RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted January 8 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8 (edited) Just back from a family trip to the Algarve organised by our daughter for a post Christmas break. While we were there we took a couple of trips on the Linha do Algarve which is currently being electrified. Definitely a few ghosts around there, especially the DMUs originally built in 1965-66 as Class 0400 and refurbished 1999 as Class 0450. Tommo in train spotting mode. (Photo Dazz G.) Down to one of the real ghosts. Regular steam operation on Iberia Gauge lines ceased nearly 50 years ago. As we passed through Luz station I was surprised to see this gem. This hand crane at Travira could do with a bit of TLC. Edited January 9 by TheSignalEngineer 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted January 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8 (edited) A day out to Battersea power station produced a lot of ghosts… its 11 years since last time I detrained at Battersea, 9th December 2012… The last day of Platform 1 services before it was cut off.. well actually I changed trains there in May 2021 using the once daily service to platform 2 that still exists as a parliamentary service… plat 2 is now a terminus, and 1 the track has gone. cut to extend plat 3 to 12 carriages, a purpose that does now largely not exist. Fast forwards to 2023… LBSC Logo on the bridge.. so this time I thought i’d leave the station to explore… NSE sign for the dogs home.. A bit of the gas cylinder remains.. power station itself is a ghost… inside the gantry cranes still hang.. The control room and clock still work.. Some safety signage persists…amongst the retail outlets.. but the restaurant sprung this surprise in the restaurant seating area. Theres at least 20 luggage racks being used to give the foodhall that industrial look it kind of looks like mk1 SK luggage racks, but they arent wide enough.. only 2 seats.. so i’ve been trying to think what ?.. eliminated cig, vep, rep, epb, 205.. Any guesses ? it is without doubt a fantastic restoration, theres a ton of machinery, switch and breaker equipment inside and around the outside of the building restored for art… there's also a photo-history gallery of the building. so you can do as I did… go explore and leave the misses to the shops. the photos just cannot convey the immenseness of the size of this building, inside, outside and indeed the thickness of the brick walls holding it up. Edited January 8 by adb968008 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 8 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8 (edited) 45 minutes ago, adb968008 said: There's at least 20 luggage racks being used to give the foodhall that industrial look it kind of looks like mk1 SK luggage racks, but they aren't wide enough.. only 2 seats.. so i’ve been trying to think what ?.. eliminated cig, vep, rep, epb, 205.. Any guesses ? London Transport C69 stock? Or A60. Edited January 8 by PhilJ W 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterem Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 What's with the severed shopper in the power station pic? Some horrific malfunction with the LED hula hoops on the floor nearby? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D7063 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 9 minutes ago, Peterem said: What's with the severed shopper in the power station pic? Some horrific malfunction with the LED hula hoops on the floor nearby? A true ghost in the machine!!!!!!! 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted January 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8 (edited) 2 hours ago, Peterem said: What's with the severed shopper in the power station pic? Some horrific malfunction with the LED hula hoops on the floor nearby? Its a panoramic picture, except i turned the iphone sideways and went bottom to top, instead of left to right :-) helps get full length pictures in tight spaces heres all of Tonbridge yard in one shot using Panoramic. (I have to screen shot the image to load here as the page wont take a pano as is, but sites like facebook will gimball the images so you can roll about left right up down etc). and an Intercity service at from Euston to Manchester at Crewe in Sept 2022.. its different to wide angle/ fisheye as you need to move the camera… this one for example, the train was moving and so I could hold the camera still… and this was an almost 180 spin.. you can do a lot with it, my little one likes being in the start, running behind me to get in the middle and hence again to bein the end, thus appears in the picture 3 times. on another occasion last year we had a 70th birthday, I started the picture, the guy in the left end ran to me, held the camera whilst I joined the right side and hence a panoramic of all the family in one image… cool stuff… but occasionally you do lose moving arms and legs ! Edited January 8 by adb968008 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 8 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8 2 hours ago, adb968008 said: (I have to screen shot the image to load here as the page wont take a pano as is, but sites like facebook will gimball the images so you can roll about left right up down etc). Straight from phone jpg: The phone will move it side to side etc but RMWeb posts the whole thing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 On 08/01/2024 at 19:16, Peterem said: What's with the severed shopper in the power station pic? Some horrific malfunction with the LED hula hoops on the floor nearby? Two sinister rings of light on the floor of a retro-futuristic building? We all know what that means ;) "This is the voooooice of the Mysteronnnnnsss. We know that you can hear us, Earth-mennnnn" 2 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D7063 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 1 hour ago, Ben B said: Two sinister rings of light on the floor of a retro-futuristic building? We all know what that means ;) "This is the voooooice of the Mysteronnnnnsss. We know that you can hear us, Earth-mennnnn" Captain Scarlet !!!!!!!!!!!! (Sorry for the further thread drift, but couldn't resist!) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 10 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10 On 08/01/2024 at 21:01, adb968008 said: (I have to screen shot the image to load here as the page wont take a pano as is, but sites like facebook will gimball the images so you can roll about left right up down etc). There must be a difference in how the Panos are taken between yours and mine. Mine is actually a more extreme ratio about 4.4:1, whilst your's is about 3.3:1 yet yours ha much more accentuated distortion (for effect?) Mine's about a 160 degree sweep, I assume yours is the full 180. It's on a Motorola phone as my current digital compact camera doesn't do it, my previous one did. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Noticed today that halfway along platform 19 at London Victoria there is still a red NSE digital clock with the yellow numbers 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted January 11 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11 22 hours ago, ess1uk said: Noticed today that halfway along platform 19 at London Victoria there is still a red NSE digital clock with the yellow numbers Theres quite a few at Victoria, quite prominently theres one above the Taxi rank as well. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted January 11 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11 On 08/01/2024 at 18:53, PhilJ W said: London Transport C69 stock? Or A60. no its a totally different shape, its two shelves on a single frame… these are single shelves. they curve differently too. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 11 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11 Not the A60 stock either which does have longer ones but not double deck. IMHO they are reproductions of train type luggage racks for the trendy house, for bathroom towel storage etc. e.g. this one, similar but not identical: That's £432 There are plenty of others on the net. Even the LT museum is selling reproductions of tube stock ones (single shelf) 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted January 12 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12 6 minutes ago, melmerby said: Not the A60 stock either which does have longer ones but not double deck. IMHO they are reproductions of train type luggage racks for the trendy house, for bathroom towel storage etc. e.g. this one, similar but not identical: That's £432 There are plenty of others on the net. Even the LT museum is selling reproductions of tube stock ones (single shelf) Yes this one looks much closer shape, is there a stretched height version of this ? £432 ? gosh at that price buying a mk1 SK just for the luggage racks might make sense ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12 4 minutes ago, adb968008 said: Yes this one looks much closer shape, is there a stretched height version of this ? I wondered whether they may have been from a European train. (more height) 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 On 11/01/2024 at 23:53, melmerby said: Not the A60 stock either which does have longer ones but not double deck. IMHO they are reproductions of train type luggage racks for the trendy house, for bathroom towel storage etc. e.g. this one, similar but not identical: That's £432 There are plenty of others on the net. Even the LT museum is selling reproductions of tube stock ones (single shelf) I was bought one of the LT ones as a Birthday present last year. Trendy and a bit daft, yes, but I'm quite looking forward to having it up on the wall :) 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 On 11/01/2024 at 23:53, melmerby said: Not the A60 stock either which does have longer ones but not double deck. IMHO they are reproductions of train type luggage racks for the trendy house, for bathroom towel storage etc. e.g. this one, similar but not identical: That's £432 £432? 'kinnel, I'll wait until they are in Ikea for £43.20 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Probably not technically a ghost in the machine, but a ghost of GCSE studies past I found while downsizing the archives (written commentary from a much younger Railsquid): 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 (edited) Hmmm - dear old "10 foot" this bu88er gets everywhere to such an extent that I think he must work in the rail industry simply because of the locations he gets to which no random Tagger would bother with - used to love "pursuing" these *sreholes when with NR - he would have been a mission of mine to get convicted. Edited January 22 by Southernman46 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Probably a wagon enthusiast - with his brother "9 foot" and cousin "17 foot 6" ☹️ 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 He could be a decempede. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forward! Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 On 21/01/2024 at 04:31, railsquid said: Probably not technically a ghost in the machine, but a ghost of GCSE studies past I found while downsizing the archives (written commentary from a much younger Railsquid): I'm guess the "correct" answer to most of those questions was "slash public services and privatise everything in sight". 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted February 3 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3 one from Buxton, the water column at the end of the disused platform but all is not as it seems, it’s not an original one on the ends of the old midland platforms toward Matlock but one that was placed there in the 80s? By peak rail when they had a site in Buxton, they built new platforms but nothing came of it , I believe they planned to run through to their current line in Matlock sharing running rights with BR toward Blackwell then raking what is now the monsal trail to Bakewell and onward given the amount of rail traffic that uses the line between Buxton and great rocks and the popularity of the monsal trail it’s hard to imaging how that would work now however there are still plans being mooted around to relay the line for quarry traffic which if it happened would be wonderful but I can’t see it happening in my career (or indeed lifetime!) Here’s a pic I took of the site in nov 2021 while waiting at the signal on the Hindlow branch, since then the building behind is finished and the Aldi is also a ghost in the machine as it’s closed and moved elsewhere in the town! 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Yes, the old folks' home / sheltered housing, or whatever it is, occupies some of the Midland site but the 'new' Station (!) Road cuts through between that and the base of the station's end wall at the top of Station Approach : - 1/10/23 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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