Broithe Posted November 3, 2025 Author Posted November 3, 2025 30 minutes ago, Broithe said: The Shap derailment. Looks to have hit a small landslip on the bend in the distance above.
Mol_PMB Posted November 3, 2025 Posted November 3, 2025 Fortunately pendos are pretty robust. Even more fortunately, the driver was able to make an emergency broadcast on the radio which stopped the approaching northbound train… 1
Broithe Posted January 30 Author Posted January 30 Enniscorthy. During the flood event - and after a good clean-up. 4 1
spudfan Posted February 8 Posted February 8 From yesteryear. Summer , somewhere up here. Can never remember where this is! 3
Broithe Posted February 9 Author Posted February 9 Pulled by the cops on the M6 (on the Big Island). Glenfield, a crane tank, with the crane bits removed. Two worn tires on the trailer and not being moved inline with the paperwork. 2 1
Mol_PMB Posted February 9 Posted February 9 2 minutes ago, Broithe said: Pulled by the cops on the M6 (on the Big Island). Glenfield, a crane tank, with the crane bits removed. Two worn tires on the trailer and not being moved inline with the paperwork. The machine alongside looks quite a beast too! 1
Horsetan Posted February 13 Posted February 13 On 9/2/2026 at 7:09 PM, Broithe said: Pulled by the cops on the M6 (on the Big Island). Glenfield, a crane tank, with the crane bits removed. Two worn tires on the trailer and not being moved inline with the paperwork. Andrew Barclay works no.880.
Andy Cundick Posted February 13 Posted February 13 I assume the jib was removed for clearance reasons,it being shes a crane tank,it used to be at Cranmore back in the day Andy
Galteemore Posted March 22 Posted March 22 Latest info from Rapido. Definite Irish possibilities https://rapidotrains.co.uk/ly-class-25-ironclad/ 3
Broithe Posted 6 hours ago Author Posted 6 hours ago Hopefully, I have managed to report this without creating an emergency. Somebody has probably just caught the bottom of the sign with the top of a turf load, or it might have just fallen off on its own. The bits of wood that the sign was screwed to have seen better days - and the track is only bog access, there no buildings beyond it to generate any traffic that isn't aware of the bridge. There was no evidence of any impact to the bridge itself, and two 201s passed over whilst I was there, without incident. 2
jhb171achill Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago On 22/3/2026 at 3:34 PM, Galteemore said: Latest info from Rapido. Definite Irish possibilities https://rapidotrains.co.uk/ly-class-25-ironclad/ I'm trawling the McMahon Bibles right now to see what might be a possibility for this loco! Certainly, with a different cab of some sort, dropped into a bucket of dark grey paint it would certainly look Irish. Some 50% of ALL types of steam locomotives which ever ran on all of the Irish railways put together, were of the 0.6.0 wheel arrangement.
Broithe Posted 3 hours ago Author Posted 3 hours ago 2 hours ago, Broithe said: Hopefully, I have managed to report this without creating an emergency. Somebody has probably just caught the bottom of the sign with the top of a turf load, or it might have just fallen off on its own. The bits of wood that the sign was screwed to have seen better days - and the track is only bog access, there no buildings beyond it to generate any traffic that isn't aware of the bridge. There was no evidence of any impact to the bridge itself, and two 201s passed over whilst I was there, without incident. Mmm, thinking about this, it occurs to me that, after the exceptionally wet winter and the state the road was in after it, a 'good load' of stone was added, to improve the surface, which could, perhaps, be a good bit higher that it has been - or was, whenever the clearance was last assessed. I'll see if I can remember to take the means to measure it, whenever we next go there. The reason for being so concerned about not provoking an emergency goes back to a time on the Big Island, when I found a chap in need of an ambulance, collapsed under a bridge on a disused railway, through the middle of an urban cemetery. As is common there now, I ended up talking to a controller who had no real local knowledge and just wanted a Postcode for the location, which didn't have one, of course, even if I would have known it. I knew where I was, but he just didn't understand. I gave him the number of the A-road that ran over the bridge and described the location again, making it clear that we were under the bridge on a disused railway, in the main cemetery, within the town itself. He typed things into his system and came to the alarming conclusion that we were under a different railway bridge, about two and a half miles away. Despite my protests, he convinced himself that I was actually under a bridge on a four-track section of the electrified West Coast Main Line, with the casualty, and we were both about to be electrocuted and run over. It was as much as I could do to stop him turning the power off. I remember saying to him "The last train was in 1976 and there aren't even any rails here now!" I nearly needed treatment when the yellow van turned up... 1 1
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