Forum: On-track Machinery
11th March 2012, 10:34
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Replies: 7
Views: 12,747
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Forum: On-track Machinery
11th March 2012, 10:26
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Replies: 22
Views: 34,199
21A man,
not true, they are a dirivitive of...
21A man,
not true, they are a dirivitive of a 59, when built, they had to use as much as possible from the original 59 design, so as to gain grandfather rights on a number of issues, such as end...
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
23rd July 2007, 22:36
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Replies: 14
Views: 7,451
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Forum: Passenger Operations and Observations
17th July 2007, 23:32
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Replies: 14
Views: 7,451
Mad Man
Ive just spent some considerable time on the mans web site, well, what can I say.:confused:
The Tosh that is being written is tantermount to madness, I cannot believe that he believes his own...
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Forum: Railway News from around the World
25th February 2007, 21:13
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Replies: 31
Views: 16,952
Ian,
I too dispare at the comments made on TV,...
Ian,
I too dispare at the comments made on TV, nothing alarms me more than poor ill informed reporting and quotes by those who do not have first hand knowledge of the subject, as ive said before,...
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Forum: Railway News from around the World
25th February 2007, 00:57
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Replies: 31
Views: 16,952
Trev,
its very dangerous to speculate on...
Trev,
its very dangerous to speculate on anything until you have first hand intimate knowledge of the area, and all systems to back it up, indeed the point may look ok, but there could be intrinsic...
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Forum: Railway News from around the World
24th February 2007, 09:31
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Replies: 31
Views: 16,952
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Forum: Railway News from around the World
23rd February 2007, 23:11
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Replies: 31
Views: 16,952
Christian Wolmar has just been spouting off on...
Christian Wolmar has just been spouting off on the BBC news, as a "Railway Expert", god i wish that man would keep his gob shut, he just adding more speculation into whats happening, and cannot...
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Forum: Railway News from around the World
16th December 2006, 00:11
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Replies: 9
Views: 3,460
One day, the BBC (& ITV) will learn the...
One day, the BBC (& ITV) will learn the difference between a steam Locomotive and a Steam Train....look at the original piece and the pictures...
I always thought that the BBC were the bastions of...
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Forum: On-track Machinery
3rd May 2006, 22:51
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Replies: 17
Views: 17,223
CTRL fire systems
There is no fire fighting train for the channel tunnel, but there are special fire fighting road vehicles which use the road access service tunnels.
They are double cabbed road veicles so can be...
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Forum: Freight Operations and Observations
14th January 2006, 17:47
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Replies: 7
Views: 5,699
Dead
As much as the freight infrastructure needs it, it isnt going to happen, Britain needs deadicated freight routes, the passenger boys have the high speed routes, but they dont want slow old freight on...
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Forum: On-track Machinery
8th January 2006, 21:08
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Replies: 17
Views: 12,957
Green Locos
Ah, the big green locos on the front of your trains in/out of Reading are ours!
Ringo:D
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Forum: Railway Modelling
8th January 2006, 03:07
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Replies: 46
Views: 21,701
Bogy at nine o clock...
We normally have the news at nine o clock......
please note the subtle spelling of Bogie...not as in bogy as in up the nose... the French also use the term Bogie too...only they put an accent on...
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Forum: Railway Modelling
7th January 2006, 20:52
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Replies: 46
Views: 21,701
Trains
Its the same as trying to get the media, including the BBC to stop calling Railway Station as "Train Stations", I accept that this is what they are called in the US, which is fine, but again, we...
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Forum: On-track Machinery
7th January 2006, 20:42
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Replies: 17
Views: 12,957
Stanners,
So are you based at the OLd Jarvis yard (Salop sidings) at Stafford then for Net Rail?
I used to be passed and used to drive the old BRUFFs...and also 130" R/R land Rovers:) .
Spent many hours...
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Forum: On-track Machinery
6th January 2006, 01:33
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,893
Tamping,
Im impressed, very good simple but effective graffic, you'll have to do the difference between plain line and p&c tampers, also pandrols stone blower..
Then heres toughy...how about dynamic track...
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Forum: On-track Machinery
5th January 2006, 22:42
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,893
Traction motor change
Blimey...:eek:
we would be crusified if we lift a loco like that, using the draw bar (draft gear) is very taboo in the uk, if we lifted there it would break the locos back.
Traction motors are...
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Forum: On-track Machinery
5th January 2006, 22:32
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Replies: 17
Views: 12,957
Cranes
Liked the ACR rail crane, what is it ..about 100 ton capacity?
Ive got some of a rail crane taken in Toronto in 1986, about the same size as the ACR one, it used to be kept at the depot which is...
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Forum: On-track Machinery
5th January 2006, 22:19
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Replies: 17
Views: 12,957
OTM or MOW...
Stanners ...where you from, not involved with a certain amount of vehicles for the NDS are you?????
Ive been involved with big yellow machines since the early 1990's, and have spent a lot of time...
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Forum: Railway News from around the World
1st December 2005, 22:13
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,588
Thanks for the support
Fortysevenfan.....(top name.....my first ever job as a little apprentice on BR in 1980 was to work on 47 474.....12 heads and liners......25 years later and I still work with them, alas though poor...
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Forum: Railway News from around the World
29th November 2005, 21:32
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,588
Gits
Right if this offends anyone then sorry...why am i saying sorry....
These ejits (I could use a lot worse), are no more than scum, I dont care what their social background is, iit is still not right...
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Forum: Railway Stations
22nd November 2005, 23:00
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Replies: 13
Views: 8,766
Worst...
Top prize has to go to Birmingham New Street Dungeon...sorry Station, having spent time there on the P&M as an apprentice many many years ago, ive seen parts of it most never see, and its grusome...
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Forum: On-track Machinery
22nd November 2005, 22:54
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Replies: 17
Views: 12,957
Otm & Bdv!
Thought Id have a go at starting this thread.
I have over the years worked professionaly with the big yellow stuff, used on the BR and Ex BR infrastructure.
In the mid 1990s I spent a fair bit of...
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Forum: Freight Operations and Observations
18th November 2005, 16:32
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,191
Pass or Goods
Let the passenger boys build their high speed TGV type railway, and let us freight chaps use the existing lower speed lines....:eek:
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Forum: Say Hello
13th November 2005, 22:40
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,207
Thanks
I will upload some photos, but cannot this evening as my card reader has just given up the ghost....:(
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