Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Today's power unit on the York - Peterborough leg...
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Jameshow
Guru
Much smoother than DMU tbh.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
During a recent break I had a go on the Rudyard Lake miniature railway. Anyone else been on it?
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
No, but I hope they sold exceedingly good cakes!
classic33
Leg End Member
It'll have passed by now!
Got it from a volunteer on the K&WVR. Don't know where they got it from.
Took me a while to get the joke but I joined the dots… a sort of Rudyard Coupling if you see what I mean
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Ba DUM Tish!!
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Passing through Amersham on the bike the other day, I came across this.
A half size model of a Metropolitan Railway train, made from the looks of it of wood.
(For those who don't know, Amersham is still the furthest outpost, with Chesham, of London Underground's Metropolitan line, and way outside London proper).
A half size model of a Metropolitan Railway train, made from the looks of it of wood.
(For those who don't know, Amersham is still the furthest outpost, with Chesham, of London Underground's Metropolitan line, and way outside London proper).
Spartak
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- Location
- Bristolian
Cross Country train 170101 from Bristol Temple Meads to Stanstead passing thru Stapleton Road this morning.
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
What's the livery on the 170? Doesn't look like the usual Cross Country one.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
It may be one of the newly refreshed (repainted & modernised) part of the fleet - which would also explain a couple of units I couldn't identify in a siding outside Ely which were partly hidden by some old EMR stock
https://www.modernrailways.com/article/crosscountry-sets-out-fleet-transformation-plans
Mad Doug Biker
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- Location
- Craggy Island
Yeah, it's the new Cross Country livery.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
From the limited view that I had the yellow paint under and red to the sides the driver's window looked very similar to the Greater Anglia livery at the front, but the units didn't look like the class 755 that GA run. I now realise that they were repainted XC 170s.
I was once told every factual book has at least one error in so anyone copying it would be found out. Not sure if that is correct but it seems right with The Lost Railways of Yorkshire's West Riding: Harrogate and the North which in its second paragraph incredibly puts Harrogate in the North Riding, followed a couple of pages later by referring to the 1865 station at Arthington as remaining open; its been closed for 60 years.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
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Yeah, if you know your stuff and go through it all with a fine toothed comb, you will always find something, no matter how tiny
