The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Richard A Thackeray]

The SidingsAlongside
'The East Coast Main-Line', north of York
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25318188.sidings-built-yorks-unique-restaurant/

I visited the site, a while ago

 

[Spartak]

Waiting for my commuter train this afternoon, when this rumbled thru' Stapleton Road station ...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The SidingsAlongside
'The East Coast Main-Line', north of York
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25318188.sidings-built-yorks-unique-restaurant/

I visited the site, a while ago

Stayed there years ago.

 

[Spartak]

New station roof at Bristol Temple Meads finally being exposed after many , many months covered in scaffolding ...

 

[bluenotebob]

The sad and unloved remains of what was once quite a large railway station at Maure-de-Bretagne.

Yesterday I was following an old railway line that ran roughly SE from Ploërmel via Messac (a port on the Vilaine river) to Chateaubriant in the eastern fringes of Brittany. I saw quite a few old station buildings and level crossing houses on the route but nothing to compare with the size of this.

A bit more research this morning suggests that there may have been another line coming into Maure-de-Bretagne from the north (an alternative to the currently extant Rennes/Redon line which runs a bit further east).

So many of Brittany’s old railways have disappeared without trace and you need to go back to maps of the 1920s to really appreciate how extensive the network was.

 

[Paulus]

Our trip to the furthest north you can go by train was a success.
Kings Cross to Inverness,
Inverness to Thurso, reversing at Georgemas junction
Bus to John o'Groats and Wick
Then a train back to Thurso going straight through Georgemas junction.
Back via Inverness to Glasgow and down the west coast route to Euston.
In between we got the ferry from Scabster across to Orkney for the day.
6 days away in total and excellent weather to boot.

 

[Spartak]

Lawrence Hill station this afternoon ...

 

[Jenkins]

Driver swap at Ipswich