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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
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4472 / 103 / 60103 back on the main line, finally.
Puddy_Tat
santa paws, do you ever come to the ghetto?
I understand people have threatened to attach many different types of duck to the statue; rubber, plastic, wood, chocolate, decoys
this is all getting a bit quackers...
SikhWarrioR
And the Worms ate into his brain
Just get rid of the duck model and put a model of an A4 on Gresley's statue instead
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Books, not bombs
Well, she is back up and running on the East Coast and her progress is being broadcast live
Flying Scotsman Returns: London to York - BBC News
Flying Scotsman Returns: London to York - BBC News
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
And the crowds of trainspotters that came to watch surged on to a track, bringing the whole line to a halt.
The police should have mown them down with a police-train.
The police should have mown them down with a police-train.
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
GSM-R a mobile phone network purely for the Railways. It is linked in to the brake system so can stop the train in emergency and also put the section it is in lights to red.
GSM-R - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
All locomotives that run on the Main Line (all lines not classed as Preserved) must have ML Certification. This includes the fitment of GSM-R, TPWS and OTDR
Train event recorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Train Protection & Warning System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
davesgcr
Reading books
Mobiles not allowed on the move - quite a strict instruction.
(A head collision on in California was the result of such action)
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Schoolboy error from the lad.
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Thought this might be an interesting thread for little snippets of news that aren't worth a thread of their own.
Let me start you off with this weird rail crossing in Australia.
Cane train crossing the QR main line near Bundaberg, Australia
Reverting back to the first post in this thread. This is how we do it in the UK. This is the 100mph crossing at Newark on the ECML
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Another way to deal with crossings. This is Keadby Bridge on the Scunthorpe - Cleethorpes line which crosses the Stainforth and Keadby Canal. As far as I am aware it is the only one of its kind on the network. Known as a Vazon Sliding Bridge as it name suggests it runs on rails and slides out of the way to allow boats through. As they say "multiple pictures.. ...
davesgcr
Reading books
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
That would have been this lot
Christ almighty, between twats like that and the problems with West Coast they'll be no steam on the main line at all soon
Some nice footage of Scotsman at speed here:
I'm still pleased they've turned it out in BR livery. It's historically accurate, in that it's of the same period as the double chimney and smoke deflectors, and I reckon it really suits the A3's lines as well.
Shame about the twats who got onto the track though. As bees says, this is the last thing main-line steam needs, especially at the moment.
I'm still pleased they've turned it out in BR livery. It's historically accurate, in that it's of the same period as the double chimney and smoke deflectors, and I reckon it really suits the A3's lines as well.
Shame about the twats who got onto the track though. As bees says, this is the last thing main-line steam needs, especially at the moment.
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Books, not bombs
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Books, not bombs
Can anyone point me to listings about the unveiling of Gresley's Statue at Kings X. All I can find out is that it's on 5th April. I have checked various rail and Gresley websites and can't even find out what time, yet alone what else may be planned. Who knows, one of the big Pacific's may make it down and what with all the fuss over the duck, I quite fancy going but can't find out owt about it. Anyone?
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
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Books, not bombs
There must be summat out there somewhere. I even went through all the mucky rail mags in the newsagents yesterday!
You could talk to the sculptor: Hazel Reeves Sculpture
Shenanigans: Gresley's Mallard – a streak of genius | Campaigning to reinstate the mallard on the proposed statue of Sir Nigel Gresley at King's Cross station.
Ah!
