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I know more than is heathly about the engineering of the Shinkansen wheel bearings and bearing housings.....

Is it good news knowledge or bad news knowledge?

MAGLEV!

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This is Thalys - the Belgian version of the TGV.

And the Itain Freccia Rossa - Red Arrow

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Cougar, that's a lightweight waterproof by Marmot, and is a cool thing 🙂

Oh dear - the Spanish have dropped a bollock with this minger.

The AVE

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Cougar - sod off lad - trains are awesome.

Never mind that modern rubbish. I've got shares in this one 😉

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Cougar - sod off lad - trains are awesome.

I'm only pulling your leg(*). Some of them are pretty funky, though it's not really my thing.

(* - Thought you might've spotted that)

Wow! Look at what the Russians have been up to.

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They look like Shuron glasses too - US made, quality frames.

All I know about trains is that I pay over 3K a year for my commute and the (non)service courtesy of Southeastern...

Woof Woof!

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Wow! Look at what the Russians have been up to.

Ok, that's cool.

I particularly like the nose laser.

No Harry, ALL of them are mint!

Dead Deltic:

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When I rule the world, someone, somewhere will pay for their destruction. 👿

Nice flask Cougar - tea, coffee or Hot Vimto? 🙂

Isn't weak lemon drink traditional?

Rusty Spanner, theres still a few Deltics in preservation, and slowly making people deaf and filling the air with fumes.

Horrible obnoxious things they where, now the class 40 or 45 46 or the 37 they where real mens trains,

Letusnot forget the Virgin Pendolino, built by fiat, and on theuir days off made my van.

Actually the uk Pendo's were built in Washwood Heath by Alstom, apart from a batch of 11 coming from Italy currently.

The best trains this country ever made are these:-

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30 years old and still going strong.

Bigyinn is actually right, but they have to be in this livery I'm afraid:

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Modern trains are lovely things. That Russian thing looks mental! Wonder if we can get an ex-train driver with PTSD to go and nick one?

Remember; think in Russian...

Horrible obnoxious things they where, now the class 40 or 45 46 or the 37 they where real mens trains,

Yep - 'Balls to everything but the 40's' as a wise man once said:

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Cougar - Member

Isn't weak lemon drink traditional?

Eh? Where's me video gone? ❓

Soz, mislaid it; it was on another thread! 😳

If this doesn't give you goosebumps, then you are either a child, or have no soul:

This is the aaaaaaaaaaaaaggee.......

....Of the [b]TRAIN[/b].

The Pendolino is a fiat t rain, no matter where it was bolted together.

Also the HST125 date back to 1974, when i was an apprentice, and a fellow apprentice made the wooden pattern for the MK 3 door handle when at Swindon Works, all destroyed by thatcher, the works that is.

The Class 40 is 50 yers old this year as well.

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Was always amazed by these as a kid, and the Shinkansen

Went to the NRM at York last week. First went with my uncle when I was 12 and had a great day out. 15 years later it's still a great day out. Was amazed to see the 1964 Shinkansen at York NRM. Would love to go to Japan and take a ride on one there.

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Jesus! Have they been stealing plans from Fiat?
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I know a thing or two about rail, but not much on the engineering side of things, although I do have to endure endless meetings with technical advisers babbling on about standing waves and pantographs.

I have absolutely no interest in how they work to be honest, but I do have to feign an interest when clients get all excited about them. Rail industry dinners can be quite good though. I was at one with the new chairman of Network Rail in October. You can imagine the delight when the floor was opened for questions after dinner. First out the hat was from an old bloke I know from another firm, asking "do you plan to retire once Network Rail is broken up after the McNulty review?"

The Dirty Thirties were always my faves, class 37 locos, specifically 37425 - Concrete Bob, named for Sir Robert MacAlpine and a frequent sight at Crewe pulling the 4pm train to Chester and Wales when I worked for British Rail (as was)

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Try typing 37425 into google, the auto complete recognises you're looking for Concrete Bob, that's how OSSUM that loco is.

Edit: does that russian train have a flamethrower on the front for clearing snow? Now [b][i]that[/i][/b]'s OSSUM!

better than my daily rubbish:

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For ugly locos look at the new class 70 built in america, with no plans of the outside.

nbt, did you get all misty eyed typing that?

when I worked for British Rail (as was)

Something about Class 37s for me. I think it's because the train highlights of my year as a child were travelling up from EMU bound South London/Surry to take the 37 hauled train from Liverpool Street up to see the relatives in Norfolk.

I don't understand men who don't appreciate everything mechanical, and the louder heavier, more powerful the better. Trains, planes, cars bikes, guns, tanks, etc.

Now, as to you youfs using the word 'mint' to mean something other than brand spanking new (i.e. as minted), you'll be the ones to blame for all the crap sold on various auctions sights described as 'mint' that turns out to be nothing of the sort once received! Grrrr.

nbt, did you get all misty eyed typing that?

No, I got rather excited

I think I may have bought a KitKat off you once

Now, I'm getting misty-eyed...

Pendolinos have so little space inside them it's ridiculous. Is it some sort of reverse tardis effect that causes you to feel like you're sitting in a small tube of toothpaste?

When I worked at Bath Road.

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Nothing like a good shunt...
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the age of the bikes on trains
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Rusty Spanner I always loved the Deltic also loved Shunters always found them interesting if somewhat ugly.

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Fantastic thread!

I'm on my phone. Someone please post a pic of Tornado.

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geoffj - [url= http://www.nymr.co.uk/special-events/ ]knock yourself out - tornado at spring gala iirc[/url]

Freight loveliness Severn Tunnel...
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and a boring Passenger train 😉

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and Works Trains 🙂

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redthunder - Member

Freight loveliness Severn Tunnel...

Do you know, I think that might be 37425 Concrete Bob pulling that train. It's definitely a dirty thirty, and it looks about right for the numbering and the nameplate. If only we had a better angle...

My very own 45
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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!!

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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 - Member

Get 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.

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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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