RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4, 2017 Good grief, Mike. When did that activity stop? People tend to forget that the freight working on train ferries continued right up to Channel Tunnel days. I took the first pic at Dover with the two pilots simultaneously propelling vehicles to each side of the deck. It seems SNCF weren't so fussy about balancing things as the second picture, at Dunkerque. shows a decent raft of wagons being unloaded; the third picture shows the sort of traction SNCF used in an equivalent role to BR's 350hp shunters. All pictures taken on the same day in 1992 during the course of a trip on the ferry to observe and learn about operating practices as I'd never previously had any involvement with train ferry traffic. I think the trainferry stopped transporting railway vehicles in 1995, possibly 1994, because originally certain Dangerous Goods were not permitted through the Channel Tunnel and still had to go by trainferry. Loading at Dover Unloading at Dunkerque The traction used on the SNCF end of the operation 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 4, 2017 (edited) How far west can we find signs of GWML electrification? Swansea in January 2017. This was literally the last post nearest Swansea station. How about something with a "123" connection? Cheers, Mick Edited April 4, 2017 by newbryford 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 OK, here we go - tenuous connection (aka lateral thinking) time! 123 = song by Len Barry. Barry = . . . . . well, we all know the answer to that! So here's the mortal remains of Swanage at said (and sad) Welsh care home. If that's a good enough connection, perhaps the next one could be a photo either of, or at, Swanage in better times. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2017 It will have to be 'at Swanage' as I can't find WC Swanage in Dad's albums. Please can we have a shot of a train within a few miles of the Severn Tunnel - the nearer the better. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) OK, here we go - tenuous connection (aka lateral thinking) time! 123 = song by Len Barry. Barry = . . . . . well, we all know the answer to that! So here's the mortal remains of Swanage at said (and sad) Welsh care home. 323 img039a.jpg If that's a good enough connection, perhaps the next one could be a photo either of, or at, Swanage in better times. In my opinion It's thanks to Woodham's that so many locomotives were saved. (Although I bet he did not know it when he started. ) Edited April 5, 2017 by NorthBrit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 In my opinion It's thanks to Woodham's that so many locomotives were saved. (Although I bet he did not know it when he started. )He was a businessman. Cutting wagons was more lucrative to start with, and then he found he could make more from selling the locos on the preservationists than by cutting them.Still it's good that it happened that way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 It will have to be 'at Swanage' as I can't find WC Swanage in Dad's albums. LSWR M7 044T 30057 Swanage 16 7 1960.jpg Please can we have a shot of a train within a few miles of the Severn Tunnel - the nearer the better. I have cheated a little here, as this is a frame from my video. Next, an ex-LNER K3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Another not-quite-what-you-might-expect (and not very good!) photo from the depths of my vault. K3 at the back of Colwick MPD 28th Feb 1965. In steam some considerable time after withdrawal & despite significant missing parts . . . . OK, it was being used as a stationary boiler. Next - a "proper" picture of a K3! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 K3 it is then - 760mm gauge 0-4-0T Krauss Linz 2775/1892 (formerly Lokalbahn Gonobitz no. 3) as exhibited at the railway museum in Ljubljana (Slovenia). The next one will include the photographer's own shadow! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted April 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2017 Okeydokey .... off the bridge at Abbotswood! Next a convoy of dead steam locos heading for scrap please.... Phil 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) Next a convoy of dead steam locos heading for scrap please.... Phil That's ageist, Phil Desperately waiting an opening in Willington. Well not exactly an opening IN Willington...... Oh s@d it, you know what I mean, I'm off Edited April 5, 2017 by leopardml2341 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2017 I have cheated a little here, as this is a frame from my video. Screen Shot 2017-04-05 at 11.29.33.png Next, an ex-LNER K3 Can we have a few details of where this is - apart from the fact that it is near Severn Tunnel, please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 [quote name="Phil Bullock" post=" Next a convoy of dead steam locos heading for scrap please.... Phil Now another trawl through the archives required. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2017 Can we have a few details of where this is - apart from the fact that it is near Severn Tunnel, please? On the Up line just east of the entrance to Pilning Up Loop and the unit has just passed through Ableton Lane Tunnel (visible behind it). So at the time the frame was filmed that unit would have been about 35-36 chains east of the English mouth of the Severn Tunnel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 "a convoy of dead steam locos heading for scrap" Well I would say that a "convoy" must be at least two steam locos and that "heading for" can represent their next destination, if not necessarily in the act of being towed there like some modern day fifty years ago "Fighting Temeraire"; and that there can't be many here that would have witnessed, let alone photographed, such scenes in Britain themselves. So here in the loosest sense is such a convoy - an unidentified 14R and class 19 no. 1366 in the scrap line at Mason's Mill, Pietermaritzburg (South Africa 1985). Turn the other way round, and we have rather more than a convoy of vintage electric locomotives heading for scrap - a long line of classes 1E and ES. But history can often turn out stranger than fiction. No. 1366, one of only four prototype locomotives for what became a very successful family of classes (19A-19D) was moved to store at Millsite, Krugersdorp, finding a place in the museum collection being assembled there by SANRASM. It has been well-documented how most of the locomotives there were preyed upon by organised (and armed) gangs of metal thieves, such that many were beyond salvage and were scrapped. Amazingly, 1366 might somehow have survived (I cannot be sure) so perhaps my very tenuous attempt to meet the criteria might be inaccurate. I'll leave that to others to adjudicate whether the photo fits the bill, if so my request is that the next picture will be "very cold". 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) I'll leave that to others to adjudicate whether the photo fits the bill, if so my request is that the next picture will be "very cold". How about something with a Swedish connection. Cheers, Mick Edited April 5, 2017 by newbryford 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal.n Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 Taken at Waterloo station It was either ABBA or an IKEA connection (Sorry Sweden) Hat, Coat, ect... Can we have something with a special promotional livery 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 It was either ABBA or an IKEA connection (Sorry Sweden) Beat me to it. I was going to suggest a flat-packed Agnetta wotsername . . . . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 87002 promoting train leasing. Just what Joe and Joanna Numpty standing on the platform would reach for. Keeping it coathanger themed, how about an AC electric in original Electric Blue from the early days of the WCML electrification. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 how about an AC electric in original Electric Blue from the early days of the WCML electrification. Another trawl through the archives required -- lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2017 how about an AC electric in original Electric Blue from the early days of the WCML electrification. Another trawl through the archives required -- lol I've got one but I can't find it (and it is in b&w anyway). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 I've got one but I can't find it (and it is in b&w anyway). Most of 'em are anyway. lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 Well, if no-one else is offering, here's a reasonable one. Crewe station, April '66. Next - anything from the US for a change? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 (edited) My first sighting of the Santa Fe's "warbonnet" livery - SD75M 223 and C40-8W 844 at Clovis, New Mexico - February 1986. Let's stay in the Americas - the next picture will be somewhere South of the US border. Edited April 6, 2017 by EddieB 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 6, 2017 (edited) Let's stay in the Americas - the next picture will be somewhere South of the US border. South America? Viewed from Machu Picchu There is a train in this picture And zoomed in, looking much like a train set - the servicing area at Aguas Calientes. A metre gauge Alco Staying with the narrow gauge theme - UK, but not Welsh, narrow gauge. Cheers, Mick Edited April 6, 2017 by newbryford 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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