The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'm not sure of a class 14 on that line in, what, 2006? But, there was one there last year for the Diesel Gala (D9521)

Oh and 2.25, there you go, a Class 07/14 combo!!:


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb4r6Gb3vGM


And yes, I did have to do a double take with the first sequence!!

 

[Smurfy]

I think it was an 07, I remember the large white accumulator under the running board.

Anyway, here's some nonsense interesting stuff to keep your mind occupied, and your eyes away from perving over those pictures of diesels!
http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/Oubliette/StratReserve.html

 

[Gravity Aided]

I'm not a rail enthusiast, but thought I'd share a few photos from my ride the other weekend.

Belpaire firebox!-Pennsylvania Railroad K4s?(Maybe a black 5?)

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I think it was an 07, I remember the large white accumulator under the running board.

Anyway, here's some nonsense interesting stuff to keep your mind occupied, and your eyes away from perving over those pictures of diesels!
http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/Oubliette/StratReserve.html

Interesting, I'd say that it is entirely possible, but of course, without proof, it will remain nothing but a theory.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Belpaire firebox!-Pennsylvania Railroad K4s?(Maybe a black 5?)

That is 31806:

http://www.watercressline.co.uk/article.php/32/31806-sr-u-class

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_U_class

 

[Gravity Aided]

Very nice, very nice indeed. I may have to run down to Monticello and get some pictures of their ex-Soutern (US) railway 2-8-0 consolidation. They started the museum on that, then it was derelict for a while, now it is running again, as well as an old Wabash FP7 and a Canadian National FPA-4
http://www.mrym.org

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRR_K4s

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Very nice, very nice indeed. I may have to run down to Monticello and get some pictures of their ex-Soutern (US) railway 2-8-0 consolidation. They started the museum on that, then it was derelict for a while, now it is running again, as well as an old Wabash FP7 and a Canadian National FPA-4
http://www.mrym.org

Nice to see there is a heritage scene Stateside too!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

There is a well developed preservation scene in this country now that many other countries are envious of. In terms of steam, the Scrapyard at Barry has a lot to do with it as they didn't scrap most of their steam locos, instead concentrating on wagons. This meant that over a 25 year period, no less than 213 steam locos were rescued until the last one left the site in about 1990!!

The term 'Barry Condition' has entered the British preservation lexicon, and even now, steam locos are still being restored from that condition and most recently a Southern Region 'West Country' class loco (34007 I think) ran for the first time since withdrawal in the '60s!!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodham_Brothers

 

[the_mikey]

Lydney Station

The other Lydney Station...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Argyll and Sutherland Highlander

Missed that!!

 

[Mr Celine]

Its the class 50s' I memorised, I hated Deltics as everyone waffled on about them as if they were built by God himself!!

You could have a bit of both with my favourite loco, DP2.
My favourite because it's the only loco I could actually name that has pulled a train I've been a passenger on. I only know that because I was a passenger when it crashed.

 

[Gravity Aided]

There is a well developed preservation scene in this country now that many other countries are envious of. In terms of steam, the Scrapyard at Barry has a lot to do with it as they didn't scrap most of their steam locos, instead concentrating on wagons. This meant that over a 25 year period, no less than 213 steam locos were rescued until the last one left the site in about 1990!!

The term 'Barry Condition' has entered the British preservation lexicon, and even now, steam locos are still being restored from that condition and most recently a Southern Region 'West Country' class loco (34007 I think) ran for the first time since withdrawal in the '60s!!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodham_Brothers

West Coast Steam Gala!
http://www.mnr.org.uk/index.php/events/special-event-2014-05-30/
LMS Royal Scot 46115 "Scots Guardsman" and LMS Jubilee 45699 "Galatea", as well as an unnamed visitor. Now that's how to do a steam show up right.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

West Coast Steam Gala!
http://www.mnr.org.uk/index.php/events/special-event-2014-05-30/
LMS Royal Scot 46115 "Scots Guardsman" and LMS Jubilee 45699 "Galatea", as well as an unnamed visitor. Now that's how to do a steam show up right.

That is nothing very special, but yeah there is such a wide choice of locos out there! The British Preservation scene would have been all the worse without Dai Woodham!