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

[Storm Fox]

Current theory is a Signal Passed at Danger due to poor adhesion, i.e. Leaves on the line.

Salisbury train crash: Service ran through red light after wheel slip

Investigators say one of the two trains suffered a "wheel slide" before the collision.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Carvaged]

Hope they sort this soon. The replacement bus services are hopeless.

 

[editor]

Magnificent stuff!

Weymouth Street Tramway

The Weymouth Street Tramway

www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk

 

[StoneRoad]

Magnificent stuff!

Weymouth Street Tramway

The Weymouth Street Tramway

www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk

I had one trip on that - coming back from a week on Jersey and heading over to somewhere like Torbay for another week.

Both weeks were field studies, not really holidays ...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The tracks are still there in the road.

 

[Dogsauce]

The tracks are still there in the road.

I thought they had ripped them up recently, as they’re not particularly safe?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Was there in Summer 2020 and they were still there. Went back to Weymouth this summer but didn't go to that bit...

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Was there in Summer 2020 and they were still there. Went back to Weymouth this summer but didn't go to that bit...

Went last winter.

 

[19sixtysix]

Still visible on google maps 50°36'28.7"N 2°27'25.4"W · Lower St Edmund St, Weymouth dated sept 2020

 

[teuchter]

You can still see street running at Dublin docks.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

You can still see street running at Dublin docks.

but not in deptford

(about here) - line served a bit of former royal dockyard that became an army supply depot in the 1914 war - possible that it only happened under wartime relaxation of usual rules.

 

[Dogsauce]

Of course, trust the Americans to ‘go big’ on street running:

 

[hash tag]

Introducing flygskam and tagskryt....flight of shame & train brag.

The London to Edinburgh train ride was once a thing of wonder. Can it be again? | Ian Jack

Brochures used to tell passengers what they could see through the window. Now we sit and stare at our screens, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

www.theguardian.com

 

[cybershot]

Taken this morning

The Cheshireman (London Euston - Chester) - RailAdvent

This tour boards at London Euston, Milton Keynes, Rugby, and Nuneaton on its way to Chester. Tour Promoter – Railway Touring Company Operator –West Coast Railway Company Ltd Locomotive – LNER A1 No. 60163 Tornado LMS Black 5 No. 44871 Route and Times – 5Z86 0524 Southall Wcr to London…

www.railadvent.co.uk

 

[T & P]

I’d like to think Dr. Beeching did a few spins in his grave today

Rebirth of the line: Devon joy as rail link reopens after 50-year hiatus | Rail transport | The Guardian

Okehampton welcomes revamp of service connecting Dartmoor town to Exeter and beyond

amp.theguardian.com

 

[teuchter]

A non rail enthusiast finding that some details of railway operation can be quite interesting although she really only scratches the surface of timetabling complexities here.

 

[platinumsage]

 

[teuchter]

Really no excuse for anyone to travel to southeast asia by plane now.

 

[StoneRoad]

That looks a good way to spend some time - but only after I retire & covid-19 is history ...

a) my father used the Trans-Siberian Railway to travel [twice] to Beijing for the international Esperanto Congress ...

b) I know there was a plan to have a railway from the Mediterranean coast to Cape Town, but I don't think it ever got joined in the middle ...
c) Pity the TransAmerican Highway was a road, and not a railway - that would have been spectacular ...

 

[Dogsauce]

Few gauge changes on that route mind, not just going to be able to sit in your seat in Lagos with a copy of Ulysses and wake up in Singapore.

 

[hash tag]

I suspect that route joins part of the Tibet to China railway, the railway that China has foisted on Tibet and gone out of their way to build it on, in and over all sorts of conditions
including permafrost. The environmental impact of it must be grotesque.
Love traveling by train, hate China (especially for things like this ).

 

[teuchter]

It would appear not to use the Tibet to China, seeing as the map shows it not going that way at all, but by the longstanding route of taking theTrans-siberian then down through Mongolia.

 

[Dogsauce]

Can they extend it further by going through the tunnel to Denmark whenever it is complete and via Finland? Or are there gaps in the system that way?

 

[hash tag]

It would appear not to use the Tibet to China, seeing as the map shows it not going that way at all, but by the longstanding route of taking theTrans-siberian then down through Mongolia.

I wouldn't put money on it and need to see a larger map to be sure.

 

[StoneRoad]

Something just a bit shorter and much closer to home ...

Lancaster to Carlisle railway celebrated in pictures

The Lancaster to Carlisle railway was opened in 1846 forming a key part of the West Coast Mainline.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[platinumsage]

WCML electrification

Hanging the cables by walking on the roof of an ice-covered train with no safety equipment!

 

[davesgcr]

WCML electrification

Hanging the cables by walking on the roof of an ice-covered train with no safety equipment!

A well known clip - but in reality it was a "posed" shot (so I am told) , even then there would have been reservations on working in those conditions......but "normal" OLE working in those days off ladders , with passing trains was done well into the 1980;s.......

 

[teuchter]

If this film doesn't send you into a state of reverie...
Well, get off this thread won't you

 

[hash tag]

Double jeopardy.

 

[editor]

These are so well done