Cowley 47521 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 3 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Granton 1965 by Brian Flannigan What purposeful looking beast. I’m sure it always gets it’s train to the destination on time… Great photo. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardbealach Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 1 minute ago, Cowley 47521 said: What purposeful looking beast. I’m sure it always gets it’s train to the destination on time… Great photo. No sign of any exhaust. Is it actually moving? (Alisdair) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfish Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 23 hours ago, Nearholmer said: That paper is available on-line, but you have to pay for it, and I’m not that curious! I also found the link, but I wasn't that curios either. If the generator is axle driven the upper limit of the available energy must be set by the wheel loading and the friction between the wheel and the track. So the energy/heat to be dissipated must be in the same order as that from normal braking, but sustained rather than intermittent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 It’s easiest to think of each MTU as rather like a loco, but providing braking, rather than tractive, forces, here’s what Andrew’s says about the rating of the pair: “…….. called for an absorption of 51,500 lb. tractive effort between 10 and 22 m.p.h., and of 3,000 continuoushorsepower between 22 and 120m.p.h.” And, yes, in the same way that locomotive tractive and braking forces have to pass through the wheel-rail interface, so the forces applied by these animals had to do the same, but they weren’t spectacularly high forces in comparison with what had been achieved with electric traction well before that date, and which were by then becoming ordinary with diesel-electric traction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike_Walker Posted July 29, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2022 16 hours ago, ardbealach said: No sign of any exhaust. Is it actually moving? (Alisdair) Failed, awaiting rescue by a reliable kettle... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share Posted July 29, 2022 20 hours ago, Cowley 47521 said: What purposeful looking beast. I’m sure it always gets it’s train to the destination on time… Great photo. Yeah, by uncoupling and letting gravity take over. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share Posted July 29, 2022 Hide the numbers and it could be 15 years later. Manchester Victoria 1969 by KDH Archive 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 Muthill 1963 by Brian Flannigan 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 On the trail of the lonesome shunter (Denise no-mates) Quote Sentinel Shunter Denise at Crugwallins Clay Dries 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf27 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 On 27/07/2022 at 18:49, montyburns56 said: Does anyone know when these went full custard? 43001 1979 Derby by John Wooley I'm going to say late 77 early 78 for the full yellow end dip. Both PC’s were certainly running is as built livery during the early days of RTC/APT testing. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 31, 2022 Author Share Posted July 31, 2022 instruction saloon DS70155 Hither Green 1970 by Gordon Edgar 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 4 hours ago, montyburns56 said: instruction saloon DS70155 Hither Green 1970 by Gordon Edgar It looks very different in blue https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/srdepartmentalcoach/e1034b3 Apparently it still exists but it has been through some very rough times in the hands of the conservation movement. http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=521 https://www.departmentals.com/departmental/70155 Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 I remember it in the late 70s, but I don’t remember it going anywhere; I thought it was a static classroom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted August 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2022 Rare pic too for showing the 'tramway'-style catenary, meant for the 'Booster' and cl.71 locos 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 I don’t think the earlier locos went on the Eastern. is the ‘L’ sign for ‘lower pantograph’, and if not what is it for? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted August 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2022 Seems to be just that: https://www.railsigns.uk/sect18page1.html 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 1, 2022 Author Share Posted August 1, 2022 Derby Works 1959 by Geoff Dowling 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted August 2, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2022 Oil burning U class. Interesting in that it appears to have electric lights, and an oddly shaped oil lamp over the right hand buffer. 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 2, 2022 Author Share Posted August 2, 2022 Wolverton Works 1970 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 On 16/03/2022 at 13:18, Steven B said: May I present to you: The Future (Dudley Zoo, 1992): 15in gauge 4-car DEMU at Dudley Zoo. 1992. by Adrian Nicholls, on Flickr Steven B. Cheers for posting that! I've a picture somewhere of me and my sisters sat inside that railcar, on what must have been the last season of operation. I went back to Dudley last year and spent an afternoon trying to trace the route of the Dudley Zoo railway; the bit inside the Zoo is out of bounds (and the staff I spoke to had zero interest in the railway, with a quote to the effect of "there's no way we're re-opening it"). There's a fair bit of the trackbed in the woods though beyond the boundary fence, and even still some sleepers and cable-runs if you know where to look. I've got a rusted fishplate from it in my garden :) I gather that railcar survives, or at least it did until fairly recently, though in bad nick. I did consider doing a model of it for my Port Eden miniature railway project last year, but ran out of time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 3, 2022 Author Share Posted August 3, 2022 Coleford 1965 by Ray Viney 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 This is from a guy in the USA called “Jay” who I follow, I thought @t-b-g might be interested?! It does link to a very interesting album of photos showing short line railroading, American style. Cheers, John 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium younGGuns7 Posted August 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2022 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: Coleford 1965 by Ray Viney Modelu figure 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium t-b-g Posted August 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2022 45 minutes ago, Allegheny1600 said: This is from a guy in the USA called “Jay” who I follow, I thought @t-b-g might be interested?! It does link to a very interesting album of photos showing short line railroading, American style. Cheers, John I like that one! Shame it isn't Brunswick Green but that would be asking rather a lot! I may send a link to the Denny family. I am sure they will enjoy it too. Thanks for posting it. Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 15 minutes ago, younGGuns7 said: Modelu figure Can't be - he's got legs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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