[b]Trains[/b] this week.
Ideally, you want a picture of your bike with a train in the background.
I know that could be very difficult for some people, so, make it anything railway related if that makes it easier.
A reminder of the rules.
You can interpret the theme as loosely as you want. A Hornby train or a distant railway viaduct is fine, but the idea is to get you out on your bike riding somewhere different for a change, not to search through your My Pictures folder. The picture must be taken this week, up to midnight on Sunday.
That's this weeks night ride route planned then...
Today
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Thread anticipation and taken on Sunday.... [Rule Breach...Kill Me Now] 😉
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I win first proper post !
No it aint. I have a railway track in the first pic 🙂 I couldn't be arsed to weight for one to come along.
Doh, ok 🙁
Thats an impressive bridge in the background ( behind your track :-))Mine was taken at the Crewe Heritage Centre, just a minor detour on the way home.
I'll try harder next time!
No probs.. It's only fun.
The bridge is the Second Severn Crossing and footpath [cough cheeky trail] crosses the track.
I've had a couple of close call s on that track, the trains sneak up on you 🙁
I might be in with a chance of first post if the subject was Luxury car makers ! 😛
Best commute of the year so far! Actual daylight by the end which was a novelty 😀
Overlooking Hatton Station for those that care... Missed a passing train by seconds.. dam! 🙂
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Will try to find something better but here's my pic very loosely based on the theme!
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It's on a converted old railway line called Brampton Valley Way and this bit used to be a crossing. I think there are some bridges further along but it was quite muddy so will revisit on my mtb!
Kept missing the trains, so just railways here:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbhaf/5489460168/ ]The next stop is Kinghorn[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cbhaf/ ]Michael (ffcnimmo)[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbhaf/5488864009/ ]The next stop is Burntisland[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cbhaf/ ]Michael (ffcnimmo)[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbhaf/5488864241/ ]The next stop is Aberdour[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cbhaf/ ]Michael (ffcnimmo)[/url], on Flickr
Risked life and limb and stopped on a busy roundabout to get these on my way to work 😉 - Darlington has a bit of history with trains . . . . .
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No trains but bikes at Skipton train station for the start of our 2 day ride from Kirkby Stephen back to Skipton
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Skipton station... that's so quaint 🙂
@ redthunder
Big bike or little train
Well it is a Giant 🙄
Got some full size trains on todays ride 😉
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click pic's for a few more
To this on my phone as a point and shoot aaaargh take a picture moment, I was intending to get the front of the train, but the shutter delay was that bad I completely missed. No bikes though sorry 😳
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As the next train came as we were half way round the monkey trail, it's a good reason why you've only got the midlands most famous mtb rail crossing, but no train (surprised it's not been up already).
Done these small, so we fit on the page 
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Video Next to bore you all with.
too easy, i have a mainline at the bottom of my garden,....hmm i'm gonna have to get creative
Ahhh the APT graham Jones, not 2 mile from where I live 😀
I live opposite a station. Sometimes geometry trains come in... scoop pix 🙂 I'm sure you see them all the time 🙂
The Movie...
The Movie... The train in in slow motion. The 66' s have a unique engine tone, all day outside of the Diesel Depot they were.
muddy bike on a clean train
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I get them EWS trains too, take about 5 minutes to pass they are so long, spooky at night as they are not lit like the passenger coaches
@ John Rowlands.
Also about 2 miles from where I live!Towards Maw Green/ Duck pond area. 🙂
and another...
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Graham Jones: Not far from you, literally the other side of sydney bridge. 😀
Dumfries railway station;
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Took that and these on my way out to Mabie.
The signal and bridge are on the old "Paddy Line" which ran from Dumfries to Stranraer where people got the ferry to Ireland. The bed of the old railway is now the Caledonian Cyle Way, part of a Sustrans route passing through the D&G.[url= http://www.gosmartdumfries.co.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4163 ]cycle way info[/url]
[url= http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=3696&cid=83546591 ]Info. Used to service the Directors car way back a bit............and drink in his bars, really nice hotel now a Waterstones[/url]
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This is a bridge over the river Nith, trains from Glasgow and the North travel over this.
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Picked this up on the way home after having ripped the tyre and fitted a new tube 👿 Farmers cutting hedges 😈
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Nice shots of the 66s!
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distinct lack of trains in some of these photos...
unfortunately I think there be a distinct lack of photo's in this thread, if we'd stuck to purely train's
no time to be creative so at the end of today's ride i popped to the bottom of my garden
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YOu got all that at the end of your garden... and you missed the front of the train or back 😉
I always liked the old BR wagons 😉
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For the gricer... whats does XP mean ?
XP=Express Passenger. It means the goods wagons are rated for high speed use and can be tagged on the back of an express train.
Oh, and shouldn't there be a bike in the picture. 😕
A quick ride in to Bewdley and back via Arley to get some pictures of the Severn Valley Railway. No trains running today.
For anyone who knows the railway line, which is now a Sustrans Route, through the Wyre Forest, this is all that remains of the bridge that used to carry it across the Severn where it joined what is now the SVR.
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Goods wagons at Bewdley station. There's some major track repairs going on at the moment, so nothing has moved here for weeks.
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Level crossing North of Bewdley.
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Getting a bit dark by the time I got to Victoria Bridge which carries the SVR over the River Severn.
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@midland
see previous post. There is a bike 😉 Thanks for the XP info, I never knew that 🙂
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A suggestion for the next assignment... Boats and Ships 🙂 as per country file .
A few from today. The bottom two are about 5 minutes after the rest. 🙂
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I was going to ask for suggestions for next week's theme.
Boats and ships sounds good to me. Is everyone else happy with that ?
Does to me 😀 easy peasy! (he says from the seaside)
Next week's challenge here in case it drops off page one and you miss it.
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/weekly-photo-challenge-7311-13311-boats-ships
A view from my office today on the Forth Brig.
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Well I had 9 1/2 hours to kill stuck on a bridge.
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Very rare to see a view of this plaque.
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What do I win.?
nowt, there's no bicycle in any of the pics, did you take your hand off the DMH to take the first one?
Stopped innit. Take a folding bike with you next time, can qualify then, and have sommat to do for 9.5 hours, win win!
But I had cycling clips round my trousers whilst taking them . 😀
Why were you stuck for so long?
It was a engineering job as they were relaying new points and sleepers at Dalmeny Station so the line was closed from Friday night to Monday morning.