Misc steam railway, traction, station and rail-related news

[Puddy_Tat]

My local station when I was a kid was Tolworth, on the Chessington South line

Mr OzT might recognise the location...

My dad told me that the sound of the compressors was them winding up the elastic bands that ran the train, and I remember noticing the odd pair of extra rails between the tracks.

 

[existentialist]

Mr OzT might recognise the location...

The modernity of those flat blocks belies the livery of the unit...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

The modernity of those flat blocks belies the livery of the unit...

from a quick bit of research, yellow front panels started to come in about 1962

 

[OzT]

thanks Puddy_Tat, I do, though not the train. Guess before my time in England!!!

And doesn't look like that now. think those flats are gone and that grassy embankment on ther left has gone as well. In its place is a sliding and entrance to the stone yard.

Some morning the stone train can't reverse into the sliding and holds all the other traffic up, or sometimes the manual points fail/get stuck with the same results, no trains down!

 

[existentialist]

from a quick bit of research, yellow front panels started to come in about 1962

Yeah, actually, on zooming in, the blocks aren't late 80s,but much older. As you were

 

[Mumbles274]

If you're a fan of Electric units you can't go wrong with any of these books

 

[hipipol]

We are excited to announce that planning permission has been granted by the London Borough of Bexley for "the installation of a Narrow Gauge Railway and modifications to an existing building for use as depot facilities for the railway".
Ref no. 16/02241/FUL
They have the last of the narrow gauge MOD loco's from the Woolwich Arsenal system
The Railway Project

Anyone have any idea whether they have progressed?

 

[editor]

We are excited to announce that planning permission has been granted by the London Borough of Bexley for "the installation of a Narrow Gauge Railway and modifications to an existing building for use as depot facilities for the railway".
Ref no. 16/02241/FUL
They have the last of the narrow gauge MOD loco's from the Woolwich Arsenal system
The Railway Project

Anyone have any idea whether they have progressed?

Can't find anything online

 

[hipipol]

Can't find anything online

Neither can I other than that one site - seems v odd
They seem to be part of the Crossness Pumping station crew - will try to find a phone no, give em a bell.....

If only they could rebuild the WHOLE thing
https://get.google.com/albumarchive.../AF1QipOqN4VFTDOtgF5x3_-CzUo7EYX3V4unGVzihpav

 

[Mumbles274]

BR Britannia Class 7MT 4-6-0 no 70013 Oliver Cromwell leaving Victoria tomorrow morning and passing through Brixton

t0214a.htm

editor

 

[Mumbles274]

Did anyone see her leave? Going to see her take water at lunch. Will post some pics hopefully

 

[ricbake]

Oliver Cromwell coming through Brixton

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EI6CI7gwmdoNvdCn2

 

[Mumbles274]

Great vid!!!

 

[existentialist]

Liking the backlit clouds of steam!

 

[hash tag]

BR Britannia Class 7MT 4-6-0 no 70013 Oliver Cromwell leaving Victoria tomorrow morning and passing through Brixton

t0214a.htm

editor

I'm booked on her from Liverpool Street to Norwich and back next week

 

[Mumbles274]

Some pics and a vid

 

[editor]

Not very dramatic but any sighting of a steam train cheers me up!

Steam train in Brixton – Britannia Class No 70013 Oliver Cromwell in action, 14th Feb 2018

 

[ricbake]

Doing its steamy thing!

 

[editor]

Doing its steamy thing!
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Where was that taken? It was almost bereft of steam when it went though Brixton.

 

[hash tag]

I'm sure I've just seen her, being drawn backwards over cremone bridge towards willsden junction I'm guessing.

 

[ricbake]

Where was that taken? It was almost bereft of steam when it went though Brixton.

Oliver Cromwell coming through Brixton

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EI6CI7gwmdoNvdCn2

It opened up briefly as it crossed Ferndale Road

 

[hash tag]

Tomorrow, I am on the Oliver Cromwell to Norwich and back BR Standard Class 7 70013 Oliver Cromwell - Wikipedia

Friday, this - London Post Office Railway - Wikipedia

Just what to do Saturday

 

[hash tag]

Liverpool Street Station and we are on it

 

[hash tag]

Oh dear. About an hour late in to Norwich. Problems with lubrication, so diseasel back to town later.

 

[davesgcr]

Oh dear. About an hour late in to Norwich. Problems with lubrication, so diseasel back to town later.

My ex co- workers tell me you were running at 20 mph for some reason , causing some delays. Bad luck. Very sorry your dash through Norfolk and Suffolk was a bit of a let down.

 

[Mumbles274]

gutted.. Don't suppose they give any compo for that?

 

[hash tag]

Rumour has it a bearing is knackered. Stopped somewhere for a while then limped into Norwich and returned by diesel.
She's old, these things happen. Still had a great day.

 

[davesgcr]

The front end wreath was in memory of one of the most outstanding railwaymen of the 20thC , R.N.H. Hardy - who passed on this week - 96 I think and onetime Shedmaster at Stewarts Lane (a job he loved). Very closely involved with these loco's on their debut in East Anglia in the 1950's. Great chap and massively respected. Read "Steam in the Blood"

He would , I suggest , have done exactly the same - 20 mph forward - and got on with the job with good humour.

 

[not-bono-ever]

End of the line for steam trains - Chinadaily.com.cn

the last dogged remains of Chinas steam cadre will be gone very soon by all accounts. I think they are still used only at the Sandoaling coal project these days

 

[hash tag]

Not quite the Oliver Cromwell. Today's tiny train