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Best thread ever.
I've had a soft spot for Evening Star ever since I saw it (her?) when I was about 7 or 8 - there's a photo somewhere of me standing by the footplate looking scared!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???
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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
This may have been what they were called in the Hornby catalogue of that era! - I had the 125 set but never got a 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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great threaddifference 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.