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they can wirelessly recharge mobile phones, so shouldn't be too hard to have recharging points at the ends of fiddle yard lines to keep locos charged whilst not it use.

Braunton, leaving Victoria with the VSOE and again upon her return to Victoria

With Eurostars in the background, apparently you can get married at St Pancras not a guest, I was just passing through the station...

Apparently there was a planned, but not built 2-6-8-0 German war loco, of which Marklin actually made a model of...

A few more from me, these time there were all surveys for bridge works. this is over by Scrubs Lane, where the London Overground crosses the Great Western mainline at the North Pole depot this is on the London Underground, just west of Harrow-on-the-Hill. Thankfully very close to the station as we ended up waiting till 3am for an engineering train to come through and had to be off the tracks by 4am! lastly, between the Great Western main line and the District Line heading into Ealing Broadway, just setting up some retro targets in case we had to return at a later date.

the A245 in Cobham is named 'Between Streets'

Ooooo, has a dig through some work files... this is the southern portal to the tunnel (it's just long enough) at Cambridge Bach, south of Bristol. We were surveying the cliff face and I had the great joy of getting to abseil down to a cave entrance halfway down. In the dark. And the rain. day time work this time, in the cutting between Brighton & Hove stations on the south coast. Again more survey work for slippage prevention. I literally have no idea what we were doing here... only surveying one of the lines across the crossing (if I recall correctly). One of those jobs where the waiting to sign on, briefings, finding the site, and then working out which of the tracks was the one we wanted took longer than the actual job itself.

nope... haven't gotten that far yet...

tunnels I can do!! in the Harz mountains

ahhh, maybe I'll stick my head back in then

hehehe, I stopped looking in there once it got boring with the whole "let's work our way through all the numbers/letters/places/etc" challenges....

High view requested, how about from 113 stories (342m/1,122ft) high?? Looking down through the glass floor of the CN Tower to the Roundhouse Park, home of the Steam Whistle Brewery, & the Toronto Railway Historical Association and their miniature railway, running around the park and yes, the brewery does tours! How about some more "models" you can ride on??

saw a rail replacement bus on my way home last night, for 'South Western Trains'...

I don't mind the livery per say, though I can only assume that all the trains are going to be in that colour scheme, which will be a shame as I've quite liked my colourful railway. I do get the logo, but it annoys me that they've not made it the same size as the letters in the SWR square... it's not like it's the franchise routes to scale so they could have made it fit!

only one I have was used last time a cattle dock was requested

Though the majority of the franchise comes nowhere nearer to the South West than Hampshire... South West Home Counties maybe!

SWT tweeted photos of the 707s out and about yesterday on their first day in service, fully branded SouthWestTrains

It's in the background, and out of focus, but it's hard to pretend a red double decker is anything but!! How about another urban scene, the grimier the better!

I think they moved to their current venue ~2008, so fairly. And as we're into Wild Card territory, I thought I'd share one of the other models from Trainworld, this one Lilliput Model Village, which was started back in 1948!! How about something else based in Colonies??

it's an exhibit, with maybe 6-8 layouts. And because it's on the first floor it has an actual funicular to get wheelchair users up the stairs! This is their main layout, but they also have some smaller ones. A US shelf layout, a German HO layout. Though all being automated they're not (or weren't when I was there in 2011) at the level of running you get at an exhibition. Though killed off a rainy afternoon

everything I had of the right area was the wrong era, and everything of the right era was the wrong area!! But I did find this from Trainworld, Napier, NZ. LMS Royal Scot 6103 'Royal Scots Fusilier' hauling the Cornish Riviera Limited... something for the purists! it's technically a GWR train so I'm not counting it... but found it amusing and wanted to share!

actually one of mine (as opposed from a show). A pair of Class 52 2-10-0's on a heavy coal train do we have any other heavy freight trains out there?? Double headed as an added bonus!

I have always found fiddle yards to be interesting... this is the one for Hinksey Yard. How about another fiddle yard?

it's a Grade I listed building & a UNESCO World Heritage Site so it has to be maintained... of course, if it can wait until HS2 is built, Parliament can be based elsewhere in the country and MP's will have a quick method to get back to London for business meetings

I quite enjoy York, and have killed a few evenings off when I've been in town watching a wide variety of trains come through, including freights and the Royal Mail. I also have fond memories of afternoons on summer holiday in West Germany watching the trains in the Rhine/Mosel valleys.