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On the path to a local beauty spot...

 

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18 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

 

Crawley?

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I was reminded yesterday of the Mission: Impossible Series 1 episode 'The Train' in which thinly disguised Union Pacific F4A(?), Switchers and coaches were used...

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On 25/10/2021 at 19:44, jcredfer said:

Five persons and a dog, 25 seconds, not bad going, really, container trains not known for sprint starts.   

 

 

Sometimes the starts are less-than-smooth. Even a small jolt can put one off balance, with possible serious results...

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J7363 - One of the SEGs 4COR power cars on the right...

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Five Darwin Award candidates (and a dog) at Revelstoke. The normal wait for crew change is approx. 5 minutes but these id people don't consider that the relief crew might be a bit snappier than others...

 

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Somewhere in Derbyshire...

 

 

The road concerned has a very steep hill, is very narrow and there are no passing places. I would imagine the incidence of stuck HGVs was high enough to prompt the placing of the sign (and the one at the other end)...

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On 03/10/2021 at 02:03, PhilJ W said:

 

Is there a cat?

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11 hours ago, Platform 1 said:

Brilliant video from Network Rail just published - turn up the sound!

 

 

 

When you wrote 'tun up the sound', I was expecting to hear the sounds of the trains and the waves crashing against the shore, not weird and overly-dramatic music...

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For those interested, these are the ones concerned:

 

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13 minutes ago, johndon said:

Want to make your rolling stock fleet appear twice as large?  Do what the NRM at Shildon has done and apply a different livery on each side:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought this had something to do with the midget bench seat...

 

Originally 6077, if you like your SR EMUs in old money...

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14 hours ago, Johann Marsbar said:

As we have got onto buses.......

 

 

 

I presume the name is properly spelt fücker, with the 'u' pronounced as the 'ou' in 'you' or as in the 'say it as you see it' on the internet URL on the engine hatch...

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18 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

I guess that including a picture of something occuring on a preserved railway is cheating slightly, but even for that it's still pretty unusual...

 

Severn Valley Railway 2018 by Dave Gommersall

 

 

Baby 20s?

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On 08/09/2021 at 19:04, montyburns56 said:

Kings Cross 1984 by Jamerail

 

 

'Parliamentary' class is still alive and well...

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On 07/09/2021 at 19:00, montyburns56 said:

Achnasheen

 

 

Them ex-SR PMVs got about a bit, didn't they?

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On 07/09/2021 at 13:29, Rugd1022 said:

Photo c/o Michael Croxford : 4th February 1975....

 

 

The only thing 'modern image' for 1975 in this photo is the staff uniform jacket...

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On 02/09/2021 at 09:08, Hobby said:

Yes, I think we just accepted that it would carry on but I just find it amusing that there's more American stuff than UK (reflection of the actual numbers probably) so just thought I'd introduce some European into the equation!

Probably because most of the VRF cameras point at a crossing or two? Or, in the case of Chehalis, WA, three...

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On 03/09/2021 at 10:59, Wickham Green too said:

Any trip to Horwich ( or elsewhere ) would have been one way at that date ! .............. oh - by the way, rab, it's an EMU !

Looks like that unit is ready for its last journey - open doors on the first vehicle, and the last one is the wrong way round for normal service...

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On 26/08/2021 at 19:23, PhilJ W said:

At my age, those are the ones I'm most afraid of...!!

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On 20/08/2021 at 18:42, Welly said:

^^^

Did that train really hold all of those people?

 

A pair of 4SUBs arriving on a peak hour at Waterloo could easily disgorge upwards of a thousand...

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Despite many notifications to them (both via Email and face-to-face) they still don't acknowledge that their version of BR(S) Green as applied to their BR-period Maunsells is actually more like SR Malachite...

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On 05/08/2021 at 23:05, PhilJ W said:

 

Does the Oggy Oggy Pasty Co. use donkeys to haul their wagons about?

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20 hours ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Monty,

 

I'm as impressed by the two thirds clean front of the locomotive.

 

Gibbo.

 

Brush was too short?

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One evening four of us bagged the second class compartment in a 4CIG on a late Victoria-Brighton/Ore service which split at Haywards Heath. The usual thing was to be woken up by the 60' track on the Ouse Valley viaduct ready to fall out of the train at the Heath and make our way home. One evening we didn't and were woken up by the carriage cleaners in Ore sidings. We later discovered that CWR had been laid on the viaduct between this trip and the previous similar one...