Southernman46 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Standard SR-quality track I'd have thought? (ducking to avoid well-aimed insulator pot thrown by engineer of my acquaintance) It's the Central division so quite possibly - the chewed string I inherited at Clapham can be seen below 4656 - I put a 20MPH TSR on all four Windsor lines over that ladder in 2005 which eventually drove the long overdue renewal in 2009 Yes I noticed that after I scanned the image. No idea what was going on there. You may well have caught that moment between one aspect extinguishing and the next aspect lighting - the signal cannot display two colours at the same time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted May 10, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 10, 2017 The seemingly blank WF38 signal (or signal displaying a 'black' aspect) is what caught my eye Could be the photo was taken just as the signal was changing aspects. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted May 10, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 10, 2017 Interesting comment about not showing double aspect. On the London Underground it is normal that signals do show double aspect when changing and a double aspect is a Stop signal. Even the National Rail signals at Southfields show double aspect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crompton 33 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 (edited) Some EMU photos on here a few taken by me in NSE Livery..Enjoy Link http://www.nsers.org/archive.html Edited May 11, 2017 by crompton 33 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Meanwhile back in SW London, we find ourselves at Fulwell; first station on the Shepperton branch. A Waterloo-bound train is arriving. The leading unit, 5913, is interesting in that one of its vehicles originally formed part ofone of the Class 210 DEMUs. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 (edited) Yes - because this happened at Oxshott on 13-10-2010 05-11-2010 (no idea where I got that date from !) and it bounced off the train on the way down - one of my more interesting weekends on-call .................The lorry driver survived - which was good because it most definitely wasn't his fault. Edited May 14, 2017 by Southernman46 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 444037 {and friends} tucked-up for tonight at Bournemouth depot. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 A 4-EPB EMU passing Norwood Junction on a Charing Cross to Caterham service probably in August/September 1983. Class 415 (or 4-EPB) EMU 5421 departs West Croydon with a Victoria - Wimbledon via Selhurst and Sutton service sometime in September 1983 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted May 13, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) If I recall correctly the boarded platform is over the location of the track bed of the old platform that was to the left, if you look at other platforms in the station you will see that the columns are in between the tracks which used to be the arrangement here until the early 1980's if I recall correctly. Nope, platform 8 hasn't moved since the LBSCR rebuilt the original station and fitted the new roof back in 1882 (when the extensive canopy was added to the front of the station obscuring the original facade too). The clue is the way platform 8 buts onto the 'carriage road' located between platforms 7 & 8 - in fact if you look carefully the wooden boarded area stops just beyond where a ramp takes said carriage road down bellow the platforms and round to an exit on what is now the road called "Trafalgar Arches" Before the 1980s resignalling there were two short bay platforms inset into the space at the London end for parcels traffic. There were also two further platforms beyond platform 8 - the walkway from the car park / bus turning circle used to be platform 9 with a further face starting once space became available. (Works photo taken from http://thebrightonmotivepowerdepots.yolasite.com/brighton-locomotive-depot.php ) (Track layout seen here http://www.wbsframe.mste.co.uk/public/Brighton.html ) Brighton_1932.40D(1).pdf Edited May 13, 2017 by phil-b259 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DY444 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Yes - because this happened at Oxshott on 13-10-2010 and it bounced off the train on the way down - one of my more interesting weekends on-call ................. The lorry driver survived - which was good because it most definitely wasn't his fault. DSC00407.JPG It seems that the lorry driver didn't agree with you because he pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin parks Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 (edited) Nope, platform 8 hasn't moved since the LBSCR rebuilt the original station and fitted the new roof back in 1882 (when the extensive canopy was added to the front of the station obscuring the original facade too). The clue is the way platform 8 buts onto the 'carriage road' located between platforms 7 & 8 - in fact if you look carefully the wooden boarded area stops just beyond where a ramp takes said carriage road down bellow the platforms and round to an exit on what is now the road called "Trafalgar Arches" Before the 1980s resignalling there were two short bay platforms inset into the space at the London end for parcels traffic. There were also two further platforms beyond platform 8 - the walkway from the car park / bus turning circle used to be platform 9 with a further face starting once space became available. (Works photo taken from http://thebrightonmotivepowerdepots.yolasite.com/brighton-locomotive-depot.php ) (Track layout seen here http://www.wbsframe.mste.co.uk/public/Brighton.html ) Hi Phil, Trawling through images on the net, it is not just a matter of the ground falling away beneath platform 8, but as you say, there is a tunnel down there which emerged in the goods yard area. Colin Edited May 14, 2017 by Colin parks 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Third-rail EMUs' worst enemy? The weather? Three from the arctic wastelands of North Kent in early 1985, two at Gravesend and one at Halling: 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 (edited) ,It seems that the lorry driver didn't agree with you because he pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention I didn't know that - didn't follow the story after a few months as I'd give NR the boot by then, He might have done but the guy was a non-English speaking recent immigrant from Romania and I think he was done up like a kipper - the prime cause of this incident was NR's / SCC's complete failure to maintain the visibility of the parapet wall end including letting vegetation growing out of the boundary over it - the photo's I took of it on the day and offered as evidence were "lost" from the company server - part of the reason I left the company within months - lost faith in the way they operate, that and a lying b*stard of a line manager ........... anyway that's all water under the bridge or cement over it now. Enjoying catching up now on the various articles regarding conversion of the ex-210 coach to a 455 - shades of the old SR ingenuity with re-hashing bits of rolling stock - ISTR the DH25 compressors on the 455's came off 4-SUB's Edited May 14, 2017 by Southernman46 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 5912 has an ex-210 vehicle too - you can tell by the lack of rain strips on the coach. Got a picture somewhere........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DY444 Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 I didn't know that - didn't follow the story after a few months as I'd give NR the boot by then, He might have done but the guy was a non-English speaking recent immigrant from Romania and I think he was done up like a kipper - the prime cause of this incident was NR's / SCC's complete failure to maintain the visibility of the parapet wall end including letting vegetation growing out of the boundary over it - the photo's I took of it on the day and offered as evidence were "lost" from the company server - part of the reason I left the company within months - lost faith in the way they operate, that and a lying b*stard of a line manager ........... anyway that's all water under the bridge or cement over it now. Enjoying catching up now on the various articles regarding conversion of the ex-210 coach to a 455 - shades of the old SR ingenuity with re-hashing bits of rolling stock - ISTR the DH25 compressors on the 455's came off 4-SUB's Yes I know the A244 through Oxshott and the bridge in question very well indeed. Whilst what you say about the parapet is true, it is also true that vehicles used to come flying over the brow of the hill and then get caught out by the little left hand bend where the bridge is. Just a little postscript about unit 5913. As a result of its rebuild following this incident it is a bit non-standard in terms of its wiring. Because of that it will be the very last one to be put through the SWT 455 retractioning programme. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Here's 5912 approaching Twickenham last July, on a Kingston roundabout service. The ex-210 vehicle is the second one on the unit. Note it lacks the lower rain strip. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73c Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 First photo in eastwestdivide's collection, you can tell the driver's got the heat cranked right up in his little bit of the train! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 For some inexplicable reason I actually have a soft spot for the 319s....... Network South East's 319025 speeding past Salfords on what is probably a Bedford to Brighton service during February 1989. You can imagine standing on the platform at Tulse Hill..............This is how blues band Nine Below Zero used to intro their rendition of Riding on the L & N back in the late 70s. The comparison is missing a lot as NSE's 319022 silently glides into the station with a Wimbledon loop to Luton service in early 1989. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2017 (edited) Here's a bunch of 319s to keep you happy (edit - oops I seem to have used a couple of these before - but it keeps my 319s together) Edited May 15, 2017 by phil_sutters 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted May 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2017 Ebbsfleet with third rail and overhead. Taken a few weeks ago 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted May 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2017 (edited) East Croydon in 1988 around the time of the rebuilding of the platform canopies Edited May 15, 2017 by roundhouse 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted May 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2017 (edited) Brading 1988 in miserable weather Edited May 15, 2017 by roundhouse 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin parks Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 Brading 1988 in miserable weather That livery on that stock just looks bizarre to me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2017 (edited) That livery on that stock just looks bizarre to me! Don't forget this look - the Dinosaur line - in more ways than one. Edited May 15, 2017 by phil_sutters 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2017 (edited) A Eurostar (or should that be an Eurostar - sounds awkward though) in third rail days and a Javelin that has to be third rail when it ventures off HS1. I was surprised to find that Eurostar 373s are regarded as emus, as two coaches have powered bogies, as well as the locos at either end. Edited May 15, 2017 by phil_sutters 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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