The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 9th

Quite surprisingly, this was Senior Managements suggestion, whilst we were travelling home

Locomotion
Shildon
County Durham

https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/34051-winston-churchill-sr-21c151-br-34051/

https://www.locomotion.org.uk/
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2479298

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 9th

Locomotion
Shildon
County Durham

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 9th

Locomotion
Shildon
County Durham

LMS plough

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 9th

Locomotion
Shildon
County Durham

APT

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 9th

Locomotion
Shildon
County Durham

The glorious English Electric 'Deltic' prototype

I even bought a t-shirt, in the correct blue, with the 'Cats Whiskers'


https://www.thedps.co.uk/
https://collection.sciencemuseumgro...ve-deltic-co-co-3300hp-1955-diesel-locomotive

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 9th

Locomotion
Shildon
County Durham

'Black 5'
5000

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 9th

Locomotion
Shildon
County Durham

HST125
The record-setter!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I even bought a t-shirt, in the correct blue, with the 'Cats Whiskers'

 

[IaninSheffield]

MBIFO 34027 Taw Valley whilst on a stretch of NCN45 The Mercian Way

 

[rogerzilla]

I think they look better than the unrebuilt spam cans, as well as being better. No oil leaks or random valve events.

 

[GetFatty]

Friday 9th

Locomotion
Shildon
County Durham

APT

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I'd always thought the one at Crewe was the last remaining one of these

 

[BrumJim]

I'd always thought the one at Crewe was the last remaining one of these

The one in Crewe is an electric-powered one, and was in service for a short while.

The one in the photo was one of the developmental gas turbine trains, which never carried passengers.

 

[GetFatty]

The one in Crewe is an electric-powered one, and was in service for a short while.

The one in the photo was one of the developmental gas turbine trains, which never carried passengers.

Ah ok

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

60103 is running tomorrow

Given the 'loop' it's taking, to get from Doncaster to Leeds, I have multiple choices, of where to go to see it

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U54966/2021-07-24/detailed

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

60103 is running tomorrow

Given the 'loop' it's taking, to get from Doncaster to Leeds, I have multiple choices, of where to go to see it

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U54966/2021-07-24/detailed

Not the best of shots
Cow Lane, Sharlston; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6591683
By this time, she was 9 minutes behind schedule

It arrived a lot earlier than I anticipated at Normanton Station
, there must have been a clear path at Calder Bridge & Turners Junction
I was stood approximately where the blue car is; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3460793