Blackthorn Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 Ah, now I see why French electric locomotives had those funny looking backwards inclined windscreens......just the right space for a girls bum! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 43 minutes ago, Blackthorn said: Ah, now I see why French electric locomotives had those funny looking backwards inclined windscreens......just the right space for a girls bum! I can think of quite a few girls bums which wouldnt fit in the space available. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 'End of shift' - crew change at Newcastle today, 30th November Trevor 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 I love the new-fangled point heater.... In fact, I saw much the same being done to the frozen tracks in Newark (New Jersey) as late as the late 70's. I could not believe it. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Tokyo, 1990. I think I've seen this in slightly later videos too. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 1, 2019 Author Share Posted December 1, 2019 Another round up of stuff from the hard drive... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ray H Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2019 The penultimate image is interesting insomuch as it appears to show a cleared signal on the approach to crossing gates that are across the railway. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2019 4 minutes ago, Ray H said: The penultimate image is interesting insomuch as it appears to show a cleared signal on the approach to crossing gates that are across the railway. That looks a lot like Lincoln, and the crossing will be High Street. There is another signal twixt crossing and the signal showing "off" (you can just see an "on" distant arm, and presumably there is an "on" stop arm, behind the "off" signal). 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Ray H said: The penultimate image is interesting insomuch as it appears to show a cleared signal on the approach to crossing gates that are across the railway. 1 hour ago, iands said: That looks a lot like Lincoln, and the crossing will be High Street. There is another signal twixt crossing and the signal showing "off" (you can just see an "on" distant arm, and presumably there is an "on" stop arm, behind the "off" signal). Yes that is Lincoln, this reverse angle taken from up on the multi-storey car park shows the signalling, although the crossing gates are somewhat different.... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Trev52A Posted December 8, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2019 The south end of Darlington station on 29th May 1978, with E43064 heading south in the background, shortly after the introduction of the new HST timetable. Trevor 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted December 8, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 8, 2019 6 minutes ago, Trev52A said: The south end of Darlington station on 29th May 1978, with E43064 heading south in the background, shortly after the introduction of the new HST timetable. Trevor I'm trying to recall who that is, possibly Ronnie Cronin of thornaby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 10 minutes ago, Trev52A said: The south end of Darlington station on 29th May 1978, with E43064 heading south in the background, shortly after the introduction of the new HST timetable. Trevor The banana van in the background is quite interesting too. Pure gold Andy 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted December 8, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 8, 2019 And Thompson coach, so sad scenes like this have gone forever replaced by the sterile featureless railway we have today 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 After working the 07.13 Barnstaple to Exeter St Davids service 33016 has stabled the stock in the yard at St Davids. I understand there is a Salisbury driver in the cab with Exeter driver Len Spicer, and Emrys Mason (in the lightweight jacket) on the ground. The water crane here survived until the re-signalling of the St Davids station area in 1985. 7/11/83. cheers 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trog Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 On 30/11/2019 at 19:21, Mike Storey said: I love the new-fangled point heater.... In fact, I saw much the same being done to the frozen tracks in Newark (New Jersey) as late as the late 70's. I could not believe it. You can do much the same with ballast hoppers if the ballast is frozen and won't run. Pour a gallon of petrol over the ballast and leave it to soak in for a few minutes, then throw a burning rag at it. Gets rid of the frost nicely and if you do it at night the still burning ballast looks really impressive as it drops out of the chutes. Not seen it done since the mid 1990's though as for some strange reason both EWS and the H&S people frowned on the practice. 6 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 15 hours ago, Trog said: You can do much the same with ballast hoppers if the ballast is frozen and won't run. Pour a gallon of petrol over the ballast and leave it to soak in for a few minutes, then throw a burning rag at it. Gets rid of the frost nicely and if you do it at night the still burning ballast looks really impressive as it drops out of the chutes. Not seen it done since the mid 1990's though as for some strange reason both EWS and the H&S people frowned on the practice. We used to do the same with gone off hard or frozen Tarmac but using diesel. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 14, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 14, 2019 On 30/11/2019 at 19:21, Mike Storey said: I love the new-fangled point heater.... In fact, I saw much the same being done to the frozen tracks in Newark (New Jersey) as late as the late 70's. I could not believe it. We had an Area Manager who bought a flame thrower for clearing the snow. Unfortunately the person given the job of using it to get stock off the depot didn't just do the hand points. He set fire to the signalling cables on the main exit points and stopped the job for two days. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 1 hour ago, TheSignalEngineer said: We had an Area Manager who bought a flame thrower for clearing the snow. Unfortunately the person given the job of using it to get stock off the depot didn't just do the hand points. He set fire to the signalling cables on the main exit points and stopped the job for two days. We did exactly the same at Brighton, to clear the station throat, mainly the West side and to Hove, in the bad winter of (I think) '87. Just quite how I am still alive to tell the tale, given the third rail was live throughout but hidden somewhere under various layers of snow, remains a mystery. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted December 17, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2019 Me - the rest is in the caption. You can tell where we went on holiday by looking in Dad's railway albums, rather than in the family albums in most cases. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Panama City November 2018 Santa Apolonia Station, Lisbon May 2018 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 19, 2019 Author Share Posted December 19, 2019 Photo c/o Terry Yeend : Driver Harry Sell of Old Oak on a D63xx'er... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRU Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 York station 23-9-18 Peter 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmesfeldian Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 (edited) As seen on Twitter today on the last run @LNERKate Edited December 21, 2019 by Holmesfeldian More info 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 9.55am. 26-12-'19. Portmadoc Station on the Ffestiniog. A Donkey jacketed Santa oils up one of his mechanical Reindeers. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 30, 2019 Author Share Posted December 30, 2019 Not sure if I've posted this one already, I'm losing track..... Driver Jackie Brown aboard 'Western Ranger', photo c/o Neil Barker... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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