Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Thought I'd start a thread where you can post not necessarily "creative" pictures, but photos which show the typical everyday railway scene. Might be useful for scenes / items of infrastructure / things which might be recreated on the layout. So please no special trains or views of preserved lines - just the ordinary scenes we see everyday, yet often just ignore them or pass us by with their familiarity. Thank you. To set the ball rolling, this is Moreton level crossing in Dorset, just by the station, earlier this week. A tractor and trailer bump across the crossing. Quite a cluttered scene - signs of various types, the wooden slats on the platform ramps to prevent passengers exiting directly onto the crossing and the half barriers. Nothing special - that's the point - but it might give you an idea or two. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted May 23, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 23, 2015 Nice idea Peter - so here's another one, from the very modern railway. Tilehurst on the GW mainline with all sorts of interesting stuff dotted around - reading from left and starting with the further (Up Relief) Line HST 'stop' marker board mounted on new CCTV post with camera at the top, TROS reminder board for Drivers of trains stopping here green painted REB building fully fence in with unclimbable fencing differential PROS board original WR 1960s colour light signal post but with new Dorman 4 aspect head and a modern telephone cabinet TPWS grid immediately alongside the signal (just visible) a couple of the latest pattern of equipment boxes for axle counters modern pattern location cupboard with yellow stripe to indicate it contains higher voltage kit nearer (Down Relief) Line and platform Running in board in FGW style but no 'ownership' branding) Platform end fencing to fence off the ramp black'knobbly' rubber strips in place to stop folk using the unfenced piece of the ramp yellow platform warning lines anti-suicide fencing running along the platform (but if you want to commit suicide you can just open a gate and walk straight onto the Down Main platform!!) again a repeater TROS sign 70mphPROS sign 'mickey mouse' colour light signal - new in connection with Reading layout alterations and there to allow trains to reverse blue fencing to allow personnel to work neat to running line without full lookout protection by creating a green zone back of the banner repeater for the signal applying to Down trains at the far end of the platform - some how the railway managed without one just there for almost 50 years and didn't suffer any SPADs in consequence! Note the signals have standard style numberplates and numbers in the sequence for a modern electronic control centre (and regrettably completely different to the highly logical WR numbering system for colour lights where the number told you which line it applied to and gave you a pretty good idea of where it was in a 'box's control area). old concrete packing bin just this side of the signal - originally contained chippings for use in measured packing work by PW gang, superseded by tamping machines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted May 23, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2015 I agree this is a great idea. It's amazing how little, often un-noticed details can transform a model. I shall start checking for mundane things in my photo collection (there's probably lots ) and keep my eyes open when I'm next out with the camera. Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 23, 2015 Author Share Posted May 23, 2015 Here's Newport in 2013, as one of the hourly Swansea-bound HSTs departs. Due to the curve of the platform, two staff are in attendance to aid with the "Right away". Multi-lingual signs - Welsh invariably comes first. Many refreshment rooms are now run by concessions, so A-boards sprout up on the platform to tempt passengers in. Note the clear heavy-duty plastic used for the waste bin, so no hidden "nasties" can be found therein. Finally the good old chocolate machine; though the design is rather different from steam days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted May 24, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2015 Just one comment, or rather an aside, Peter. Uppr Crust is a brand owned by the company which bough out Travellers Fare from its post privatisation (management buyout) owners. It's just that they brand their station outlets under various different names. As far as multi-lingual signs I understand that as far as railway operators on the national network in Britain are concerned they should follow the UIC convention which requires the first language on any sign or in an announcement to be in the language of the country in which the station or sign is situated while the same applies to on-train announcements, as Wales officially uses the Welsh language for such things it should therefore come first in railway usage. Where it can get more awkward is on an international train passing through more than two countries and thus requires use of more than two languages. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Peter Beckett Posted May 24, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2015 Here is one I took at Shrewsbury whilst waiting for the connection to Chester in late 2012. I loved the seats, door and window architecture and the flower stands Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Skegness - summer 1980 and it's raining. Well what do you expect? For many of us, myself included, this was the place where we saw the sea for the first time. I was probably hauled there by a Colwick B1 from Derby Friargate via the Back Line through Mapperley Tunnel and on into Lincolnshire. Too small to remember any of it though..... Back to this picture - lots to see. The undulating blue engineering bricks used for the platform surface. The excursion platforms on the right don't have the benefit of a canopy. The canopy supports look a little the worse for wear, particularly at suitcase-height where they've been bashed by countless holidaymakers leaving the train. Note that the first platform on the right doesn't have any platform edging, but the further one does. The flatbottom track visible hardly has any ballast - note how the sleepers have been cut to accomodate the drain cover. The Lincoln-based Cl.114 has probabably entered the station thousands of times, but is now adorned in the provincial white/blue stripe livery. The driver is striding up the platform (or is it the guard?); doubtless he'll soon change the destination panel to read Grantham or Nottingham. Further down the platform a porter is pushing a 4-wheel barrow - in BR rail blue of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Good old BR 'corporate image' signage and advertising using the rail alphabet... Bay platforms with parcels vans... 'Old hand' Drivers... Ubiquitous 47s absolutely bloody everywhere, on everything...! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Great idea for a thread. I've got loads of photos that would fit nicely here. Already some of them in my gallery, but any new ones I take I can put here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Like the portrait Nidge. The way the smoke curls up without obscuring his face - brilliant. Of course the smoke also harks back to an earlier form of motive power too..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 1980s, a platform with no passengers, or staff, and nothing going on, which happened quite often Northwich station slumbers in the midday sun 24/7/84 cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 Wigan North Western platform 1 in the late 1960's Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted May 26, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2015 The steam age railway? No - this view at Aberbeeg was taken in 1974 - more than a decade after passenger train services had ended and almost as long since steam had been banished. Interesting features to note are the lihghting poles - basically telegraph pole style and carrying a single lamp - I always thought the purpose of the lamp was to let you see where the post was, they were better than darkness but not very much. Note also the gas lamp (without a bowl) still standing on the platform end - in more affluent areas these were sold off as quickly as they were taken out of use but seemingly not so in the valleys. The assortment of buildings is interesting - just beyond the brakevan at the right is one of the plywood cabins made by Cathays works at Cardiff and found all over the WR replacing older structures - they came in a variety of sizes and this was a double length one. Then the signalbox with a row of location cupboards beyond ( by this date the Western Valley running lines had colour light signalling, albeit done on the cheap and mainly 2 aspect signals) but with semaphores retained for loops and sidings etc when they were near a signalbox. And still a hefty double junction where in reality 4 lines coming up the valley split into two double line branches -one on our left and the other on the far side of the platform, where there was also once a short goods loop as well - on which the brakevan was standing. If you were at Railex this past weekend you might care to compare it with a layout you probably saw there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 On the Aberbeeg theme, here is an every day ( well probably an every Sunday) view of Aberbeeg just 37s, brake vans, and coal empties, this might be also applicable to the 'leaving brake vans unattended' thread! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesthesound/6344289019/ cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 Dawlish Warren - off season in November 2013. GWR seat painted in FGW colours - getting a bit tatty looking. GWR spear fencing, with modern metal palisade-type behind. Track alignment marker set into the lower face of the platform. Concrete troughing for signalling cables between base of platform and track. Bullhead track on the up passenger loop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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