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

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Honestly? How can you have too much horn

Did you watch the video, fuck me, it may as well not have a horn, pathetic.

 

[Dogsauce]

Honestly? How can you have too much horn

Viagra?

 

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Of course. Viagra won't let you down

 

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This picture looks so perfect I thought it was a painting at first.

It's by Gerald Robinson and shows a 4500 Class 2-6-2T No. 5562 at Chasewater with the 1.40pm passenger service to Newquay 3 June 1961.

Chacewater closed 5 October 1964.

CHACEWATER - NEWQUAY. 50th Anniversary of closure
Chacewater to Newquay branch.

Here's what's left of the station ten years ago

 

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The train now departing London Paddington on Saturday 24th November at 11:23 will back at London Victoria at 17:23, calling through Greenford, East Ruislip, Reading East Croydon and Brixton.
There were still seats available.

 

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She is beautiful, isn't she. Glorious.

 

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An altogether safer way of driving

 

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Just look at this wonderful view of Rhymney station in March 1972 (From KDH Archive)



The KDH archive

 

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Flying Scotsman dates for 2019 released if you've got a spare few hundred quid per person (Most are pulled also by diesel at certain parts of the journey)

Scotsman on the tracks - Flying Scotsman

 

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Old(ish) news now but just in case anyone missed it.
Normally hate graffiti on trains but this is a genius tribute to Hamburg's veteran S-Bahn units which are now starting to be withdrawn, harking back to the Deutsche Bundesbahn days when they were delivered.

 

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Flying Scotsman dates for 2019 released if you've got a spare few hundred quid per person (Most are pulled also by diesel at certain parts of the journey)

Scotsman on the tracks - Flying Scotsman

Just £40 for a round trip on the Swanage railway events | Swanage Railway

 

[blossie33]

Tickets Alert: Trip in an art deco tube train through central London

From this week's Ian Visits - not particularly cheap though.

 

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I'll be working, sadly

 

[Mumbles274]

Saw this this other day and thought it was pretty cool. A map of disused lines

Rail Map online - UK & Ireland

 

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Saw this this other day and thought it was pretty cool. A map of disused lines

Rail Map online - UK & Ireland

That must have been a lot of work! I prefer the simplicity of this map though
http://www.systemed.net/carto/New_Adlestrop_Railway_Atlas.pdf

 

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This attempt at a current global map isn't bad either. Takes a while to load, though.
OpenRailwayMap

 

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This attempt at a current global map isn't bad either. Takes a while to load, though.
OpenRailwayMap

Lumme, that is slow.

 

[Mumbles274]

That must have been a lot of work! I prefer the simplicity of this map though
http://www.systemed.net/carto/New_Adlestrop_Railway_Atlas.pdf

That looks great

 

[pogofish]

Here is the restored station at Grantown East, nr Grantown on Spey:

A rather swish gift shop and a decent little cafe - Menu is a bit pizza-tastic but they did very good soup, with a free refill and a decent, crispy bacon roll, so all was not lost.

It also had pretty decent opening hours for somewhere up there, open till seven at weekends and weekdays in the summer, which is nice because everything not pub-related tends to close at five!

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Here is the restored station at Grantown East, nr Grantown on Spey:

A rather swish gift shop and a decent little cafe - Menu is a bit pizza-tastic but they did very good soup, with a free refill and a decent, crispy bacon roll, so all was not lost.

It also had pretty decent opening hours for somewhere up there, open till seven at weekends and weekdays in the summer, which is nice because everything not pub-related tends to close at five!

although at southern 4-CEP cars pretending to be scottish region...

 

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Love this postcard of Pontypridd station. Look at that trackwork!

 

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Ooh!

 

[blossie33]

That's really clever - it's part animation isn't it (I'm looking on my phone and can't see too clearly) ?

 

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That's really clever - it's part animation isn't it (I'm looking on my phone and can't see too clearly) ?

He's "built" the area using 3D modelling and then animates the trains. On other models he's done, there's a whole working infrastructure too (signals etc). It's all rather brilliant.

 

[blossie33]

He's "built" the area using 3D modelling and then animates the trains. On other models he's done, there's a whole working infrastructure too (signals etc). It's all rather brilliant.

Wow

 

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Ffestiniog visits London (I doubt they came under their own steam ) Ffestiniog steam train inside King's Cross station

 

[StoneRoad]

I know the FfR has brought those two locos to London, and both Velinheli and Chaloner have visited The FfR (and even had work on done them there) but I wouldn't call them FfR engines ...

Now, bringing a double Fairlie ... not just Prince or Palmerston

 

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The line has to be kept running somehow.

 

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A quadruple header in Brixton with a Yiwu–London loco and a Pullman loco.