lmsforever

Went there once interesting place  is still running?

People were far more aware of dangers and yes they did leap off trains as they arrived but they knew the risks whereas today due to the nanny state everyone thinks someone else is going to look after them. Many young people have no idea about safety which is why my friends in the RNLI are increasingly having to rescue people who endanger their lives. But safety is being spread by people going into schools  I vis it many schools and other groups spreading the safety word .I have also met a team  from the east coast railway who have been out and about teaching safety on the railway and they do a brilliant job and the children love it.But people who are in thier twenties and thirties seem to have a very different view of life  which seems block anything they have been told to be safe .This is a fact born out by research so we have to make allowances  ,traveling on a preserved train is something that is a new experience for many .In the case of doors they need to recognise that they are different   to anything they have seen before ,which  why staff keep a watch at all times. I hope that the Jacobite keeps running as it is important to the area.

1. This whole situation makes you realise how  the population of our country has declined in being able to do simple things such as not open doors whilst the train is in motion. When I first started use trains in the early 1950,s  Iknew not to open a train door when it was in motion.But now there is so much legislation   that noone is expected to think for themselves and they are the worse for it   surely common sense should cover situations that are over amplefied  by do gooders.

 Tonight on our local ITV news a report on the  viaduct over the Chiltern line and then  behind Wendover onwards over the Thame viaduct towards Waddesdon  its going to be a very good place to watch the trains go through  towards the north. They certainly are trying out different methods of construction  on this line  and it will be a place to have a look at all works  ,the section beside Wendover village is to be in a green tunnel. The bridge outside Waddesdon is coming on very well and give it three months you will see the roadways and possibly it could be in use. Waddesdon village will gain the bypass it has been waiting for the past fifty years |  The diversion of of the Thame Rd outside Aylesbury is progressing well and by the summer the roads will be built and maybe the diversion will be in operation also here there will have to be a big cutting put in place were the road used to go and the section northwards to the viaduct will take shape.  Works in our area are being very well planned and when the rails are in place and all the surrounding works are covered in trees and grss you will wonder what all the fuss was about.

Got these on my layout pleasure to build as all thier products are. 

20 hours ago, beast66606 said:

 

I signed it and worked with some things that were very covered by it (power station and submarine fuel amongst other "stuff") - when I left the nukes I was debriefed by a large, very well built, gentleman who told me that even though I was leaving, the act still covered me for several years and for the "nudge nudge" work would apply for - effectively life - as he left he said "goodbye and hopefully I won't have to come back" - I took the thinly veiled warning seriously so still don't talk in detail about what I did even though I suspect the technology has long moved on.

When I worked for BT in the sixties  I had to sign the Secrets Act because we went onto all the local military bases and the local rocket testing facility which everybody locally knew what they did and the noise when they did testing echoed all round the locality.  Later in life  in catering wholesale I had to go into many military bases all over the south  and they knew I was covered  by the act even though I signed it a long while before, I enjoyed my visits especialy when went onto an active  RAF base and saw Lightnings takeing off. 

On 03/01/2024 at 09:18, DaveF said:

Some photos taken in Switzerland in the summer 1988.  They are from Interlaken Ost and West at the time of the BLS 75th anniversary celebrations, with an exhibtion of new and old traction from around Switzerland and Europe.  The photos are of Swiss traction b ut if you look carefully you can see things from other countries at the edges of the photos.

 

 

Interlaken Ost Re4/4ii 11252 Interlaken Ost to Basel 12th Aug 88 C10862

 

Interlaken Ost RAe4/4 1001 SBB Roter Pfeil Red Arrow Pendelzug Interlaken Ost to West 12th Aug 88 C10877

 

 

Interlaken Ost BLS Re4/4 172 12th Aug 88 C10883

 

 

Interlaken West Ae3/6i 10439  13th Aug 88 C10983

 

 

Interlaken West BLS Ae6/8 203 13th Aug 88 C10908

 

 

Interlaken West EBT  Emmental Burgdorf Thun Bahn Be4/4 102 13th Aug 88 C10913

 

David

Thats some old locos etc the railcar looks prewar thanks for showing them Chris

4 hours ago, KNP said:

Happy New Year

 

This picture encapsulates for me, all that I was aiming for when I set up this layout all those years ago.

A train moving through and behind the scenery....

A path wandering who knows where!!

Tranquillity and peacefulness.

 

 

You have achieved this and more happy new year from Aylesbury

HS2 could have been an answer to  many transport problems but it will create a real problem north of Birmingham with trains restricted to 110 mph  and short platforms  , and also  what about the many passengers who join wcml trains between MK and Crewe.Joining a stopping train will not be liked  as they want to board a fast train that takes them to thier destination without changing. HS2 should have gone to main destinations as an independent railway with Euston as the starting point only then would it be of use. But we are in the UK only roads are built in this way as the government makes money from users unlike railways and we have people in charge now that feel public services are not worth promoting  .All in all the UK is in a mess.

As  long as we passengers have comfortable trains that continue to arrive on time ,we are very lucky to be served by Chiltern for the last twenty years.

Maybe but I lived through the whole saga of closure here in Aylesbury there was even talk of closing to Amersham but sense prevailed     unlike with our main line north if work had been put in we would have had  a service to the north.Certainly  passenger numbers had dropped but this was because of station closures  poor services all planned to ensure that passengers went elsewhere something that BR were very good at. It is very interesting to go along the route now as HS2 progresses vast earthworks and soon trains passing at high speed if only we had the foresight back in the sixties there would be alternative lines to the north through areas of high population .But we had one of many governments that have consistently ignored our  needs at least we hopefully have a railway there will actually be of use even it does not go to the north and Scotland but never mind they will build new motorways regardless of the environment  what a world we live in .Mynext post will be about how work is progressing around Wendover.

53 minutes ago, melmerby said:

It was dying on it's feet, that's why services were cut back not the other way around

It was an unnecessary mainline built after all the prime territory had already been plundered.

The reason it was dying on its feet was because of the awful services on offer ,Aylesbury had three services to Nottinghingham and these were not publicised or any attempt to  increase of passengers. Overall the GCR had been    run down by BR as part of cost cutting  and a government anti rail policy it could have offered a good variety of services if run properly. And dont forget that BR wanted to close Marylebone so all in all BR shafted us in the home counties etc just appease the government of the day.

What units will Northern be using in place of these trains hope they offer a good alternative ?

Interesting not a long siding but it looks busy is it a brewery?

The latest film of HS2 is very interesting in that the route does not seem to be defined like it is to the south ,also you can see how this part of the world is very susceptible to flooding  which must have caused a bit of head scratching to find answers. I hope we get a video of north of Waddesdon so we can see the bypass taking shape plus the bridge works on the Waddesdon Rd as when you drive along here its not that a clear view due to all the earthworks. The viaduct is going to be quite a construction to watch trains passing over as they will be at full speed.

Memories used to get a train in Walthamstow to Barking and then to South Benfleet  started when it was steam and then when electric happy days ,spent my summer holidays there . Regular  trips by bus to Canvey Island and every so often to Southend and a walk down the pier have a munch look at the lifeboat and back by pier train.Enjoyed my  trips down there and I went at the right time would not want to do this trip now the foties and fifties  were better times .

805 needs a good clean bet it doesnt get one till next year!

2 hours ago, keefer said:

No, that's just a boat yard for building/repairing. 

The photo shows the (outer) tidal harbour basin and you can just make out (to the left of the two fishing boats) the gap through to the inner basin which, up until the '70s, could have fishing boats berthed 2 or 3 deep around the wall.

The small lifting bridge over the slipway gave access to the outer wall/pier on the right (stretching some way behind the camera on the right).

The lifeboat station was off scene to the left, behind the camera.

Walked across that little bridge and around the harbour many times while on holiday, staying with relatives up near the Abbey. Good times☺️

EDIT:

Current satellite view, orange arrow shows viewpoint of camera in Dave's pic:

 

1923 OS 25-inch map shows the Branch tracks around the harbour (tracks top left lead to Arbroath station.)

 

Thanks

4 hours ago, DaveF said:

Five photos now from places beginning with A - Albrighton, Annesley and Arbroath harbour.

 

 

Albrighton Class 101 Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton April 71 J2586

 

 

 

Annesley LMSR 42184 Fairburn 2-6-4T Nottingham MIdland to Worksop April 64 J115

 

 

Annesley LMSR 42232 Fairburn 2-6-4T  Worksop to Nottingham Midland April 64 J116

 

 

Annesley 8F 48105 down empties April 64 J117

 

 

Arbroath harbour CR harbour branch in rain Aug 74 J3962

 

David

That looks like the RNLI Arbroath lifeboat in the rear of the photo , busy station.

Thank you for sharing your brilliant layout with us ,we have not seen many just lately thank you very much. 

Are you thinking of a Nissen hut?

Maybe they should have put candles underneath the wagons !!!!

I really enjoy seeing your modeling especially the figures and their faces they add another dimension to the very interesting locos etc  ,it must make modeling fun thanks for some very interesting modeling.

3 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

I am not amazed that you so enjoyed the surreality of operating Buckingham. I believe a few years ago, t-b-g brought part of the Denny empire to Railex, and that was certainly a day to remember. Even more implausibly, I think Crispin Denny, he who had been 'automated' by his father in an early '60s episode in RM, was an onlooker while I was there. 

 

I think Hamilton Ellis summed up such experiences in the final sentence of his history of the LBSCR:

 

"They may even sound Gladstone's whistle, so that the forgotten sound of a Brighton Fast will cry eerily out of time, like Pharaoh's trumpets." Operating Buckingham is of the same order of implausible magnitude. 

Yes I cant remember the year but it was good to see it and it ran very well must go to next Raillex  glad after my ten years its still going.

Always thought that this line to Oxford should have been kept open with some imaginative  services and timetabling the passengers would have travelled. The main service would have been Thame to       Risboro  and every other hour Oxford  also the oil trains could have been kept running plus this would have kept people off the roads.Thame has doubled in size and would offer many passengers who would have many reasons for using trains  but when they closed the lines to the south of Risboro all of the thoughts were to save money not providing a service to the public.At  least the line to Chinnor and beyond is still in place and when they have their own exit from Risboro in use next year costs will decrease and thoughts can turn to extending towards Watlington terminating at the A40 . Overall I think that more thought should have been given to  the future of these lines as they provide good connections to the rest of the UK but back in time a certain pair of idiots were in charge ,strikes me that a new approch is needed to transport now.