Prototype for everything corner.

[melmerby]

7 minutes ago, eastwestdivide said:

We've had "trains in the landscape", but have we had wagons that were embedded in the landscape and abandoned for decades?

 

High Peak Junction, 2011:

 

I thought that was an abandoned Roman railway uncovered in Pompeii

 

Any idea why it is preserved to view in that condition?

Edited March 1, 2021 by melmerby

[eastwestdivide]

3 minutes ago, melmerby said:

 

Any idea why it is preserved to view in that condition?

I think it's to illustrate the utility of having a catch pit at the foot of the rope-worked incline.

[nightstar.train]

1 hour ago, montyburns56 said:

Yes, this really is a railtour in open wagons on a line with overhead catenary....

 

Harton Electric Railway 1968

 

 

It’s fine. Only a few hundred volts DC. Nowt to worry about. 

[duncan]

On 28/02/2021 at 05:47, Mel_H said:

Bought too many 1:76 caravans? Simple, pop them on a flat wagon.

 

25 026 on a train of caravans at Dundee 13/6/78 (RCTS)

 

[Never seen pictures of this type of traffic before!]

 

The look like Thomson T-lines, built in Falkirk

 

[markw]

17 minutes ago, duncan said:

 

The look like Thomson T-lines, built in Falkirk

 

The green signs in the windows say ELDDIS, made in consett.

[PatB]

7 hours ago, nightstar.train said:

It’s fine. Only a few hundred volts DC. Nowt to worry about. 

And the wagons are wooden, so there's no path to earth .

[john new]

16 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

Yes, this really is a railtour in open wagons on a line with overhead catenary....

 

Harton Electric Railway 1968

 

 

Why is that any different from an open top tram ride? 

[Flying Pig]

On 10/02/2021 at 13:04, RP82 said:

I can't remember if it was either a Workington/Huddersfield/Lincoln TPO that was formed of a sorting coach and BG in the late 80s/early 90s

 

Certainly the Lincoln one was at one time.  I'm not sure of the date of the photo.  It's captioned as the last mail train from Lincoln St Marks and that station was closed in May 1985, but the trees suggest a different time of year.  There's some information on the train here.

 

 

[Wickham Green too]

'May' have ceased running from St.Marks - or at all - weeks or months before the station closed ........ ?

[montyburns56]

The Green Cross Code man 1960s style.... 

 

Burradon Social Club Crossing 1969

 

 

[Flying Pig]

4 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

'May' have ceased running from St.Marks - or at all - weeks or months before the station closed ........ ?

 

It looks like it was transferred to Central at some earlier time as it certainly continued running - this photo is dated 1987 and rhe link I posted previously indicates it was running until 1991.

 

 

[Welly]

^^^

Which station is that please?

[BR(S)]

29 minutes ago, Welly said:

^^^

Which station is that please?

 

Newark Castle according to the Flickr page.

[Iron Horse]

Apologies if this has happened a lot, but if not what about this consist!

 

 

[Phil Mc]

I’d take a guess it’s being used as a coupling adaptor, in the rake that gets split into sections before it goes into the cement works at Hope.

 

cheers,
Phil.

[montyburns56]

Snibston Colliery 1977

 

[Wickham Green too]

"Fred .......

 

 

 

..... FRED .....

 

 

 

.... what were we going to call this one ?"

 

 

Manchester Victoria, 26/7/87

Edited March 4, 2021 by Wickham Green too

[brushman47544]

6 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

"Fred .......

 

 

 

..... FRED .....

 

 

 

.... what were we going to call this one ?"

 

 

Manchester Victoria, 26/7/87

Prehaps the Regiment concerned was disbanded before the name could be applied.

[65179]

1 hour ago, brushman47544 said:

Prehaps the Regiment concerned was disbanded before the name could be applied.

 

What a great couple of photos! The red rectangle and beginnings of the Tinsley white rose suggest it was needed in traffic before its unofficial name could be added. 45012 finished its days as Wyvern II.

 

Simon

[65179]

3 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

 

Manchester Victoria, 26/7/87

 

This has got me all nostalgic. The number of times I must have popped over to Platform 16 and then looked into the stygian gloom of 17 to see if there was anything of interest!

 

Simon

[john new]

In another thread this link to YouTube shows at 2:50 an ECML combination at Peterborough  I don’t remember seeing. A Class 91 with pan up on the front and a class 43 power car on the back and also powered up. How common was it?

 

 

 

 

Edited March 5, 2021 by john new

[DK123GWR]

33 minutes ago, john new said:

In another thread this link to YouTube shows at 2:50 an ECML combination at Peterborough  I don’t remember seeing. A Class 91 with pan up on the front and a class 43 power car on the back and also powered up. How common was it?

 

 

 

 

Very common as I understand it. The 43s were used before the DVTs were ready and were initially dead in tow. However, this was found to damage the traction motors, so they were run in multiple in order to avoid this.

[melmerby]

IIRC The IC125 power cars were used as the the DVTs weren't ready at the time the 91 powered service was introduced so some HST power cars were used instead.

Hence the buffers on the power car as well.

 

Gave a pretty awesome power to weight ratio when both operating!

Edited March 5, 2021 by melmerby

[russ p]

I was lucky enough to get a drive of that combination when route learning,  absolutely awesome 

Another reason why it had to have the powercar running was to supply power to the train 

91s have conventional ETH which is not compatible with the three phase HST system 

[montyburns56]

To be honest I don't know just how rare this kind of thing was at the time, but it's cool photo anyway.

 

Ruscombe 1975