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Does anyone know if this Friday’s tube strike is likely to affect Crossrail? We need to catch an evening flight at LHR and are working during the day, so don’t have the luxury of starting our journey earlier in the day.
 
hash tag said:
Over months with no news and, it was supposed to have been up and running quite a while ago.
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teuchter said:
It's obviously delayed but I don't think you should give up on it yet.
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I don't follow the railway enthusiast press, but would have thought that if the group doing it had packed up, it would be known.

Reading the November update, it looks as though covid didn't help with getting on with stuff, and sounds like they were a bit over-ambitious with target dates. I've never really been active in railway preservation, but with other forms of transport, most restorations take longer and cost more than you expected...
 
T & P said:
Does anyone know if this Friday’s tube strike is likely to affect Crossrail? We need to catch an evening flight at LHR and are working during the day, so don’t have the luxury of starting our journey earlier in the day.
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Crossrail / Elizabeth line is 'TFL Rail' not Underground, so not directly affected on Friday (but may be affected by national rail strikes on Thursday) -

This is TFL's page on current strikes

May be busier than usual with the piccadilly line to heathrow being closed - I'd certainly suggest allowing a bit more time if you can.
 
davesgcr said:
Well , NYC manages to host some impressive vintage trains on the system - for a swipe of a Metrocard. They had the 1930's stuff out on Saturday , and of course will be running the usual Xmas specials ....

Their finances are as challenging as London , but they somehow manage to keep the heritage stuff operational and accessible to the public.

(London has always made it "top dollar" expensive for trips out , apart from the much missed "Steam on the Met" days back in the past , when as a BR employee I helped out with gratis loco and stock "loans" - but then we did not have the contractual nonsense of today. I could have used stronger language)
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www.nytransitmuseum.org

Parade of Trains

Join us at Brighton Beach station between 11am - 4pm to hop on and off a selection of our vintage fleet!
www.nytransitmuseum.org www.nytransitmuseum.org
 
I've seen this clip. It's fairly amazing isn't it? (though I can't speak German, so I'm assuming this is an actual freight train and on actual mainline and not a heritage railway.) An equivalent here would be if we had a standard 9F 2-10-0 hauling a container train up the ECML (it can't happen because Network Rail banned them from the mainline).
 
Leighsw2 said:
I've seen this clip. It's fairly amazing isn't it? (though I can't speak German, so I'm assuming this is an actual freight train and on actual mainline and not a heritage railway.) An equivalent here would be if we had a standard 9F 2-10-0 hauling a container train up the ECML (it can't happen because Network Rail banned them from the mainline).
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Didn’t they have a 9F hauling stone trains at Merehead a few years back, though not sure they got out on the mainline? They did run some hauled by a vintage class 52 diesel hydraulic though, which were used on the trains in the 1970s.

edit: demonstration trains for an open day in 2008:

 
It's not quite the same as a container train on the ECML because it says the stretch of line was closed for engineering work. However, it is a steam engine on the main line, hauling genuine engineering trains. The video describes the steam engine as a replacement for the planned diesel one but doesn't explain exactly how that came about. There appears to be some kind of railway museum at Neustadt so perhaps the loco is based there, and that's why it has access to a watering pipe around halfway through the video.

I think the best we've done on the mainline in the UK recently was a Deltic hauling the alcan train from Fort William...

 
I am off to Chichester on a steam engine on the 18th and see there is a train strike on. I hope this will make our journey easier by not having to
adjust for scheduled services.
 
Had a plodge - literally, thanks to the weather - around the North York Moors Railway yesterday. I'm still picking cinders out of my hair from the first part of the trip !

And last week investigated the Severn Valley Railway ...

I don't normally visit the big boys in the preservation / heritage rail, preferring to support the smaller [industrial] and narrow-gauge organisations.
 
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charing cross, 1964, with a 'hastings diesel' in platform 5 and some very low-tech passenger information displays at the ticket barriers. i remember boards like that at suburban stations, but not at charing cross. i can't remember it with anything earlier than the solari indicators, not sure whether that's because i just don't remember what was there before, though...
 
One of the several London termini which suffered from build-over development above the platforms ... Really makes a dismal environment which is made particularly obvious when you see these old pictures from before it happened.
 
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