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

[existentialist]

I would hope so. Never done the line but I've heard they're always up against it there with vandalism and theft. This is a new low, though.

The usual invective against society going to the dogs, etc, appears everywhere, but I do like the suggestion that, as part of their sentence, these boys are obliged to go and volunteer with the organisation. The redemptionist in me wants to believe that, in doing so, they might gain an appreciation of the love and effort that goes into such things, and maybe even acquire some new skills and interests...

 

[cybershot]

Indeed. Or they will get is a slapped wrist and a bit of juve time supposedly learning rights from their wrongs when all they really do is make bigger knobhead networks by meeting like minded yobs in the same session.

 

[editor]

So fucking angry

Vandals hit West Somerset Railway - The Railway Hub

 

[hash tag]

Another one, just what is wrong with people

 

[editor]

Some lovely old footage here

 

[[62]]

Engine and freshly repainted stock for today's trip to Kingswear got hit at Southall last night. WTF is going on this week?

 

[editor]

Engine and freshly repainted stock for today's trip to Kingswear got hit at Southall last night. WTF is going on this week?View attachment 169896

What a fucking twat.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Engine and freshly repainted stock for today's trip to Kingswear got hit at Southall last night. WTF is going on this week?View attachment 169896

What the fuck is wrong with these twats?

 

[[62]]

The tossers even went as far as to spray the windscreens of one of the engines. Just fucking moronic. They're not even any good at it - some of the stuff looked like the scribblings of a primary school kid.

 

[editor]

Completely ridiculous, like all his videos. But kinda fun. The graphics are amazing, mind.

 

[hash tag]

No, just no.

 

[editor]

 

[editor]

No, just no.

 

[weltweit]

I was chatting to a chap last week who constructed train images wholly from scratch using various programs. It struck me that it is easier to photograph them but he was happy doing his thing and the images seemed good.

 

[cybershot]

Not just the young causing problems!

Scotsman track ban threat over trespassers

 

[editor]

Not just the young causing problems!

Scotsman track ban threat over trespassers

They're such fucking wankers - and in that pic they'd get am equally good view behind the fence. And the old ones really should know better.

They're fitting cameras to the locos so they'll soon be lots of twat pics circulating.

 

[editor]

There's a lot of people very excited by the introduction of Class 37s onto the Valleys service!

 

[editor]

The Beatles at the disused Gatwick airport, 13th March, 1964, photographed by David Hurn.

 

[mx wcfc]

Final Inter City 125 passenger service out of Paddington is tomorrow.

The time and date of the last High Speed Train to run

For the last few months they've been running through Reading in various old liveries to mark their passing.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Vandals trash model railway show

More

 

[hash tag]

Terrible. A life's work destroyed

 

[editor]

Pathetic fucking twats. Still, at least they've been caught. Let's hope the courts make them/their parents pay back all the damage. Double.

Mr Davies said club members were "devastated and distraught".

"Can you imagine your life's work wrecked?" he said. "One guy spent 25 years on his work and it's wrecked, it's just horrendous.

"We will never have the time to build the sort of layouts again, that's where the anger comes from."

 

[weltweit]

Hope the vandals are suitably punished. Pointless, senseless.

 

[weltweit]

 

[davesgcr]

Hope the vandals are suitably punished. Pointless, senseless.

Especially as these exhibitions area huge attraction for younger children - my own 3 were taken to enough , and enjoyed them. These vandals might even have been.

Really firm action needed on this one, - to teach a lesson . Pathetic behaviour.

 

[hash tag]

Could they each be made to wear an anorak and fill a book full of train numbers?

 

[existentialist]

Could they each be made to wear an anorak and fill a book full of train numbers?

Harsh

 

[cybershot]

Pathetic fucking twats. Still, at least they've been caught. Let's hope the courts make them/their parents pay back all the damage. Double.

Even if they do, there’s no guarantee you ever see the money. As per personal experience of being a victim of crime where the little twat was caught.

 

[hash tag]

Harsh

Not a bit. Little Bastards deserve it.

 

[editor]

Bloody hell!



Help raise £500 to Help Market Deeping Model Railway Club recover from vandalism