The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thanks guys
(Friday 21st)

Got to Bromsgrove Station on an 'about the houses' return to the M42
(which also meant a nice surprise in passing, not knowing it was there - & having to call at Paul Matty Lotus )

Sadly, due to fencing, & track realignment, from old pictures. the incline can't be seen as well
There's a sense of it, from the first road-bridge, just to the north of the station though!!

I did see an electric head up - no stop at Bromsgrove!!



Oh, & whilst in Birmingham itself, I stumbled (as I had no idea it was there) Moor Street Station

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Oh, & whilst in Birmingham itself, I stumbled (as I had no idea it was there) Moor Street Station

It's lovely, almost as nice as the station at King's Lynn!




https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101375972-old-moor-street-station-nechells-ward#.XQ0Oc3dFzIU

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'll be here (with Senior Management & f-in-l) on Saturday 22nd, or Sunday 23rd
It'll be interesting to travel along the Balm Road branch, along the backs of the houses on 'the Arthingtons'

http://middletonrailway.org.uk/index.php/special-events/mixed-traffic-weekend

It's odd in a way, that it's not fenced/separated, as it's only used a few times a year
Eg; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1230472

We got there!
4 Locomotives on rotation (2 steam/2 diesel)
http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/...n/rolling-stock-steam-locomotives/s3-ner-1310
http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/...ling-stock-steam-locomotives/s13-hunslet-2387
http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/...esel-and-electric-locomotives/d1-hunslet-1697
http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/...lectric-locomotives/d6-brush-beyer-peacock-91


1812 rack line, proposed as the oldest railway relic, in the World

Coming back into the site, after being 'Red-Flag Man' waved across Moor Road

Park Halt (in Middleton Park)

Crossing Moor Road (jct 5/M621, in the background)

Beza Road line, after the Tulip Road crossing
The white gates, in the distance signify where the main-line is (well, protected by Palisade fencing, etc..) between Leeds - Castleford

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

In relation to my Middleton Railway visit, in the post immediately prior to this

There was this 10-ton wagon being used, as part of the 'Mixed Freight' demonstrations, painted up after one of the local Collieries
http://middletonrailway.org.uk/index.php/museum-collection/rolling-stock-wagons/wagon-b420709

Crossing Moor Road

We have the smaller version (x 3)
Note the inch 'ruler' on the bottom of the cutting mat

Some history of the 'Middleton Colliery' (aka Broom Pit), including maps
https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/c...eld/leeds/middleton-broom-colliery-1808-1968/

 

[Biff600]

From a few years ago

 

[BrumJim]

Park Halt (in Middleton Park)
View attachment 471999 View attachment 472004

Disappointed by the extra 'E' on the Saddle Tank Loco.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Archive Find... (from July 2005)

Whilst adding pictures to the present'Classic Cars' thread

Thornes Park
Wakefield



View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10217705445140172&set=a.10217670978198520&type=3&theater

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Charlottes Ice-Cream Parlour
Whitley
(in the middle of an imaginary triangle between Wakefield, Dewsbury & Huddersfield)

Wednesday 3rd July


Diesel, no doubt (& run on 'red')

http://www.charlottesjerseyicecream.co.uk/

 

[Andy in Germany]

While out riding I tend to follow railway lines. This is partly because I'm pessimistic and want a Plan 'B' if something goes wrong, but also because I'm still a train nerd, just a train nerd on a bike.

So when planning a ride a couple of weeks back, I deliberately aimed for a railway station to turn around at.

Eyach, change here for: Haigerloch, Hechingen, Gammertingen, Sigmaringen and Kleinengstingen.

This is why your correspondent ended up one spring Saturday afternoon, with slightly sore legs, at Eyach, junction of the German Railways line between Tübingen and Switzerland, and the Hohenzllerischen Landesbahn (HzL) branch to Hechingen.

DB Track to the left, HzL to the right. Notice relaxed approach to matters like fencing and level crossing signage.

Click here for an image taken in the 1970’s from almost the same location. Notice the HzL/DB link is the other way around.

Hohenzollern was once a semi-independent state, a tiny corner of Prussia, in fact (don’t ask why), and as such it got to build its own railways.

Originally the branch from Eyach only ran as far as Stetten, because someone had realised there was money to be made selling liquid carbon dioxide and mineral water from a natural source in the valley, but after dithering for about ten years the HzL finished the line to the junction at Hechingen up in the hills.

Goods shed. This would make an awesome arts centre.

Surprisingly intact abandoned crane.

By the time the railway was complete passengers with any sense would have caught the Reichsbahn train from Tübingen to Hechingen and left Eyach out all together. There’s not much use for a railway connecting a small town with three houses so passenger services were stopped back in the 1950’s, but Eyach was still needed for transferring 15000 tones of liquid CO2 a year to the Deutsche Bahn system for transport up to Stuttgart and points beyond.

Entrance from DB station to the HzL ‘Station’ beyond. It seems the HzL were not expecting many passengers.

The branch line is still used for some freight. There are also tourist trains in summer: these run on Sunday, which would have been handy to know earlier, as it would have resulted in more interesting photographs.

Deutsche Bahn station on the left, HzL Station on the right. Platforms are for wimps apparently.

I got fairly carried away thinking up ways to make a model based on this, with the HzL becoming metre gauge, with transshipment sidings; and transporter wagons; and mixed trains with railcars…

Of course, this was partly a way of putting off the return trip to Stuttgart…

As I look at these photographs, I realise why I generally find myself on solo bike rides.

(Pictures of the station in 2009. This is what it looked like when I first cycled through)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

All being well, in the morning, I'll get out to see this; https://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-waverley

Probably go up Barnsdale Road, over 'Peckfield Bar', & along the (Roman) Ridge Road, to this bridge; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/125375

Or maybe Micklefield Station?
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3070295

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

All being well, in the morning, I'll get out to see this; https://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-waverley

Probably go up Barnsdale Road, over 'Peckfield Bar', & along the (Roman) Ridge Road, to this bridge; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/125375

Or maybe Micklefield Station?
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3070295

I went up to the Roman Ridge bridge, over the Leeds - Selby/York line (it divides, just the other side of the A1)
60103 was about on time, for a change, but was making steady progress (maybe being held, for a path into Leeds City Station??

Quite surprisingly, there were only 5 others on the bridge waiting (inc, 2 couples)




Edit @ 18:55
I forgot to mention that I went up in the car, as I was going to call at Morrisons, in Castleford, on the way back

En-route, I'd had a Dwight Yoakam CD playing, as I got back in & drove away, the next track was this


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPk9f8nzQTA




How co-incidental

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I bought a new book yesterday morning
I've got a couple of the other volumes in the series, but didn't know this one was available

I know most of the locations in it, so the changes (over the years) are of equal interest to the images themselves

 

[Proto]

A delightful but abandoned railway station, Marvão-Beirā, in Portugal, only a few kilometres from the Spanish border. The line is no longer used but the station and tracks are semi preserved, and I’m led to understand this is in case they may be needed again in the future. Not open to the public, just closed up.
Station is complete with Station Master’s office, baggage room,, ticket office,and I suspect why the station was there in the first place, a Passport and Customs Office!

 

[Andy in Germany]

A delightful but abandoned railway station, Marvão-Beirā, in Portugal, only a few kilometres from the Spanish border. The line is no longer used but the station and tracks are semi preserved, and I’m led to understand this is in case they may be needed again in the future. Not open to the public, just closed up.
Station is complete with Station Master’s office, baggage room,, ticket office,and I suspect why the station was there in the first place, a Passport and Customs Office!

What a beautiful building. It looks like whoever built it wanted to make a good first impression of Portugal.

Also: no Graffiti, which is nice.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

On the Yorkshire Post website, but not actually in the mornings (paper) edition

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...ed-in-yorkshire-dales-national-park-1-9868166