Loco sheds and other railway buildings...
Discussion
2xChevrons said:
P5BNij said:
Propelling in the right direction I'd say, no tail lamp on the brake van, but there is one on the top right corner showing a white lens. Used to happen an lot more in those days 
Thanks. I did look for the tail lamp (or lack of), but wondered if the side lamp was the tail lamp. Like you see in photos from the 50s/60s with diesel locos running light or DMUs still carrying a traditional tail lamp on one side (AIUI because, while modern traction was fitted with in-built electric red lamps, it was the presence of the tail lamp itself that mattered to indicate the train was complete). I was also wondering if the chaps would be on the brake van verandah if it was leading - it strikes me as being a rather breezy way to travel!
P5BNij said:
2xChevrons said:
P5BNij said:
Propelling in the right direction I'd say, no tail lamp on the brake van, but there is one on the top right corner showing a white lens. Used to happen an lot more in those days
Thanks. I did look for the tail lamp (or lack of), but wondered if the side lamp was the tail lamp. Like you see in photos from the 50s/60s with diesel locos running light or DMUs still carrying a traditional tail lamp on one side (AIUI because, while modern traction was fitted with in-built electric red lamps, it was the presence of the tail lamp itself that mattered to indicate the train was complete). I was also wondering if the chaps would be on the brake van verandah if it was leading - it strikes me as being a rather breezy way to travel!
RB Will said:
Last Friday, I think it was, I overtook two low-loaders carrying two short bits of rolling-stock, including the power car, or the disassembled parts of a power car. The front was reminiscent of the modern train in the picture above. By the time I'd got far enough ahead to stop, get out, fire up my phone and take the picture, I forgot I was facing the wrong way to take a picture of the front. It was the psychedelic livery that caught my eye. Any ideas what it or they might be?
No wheels, man.
kers have been inI can't work out what it is, it looks like two halves of a mock up design, or possibly a simulator for driver training. When I learned Class 66s we went up to Doncaster Works to have a go on their 66 cab simulator.
Some more bits and bobs...
25 301 being cut up at Swindon Works in 1984, the Works would close just two years later, the vast 'A Shop' in the background is now a housing estate...
31 213 at a rainswept Swindon in January 1980...
Crew change at Salisbury in 1986...
The first sighting of a Class 37 in Cornwall in 1978 with 37 142 on a china clay trip job at Liskeard, junction for the winding little branch line down to Looe...
10001, one of the experimental 'LMS Twins' of 1947 / 48 vintage spent its last few years on short freight and passenger turns on the southern half of the WCML, here it is trundling along the down slow line at Carpenders Park with a Euston to Bletchley stopper c.1962...
A pair of Class 20s assisting a failed Class 56 up the bank at Bardon Hill on the Leicester to Burton-on-Trent line in the early '80s...
Waterloo station in 1971 with a pair of NBL D8xx Warships waiting to leave for Exeter Central...
Some more bits and bobs...
25 301 being cut up at Swindon Works in 1984, the Works would close just two years later, the vast 'A Shop' in the background is now a housing estate...
31 213 at a rainswept Swindon in January 1980...
Crew change at Salisbury in 1986...
The first sighting of a Class 37 in Cornwall in 1978 with 37 142 on a china clay trip job at Liskeard, junction for the winding little branch line down to Looe...
10001, one of the experimental 'LMS Twins' of 1947 / 48 vintage spent its last few years on short freight and passenger turns on the southern half of the WCML, here it is trundling along the down slow line at Carpenders Park with a Euston to Bletchley stopper c.1962...
A pair of Class 20s assisting a failed Class 56 up the bank at Bardon Hill on the Leicester to Burton-on-Trent line in the early '80s...
Waterloo station in 1971 with a pair of NBL D8xx Warships waiting to leave for Exeter Central...
RB Will said:
P5BNij said:
And if I’m picturing it right, the building on the right is now a pretty decent restaurant Yeah that is the one.
Used to be Archers Brewery, I tried to get a job there fresh out of school but they didn’t want me due to age.
Then it became the Weighbridge restaurant and now is Harpers Steakhouse at the Weighbridge.
Pretty decent still. If you go to the loo while you are there the hallway down to the loo is lined with photos that would suit this thread.
Used to be Archers Brewery, I tried to get a job there fresh out of school but they didn’t want me due to age.
Then it became the Weighbridge restaurant and now is Harpers Steakhouse at the Weighbridge.
Pretty decent still. If you go to the loo while you are there the hallway down to the loo is lined with photos that would suit this thread.
DickyC said:
Last Friday, I think it was, I overtook two low-loaders carrying two short bits of rolling-stock, including the power car, or the disassembled parts of a power car. The front was reminiscent of the modern train in the picture above. By the time I'd got far enough ahead to stop, get out, fire up my phone and take the picture, I forgot I was facing the wrong way to take a picture of the front.
It was the psychedelic livery that caught my eye. Any ideas what it or they might be?
No wheels, man.
I wonder if the plywood(?) is travel protection and they fit together there to make one larger unit. The shapes correspond.It was the psychedelic livery that caught my eye. Any ideas what it or they might be?
No wheels, man.
Looks like the sort of autonomous shuttle thing you find in airports.
Yertis said:
Is that the shed where a Bulleid pacific was restored?
I believe so, it's also where D1015 'Western Champion' was stored for a while. Some of the lads from the Diesel Traction Group stepped in almost by accident and saved it from the cutter's torch...http://www.westernchampion.co.uk/loco-d1015-histor...
Interestingly this locomotive (Thornbury Castle) still exists albeit in pieces at the Great Central Railway. The tender and boiler are at Quorn on flat wagons. The chassis is inside the shed pictured yesterday.
Its restoration has been stopped as the locomotive has been purchased "As is", so that the boiler can be used on a "New Build" project 47xx class 2 - 8 - 0. This has aroused a lot of condemnation amongst the enthusiast community.
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