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

[davesgcr]

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

There was a running joke about this place , if someone dropped a clanger (for example signalling the wrong train such that a more important one got delayed) - there would be a convincing disciplinary letter arriving within 24 hours with a mock "disciplinary award" saying , "after careful deliberation , your punishment is to report to the Station Manager at Halwill Junction at the earliest opportunity"

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Still on the maps as a location even though the station is long, long gone.

 

[davesgcr]

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No station anymore. But I could hear all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

Myself and a hard core group of railway staff do the walk from Kingham every year , on a date as near to the original - - have our sandwiches in the shelter , declaim the poem and walk back to Kingham. There might be a pint on the way back. (one year I wrote an alternative one - "Yes I remember Ammanford..." (the poet had good and confirmed links with my home area - can I find it since...?)

Some years it has been a mud-bath. Great fun.

 

[editor]

What a lovely way to remember an old station:

 

[editor]

Who can resist a film about a 1940s visit to the Great Western Railway Sleeper Depot? Not me!

 

[youbeauty]

Now this is a treat - Pachelbel train horn:

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Good deal if anyone is in Belgium over Xmas and New Year - go anywhere for €10.

Our end-of-year present: Happy Ticket | SNCB

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Booked a trip on the Flying Scotsman next May - its running on the East Lancs Railway. £29 but I don't think I've ever been on a steam train so why not.

 

[StoneRoad]

Missed seeing 4472 at Carlisle on Saturday by a few minutes.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

If anyone in the area fancies going on the steam train details are here (along with ticket bookings).

www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk

 

[hipipol]

Hitachi just switched form overhead to diesel at Swindon not hear instantly more feel it thru yer arse, still pretty quiet.....

 

[hash tag]

I half caught this over the holidays. BBC Radio 4 - Four Thought, The Romance of Train Travel
I read around India in 80 trains, a good read for lovers of train journeys and enjoyed it, though not keen on her sense of entitlement. Will probably get around the world. It sounds inspirational.
Around the World in 80 Trains

 

[Judelo]

 

[StoneRoad]

I knew the HSTs could do a good 'bahtat' ... and some of those were very good (Others not so much)

Also, the Blanche on the Festiniog, in the right hands, can do a good one.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

SWR on the brink of going bust and being re-nationalised SWR responds to claim it's about to collapse due to finances

 

[hash tag]

To think Labour wanted to do it and tories may have to
One suspects it wont be the last of the operators to be renationalised; what a state of affairs

 

[StoneRoad]

SWR on the brink of going bust and being re-nationalised SWR responds to claim it's about to collapse due to finances

And "Arriva Northern" are also likely to go the same way

 

[Puddy_Tat]

SWR on the brink of going bust and being re-nationalised SWR responds to claim it's about to collapse due to finances

And "Arriva Northern" are also likely to go the same way

oh dear, how sad, never mind...

 

[cybershot]

West Midlands railway have been given to the end of the month to improve too.

 

[editor]

This looks good! Crystal Palace Railway Connections – illustrated talk on Tues, 11th Feb 2020

 

[hash tag]

A great little museum. It's a shame the talk is not during the day when you could go and take a look at the beautiful station and tunnels, especially the bits not normally open to the public, a symphony in brickwork.

 

[editor]

Last train to Aberthaw

The Aberthaw Farewell – UK Railtours

www.ukrailtours.com

 

[hash tag]

Found this tucked away in the BBC last night; trainspotting in films

Inside Cinema - Shorts: 27. Locomotion Pictures

All aboard! Go trainspotting with Inside Cinema for an in-depth survey of trains on film.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[StoneRoad]

the post I had made was not for here !

 

[hash tag]

It's trains, complete with shots of real steam trains. It's not worthy of its own thread but might be of interest to a train person

 

[StoneRoad]

It's trains, complete with shots of real steam trains. It's not worthy of its own thread but might be of interest to a train person

sorry, the post I had made was meant for somewhere else ...

 

[hash tag]

As opposed to my post which I thought you meant.....oh, never mind

 

[editor]

The shortest lived working branch line in the UK - it ran precisely one train!

The branch line was officially 'opened' on 28/10/1863 comprising approximately 4 miles from Penpontbren Junction to Llangurig station where there is no visible evidence that platforms were provided.[3] A single M&WR goods train was then hired by the L&NR to run along its entire length. This legally entitled the L&NR to invoice the M&MR for its share of the cost of building the joint junction station at Llanidloes, which it promptly did

Llangurig branch - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Llangurig railway station - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[editor]

In 1971 I found the last steam railway working for industry in Britain and made a film about the crew who worked on it. The railway served Yates Duxbury and Sons Paper Mill in a village called Heap Bridge just north of Manchester.

 

[Dogsauce]

That kettle is still with us, although not currently operational:

ANNIE | Whitwell & Reepham Station

whitwellstation.com