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Ooh! can we have a Tube train PLEEEEEEASSE???

Thanks! 🙂

I remember riding on these, when I was a kid. In the 'smoking' carriages, you could barely see the other end of the carriage through the haze. They were lovely old trains these. Such a shame they're all gone now. 😥

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Back when I used to haunt Chippenham station with my Ian Allen train spotter's guide, there was always that frisson of excitement when we heard a steam whistle and saw a plume of smoke coming towards the station. Hall? Castle? King? Even better, [i]Evening Star[/i] or one of her sisters? No, more often than not it was this:

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Imagine the disappointment. (And this is the exact loco, in 1964. Thank you Internet!)

India likes trainings more than you likes trainings

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+1 for 4-6-2 Pacifics, particularly in latter LNER.

I'll see your Pacific and raise you this:

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9F 2-10-0 [i]Evening Star[/i], the last steam loco to come out of Swindon railway works.

elfin, they do still exist. Theres a restored set somewhere in that london and theres about 6 refurbished sets still scooting about here on the isle of wight.

The thing that bugs me about trains is just how under-utilised the track is. I live half a mile from the west coast line and half a mile from the M6. On a Monday or Friday rush hour, I cross the M6 and the number of passengers/hour passing the bridge is huge. Going over the railway bridge and the line (and Stafford station) is virtually deserted.

What's more, train lines take people to where they want to be (town centres) unlike airports and motorways which terminate way outside.

Rip up the track, tarmac them and make them available to cars and freight which have automated speed, steering and distance sensors so they will automatically travel in convoy until you reach your destination. Although, how you wake the driver up when you get there is another matter.

The thing that bugs me about trains is just how under-utilised the track is.

train lines take people to where they want to be (town centres)

Rip up the track, tarmac them and make them available to cars and freight which have automated speed, steering and distance sensors so they will automatically travel in convoy until you reach your destination

Or use the trains more, since they already do just that ? 🙄

Anyway, I'd just like to re-iterate how fantastic it is that someone posted a pic of my fave loco, 37425 Concrete Bob. It's ossum.

BigJohn - Member
The thing that bugs me about trains is just how under-utilised the track is. I live half a mile from the west coast line and half a mile from the M6. On a Monday or Friday rush hour, I cross the M6 and the number of passengers/hour passing the bridge is huge. Going over the railway bridge and the line (and Stafford station) is virtually deserted.Rip up the track, tarmac them and make them available to cars and freight which have automated speed, steering and distance sensors so they will automatically travel in convoy until you reach your destination. Although, how you wake the driver up when you get there is another matter.

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I think youll find thats the concept of a train, but with just one driver.

Elfinsafety, the Isle of White still use ex london transport tube stock painted up as dinosaurs for some reason.

No dinosaurs now project. All in LT red / grey now.

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Best thread ever.

9F 2-10-0 Evening Star, the last steam loco to come out of Swindon railway works

I still love the sound of an Intercity 125 mind - particularly when you've just got off at Darlington and it reverberates around the station as it heads off north - I'm always disappointed when my train home from London turns out to be a 225!

That cold start video is awe... wait for it... some!

Quite amazed by this thread.

There is undoubtedly an enduring fascination with trains and railways, yet the "trainspotter" tag is always trotted out. There is almost a reverse psychology here - the media stereotype as a defence mechanism for a wider public that share a level of interest?

Intercity 125? Blimey that's going back a bit as is your reference to 225.
I worked on the class 90 and 91 locos and DVTs back in 1988. They were
Very advanced for the time. One of the first to utilise high power (600 amp) IGBTs.
Hang on - I sound like a geek - soz.

Gratz to Rusty for getting Blyth Power on this thread, first page too, well done sir!

I have a week of ICE and RE's and S-Bahns and U-Bahns coming up.. you may think it's a stereotype, but I know every morning in Koln Hauptbahnhoff, @ 07:57 exactly my ride will be there. It still makes me slightly giddy with joy, public transport that does just that.

While I was working at BREL in Crewe, they ran a deltic without it's exhaust/silencer system. Krakatoa.

I also recall a Great Escape moment. I was working underneath a Class 91 loco, installing a new doppler unit when the loco began to move. I managed to roll out before being hit by underslung equipment. The shunter had locked on and was moving the loco to the 25kV test pen. I pooped myself - but it was my fault as I'd not flagged the vehicle.

Here's a 91 in its original Intercity livery.

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When did you work in Crewe, Derek? I was there 95-98, up in Rail House

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Wunun... no?

Bastid.

WUNUNDREDANWUN! 😀

Old-type 'padded cell' tube train:

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Can you imagine? Not a place for the claustrophobic.

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Snow Plough at the calgary Heritage Park, it's bloomin massive!

This is 6 miles from where I work, why have I never been???

[url= http://www.coloradorailroadmuseum.org/ ]http://www.coloradorailroadmuseum.org/[/url]

Not much planned for this weekend... hmmmmm.

nbt - I didn't work for BREL, I worked for GEC Alstom Traction who manufactured the propulsion and control systems for the Class 90s and 91s. I was at Crewe for 3 months working on sequence testing and commissioning. It was a great time - back in 1988 I think. I was a young spunker then!

Isn't the rail network operating at capacity?

Intercity 125? Blimey that's going back a bit as is your reference to 225

Fill your boots sing1etrack

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Full circle! It was the Hornby thread that got me thinking about trains!.. and the dodgy toilets thread that got me thinking about foreign ones.

Got to give a shout out for the Class 43. This bad boy revolutionised our rail transport system and gave us fast, comfortable and dare I say reliable service between the UK's cities.

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197 of these were built.

Exeter St David's???

Used to walk / ride / drive past that photo for years. Remember when the building in the picture burnt down!

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When I worked at the Diesel Depot.

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Duchess Class

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For me its the sound of the Hull Pullman Deltic in Goole station at 07:19, top sound.

And been on a very early HST and the chap opposite stop-watching us at 130mph!

Another GWR loco, the beautiful, iconic [i]King George V[/i]
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To see her hauling a passenger train at speed was the biggest thrill it was possible to have as a youngster. The bell on her fender was presented in 1927 when she was taken to the USA. The inscription reads:
“Presented to
Locomotive King George V
by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
in commemoration of its
centenary celebration
Sept 24th - Oct 15th 1927”

I didn't realise there was so much interest in trains on STW.
That's next week's photo challenge sorted then. 😉

Does anyone remember this thread ?
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/forum-ride-severn-valley-industrial-history
I'd still be up for leading this and calling in at every station on the SVR if anyone's interested.

Shall I do a Special Train Station Edition of the new-type Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread next week then? 🙂

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Does a little clap.

does a little wee

camera's on charge, then 😉

Elfin,

Hold off on that A&A thread...

the scaffolding has started coming down on Paddington's fourth arch - the north side of the station is about to see daylight for the first time in 15-20 years. Wait a couple of months to see it at it's best.

I bet the new refurbished arch leaks less than the rest of it...

When I went to Canadia I stayed with a guy who was a Freightman with CP Rail in Medicine Hat, we went to see where he worked from...

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Some of the trains he hauled were 1 1/2 miles long & had come all the way across Canada.

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this is my favourite train 🙂

Soviet Nuclear armed train carriage. Now residing in St. Petersburg train museum. No wonder the west was a little nervous back in the day.

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keppoch.

Would love to have a go at working those huge North American Freights. Bit better than a clapped out 142!

I'd like to work that more though!!!!

I feel very privileged to have seen the Post Office underground railway, or 'Mail Rail', which ran from Paddington to Whitechapel, via Mount Pleasant. Closed down in 2003. Relatively very few people have actually seen this railway, which was the first and oldest driverless rail system in't World, I understand.

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In my gricing days I went all the way to Switzerland to find one of these lovely old things, the enigmatic Krokodile.
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Some of the trains he hauled were 1 1/2 miles long & had come all the way across Canada.

First time we went skiing at Whistler, we had to wait at a level crossing. We asked the driver why he'd stopped the engine. As the train came past ... and kept coming past ... and kept coming past ... and kept coming past we understood. Must have been there for 15 minutes in total as it wasn't moving very fast and it was *veeeery* long

Similar to here in Oz I think - something like 4 engines up front and they just come and come and come....

What I wouldn't give to have four engines up front...

...oh, sorry, is that my coat?

great thread 🙂

difference between the class 37 and 40?

dont think ive seen a mention of the class 47's yet.

Me @ 7 🙂

My real train set, at my dads works.

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My da 🙂

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Anyone remember these in Orange an White ICI colours? [looking for pic]
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They used to pull up by my house and the drivers went to the pub 😉 Health & Safety did'nt exist in the 70's

This is when ripped the line up outside my house 🙁

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Blower - Member
great thread

difference between the class 37 and 40?

dont think ive seen a mention of the class 47's yet.

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Diffeent sound , the 40m was heavier, and more for express setrvices.

The Brush 47 where just general dogs bodies, did everything, but the Virgin Thunderbirds (47`s got rebuilt as thunderbird locos to be used incase the pendolinos broke down) look quite cool, new cooler group radiators and couplers on the front, and a decent colour scheme.oh and they wher named after Gerry Andersons Thunderbirds.

A picture I took at the Bath Road Diesel Depot...:-(

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I was last to leave 🙁

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Wahayy...some right trainspotters on here!
One story Brad (the guy who works on CP Rail) told me was when a train load of stuff was coming from the East coast of Canada to Calgary, loaded with all kinds of stuff including some explosives for the British Army base at Suffield (BATUS) Turns out the brakes on the truck with the explosives on was faulty & the brakes were binding & jamming the wheels every so often. Causing lots & lots of sparks!
(yes I know you need detonators but it makes a good story!)

My brothers a bodybuilder at Wolverton rail works. I remember going their as a kid when it was still British Rail on an open day couldn't get over the size of the place. He says it's nowhere near as big now days 🙁

aye the 47's seemed to be used alot.

the 37's had the look,

project you know your stuff!

Someone asked about gresleys: there are a few at the great central railway between Loughborough and Leicester.
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absolutely bonkers engineering in impossibly steep terrain. And it runs all winter:
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And now there are new comfy modern ones, it woiuld seem:
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You lot may knock the Renfe stuff for it's looks in Spain, but they are great - 320km/h while drinking complementary baso de vino tinto 😀 :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

I'm [i]so[/i] loving this thread. 😀

[i]difference between the class 37 and 40?[/i]

The 37's just worked...

Many years ago I went on a tour of the Doncaster Works - I love engineering.

I had to go and look what a class 47 Thunderbird looked like.

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Next week's thread -[b] planes[/b]

trains are crap, awful, and expensive.

only slightly less rubbish than buses, but much more expensive.

H-t-S - That's before the dellner couplers where fitted, and possibly before the exhaust velocity was increased so that carbon dioxide didn't drift out of the top of the loco and directly into the Pendolino air conditioning intake.......

ahwiles - is that a road over rail bridge you live under?

For those that are interested, the "47" thunderbirds are actually 57's. Also nicknamed bodysnatchers as essentially they are 47 bodyshells and bogies, evertyhing else has been replaced.
They are currently in use with Virgin, Arriva, First Great Western , West Coast Railway Company and DRS. IIRC 34 in total.

Lovin' this thread.

I heartily appreciate the effort train spotters put in so that when I want to find out astonishingly geeky details about trains, it's all there for me on wikipedia, though I would vehemently deny being a train geek 😉

Also: have a strange OCD habit of HAVING to count the number of cars being hauled by freight trains...

bigyinn - Member
For those that are interested, the "47" thunderbirds are actually 57's. Also nicknamed bodysnatchers as essentially they are 47 bodyshells and bogies, evertyhing else has been replaced.
They are currently in use with Virgin, Arriva, First Great Western , West Coast Railway Company and DRS. IIRC 34 in total.

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But to us rail enthusiasts, they will always be class 47 or type 4, s, because they where born that way after they changed to the tops code 47 from the 1600 series..

Another more serious point, why do preserved railways charge so much, went to a really well run one today, they wanted £14, per adult, £12 per
child and children under 3 go free.

I went and took pictures, and departed, to pricey for me.

trains are crap, awful, and expensive.
only slightly less rubbish than buses, but much more expensive.

count the number of cars being hauled by freight trains...

[b][i]goods[/i][/b] train man, you're not a merkin!

project - Member

bigyinn - Member
For those that are interested, the "47" thunderbirds are actually 57's. Also nicknamed bodysnatchers as essentially they are 47 bodyshells and bogies, evertyhing else has been replaced.
They are currently in use with Virgin, Arriva, First Great Western , West Coast Railway Company and DRS. IIRC 34 in total.

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But to us rail enthusiasts, they will always be class 47 or type 4, s, because they where born that way after they changed to the tops code 47 from the 1600 series..

[b]CountZero [/b] :
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This looks like a very capable loco.

Russian freight fleet from French train builders Alstom.

Grabbed my camera and took a pleasant Sunday morning stroll around the Colorado Railway Museum.

EMD F9 Diesel Electric 1750hp Built 1955
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317 ton Burlington locomotive Built 1940 (really massive)
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Rotary Snow Plow Built 1935
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Built 1890
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SW8 Diesel Electric Switch Engine Built 1938 Sold to Coors Brewery in 1981
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Built 1880 in Philadelphia
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This is a baby over here - not something you want to see coming when you're in a rush at a level crossing...

Jeeze! Imagine a locked axle on that (and doing a rotational test)! And no tail light!

These engines are making mine look kinda crap.

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Looking at those enormous shunters, I've just tried to find a photo of the little diesel shunter my schoolmate's dad drove, and this is the only one I can find of a real engine, most are models:
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