Prototype for everything corner.

[Metr0Land]

There is presumably a good reason for this....anyone....?

 

I'm guessing it's to keep diesel fumes out of the trainshed and/or provide an overrun if train smashed the buffers.

[rab]

I'm guessing it's to keep diesel fumes out of the trainshed and/or provide an overrun if train smashed the buffers.

I always thought the idea of a train shed was to

provide protection from the weather for passengers

(or does the sun always shine in Tralee),

[Metr0Land]

I always thought the idea of a train shed was to

provide protection from the weather for passengers

(or does the sun always shine in Tralee),

 

That's a rather Victorian view of passenger service, before the Elfin Safety Zealots got hold of railways.  The sun rarely shines in Tralee.  Didn't you know why Ireland's so green? 

[The Johnster]

Jealous of not being Wales?

[LMS2968]

Presumably the wondrously clean steam locos were allowed in there when it was built?

[108]

Tralee was originally a through station. once the line to Fenit and the North Kerry line were closed a bufferstop was put at the platform end, allowing trains to still use the train shed. Later the goods yard was converted to an additional car park, accessed through the site of the buffer stop. The new arrangement moved the bufferstop further down the platform, as shown above.

Edited November 26, 2017 by 108

[Jack374]

We’ve all used the method of weathering, "spray on, wipe off" with a cotton bud, but the first attempt never goes brilliantly:

 

http://www.carlswatson.com/Trains/Galleries%202017/Galleries%20201711/20171108ArlingtonEastleighWorks/eastleighworks8thnovember20175.html

 

Thanks,

Jack.

[Coryton]

 Didn't you know why Ireland's so green? 

 

Because it doesn't have a roof?

[brianusa]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42085145

 

While may not be suitable for all stations, a least these deserve an A for effort.  There must be others.

 

Brian

[Colin_McLeod]

Tralee was originally a through station. once the line to Fenit and the North Kerry line were closed a bufferstop was put at the platform end, allowing trains to still use the train shed. Later the goods yard was converted to an additional car park, accessed through the site of the buffer stop. The new arrangement moved the bufferstop further down the platform, as shown above.

Interesting but still does not fully explain why the buffers are at the opposite end of the Tran shed to the car park access. The first picture below is taken from the car park access and shows a fence separating the road from the Fenit end of the train shed.

 

 

 

[108]

Ah, that's odd alright. The stops seem to have been moved even further from the access since I was last down that way.

 

Thanks for the pictures.

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[duncan]

I'm guessing it's to keep diesel fumes out of the trainshed and/or provide an overrun if train smashed the buffers.

 

 

I didn't know dmus were powerful enough to shove the buffer stops that distance  

[jonas]

Does it make it nice and easy to control access to the 'active' part of the platform through the automated barriers?

[Trev52A]

Renumbering a pre-TOPS loco and not sure whether to include the 'D' prefix or not? Why not hedge your bets and do both, as in this picture of Meld​ - the leading end is 9003, the far end is D9003.

 

9003/D9003 at Darlington on 24th March 1970

 

Trevor

 

[The Johnster]

The shot of Meld at Darlington is very atmospheric, with the secondman looking back for the 'tip' and the steam heated mk2 stock, not often photographed in steam heated action.  Another anomaly is that I cannot see (perhaps I don't know where to look!) any electrification warning stickers on Meld.

[Swindon 123]

The shot of Meld at Darlington is very atmospheric, with the secondman looking back for the 'tip' and the steam heated mk2 stock, not often photographed in steam heated action.  Another anomaly is that I cannot see (perhaps I don't know where to look!) any electrification warning stickers on Meld.

Having looked through a number of photos, I haven't spotted any Deltics with Electrification flashes in the late 60's/early 70's, so not really an anomaly, although I hadn't spotted they were missing before. I wonder when they started to receive them. It is an excellent atmospheric photo. I can recall being in the some sort of pose on many occasions working on them.

55013,. [ECML-27] by Paul James, on Flickr

 

Paul J.

[LMS2968]

Probably when displaced on the ECML by HSTs and began to work over the Pennines into LMR territory with OHLW.

[russ p]

Probably when displaced on the ECML by HSTs and began to work over the Pennines into LMR territory with OHLW.

They worked under the wires for the last four or five years of there lives from Hitchin to King's Cross

[45125]

The shot of Meld at Darlington is very atmospheric, with the secondman looking back for the 'tip' and the steam heated mk2 stock, not often photographed in steam heated action.  Another anomaly is that I cannot see (perhaps I don't know where to look!) any electrification warning stickers on Meld.

 

Still has a 34G shed plate.

[Swindon 123]

Still has a 34G shed plate.

It doesn't look like a shed plate, more like a stenciled 34G in paint, or some sort of sticker.

 

Paul J. 

[The Johnster]

If Deltics in general never had OHLE warning stickers, and if I'm honest I'd have to say I've never looked but will now, they are pretty unique; the stickers were more or less universally applied everywhere, even to Southern 3rd rail 750v dc stock which would hardly have been expected to run under 25kv cables under any circumstances.  I used to be mildly amused in a juvenile sort of way at the thought of some poor railwayman on the SR electrocuting himself on the 3rd rail while gazing skywards looking for the lethal cables he'd been so thoroughly warned about, but that was the sort of silliness I went in for in those days...

[great central]

I don't think the class 76s ever carried overhead warning flashes, certainly don't recall them on any photos, unless someone knows different of course

[The Johnster]

I knew it wouldn't be long before someone proved me wrong (I love this site!).  Of course, 25kv flashes would be particularly inappropriate on a 1,500v loco, even if they did work in to Manchester Piccadilly.  I officially give up!

[caradoc]

What exactly was the BR policy on applying OLE warning flashes; Did they really consider every type of loco and vehicle, and decide how likely it was to actually work under OLE, and apply the flashes accordingly ? I would have thought it more likely that the flashes would have been applied universally.

[Metr0Land]

I know we've had Class 128 DPU's with tail end load before.  This one (sorry it's a bit dark) has something like 6 4-wheel vans in tow.  Not sure i've seen anything quite like that before.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/graham_williams/7493152994/in/photolist-cq9nk1-dkVDTf-64W4bp-hhWLb6-q5igQi-qj61XJ-9JH7ur-bSa9wt-iq63mX-64W3ji-bPxmYD-Xc3m5p-7uCm2i-dzNQ3d-TMpUY7-9UyWLt-geQKqD-9QTehH-d6hQKC-oKea4g-hHgv3a-9QTjoT-dNDX7V-e74DNL-9UEjtY-7uNfeS-SafHkd-9sbukR-9JKV85-kDaWqL-psVqQZ-oSUSnS-W5Yzqa-kLxTSy-Vfvesb-ehpjMs-VUQhBw-b8A2KX-hmdv55-TejDdv-SbG1tZ-9QW5Bb-9rnk1n-5xFqxy-ahpUec-oWbiCi-pxyeUn-VFRGKG-ahrtYn-dqNJEo