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Lincolnshire Live has time-lapse video of the flat crossing on the east coast main line at Newark being replaced over the bank holiday weekend
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Good article hereReplacements for the Isle of Wight 1938 tube stock announced today - refurbished late 70s / early 80s D stock ex District line
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must try and get a visit to the island in - i've not been there since it was modernised - it was the 1920s tube trains last time i went...
1930s Tube Trains On The Isle Of Wight To Be Replaced... With 1980s Tube Trains
davesgcr
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Thats rather nice
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the passing of campaigner and journalist Richard Hope is surely worth a mention
Richard Hope, OBE
Richard Hope, OBE
davesgcr
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Excellent chap with a very sound legacy. Not just in journalism but on the Talyllyn Railway. That is 2 Berkhampstead stalwarsts gone in a year - two Richards as well (Casserley and Hope)
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End of an era - a shot of a restored (for the day) - 313 at Moorgate today. The last one , and if anyone says "so what" - represents the end of an era when BR in the depths of the mid 1970's actually turned round a dismal suburban service and transformed it into the "Great Northern Electrics" - transformational for the time. (photo c/o A Wakeford)
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For me, the novelty of those machines was somewhat reduced by having my been an occasional user of their 4-PEP predecessors on the Hampton Court route, so they quickly became the Mundane Suburban Option. My Reminiscence Option would have been the EPBs or SUBs...
Puddy_Tat
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i regard that style as being new and meh (in relation to the 4 SUB units they replaced south of the river)
i don't remember the pre-electric GN suburban (or the highbury branch as LT railways) but did find the disused suburban platforms at kings cross (the bit that was an annexe to the current suburban bit) at the start of the 80s - just abandoned and still with the departure boards up for whatever the last trains out had been. wish i had photographed infrastructure more at the time, but there were deltics to be had...
don't remember them in action - they did appear on the south eastern suburban lines in 1973 (i wasn't quite taking notice at that point) and have (somewhere) got some of the leaflets etc that dad kept. don't think he was doing photography at that stage.
Puddy_Tat
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gratuitous picture of 1938 tube stock emerging from the 'hotel curve' at kings cross with battery loco. after the finsbury park - highgate line closed, stock transfers to / from neasden involved some complicated shunting at finsbury park to get them to drayton park depot
(from article here)
and some video of the pre-electric GN suburban lines (think this was the last line to use non-corridor Mk 1 hauled stock)
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gratuitous picture of 1938 tube stock emerging from the 'hotel curve' at kings cross with battery loco. after the finsbury park - highgate line closed, stock transfers to / from neasden involved some complicated shunting at finsbury park to get them to drayton park depot
(from article here)
and some video of the pre-electric GN suburban lines (think this was the last line to use non-corridor Mk 1 hauled stock)
The Great Northern up to the electrication was a terrible railway - a mix of non corridor "block enders" for the "inner" workings , and displaced Craven 2 car sets on the "outers" , with a handful of MK1 loco hauled sets of dubious quality on the Cambridge line. (in those days the main route from Cambridge was into Liverpool St via the Lea Valley) , the semaphore signalling was 19thC and the Victorian telegraph signal was in daily use into the 1970's.
BR had wanted to electrify it - and towards Leeds in the 1960's , but the cost overuns on the Euston line negated that.
So the major reshaping , including taking over the Moorgate line from LT , and taking out GN services from Broad Street and indeed Moorgate via Farringdon was a huge job, and overall one that brought a totally new railway. The 313's had a few teething problems but settled into over 40 years of hard work. Amazing really how the old stuff on the route lasted so long , and maybe even how long the 313' lasted. Amazingly over 60 sets were ordered - too many really , so some migrated for a short while to Colchester for the Clacton / Walton locals , but then found their way to the North London line and the Euston - Watford DC route.
Puddy_Tat
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i suppose it would be uncharitable to say that the southern did the same thing mostly before the 1939 war...
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i suppose it would be uncharitable to say that the southern did the same thing mostly before the 1939 war...
The Southern had the best commercial , market orientated and operating management to be fair. The LNER had no money , apart from a few gilded baubles like "Streamliners" ..
Puddy_Tat
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have you read john elliot's book? (he being the person who brought 'public relations' to the southern)
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have you read john elliot's book? (he being the person who brought 'public relations' to the southern)
A very fine book , along with the seminal "Sir Herbert Walker's Southern Railway" by Charles Klapper. How to really transform a railway , double services and revenue etc. Walker was also an accomplished operator , and one is led to believe walked into Waterloo box one one occassion , asked if there was anything about to leave, belled it onto to West London Junction and set the route for it. Not many very senior staff could do that !
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Regent Street is closed again tomorrow in connection with the veteran trip to brighton
Regent Street Motor Show 2019
Regent Street Motor Show 2019
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More good news about the model railway, 1000 hours though
Sir Rod's £10k helps rebuild trashed model railway
Sorry, didn't see JuanTwoThree had already posted similar. Worth repeating
Sir Rod's £10k helps rebuild trashed model railway
Sorry, didn't see JuanTwoThree had already posted similar. Worth repeating
Thanks very much for posting that.
I saw the word Adlestrop and reversed it in my head to get Port Selda. I searched for Port Selda and found a poem by George Szirtes: The Immigrant at Port Selda. This referenced the poem Adlestrop by Edward Thomas. So now I learned about the reference to birds
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What a cracking junction station this one was. All gone now.
Halwill Junction railway station - Wikipedia
http://www.semgonline.com/location/halwill_01.html?LMCL=bGQJiy
Disused Stations: Halwill Station
Halwill Junction railway station - Wikipedia
http://www.semgonline.com/location/halwill_01.html?LMCL=bGQJiy
Disused Stations: Halwill Station
StoneRoad
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A couple of days ago, I visited the "Devil's Porridge" museum at Eastriggs.
I knew the site had had an extensive railway during WWI, but I was surprised by just how big it was.
It had 24 steam and 14 "fireless" locos ...
One of the latter has been preserved at the museum. Image taken before the work was done in 2014.
TiG - Fireless loco par StoneRoad2013, on Ipernity
I knew the site had had an extensive railway during WWI, but I was surprised by just how big it was.
It had 24 steam and 14 "fireless" locos ...
One of the latter has been preserved at the museum. Image taken before the work was done in 2014.
TiG - Fireless loco par StoneRoad2013, on Ipernity
