The Rail Enthusiast thread

[mybike]

http://shop.bachmanntrains.com/inde...=258_259_261&zenid=jtab4rr3r68uoh7ciqd5g5dka2


I have Bill, Ben, Thomas, Emily, Gordon & Spencer.

My grandson had a thing for Emily, I don't think I'll buy him one tho'.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

My grandson had a thing for Emily, I don't think I'll buy him one tho'.

One of the charactors in 'Rasing Steam' is an Emily (Harry Kings niece)

There's also a very interesting take on 'The Railway Children' too

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Oops, I forgot to include this with my snapshots yesterday:

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Oops, I forgot to include this with my snapshots yesterday:

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I like the one, at Saltburn

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I like the one, at Saltburn

I haven't been there so had to look it up. Still powered by filling water tanks on the cars. That would be interesting to see in action.

The Bridgnorth one was water powered when first built, but is electric now.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/salt.htm


There's also this, on the other side of Bradford from me
A rather more gentle incline though!!
http://www.shipleyglentramway.co.uk/upcoming-events/
http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/ship.htm

 

[robjh]

Today was one of those happy days when cycle touring and trainy things coincide.
This is what I found in Villarcayo in northern Spain, outside the old engine sheds on an otherwise completely dismantled line. It is apparently a RENFE 141f class.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Sad to see this from the local newspaper: Heritage railway train and car in level crossing crash.

Countess is the engine that I took on in the race the train event a couple of years ago: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-ride-today.173254/post-4462014

 

[gavgav]

Sad to see this from the local newspaper: Heritage railway train and car in level crossing crash.

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Countess is the engine that I took on in the race the train event a couple of years ago: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-ride-today.173254/post-4462014

Me and Dad were talking about this, on the way down to London today.

We were trying to work out how the car managed to be stuck on the tracks. Conked out, stalled or just plain idiocy?

 

[the_mikey]

Me and Dad were talking about this, on the way down to London today.

We were trying to work out how the car managed to be stuck on the tracks. Conked out, stalled or just plain idiocy?

I rode that train last year, and during my visit the train stopped before proceeding to cross the level crossings, which makes me wonder quite how it happened, maybe the driver didn't visit the area regularly and didn't stop to check for a train coming and just blindly assumed there wasn't going to be a train?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Me and Dad were talking about this, on the way down to London today.

We were trying to work out how the car managed to be stuck on the tracks. Conked out, stalled or just plain idiocy?

What @the_mikey said. There will be a full investigation by the RAIB but my money would be on the motorist abusing the crossing.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214322113598998&set=a.10212479418132763.1073741878.1601508436&type=3&theater

 

[NorthernDave]

On the train to work this morning, and as we dropped down through the cutting towards Bradford Interchange, a Network Rail train top and tailed by a pair of Class 37s was climbing up the hill.

I'd forgotten just how well they sounded...

This is them later in the day

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Station Road (there's a clue!)
Featherstone

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Oakenshaw Lane
Agbrigg/Heath

The left hand line is a freight only (one train per week, I understand!!), that travels to a glass producers on the outskirts of Barnsley - or was anyway
The line in use is from South Yorkshire, & subsequently crosses the River Calder, towards Wakefield KirkGate station, en-route to various lines



Location; http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3246100