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[Spartak]

 

[robjh]

Trains on Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash today.

An 802 eastbound

An ex-HST 'castle class' set westbound - the trailing class 43 seen here.

 

[Spartak]

Trains on Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash today.

An 802 eastbound
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An ex-HST 'castle class' set westbound - the trailing class 43 seen here.
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Great pictures ... 👍

 

[Mike Ayling]

Went on the Steamrail Victoria trip to Bairnsdale yesterday. This is the most easterly point of the Victorian rail network, a distance of 268 kilometres.
It was a long day . There was a 20 minute stop on both the up and the down to water the engine and as it is mostly single track we spent an hour or more each way in passing loops waiting for revenue traffic to pass. Victoria used to run named trains in the good old days and the one to Bairnsdale was known as The Gippslander, after the local area. Part of the consist included the 70 yo air conditioned cars and the origin Gippslander restaurant car called Moorobool which continues to provide food and drinks but no longer cooked meals.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Theres a series on Channel 4 I've been watching called 'Abandoned Railways from Above', the Scarborough to Whitby line has been my favourite so far as it's now a cycling/walking route called 'The Cinder Path'. I cycled it myself in 2018 and it's a very pretty but you can see the difficulties they had in building the line.

 

[Jameshow]

Haworth last night....

 

[rogerzilla]

Theres a series on Channel 4 I've been watching called 'Abandoned Railways from Above', the Scarborough to Whitby line has been my favourite so far as it's now a cycling/walking route called 'The Cinder Path'. I cycled it myself in 2018 and it's a very pretty but you can see the difficulties they had in building the line.

One of the big problems the line had was that it was on such a high level compared to the Esk Valley Line. Trains went to Whitby West Cliff then had to reverse direction (particularly annoying with loco-hauled trains, as they had to run around the train) down a really steep gradient to join the Esk Valley Line under the Larpool Viaduct and run into Whitby Town station. Steamers struggled to get back up the hill; DMUs found it easier but the line's days were already numbered by then due to low traffic.

 

[wiggydiggy]

One of the big problems the line had was that it was on such a high level compared to the Esk Valley Line. Trains went to Whitby West Cliff then had to reverse direction (particularly annoying with loco-hauled trains, as they had to run around the train) down a really steep gradient to join the Esk Valley Line under the Larpool Viaduct and run into Whitby Town station. Steamers struggled to get back up the hill; DMUs found it easier but the line's days were already numbered by then due to low traffic.

They explained that quite poorly, I didn't really understand the route from West Cliffe so I ended up looking at an old map to work it out 👍

They did talk about Ravenscar quite well though, and how they wanted to create a new resort to rival Scarborough. I actually stayed there when I cycled the Cinder Path and it is as desolate and exposed as the show makes it out to be!

 

[Mike_P]

There was also the reverse neccessary to access Scarborough station which didn't help. Once went in the adjacent signal box when it was manned by the father of a cousins girlfriend, now wife, which must gave been when the goods yard the other side of the tunnel was still open. In those days there was a station pilot in the form if an 03 with a match truck.

 

[wiggydiggy]

There was also the reverse neccessary to access Scarborough station which didn't help. Once went in the adjacent signal box when it was manned by the father of a cousins girlfriend, now wife, which must gave been when the goods yard the other side of the tunnel was still open. In those days there was a station pilot in the form if an 03 with a match truck.

Oh yeah I saw that, the goods yard was were Sainsburys is now and beyond that a multitude of sidings to hold all the passenger trains that has brought day trippers. One excursion run by a brewery (Banks I think) consisted of 25 trains and over 200 carriages!

 

[rogerzilla]

This video is rather good as he walks down the old curve that the trains needed to traverse in order to descend the valley. It is ludicrously steep.


View: https://youtu.be/Io9y3g_lANo?si=0C5XVjvNbxayff3_

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Theres a series on Channel 4 I've been watching called 'Abandoned Railways from Above', the Scarborough to Whitby line has been my favourite so far as it's now a cycling/walking route called 'The Cinder Path'. I cycled it myself in 2018 and it's a very pretty but you can see the difficulties they had in building the line.

I watched the York - Hull episode on Sunday after work, & interesting it was indeed
Granted a lot of time was (possibly) wasted on the history of George Hudson, but he is pivotal in the story of a lot of railways

We’ve caravanned at Fangfoss Station;

https://www.pitchup.com/campsites/E...e/fangfoss/fangfoss-old-station-caravan-park/
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/fangfoss/index.shtml

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 22nd

Stormy skies to the East

Looking from NewLands Lane, towards Normanton Station
Wakefield
West Yorkshire

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3516011

 

[Andy in Germany]

the history of George Hudson, but he is pivotal in the story of a lot of railways

I've just finished listening to the story of the Shinkansen in Japan, and this was built and funded using all kinds of dodgy sleight of hand, creative accountancy and outright theft, primarily by one person. It seems that railway developmen and dishonest characters are sadly often intertwined.

 

[Spartak]

A couple of Class 165 DMU 's at Lawrence Hill