The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Moon bunny]

New toy day: (photo courtesy of hover flea)

 

[Andy in Germany]

New toy day: (photo courtesy of hover flea)

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Trains I can remember as new and exciting when I was a teenager are now in museums: I'm old.

 

[Hover Fly]

A use of ash from steam locomotived I never knew was shown on the Yorkshire edition of Look North with it being shovelled into a canal lock with a leaky gate. The water pulls the ash into the leaks and the ash clogs up the leak.

And, in the very early days, if a boiler was leaking where it couldn’t be caulked, a handful of oatmeal in the manhole would hopefully seal it. I would love to see them do that with a nuclear reactor heat exchanger.

 

[Hover Fly]

Trains I can remember as new and exciting when I was a teenager are now in museums: I'm old.

I’ve waited about 30 years, but I finally got to cab one!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Trains I can remember as new and exciting when I was a teenager are now in museums: I'm old.

That one isn't yet, it's still in service, but yes, 91131 is in a museum at least.

 

[accountantpete]

I love the sound of a tractor in the morning - this old clip is brutal



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8HGtibUMCc

 

[Spartak]

 

[Spartak]

Cross Country service between Yatton and Bristol at lunchtime today ...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

A most painted looking class 318 the other day there.

Photographed at Singer (of Singer sewing machine fame):

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The Sidings (alongside)
'The East Coast Main-Line
North of York
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25318188.sidings-built-yorks-unique-restaurant/

I visited the site, a while ago

 

[Spartak]

Waiting for my commuter train this afternoon, when this rumbled thru' Stapleton Road station ...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The SidingsAlongside
'The East Coast Main-Line', north of York
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25318188.sidings-built-yorks-unique-restaurant/

I visited the site, a while ago

Stayed there years ago.

 

[Spartak]

New station roof at Bristol Temple Meads finally being exposed after many , many months covered in scaffolding ...

 

[bluenotebob]

The sad and unloved remains of what was once quite a large railway station at Maure-de-Bretagne.

Yesterday I was following an old railway line that ran roughly SE from Ploërmel via Messac (a port on the Vilaine river) to Chateaubriant in the eastern fringes of Brittany. I saw quite a few old station buildings and level crossing houses on the route but nothing to compare with the size of this.

A bit more research this morning suggests that there may have been another line coming into Maure-de-Bretagne from the north (an alternative to the currently extant Rennes/Redon line which runs a bit further east).

So many of Brittany’s old railways have disappeared without trace and you need to go back to maps of the 1920s to really appreciate how extensive the network was.

 

[Paulus]

Our trip to the furthest north you can go by train was a success.
Kings Cross to Inverness,
Inverness to Thurso, reversing at Georgemas junction
Bus to John o'Groats and Wick
Then a train back to Thurso going straight through Georgemas junction.
Back via Inverness to Glasgow and down the west coast route to Euston.
In between we got the ferry from Scabster across to Orkney for the day.
6 days away in total and excellent weather to boot.