The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Spartak]

Bordeaux Gare Saint-Jean this morning, tried to catch a train to Arcachon but due to engineering works it was cancelled, so went on a bike ride instead ... 👍

 

[Jenkins]

While waiting for the final leg of today's journey home - a Matisa R24 S Ballast Regulator in front of the Norwich-London Intercity train which was being delayed by a broken down engineering train in the Colchester area.
Useless information alert - for some reason they run a formation of 2 x 4 coach & 1 x 3 coach Class 755s rather than the normal 12 coach Class 745 each way on this route once per day, this being the return leg.

 

[Jenkins]

No photos unfortunately, but there were a couple of unusual locos at Netherfield station as we passed (on a boring Class 158) which I've now worked out were Class 20s.

 

[Mike_P]

No photos unfortunately, but there were a couple of unusual locos at Netherfield station as we passed (on a boring Class 158) which I've now worked out were Class 20s.

Unusual? Don't you mean proper.

 

[Drago]

I should have got photos but didn't, but the campsite I stated at had a user operated level crossing. Once the lights turned green I had Mrs D leap and open the gates whike I drove across. All very quaint.

https://abcrailwayguide.uk/beeston-regis-private-level-crossing-norfolk

 

[Spartak]

165103 pulling into Stapleton Road station ...

 

[Spartak]

Class 08 's & Class 31 's at Avon Valley Railway, Bitton this morning as I passed on my cycle to Bath ...

 

[Jameshow]

DMU on KWVR...

 

[Spartak]

Tonight's commute at London Paddington.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Selllafield locomotive; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vn1l9r28no

 

[Moon bunny]

I've been to Sellafield, don't remember there being a railway there but it was donkeys years ago.

Luckily I never glowed in the dark like these kids:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk0WzCtF0yY

Great! Now I get this as a banner ad.

 

[Hover Fly]

I've been to Sellafield, don't remember there being a railway there but it was donkeys years ago.

One of the biggest private networks in Britain, recently got new a battery loco. Also indirectly “own” DRS.

 

[Spartak]

DMU approaching Sea Mills station.

 

[dicko]

The Deltic engine, easily swapped for repair an engineers dream.

 

[robjh]

I tracked down, via a bike ride on forestry logging roads, the location of Riccarton Junction station on the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle (and once with onward trains via the Midland route to London St Pancras). It ceased to be a junction in 1956 when the Kielder line closed, and the Waverley line was shut for good in 1969. At one time it had a small village for railway workers around the station, accessible only by rail, but of all this very little remains and the site is being enveloped by the forest.
(I gather a small section of track was relaid by a heritage group in the 90s, but among all the trees I must have missed it)

The station in the mid-60s, from an information plaque