The Rail Enthusiast thread

[dicko]

We are thinking of taking the India Pacific train from Perth to Sydney next April, anybody traveled this route advice would be nice?

 

[Mike_P]

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

One of the worse books I looked at was a highly regarded one on North Eastern Railway locos. Read fine until you tried cross referencing comments in it, er no thats larger/smaller/later/earlier etc

 

[Spartak]

Cross Country service departing from Bristol Parkway today ...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

@Accy cyclist wrote in 'The Chain' thread:


View: https://youtu.be/h7A_98i-INk?si=dL4A2EjQdW2D7D0h


But... Is that really a class 56 in the drawing?

 

[Spartak]

Departmental unit leaving Portway P&R station early this morning [ 04:50 - taken from the Avonmouth Bridge ].

 

[Mike Ayling]

We are thinking of taking the India Pacific train from Perth to Sydney next April, anybody traveled this route advice would be nice?

We have been on both the Indian Pacific and the Ghan which goes from Adelaide to Darwin.
We travelled Gold Class which we found comfortable enough.
You are well fed and watered witn beer, wine and cheaper spirits included only having to pay for the top shelf stuff.
Food is great, seated at four person tables but obviously menu choices are limited.
Your cabin has an ensuite and a bench seat which changes to two bunks at night.
At the stops you are bussed to local places of interest.
Kalgoorlie -.mining town home of the gold superpit.
Then you cross the Nullabor a flat treeless plain to Adelaide.
Adelaide is a terminus station so thereafter if your cabin was facing forward you are now facing the back of the train.
Broken Hill is where BHP the mining giant began. Letters stand for Broken Hill Proprietary Company.
You then travel east across New South Wales going over the escarpment and down into Sydney.
A quick overview of someof the geography of Oz.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 23rd
Calder Vale Industrial Units
Calder Vale Road
(between KirkGate Station & the River Calder)
Wakefield

Close to here; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1669558

Just south-east of the 'Calder Vale'; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.5&lat=53.67750&lon=-1.48645&layers=10&b=ESRIWorld&o=84

 

[Spartak]

66516 approaching Westerleigh Junction this morning.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@wiggydiggy

I've mentioned it, be it here, on in the model railway thread
I pass over the bridge that the photograph was taken from every working day
Unless, I ride through the woods/along the river bank, which the line can be seen going along in the background

Scroll down this post, to see a modern view off the bridge
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/t...esting-geographs.215788/page-257#post-6074912

My blue Ribble is on the same bridge, that your photo is taken from
My CGR, leaning against the cone, is approximately where the filled in 'basin' was

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.1&lat=53.70313&lon=-1.46365&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=84

 

[Venod]

Saw this advertised, can't make it but the project has been posted in here before I think:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AatVga9gH/

"Wakefield Railway Modellers will be returning to Normanton Library this Friday and Saturday 23-24 May with their model of ‘Tom Puddings’ at Stanley Ferry. The first visit proved invaluable in getting the project started. Come along and see what that help has achieved so far and hear about our future plans. There is still lots to do and learn, so we would love to hear any information, memories or stories you may have about the Navigation, boats, railways and collieries that were part of this now vanished piece of local heritage and history."



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Nothing to do with railways, but at the now demolished Ferrybridge C Power Station, they had a "barge unloader" it would pick a full Tom Pudding raise it up and tip it over, when it was working it was a great site, but it suffered with weld failures and needed a lot of maintenance.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Nothing to do with railways, but at the now demolished Ferrybridge C Power Station, they had a "barge unloader" it would pick a full Tom Pudding raise it up and tip it over, when it was working it was a great site, but it suffered with weld failures and needed a lot of maintenance.

There's still one in Goole Docks
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/t...esting-geographs.215788/page-257#post-6074912

 

[Venod]

There's still one in Goole Docks
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/t...esting-geographs.215788/page-257#post-6074912

I didn't know about that, I wonder if it still works, looks completely different to the Ferrybridge one.

https://www.powerstations.uk/ferrybridge-coal-plant-barge-tippler/

 

[classic33]

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.

"Moved" there on the 1st April 1974.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I didn't know about that, I wonder if it still works, loks completely different to the Ferrybridge one.

https://www.powerstations.uk/ferrybridge-coal-plant-barge-tippler/

The example at Goole, dates to the 1860s, so is very much 'of its era'

 

[Mike_P]

"Moved" there on the 1st April 1974.

No North Yorkshire was an entirely new county and the Ridings had entirely different boundaries. The West Riding included Sheffield as their was no South Riding while the North Riding included Middlesbrough.