RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2017 Flying Scotsman takes on Eardington bank during the Pacific Power weekend last year at the SVR. Sideways as well! FS will do anything to attract attention Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 4, 2017 (edited) Emerging into the sunlight after diving under the Thames and East London - 26/5/2015 Edited September 4, 2017 by phil_sutters 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted September 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2017 66717 heading up grade towards Pulborough - 30th November 2014 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted September 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2017 Going down........... A London bound HST descends towards the Severn Tunnel. Cheers, Mick 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted September 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2017 Going over - 70804 crests the top of the grade at Clapham Junction - 29 March 2017 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) Let's start with some turntables/traversers/sector plates I'll start with this not very good photo from La'al Ratty taken in still picture mode on a VHS camcorder at Ravenglass: I don't think I've posted it before. Keith Edited September 5, 2017 by melmerby 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Streak Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) This Turntable photo not so jolly I'm afraid. Before transferring to Loco and becoming an Engineman, I was apprenticed in the old WAGR workshops. These backed onto what was once the old Midland Loco Depot which had closed at the end of steam. Rumors were flying in the mid 80's that the old Steam depot was ready to be demolished, I went down and had a look and it was still complete so I thought I'd bring a camera in the next day to get some pics for posterity. So the next day at Lunch I came back with a camera ....... I was all too late as I'm afraid the destruction had already begun - this is the turntable or whats left of it - an hour later it was completely gone ! There's a community of townhouses there now Edited September 5, 2017 by The Blue Streak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted September 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2017 Each end of the Isle of Mull Railway. Sadly now closed, I believe. Apologies for quality, it was persisting down. Unusual for Mull. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2017 Another poor shot from the NRM with ex-GJR "Columbine" on the turntable: It's changed a bit since then, being the subject of a "backdating" rebuild! Keith 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2017 We are getting close to zero hour - what next? Signal boxes with one or more trains or light engines passing? They are a bit more recently seen and in larger quantities than turntables, although many are on the way out or have already been made redundant. I can't remember what we have had already earlier in the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted September 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2017 Just a few mins late - sorry! The turntable and three road shed at Lagos, Portugal. Cheers, Mick 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2017 This Abbey didn't qualify as a Minster or Cathedral, but it does a grand job with a signal box and train 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted September 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) Peak Forest signal box and 60010 digging in for the climb. Cheers, Mick Edited September 5, 2017 by newbryford 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2017 Brock gate box north of Preston in the mid seventies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Streak Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) Well the trains aren't quite passing, they are stabled, but they are trains because they have locos attached to the rakes. The old Maddington WA signal cabin "B" that was due for demolition, but saved in it's entirety at the Death knock and relocated to Bassendean Rail Museum. Still complete with all it's Bells and Levers etc. Many of these cabins and quite a lot of the somersault and semaphore signals (in the background) lasted into the 80's around the Perth Suburban network, the coming of the Electrification and subsequent modernisation meant the end for most of them. Edited September 6, 2017 by The Blue Streak 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Clapham Junction - early evening, sometime in October 1983 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 Clapham Junction - early evening, sometime in October 1983 25704545913_4aaac0bf4a_o.jpg That should have been a listed building! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Thankfully it wasn't; it would just be a pointless money sink for the railway now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Clapham Junction - early evening, sometime in October 1983 25704545913_4aaac0bf4a_o.jpg Interesting train behind the 33 - one of the rush hour Basingstoke splitters with a 33/1+4TC for the Salisbury direction and 8VEP for the Southampton direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 66717 heading up grade towards Pulborough - 30th November 2014 Approaching PUL.jpg And a hump backed bridge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Radyr Signal box, just visible above front of DMU. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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