The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Spartak]

70807 at Bristol Temple Meads this evening with my bike in the foreground..... Letting the train take the strain... 😉

 

[antnee]

How do you find those mud guards? any good, As my clip on ones rattle like the very devil Old SKS ones mine are Looks like you've not only seen a Diesel; you've seen plenty of mud too!

 

[Spartak]

How do you find those mud guards? any good, As my clip on ones rattle like the very devil Old SKS ones mine are Looks like you've not only seen a Diesel; you've seen plenty of mud too!

Mudguards are fine but take some setting up and need tinkering with now and again.... Not much clearance on them but they do their job....
One of the lanes I use on my commute is being dug up at the moment it's a real mudfest.... 😜

 

[antnee]

Hello Spartak, What sort of mudguards are they? as I do need to get some more just how much fiddling was it to fit them? Thanks

 

[Spartak]

Hello Spartak, What sort of mudguards are they? as I do need to get some more just how much fiddling was it to fit them? Thanks

They are the Crud roadracer Mk. 2's....
Still available on ebay - I tried the Mk. 3's but couldn't get them to fit.

Fitting is pretty easy.... Lining them up is the tricky part but they do work well if you have a road bike with little clearance 👍

 

[Spartak]

Back to the trains.....

Push & Pull 66's going thru Patchway station this morning...

 

[antnee]

This isn't the waste train from Hinckley Point is it? Oh and thanks for info on the mudguards

 

[NorthernDave]

New LNER Azuma involved in collision and derailled at Leeds:

Leeds Live: Homes 'shook' when two trains slammed into each other in Leeds.
https://www-leeds--live-co-uk.cdn.a...s/homes-shook-two-trains-slammed-17254503.amp

EDIT: Additional pic here, looks like the other train was a HST:

Leeds Live: Leeds train station cancellations and delays after two trains collide - live updates.
https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/live-leeds-train-station-collide-17253676

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Watched this, the other evening
A long time since I've been down there, I'd quite forgotten how gorgeous it was

It was the Cambrian Line episode

https://www.my5.tv/world-s-most-sce...pisode-3-1fafb730-7e4a-4e9a-b9ed-8d64c075a992

 

[classic33]

Caught one of the new northern 195's to Bradford today, three carriages!

Noticed going through tunnels and local "Valleys of the deaf" an odd feature. Three lights near the doors, one I thought was a WiFi indicator. It went out in the "Valleys of death" and tunnels, with the green button becoming lit.

On the slow run into the Interchange, I took a closer look at them. The green being open doors, with what I thought was the WiFi indicator was "Door not in use". The green being to open the doors. Methinks there's a problem in the works.

 

[rogerzilla]

The teething problems with these new trains are nearly always in the electronics rather than the motors or running gear. Passengers are the beta testers.

 

[classic33]

The teething problems with these new trains are nearly always in the electronics rather than the motors or running gear. Passengers are the beta testers.

You mean press the green button when lit, and see if the doors open whilst on the move?

The intercom is on the opposite side of the doors. Left-hand side as opposed to right-hand side for the door controls.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A bit of a 'Dad/Daughter' early afternoon, as she wanted a trip out of the house

I had a plan....👼

En-route to Aberford, we detoured into Allerton Bywater, mainly as I'd mentioned the Drag-Line to her, at St Aidens
On the way there, I spotted this foot tunnel alongside Park Lane

It's an original feature, not something added as a 'point of interest' (seen at Allerton Plantation, in 1905
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=53.7476&lon=-1.3664&layers=168&b=1

It's mentioned, but that's all; http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Castleford Garforth.htm

Quite surprisingly, there's not a picture of the tunnel on Geograph, but the metal 'gate' is literally only yards away
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/259633
I knew of the sign, for the trail a long time ago

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A bit of a 'Dad/Daughter' early afternoon, as she wanted a trip out of the house

I had a plan....👼

We passed through Stutton on Saturday, where I photographed the old Station House (see following entry)
I knew about the structure pictured underneath, but not what road it was on (besides time was running out for us)
Today, I'd done my homework, so knew where it was;

A very truncated viaduct, on the section between Tadcaster & Church Fenton, which passes under the 'Tadcaster TurnPike' (A162) yards to the north of the turning to Ulleskelf, at Towton

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1871384

Originally built for the York & North Midland Railway, in the very late 1840s
http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Church Fenton Harrogate.htm

If you look at the Spofforth section of that last link, there's another viaduct section, to all intents & purposes, in someones back garden
https://www.express.co.uk/life-styl...use-for-sale-with-a-railway-viaduct-thrown-in

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A bit of a 'Dad/Daughter' early afternoon, as she wanted a trip out of the house
I had a plan...

We passed through Stutton on Saturday, where I photographed the old Station House (see following entry)
I knew about the structure pictured underneath, but not what road it was on (besides time was running out for us)
Today, I'd done my homework, so knew where it was;

After leaving Tadcaster, on Saturday, we diverted back through Stutton, & left via WheedlingGate
Primarily this was to see how high Cock Beck was at Mill Lane (Mill long gone), but en-route, we passed the old Station House
I knew of it, but not passed it for quite a while

The drive was the trackbed, with a level-crossing over the road
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/stutton/index.shtml

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/573942

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.8693&lon=-1.2731&layers=168&b=1

http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Church Fenton Harrogate.htm