The Rail Enthusiast thread

[BrumJim]

Class 84?

 

[accountantpete]

The Class 99 looks a beast - move over 66

 

[Jenkins]

The Class 99 looks a beast - move over 66

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Had a little read up on those a little while ago - looks interesting and wondering if they'll be tested on the freight run to and from Felixstowe Dock.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

All in a day’s work, can you see what it is?

The '84?

EDIT: Looks like Brum Jim got in there first!

Actually, I thought it was the '31 at first, due to the way the white plastic was covering the solebar, but on closer inspection it certainly looks likes an old AC Electric, so I can only imagine it to be the '84, I mean there is no flexicoil suspension, so it isn't the '87 and besides, the cab shape is wrong anyway (it's raked back).

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

All in a day’s work, can you see what it is?

Them bogies are a give - away, with that big bit in the middle of them that hangs down from the body:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

All in a day’s work, can you see what it is?

What's happening with it anyway? 🤔

 

[Mike_P]

A lovely box of bananas, reduced by a smidge over £92 in TMCs latest sale.


Tension locks removed for Kadees to be fitted.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I never knew this about George Jackson Churchward:

"Sadly, Churchward was killed near his house on the misty morning of 19th December 1933. He was hit by “Castle” class 4085 “Berkeley Castle” with Driver Griffiths was hauling the late-running 8.55 a.m. Paddington to Fishguard express. He was seen bending down inspecting what he thought was a track defect and was struck by the locomotive’s buffer. Some reports say he had glaucoma affecting his eyesight, vertigo and defective hearing. He may have thought the express had already passed as living next to the line he kept an active interest in the passing trains."

 

[Mike_P]

A use of ash from steam locomotived I never knew was shown on the Yorkshire edition of Look North with it being shovelled into a canal lock with a leaky gate. The water pulls the ash into the leaks and the ash clogs up the leak.

 

[Andy in Germany]

A use of ash from steam locomotived I never knew was shown on the Yorkshire edition of Look North with it being shovelled into a canal lock with a leaky gate. The water pulls the ash into the leaks and the ash clogs up the leak.

Doesn't that bung up the lock fairly permanently?

 

[Mike_P]

Doesn't that bung up the lock fairly permanently?

Apparently not, with the gates shut the ash is forced by water pressure into the cracks in tge gates.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Apparently not, with the gates shut the ash is forced by water pressure into the cracks in tge gates.

Now I understand: I was thinking in terms of the water leaking between the gates, not the individual planks.

Still sounds a filthy process though.