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My Dad is a retired driver and I had many illicit cab rides over the years 08s, 47s, Cromptons, 73s, 56s, Schools Class, Spam cans etc 😀
Magic pics of the 374's brings back memories of running around in them doing pilotman working when the signalling system was down, one night I managed to fall asleep in the rear cab when travelling to get a crossover with a southbound on the nightshift, had to sprint down the platform and just made it as the south bound was pulling out, must have been shattered to fall asleep in one of them, noisy, bumpy things, wish they were back, at their best double headed on a ballast, magic!!
Looked back into my pix... 11 May 2006 I took that and if your right its 37425 and is Concrete Bob. Here is a better pic.
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It's 37425. [i]It's Concrete Bob[/i]! [i][b]IT'S AWESOME[/b][/i]!
Red, you just made my day. I'm going to have a beer now and celebrate 🙂
Get a room you two. Or perhaps an engine shed.
Theres just something about a class 37 or 40 that makes you all excited.
Deltics have got inner beauty too. (The clue's in the name)
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And, if I may be excused a little smugness;
I can see the Severn Valley Railway from my house.
In the summer I race the trains on my commute. 😀
Kuco & LycraLout - nice one guys 🙂
Harry_the_Spider - MemberGet a room you two. Or perhaps an engine shed.
What's your favourite shed? Mine's [url=
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favourite shed = croesnewydd, wrecsam
LycraLout, Tornado's going nowhere at the moment, major issues with cracking in its boiler (currently in Germany getting mended)
What about these then?
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MTG did you know the Deltic engine is based on an opposed piston design by Junkers who couldn't syncronise the piston, until someone in Britain suggested one crank should turn anticlockwise? And some Deltic engines are still in use in Navy Hunt class vessels?
I loved the 40's as a kid - remember trying to get to sleep listening to them whistling through Newton Heath shed.
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My dad used to take me to Victoria and Piccadilly stations as well when I was very young, just to look at the loco's.
Funny, I love steam engines, but old diesels just do it for me, more personal somehow.
Very environmentally friendly too: 🙂
Like these as well, but living in the North West we never saw them:
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No one got any lovely Gresleys I can drool over?! 8)
Big Yin the scotish blue trains, and the scotrail push pull 47,s if im not mistaken.
Rusty Spaner the diesel hydraulic warships, the westerns where better, in the western region, used them a lot around stroud.
Oh and lets mention the Hymeks, and baby deltics.
Anything with a Sulzer 6LDA for me please (or an 8 or a 12)
They've got a Warship at Bury Transport Museum IIRC
Theres a couple of warships that survived, other one is on the West Somerset railway IIRC.
THere was one parked outside Swindon works, and when it was anounced the works was to close it got up rather quickly.
Loving the tags 😉
Harry, when we cycle to Bury from Sue's I always make sure we go past the East Lancs shed near St Gabriel's 🙂
I'm like a kid again looking through that fence.......
I prefer the Warship to the Western, purely because I've got one of the Mainline 00 models boxed up in the loft, amongst other things.
Off the top of my head, there's a Lima Deltic, an Airfix 31, a Hornby 29, a GWR railcar and a couple of steam loco's that my dad bought.
Quite fancy a nice DMU set as well TBH.
We're getting a new house soon. No point in telling her about my plans for the layout just yet, she'd only fret 😀
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Trying to get its knee down in the corners...
I grew up loving the Class 50 myself. Can't be beaten in Network South East livery - though having just googled it it now looks really quite dated.
Close second would be the original 4 Class 59's for Foster Yeoman that ran between was it Minehead and somewhere near Acton?
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Oh go on then - a bit of bodge on the South Tynedale Railway.
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Some kit and a shed - Churnet Valley Railway
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How about a modern 'Ugly Betty' !!
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Theres one short in the class after it was dropped off the crane in Newport Docks.
Anyone going from Manchester to the Brownbacks races at Lee quarry, bacup, the East Lancs railway runs nearby, look out for the steam trains, also why not visit Rawtenstall railway station, and watch the old trains still performing, great chippy just up from the station.
Pure heaven for a day out.
how's about
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scottish model engineering trust at wester pickston near perth - a bunch of big kids with the coolest train set
AT, the new class 70,for Freightliner, and one did get bent, it fell 20 feet back into the ship.
Good picture in Rail magazine of it being slightly buckled.
I've just gone all misty-eyed at the Warship pic. My junior school was next to the embankment carrying the London-Bristol mainline out of Chippenham, so used to see them all the time. Much preferred them to Hymeks. Saw a Deltic go through once, which was exciting to an eight or nine year-old. A schoolmate's dad drove a shunter around Chippenham marshalling yard, originally an 0-6-0 Pannier tank, later a diesel. Often managed to get rides around the yard on the footplate, which was great fun. The diesel was clean, but the tanky was the best:
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Never saw a double-header like this, though. Used to love seeing the Hall, Castle and King steam locos go through, though; sheer magic.
Ridden on this a couple of times - the kit on board is unbelievable...
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Mull miniture railway.
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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.Posted 26 minutes ago # Report-Post
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.