RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2017 Here's one from near our home on Mendip - plenty of atmosphere in this shot. I particularly like the tin shacks with tall chimneys. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2017 One from our home patch in Somerset, some basic post & wire with some culvert details. BT03 4917 Crosswood Hall down express nr Hbr summer 61.jpg Phil, is it just me or are the 4th and 5th coaches along ex-LNER Gresley ones? I know about the famous one that was in use until 1977 but didn't know of any before that. Sorry to go O/T folks. I think 1V38 was a Newcastle Paignton so would very probably have a mix of Gresley, Thompson and Mk1 stock. There was quite a lot of it running to the West country in those days. That year I travelled home on the Ilfracombe/Minehead - Wolverhampton service which had Gresley stock complete with LNER carpets in the 1st Class in the Minehead portion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2017 A few from the States... A lack of line side fencing, but we still have the old telegraph poles... On the line between Grand Canyon and Williams AZ Another inventive use of old rail for making fences - Williams AZ Lightweight fencing in the Arizona desert - BNSF ES44C4 #8156 heads a west-bound freight towards Kingman. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) 31316 passes Burton Lane junction (York) with a Scarborough bound passenger service on the morning of 25 May 1981. To the left are the tracks to Foss Island Goods and the Rowntree Works, still in use at the time. Note the un-fenced allotments and how close they are to the running lines (click on pic for larger view). Edited September 16, 2017 by bingley hall 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 31316 passes Burton Lane junction (York) with a Scarborough bound passenger service on the morning of 25 May 1981. To the left are the tracks to Foss Island Goods and the Rowntree Works, still in use at the time. Note the un-fenced allotments and how close they are to the running lines (click on pic for larger view). 34741819994_3a74898099_o.jpg No fencing etc. but a gate to enter the allotments. Very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2017 No fencing etc. but a gate to enter the allotments. Very interesting. The allotments are inside the railway boundary fence so a gate would have been needed. Now something a bit different, sort of. Somewhat, or very, overgrown lineside fence with a train hiding behind one view of it plus a stretch of railway with nothing but track. A photographic expedition with no results? No - in fact it was part of a search for somewhere to put a new station between Plean Junction and Stirling with a major problem of trying to reconcile suitable sites with suitable gradients and suitable curvature while enabling reasonable road access and land for car parking. I notice from something I've delved out on the 'net that 7 years after the study I was involved in the idea was being discussed yet again including possible use of the site I'd suggested which had not met the earlier remit Here you can just about see the fence amongst the dead vegetation Whereas a short distance away it was totally overgrown 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2017 A couple from darkest Sussex now... A couple from the site of Hardham Junction. The old signal box was on the left-hand side of the first picture - more or less where the concrete shed is now. The Midhurst line curved away following the hedge line mid-picture on the second. A scene along the branch line, between Petworth and Fittleworth. Had I been standing here 60 years ago, I would likely as not have been squashed by a passing C2X... Mundanity at Eastbourne - fence, carpark, old goods shed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) How about this modern image? Redditch looking over the carpark to the platform. Diagonal fencing, a bus shelter type thingy, some armco, different types of lamps, fire equipment, pay machine for parking, departure indicator on platform. OHLE etc. Everything you need for a MI suburban terminus. Keith EDIT The red thingys are marked "Dry Mixed Recycling" so not fire equipment! An odd colour, most seem to use green for recycling. Edited September 16, 2017 by melmerby 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) deleted double post! Edited September 16, 2017 by melmerby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) How about this modern image? Redditch looking over the carpark to the platform. Diagonal fencing, a bus shelter type thingy, some armco, different types of lamps, fire equipment, pay machine for parking, departure indicator on platform. OHLE etc. Everything you need for a MI suburban terminus. redditch 2.jpg Keith Don't get much variety though on the Cross City line, with nighttime test trains (usually top-and tailed with 37s) and the very occasional charter. AFAIK 323s aren't produced by any manufacturer in any scale. Edited September 16, 2017 by SVRlad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Some lineside fencing from the 1980s. Ripple Lane Yard, 31212, 31221 on oil train, yard pilot is 08958, 27/7/84 40158 heads north past York Yard North with SUKO tanks. 10/6/83 47088 Samson heads west past Maindee West Junction with tanks. 10/2/82 Seen from Victoria Park 45051 passes through the carriage wash machine on the way from Bristol Temple Meads to Malago Vale Carriage Sidings, 11/2/80 cheers 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2017 The only public crossing at track level on London Underground is just west of Amersham - albeit beyond the limit of electrification, but it's still TfL metals until a few hundred yeards west of this point. Until 1994 there was another at North Weald but of course LU withdrew services Epping-Ongar in late 94. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 There is a fence there, somewhere beneath the undergrowth. NSW TrainLink 4-car EMU, set H6, heads the 1559hrs Sydney Central to Gosford service near Koolewong on 19 November 2014. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2017 Don't get much variety though on the Cross City line, with nighttime test trains (usually top-and tailed with 37s) and the very occasional charter. AFAIK 323s aren't produced by any manufacturer in any scale. Originally there were supposed to be more 323s coming to the Cross City to cope with all 6 car trains and the Bromsgrove electrification but it seems the new operator of the WM franchise and TfWM want to replace them with something nice shiny and new. 323s anyone? Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Another Rotherham Masboro' pic, with some fencing in it. As this also has some spotters in it, I offer that as a subject to for the next batch of pics, when the changeover is? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2017 One from our home patch in Somerset, some basic post & wire with some culvert details. BT03 4917 Crosswood Hall down express nr Hbr summer 61.jpg Phil, is it just me or are the 4th and 5th coaches along ex-LNER Gresley ones? I know about the famous one that was in use until 1977 but didn't know of any before that. Sorry to go O/T folks. I've worked out a candidate for V38 in your photo from the CWN from Robert Carroll's Yahoo Group. It looks like the 7.30am SO Newcastle - Paignton. It appears to be the other way round but note the Pantry Second and Buffet, 4th and 5th from one end. Looking at the big version of the picture my take on it is Mk1x3, Gresleyx2, Thompson, Mk1, Gresley?, Mk1x2 It must have been a regular NER set during the week as it returned from Paignton to Newcastle at 10.0am on Sunday morning, picking up two more NER coaches from Newton Abbot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) Quite a range of barriers here from white 'cottage' palings to barbed wire topped security fencing. The A259 south coast road is quite a busy road, as, although much of the through traffic goes over the fly-over at the top of the picture, the A27 feeds into it just to the right of the crossing and the Newhaven port entrance goes off to the left of picture. The latter has cross-Channel HGV traffic in and out several times a day, which mostly turns right over the crossing and on to the A27. In addition there is heavy goods traffic into various waste and recycling units and Days Aggregates rail and sea-served depot. All this must explain why the level crossing seems to need very frequent attention and regular replacement. It still gives a fairly rough ride unless taken quite slowly. Edited September 16, 2017 by phil_sutters 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted September 16, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2017 What is the current topic? Since no one is posting "next" at the end of the post, it is very difficult to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 What is the current topic? Since no one is posting "next" at the end of the post, it is very difficult to find. It's a daily topic now. Todays is on number 2769. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 (edited) Today's topic then, trainspotters - with or without trains. However, as I'm away from my pics, I'll have to refer you to my earlier post #2790 Edited September 17, 2017 by leopardml2341 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 17, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2017 Not sure what sort of fencing this is, but at least I know where it is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 17, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2017 (edited) I notice now while having read back, that I should have posted trainspotters, so here is me with a couple of others at Crewe. Mind you, there's one of them fences as well. Edited September 17, 2017 by 96701 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 17, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2017 Dad, I believe, took this party probably from Ripon Grammar School on a spotting trip, around 1950 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 17, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 17, 2017 (edited) Dad, I believe, took this party probably from Ripon Grammar School on a spotting trip, around 1950 Train spotters Northallerton c1950.jpg Interesting topic. My school had a Trainspotters club run by one of the masters, it was started a couple of years before I left. They organised a trip during the summer hols to do a shed bash (very much in the plural) I went on the Manchester one and we must have done about 15 sheds in a very long day. (Permits were obtained) They included Reddish where we were given a tour around of one of the electric locos and the chap that was guiding us showed us how the pantograph was raised & lowered etc. Another location was the sprawling site at Gorton with works and shed. Everything there was a cop. Most places we were allowed to just wander around for a given amount of time without supervision. Some smaller locations only had a few locos and we were in and out in 15mins or so. Next year was the Welsh Valleys but for some reason I couldn't go on that one. (I was a bit disappointed) Keith Edited September 17, 2017 by melmerby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal.n Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 46115 Draws the the crowds at Preston 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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