RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted May 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2020 Woodford Halse had a triangle, and if you use side by side mapping, the position of it easy still clearly visible in the soil on the satellite image.... https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=52.17776&lon=-1.20567&layers=193&right=BingHyb 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73c Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 19 minutes ago, Davexoc said: The ballast cleaning train, some of it in this view here at Toton. When formed up, its big, yellow, and very very long.... Bloomin heck! Just seen a clip on youtube, your not wrong about the length Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 10 hours ago, montyburns56 said: I don't know exactly how old this sign would be, but the station lost it's passenger service in 1964. North Filton Station 1996 North Filton Platform was actually used by passenger services up until the mid eighties - 86 I think - for Rolls Royce/British Aerospace workers, and IIRC the final reason for closure was officially given as lack of lighting 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 23, 2020 2 hours ago, 73c said: Bloomin heck! Just seen a clip on youtube, your not wrong about the length One of them passed me last week at mountsorrel, this is less than 1/2 of it in view 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Kidderminster shed had a triangle too for turning locos. Bewdley, Hartebury, Kidderminster. Andy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 5 hours ago, big jim said: One of them passed me last week at mountsorrel, this is less than 1/2 of it in view That’s GOT to be worth a post from someone, explaining how it actually operates? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aire Head Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 18 hours ago, Ben B said: Back to triangles, I know Shipley (West Yorkshire) isn't technically a depot triangle, but it has been used for turning locomotives from Haworth shed (Worth Valley Railway) in the past. Happened for example in the 70's for filming 'Yanks' with s160 'Big Jim' heading down and back under steam to turn. Doesn't happen these days given the intense traffic levels on Airedale line (and regs around preserved locos on main line) though gala visitor "Royal Scot" was turned their before heading back for Crewe last year or year before. Going back to the 1950s it was used to turn the Deltic Prototype and Dynamometer Car (perhaps it's full train) during its trials over the S&C Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Here it is... I don’t suppose it comes as any real surprise, that it is German... 3 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share Posted May 24, 2020 10 hours ago, Davexoc said: Woodford Halse had a triangle, and if you use side by side mapping, the position of it easy still clearly visible in the soil on the satellite image.... https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=52.17776&lon=-1.20567&layers=193&right=BingHyb Spalding had a triangle in the 1950s, and it was well used for turning locos too large for the turntable there, and avoided disrupting the almost constant stream of goods trains through the station at that time. Engines would use the Welland Bridge Junction to Cuckoo Junction M&GN avoiding line, plus the spurs to/from the station. Fortunately, the signalmen at Cuckoo Junction noted the loco numbers for these movements, and I have their register. It was a mystery to begin with, as to why WD 2-8-0s and other large engines were appearing at Cuckoo Junction, but with the kind help of the members in the M&GN Circle it was all sorted. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 11 hours ago, Davexoc said: Woodford Halse had a triangle, and if you use side by side mapping, the position of it easy still clearly visible in the soil on the satellite image.... https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=52.17776&lon=-1.20567&layers=193&right=BingHyb Interesting to see how completely the railway structures have disappeared! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 9 hours ago, big jim said: One of them passed me last week at mountsorrel, this is less than 1/2 of it in view A very impressive bit of kit and when it was on our patch something always seemed to go wrong with it - broken couplings, split hydraulic hoses, brake issues causing a few SPADs, the odd fire and gawd knows what else....! Heading north up the WCML out of Willesden was fun, once it was all put together we'd be routed down the dive under along the Willesden relief lines which took some careful handling with the 20mph speed restriction and the inevitable red signal on the approach to Sudbury Junction. With the signal off for the Down Slow it would be a long slow crawl out of the dip but once clear of the last set of points the rear driver would get the nod from the front driver over the back to back radio and give it the beans all the way to Tring. Happy days. 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2020 1 hour ago, rockershovel said: Here it is... I don’t suppose it comes as any real surprise, that it is German... Vorsprung durch Technik 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73c Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 An amazing bit of kit! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 13 hours ago, Catkins said: ......... I still use soap and water to clean my ballast. for at least twenty seconds in accordance with Government guidelines. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve W Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Like the cars, you don't get all the 'nice to haves' with the base model. There were some good bits, like the brush for sweeping the rail and sleeper tops and the blue 'go faster' arrow on one wagon to show which way it should be pointing, but not to have some form of enclosure to protect the spent ballast conveyor operator seems remiss. In fact the overall level of dust was appalling. I certainly wouldn't want it operating at the end of my back garden! Fascinating piece of kit though. Another hour of lockdown spent because there lots more videos of various bits of ingeneous rail maintenance kit just waiting to be watched. Thanks for posting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share Posted May 24, 2020 Are you just feeling too lazy to be bothered doing a decent renumbering job today? No problem, just copy 47227 in two-tone green.... 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted May 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 25, 2020 Do you remember that famous comedy sketch about class with the Two Ronnies and John Cleese.... 15 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Ipswich 1988 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 25, 2020 48 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Do you remember that famous comedy sketch about class with the Two Ronnies and John Cleese.... The 1938 stock even looks a bit like Ronnie Corbett; it's that slightly bemused and a little taken aback expression under dark hair... 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2020 Reminds me of something Uncle Peter said on Reeves & Mortimer: "I am working class, except at weekends when I'm SuperSaver class." 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2020 5 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Do you remember that famous comedy sketch about class with the Two Ronnies and John Cleese.... Oddly that Met A (?) stock is the largest train there being just under 9' 7" wide, 4" more than the DMU and only slightly less high. O & P stock was even wider. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 25, 2020 22 minutes ago, melmerby said: Oddly that Met A (?) stock is the largest train there being just under 9' 7" wide, 4" more than the DMU and only slightly less high. O & P stock was even wider. Was the width of met stock so wide because some of the line had been broad gauge for a while? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2020 43 minutes ago, russ p said: Was the width of met stock so wide because some of the line had been broad gauge for a while? Possibly. It opened with dual gauge in Jan 1863 from Paddington to Farringdon with Broad gauge trains operated by BG GWR stock using Metro tanks. Standard gauge trains operated by the GNR ran from Aug 1863 after the GWR withdrew it's BG ones due to a disagreement. Later the GWR ran BG trains from Farringdon to Hammersmith. Even after BG trains ceased the expanding MET must have still built to a generous width. The flared skirt type MET stock O & P approached 9' 9" wide. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 How wide is the 'S' stock ? ........ it's certainly not restricted to former Metropolitan lines so was it 'dumbed down' to a narrower standard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 26, 2020 5 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said: How wide is the 'S' stock ? ........ it's certainly not restricted to former Metropolitan lines so was it 'dumbed down' to a narrower standard. 9' 7" according to Wiki I seem to remember that TfL said they were to be to the maximum profile allowable on the non tube lines, so presumably all non tube tunnels etc. must be to the same wide gauge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now