The Rail Enthusiast thread

[ufkacbln]

I couldn't quite think of the right word, ok?



See above, I couldn't quite think of the word, but with hindsight, 'Astute' sounds crap anyway!

Astute - Nuclear Powered Submarine

Here is a picture of it in operation:

 

[asterix]

..and here's another:

On sea trials to find out how little water it needed to float in. They know now.

Back on topic:

 

[Paulus]

For you class 50 cranks, here is the prototype, DP2 at Kings Cross in 1963. I saw this loco many times on the East Coast main line before it crashed into a soda ash train near Thirsk in 1967. They used the body of the 18th production Deltic which was then modified to allow the building of the different internal engine and generator. It sounded vey much like a class 50 when on the move.

 

[Paulus]

A lot of people might like to see a streamlined locomotive on the mainline. The static exhibit is part way there.

For a while Gresley A4 60019 Bittern was running as 4492 Dominion of New Zealand, (see my avatar) but is now back as 4464 keeping the 1930's streamlining.

 

[Smurfy]

I like to sit where I can see through into the cab when I get the tram up to NT's house from Piccadilly. Driving one looks easy. I could do that....

<poop!>

Have you tried the Sheffield system? You can see the driver doing all his/her stuff on those too.The trams there have two warning sounders. A polite ding-a-ling bell for when the tram is at a stop that has a pedestrian crossing in front, which is sounded just before the tram moves over the crossing. The other is a deafening 'I'm about to flatten you!' warning, which sounds like a foghorn, first time I heard it I almost jumped out of my skin!

 

[classic33]

http://www.railgallery.co.uk/ & http://www.wnxx.com/

 

[Arch]

Have you tried the Sheffield system? You can see the driver doing all his/her stuff on those too.The trams there have two warning sounders. A polite ding-a-ling bell for when the tram is at a stop that has a pedestrian crossing in front, which is sounded just before the tram moves over the crossing. The other is a deafening 'I'm about to flatten you!' warning, which sounds like a foghorn, first time I heard it I almost jumped out of my skin!

Either the Manchester ones have that system, or it's one horn that varies according to how hard it's pushed. Moving off from stops, or to warn peds, they go "poop!" politely, but if a car driver gets stuck in the yellow box across a junction and a tram wants to cross, they get a full blast!

The Manchester trams are the only ones I've been on. One day, probably once I've moved over there, I'm going to take a day to do the whole system, see Manchester from edge to edge.

 

[Hover Fly]

Slightly OT after the ship names...

There is actually an entire MOD department responsible for ship's names.

Names that inspire fear in the enemy like HMS Dreadnought, HMS Terrible, and HMS Revenge.

Somehow a "Flower class" ship like HMS Daisy, HMS Azalea, HMS Bluebell, or HMS Lavender just does not somehow inspire the same fear!

I remember the mirth that spread round Vickers when the name of SSN16 was announced (not HMS until it* was commissioned) Torbay,to be followed by Blackpool Skegness and Margate.

* and not according to shipbuilders' tradition a she until the RN take the vessel over, a sub. is a boat, so gender neutral.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When all is said and done, I still want to go back to Poland to see these, the 'Polish class 83s', the Class EU06s, and their Polish copies, the class EU07s, the EP07s (modified EU07s) and the EP08s.


View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2dfXs6w_9lo

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And the Polish have not forgotten there the original version of their locos came from, and have even painted one of their copies up in a strangely familiar looking livery, complete with crests....:


View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-gy3ojiwxKc


And an EP08 in an old PKP orange livery, with, presumably, an EU07 behind:


View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i43N1EPzWTA

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And then, of course, there is Bulgaria where there are these.... strangely familiar looking machines.... I can't think where I've ever seen them before....


View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj7FstYv6KQ&feature=related


View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dVdSPPtAQwc&feature=related


View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3hugaLU058U&feature=relmfu

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh aye, and there's these too!:


View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=elnuPV22t4A&feature=related

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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Temeraire

 

[vernon]

View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2dfXs6w_9lo

A nice video with a huge cast of trucks and a loco in the supporting role....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

A nice video of with a huge cast of trucks and a loco in the supporting role....

With the locos, the BR versions were nicknamed 'Roarers' because of their sound. You can hear why with the Polish ones which are just as good in the videos posted!

E.G.:


View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8E3c0916NF4