able to go and take one last set of pictures of the DD51s when I next visit Japan, but life goes on.
I like DD51's because in a country that likes everything to look the same, they're weird. They have a B-2-B wheel arrangement which shows up on some of the side images in the video above. Apparently this is so the pressure on the centre bogie can be adjusted, giving a lower axle weight on lightly laid industrial lines and then a higher weight for more adhesion on the main line. This would seem to be a bit of a handicap generally because they tend to be used in multiple when I've seen them. Despite this they've survived since the 1970's so they aren't doing so badly.
The DF 200's are a proven design having been used in Hokkaido, the northernmost Island of Japan which has he distinction of being freezing cold. It is also why the locomotives are called the 'red bear' after the Hokkaido Black Bear. Like a lot of Japanese locomotives they're a B-B-B design, C-C designs being out of favour, although there are some C-B diesels lurking about as large shunting locomotives.
Unfortunately this means I won't be able to go and take one last set of pictures of the DD51s when I next visit Japan, but life goes on.
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NorthernDave
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Yet more new trains that don't work...and after they made such a fuss launching them just a few weeks ago.
Yorkshire Coast Radio: New Scarborough Trains Withdrawn.
https://www.yorkshirecoastradio.com/news/local-news/2981696/new-scarborough-trains-withdrawn/
Yorkshire Coast Radio: New Scarborough Trains Withdrawn.
https://www.yorkshirecoastradio.com/news/local-news/2981696/new-scarborough-trains-withdrawn/
Andy in Germany
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It makes me wonder why they pack them with so much software. I once had a chance to look at some of the older Stuttgart trams and was interested to see just how simple they are: the thing is they work, like older electric locomotives that are still belting across the UK and Europe at high speeds, because there's very little to go wrong.
PS: Apparently when they work they're pretty nice to travel in.
NorthernDave
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And yet more problems with new trains - and after massive delays getting them into service...
Halifax Courier: Rail company apologises after Calder Valley trains delayed and cancelled.
https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/ne...alley-trains-delayed-and-cancelled-1-10080132
Halifax Courier: Rail company apologises after Calder Valley trains delayed and cancelled.
https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/ne...alley-trains-delayed-and-cancelled-1-10080132
rogerzilla
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Didn't get any of those issues with normal doors! I suppose a combination of H&S, wheelchair access to toilets, and people leaving slam doors open, so someone has to go along and shut them all, makes electric doors inevitable.
antnee
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Haven't seen one mention of proper locos yet perhaps I missed it Seems to me that most of the posts relate to those foul black fume belching things that came in and took over from the wonderful world of Steam still I expect a good majority of you are far too young to remember the romance of steam? Ok I know progress has got to happen but I am always saddened to see the old pushed aside for new though if it wasn't for advancement I wouldn't be writing this now would I?
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antnee
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Oh yes just remembered that the old style Guards van You could store far more than the number thats possible now what is it about 4 I seem to remember on the HST I travelled on
Andy in Germany
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My Grandad was a goods guard on the Midland, then LMS and British Rail. He saw no romance in steam, which rather put me off it.
Also my Gran loved diesels because they didn't leave her washing grey from soot. They lived in a house backing onto the railway loines just north of Walsall station and the steam locomotives exhausts were just below the level of the garden.
