Prototype for everything corner.

[rockershovel]

On 06/10/2020 at 21:00, Wickham Green too said:

In Deutschland zay haff ze technology !

 

Vorsprung Durch Technik? 

[melmerby]

4 hours ago, rockershovel said:

 

Vorsprung Durch Technik? 

Wellhung Dork Technique................

[BR(S)]

RTC Lab 5 on the London Underground in 1986:

 

Earl's Court by Paul, on Flickr

[Metr0Land]

With the RHTT season underway, you certainly won't see this in 2020 as the Class 20's really have had their final season

 

Choppers to the rescue! by Alan Padley, on Flickr

[jonny777]

In reality, that is quite an efficient use of locomotives. 

[sir douglas]

yeah, 37's have taken over the spraying train, at least we still have the same glorious English Electric sounds to listen to

[JZ]

Came across this in a FB group. Built by the Ludlow & Southern railway in Nevada. Can't find much in the way of details.

[sir douglas]

rebuilt with a steam chassis, this was also done a few times in france with ex WW1 Baldwins

 

one under construction

 

this green diesel is a model of one (photo from NGRM forum)

 

Edited October 13, 2020 by sir douglas

[pH]

22 minutes ago, JZ said:

Came across this in a FB group. Built by the Ludlow & Southern railway in Nevada. Can't find much in the way of details.

 

It’s been mentioned in the “Worst Looking Locomotive” topic. The original post has gone (I think the person who posted it may have “left”!), but the post below quotes that post.

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/152467-worst-looking-locomotive-topic-antidote-to-best-looking-locomotive-topic/&do=findComment&comment=4054321

 

[Wickham Green too]

13 hours ago, JZ said:

Came across this in a FB group. Built by the Ludlow & Southern railway in Nevada. Can't find much in the way of details.

 

I guess what I thought, initially, to be a fuel tank must be a concrete block to keep the driving wheels on the track !!?!

[eastwestdivide]

You've heard of bi-mode electric+diesel, well here's tri-mode steam+electric+diesel, at a Chatham Dockyard open day in 1985:

Edit: in fact on the occasion of the Tall Ships Race visit to Chatham.

 

Edited October 16, 2020 by eastwestdivide

[Ben B]

13 hours ago, eastwestdivide said:

You've heard of bi-mode electric+diesel, well here's tri-mode steam+electric+diesel, at a Chatham Dockyard open day in 1985:

Edit: in fact on the occasion of the Tall Ships Race visit to Chatham.

 

 

Doesn't the Alderney Railway on thr Channel Islands have that sort of thing as their day-to-day passenger service? I think they used to run a kind of improvised DMU from Wickham inspection trollies too.

[eastwestdivide]

27 minutes ago, Ben B said:

 

Doesn't the Alderney Railway on thr Channel Islands have that sort of thing as their day-to-day passenger service? I think they used to run a kind of improvised DMU from Wickham inspection trollies too.

This thread from 2011 on District Dave says that the two 1938 cars pictured above at Chatham are the same ones that later went to Alderney. Since scrapped and replaced by 1959 stock:

https://districtdavesforum.co.uk/thread/17407/chatham-historic-dockyard

[keefer]

Got a steam layout but want to have an EMU and don't want to put any 3rd rail down?

(I'm sure there are similar examples for OLE units)

44781_Bolton_18-6-68 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

Edited October 27, 2020 by keefer

[Gibbo675]

14 minutes ago, keefer said:

Got a steam layout but want to have an EMU and don't want to put any 3rd rail down?

(I'm sure there are similar examples for OLE units)

44781_Bolton_18-6-68 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

Hi Keefer,

 

I would guess that the unit is newly outshopped from Horwich works and on its way back to its home depot as Horwich was at the time engaged in the overhaul of various Midland region electric units.

 

Gibbo.

[keefer]

I'm sure the same thing happened with SR units to/from Horwich in the '80s (refurbishment of EPBs i think?). Though of course they would be diesel-hauled.

[nigb55009]

That unit looks like one of the earlier Altrincham sets ( class 505? ). They would have been repaired at Horwich about that time . Some were painted blue. I think they were withdrawn when the Altrincham line was converted to 25 kv and the units replaced with class 304s. The pantograph is on the driving car at the far end. 

[jonny777]

11 hours ago, keefer said:

Got a steam layout but want to have an EMU and don't want to put any 3rd rail down?

(I'm sure there are similar examples for OLE units)

44781_Bolton_18-6-68 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

I may have posted these before, but if you have a weathered WD but love the idea of a Hornby 71 in mint condition - just model the GC in the late 50s/early 60s era. These are screen grabs from a video of a grimy 2-8-0 hauling a brand new SR electric through Nottingham Victoria. The number appears to be E5021 which would date the footage to around July 1960. 

 

 

 

[Derekstuart]

 

On 07/09/2020 at 12:24, luckymucklebackit said:

 

Sadly around the time I was applying for jobs in the railways, that important question "Does your Father work for the Railway" still had a lot of weight behind it, and I had to honestly reply - no!

 

Jim

 

You're right and that carried onto the late '80s/ early '90s. Many a time I was in areas of BR that I really shouldn't have been (cabs, depots, offices, tunnels...) and things that nowadays would have the tabloids screaming.

 

Back then, if you expressed an interest in a career on BR, management would usually turn a blind eye to you accompanying your Dad where you shouldn't- even encouraging it in many cases.

 

Now, a family history on the railway counts for nothing and a degree in media studies or whatever seems to be what they want.

[great central]

1 hour ago, jonny777 said:

 

I may have posted these before, but if you have a weathered WD but love the idea of a Hornby 71 in mint condition - just model the GC in the late 50s/early 60s era. These are screen grabs from a video of a grimy 2-8-0 hauling a brand new SR electric through Nottingham Victoria. The number appears to be E5021 which would date the footage to around July 1960. 

 

 

 

 

Never mind the sparkie thing, what's the number of the Ozzie??

[jonny777]

17 minutes ago, great central said:

 

Never mind the sparkie thing, what's the number of the Ozzie??

 

I think being able to read the number of one of those would have triggered an immediate cardiac arrest, simply due to the shock. 

[caradoc]

1 hour ago, Derekstuart said:

Now, a family history on the railway counts for nothing and a degree in media studies or whatever seems to be what they want.

 

It counted for nothing too when I joined the railway, as did a friend shortly before me, both of us with railway interest but no family railway history whatsoever. This was in 1978 !

 

[jonny777]

Going almost completely O/T for a minute, and without looking up shed allocation websites or loco shed books for the era - here is a question for 'off the top of the head' responses. 

 

If you had a time machine and could go back to April 1963 at Devons Road, Bow engine shed on a quiet Sunday afternoon, how many locos would you expect to see there - and how many (approx) of each individual class do you think might be on shed waiting for Monday morning? 

 

There are no prizes for guessing, but I do have an answer to give sometime later. 

 

 

[luckymucklebackit]

I will see your 2-8-0 and raise you a 2-10-0 with a class 311 at Oubeck!

 

I

 

Jim

[Derekstuart]

2 minutes ago, caradoc said:

 

It counted for nothing too when I joined the railway, as did a friend shortly before me, both of us with railway interest but no family railway history whatsoever. This was in 1978 !

 

All I can say is to reiterate my experience. When I expressed an interest in a railway career, my Dad's line management actively encouraged my Dad to let me visit at the weekends, school holidays etc. I knew the controls of a Brush 4 before I knew how to ride a bike. Yes really.