Unicorn1 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 RHDR No 10, Doctor Syn, crossing the unmistakable landscape that is Dungeness in Kent 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 A Bristol bound DMU joins the Taunton line at Worle. In the distance on the main line is a 47 with oil tankers. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted January 13, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2017 linked from: http://www.radioparadise.com/graphics/tv_img/44414.jpg http://radioparadise.com 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted January 13, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2017 linked from: http://www.radioparadise.com/graphics/tv_img/44414.jpg http://radioparadise.com Lovely image Martin. Looks very N gauge ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivegreen Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Nah, that's a model: landscape too clean, trees too small and a totally unprototypical gradient - in any case, a train going uphill would never manage it, even in N gauge. Shurely…. ??? Oops, it's Switzerland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 A few photographs taken on the BNSF Twin Peaks subdivision, on the one-time Colorado and Southern: http://www.railpictures.net/photo/602563/ http://www.railpictures.net/photo/592882/ http://www.railpictures.net/photo/579357/ http://www.railpictures.net/photo/238998/ http://www.railpictures.net/photo/187750/ http://www.railpictures.net/photo/33638/ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 14, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) Nah, that's a model: landscape too clean, trees too small and a totally unprototypical gradient - in any case, a train going uphill would never manage it, even in N gauge. Shurely…. ??? Oops, it's Switzerland. Going uphill (you can't see the wagons on the rear of the train in this view of course) Edited January 14, 2017 by The Stationmaster 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) The Ever decreasing Kellingley Colliery Edited January 14, 2017 by Ray M 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Whoops, Thought it didn`t do it first time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidmouth Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) Great Central Railway 27th December 2016 by Martin Creese, on Flickr Edited January 14, 2017 by sidmouth 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted January 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2017 Here's a tiny bit of a line in a landscape, and a bit of a query. It's near to the Avon Dam, south Dartmoor seen yesterday in brilliant but low sunlight Near South Brent, approximately where the arrow is on this map. Probably around 2 feet in gauge. The nearest rail is bent up at the end which caused the shadow at the right side. The thing is, I can't find any reference to there being a tramway on this side of the valley - just the South Zeal tramway to the west, as shown on the map. The dam was built in 1957 and I assume road / tracked vehicles were used by then instead of tramway/railway. So is this just a kind of 'folly' set up as a point of interest or was there something here which isn't apparent on t'internet? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Donner Pass in the snow - http://www.railpictures.net/photo/603241/ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymw Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 wrt tracks on Dartmoor, no idea if in that area, or may be another 'layout', but there is a sort of military railway that automatically ran a miniature tank, for target practice. Being military, I doubt if it would be shown on any maps. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 A couple of winter shots from western North America: http://www.railpictures.net/photo/603619/ http://www.railpictures.net/photo/603588/ 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted January 19, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2017 wrt tracks on Dartmoor, no idea if in that area, or may be another 'layout', but there is a sort of military railway that automatically ran a miniature tank, for target practice. Being military, I doubt if it would be shown on any maps. Sorry to contradict, but the military target line is on the 1:25000 map as shown here It's much further north than Avon Dam; the firing ranges are more on the north side of Dartmoor around Okehampton Camp. There was a short feature on a BBC program on hidden areas of Britain where a former officer got the keys for the shed where the train was kept and it was wheeled out into the open for the first time in years; it was something like an armored narrow gauge Simplex which towed a wagon to carry the actual targets. There were / are return loops at either end of the track so, once set off, the train could be left to trundle up & down as long as needed - unmanned! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) Looking at the history of the region, Avon Dam is a quite recent (opened 60 years ago) construction, and older maps show nothing there at all. I wonder if it is left over from a constructors' narrow gauge line? Edited January 19, 2017 by jonny777 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted January 19, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2017 Looking at the history of the region, Avon Dam is a quite recent (opened 60 years ago) construction, and older maps show nothing there at all. I wonder if it is left over from a constructors' narrow gauge line? I did wonder that as well, but I thought that road traffic might be more likely by then & I can't find any reference to there being a railway.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymw Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 There was a short feature on a BBC program on hidden areas of Britain I saw that, remembered 'twer Dartmoor., that's why I said 'may be' . Maybe some aerial shots (google earth) will give some indication of the track route, as it does for many other disused/ripped up track elsewhere Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted January 19, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2017 Sorry we're a bit off topic here, but here's the google maps satellite view of the target railway near West Mill Tor and it's quite obvious at this scale. Might try & find this sometime we're up that way. This is the location of the track fragment near Avon Dam - there's a hint of a terraced track heading southeast but it peters out pretty soon, so I don't think it was an actual track. I'm none the wiser! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 North American steam in 2016 - http://www.railpictures.net/photo/603703/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 (edited) Steamranger Heritage Tourist Railway, Victor Harbour, South Australia, New Year's Day 2017. Track is broad gauge 5'3". Locomotive is a 4-6-2 built in 1936 by the South Australian Railways workshops at Islington. Edited February 3, 2017 by bingley hall 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 The long and the straight of it. It might not be the Nullabor, but Zimbabwe has 113km of straight and level track between Sawmills and Dete. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted February 10, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2017 linked from: http://www4.radioparadise.com/graphics/tv_img/8230.jpg http://radioparadise.com 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 On its tour Down Under, Flying Scotsman departs Port Augusta, South Australia during August 1989. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Two miles of train in the desert: http://www.railpictures.net/photo/607092/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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