Train porn

And now for something completely different, A Princess operating a level crossing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2R5hr-eqh8

On a personal point, that level crossing was just a mile away from my house and when Beeching closed the line, we kids used to play in the house before it was demolished.

MGWR

Huntley Archives film no. 508, in colour showing the Tralee and Dingle on a cattle special to Dingle Fair in its last years. Locomotives are 1T and 6T, which were 2-6-2Ts AFAIK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWshISgLg-4

Isambard

MGWR wrote: »

Huntley Archives film no. 508, in colour showing the Tralee and Dingle on a cattle special to Dingle Fair in its last years. Locomotives are 1T and 6T, which were 2-6-2Ts AFAIK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWshISgLg-4

both 2-6-0Ts. Only 5T was a 2-6-2T

MGWR

Episode of "Secret Passages" featuring the former Pacific Electric five-platform underground tram station in Los Angeles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QbMOKEI4w

MGWR

Short video from back in March, showing the points operation system at Toronto Union Station, Canada. Still manually operated, and 86 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mDgRlfdEZg

metrovick001

Fascinating operation in 2017, thanks for posting that up.

jaxxx

How am I only discovering this thread now??

Anyone been to the National Railway Museum in York across the river? Always wanted to go but I've always found excuses not to.

MGWR

This video features a tunnel cleaning train on the London underground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmFXEYq-2V0

Del.Monte

jaxxx wrote: »

How am I only discovering this thread now??

Anyone been to the National Railway Museum in York across the river? Always wanted to go but I've always found excuses not to.

Why would find excuses not to go? York and Yorkshire have piles of interesting places to visit. If trains are your thing - apart from the NRM there's the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway http://kwvr.co.uk/ (where the original 1968 Railway Children TV series was filmed) is a stones throw away and the North York Moors Railway https://www.nymr.co.uk/ is also close by. Then there's the famous Settle - Carlisle Railway with its stunning scenery and viaducts https://www.settle-carlisle.co.uk/

Visit Yorkshire: https://www.yorkshire.com/

MGWR

This photo is of a unique prototype level crossing warning system in Grenada, Mississippi from the mid-1930s. The skull and crossbones motif and the ominous warning words would light up with coloured neon lights when a train approached, as would the arrows which indicated the direction the train was approaching from. Instead of bells, the crossing featured an air raid siren.

MGWR

Video (by one Matt Skuta) from 31/08/2015 showing aerial view of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train on Union Pacific's (originally Southern Pacific) Tehachapi Loop in south central California, about 35 miles or so southeast of Bakersfield. Grade is 1 in 50, and the change in altitude over the 1.17 kilometres of the loop is 23 metres.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZCYhP1D4O4

highdef

Patrick Cooney, the Minister for Defence, opens new bus and train station in Athlone. 27th May 1985. From the RTE archives


http://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21198219-athlone-new-bus-and-train-station/

metrovick001

Ahh Mary O'Rourke.
That special breed of yoke that would show up at the opening of an envelope and at the same time would have just as easily closed the whole network down.

highdef wrote: »

Patrick Cooney, the Minister for Defence, opens new bus and train station in Athlone. 27th May 1985. From the RTE archives


http://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21198219-athlone-new-bus-and-train-station/

end of the road

metrovick001 wrote: »

Ahh Mary O'Rourke.
That special breed of yoke that would show up at the opening of an envelope and at the same time would have just as easily closed the whole network down.

indeed. but thankfully she saw sense and didn't close it.

tabbey

highdef wrote: »

Patrick Cooney, the Minister for Defence, opens new bus and train station in Athlone. 27th May 1985. From the RTE archives


http://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21198219-athlone-new-bus-and-train-station/

Everybody is in this except Pat Cooney.

GT Paul Conlon and Jack Higgins got off the train, Conlon shook hands with the people on the platform.

Either Cooney was on another section of the film, or He was not there at all, and the clip is wrongly tagged.

Del.Monte

Nice oil painting of the Carlisle Pier (30" x 40") by Tom Roche which sold at Adam's this evening for a cool €2,800 + buyer's premium. Somebody win the Lotto?

MGWR

Tried to find video of this tramway, but can only find photos. This is car 40 of the Lake Louise Tramway in Alberta, Canada. This tramway was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway to replace horse coaches which used to take as long as an hour and a half to climb up the hill from the station to the hotel, a distance of about six kilometres and a change in altitude of about 244 metres. The petrol-powered tram cars were unidirectional, and turned on loop-shaped tracks at each end (originally a turntable at the hotel). The line had some severe curves, but the grade was at least held down to a maximum of 1 in 25. Track gauge was 42 inches (1067 mm). The line opened in 1912 and last operated in 1930, with track lifted in 1931; it is a hiking/biking trail today with some segments designated hiking only.

An all too familiar sign at stations in the UK & Ireland in the 1960s

mrsoundie

I don't know if this was already posted
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7ttKX46nJxUeXZ0aoD4Q5g

Fred Swanson

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i think it's where they drop off a wagon for people to load or unload themselves and the train would stop and collect the wagon daily as the station staff were let go, that was a tiny station anyway.
The line from Long Melford to Lavenham was closed later that year and from Lavenham to Bury St Edmunds in 1965.

Finally Long Melford station and the line it was on was closed in 1967.

GM228

Fred Swanson wrote: »

What did they mean by a "public siding"?

[Deleted User] wrote: »

i think it's where they drop off a wagon for people to load or unload themselves and the train would stop and collect the wagon daily as the station staff were let go, that was a tiny station anyway.
The line from Long Melford to Lavenham was closed later that year and from Lavenham to Bury St Edmunds in 1965.

Finally Long Melford station and the line it was on was closed in 1967.

When Bury-Long Melford closed in 1961 the Bury-Lavenham section was used for freight trains until 1965. It effectively became a rather long public (BR owned) as opposed to a private (of which there were a few I believe between Bury and Long Melford) siding.

Sugar beet was one of the main goods carried on the line, in fact I Believe that it was the only freight on it in the end, there is a large Beet processing plant in Bury.

MGWR

London Transport film "The Elephant Will Never Forget" from 1953, featuring Last Tram Week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EFfD-5VHIk

Possibly the shortest train in service anywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY6pEVFrWEk

This is what's left of the railway line near where I used to live, and yes it's really that bumpy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlDCUpfhCD0

tabbey

The Sudbury line is what Dr Beeching left of a longer route to Cambridge.
A cross-country route reduced to a basic railway.

So far as I know it has not yet been electrified, but perhaps it will be in due course.

tabbey

tabbey wrote: »

The Sudbury line is what Dr Beeching left of a longer route to Cambridge.
A cross-country route reduced to a basic railway.

So far as I know it has not yet been electrified, but perhaps it will be in due course.

Yes, the original plan was to close the entire line in 1965, but the people of Sudbury fought back and delayed the closure of Sudbury - Cambridge until 1967 ans succeeded in keeping this section open. BR tried multiple times to close it in the 1970s & 80s

I came across a couple of cab rides on the lines to the west, sad to see just how neglected they were in the 1990s. to the casual outsider they would look like they were already closed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gn_GHeNmPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5w7_6Ie2E

Fred Swanson

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