RMweb Gold SHMD Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 ^ It's a prison train. Kev. (There are no facts in this post...) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Makes the thumpers/Hastings units look a step backwards if we could have had something like that - they even used the same engines! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 (edited) The LMS introduced a 3 car multiple unit in 1939 which looks a lot better: The there was this pre WW1 https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrk3767.htm Edited May 21, 2020 by melmerby 14 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Lantavian said: 1950, and a British-built DEMU with a top speed of 75mph passes through Worcestershire. It's The Snowpiercer. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve W Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 4 hours ago, melmerby said: Build a proper fuelling point for locos? Nah, just use a couple of tank cars: Why bother with tank cars? Just need one or more local fuel trucks to turn up at a station stop: The Vancouver - Toronto 'Canadian'. Same locos all the way through, refuelled as neccesary. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 You must be this tall to ride... Ludgershall 'excursion' platform. 1986 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 BR's Experimental Road Rail Class 08 was not considered a success 3 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 4 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: I'm still intrigued by that reference to silver-painted roofs ........ would that be better for deflecting Dawlish seawater p'raps ??!? No, it's just how I imagine them for some reason. 5 hours ago, rockershovel said: There’s one around the Bristol area. Is Yarmouth on a wye? I remember going there by train as a child, and there being some sort of reversing manoeuvre to get the train turned If you include the Filton/Stoke Gifford complex, there were at least 6. 6 hours ago, LMS2968 said: Again, if we go back to the Midland Railway, most of their roundhoueses were square! 5 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said: And the GW. I reckon the GW roundhouse at Old Oak Common is a cheat as well, approached through the side wall at an angle. Good dodge for a low relief roundhouse building though. I really like the 'fan shaped train garage', and want one. Tondu, which of course I am particularly interested in, was a roundhouse but never had tender locos allox AFAIK. Where there were through 'running sheds' and roundhouses the roundhouses were used for minor repair and boiler washout work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: If you include the Filton/Stoke Gifford complex, there were at least 6. I reckon the GW roundhouse at Old Oak Common is a cheat as well, approached through the side wall at an angle. Good dodge for a low relief roundhouse building though. Birmingham area has at least 6 triangular junctions and more in the past. Several other GWR Roundhouses had a side entrance: Oxley, Croes Newydd (at 90 degrees), Tondu (90 degrees), Stafford Road Taunton was at an angle to the tracks. Canton was accessed from both ends as was Pontypool Road St Blazey (Not a GWR original!) was a segment house in th US tradition. Edited May 21, 2020 by melmerby 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 8 hours ago, caradoc said: And some sheds did have their own wye, eg Nine Elms and Grantham, so they were not unknown, although certainly not common. Adelaide shed in Belfast had its own wye. The current railway in Belfast has a double track Wye where the lines from Belfast Central Railway join the Dublin line. This is used by RPSI and NIR for turning locomotives. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, Lantavian said: 1950, and a British-built DEMU with a top speed of 75mph passes through Worcestershire. Platform clearance looks pretty close, You cant imagine network rail letting this happen today Edited May 21, 2020 by russ p Not reading captions properly 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 9 hours ago, Titan said: Makes the thumpers/Hastings units look a step backwards if we could have had something like that - they even used the same engines! At least the Hastings / Thumper family had windows you could see out of ................. passengers as well as the driver, that is ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold john new Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 As we have set out in our most recent publication the Hastings units are of significance. There is also a section on the LMS DMU. For the book details see - https://www.stephensonloco.org.uk/SLS%20book%20detail%20vol%20three.htm 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 11 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: At least the Hastings / Thumper family had windows you could see out of ................. passengers as well as the driver, that is ! True, but make the front window bigger, paint it in reverse blue/grey and put a yellow warning panel on it and it would have been a pretty accurate forecast of future train design... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 The LMS dmu should have been put into production it really looks good ,saw a photo of it on the Bletchley Oxford line must have been on tour . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 13 hours ago, russ p said: Platform clearance looks pretty close, You cant imagine network rail letting this happen today Was this the unit built for Egyptian Railways? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 22, 2020 Just now, Fat Controller said: Was this the unit built for Egyptian Railways? Apparently so 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted May 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 22, 2020 3 hours ago, Fat Controller said: Was this the unit built for Egyptian Railways? See Lantavian's post at 1417 yesterday Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 22, 2020 7 hours ago, lmsforever said: The LMS dmu should have been put into production it really looks good ,saw a photo of it on the Bletchley Oxford line must have been on tour . Another victim of German foreign policy 1939-45... What might have been the result of a dmu style war between the GW and LMS? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Kyle Of Lochalsh 1982 I'm guessing that this is some kind of railtour, but I don't know why a Collett? coach is in the train. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 (edited) Regarding triangles - Bescot had a triangle within a triangle for a while, sadly the 'inner' one is only partially complete today. There are a few on my route card, some closely laid out and others less so but still technically triangular in layout - namely Cricklewood (with Brent Curve and Dudding Hill junctions), Wigston, Syston, Water Orton (with Park Lane and Castle Brom Jcns), Soho, Perry Barr, Stetchford (with Grand Jcn and Aston), Bescot, Worcester, Gloucester, Gresty (Crewe), Trent and not forgetting Willesden (from the relief lines near the McVitie factory to Acton Wells and back via Sou' West Sdgs). I don't know whether I'm coming or going sometimes.... Edited May 22, 2020 by Rugd1022 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: but I don't know why a Collett? coach is in the train Blowing up the flickr version, it's numbered 9004, which appears to have been a special saloon. This thread says it was used as an observation coach on the Kyle line: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/54136-gwr-club-saloon-9004/ I'm sure a GW expert will be along shortly with more info 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Regarding triangles - Bescot had a triangle within a triangle for a while, sadly the 'inner' one is only partially complete today. There are a few on my route card, some closely laid out and others less so but still technically triangular in layout - namely Cricklewood (with Brent Curve and Dudding Hill junctions), Wigston, Syston, Water Orton (with Park Lane and Castle Brom Jcns), Soho, Perry Barr, Stetchford (with Grand Jcn and Aston), Bescot, Worcester, Gloucester, Gresty (Crewe), Trent and not forgetting Willesden (from the relief lines near the McVitie factory to Acton Wells and back via Sou' West Sdgs). I don't know whether I'm coming or going sometimes.... Add Lifford plus the triangle formed by Grand Junction-St Andrews Junction- Saltley Junction 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 1 hour ago, eastwestdivide said: Blowing up the flickr version, it's numbered 9004, which appears to have been a special saloon. This thread says it was used as an observation coach on the Kyle line: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/54136-gwr-club-saloon-9004/ I'm sure a GW expert will be along shortly with more info I have a hazy memory that McAlpine (or some similar millionaire) used it as a personal salloon up there for a bit- think I had a railway mag with a shot captioned to that effect when I was younger... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 22, 2020 Thinking of what I could add to the list of triangles with places I go (or used to go to) hatton (both north of the station and out to Stratford and back to Tyseley) didcot (2 there via the station and avoider) chester northwich dore chinley manchester airport branch shrewsbury valley carlisle (bog jn) burton on Trent (drakelow branch) earlestown newton le willows (Lowton jn) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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