The Rail Enthusiast thread

[wiggydiggy]

Recently visited The Isle of Man, it used to have an extensive rail network but around 50% was lifted. It still has a steam line, an electric line and a horse line.

Steam Line Douglas <> Port Errin. A 3ft gauge this is Douglas terminus.


Horse Carriage in Douglas 3ft gauge. Once ran the whole length of the promenade but now only about 2/3 of it. Carriages are on something called 'needle bearings' and can be moved by hand, no problem for these big boy horses.


Big Boy, his handler is 5ft 6" for reference.


Snaefell Mountain Railway
Very wet and misty day so no pictures so this is a stock one. 3ft 6" gauge to accomodate the fell rail once used for braking.

 

[rogerzilla]

Those crazy Austrians have a "Do Re Mi" locomotive.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-IC-JRJYwc

 

[Hover Fly]

Leven viaduct 21st May 2022, 05;45

 

[Mike_P]

Bye bye Trans Pennine Express
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65555262?

 

[wiggydiggy]

Bye bye Trans Pennine Express
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65555262?

TFFT!

I've had to buy a lot of 'Anytime Any Train' tickets as it's not possible to rely at all on a train running, just had a look at todays timetable Huddersfield > Leeds and there are 13 cancelled trains!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Bye bye Trans Pennine Express
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65555262?

I like the nice shiney metallic blue bits of the livery though. ☺️😆

 

[wiggydiggy]

I like the nice shiney metallic blue bits of the livery though. ☺️😆

Its actually quite annoying, the TPT trains are easily nicer than the rubbish gumpf that Northern Rail runs.

 

[Mike_P]

The trains will not be changing and if like LNER they will keep the livery.

 

[rogerzilla]

The Nova 3 push-pull sets are funky, if ludicrously overpowered.

 

[Moon bunny]

The Nova 3 push-pull sets are funky, if ludicrously overpowered.

I see, but mainly hear, them through my office window leaving York for Scarborough. Noisy so-and-sos.

 

[Mike_P]

There is an interesting locked discussion on the noise of Class 68s on railforums https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...8-noise-levels-with-other-locomotives.192562/

 

[rogerzilla]

The 68 with yellow ends (not the TPE livery) has a "did you spill my pint?" face. I quite like the styling - most of the recent diesel classes like 58, 59/66, and 70 look as if no-one put any effort at all into the styling.

 

[BrumJim]

The 68 with yellow ends (not the TPE livery) has a "did you spill my pint?" face. I quite like the styling - most of the recent diesel classes like 58, 59/66, and 70 look as if no-one put any effort at all into the styling.

Dunno. Not convinced that it is possible to make something as ugly as a Class 70 without putting any effort into the styling.

Quite glad that freight locos don't have any aesthetic qualities. It's not as though it makes any difference to how popular they are. Passenger? That's a different story. Even non-train spotters (of a certain age) feel nostalgic and happy when they see an HST125 front end. Without the almost accidental good looks, would they have been so popular?

But there again, Flying Scotsman just looks like a standard steam train to me. Really don't get it.

 

[Mike_P]

But there again, Flying Scotsman just looks like a standard steam train to me. Really don't get it.

LNERs marketing engrained into the public and press and repeated thereafter
Doubt anyone of GW leanings thinks it looks right with those wheels below the cab.

 

[rogerzilla]

An A3 isn't as good-looking as a V2 but it's fairly well-proportioned. E S Cox, who was in charge of design for the BR Standard locos, reckoned R E L Maunsell's N class for the SECR/SR was the best-looking steam loco.