The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Spartak]

The disused line between Pill & Portishead, taken on tonight's commute.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I hope they produce 4,472 coins

 

[Moon bunny]

I hope they produce 4,472 coins

https://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/p...of-flying-scotsman-with-a-collectable-2-coin/

 

[rogerzilla]

The funny thing about FS is that most people think of it as no. 4472, an apple green LNER A3 (with the distinctive "banjo" steam collector) It was never thus, only in the Alan Pegler preservation era, but that's how it is often remembered, in colour film at least.

It was an A1 from construction until after WW2, when it was rebuilt as an A3 while it carried Thompson-era running number 103. Then it became British Railways 60103.

The coin looks correct as it is a RHD loco (brake ejector pipe along RHS of boiler) and therefore still an A1.

 

[Mike_P]

IIRC it now has an A4 boiler and the frames were replaced at some point in its service days so whatever tipped 100mph in 1934 has long been razor blades etc

 

[rogerzilla]

Yeah, it's a bit of a mishmash. It wasn't even a particularly good example of its class; 2750 Papyrus was the fastest by some margin, but it wasn't preserved.

 

[Moon bunny]

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/how-much-flying-scotsman-original/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The funny thing about FS is that most people think of it as no. 4472, an apple green LNER A3 (with the distinctive "banjo" steam collector) It was never thus, only in the Alan Pegler preservation era, but that's how it is often remembered, in colour film at least.

It was an A1 from construction until after WW2, when it was rebuilt as an A3 while it carried Thompson-era running number 103. Then it became British Railways 60103.

The coin looks correct as it is a RHD loco (brake ejector pipe along RHS of boiler) and therefore still an A1.

I concur, but the Apple Green/4472 is more iconic

 

[Jenkins]

Engineering unit that has just gone through Ely station

 

[Mike_P]

I concur, but the Apple Green/4472 is more iconic

Engrained in the public originally by the LNER publicity machine

 

[TheDoctor]

A few years ago I woke up on a Pacer at that platform. I'd fallen asleep on my way home from work and somehow been left alone after all the other passengers had got off, and the crew had switched the lights off and disappeared.

I once had a friend who was notorious for falling asleep on late-night trains. When the Channel Tunnel opened we firmly expected to get phone calls from Dusseldorf or some such.
When I regularly went drinking in London there was one train I hated to catch. First stop Stevenage. Next stop Edinburgh.

 

[rogerzilla]

I know someone on another cycling forum who meant to get off at Stroud late at night but woke up in some sidings in Carmarthen.

I had a work colleague who dozed off and woke up in Paddington when he actually lived in Reading. He did it twice in a month.

 

[Juan Kog]

I have dozed off on a train, I was woken by the driver calling me on the cab to cab phone “ when was I going to open the doors “ .

 

[TheDoctor]

I know someone on another cycling forum who meant to get off at Stroud late at night but woke up in some sidings in Carmarthen.

I had a work colleague who dozed off and woke up in Paddington when he actually lived in Reading. He did it twice in a month.

A whole 'nother country! I think we have a winner.
For rather poor values of 'win'.

 

[the_mikey]

An old photo of a 144 pacer sitting at the platform at Huddersfield, about to make it's way down the line via Penistone and Barnsley to Sheffield..