bimble Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Trackwork & ballast being replaced at North Camp 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted October 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) Not often used now, but shingle was used extensively at one time. Its rounded shape didn't really hold things in place that well. A fairly recent example was found on the Isle of Wight. Edited October 6, 2017 by phil_sutters 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted October 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 6, 2017 IMG_1244.JPG 66099 on newly laid track and ballast compared to the older stuff on the down line The old stuff is the up line......... Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted October 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 6, 2017 Digging out the ballast on the up line at Whalley in 2008 And three years later, renewing the down line outside my house. They just dumped a pile of spent ballast and parked this up for the day You can see the temporary joint where they finished the previous night and where they would start the next night. Cheers, Mick 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted October 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2017 Courchapon March 2010 during the building of the LGV-RR 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted October 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) These are my photos - I went through a phase of dressing up a lot of my photos with company colours and logos - always appropriately, but possibly in infringement of their trademarks. Edited October 6, 2017 by phil_sutters 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal.n Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 The old stuff is the up line......... Cheers, Mick Because thats towards the major location on the line (Blackburn, Preston, McR) or because it's that way to London? (Is there a rule?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted October 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) Because thats towards the major location on the line (Blackburn, Preston, McR) or because it's that way to London? (Is there a rule?) Going O/T Up is usually towards London. Some stations have London bound in both directions - Exeter St Davids and Chester General are two that spring to mind. When a line is not towards London, then up/down is usually towards the larger/more important location - hence up is towards Lancashire on the L&Y route over the Pennines........... (I think it's up to Manchester, as the L&Y HQ was at Hunts Bank next to Victoria.) Cheers, Mick Edited October 6, 2017 by newbryford Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) Going O/T Up is usually towards London. Some stations have London bound in both directions - Exeter St Davids and Chester General are two that spring to mind. When a line is not towards London, then up/down is usually towards the larger/more important location - hence up is towards Lancashire on the L&Y route over the Pennines........... (I think it's up to Manchester, as the L&Y HQ was at Hunts Bank next to Victoria.) Cheers, Mick As far as the Midland Railway was concerned, Derby was the epicentre and the UP line was in the direction of Derby. ps what's the theme for today? Edited October 7, 2017 by leopardml2341 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 7, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2017 As far as the Midland Railway was concerned, Derby was the epicentre and the UP line was in the direction of Derby. Except in the direction of London when that was UP. (Midland Railway System Maps) Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 ps what's the theme for today? Can I suggest "weather"? Here's some fog at Woody Bay. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 A dull wet day at Beamish Museum, County Durham 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 A 'Modeller's Paradise'. The sun does shine at Beamish Museum (sometimes). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Out of the Scottish drizzle emerges . . . a Pendolino, seen descending Beattock summit, November 2014. On a very 'dreich' day a Scotrail 158 passes Loch Gowan, near Achnasheen on the Kyle line, bound for Inverness, August 2016. Sheep graze as the sun rises above the Rhiw Valley Light Railway, a private railway near Welshpool, Powys, September 2016. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 The Cromford & High Peak, on a wet misty day, some years after closure! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 7, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 Storm clouds gather over Twyford (GWML) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted October 7, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) So here I am at York in about 1966, and it is raining. 9 years later, I am approaching Warrington. Is it still raining, or is it raining again? Edited October 7, 2017 by 96701 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Some rain from Devon now A cross country class 220 set departs Totnes heading west 3/9/2008 cheers 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted October 7, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2017 455838 by Claude_Dreyfus, on Flickr 455838 pulls out of a snowy East Croydon - Jan 2013 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bimble Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 For first, up top of the Brocken, with foggy weather... and because sunny is also weather, a Santa Special on the Mid Hants Line one of these was taken in the middle of summer... one of these was taken in December... I'll let you decide which! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted October 7, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2017 A snowscene. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 A snowscene Cheers, Mick A snowscene indeed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AnEntropyBubble Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 A eastbound inter-modal waits as a westbound train prepares for a "buses on a rail car, on a bridge" photo opportunity at Lake Louise, AB on January 2015. Andrew 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted October 7, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 A rather damp day at Evercreech 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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