Incredibly cool photos of trains

[mcdjl]

WelshChris said:

Glad you enjoyed it.

While you were on the train me and my lot were filming it with six cameras!

Good video! We did see you chasing round but didn't clock it was 6 of you. I didn't realize one of you caught me on Hugh so I get to appear briefly.

[CooperD]

Black Prince pulling into Weybourne Station on the North Norfolk Railway.

[CooperD]

[MBBlat]

Swiss train having moved to Spain


French self propelled train

[WelshChris]

A typical lunchtime at my place filmed on Tuesday this week. Drone stuff by me and terrestrial stuff by my colleague. Handy for dropping sound into the drone shots. Timelapse from my office window.

[Maxym]

Fuxin, China, April 2015.

[CooperD]

The Nuria Rack Railway

[CooperD]

The first train of the TPCF at Rivesalt for the journey to Axat.

Edited by CooperD on Wednesday 21st June 11:29

[CooperD]

The second train of our journey to Axat.

[velocemitch]

Maxym said:

Fuxin, China, April 2015.

Is there still Steam in China?
Back in the eighties and nineties when I was keen, they were still building them at a fair old rate.

[P5BNij]

Toddington on the Glos & Warks line a few years ago...



'Western' and 'Warship' diesel-hydraulics stabled at Minehead on the West Somerset line back in 2012...

[RichB]

P5BNij said:

'Western' and 'Warship' diesel-hydraulics stabled at Minehead on the West Somerset line back in 2012...

I hope they were maroon and green, I really don't like them in blue.

[P5BNij]

RichB said:

P5BNij said:

'Western' and 'Warship' diesel-hydraulics stabled at Minehead on the West Somerset line back in 2012...

I hope they were maroon and green, I really don't like them in blue.

Both maroon Rich. Me being an utter hydraulics geek, I like all their liveries

[RichB]

P5BNij said:

RichB said:

P5BNij said:

'Western' and 'Warship' diesel-hydraulics stabled at Minehead on the West Somerset line back in 2012...

I hope they were maroon and green, I really don't like them in blue.

Both maroon Rich. Me being an utter hydraulics geek, I like all their liveries

Not sure how old you are but when I watched them thundering through West Ealing as a kid I always thought maroon best on Westerns and green on Warships. Aside from blue, I thought Westerns in sand looked odd too!

[Maxym]

velocemitch said:

Maxym said:

Fuxin, China, April 2015.

Is there still Steam in China?
Back in the eighties and nineties when I was keen, they were still building them at a fair old rate.

I THINK just a few still at a coal mine in Xinjiang province but otherwise no. Steam in Fuxin ended not long after I was there.

[velocemitch]

Maxym said:

velocemitch said:

Maxym said:

Fuxin, China, April 2015.

Is there still Steam in China?
Back in the eighties and nineties when I was keen, they were still building them at a fair old rate.

I THINK just a few still at a coal mine in Xinjiang province but otherwise no. Steam in Fuxin ended not long after I was there.

It seems a shame, but I suppose in reality it’s a good thing. Steam couldn’t be further from being carbon neutral!
Is there anywhere in the world where steam is left in service on scheduled ‘mainline’ trains. Ie rather than industrial or heritage use?

[Maxym]

velocemitch said:

It seems a shame, but I suppose in reality it’s a good thing. Steam couldn’t be further from being carbon neutral!
Is there anywhere in the world where steam is left in service on scheduled ‘mainline’ trains. Ie rather than industrial or heritage use?

Basically no. Steam has had its day, I'm afraid. By my reckoning, China has the last industrial use, and that's going to end very soon.

Edited by Maxym on Thursday 22 June 20:43

[Maxym]

Sandaoling open-cast coal mine, Xinjiang province, China, November 2014.

[P5BNij]

RichB said:

P5BNij said:

RichB said:

P5BNij said:

'Western' and 'Warship' diesel-hydraulics stabled at Minehead on the West Somerset line back in 2012...

I hope they were maroon and green, I really don't like them in blue.

Both maroon Rich. Me being an utter hydraulics geek, I like all their liveries

Not sure how old you are but when I watched them thundering through West Ealing as a kid I always thought maroon best on Westerns and green on Warships. Aside from blue, I thought Westerns in sand looked odd too!

Born in '65 Rich, so only managed to see one Western in maroon (D1046 which was the last in this livery, they were all in blue by January '72) but there were still a few green Hymeks knocking about when I started spotting. Saw a couple of maroon Warships in the scrap line at Swindon but never turning a wheel, sadly. Only one Western wore 'desert sand', that was D1000 from new in late '61 until it went maroon in late '64. D1015 wore the much richer looking colour 'golden ochre' from new in early '63 until it went maroon in late '65. There were also seven built in green livery, D1002, D1003 and D1004 at Swindon and D1035, D1036, D1037 and D1039 at Crewe but they all wore blue eventually.

Would love to have been born a few years earlier and been able to see the hydraulics in their earlier liveries, I managed to see all 74 Westerns in service though and had 44 of them for haulage, plus about twenty or so for cab rides, they're still my favourite class and I think they were (still are) a fantastic example of industrial design.

Here's D1000 at Padd in its brief maroon period...




And about to do a test run in 'desert sand' livery from the old parcels platform at Padd in January '62...



PS : you must have seen the Blue Pullman units flying through West Ealing back then too

Edited by P5BNij on Thursday 22 June 16:01

[RichB]

P5BNij said:

Born in '65 Rich...

I was born in '56 so I had all of these underlined in my Ian Allen. I must have seen D1000 in sand but desert ochre was no better I used to sit on the milk yard platform at West Ealing watching them, Hymeks and Brush Type 4s (as we used to cal them) looked great in two tone green.

I can also remember seeing Castles and Kings at Ealing Broadway a few years earlier. Mum would go shopping there and drag me along. As a treat I'd get a glass of orange in the Lyons and then we'd watch the trains for 15-20 mins from Haven Green. That used to be a great place to watch before they built a car park over the entire railway and enclosing it!