Fellow Train buffs..

[becs]

There is a freighter train in use that has a sunderland badge on the side of it, not what you expect to see while standing on a platform in London.

I've seen that one going through Gateshead on the tracks next to Askew Road

I bought my Dad a nameplate of the train badge. He had it on their static caravan then he put it over the door of his train shed in their back garden.

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

so i had no idea that some 43's got renumbered.

question: why did they make 4 carriage sets? seems a bit overkill?

When they were cascaded to semi fast routes after withdrawal frOM the ECML

 

[marathon9]

Anyone seen the Blue Pullman yet?

More of a bus buff... But like this..

 

[nyron4england]

When they were cascaded to semi fast routes after withdrawal frOM the ECML

assuming the less carriages increased acceleration and stopping distances? (something the 43 was a bit short/heavy on).

getting an o'clock train out of london mostly meant a 43, as opposed to the half past 91. always booked the 00. now it means fuck all.

 

[Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan]

so i had no idea that some 43's got renumbered.

question: why did they make 4 carriage sets? seems a bit overkill?

Dragging this up from the back of my brain...I think the locos were originally supplied/used as part of a fixed set. When the power cars got moved around and used on different sets of coaches, I think they were renumbered around that time.

I'd guess the four carriage sets were to ensure they could be used at the stations with shorter platforms on certain routes......if that's what you mean.

 

[Iballistic George]

Silly (geniune) question, but why should the front be yellow?

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just googled it

Yellow front ends become optional

UK: A new Railway Group Standard covering audibility and visibility came into force on March 5, removing the requirement for trains on the national network to have yellow front ends. Industry safety body RSSB said headlamp technology had improved since the requirement for a yellow panel was...

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Headlamp technology

Some of our 170s headlights are so bad I have to check I've put them on when going in a tunnel. A candle would literally be brighter

 

[Dilligaf60]

No, not seen it yet.


I don't like the Azuma. The seats are not as comfortable.

After a serious train delay once where they cobbled a train together from any random bits of train they could find, we ended up on one of the old BR carriages where you have to drop the window to open door with the outside handle. My children said I got far too excited about opening and closing the door ☺

The seats are bloody horrible.

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

Dragging this up from the back of my brain...I think the locos were originally supplied/used as part of a fixed set. When the power cars got moved around and used on different sets of coaches, I think they were renumbered around that time.

I'd guess the four carriage sets were to ensure they could be used at the stations with shorter platforms on certain routes......if that's what you mean.

Discussion from 2016 here

Class 43 HST cascade fate

Sorry if I have missed finding the information in searches I have completed. With the 'imminent' arrival of new stock at GWR, have all of the HST fleet from GWR been found a new home? Will some be going to scrap?

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[Chal]

I know so little about trains and it’s my job

Same, worked in the industry 18yr and know nowt about them

 

[HeaderDownBrown]

I know so little about trains and it’s my job

I just know the 2 I work on, when some of the lads start going on about other trains I'm clueless.

 

[Redandwhitedust]

Headlamp technology

Some of our 170s headlights are so bad I have to check I've put them on when going in a tunnel. A candle would literally be brighter

Imagine what it was like with the parrafin "lamps" steam train drivers had.

 

[Iballistic George]

Imagine what it was like with the parrafin "lamps" steam train drivers had.

Probably better than a 170s headlamps

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

My old 'Combi'......

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I had loads of these, I bought last years when I was in the UK last time.

 

[Beau Peep]

GB Railfreight have named quite a few of their loco’s after English football teams. It also helps that their MD is a MLF. Most of their Op’s team are also MLF‘S including many from the Billingham Branch.
that particular loco looked mint when they parked it on an elevated section of the line inside the Port of Tyne for about a week, with some senior management going nuts about it.

66725. It passed me at a level crossing in Cambridgeshire on a railhead treatment train a few months ago. Gave me warm fuzzy feelings, despite being filthy.

The set echoes the Gresley LNER B17 "footballer class" of which there were many; Norwich still have the original nameplate over their tunnel, Sheffield Wednesday have it hung at Hillsborough and I'm sure there are many more at "their" clubs. There was a Newcastle United and a Darlington; the LNER of course had a famous works there. We used to have the Sunderland one over the tunnel at Roker IIRC. I have a vague recollection that it's now somewhere in the SoL corridors.

This story may be apocryphal but supposedly 2854 Sunderland was under repair on the day of the 1937 FA Cup Final. The plates were swapped with those of 2851 Derby County and it was that loco that actually hauled the team to the 1937 FA Cup Final!

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Pullman

I understand it's the superb ex-GWR first class interior with new carpet and seat coverings.

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

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My home office

 

[Beau Peep]

Dragging this up from the back of my brain...I think the locos were originally supplied/used as part of a fixed set. When the power cars got moved around and used on different sets of coaches, I think they were renumbered around that time.

I'd guess the four carriage sets were to ensure they could be used at the stations with shorter platforms on certain routes......if that's what you mean.

Only four carriage sets I'm aware of ever being used routinely are the current standard class only sets around Devon and Cornwall that GWR put together on local routes to free up DMUs. Doubt they get above 70-80 mph but the acceleration must be quite something.

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Class. I bought my dad a replica miniature version exactly like that from a company in Mansfield. Very reasonably priced and cast to order. They also do full size versions for a few hundred quid.

 

[Redandwhitedust]

The set echoes the Gresley LNER B17 "footballer class" of which there were many; Norwich still have the original nameplate over their tunnel, Sheffield Wednesday have it hung at Hillsborough and I'm sure there are many more at "their" clubs. There was a Newcastle United and a Darlington;

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The Darlington one was sold I seem to remember. The club were in financial difficulties and it went to auction

I could be wrong but I think a replica was donated when the club reformed.

 

[safcforever]

Same, worked in the industry 18yr and know nowt about them

At least I’m only 3 years in. But I know the same as when I first started

I just know the 2 I work on, when some of the lads start going on about other trains I'm clueless.

Some of them love it. Like nerd love them.
different types, engines, dynamic braking systems, etc.
they all look the same to me

 

[becs]

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Dad's train shed

 

[jarramackem]

Used to regularly stand by the Sunderland - Newcastle line and watch the Diesels go up and down. Most of them were Class 37’s hauling coal with the odd 47 or 31. Then I I think a lot of the 37’s were replaced with class 56’s which made a pretty distinct noise and you could here them coming a mile off. Nowadays not much freight comes up the line apart from a couple of coal trains a day mainly pulled by a 66