jhb171achill Posted September 8, 2021 Posted September 8, 2021 3 hours ago, leslie10646 said: At least your off-spring can give you accommodation near the second best narrow gauge railway in the World! The Ffestiniog takes some beating, but the Rhaetian Railway pips it for the top place! Some of the Swiss stuff is indeed truly amazing, and so far free from the sort of run-down privatisation which ravaged the Austrian narrow gauge in the 90s - I was lucky to see THAT 20 years earlier in steam days..... I had a holiday job on the FR in the mid-70s, amazing then and even more so now with the WHR appended, and through trains to Blaenau - when I was there the public trains only went to DDT. Sadly, my offspring resides in South Wales, not north - so the nearest thing is the Gwili Railway, and even that is the best part of an hour away........! Will probably pay it a visit in the autumn. Quote
Galteemore Posted September 8, 2021 Posted September 8, 2021 (edited) Some years ago we lived near - 10 miles - the Mid Hants Rlwy, which in those days ran a semi-daily steam service with 2 locos and Mk1 sets in use, over a respectable distance with some great inclines - and a buffet car. It was possible to spend a day of more or less constant steam haulage for a respectable sum, and often with few other passengers. And some days they had the Thumper DEMU out, which sounds just like an 80 class…. Edited September 8, 2021 by Galteemore 1 Quote
DiveController Posted September 11, 2021 Posted September 11, 2021 Normally not prowling this section of the forum too much but the Royal Scot is a smashing machine. Superb video! Quote
leslie10646 Posted March 24, 2023 Author Posted March 24, 2023 ACCURASCALE wagons seen at Goring! The things people will do for publicity? Hauled by 59.309 from Crewe to Arlington works at Eastleigh! 3 1 Quote
leslie10646 Posted March 24, 2023 Author Posted March 24, 2023 For the Canarian Container Man - On man driving thirty plus artics and even has time to beep us! Very windy day - sorry! Containers.mov 5 1 Quote
Darius43 Posted March 26, 2023 Posted March 26, 2023 For a second I thought you were at Goring-by-Sea, which is two stations down from me. It’s electrified as well but using a different method… Cheers Darius Quote
leslie10646 Posted March 26, 2023 Author Posted March 26, 2023 6 hours ago, Darius43 said: For a second I thought you were at Goring-by-Sea, which is two stations down from me. It’s electrified as well but using a different method… Cheers Darius Ah yes, Darius, I have to differentiate between the two of them when I'm searching Realtimetrains to see what's happening and if it's worth the £4.40 car parking to go and see. That said, the platforms are safer to walk on than our local ploughed up pavements 1 Quote
DJ Dangerous Posted March 28, 2023 Posted March 28, 2023 No Boludas, OPDRs, NISAs or TESUs. What is the world coming to? 1 Quote
leslie10646 Posted April 8, 2023 Author Posted April 8, 2023 (edited) Mayflower in the Meadows near Goring today! En route to Worcester. After she had gone by, I found the line is accessible on the other (sunny) side! TURN THE SOUND UP! MAQ03931.MP4 Edited April 8, 2023 by leslie10646 5 Quote
leslie10646 Posted August 23, 2023 Author Posted August 23, 2023 7pm this evening. VERY obviously handheld by a photographer on a bit of unstable sheugh and using a Mickey Mouse camera - still it's a bit of fun ....... "Bahamas" by the way, returning from Bristol near Goring and really shifting. MVI_2938.MP4 3 Quote
leslie10646 Posted August 26, 2023 Author Posted August 26, 2023 "Leander" this time, really going hard! DON'T TURN THE SOUND UP - YOU'LL BE DEAFENED! IMG_6372.mp4 4 Quote
leslie10646 Posted August 26, 2023 Author Posted August 26, 2023 37.884 Goring.mp4 For the Class 37 men - 37.884 erupting through Goring with EMUs for scrap - appropriately on the anniversary of Vesuvius erupting. 1 Quote
leslie10646 Posted March 16 Author Posted March 16 (edited) Ever wondered what an "800" looked like passing you flat out? Well, a Royal Scot is much the same size. Here she is passing South Stoke near Goring this morning on a God-given sunny day. Sorry about the wind noise! ENJOY! Unfortunately, you can't see the blaze of daffodils (planted by local school children), which I was standing amidst MAQ03942.MP4 Edited March 16 by leslie10646 4 2 Quote
leslie10646 Posted May 3 Author Posted May 3 A special treat (as usual badly filmed) today - a DIFFERENT Class in heavy rain at Goring: The Branch Line Society's tour Return of the Shedi, proceeds to the Martin House Childrens' Hospice (catering by the Mos Eisley Cantina). The Star Wars theme continues with a May the Fourth be With You tour tomorrow. The trainset is the LT 4TC set (previously used on the Southern with the push-pull Class 33.1s (I cleared that class for haulage - did I really admit that?). D6515 in original BRCW Class 3 colours - a "Crompton" (referring to the electric motors, the diesel is a 1550hp Sulzer). She was shown as topping and tailing with a Class 66, but that obviously came on the back later. No less than FIVE diesels planned for use at some point during the day. Certainly a novelty for Goring - everything else ( I saw eight loco-hauled trains in an hour or so) was Class 66s. MAQ03962.MP4 Now, not to let the Container Anoraks down (are you awake in the Canaries, DJD?) - a Class 66 doing the work of forty lorries! MAQ03968.MP4 5 Quote
leslie10646 Posted May 6 Author Posted May 6 (edited) Didcot today to get a run behind a "new" loco. Ex-Lancashire and Yorkshire No. 752 as rebuilt by John Aspinall (of Inchicore fame), running at Great Western Society at Didcot. The new "livery is fake as she was never a BR loco! Then on the other Didcot line, the "Flying Banana"was performing - remember that this was the predecessor of the GNR(I) and CIE AEC railcars. A long sequence, so may take a minute to load! MVI_3186.MP4 Edited May 6 by leslie10646 5 Quote
LNERW1 Posted May 7 Posted May 7 On 26/8/2023 at 11:53 PM, leslie10646 said: 37.884 Goring.mp4 67.94 MB · 0 downloads For the Class 37 men - 37.884 erupting through Goring with EMUs for scrap - appropriately on the anniversary of Vesuvius erupting. I think I recognise this formation-the TikToker Francis Bourgeois (A trainspotter btw, for anyone not aware) chased something akin to this from Willesden to Newport Sims (I think) in a video posted to his YouTube channel last year. Quote
leslie10646 Posted May 7 Author Posted May 7 1 hour ago, LNERW1 said: I think I recognise this formation-the TikToker Francis Bourgeois (A trainspotter btw, for anyone not aware) chased something akin to this from Willesden to Newport Sims (I think) in a video posted to his YouTube channel last year. Quite probably, as they were scrapping perfectly good EMUS by the hundred then and we had a weekly visit from a Class 37, or some other rarity pulling them off to become razor blades ...... They could have electrified a few isolated lines for sixpence a mile, if they'd done it the Scotrail way and re-used them - the Newquay branch jumped to mind! 1 Quote
LNERW1 Posted May 7 Posted May 7 I’ll see if I can find the video. Think they may have been PEPs, as they are his favourite units and IIRC most of them were being withdrawn last year. Quote
leslie10646 Posted July 23 Author Posted July 23 Untitled 3.mov This one is a long way from Goring! Between Worplesdon and Guildford tonight at 8.30pm on an evening circuit to allow people to enjoy an expensive dinner! Britannia has THIRTEEN coaches plus the inevitable diesel. Doing most of the work. TURN THE SOUND UP! Brits are noisy beasts - this is half the video which is 100 Mb - worth waiting for it to download - nice and noisy to the point were he eases at the white lineside cabinet. ! 3 Quote
leslie10646 Posted July 24 Author Posted July 24 The Burnhouse Bridge! Today's Dorset Coast Express. This morning at The Burnhouse Bridge (GNR men will remember another bridge by that name on the Banbridge line?) Then tonight, the return IN THE DARK - but good sounds! IMG_9252.MOV Tonight - An hour or so ago! IMG_9253.MOV 2 Quote
jhb171achill Posted July 24 Posted July 24 When I saw "Burnhouse", I'm looking for an old UG or SG3 shoving a couple of goods vans about, with "U T" stencilled on their faded paint! Quote
leslie10646 Posted July 25 Author Posted July 25 That was the reason I stuck a title on the video! This Burnhouse Bridge is closer to my present home, than the one near Knockmore Junction was to my home in Belfast! Another Ulster connection was that two Ulster "timers" of my circle were on the train - while they would have loved to have had a UG under the original bridge, it wouldn't have been making as much noise and had ten passenger coaches behind it! Quote
leslie10646 Posted July 31 Author Posted July 31 Especially for the diesel men! 69.004 (I think) taken with my new iPhone 13. Note the little twitch when he acknowledged my presence by a toot on the horn! A daily Hoo Jct (in Kent , I think) to Eastleigh train, taken during my walk along the Basingstoke Canal. IMG_0002 copy.mov 2 Quote
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