Passing trains

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

Between Unstone and Dronfield, sometime mid 80's I think.

 

Mike.

[bingley hall]

China 1988 - At Longchuan on the single track main line to Jilin it's 0806hrs on 9 April 1988. SL620 with a slow Changchun to Jilin passenger train has been looped to allow the progress of SL664 on the morning fast passenger from Jilin.

 

Edited August 28, 2016 by bingley hall

[jamesg]

I had the camera nicely set up to photograph the one on the right, I almost missed the one on the left...

 

[jbqfc]

387 at horley

 

387225 by john brace, on Flickr

[Poor Old Bruce]

Does this count? Taken when the one on the left was new.

 

[The Stationmaster]

A useful source might be whatever exists of the original drawings but unfortunately as far as I can delve the Swindon 'general'  (including water supply) drawings are no longer indexed online - or if they are the website of the Wiltshire Library service is even harder to navigate than I have so far found it.

[Poor Old Bruce]

Does this count? Taken when the one on the left was new.

 

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Thanks for the 'Craftsmanship/clever' tag Enterprisingwestern but the only crafty/clever bit was being in the right place at the right time.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

I'll let you have that Richard.

 

Is it at the RTC, as it looks like Etches Park CWM on the right?

[Peter Kazmierczak]

HSTs pass at Heathrow Airport Jn.

 

[Poor Old Bruce]

I'll let you have that Richard.

 

Is it at the RTC, as it looks like Etches Park CWM on the right?

 

Thanks Peter. Yes it is at the RTC. The A4 was there for weight adjustments before its loaded test run. The infernal combustion thing was also there for acceptance AFAIK and just happened to be parked in the right place.

[Phil Bullock]

Looking south from the bridge at Abbotswood on a misty day....

 

 

Phil

 

 

[Claude_Dreyfus]

A pair of E2 units at Nagano on the Hokuriku Shinkansen - May 2014.  Little aside - the unit on the right had just terminated with a service from Tokyo; we're not seeing the Japanese indulging in some wrong line running!

[jamesg]

Passing trains, neither of which is a voyager!  In fact, neither are passenger trains.  On the left is the Tesco freightliner.  On the right, making an unscheduled stop in Eckington Loop, is 70805 with a spoil train following an engineering possession further down the line.

 

[jamesg]

Back to Voyagers; they are seen quite frequently on this stretch of line.

 

 

I was about to change to a wider lens as they approached; the speed they were travelling at, I don't know if I could have gotten a better photograph with the wider lens.

 

Funnily enough, the next two trains passed at the same spot.  The one on the track nearest me was a fully loaded container train; the more distant one was a tamper, so I missed out on a photograph of that.

[iands]

Hi all,

 

A slight variation on this theme, 'crossing' trains! (well almost). The ELL yet again, at Silwood Junction. The upper unit is heading north towards Surrey Quays on the Up Line. The lower unit is heading towards Clapham Junction on the Phase 2 extension via the Old Kent Road Junction.

 

Regards, Ian.

 

[Claude_Dreyfus]

A pair of 377 units passing just south of Pulborough - December 2014

[Southernman46]

Welcome Home ........................

 

 

[Claude_Dreyfus]

A pair of E186 TRAXX locos at Rotterdam Centraal - April 2017

[GRUNFOS]

Washford Heath.

 

[Ian Smeeton]

3 for 1

 

 

Newcastle 1981

 

Regards

 

Ian

 

 

[Phil Bullock]

Some favourite power! Anyone know the location?

 

 

Phil

[eastwestdivide]

Getting back to the concept of two trains of the same type passing each other, here's Swinton S Yorks in 2014:

[Solo]

Sprinters crossing at Ravenglass, September 2018....