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StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Another bridge strike ...
www.newcivilengineer.com
Rutland rail bridge suffers ‘significant damage’ from lorry strike | New Civil Engineer
The 3.9m-high bridge on the railway between Leicester and Peterborough was struck by a lorry transporting containers to a nearby waste recycling centre.
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Not sure wiki agrees about the trams thing, more like horse and carts. I still wonder if broad guage would have been better.
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Standard-gauge railway - Wikipedia
davesgcr
Reading books
Hudson Yard (s) I take it ?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
That folding corrugated metal is strangely entrancing...
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I nearly said as much in my post
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I did wonder where it was all going, until they showed the aftereffects at the endI nearly said as much in my post
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Handy round up of the new stations/lines opening up
www.business-live.co.uk
List of 35 new train stations leading the UK railway upgrade
Here is a rundown on the latest rail station developments currently underway with details of schemes that local leaders say will transform the economy if they get built.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
"Here is the BusinessLive list of brand new rail stations currently being built or on the wish-list."
wonder just how many are in which category...
when it was first thought of, think it was partly that, but also to get commuters to the shiny big offices round there - which are presumably now under-occupied like most offices? i'm aware that the 'greenwave' bus network is not what it was...
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Two of the most beautiful railways have become one thanks to "variable bogies".
www.theguardian.com
Switzerland’s brilliant new train route: direct from Montreux to Interlaken
The GoldenPass line has long been known for incredible views, but now a pioneering engineering feat has made it even more attractive
SysOut
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Strange. The Talgo travelling to and from France could handle the different gauges. Going between Geneva and Barcelona, at Cerbere, on the french side of the border, the train would go through something which would push or pull the wheels so they fitted the new gauge.
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Variable gauge - Wikipedia
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
bradford (4 ft gauge) and leeds (standard gauge) had a few variable gauge trams and there was a weird bit of track at pudsey to connect the two
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Yes, I also was surprised by that claim. It might be that the technology or means to achieve the width change is different, but as you and SysOut correctly point out, it’s not a new thing- Talgo has been offering this feature for decades.
This new seamless journey is a great option, though having to break your journey half way in such a pretty part of the world doesn’t sound too terrible to me, certainly as a leisure traveller and if you get to spend a few hours visiting the town where you are meant to change trains.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I actually know that line reasonably well and have changed trains in Zweisimmen (where the gauge changes) many times.
I think the through-trains will be limited to a few each day, mainly aimed at tourist traffic, and the kind of tourist who wants everything to be easy and organised for them. I'm sure it will be very popular with package operators and I can see why the BOG (the railway company that operates the narrow gauge line) have decided it's worthwhile commercially.
This system might be a first in changing between standard and narrow gauge - rather than standard and broad gauge. Also, it adjusts the height of the carriages, to match the different platform heights on each system.
Those Swiss and their engineering, eh.
Probably one of the few countries in the world where such a system won't break down due to inadequate maintenance.
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This gets photoshopped a lot, I've seen it recently apparently abandoned on a viaduct in Russia!
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
Strange that when you zoom out of that aerial photo view, there appears to be no trace of the line that stranded railway yard used to be connected to.This gets photoshopped a lot, I've seen it recently apparently abandoned on a viaduct in Russia!
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Assuming it was a railway yard (presence of a locomotive that's arrived by road doesn't necessarily mean it is / was) then it seems to have escaped being mapped - wonder if it was something thrown together rapidly as a supply depot or something during 1939-45? Even railmap (which has things like the railways in Woolwich Arsenal and Bramley supply depot) doesn't show anything.
And yes, railways in the flatter counties can leave little trace after 50+ years - with the 'side by side' maps (here with 1968 OS map), you can just see where it went, but it's probably not that easy at ground level.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Looks like it's probably just a storage site, not rail connected ... apart from anything else it seems the loco would be broad gauge so couldn't have got there by rail anyway!
Scandinavian steam loco "found" in Suffolk
Sorry if this has already been covered:...
www.national-preservation.com
The aerial view seemed to suggest classic "railway yard" shape to me... but it's just me seeing things I think.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
dunno - the 60s OS map seemed to be a lot of small buildings - which can suggest something like an ammunition factory / depot, although presumably no longer in military use by then or it would have just been a blank space on the map.
i don't know that patch very well...
