stewartingram Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I can remember riding on the Lancaster-Morecambe emus in 1965 with the sliding doors wide open. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted February 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) Some of the Newcastle area pre-BR EMUs had manual doors - picture in 'British Rail Fleet Survey (10?) - DC EMUs' showed one with an off-side (i.e. on to the tracks) door open. Probably the LNER Tynside Units Edited February 23, 2023 by keefer 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2023 The London District line trains had manual sliding doors up to about 1960. They could often be seen running with all doors open especially in hot weather. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted February 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2023 21 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Consternation at St Davids, as the lunchtime trip to Exmouth is terminated with door problems, empty to depot. 7.7.2022. Forget the doors. Look at those brand new bullhead chairs and sleepers. Bullhead track is alive and well and living in Exeter. 🙂 Martin. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2023 5 hours ago, martin_wynne said: Forget the doors. Look at those brand new bullhead chairs and sleepers. Bullhead track is alive and well and living in Exeter. 🙂 Martin. Exeter is a long way from Network Rail HQ. Man with message in forked stick re flatbottom has yet to arrive. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 5 hours ago, PhilJ W said: The London District line trains had manual sliding doors up to about 1960. They could often be seen running with all doors open especially in hot weather. I can remember experiencing that bit worrying and most passengers could have not given a dam. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted February 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2023 22 hours ago, 30368 said: Door problems were (probably still are) a top ten reason for unit/train failure. Even when the correct maintenence practices are carried out they still failed. I recall a trip to India a few years back when the guide took us to the main railway station in Chennai (I think) and pointed out how efficient the suburban trains were. They were absolutely packed, I pointed out that one of the major causes of train failure in the UK would be solved by applying Indian Railway practice. The suburban units had no doors! Kind regards, Richard B There was a documentary about the main terminus in Mumbai a few years ago. As well as no doors, they have platforms both sides of the tracks, and a fresh driver and guard waiting ready for each train, with the result that the dwell time for an incoming commuter train is about 30 seconds... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted February 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2023 A couple of enthusiasts avail themselves of the BRUTEs at Birmingham New Street in front of 53323 on 02/06/84 (my photo) 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2023 On 23/02/2023 at 21:19, Rugd1022 said: "What the 'El?" 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted February 25, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 25, 2023 An enthusiast keeps pace with 6019 "King Henry V" at Birmingham Snow Hill in the 1960s (my scan from a negative by the late John Evans) 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterfgf Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 On 23/02/2023 at 09:03, martin_wynne said: Forget the doors. Look at those brand new bullhead chairs and sleepers. Bullhead track is alive and well and living in Exeter. 🙂 Martin. The siding in Dorking Main station was relaid with brand new bullhead chairs and track a few years ago. Peterfgf 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 25, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 25, 2023 51 minutes ago, peterfgf said: The siding in Dorking Main station was relaid with brand new bullhead chairs and track a few years ago. Ah, Dorking North as was in my time as a booking clerk, straight from school in 1966. There was undoubtedly a Human Side to the job. The Chief Clerk was a war-widow, poor dear, and she and the SM spent a great deal of time in his office - door locked - apparently finalising the accounts. His office windows were all obscured. At lunchtime he would then set off for home, walking up Ashcombe Road past my old skool to his tied railway cottage by Dorking Town station, where wifey no doubt fed him and mopped his fevered brow. 6 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted March 7, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 7, 2023 Not a photo but a story showing the human side. Some here will know the names involved 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 8, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2023 On 25/02/2023 at 11:08, Oldddudders said: Ah, Dorking North as was in my time as a booking clerk, straight from school in 1966. There was undoubtedly a Human Side to the job. The Chief Clerk was a war-widow, poor dear, and she and the SM spent a great deal of time in his office - door locked - apparently finalising the accounts. His office windows were all obscured. At lunchtime he would then set off for home, walking up Ashcombe Road past my old skool to his tied railway cottage by Dorking Town station, where wifey no doubt fed him and mopped his fevered brow. That sort of thing seems to be something of which no photos appear to have been published. This is probably due to the lack of digital cameras and mobile 'phones back in the day when such activities were something - how shall I put it? - you came across more frequently. 4 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 Isle Of Man, Summer 1951, the little tykes from Dovedale Primary school in Liverpool are on a jolly boy's outing - the lad in the middle on the left is ten year old John Winston Lennon... 17 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southof1E top tmd Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 the signalman at the impressive Park Junction box near Ebbw looks on as the Vintage Trains railtour passes on March 11th 2023 nr www.leightonlists.com 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Say "cheese"... "Maybe we should've used Woodland Scenics". 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted March 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2023 They've just unearthed a severed hand! 😮 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 How many men does it take to look at track ? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted March 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2023 I blame Brexit for the Great Shovel Shortage. Folks have to queue up to use it. 3 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Grass cutting at Tennyson, Brisbane. Not sure why one needs a video camera on his hat. Mike Wiltshire 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post The Stationmaster Posted March 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 13, 2023 On 12/03/2023 at 12:35, Southof1E top tmd said: the signalman at the impressive Park Junction box near Ebbw looks on as the Vintage Trains railtour passes on March 11th 2023 nr www.leightonlists.com The scene of an hilarious incident during the time when it was one of my 'boxes. The Secindman on a returning train off the Bassaleg branch duly threw the Train Staff towards the Signalman but with excessive zeal. The staff duly flew up into the air and then came down with a thump, not on the Signalman's outstretched hand but in the signal box gutter; where all attempts among them to work out how to retrieve came to nought. The Signalman was left with n mo option but to report the matter - to me. so off I went to Park Jcn to find that I was not being spun a yarn and that the Signalman was quick to make sure that I thoroughly understood the culprit was not him. I then had the managerial role of trying to work out how to get back the Train Staff from the gutter - well i was supposedly paid to make difficult decisions. The hardest part was to find out which of the various engineering type depts had a ladder - the S&T didn't (why would we want a ladder, they're fixed to the signals? And don't forget we're no longer responsible for maintaining signal box structures so it's nothing to do with us). So I tried the Building Dept - who were by then responsible for signal box structures - but they didn't have a ladder handy (??). So I then tried the Electricians - who came up with the goods as soon as the chap on the 'phone had stopped laughing and their ladder was just long enough when. extended to allow someone to put their hand into the gutter and grab the Train Staff. Alas I didn't have my camera with me that day. And no windows broken (that time). 16 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted March 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2023 47831 "Bolton Wanderer" at Nuneaton on 16/06/02 (my photo) 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium drjcontroller Posted March 15, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2023 Railtour passengers mill about in the snow at Penyffordd during a photo stop on the North West Rambler No. 2, 13th of January 1979. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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