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Puddy_Tat
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
What's the advantage? (why not just have a regular passing loop with sprung points at each end?)
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
There are some ...
The slightly reduced cost of construction, if, like the Lynton/Lynmouth one, you are building by way of a cutting, nor do you require as much land.
Operationally, points - especially sprung ones - require much more maintenance than plain track and are a potential place to de-rail.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
and on urban tram systems, avoids the noise that sprung points make
alternatively, if you were the LCC, an intermediate option is single track with interlaced conduit (as in Stockwell Road)
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Cunning! I assume something horrible happens under the tram if the points get set the wrong way though...
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
yes, the conduit plough would either get stuck (and risk derailing the tram) or break off - although this avoids the risk of the conduit bit of the points failing.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
gratuitous picture of the junction at Aldgate, Gardiners Corner, under construction
1916 OS map showing the finished article
1916 OS map showing the finished article
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
they do have 'mobile operations managers' who get sent to deal with situations. whether that's entirely the same thing, i'm not sure
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Want !
Although he usually works at a desk, that's more or less what my bro does.
[there's been a few times when he, or one of his colleagues, have been on site at a "mishap" and helped deal with the situation]
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
Scanning some old prints and thought this might appeal to Editor (and others perhaps?). My only visit to the Treherbert branch back in April 1986.
editor
hiraethified
And the view from Pen-pych Mountain (behind):
Pen-pych Mountain By Tracy Purnell – Ordnance Survey GetOutside Champion 2017 | Visit Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales
Pen-pych sits at the head of the Rhondda Fawr Valley in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Rhondda Valley's very own Table Mountain.
www.rctcbc.gov.uk
editor
hiraethified
Wonderful words by Dickens describing a railway under construction:
"Here, a chaos of carts, overthrown and jumbled together, lay topsy-turvy at the bottom of a steep unnatural hill; there, confused treasures of iron soaked and rusted in something that had accidentally become a pond.
Everywhere were bridges that led nowhere; thoroughfares that were wholly impassable; Babel towers of chimneys, wanting half their height; temporary wooden houses and enclosures, in the most unlikely situations; carcases of ragged tenements, and fragments of unfinished walls and arches, and piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing.
There were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness, wildly mingled out of their places, upside down, burrowing in the earth, aspiring in the air, mouldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream.”
"Here, a chaos of carts, overthrown and jumbled together, lay topsy-turvy at the bottom of a steep unnatural hill; there, confused treasures of iron soaked and rusted in something that had accidentally become a pond.
Everywhere were bridges that led nowhere; thoroughfares that were wholly impassable; Babel towers of chimneys, wanting half their height; temporary wooden houses and enclosures, in the most unlikely situations; carcases of ragged tenements, and fragments of unfinished walls and arches, and piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing.
There were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness, wildly mingled out of their places, upside down, burrowing in the earth, aspiring in the air, mouldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream.”
Book Review: Dickens on Railways - ianVisits
In the mid-nineteenth century, the great age of railway building, Charles Dickens could not but be aware of their transformative impact on society. So he wrote about it often.Read more ›
www.ianvisits.co.uk
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Quite a nice little piece about the large number of sleeper trains that used to head from London to Scotland every night.
www.europebyrail.eu
Anglo-Scottish Night Trains Sixty Years Ago
Can you hazard a guess as to how many night trains to Scotland might have left London every evening sixty years ago? Four or five? A dozen perhaps? Enjoy our detailed review of Scotland-bound night trains in 1960/61.
www.europebyrail.eu
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
22 minutes late, cat sat on roof of train at euston
London Euston cat-astrophe averted for train-surfing puss
A cat avoided almost certain death after it was spotted on the roof of a high speed train before it departed.
www.bbc.co.uk
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
22 minutes late, cat sat on roof of train at euston
London Euston cat-astrophe averted for train-surfing puss
A cat avoided almost certain death after it was spotted on the roof of a high speed train before it departed.www.bbc.co.uk
That was nearly one life down !
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
would i be right in thinking it was taken out of use round the time that york road station and the west side suburban platforms (11+ ?) were taken out of use?
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
Load of old London Transport stuff up for sale if anyone's feeling flush:
www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk
Selected vintage shop pieces
Shop original decommissioned signs and own a piece of London transport history.
davesgcr
Reading books
Yes - when the KX approaches were remodelled in 1977 (replacing a very slow approach and steam age layout !) - the new flyovers on Hollway bank swopped the approach tracks around. This stuff has been in he plan since about 2010 - and remember the new Canal Tunnel and tracks which filter stuff down to the Thameslink "core" , were part of the grand plan.
Plus of course the transformation of the main station itself.
editor
hiraethified
I liked this quote:
"Somebody recently asked me why I had such an interest in closed lines when I have little interest in rolling stock/old steam engines etc. so I put together this sort of manifesto written by Robert Macfarlane.
1. The Pathos of Abandonment.
2. A Fascination with Infrastructure.
3. The Material Residues of Inscrutable Histories."
"Somebody recently asked me why I had such an interest in closed lines when I have little interest in rolling stock/old steam engines etc. so I put together this sort of manifesto written by Robert Macfarlane.
1. The Pathos of Abandonment.
2. A Fascination with Infrastructure.
3. The Material Residues of Inscrutable Histories."
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Books, not bombs
Speaking of Yorkshire railways 
BBC News - Trespassers with pushchair seen on 'Railway Children' line
BBC News - Trespassers with pushchair seen on 'Railway Children' line
Trespassers with pushchair seen on 'Railway Children' line
The "irresponsible" pair were seen with a young child on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR).
www.bbc.co.uk
