The Rail Enthusiast thread

[NorthernDave]

Much kerfuffle about the first Pacer being withdrawn by Northern:
RailAdvent - Railway News: First Pacer train WITHDRAWN from Northern service.
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2019/08/first-pacer-train-withdrawn-from-northern-service.html

(although withdrawn appears to be a flexible term, as apparently it might reappear if there are "exceptional circumstances")

While I agree that they're past their sell by date, I'd rather have traveled on one of them with their opening windows over the last few weeks rather than yet another hermetically sealed Northern 158 sweatbox with failed air-conditioning.

 

[classic33]

They withdrew them before, and sent them to South Wales. This time Scotland get the withdrawn units.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Daughter, & her boyfriend, are doing Settle-Carlisle, next Wednesday, but it's only steam from Hellifield
https://westcoastrailways.co.uk/thedalesman/dates-times-prices-dalesman-steam-train.cfm

They already know; LOTS of pictures

They went
35018 'British India Line'
I know that from a text, I sent, asking what was coupling up, when they were at Hellifield

 

[classic33]

Might be of interest - live streaming video of York Station from the Rail Operating Centre

http://www.railcam.uk/partners/NRYorkROC1.php

Can we set a train to were we need it to be using the above?

 

[AuroraSaab]

I'm on holiday in Mayrhofen, Austria this week. They have a little steam train that alternates pulling the passenger train along the narrow gauge track down the valley to Jenbach.

Loads of bikes for hire here (around €12 a day for a standard bike), though most of them seem to be electric.

 

[NorthernDave]

Can we set a train to were we need it to be using the above?

If only!

 

[robjh]

I rode today past the former Bottisham and Lode station, on the Cambridge-Mildenhall line that closed in 1964.

it even still has a shelter on the opposite platform.

This quiet branch line was once planned as a new main line to Norwich, until the Great Eastern engineers worked out a way of protecting the route across the Fens from Ely from washing away.

 

[robjh]

Much kerfuffle about the first Pacer being withdrawn by Northern:
RailAdvent - Railway News: First Pacer train WITHDRAWN from Northern service.
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2019/08/first-pacer-train-withdrawn-from-northern-service.html

(although withdrawn appears to be a flexible term, as apparently it might reappear if there are "exceptional circumstances")

While I agree that they're past their sell by date, I'd rather have traveled on one of them with their opening windows over the last few weeks rather than yet another hermetically sealed Northern 158 sweatbox with failed air-conditioning.

I was very pleased to get a chance to travel on one of these horrors as it jumped, thudded, growled and squealed its way from Lancaster to Leeds this year. I've never had to rely on them for regular transport, but they've always held a macabre fascination for me. We'll miss them when they're gone

 

[classic33]

I was very pleased to get a chance to travel on one of these horrors as it jumped, thudded, growled and squealed its way from Lancaster to Leeds this year. I've never had to rely on them for regular transport, but they've always held a macabre fascination for me. We'll miss them when they're gone
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Northern are planning on retiring the last of them in 2024. Five years left yet to enjoy them.

 

[robjh]

Northern are planning on retiring the last of them in 2024. Five years left yet to enjoy them.

Bet the local rail users are delighted to have them for a bit longer.

 

[classic33]

Bet the local rail users are delighted to have them for a bit longer.

At present we'll take anything that's actually moving.

 

[BrumJim]

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2019/08/first-pacer-train-withdrawn-from-northern-service.html

I only hope that when I retire, I don't get melted down and made into coke cans.

 

[Paulus]

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2019/08/first-pacer-train-withdrawn-from-northern-service.html

I only hope that when I retire, I don't get melted down and made into coke cans.

That's probably too good for these horrible bus on train track thingys.

 

[BrumJim]

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2019/08/first-pacer-train-withdrawn-from-northern-service.html

Any women on this thread (yeh, right!). Is there any credibility to the thought that the woman on the left chose her skirt to match the front end of the train?

 

[robjh]

That's probably too good for these horrible bus on train track thingys.

I doubt there are any Leyland Nationals in operation still. As buses I thought they were actually quite good.