The Rail Enthusiast thread

[T4tomo]

Bit controversial posting this as.no train involved
This is the back of the old Zetland hotel in Saltburn, that had a small extension line from Saltburn station run into the back of it and it's own private platform. You could step of the train straight into the hotel!

 

[albion]

Saltburn still gets the standard announcement saying beware of fast trains passing through.
Before it became a terminus it also had a subway.

 

[Spartak]

37219 + 56094 at Yate Station on the 0F75 from Rectory Jn. to Westbury Down this morning.

 

[rogerzilla]

The Colas Rail livery is pretty nasty. The old Load Haul livery also used orange (which clashes with the yellow ends) but carried it off better due to the shade, and the huge amount of black.

 

[robjh]

Rannoch station on the West Highland line this morning. I've just watched the sleeper from London pass, double headed by a 66 and a 73, as well as a 156+153 combo the other way with the new dedicated cycle area, but upload speeds here are too slow to show them to you today. Will post them later.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Bit controversial posting this as.no train involved
This is the back of the old Zetland hotel in Saltburn, that had a small extension line from Saltburn station run into the back of it and it's own private platform. You could step of the train straight into the hotel!

We've seen it a couple of times, when we've been up there

 

[Mike_P]

Wormald Green station between Harrogate and Ripon on the dismantled Leeds & Thirsk Railway opened in 1848 and looking relatively well almost 60 years after total closure and 62 since the last passenger train.

 

[Mike Ayling]

Visited the Victorian Goldfields Railway which runs on an old branch line of about 20kms.

J class loco just out shopped after an eighteen month overhaul.

The two rolling stock items are claimed to be 140 years old and only get an outing very infrequently due to their age. Those seats are not comfortable!

 

[mistyoptic]

At Statfold Park and Museum today. Can’t believe I’ve lived in Staffordshire so long and didn’t know about it. Lots of stuff in the roundhouse for Hunslet fans. Two steam lines running and a bonus of a gauge 1 live steam model railway and some (mostly) 4” traction engines, some for sale…

 

[robjh]

These are the pictures from Rannoch that I couldn't post the other day.


London-Fort William sleeper, double-headed by a 66 and 73.

Mallaig-Glasgow, 156+153 with bike storage area in the latter.

 

[rogerzilla]

The 66 is for haulage and the 73 is for hotel power, I think. I vaguely remember seeing the sleeper with two 73s instead, although that might not have been the Fort William section. Despite having 2000hp of power, it seems 50/50 whether you'll get a hot shower on the train!

 

[classic33]

At Statfold Park and Museum today. Can’t believe I’ve lived in Staffordshire so long and didn’t know about it. Lots of stuff in the roundhouse for Hunslet fans. Two steam lines running and a bonus of a gauge 1 live steam model railway and some (mostly) 4” traction engines, some for sale…

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You bought "Winston Churchill"?

 

[Spartak]

These are the pictures from Rannoch that I couldn't post the other day.


London-Fort William sleeper, double-headed by a 66 and 73.
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Mallaig-Glasgow, 156+153 with bike storage area in the latter.
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Nice pictures.... 👍

 

[Spartak]

On the Avonmouth to Bristol Temple Meads service tonight between Montpelier & Stapleton Road, waiting to join the main line.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 4th

En-route to my parents
I know that this historic wagon-way had been lifted, but it’s probably the first time l’ve been along Lime Pit Lane, in the daylight this year

It was a 3foot(??) gauge railway that led from early incarnations of what became Lofthouse Colliery (of the famous flooding/sad deaths)
The name is still debated

Locally it’s known as the ‘Nagger Lines’
(as in ‘nag’, the colloquial term for a Horse)
There’s the other school of thought that it’s derived from Navigation, as it head to the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal

It crossed the road since laying, but recently there’s been complaints about damage to vehicle tyres
Personally, l think that’s utter rubbish
I crossed it untold times on the bike, & have never suffered any punctures/wheel damage there, even when on ‘20’ section tyres!



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The rails
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https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6921223

Further along (200yards) prior to crossing Aberford Road/A642, another’way’ has a blue plaque
(slightly closer to jct30/M62)
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6222148


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-66108903.amp

https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/118891-lime-kiln-lane-tramway/

The ‘Naggers’ are to the south in this 1820s map
’Lake Lock’, of the blue plaque is the one with the ‘sidings’ at the River Calder

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Sunday 19th

I was told that a bench/information board/replica wagon were in place now
I had a slight detour on my way to work this morning, before any of the local scrotes decide to vandalise anything