RMweb Gold big jim Posted April 4 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4 The viaduct now got a national trust urban garden, keep meaning to visit but never have the time https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire-greater-manchester/castlefield-viaduct 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted April 4 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4 (edited) 50 minutes ago, big jim said: The viaduct now got a national trust urban garden, keep meaning to visit but never have the time https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire-greater-manchester/castlefield-viaduct I think these urban trails are a good idea, I did the one in New York, a couple of miles long.. a good place to hide weird art.. The line even passed through warehouses.. NYC is full of sharks.. Thousands of people a day use this line as a footpath. I would like to think the unused “10th” track crossing the thames from Victoria would make a good, albeit short footpath to Battersea Power Statiom from Grosvenor carriage sidings. Edited April 4 by adb968008 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 1 hour ago, big jim said: The viaduct now got a national trust urban garden, keep meaning to visit but never have the time https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire-greater-manchester/castlefield-viaduct Not very long though, mind you it would cost a lot to make all the decking safe along that side. Perhaps when Pomona island gets covered in buildings it might make sense to build an actual high level walking/cycling route from there into central Manchester using it. Certainly they need to find a solid use for that side of the viaduct before Metrolink make a claim to increase capacity as that part is a bit of a bottleneck. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
balders Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 3 hours ago, adb968008 said: I think these urban trails are a good idea, I did the one in New York, a couple of miles long.. a good place to hide weird art.. The line even passed through warehouses.. NYC is full of sharks.. Thousands of people a day use this line as a footpath. I would like to think the unused “10th” track crossing the thames from Victoria would make a good, albeit short footpath to Battersea Power Statiom from Grosvenor carriage sidings. The Hudson High Line. Fantastic bit of urban reimagination and yet retaining a fair bit of original features. I loved it. Walked it from Hudson Yards in 30° heat. Photo taken as the line does a 180° spin towards the meat packing district. Regards Guy 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted April 5 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 5 (edited) 805 testing again last night, oxley to Carlisle and back to Carnforth oxley crewe All white on the night A very wet oxenholme ready for the run to Carlisle and into Carlisle ready to head south, unfortunately followed a stone blower all the way so had to hold back at 60mph 90% of the trip! tonight might not run as the required testing might have been completed today, here’s hoping! Edited April 5 by big jim 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 14 hours ago, adb968008 said: I think these urban trails are a good idea, I did the one in New York, a couple of miles long.. a good place to hide weird art.. The line even passed through warehouses.. NYC is full of sharks.. Thousands of people a day use this line as a footpath. I would like to think the unused “10th” track crossing the thames from Victoria would make a good, albeit short footpath to Battersea Power Statiom from Grosvenor carriage sidings. I'd reccomend the book "Walking the High Line" by Joel Sternfeld, a photographer who doccumented the high line in its derelict state, just prior to the conversion to a park. Lovely book, and some great pics with the abandoned line threading between the high-rise buildings. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted April 5 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5 Ah, but are they passing their tests? J 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Trainshed Terry Posted April 5 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5 12 hours ago, big jim said: 805 testing again last night, oxley to Carlisle and back to Carnforth oxley crewe All white on the night A very wet oxenholme ready for the run to Carlisle and into Carlisle ready to head south, unfortunately followed a stone blower all the way so had to hold back at 60mph 90% of the trip! tonight might not run as the required testing might have been completed today, here’s hoping! I do like the last image with the ghost signal in the image. Terry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted April 5 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5 (edited) I think it’s actually a ghost headlight captured on one of the phone multiple lenses that built up the photo You can see it in the crewe picture too, the green reflecting on the nose in that picture is on an adjacent line Edited April 5 by big jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 On 04/04/2024 at 16:30, big jim said: The viaduct now got a national trust urban garden, keep meaning to visit but never have the time https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire-greater-manchester/castlefield-viaduct Worth a look, definitely. In fact the whole Castlefield area's pretty interesting. The nearby science and industry museum is a bit limited at the moment though, having a refit. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig1989 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Will you learn these aswel Jim or they just being used down south? cheers Craig 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted April 9 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 9 9 hours ago, Craig1989 said: Will you learn these aswel Jim or they just being used down south? cheers Craig don’t think I’ll see them but you never know! 3 from the first part of today, went over to Ilfracombe yesterday to have a couple of days with the family as they are down there for a couple of weeks and popped by woody bay on the L&B, didn’t have a ride though beautiful loco and stock and a stunning looking station wonder if they will ever manage to get it fully reopen? 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leavesontheline Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 44 minutes ago, big jim said: Nice model, just let down by the back-scene beyond the signal.......😃 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted April 10 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 10 Only 2 from tonight, a ballast drop on the north warwick line from tyseley to Stratford, kind of! 08 in Bescot My train was top and tail 5 auto hoppers in the end I only took it as far as spring road and my relief turned up, so I never got to do any of the drop, annoyingly it took me 3 1/2 hours to drive from ilfracombe to drive a train for less than an hour! 17 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted April 11 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 11 Last night was a stone train to hams hall via a run round at bescot and another one straight back, there should have been another landor st to crewe at the start but someone else kindly did that for me basford hall my train, an hour or so late into hams hall and being unloaded straight away a rather sad looking 08899 in a very faded midland railway maroon, I drove this on etches park when I was with colas as we weren’t allowed to start locos in the wheel lathe due to smoke and this happened to be nearby and they let me use it! sad to see it like that but at least it’s still in service my 2nd train back to crewe and into crewe basford hall again handy for my car. 225bhp compared to 3000hp, not much difference in fuel consumption though! rail drop in kidsgrove tonight 37 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted April 12 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 12 Rail drop at kidsgrove last night started in basford hall where there was a class 18 in the yard, on trial with freightliner shunted the locos onto my train, just needed to move one round to the front Into the station for a change ends, 805001 en route to to Rhyl change ends no2 in Stoke Got to site, change ends no 3 to drop the rail, after the job was done it was change ends no4 outside kidsgrove to head toward the session exit on the crewe branch that was it for pics but after change ends No5 in alsager loop I got relief and headed home! back in Saturday night next, another possession train at valley on Anglesey this time 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolkchinaclay Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 22 hours ago, big jim said: a rather sad looking 08899 in a very faded midland railway maroon, I drove this on etches park when I was with colas as we weren’t allowed to start locos in the wheel lathe due to smoke and this happened to be nearby and they let me use it! sad to see it like that but at least it’s still in service Always thought it a shame no one has done this in RTR (yet). It would look great weathered or ex works! 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted April 14 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 14 (edited) Possession last night at valley started in basford hall with a long walk to the south end to collect my train class 90s That 47 again! Shunting the loco onto the north end of the train And away we went, entered the Possession at Menai bridge and had to run wrong direction across the island to the worksite so had to cross various crossings under local control, the first one was llanfairpwll (gwyngyllgogeryllllantysiliogogogoch) to which I asked the picop to spell the full name of the crossing phonetically, you can imagine what his reply was! Into the worksite at Ty-Croes and a quick stop at rhosneiger Once on site we began unloading fresh ballast into the newly laid track before getting relief and driving home mixed bag of short jobs next week, class 69 move to and from longport tomorrow, conduct the sleeper train Wednesday, rugby to hams hall Thursday and Kidderminster to bescot Friday Edited April 14 by big jim 27 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nightstar.train Posted April 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 14 1 hour ago, big jim said: the first one was llanfairpwll (gwyngyllgogeryllllantysiliogogogoch) to which I asked the picop to spell the full name of the crossing phonetically, you can imagine what his reply was! Foxtrot uniform, juliet indigo mike. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted April 15 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 15 Loco move today Stafford to longport and back to toton DRS flask train 69004/66783/66795 freightliner 90s passing through Changing ends in alsager shunting round longport, dropped off 66783 and took the 69 and 795 back Into toton and home off tomorrow then conducting the sleeper train on Wednesday 36 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted April 17 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 17 Conducted the sleeper train via the West Midlands last night 92010 up front and into rugby train home and that was that! 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted April 18 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 18 Only 2 from last night, rugby to hams hall rugby and fuelling at hams hall off to see The Horne section tonight then in tomorrow Worcester to bescot via Kidderminster 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 (edited) 1 hour ago, big jim said: Only 2 from last night, rugby to hams hall rugby and fuelling at hams hall off to see The Horne section tonight then in tomorrow Worcester to bescot via Kidderminster Keep the noise down tomorrow please. I'm on nights. What time are you off Worcester? I'll keep an eye out for you, if they are open. Andy Edited April 18 by SM42 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted April 18 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 18 5 hours ago, SM42 said: What time are you off Worcester? it’s something like 05:15 coming from Foregate st direction, it’s the rail drop train apparently 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 I might see you then. Might not. Depends if you go in the loop. Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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