BernardTPM Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 5 hours ago, Artless Bodger said: To paraphrase Douglas Adams: "Do you know how much damage would be done to my loco if you ran into it?" "None at all." 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 On 19/05/2021 at 20:04, br2975 said: Street running in Cardiff Docks, with 08854 and a brace of ASW internal users having crossed the Communication Passage Swingbridge, 12th. April, 2002. . Thirty one years earlier I watched HS4000 'Kestrel' going in the opposite direction, top and tailed by two Class 08s, en-route to the Queen Alexandra Dock (out of shot, left) and eventually Russia. . This bridge was also the scene of a major pitched battle several years after I took the photo; when troops from U.N.I.T. engaged alien life forms known as 'Cybermen' . Brian R That's a great pic, and I hadn't realised the line was still operating in the early 2000's! Went for a walk round there some years ago with a fellow Dr.Who fan who was living in Cardiff, and tried to find the bridge where the battle scene had been shot 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artless Bodger Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 6 hours ago, russ p said: How on earth has that consul hit the loco ?? The lettering on the wagon sums it up! It might have been parked inappropriately, elsewhere on site I witnessed an unloaded artic reverse over the bonnet of a car parked outside the water softening plant. I was too far away to influence the outcome, however the car was parked on top of road markings "NO PARKING IN THIS AREA". Mill Hall Road through the site was private but often used as a short cut by the public, it was closed off by tubular gates when an oil train was due, one clot racing through site hit the closed gate! Iirc Hornblower's buffer planks were 2" plate down almost to rail level (to stop it dropping too far if derailed?), added ballast weight for adhesion. She weighed about 28T. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Has anyone mentioned the Slough Estates Railway? Plenty of 'street running' until it closed in 1973. steve 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted July 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 16, 2021 16 hours ago, PhilJ W said: The only bits that weren't badly corroded were the parts that were replaced after wartime bombing. Only the deck plates were badly corroded, most of the structure was quite sound. What really killed the LOR was the idiotic stipulation that it had to be waterproof, other overhead railways around the world were open to allow the rain to fall through. Much of the Chicago EL is almost identical in design (apart from the open decking) to the LOR and still working. 1 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted July 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 16, 2021 On 14/07/2021 at 23:47, Andy Kirkham said: Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough The curve at 0:28 is still visible crossing the path and in the grass. When I started at DERA Farnborough in 1996, a lot of the old RAE buildings seen in the film were still there too (and in some cases, still in use). 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBird Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 16 hours ago, Northmoor said: The curve at 0:28 is still visible crossing the path and in the grass. ... https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2953357,-0.7582107,3a,75y,262.98h,70.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sboupKZUKTqpcCNgokKvvaQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Courtaulds Spondon by Antony Guppy 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 On 15/07/2021 at 16:18, Ben B said: That's a great pic, and I hadn't realised the line was still operating in the early 2000's! Went for a walk round there some years ago with a fellow Dr.Who fan who was living in Cardiff, and tried to find the bridge where the battle scene had been shot As you probably know, this location is within walking distance of Torchwood HQ, and the Ianto Jones 'shrine' . Away to my right when taking this photo was the NEG (Nippon Electrical Glass) factory, whose existence from construction to demolition was comparable to the length of a 'sparrows fart' but part of which survived long enough to feature in an early episode of Torchwood where ISTR an alien autopsy was carried out - . Whilst at the Celsa Tremorfa steel works, the Doctor slugged it out with John Simm's "Master" in the former Electric Arc Furnace building. . I was once a minor 'fan' of the 'Doctor' but the plots, the BBC w*ke lectures, and Jodie Whitaker have driven me to other, more worthwhile pursuits. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: Courtaulds Spondon by Antony Guppy Is there a photo 20ms later, when the foreign lorry, driving on the wrong side of the road, hit the van coming the other way? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim.snowdon Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Nearholmer said: Is there a photo 20ms later, when the foreign lorry, driving on the wrong side of the road, hit the van coming the other way? I know it's north of the Watford Gap, but I didn't think Birmingham was in a foreign country (even if they do have strange accents as far as Southerners are concerned). 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 OK, strike ‘foreign’; I jumped to a conclusion based on the TIR plate. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBird Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 On 17/07/2021 at 22:27, jim.snowdon said: I know it's north of the Watford Gap, but I didn't think Birmingham was in a foreign country (even if they do have strange accents as far as Southerners are concerned). Spondon is between Long Eaton and Derby... Birmingham is a foreign country from there! 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Preston Docks 2016 by Martyn Hilbert 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Duke Street, Birkenhead Docks 1982 by Martyn Hilbert 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted July 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2021 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 47 309 Apr 1998 Dooley Terminal, Felixstowe by Mickoo737 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted July 26, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 26, 2021 Not UK but here is some street running in Cork. https://www.google.com/search?q=cork+city+railway&client=ms-android-h3g-ie&prmd=minv&sxsrf=ALeKk035xgCoucutx1GPXciBxgx095PDpA:1627323007745&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-pr7OqoHyAhVnShUIHQy3DdwQ_AUoAnoECBQQAg#imgrc=z5B9tMtTqqnS3M 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Heuston - Guinness tramway 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 (edited) North Wall Alexandra Road 2004 Edited August 11, 2021 by montyburns56 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Ah - but are you allowed to describe it as street running ( as an oddity ) when there's a tractor up front !!?! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 21 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: Ah - but are you allowed to describe it as street running ( as an oddity ) when there's a tractor up front !!?! You know I didn't look closely enough to realise that was what it was. Well anyway that's interesting in itself. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Altrincham 1959 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 LNER 8404 Great Yarmouth Quayside by John Law 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Huddersfield Gas Works 1938 by John Law 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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