The Rail Enthusiast thread

[classic33]

Finished! Just needs screwing to the garage wall now (it's too big for the actual garden gate, and weighs as much as it).

Will you be painting the outside edge of the sign black?

 

[rogerzilla]

No, just the line around the edge is usually done. When they were new I expect they just ran a black roller over the surface.

This is, of course, harder to paint as you need two smooth edges to the black!

 

[classic33]

Station staff used to take pride in making certain everything was perfect on the platforms. Usually meant a brush being used.

 

[rogerzilla]

It'll look better when it gets a few rust stains again. I also have an SR wagon "D" plate to put up when I get round to it; they are much less common as the SR was mainly a passenger railway. Will probably relocate the little malachite one to make room for it.

The oval SR plate is, I think, from a brake van.

 

[NorthernDave]

So Northern is no more (well Arriva Rail North, anyway) and now everything will be sorted as the government take over running their services.

Apart from the fact it's the same frontline staff, running the same unreliable trains on the same creaking and chronically underfunded infrastructure, what could possibly go wrong?

You know when I jokingly asked what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...-will-look-under-public-ownership-2012236?amp

Well, not only have they appointed the former head of Trans-Pennine Express to the board (a company famed for being almost as bad as Northern at running a railway), but they've announced that their priorities are to clean the trains and give the staff new uniforms.

Talk about fiddling while Rome burns...

 

[classic33]

You know when I jokingly asked what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...-will-look-under-public-ownership-2012236?amp

Well, not only have they appointed the former head of Trans-Pennine Express to the board (a company famed for being almost as bad as Northern at running a railway), but they've announced that their priorities are to clean the trains and give the staff new uniforms.

Talk about fiddling while Rome burns...

Allow local councils to take some control!!
I'd not trust the local council to operate a Brio train set.

I read the deep cleaning means more older rolling stock back on the rails. The newer stock shouldn't require deep cleaning.

Calderdale Council looking to close the footbridge to platforms 1 & 2, with new access, to platform 3, from the tunnel underneath the station. Awaiting an answer as to how you're expected to get to P1 & P2, when they close it.

Bear in mind Leeds is a Northern run/controlled station.

 

[DCBassman]

Part of the extended garden of the house-and-cat-sit we're doing while I recover from the back op.
The left-right hump and fence is a remnant of the single-track railway between Lydford and Coryton, Devon. Followed to the right, I think, would bring you to the site of Liddaton Halt. To the left, Coryton, and on to Launceston in Cornwall.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Last Saturday (29th) whilst in York, with daughter

The old Station Signal Box
Now an 'upstairs/downstairs' retail unit

I'm not sure, when it was 'handed over'?

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1984818
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101256554-railway-station-micklegate-ward#.XmIdFEB2vIU

 

[Andy in Germany]

Last Saturday (29th) whilst in York, with daughter

The old Station Signal Box
Now an 'upstairs/downstairs' retail unit

I'm not sure, when it was 'handed over'?


View attachment 507245

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1984818
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101256554-railway-station-micklegate-ward#.XmIdFEB2vIU

About there is usually where I meet my parents when I go to visit.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

About there is usually where I meet my parents when I go to visit.

Before it was redeveloped, about 10 years ago(?) Wakefield Bus Station had a clock, that lots of people met under
(Like any similar location, nationwide)

I met my (now) wife there, 33 years ago
Well... she was with Jane, a mutual friend, who introduced us
(I still blame her, whenever I see her )

The new station stands slightly to the east, on the site of the old bus depot (Borough Road)

 

[Spartak]

Picture taken on tonight's commute....
The disused Pill - Portishead line south of Bristol.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday looks like it's going to be a 'family day-out'
I've suggested Pickering & Thornton-le-Dale

With a route there (or back) via Helmsley & Ampleforth

I'll hazard a guess that most of you know one of the reasons for Pickering
Even though it's not open for the season, till 6th April, there's bound to be some activity so close to the date?
(well, and for the 'geographs' thread too!!)
For those that may not, shame on you!!

Pickering; https://www.nymr.co.uk/
Thorton-le-Dale; https://mathewsons.co.uk/ (it's the garage featured in the TV series 'Bangers & Cash')
Ampleforth (or to be more accurate, Gilling East) https://rsme.org.uk/index.php

YES!!, there will be photographs

EDIT @ 11:51
The other directions journey will be via Sutton Bank & Thirsk, which I like as a market town

 

[TheDoctor]

I don't think this has been posted here before...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3QlR98--A

[gets coat]

 

[Andy in Germany]

A

203 314-0 Lurking outside Stuttgart station. This is one of a number of locomotives originally built by East German railways, as the V-100 class, & rebuilt extensively by Alstom after they were withdrawn by DB. This is one of those subsequently bought by DB Netz, which is similar to Network Rail in the UK.

I'm not sure why they come with a towel rack though, perhaps someone can advise.

Looking the other direction, this shows why there's a permanently allocated shunter; this has been built to supply the massive building site in the middle of Stuttgart where DB is rebuilding the main railway station, in a project that will probably cost about 20 billion Euros, turning the entire station through 90°, lowering it underground and in the process reducing its capacity. Well done there.

As far as I can tell the siding at right are for stabling wagons for taking away spoil, the track in the centre leads to unloading points, the road on the left, believe it or not leads about 5 kilometres into Stuttgart and disappears into the massive hole: it's exclusively for the construction vehicles and is kept entirely separate from other roads (this in a city that "can't find the space" to make cycle lanes). The track just visible to the extreme left is the main line into Stuttgart from the north.

It'd make an interesting model, as there's a lot of movement, normally there are several locomotives stabled near where the class 203 was standing, but of course because I happened to be there with a camera they all vanished...

 

[BrumJim]

A
203 314-0 Lurking outside Stuttgart station. This is one of a number of locomotives originally built by East German railways, as the V-100 class, & rebuilt extensively by Alstom after they were withdrawn by DB. This is one of those subsequently bought by DB Netz, which is similar to Network Rail in the UK.

I'm not sure why they come with a towel rack though, perhaps someone can advise.

Feng Shui.