The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Oldhippy]

No graffiti either.

Looks like Osaka station as well, it has long sweeping curves in the design.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Looks like Osaka station as well, it has long sweeping curves in the design.

I remember there were quite a few like that in Belgium.

I'm not sure I've been to Osaka JR station, at least nit in a long time. I know I've used the Hankyu and Kintetsu stations a fair bit when I went there, and they're fairly ugly, like the rest of Osaka...

 

[Oldhippy]

I remember there were quite a few like that in Belgium.

I'm not sure I've been to Osaka JR station, at least nit in a long time. I know I've used the Hankyu and Kintetsu stations a fair bit when I went there, and they're fairly ugly, like the rest of Osaka...

Not the best looking city in Japan. I remember checking in to a hotel there very proud I could now hold my own in the language department only to look silly as they have many different words for what I had gotten used to in Tokyo.

 

[andy0001]

i feel pretty lucky when people talk about railway/tube stations, i've worked at every London Underground station. also spent 4 years on London Bridge railway station and installed then helped commission the comms across the site, we got to dismantle the old london dungeons and had fun in there.

I've worked at Strand Underground station which is a closed listed building, they filmed atonement, bank job and the firestarter song there.

I've walked around old disused stations and platforms and explored loads of them.

If you are ever in London, book a night in Cahoots, it's a bar in Kingly court(near oxford st), it has no Cahoots sign outside, just a guy on the door with a peak cap on and a sign above saying 'to the trains' it's an old station..

 

[Spartak]

Back in the UK....

 

[Andy in Germany]

Not the best looking city in Japan. I remember checking in to a hotel there very proud I could now hold my own in the language department only to look silly as they have many different words for what I had gotten used to in Tokyo.

If it helps, my mother in law has the same problem; she grew up outside Tokyo and still doesn't get the accent in the Shima-Hanto region, let alone Kansai. Apparently there are different customs as well: someone said the "stand" and "walk" side of escalators is different, which I imagine causes a lot of problems.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Stood waiting at Pontefract Baghill, for Clun Castle

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Stood waiting at Pontefract Baghill, for Clun Castle

Just as evocative, steam heating

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

If I can manage to get away from work early tomorrow, Sir Nigel Gresley is booked to be passing through Normanton & Wakefield KIrkGate

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2022/1...-todmorden-and-manchester-this-wednesday.html


EDIT; Wednesday 30 @ 13:45
I didn’t look at the date
It was last month

 

[robjh]

One of the short-formation HSTs used by GWR in the south west, yesterday at Bristol Temple Meads

 

[Mike_P]

Those are apparently going to be withdrawn.

 

[Spartak]

Those are apparently going to be withdrawn.

.... in 2045

 

[Andy in Germany]

There have been freight trains getting parked up in the freight loops all afternoon and just now a yellow maintenance machine scuttled past. As this line is more busy than the UK's east and west coast main line combined, I imagine the driver was under some pressure to get out of the way...

 

[Andy in Germany]

The maintenance wagon was followed by a whole train of yellow vehicles hauled by a beautifully restored V100 formerly of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the DDR. They're probably equivalent of the UK's class 20 and like the Class 20 the V100's crop up all over the place, ironically in private ownership, usually re-engined and in different colour schemes.

 

[Mike_P]

.... in 2045

20 years earlier than that
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2022/11/castle-hsts-to-be-withdrawn-by-great-western-railway.html