Prototype for everything corner.

[rab]

10 hours 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.

 

 

There's obviously more room underground

than there is above ground.

[rockershovel]

44 minutes ago, rab said:

There's obviously more room underground

than there is above ground.

 

That’s not as daft as it sounds, a new-construction underground line is effectively a greenfield site. 

 

I’d never really thought about it, but Metropolitan Line stock is WIDE inside, isn’t it? 

[Wickham Green too]

1 hour ago, rab said:

There's obviously more room underground

than there is above ground.

IF you keep yer 'ed down !

 

Clearly there's room to run the 'S' stock on District lines where the 'D' stock previously lived ...... yet that seems to be finding an after-life on the National Network - presumably with severe restrictions !!?!

[melmerby]

The D stock is supposedly 9' 4" wide only an inch more than a Class 165 etc.

It ran where the much wider O & P stock formerly ran.

It may be that the inch is in an area that doesn't impinge on NR structures

Edited May 26, 2020 by melmerby

[jonny777]

18 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

Ipswich 1988

 

 

 

 

Would this be due to some kind of brake failure on the loco, or wagons? Or maybe the 08 had no air brakes? 

[LMS2968]

I don't know but there are no side lamps on the van, which I assume would still be a requirement for part fitted or non-fitted trains.

[Fat Controller]

36 minutes ago, jonny777 said:

 

 

Would this be due to some kind of brake failure on the loco, or wagons? Or maybe the 08 had no air brakes? 

It's a movement which requires propelling between Ipswich yard and Griffin quay.

[DavidB-AU]

At the other end. Lots of photos of this shunt from around 1988-91.

 

 

[montyburns56]

1 hour ago, DavidB-AU said:

At the other end. Lots of photos of this shunt from around 1988-91.

 

 

 

Thanks, I also found this beauty by the same photographer...

 

 

[montyburns56]

"Excuse me sir, is this your vehicle?"

 

D1595 Waterloo Dock, Liverpool, June 1966,

 

 

[The Pilotman]

Or, “I wouldn’t leave it there if I were you; the local scallies will have those wheels off in no time.”

[73c]

I won't be a minute, honest guv, I'm just popping in to buy some dog biscuits.

[steve W]

What do you mean officer  "is it and essential journey?"

Edited May 26, 2020 by steve W
spellun

[rab]

7 hours ago, rockershovel said:

 

That’s not as daft as it sounds, a new-construction underground line is effectively a greenfield site. 

 

I’d never really thought about it, but Metropolitan Line stock is WIDE inside, isn’t it? 

I guess cables and pipes take up less space

than buildings and roads.

[melmerby]

1 hour ago, steve W said:

What do you mean officer  "is it and essential journey?"

Come! Come! you're off to Barnard Castle...................

 

(Look up the saying: "Come! Come! to Barnard Castle")

Very apt in the current political climate

Edited May 26, 2020 by melmerby

[simontaylor484]

On the Swindon to unwittingly joint line in the pontefract area there were street lights on the actual railway line on the approach to Baghill station i believe they were fitted due to.mining subsidence as far as I am aware the lighting columns are still there but not used i would go and have a look but I have to self shield at the moment

[simontaylor484]

Blooming predictive text that should.read Swinton to Knottingley line

[eastwestdivide]

11 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

Blooming predictive text that should.read Swinton to Knottingley line

Sometimes you prefer the original. I've been to Swindon unwittingly.

[jonny777]

13 hours ago, melmerby said:

Come! Come! you're off to Barnard Castle...................

 

(Look up the saying: "Come! Come! to Barnard Castle")

Very apt in the current political climate

 

Or maybe, is this the way.....

 

 

[simontaylor484]

1 hour ago, eastwestdivide said:

Sometimes you prefer the original. I've been to Swindon unwittingly.

At least they have the magic roundabout 

[Darius43]

14 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

The Swindon to unwittingly joint line

Great name for a layout.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[melmerby]

Here's an interesting US move.

A Schnabel car (transformer truck)

It's preceded on the tracks by a pick up truck!

Even a couple of cabooses for good luck

 

Edited May 27, 2020 by melmerby

[The Johnster]

Should the plural of caboose be cabeese?

[keefer]

By  chance i saw a video of these cars recently. Even when not in use, they make an impressive train.

Basically the 2 end sections are joined together, with the extra side-beams etc. carried on flat wagons.

 

[pH]

6 hours ago, melmerby said:

Here's an interesting US move.

A Schnabel car (transformer truck)

It's preceded on the tracks by a pick up truck!

 

Hi-rail "pilots" are not unknown for 'regular' trains (that looks like a special move). Western Pacific ran Ford Broncos in advance of trains through the Feather Canyon in certain conditions. And BC Rail ran SUVs in front of trains along Howe Sound, between Squamish and North Vancouver.