The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Jenkins]

Bristol Parkway this morning ...

68005 + 68009 pulling the Nuclear train.

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66721 + 66780 top and tailing an aggregates train.

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66502 + 66551 in the sidings.

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Don't think I've ever seen a class 68 before.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Don't think I've ever seen a class 68 before.

They have a nice sound, but are a bit too modern for me these days.

Well regarded locos though apparently.

 

[Windle]

Driving past Denham's scrapyard just outside Shildon last night I spied a low loader heading back up the road, sure enough there was a old Metro unit sat awaiting it's fate. Most of the withdrawn units are being scrapped there, but that's the first time I've seen one despite driving / cycling past the place regularly. Passing again this morning it was gone . 4010 according to someone on RailUk forum. Still, progress marches on with the flow of new units arriving. There's also been an announcement today of £1.8BN for extending the line from Pelaw down through Washington to South Hylton. This is a view of the overgrown trackbed coming down from Pelaw, taken on an early March ride along the Bowes Railway path.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Driving past Denham's scrapyard just outside Shildon last night I spied a low loader heading back up the road, sure enough there was a old Metro unit sat awaiting it's fate. Most of the withdrawn units are being scrapped there, but that's the first time I've seen one despite driving / cycling past the place regularly. Passing again this morning it was gone . 4010 according to someone on RailUk forum. Still, progress marches on with the flow of new units arriving. There's also been an announcement today of £1.8BN for extending the line from Pelaw down through Washington to South Hylton. This is a view of the overgrown trackbed coming down from Pelaw, taken on an early March ride along the Bowes Railway path.

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Wasn't part of the Metro system cut off recently? I vaguely remember a bridge being damaged or condemned?

 

[Windle]

Wasn't part of the Metro system cut off recently? I vaguely remember a bridge being damaged or condemned?

It was the section under the Gateshead flyover that was closed briefly before Christmas, with the Metros not being allowed to run through the tunnel beneath it. They were running again by the end of the year after the flyover was stabilised with props. The flyover has been condemned and is going to be demolished by the end of this year apparently.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It was the section under the Gateshead flyover that was closed briefly before Christmas, with the Metros not being allowed to run through the tunnel beneath it. They were running again by the end of the year after the flyover was stabilised with props. The flyover has been condemned and is going to be demolished by the end of this year apparently.

I had a mental image of a road held up by bits of wood with a notch cut in the top for a clothes line...