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StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
So is learning the route to be set, and how the order of "pulls" work to do so.
Had a spy into the one at Shrewsbury a few years ago ... that was very interesting, but you need some muscle power with standard gauge kit compared to the lightweight stuff on the narrow gauges.
But interlocking really, really helps in busy 'cabin - especially a power box.
T & P
|-o-| (-o-) |-o-|
This will undoubtedly be old news to most of you rail enthusiasts, but I was watching a few YouTube videos on the evolution of the Spanish railways over the 20th century and was amused to learn in the 1960s or 70s some trains incorporated a sound insulated cinema car. The French did too 
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Station to station: a spotter’s guide to prefab design on the railways
As a national conversation is launched about the future of local station design, we explore the wonders of prefab design on the railways
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
What's this about, then? It sounds more like The Sound of Music than an engine...
I'd never get one of them under my chin!
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
What's this about, then? It sounds more like The Sound of Music than an engine...
Sadly, that just sounds like someone notching up electric motors ...
But it is definitely the most tuneful I've ever heard.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
A short 1959 film about modernising stations.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
How good is this...........
www.mirror.co.uk
'Super dad' creates hide and seek game on London Underground for son's birthday
A man has been hailed as a 'super dad' after he created a brilliant hide and seek train game on the London Underground to celebrate his autistic son’s tenth birthday
www.mirror.co.uk
editor
hiraethified
More of this please:
www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk
Seeing the wood for the trees: Pilot project takes more lorries off the roads as timber freight train runs for the first time in 18 years
A sawmill in Abergavenny in Wales has received its first load of rail-transported timber since 2004, thanks to a partnership between Network Rail and freight operator Colas Rail.
www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Yeah, there's a lot of lorries around those parts...More of this please:
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Seeing the wood for the trees: Pilot project takes more lorries off the roads as timber freight train runs for the first time in 18 years
A sawmill in Abergavenny in Wales has received its first load of rail-transported timber since 2004, thanks to a partnership between Network Rail and freight operator Colas Rail.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I have the "twig" road waggons driving past my home on a regular basis.
About two in ten minutes and then a pause of up to two hours and then another two. Rinse & repeat.
A few weeks before Dudley & Eunice, we had several days with waggons going past at approximately 25 minute intervals.
It depends on where the "twigs" have been felled and where they are going - some wander off for biomass, other become chipboard and a smaller proportion end up harvested as real planks ...
I would dearly love for Kielder to have a railhead for timber extraction, it would take a load of waggons off the local roads. [time is money to most of the drivers, and the waggons are so big that, effectively, they "bully" other road users].
About two in ten minutes and then a pause of up to two hours and then another two. Rinse & repeat.
A few weeks before Dudley & Eunice, we had several days with waggons going past at approximately 25 minute intervals.
It depends on where the "twigs" have been felled and where they are going - some wander off for biomass, other become chipboard and a smaller proportion end up harvested as real planks ...
I would dearly love for Kielder to have a railhead for timber extraction, it would take a load of waggons off the local roads. [time is money to most of the drivers, and the waggons are so big that, effectively, they "bully" other road users].
teuchter
je suis teuchter
There have been trials to get some timber traffic going on the far north line too.
www.railfreight.com
Unfortunately a high proportion of these "trials" for new freight to rail never seem to become anything more than that.
Freight traffic may return in Scotland’s far north
Discussions are underway to examine the potential for general freight returning to the far north of Scotland. Interested parties have been discussing the possibility on the back of successful trials of timber movements by rail last year. General freight traffic – almost certainly intermodal –...
www.railfreight.com
Unfortunately a high proportion of these "trials" for new freight to rail never seem to become anything more than that.
cybershot
Well-Known Member
This looks pretty cool for anyone East Midlads based.
Mumbles274
running from law and the press and the parents
Flying Scotsman headed out from Victoria around Kent on March 17th
hash tag
Books, not bombs
An unusual but worthy inclusion to this thread?
Train Again
The acceleration of the world and perception radically intensifies over the course of the 19th century. While the mobilization of the gaze generates unforeseen freedom, it also fuels anxiety. From the very start, cinema and the train are inextricably linked as factories of newfound upheaval and...
www.sixpackfilm.com
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Fros-y-Fran's screening/washery is broken and they're not repairing it [and have, I think, rejected the idea of Hargreaves doing it instead] ...
The "eco" alternatives are OK, in practical terms, but are way more expensive ...
Anthracite isn't really suitable as a steam coal ...
Finding an economical & environmentally friendly source of steam / Bituminous coal is proving complicated.
But most heritage railways & a couple of the suppliers have "some" stock for 2022 ...
The "eco" alternatives are OK, in practical terms, but are way more expensive ...
Anthracite isn't really suitable as a steam coal ...
Finding an economical & environmentally friendly source of steam / Bituminous coal is proving complicated.
But most heritage railways & a couple of the suppliers have "some" stock for 2022 ...
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
They already are !
And "red" ie marine / heating diesel is already soaring in price - partly from government increases in duty.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Reminds me of the "wonder of woolies" the advertising slogan for woolworths took on another meaning for me, one day quite some years ago, in Bleanau Festiniog, Nth Wales.
I went to said shop to buy some replacement shoelaces ...
Spent the next 15 minutes helping to shoo a couple of ewes & their lambs out of the shop [wish I had had a camera with me].
I went to said shop to buy some replacement shoelaces ...
Spent the next 15 minutes helping to shoo a couple of ewes & their lambs out of the shop [wish I had had a camera with me].
locomotive
come on baby, do the locomotion
This looks promising.
