Popular Post montyburns56 Posted January 11 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 11 Longbridge, Halesowen 2011 by Andy Doherty 21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 The weeds grow fast in Torquay. 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 03060 Posted January 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14 11 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: The weeds grow fast in Torquay. Or is it a line up of Pannier tanks and @2ManySpams new software has been at work ?? (See p.738 of The Sheep Chronicles !) 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted January 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14 9 minutes ago, 03060 said: Or is it a line up of Pannier tanks and @2ManySpams new software has been at work ?? (See p.738 of The Sheep Chronicles !) Tribbles, they're filming a new Star Trek there! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Churston Station, with a modeller's delight, not one but two bay platforms. Would have been for the Brixham twig. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14 1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said: Churston Station, with a modeller's delight, not one but two bay platforms. Would have been for the Brixham twig. I'd hardly describe the short dock siding on the Up side as a 'bay platform'. And I speak from the experience of having been into that siding on a passenger train (a 2car DMU) in BR days in order to attach a single wagon (a Conflat) of trail traffic and not having enough space to get all of the two car set into that siding clear of the trap point. The fence along the back edge of the platform was obviously there to prevent passengrrs accessing any vehicle standing on the siding. And I susoect the platform was in any case less than 12 feet wide along its entire length adjacent to the siding. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said: not one but two bay platforms Only one face of that platform was “a platform”’, I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ruggedpeak Posted January 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14 17 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: The weeds grow fast in Torquay. Juvenile triffids on the move? 😲 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted January 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14 18 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: The weeds grow fast in Torquay. Definitely stealth pannier tanks... 7 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60B Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 18 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: The weeds grow fast in Torquay. Am I meant to extrapolate that there is a litany of enthusiasts of a specific variety of adult activity enjoyers in the vicinity? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 2 hours ago, The Stationmaster said: I speak from the experience of having been into that siding on a passenger train (a 2car DMU) in BR days in order to attach a single wagon (a Conflat) of trail traffic and not having enough space to get all of the two car set into that siding clear of the trap point. Pictures please? Perhaps in the "Prototype for everything corner". 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 Biggest headboard evah! Halesowen 1968 by Ian 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 The students in Birmingham obviously had some of the same sense of humour as BR's engineers. Birmingham University Transport Society = BUTS. I suppose the white warning panel was almost as visible as a yellow one. There did once exist a supersized version of the 'Festiniog Railway Temperance Society' headboard - the long-established and well-used original is about 2'6" across but an 8' wide one was made to fit a double-decker open top bus for a tour of Glasgow. I don't think it was fitted to a train though, so BUTS above gets the award! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted January 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14 I never knew Birmingham Transport had a University Society? Bus and train drivers go on guided visits to labs and lecture theatres 😁 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted January 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14 They really should have called it Birmingham University Train & Transport Society. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 53 minutes ago, rodent279 said: They really should have called it Birmingham University Train & Transport Society. ...with a chairman called Seymour? 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 15 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15 16 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: Pictures please? Perhaps in the "Prototype for everything corner". 😀 Difficult to take apicture ona trains that was absolutely jam packed ona Bank Holiday Monday. What smade me wonder at the time was why the passengers were not detrained while the shunt was carried out - apart from the big problem of getting them out and back in again. However once I was in the job - some years later - I found out that in v certain circumstances it was permissible to move a loaded passenger train over points not fitted with a facing point lock without clipping said points - although they might well have been clipped anyway that day. The West of england was still a good area for DMUs with tail traffic in teh early 1960s with loaded Conflats seeming to be regular event. I travelled from Par to Newquay ona DMU tailed by two Conflats carrying cintainers and we crawled up Luxulyan Bank at a very slow pace - about 15 late into Newquay! 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Rich_F Posted January 15 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 15 Connaught Tunnel before Elizabeth Line 33 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 LMS Garratt 4977 by Historical Railway Images 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 On 14/01/2024 at 14:18, KeithMacdonald said: Churston Station, with a modeller's delight, not one but two bay platforms. Would have been for the Brixham twig. I wasn't familiar with this station and searched Flickr for more pictures of it and I can't think of another station whose atmosphere has been ruined so much by its "preservation". 7 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 @montyburns56 Waddya mean ruined, looks perfectly fine almost Severn Valleyish 🤣 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18 17 hours ago, montyburns56 said: I wasn't familiar with this station and searched Flickr for more pictures of it and I can't think of another station whose atmosphere has been ruined so much by its "preservation". Maybe but the essential difference - like some other lines in the leisure category (rather than 'heritage') - is that it is not a preserved station. It is now an intermediate station on a leisure line which is run as a business and is that railway's main engineering base. Below are two photos which I took, during an IRSE visit back in 2009, n the building which is on the left in the third photo above . they show parts if the new signalling control panel for the entire line which was manufactured in that building. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted January 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18 18 hours ago, montyburns56 said: I wasn't familiar with this station and searched Flickr for more pictures of it and I can't think of another station whose atmosphere has been ruined so much by its "preservation". At least there are still trains running through it. It could have been turned into a housing estate... Steven B 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted January 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18 45 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said: Maybe but the essential difference - like some other lines in the leisure category (rather than 'heritage') - is that it is not a preserved station. It is now an intermediate station on a leisure line which is run as a business and is that railway's main engineering base. Below are two photos which I took, during an IRSE visit back in 2009, n the building which is on the left in the third photo above . they show parts if the new signalling control panel for the entire line which was manufactured in that building. So that is a bespoke design? Did it need safety validation/certification? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted January 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18 18 hours ago, montyburns56 said: I wasn't familiar with this station and searched Flickr for more pictures of it and I can't think of another station whose atmosphere has been ruined so much by its "preservation". A Grange with a 51xx coupled inside bunker first-model that and wait for the helpful comments! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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