jhb171achill Posted September 8, 2021 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galteemore Posted September 8, 2021 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted September 11, 2021 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted March 24, 2023 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted March 24, 2023 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius43 Posted March 26, 2023 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted March 26, 2023 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 No Boludas, OPDRs, NISAs or TESUs. What is the world coming to? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted April 8, 2023 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted August 23, 2023 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Is it DC or DCC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted August 26, 2023 Author Share Posted August 26, 2023 "Leander" this time, really going hard! DON'T TURN THE SOUND UP - YOU'LL BE DEAFENED! IMG_6372.mp4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted August 26, 2023 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted March 16 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabhal Luimnigh Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Beautiful video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted May 3 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted May 6 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeconna Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Fabulous place to visit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERW1 Posted May 7 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted May 7 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERW1 Posted May 7 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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