The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 31st

ECML, about 5 miles north of York

Overton Road
Between Shipton & Skelton
(off the A19)
York

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/16400
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709141

 

[Andy in Germany]

Thursday 31st

ECML, about 5 miles north of York

Overton Road
Between Shipton & Skelton
(off the A19)
York

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https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/16400
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6709141

I didn't know you could see those from a road.

Bit of paint would be a good idea.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Local train in Riegel-Malterdingen. This line and train are owned by the local authority. To the right of the picture is the DB / German railways station on the main line from Karlsruhe to Basel.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I didn't know you could see those from a road.

Bit of paint would be a good idea.

Neither did I, until someone told me they could be seen

Paint; I presume, from watching, that most trains go past at a reasonable speed, so passengers wouldn't see them

 

[robjh]

Another goody from a ride today. This is Blake Hall station, on the Epping to Ongar preserved line in Essex only 20 miles from central London. A class 03 hauling some blue-and-grey coaches trundled slowly past when I was there

Until 1994 this was a (rather neglected) branch of the London Underground, with third-rail electrification, and Blake Hall was the most neglected station of them all with a very limited service. This is from a 1976 Underground map in my old-stuff cupboard.

 

[robjh]

More pictures from the other day's ride, or more precisely the train ride home.

Tottenham Hale station, which is a national rail/London Underground interchange. This roof and extended concourse are
actually a very recent redevelopment and an improvement on the utilitarian mess that was there before.

and this was my train home, a class 317 on the Liverpool Street-Cambridge line. The 317s are currently being phased out after
around 40 years service, and this could well be the last one I'll go one.

 

[ericmark]

Well it seems trains are returning, the local train has over Colvid been only running as a tourist attraction from local station up the line and back again without the option of getting off or on the trains at other stations, and the main line was washed out with January storms, both now seem to be returning to passenger transport.

Trains have not been running lately, guess why

 

[Cycling Labs]

My bike leaning against the sign of the now disused Bramley and Wonnersh station in Surrey.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Well it seems trains are returning, the local train has over Colvid been only running as a tourist attraction from local station up the line and back again without the option of getting off or on the trains at other stations, and the main line was washed out with January storms, both now seem to be returning to passenger transport.

Trains have not been running lately, guess why View attachment 638511

A scene from my teenage yeas, with more track in place then, of course...

 

[DCBassman]

A Grand Day Out at Dartmouth Steam Railway, plus river cruise. Train there and back from Paignton to Kingswear, then across the watter to Dartmouth.

This one's parked at Kingswear, no idea if it ever moves.

Kingswear signal box

Braveheart coming to take us home.

 

[DCBassman]

AGDO pt2

Having run around its rake of coaches, Braveheart heads back to Paignton.

A couple more of the approach before boarding for home.

And a couple at Paignton.

 

[VelvetUnderpants]

Class 68013 waiting to depart on the 12.55 Birmingham Moor St to London Marylebone. Fitted with new nameplates covered in gaffer tape. I asked the driver what the name is and when the naming ceremony is, he replied he couldn't tell me, apparently is named after a colleague and the name will be revealed in a couple of weeks.

All very mysterious

 

[Landsurfer]

Whats even more mysterious is why we stopped building new locomotives in the UK ... After Brush Traction was closed by American owners Wabtec last year the skills have been lost forever ...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Whats even more mysterious is why we stopped building new locomotives in the UK ... After Brush Traction was closed by American owners Wabtec last year the skills have been lost forever ...

Especially as a lot of European countries seem to manage it...

Wasn't there a new Hitachi factory in the UK?

 

[Landsurfer]

Especially as a lot of European countries seem to manage it...

Wasn't there a new Hitachi factory in the UK?

Hitachi, CAF, Siemens .... assembling airfix kits from the EU, Korea and Vietnam .... funny how the CAF and Siemens “factories” are next to ports to allow the off loading of nearly finished trains .... Hitachi Factory is in in Italy ..... finished off in the North East .... Stadler don’t even try to pretend .. made in Spain, Switzerland and Germany ... in that order..
Bombardier ( Canada) have been bought out by Alston ( France) ... Great British trains are a thing of the past .....
The biggest Locomotive fleet in the UK ? Class 66 ... Caterpillar Detroit ... Class 68 ? ....Kiepe Germany ......