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Good moaning from a cool but bright Charente.  It was also warm and sunny in Messina on 9th July 2011.  I took the tram along to the Railway station at the other end of town. Here one of the large shunters was in the station with an Idler flat attached.

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An E633 was in the station ready to head east.

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And just outside the station was a loco depot with some rather old looking stock in it.  This looked like a diesel of some kind but was it a loco or a DMU.  I've no idea. Possibly a DMU converted for works train use.

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Several locos were parked up.

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This loco in Green looked interesting.

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However at the other end of the station something very interesting was happening.  The shunter was unloading a passenger train from a train ferry,

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The brown vehicle is a diesel railcar, ALn 990.1005. It's the last surviving ALn 990 after the other preserved one was destroyed by fire a few years ago. It's currently at Palermo being restored, slowly, by Treno Doc. Most recent photo I can find is of it under a tarpaulin in 2019.

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Good morning from the Charente.  In tardis land though it's still the 9th of July 2011 and we are in Messina, on Sicily. At the train ferry berth, no one seemed too bothered about security and I was allowed to wander right down to the link span. In sign language, as I don't speak Italian and half remembered O level Latin doesn't work, I asked if I could go onto the ship and the link span operator waved me aboard.  This was the first few coaches being pulled off by the shunter that I'd seen.

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Each track, of four held 3 coaches and after each cut had been pulled off, the train reversed onto the next set and was then coupled up.  The two outer ones first I think then the two inner ones.

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Passengers were all still aboard.

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There were only points between the two inner tracks onboard the ship. but the three tracks were all interlaced with the interesting pointwork being on the link span.

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The last cut of coaches departed.

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This was the view looking back into the ship. The track layout becomes clearer.

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All in all a fascinating experience.   However we were only in port till just after lunch so it was time to head back to the ship.   Here is the tram that I caught coming into the stop outside the station.

 

And that's it for 2011 and Italy.  Time to put some fuel in the tardis and head off to pastures new.

 

Jamie  

 

 

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Interesting but different from Harwich. There the ferries also had four tracks but the only pointwork on the ship was to connect the inside and outside tracks, each side was not connected to the other. There were two tracks on the linkspan and two shunters were used side by side to unload and running parallel so as to keep the vessel balanced.

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12 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Interesting but different from Harwich. There the ferries also had four tracks but the only pointwork on the ship was to connect the inside and outside tracks, each side was not connected to the other. There were two tracks on the linkspan and two shunters were used side by side to unload and running parallel so as to keep the vessel balanced.

I have a memory that the Harwich linkspan was the one the was built at Richborough for the army in WW1 then was bought by the LNER.  The military ferries must have had that arrangement so they just carried on. I think that Dover used the same system.  I once came home from Zeebrugge to Harwich and IIRC the ferry was the Twickenham Ferry and still had the rails in the deck.

 

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Good moaning from a chilly but bright Charente.  The tardis has now jumped forward 3 years to 2014.  2012's big trip was in the USA and in 2013 we first went to The Charente which led to our move here.  The railway aspects of those trips are in their respective threads.  However in 2014 we went back to the Algarve, to the fishing port of Quitera. This was our second trip to the town but this time we had a hire car so I was able to roam around a bit.  I discovered that there we a station at Loule about 10 miles north. This was on the Lisbon to Faro line and so on 18th September I headed there.  This nice Electric was parked up there. This was a Siemens built Bo Bo.

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And a DMU came in from the faro direction, heading towards Lagos. Locally built by Sorefame in the mid 60's.

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This then headed west past the parked up loco.

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The loco had obviously been visited by 'artists' somewhere.

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Observations there showed me that the locos were allocated to the freight sector and each night a trainload of aviation fuel is brought down to Loule to supply Faro airport.  The loco sits in the sun then takes the empties back that evening.  The fuel is in tank tainers and two lorries spend all day shuttling the tank tainers between Loule and the airport.

Then one of the Alpha Pendulars, that operate some of the services to Lisbon and beyond came in from the north.

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That didn't wait long and headed on towards Faro.

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We were in the Faro area pre electrification in 2000 with friends for a couple of days. The plan was to go to Lagos and back but we found a nice table on the platform at Tunes so stayed there drinking local beer whilst watching and photgraphing the passing locos.

My other half is standing on the platform by our bags as the rest of us wandered off ot take photos.

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, roundhouse said:

We were in the Faro area pre electrification in 2000 with friends for a couple of days. The plan was to go to Lagos and back but we found a nice table on the platform at Tunes so stayede there drinking local beer whilst watching and photgraphing the passing locos.

My other half is standing on the platform by our bags as the rest of us wandered off ot take photos.

 

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CP class 1400 built by English Electric, basically a class 20.

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Bon apres midi from the Charente to one and all.  We are back but without my last photos.  It looks as if the photo loss could go back to the start of 2020, in which case all the several thousand images that I've uploaded, of UK, French and American railways have been lost to RMWeb for the moment.  However the list of images is still there in my profile together with the file names in the posts so I may be able to repopulate some of them.  

 

Before the great interruption I had just got to Portugal in 2014.   Whilst we've been offline I've discovered my images from a visit in 2010 so the tardis will be jumping back to 2010 to cover that visit.  Anyway here goes. We are in Loule on th 6th July 2010 and as usual a Siemens loco, No 4706, was basking in the morning sun having brought the loaded fuel tankers in.

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However I had been given a pass out for the day by the boss and was waiting for this Alpha Pendular to wick me north to Lisbon and beyond.  It had come from Faro.

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I ;liked these displays inside the coach.

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in about 2 hours we were crossing the huge bridge across the Tagus with the giant cross on the hillside above.

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I got off at the fabulous Lisbon Oriente station where 5611 was waiting to head south.

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All being well more tomorrow.

 

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Good moaning from a frosty but sunny Charente.  Fortunately, as mentioned above it's still sunny and warm where the tardis is.  At the moment it's on Oriente station is Lisbon on 6th  July 2010.  Here is the view looking south with an 8 car set of 2 EMU's working in.

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Another unit was waiting to head out to the south.

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The architecture is stunning and my widest angle lens didn't really do it justice.

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It is even on the freight route through Lisbon with a 47XX heading through.

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Here a 1984 built 3 car unit arrives. 

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My ticket was to Entroncamento, north of Lisbon so I caught the next train and on the way, but still in the Tagus Valley, quite near to Torres Vedras, (Memories of my history lessons) these was in a siding.   I believe that there was a preserved steam loco in the shed there.

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I've looked back re the missing pictures.   It appears that everything up to June 2021 is there but that still leaves me with over 2000 images to upload.   The pictures run out somewhere on my American trip in 1978.

 

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Just as info for anyone who wants to reload photos, I've just experimented on a few from early March this year.  Perhaps this may help anyone with nothing else to amuse them in life. 

 

1.In the posts with missing pictures the links to the photos are still embedded.

 

2.  Click on edit and the post appears with blank frames below where the image thumbnails should be.

 

3.  The upload pictures link seems to be missing but if you click on the area where it says drag and drop the source file opens up.

 

4.  Reload the missing files as normal and they are inserted as thumbnails below the empty frames.

 

5. DON'T delete the empty frames yet.

 

6. Go to the link in the text for the photo you want to insert and click on it so that it's highlighted.

 

7.  Then click on the newly uploaded image.  It's then inserted in the correct place and the text link is covered up.

 

8.   Repeat till all photos are loaded.

 

9.  When all done delete the empty frames.

 

If you delete the empty frames first you need to work out where in your text each photo needs to go.

 

Sorry if this comes over as a bit Janet and John but it is meant to be helpful.

 

Onwards and upwards.  Now I'm off out to buy some more chicken feed.

 

Jamie

 

 

 

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Good moaning from a rather chilly (-1 ) Charnte.   However it was definitely warmer in Portugal on 6th July 2010. The tardis is now in Entrocamento where a Takargo class 20 was doing some shunting.  Lovely to see these locos working.

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Alongside the platform was the national railway museum.  Unfortunately I didn't have time to get round.

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I was on the next train south and as we left we passed the large works with this class 50 close sitting outside.

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I w.as straight onto the Metro

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Then got a ferry across the Tagus.

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More tomorrow.

 

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Interesting to see diesels and one of the Estoril electrics in the museum roundhouse - I guess that the  former workshops (where they are now displayed) was still being prepared.  The "class 50" is most likely 1805, which along with electric 2501 (to the left of your photo) are both in the museum workshops awaiting attention.

 

There are still a few of the "class 20" look-alikes (1400 series) in operation.  For CP they work a few passenger turns in the Douro valley, as well as freight/shunting for Medway and Takargo (only the latter re-liveried). 

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Some of the CP 1400's "escaped" to Argentina in the early 2000's ,  though whether any are still in working order there is a good question.......

 

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They also bought some CP 1200-s......

 

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along with hauled coaching stock and some EMU's, such as this one on a Roca Line working to Claypole via Temperley out of Constitucion station in Buenos Aires.....

 

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Note the unit still has the CP logo attached to the bodyside!

 

1410 is one of the original English Electric built locos, not the only EE built products I was to see on my trips there.......

 

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24 minutes ago, Johann Marsbar said:

Some of the CP 1400's "escaped" to Argentina in the early 2000's ,  though whether any are still in working order there is a good question.......

 

7-1727a

 

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7-1867a

 

They also bought some CP 1200-s......

 

7-1942a

 

along with hauled coaching stock and some EMU's, such as this one on a Roca Line working to Claypole via Temperley out of Constitucion station in Buenos Aires.....

 

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Note the unit still has the CP logo attached to the bodyside!

 

1410 is one of the original English Electric built locos, not the only EE built products I was to see on my trips there.......

 

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There was an article in Todays Railways Europe not long ago about the ex CP 1400's in Argentina.  I can't remember the issue but will have a look for it.   

 

59 minutes ago, EddieB said:

Interesting to see diesels and one of the Estoril electrics in the museum roundhouse - I guess that the  former workshops (where they are now displayed) was still being prepared.  The "class 50" is most likely 1805, which along with electric 2501 (to the left of your photo) are both in the museum workshops awaiting attention.

 

There are still a few of the "class 20" look-alikes (1400 series) in operation.  For CP they work a few passenger turns in the Douro valley, as well as freight/shunting for Medway and Takargo (only the latter re-liveried). 

These photos were from my 2010 trip.   There are more to come and some telephoto shots of the museum in my 2014 shots.

 

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Good moaning from a bright, sunny but very chilly Charente.  The tardis though is still in warm and sunny Lisbon on 6th July 2010.  After a very quick look at Barreiro station on the east bank it was back across the river and into the lovely square with even more beautiful vintage trams running across it.

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I had been instructed by y tram friends in the UK that I HAD to ride them so duly obliged.

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This was a typical street scene.

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Then into the steep and twisty streets.  All adhesion worked.

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Not a good photo but great atmosphere.

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And some almost impossibly tight turns.

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Well worth the ride.

 

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3 hours ago, Re6/6 said:

Lovely pictures as ever Jamie!

 

It's interesting to see that they use pans on the 'main streets' but trolley poles on the hilly and narrow bits!

I'll have to ask my tram friends about that. It probably allows them to have the supports and pull offs spaced a bit wider apart on the trolley pole section.

 

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7 hours ago, Re6/6 said:

Lovely pictures as ever Jamie!

 

It's interesting to see that they use pans on the 'main streets' but trolley poles on the hilly and narrow bits!

 

3 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

I'll have to ask my tram friends about that. It probably allows them to have the supports and pull offs spaced a bit wider apart on the trolley pole section.

 

Jamie

Pantographs probably are unable to be used where there are sudden changes of incline or direction. A trolley pole is more flexible in that situation.

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Good moaning from a rather chilly but bright and sunny Charente.  The tardis though is still in Lisbon on 6th July 2010. A few more of route 28 on the tramway.

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Including interlaced track.

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And after yesterdays comments a good shot of a trolley pole.  They could certainly work to much greater distances from track centre than pantographs.

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Then back on the Metro.

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And into Sant Appalonia station where this rather nice French built electric was waiting in line.

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All too soon it was time to get the train home so a final view of the docks area from the Tagus bridge.

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On the way back though there was a lot of work ongoing to double the main line as far as the turn off to the port at Sines.  This 1400 was in contractors service.

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