The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Mr Celine]

Sorta', except they were were converted from normal MK2 coaches for the Scotish Push Pull services in the late '70s, between Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh - Aberdeen and Inverness using class 47/7s. They then went to London - Norwich services in the early '90s and used with class 86s and more recently have been used all over, mainly on departmental work (including in Nortern Ireland), and now, with DRS!

In fact, 47712 which has recently been painted into the old Scotrail livery is representetive of these coaches' past.

I remember working at a salmon fishing station beside the Perth - Dundee line in the mid eighties. We used to wave at all the push-pulls going past, EXCEPT for 47712, which was either ignored or occasionally mooned at. The fishing crew were rather republican in outlook!

 

[User16390]

When I was a teenager we considered ourselves bashers we chased certain locomotives classes for haulage, anyone who called you a train spotter would most likely receive a load of abuse. There was real tribalism between us, my mates and I chased the Deltics in their final days and my personal favourites Class 40's, was big, overweight, under powered but with lots of character, a bit like me .

Those who bashed Peaks (wagons) or Duffs (class 47's) were considered neds of the highest order. As a teenager it was great fun a west midlands and east midlands rover ticket could take you over a huge area of the network and in the early eighties we was sadly seeing out the final years of some classic locos.

Here is a Class 40 with a thrash master at the throttle clagging its way out of Sheffield.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AGYWhptjIY

 

[robjh]

Guess the location

PS - work, not pleasure.

Italy somewhere. The logo on the side says 'Trasporti Regionali' but I can't read any more so I don't know what region. I'm guessing on one of the little semi-independent lines that you find around the country.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Guess the location

PS - work, not pleasure.

...... Wolverhampton!!

Seriously though, yes that is an Italian loco, but I cannot say where.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

@BrumJim, Bibbiena, Tuscany??

 

[Gravity Aided]

Guess the location

PS - work, not pleasure.

D 341?
Maybe Desenzano?
I'm guessing pretty wild here.

 

[classic33]

D 341 1041?
Maybe Desenzano?
I'm guessing pretty wild here.

Feel Mad Doug has it right.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Feel Mad Doug has it right.

I do??

It was just a guess becuase I looked up that particular loco (D341.1041) and found a picture of it in a surrounding of fields* working a train to the afore mentioned place. Also, I recognise that livery (or something very similar) as being a private operator from the North East of Italy so, it isn't an entirely unreasonable guess.


* - The actual loaction in Burmjim's picture might be somewhere urban like Arezzo for all I know though. It might even be @Gravity Aided's Desenzano!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When I was a teenager we considered ourselves bashers we chased certain locomotives classes for haulage, anyone who called you a train spotter would most likely receive a load of abuse.

EXACTLY!!

Unfortunately everything to do with it is simply referred to by 'that' word these days

 

[Gravity Aided]

When I was a teenager we considered ourselves bashers we chased certain locomotives classes for haulage, anyone who called you a train spotter would most likely receive a load of abuse. There was real tribalism between us, my mates and I chased the Deltics in their final days and my personal favourites Class 40's, was big, overweight, under powered but with lots of character, a bit like me .

Those who bashed Peaks (wagons) or Duffs (class 47's) were considered neds of the highest order. As a teenager it was great fun a west midlands and east midlands rover ticket could take you over a huge area of the network and in the early eighties we was sadly seeing out the final years of some classic locos.

Here is a Class 40 with a thrash master at the throttle clagging its way out of Sheffield.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AGYWhptjIY

Sounds like the old Alco's, over here.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2j6rjavZOU


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3lzdaC8yQ4


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kCeQYjntW8

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jVo0wvNOm4

I lived near the TP&W and remember the old Alcos they had.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When I was a teenager we considered ourselves bashers we chased certain locomotives classes for haulage, anyone who called you a train spotter would most likely receive a load of abuse. There was real tribalism between us, my mates and I chased the Deltics in their final days and my personal favourites Class 40's, was big, overweight, under powered but with lots of character, a bit like me .

Those who bashed Peaks (wagons) or Duffs (class 47's) were considered neds of the highest order. As a teenager it was great fun a west midlands and east midlands rover ticket could take you over a huge area of the network and in the early eighties we was sadly seeing out the final years of some classic locos.

Here is a Class 40 with a thrash master at the throttle clagging its way out of Sheffield.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AGYWhptjIY

Sounds like the old Alco's, over here.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2j6rjavZOU


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3lzdaC8yQ4


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kCeQYjntW8

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jVo0wvNOm4

I lived near the TP&W and remember the old Alcos they had.

Well, the old BR class 40s weren't nicknamed 'Whistlers' for nothing!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

@Gravity Aided, I present you with a Whistler, 40145, or Its original number D345 (the numbering started at D200)..... Or, the number it is carrying, 345, which was from between 1968 and 1974 as, after Steam left in August 1968, the 'D' prefix for diesel (and also 'E' for electric) was dropped.

D345/345/40145 is (I think) the only mainline registered class 40:


View: http://youtu.be/5QtL6M1fEv8

 

[Gravity Aided]

Starting up an Alco on a cold morning was a sound like nothing else.
Throwing rocks, fireworks, could describe almost any way

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz8upIAtuis

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

40145 (in a different livery from before) starting up from cold. The 'whistle' only starts as 1.52. All rather impressive!:


View: http://youtu.be/Nlk0AjvT6yY

 

[classic33]

40145 (in a different livery from before) starting up from cold. The 'whistle' only starts as 1.52. All rather impressive!:


View: http://youtu.be/Nlk0AjvT6yY

Now you see why I said Diesels!