robjh
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- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Oh, so you're to blame?
But seriously, we salute you š
I don't know whether to be surprised at the bike and train fan overlap, but it's nice to know I'm not alone!
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Oh, so you're to blame?
But seriously, we salute you š
I don't know whether to be surprised at the bike and train fan overlap, but it's nice to know I'm not alone!
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
I was in a museum of German history yesterday and I thought of you lot
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Today's first picture from Germany is of a French TGV with inOui branding arriving at Karlsruhe, en route for Paris Est
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
The day's other German pictures are from Mannheim where I chanced to cycle past the Technomuseum and saw a row of railway stock exhibited outside
There was also a class 18 Pacific and a more modern diesel that had been used for testing.
There was also a class 18 Pacific and a more modern diesel that had been used for testing.
Knaresborough viaduct is well known but the town also has a very high arched underbridge that presumably if built a few years later would have been a girder bridge. A touch narrow hence the traffic lights following improvements for pedestrians but certainly not one in danger of a vehicle strike. Halfpenny Lane underbridge - Bridge No.16
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robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
A day for proper trains today, with a locomotive at (at least) one end.
My first train of the day, at Karlsruhe - about to leave for Konstanz
My last train of the day, at Chur in Switzerland
and also at Chur, on the Raetian Railways metre gauge platforms
My first train of the day, at Karlsruhe - about to leave for Konstanz
My last train of the day, at Chur in Switzerland
and also at Chur, on the Raetian Railways metre gauge platforms
Mike Ayling
Veteran
- Location
- Melbourne Downunda
The gauge may be a metre but the rolling stock has a decent width!
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I'm not a full on cagoule wearing, thermos drinking railway nut, although I do find the railways interesting.
More pertinently, riding to the station and taking my folder on the train is one of lifes pleasures. In less than a year I've been as far sarf as Kent, and as far North as Edinburgh on the overnight sleeper. Wonderful fun.
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
The bottom one is a V200, copied and shrunk a bit to become the British Railways D800 Warship class. Because the mechanicals were the same size but the body was narrower, the engine compartment was not a place for fatties.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Wow, that's a train I use regularly to travel between Karlsruhe and Offenburg.
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
I wondered if I'd passed your office, not that you would have been in it on Saturday morning
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Sunday 9th
We were up in Edinburgh for a long weekend (22 posts)
Amelia & Sam (daughter & b/f) had gone into the centre of Edinburgh
Joanne & l went out my car, & were at North Queensferry
We were heading to āThe Kelpiesā & Falkirk Wheel afterwards, so instead of driving back into Edinburgh to pick them up, we got a train in, met them
Then, the 4 of us got the train back to North Queensferry, to continue to Falkirk
Note the huts!
We were up in Edinburgh for a long weekend (22 posts)
Amelia & Sam (daughter & b/f) had gone into the centre of Edinburgh
Joanne & l went out my car, & were at North Queensferry
We were heading to āThe Kelpiesā & Falkirk Wheel afterwards, so instead of driving back into Edinburgh to pick them up, we got a train in, met them
Then, the 4 of us got the train back to North Queensferry, to continue to Falkirk
Note the huts!
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Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
No, the Konstanz train goes into the Black Forest and through Villingen; I work in the Rhine valley. Oddly I was in Villingen on Sunday.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Sunday 9th
Sir Nigel Gresley Memorial
Booking Office
Waverley Station
Edinburgh
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1712505
https://gresley.org/sir-nigel/
Sir Nigel Gresley Memorial
Booking Office
Waverley Station
Edinburgh
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1712505
https://gresley.org/sir-nigel/
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Just had this in the 'Post A Lie' thread:
Rockay has received a new job recently and a very important one too.
He has been hired by SNCF and RENFE to facilitate a new freight consist of snails between France and Spain for the consumer market.
He has only one request and that is to call the service, the 'ESCARGO'.
.ES, geddit?
Rockay has received a new job recently and a very important one too.
He has been hired by SNCF and RENFE to facilitate a new freight consist of snails between France and Spain for the consumer market.
He has only one request and that is to call the service, the 'ESCARGO'.
.ES, geddit?
