The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Sallar55]

Some more French railway rolling stoc. , First one an engine in a shed, but all the rails each side are gone

 

[Sallar55]

Some wagons

 

[Cycleops]

They always do everything bigger in the US, this would seem to include their derailments.
This is the aftermath of a coal train that detailed in Lawrence Kansas. Wonder how long this will take to clear up?

View: https://youtu.be/XIiWzRuLnGQ

 

[rogerzilla]

As per most Hollywood films, they'll probably burn it. Or nuke it.

 

[Spartak]

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 3rd

Hull, & Barnsley Railway (as was)
Long Lane
Kirk Smeaton
Pontefract

http://www.hullandbarnsleyrailway.org.uk/hbr-history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_and_Barnsley_Railway
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/her...e-could-become-coal-to-coast-greenway-3501399

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/275704

 

[robjh]

Some wagons

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Any idea what the story is with those clerestory wagons, eg. the one in the last photo? I don't recall seeing anything like that in France before. I'm guessing that they were originally passenger stock but later converted to other uses, and pretty old - maybe 1920s?

 

[robjh]

Traces of the Dornoch Light Railway, which ran as a branch off the Highland Railway's Far North line, above Inverness, and closed in 1960.

Dornoch station building

trackside hut near Skelbo

Two random facts about this line :
1) in its very last years it was operated by two WR class 1600 pannier tanks - were these the only GWR/WR locos to ever operate in Scotland?
2) in the 1980s there was an unsuccessful campaign to have the Far North line speeded up by rerouting it across the new Dornoch Firth road bridge then being built, and the new section would have used some of the Dornoch line's trackbed, but it was not approved and so Wick/Thurso trains continue to rattle scenically but slowly around the longer route inland via Lairg.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Any idea what the story is with those clerestory wagons, eg. the one in the last photo? I don't recall seeing anything like that in France before. I'm guessing that they were originally passenger stock but later converted to other uses, and pretty old - maybe 1920s?

I don't know much about French Railways, but those look like French Post carriages. I don't know if they were converted or if they were purpose built though. They seem to be pretty popular amongst preserved railways in France. Here's another one at Neuf-Brisach, on the French/German border:

 

[rogerzilla]

We went to Didcot to see the newly-restored Pendennis Castle. It looks very good. As well as being a bit of a globetrotter, it's famous for being used in the 1925 exchange trials with the LNER A1, which taught the LNER about long-lap valves.

 

[Spartak]

66617 parked at Bristol Parkway earlier today.

 

[Juan Kog]

Saw this on a Hertfordshire farm on today’s ride. Couldn’t get any closer The gate was locked with a large private sign.
So some editing.

 

[Hover Fly]

That came from the Finnish reserve about 1990, for a tourist line that fell through. There are quite a few Finnish locos round the country.

 

[Juan Kog]

That came from the Finnish reserve about 1990, for a tourist line that fell through. There are quite a few Finnish locos round the country.

Thanks @Hover Fly . When I’m passing by another time there maybe some one around who will let me have a closer look and answer some questions.

 

[Juan Kog]

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Saw this on a Hertfordshire farm on today’s ride. Couldn’t get any closer The gate was locked with a large private sign.
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It’s Gone. Went past the farm today, the loco and the section of track have disappeared. Still nobody about to settle my curiosity.