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Necropolis Station is for sale. Just £4.25 million.
www.rightmove.co.uk
Check out this Residential development for sale on Rightmove
Residential development for sale in Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 for £4,250,000. Marketed by Dexters Development and Investment, London
existentialist
Things Done
It's a completist thing. I was fascinated by trains, but the whole crossing-off-numbers thing felt weirdly reductive - I was far more interested in what the actual difference between a Class 52 and a Class 55 actually was, rather less bothered by the idea that I'd seen every member of either class.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Likewise I've never been bothered about collecting numbers, but for many people who do do that, I don't think it's necessarily a reductive thing - it might be a kind of project that gets you out looking at things and going to places, it might even be a kind of meditative thing.
I think it's like how some people who go fishing aren't all that bothered about catching lots of fish - but the project of going out to catch some fish gives them an excuse to sit quietly on a riverbank for a few hours.
Or intensely supporting an essentially arbitrary football team because of all the social/communal stuff that goes along with it.
I think it's like how some people who go fishing aren't all that bothered about catching lots of fish - but the project of going out to catch some fish gives them an excuse to sit quietly on a riverbank for a few hours.
Or intensely supporting an essentially arbitrary football team because of all the social/communal stuff that goes along with it.
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This is a lovely way to spend half an hour.
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Background: TikTok trainspotter Francis Bourgeois on identity, internet hate and commuting playlists
The Travel Show - Great British Railway Adventure
Francis Bourgeois attempts to cross the UK using only British railway rolling stock.
www.bbc.co.uk
Background: TikTok trainspotter Francis Bourgeois on identity, internet hate and commuting playlists
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StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
"Train Spotting" covers such a huge range of things, and not just crossing off numbers in the Ian Allan books.
So for a number-cruncher their holy grail would be getting everything crossed off.
For others, cabbing all possible classes ...
Then various other sub-groups of railway enthusiasts have their holy grails ...
some more sensible [?] than others.
Branch Line Society and their buffer stops in sidings come to mind !
So for a number-cruncher their holy grail would be getting everything crossed off.
For others, cabbing all possible classes ...
Then various other sub-groups of railway enthusiasts have their holy grails ...
some more sensible [?] than others.
Branch Line Society and their buffer stops in sidings come to mind !
ska invita
back on the other side
This looks like bliss - Japanese big windows minicabin sleeper snow train!
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Pleased you enjoyed my recommendationThis is a lovely way to spend half an hour.
The Travel Show - Great British Railway Adventure
Francis Bourgeois attempts to cross the UK using only British railway rolling stock.
Background: TikTok trainspotter Francis Bourgeois on identity, internet hate and commuting playlists
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Reaching out
Bastards. Utter bastards.
Vandals damage Tube train restored to its 1938 original state
Ticketholders were told Sunday's heritage event could not go ahead after the vandals struck.
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Reading books
Bastards. Utter bastards.
Vandals damage Tube train restored to its 1938 original state
Ticketholders were told Sunday's heritage event could not go ahead after the vandals struck.www.bbc.com
Utter scum - so another £30K or so for a complete repaint. (bastards hit Met locomotive "Sarah Siddons" at Neasden some years ago......)
I shall leave it there before I go on a complete rant.....
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Prepare for steam power to return to the UK rails - sort of
www.railadvent.co.uk
Class 60 diesel locomotive set to be powered by steam in new trial
Eversholt Rail has signed a contract with Steamology which will see a Class 60 locomotive converted into being powered by steam.
www.railadvent.co.uk
davesgcr
Reading books
Prepare for steam power to return to the UK rails - sort of
Class 60 diesel locomotive set to be powered by steam in new trial
Eversholt Rail has signed a contract with Steamology which will see a Class 60 locomotive converted into being powered by steam.
Looking forward to some steam age whistles then - a melodic chime ,and possibly a screaming French whistle ???? .
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
Don't know if this web site has been posted before but some interesting stories of the union struggles against capital.
This from the start of Electification in London https://ignitingtheflameofunity.yolasite.com/1909-elevated-railway.php
This from the start of Electification in London https://ignitingtheflameofunity.yolasite.com/1909-elevated-railway.php
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Diamond Geezer breaks down the Tube journeys which nobody uses:
diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
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Wow
East Yorkshire: 'My husband built a railway in our back garden'
The East Wressle and Brind Railway will open for first time as part of the National Garden Scheme.
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I'd like this in my back garden please
"A private garden with its own full-size railway is to open to the public for the first time.
The East Wressle and Brind Railway, in East Yorkshire, has a diesel engine, wagons, a station house and a platform."
"A private garden with its own full-size railway is to open to the public for the first time.
The East Wressle and Brind Railway, in East Yorkshire, has a diesel engine, wagons, a station house and a platform."
East Yorkshire: 'My husband built a railway in our back garden'
The East Wressle and Brind Railway will open for first time as part of the National Garden Scheme.
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Yeah he's got quite a fleet of well-known steamers if you look his company up -- a bit annoying if you look at it one way (I want to ride behind a Royal Scot // Britannia // Princess Class but it means handing ££ to the bankroller of Reclaim) ..... but if you look at it from the angle of "every time he buys a classic train and puts it on the mainline, its a couple of million quid less that Laurence Fox doesn't get to see" .... then its a little more manageable, maybe?
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They were shamefully scrapped in South Wales at Briton Ferry -very quickly. However I am told they were full of very inflammable materials , a sort of mobile deathtraps had there been a fire on board.
Stylish trains though - prototype HST's in concept....
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This week the score draws are plentiful
Indeedy. Considering the mind boggling costs involved in assembling and maintaining his massive 1:1 scale model railway I doubt he sees any return on it from his charter operation. His politics certainly won't stop me photographing his 47s tomorrow morning and I hope to do one of the tours planned with 45118.
A bit of a YouTube odyssey led me to this splendid video of the original blue Pullman service. The score is really rather good.
Watch Blue Pullman - BFI Player
If you compare the advert in your link you’ll also see a slight difference in customers (fewer attractive women passengers in 1960, a lot more old men in suits!). I suppose that’s marketing for you
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Not quite the entire network. There's a lot of SE England they aren't cleared for, for example.
