Straits Settlements Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Carlisle Someone just remarked, ‘...must make a model of it...‘ Try this for 11 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straits Settlements Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Funny, I thought the proper engines lived at Upperby, not Canal. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Nice bit of film. Interesting that a Southern T9 and a N class Mogul are parked in the shade of the Signalbox. Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted July 31, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2020 Carlisle for me too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 G'Day Folks I'm going for Carlisle, used to have a wonderful time working brand new 156's from Leeds to Carlisle, and have enough time to walk to a great little bakery 5 minutes away, alas, it closed a couple of months before I came to Australia, almost 30 years ago now. manna 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted July 31, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2020 The Talisman having disappeared , our second Gateshead A4 now gets under way. We managed to get a second angle, which I think is rather more successful. Jolly hot here still, sleeping may not be easy. 28 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted July 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2020 Oh dear, I’m going for Carlisle too. It’s just such an obvious choice to vote for in this poll. Rob. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSB Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 6 hours ago, Straits Settlements said: Carlisle Someone just remarked, ‘...must make a model of it...‘ Try this for Is that EM or P4? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 EM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted August 1, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2020 Golf soon, still very hot inside, though it feels nice and fresh outdoors. We have another evening parcels working next, this one heading for Leeds, and providing employment for another New England A2 on Class C duty, Dante this time. 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted August 1, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2020 A runaway winner, Carlisle with 12 votes. Hardly anywhere else got a look in. As requested therefore, today will feature the Midland route from Leeds to Carlisle, which does of course feature, among other things, a rather spectacular and famous stretch of line which I'm sure we all know about. So, no votes for Carlisle again please, its had its moment of glory, but I'll widen it a bit and say junction stations on the main line, rather than just large ones, which I suppose turns on the definition of large anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted August 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2020 Hellifield. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Skipton Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Appleby? (NER link) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 G'Day Folks Kirkby Stephen, had a few very wet times there. manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Well, I was going to nominate Hellifield as it was knocking on the door of being a 'major junction', with the line across to Lancaster / Carnforth and the L&Y route to Blackburn and Manchester. Interestingly, my 'Hills of the North' research tells me that the latter was part of an alternative 'West Coast' route north, using now closed lines from Boars Head (Wigan) via Chorley to join the Preston-Blackburn line and hence on to Hellifield and the S&C to reach Carlisle. Via this means, the slower moving goods traffic, less sensitive goods traffic could be kept clear of the Shap route. HOWEVER If any junction station location is up for grabs then it has to be the one and only: Garsdale (formerly 'Hawes Junction'), On the very roof of England, its attraction (for me) is its wild and remote location. Beautiful on a clear, high summer's day (you do get the occasional one, trust me!) but a harsh and bitter place in the depth of a winter's storm. It has also had its fair share of infamy ('they've all got it in for me!') over the years, from the legend of the spinning turntable to the dreadful events of Xmas Eve 1910, a salutary lesson in railway operations if ever there was one. It's been 35 years since I encountered the place and my ambition of creating a model version of the place is now, finally, being realised. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted August 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2020 Hawes Junction/Garsdale. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted August 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2020 Leeds to Carlisle? .................Skipton 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted August 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2020 ‘ellifield for me, spent an hour or so on a nice cold November day enjoying a bacon bap and a nice cup of tea in the cafe while waiting for a steam special. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted August 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2020 Hawes Junction/Garsdale for me too, with that infamous turntable ‘incident’ which I always enjoy reading about, but also the big crash of 1910 too. So quite a bit of history to go with the place. Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Keighley for me. A beautiful station plus, of course, the attraction of the KWVR. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 I have only been on the Leeds - Carlisle line once, 57 years ago, and never on any of the branches, so I will abstain from this poll. Lloyd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Hellifield for me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Hellifield for me. Somewhere we stopped on the CME 3 years ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Have to agree Andrew... I have seen a number of videos of Hellifield and it seems to be a cross roads with a great looking station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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