The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Mike_P]

Why could they not be used on tpe route?!🤔🤔🤔

Cost and driver availability, the latter like the 68d

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Why could they not be used on tpe route?!🤔🤔🤔

This is the service to Scarborough, via Mexico City and Lagos?

 

[Andy in Germany]

This is the service to Scarborough, via Mexico City and Lagos?

It's probably cheaper if you split the ticket.

 

[Spartak]

Another picture in my irregular series of Belgian trains... 👍

Mechelen to Brussel-Zuid this afternoon.

 

[Andy in Germany]

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Followed by this electric multiple unit that was heading to Gloucester, hadn't seen one of these before, it carried the no. 756104.

Anyone have any info on these...?

Here's our local version in Karlsruhe on Sunday:

They run a number of services from Stuttgart to various small cities in Baden Württemberg; ironically, yellow and black are the colours of Baden-Württemberg and someone decided to use the yellow on the front.

It's also interesting that the train is bigger, possibly in all directions, but the floor is lower.

Other regions have different colour schemes. This was near Essen a couple of years ago with a different door configuration for urban commuting trains:

Those units have seats in lots of different colours with logos depicting local landmarks from the Rhineland.

ANother more local version in Mannheim: this is also in Baden-Württemberg but is bordered on one side by Rhineland Pfalz and on the other by Hessen. so the trains are funded by several states, hence the collection of logos on the side:

 

[Andy in Germany]

Swiss Railways 193 522 "Elbe" Passing work towards Freiburg and Basel yesterday.

Never was a place of employment so well situated...

 

[robjh]

The new Cambridge South station is rapidly becoming a reality on the ground. These photos today show the outline of the platforms, and the two new tracks between the western-side platforms are now in place, though not connected with the running lines at each end.

 

[Hover Fly]

Ulverston a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I know it’s on the ’Mail’ website, but this is ridiculous!
I wonder if it will be become the subject of a ‘compulsory demolition’, or whatever the official phrase is?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ld-home-extnsion-blocking-railway-tunnel.html

 

[Mike_P]

Matter seems to be years late as the extension was there in Jan 2019
https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/threads/heckmondwike-tunnel-w-yorks.36845

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Had this been about 20 years later, that might just have been me in the picture.

"YEESSS! SEEN IT!!" 😆😆


D1066 'Western Prefect', Birmingham New Street, 1974.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

 

[robjh]

The new Cambridge South station is rapidly becoming a reality on the ground. These photos today show the outline of the platforms, and the two new tracks between the western-side platforms are now in place, though not connected with the running lines at each end.

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Update as of today: the catenary has been installed on the new lines and dismantled on the old. Looks like the next step is to use the new, western side tracks for through running while the existing, eastern side ones are realigned to make room for an island platform. Cambridge main station is closed to trains until the new year.

 

[robjh]

I seem to remember not long ago finding a train tracking website for the UK that would, among other things, show and allow you to search by the locomotive/unit number, eg. for my local line I could see that the train is a class 720, and I could search for individual unit numbers such as
720 002. However, I can't find any link to it now, nor find it on a google search.

Anyone know of such a site, or have I mis-remembered what I saw?

I'm off to Liverpool next week to see the remaining 507s on the Merseyrail 3rd-rail electric system, and think there might still be a very few 508s around, so I would particularly like to track these down if I can.

 

[Paulus]

Realtime trains does that to a certain extent, but not all TOC's show the numbers of the locomotives or rolling stock.