The Rail Enthusiast thread

[vernon]

Nice!

Not been to Middleton Railway for a few years (August 2007, according to dates on pics)

You wouldn't recognise the place, I didn't! The station is no more. It was demolished in 2007 which dates my last visit before today as 2007 or earlier, and replaced with a Heritage Lottery Fund financed locomotive hall and I'm assuming that the station has been displaced further along the line by tens of metres - the locomotive hall and station were not accessible today.

I was hoping to visit the Abbey Light Railway in Kirkstall on my way home but sadly, it is no more. The owner died and the entire railway has been sold on to other 2' gauge operators and the loco shed had been demolished. It last operated in spring 2013.

 

[vernon]

I completed the construction of a 7mm scale Conflat wagon today from a Parkside Dundas kit.

It's my first step towards a model railway layout - my first in over forty years.

 

[Katherine]

E. L. R. Rawtenstall station, the last week-end in November, Lancashire weekend.

 

[robjh]

A propos of nothing really, I was looking at pictures of what I was doing four years ago, and came across these.
They were taken at Míli (Μύλοι in Greek, sometimes transliterated as Myloi) on the Peloponnese, where the station has become a dump for decommissioned locomotives from the metre-gauge network that runs right around the peninsula. As far as I know the line has had no trains for some years.

(the rjh family conveyance can be glimpsed at the side of photo 4)

 

[vernon]

I called in at the Nene Valley Railway today on my way home from the Straw Bear Festival at Whittlesea.

 

[Spartak]

Couple of pics taken today at Bitton.

 

[Spartak]

Seen today leaving Westerleigh Oil Terminal

 

[vernon]

Edinburgh this week...

Hawthorn 0-4-0 shunter. National Museum of Scotland.

Model of a locomotive based upon a refined version of Locomotion Number One. National Museum of Scotland.

Edinburgh Waverley Station

Complex pointwork at Edinburgh Waverley Station. Points, slips and double slips

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

D816 Eclipse



That is all.

 

[Smurfy]

 

[Smurfy]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXE0MLOVsls

 

[Smurfy]

Apologies for all the steam porn. I promise I'll stop after this one.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbRymwoLlzs

 

[classic33]

Apologies for all the steam porn. I promise I'll stop after this one.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbRymwoLlzs

Why stop?

Or is Yellow Tim going to become Beeching

 

[Smurfy]

Why stop?

Or is Yellow Tim going to become Beeching

I probably ought to put some of my own vids on YouTube and link to them. I have a great wheelslip video somewhere in the archives. It took several goes to get the train moving, and at each attempt there was a thunderous racket that echoed around the entire station.

 

[Smurfy]

Model railways showed an idealised England until 'sexy scenes' came along
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/goodlife...sed-England-until-sexy-scenes-came-along.html