Train and railways passion...

LordSplodge said:
Now this thread is far too full of modern plastic tat. Where are the pictures of fire breathing steam engines?
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[TW]Fox;18847958 said:
Last year I went to Belgium by train.

Not a single train in Belgium was on time - one was over an hour late.

By contrast every train on the UK part of the journey was on time.
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never been in belgium only have taken a lot of trains in germany and switzerland and they are pretty much always on time

unlike the english ones (i travel 3 hours every day by train) are nearly every day late :(

and i don't trust the statistics either since they say +/- 5minutes on a local train is still on time which i think it isnt :D
 
LordSplodge said:
Indeed that Class 37 is a little broken to say the least. Mind you even on top form they don't sound anywhere near as good as a Deltic even if they do look a little similar.

Now this thread is far too full of modern plastic tat. Where are the pictures of fire breathing steam engines?
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OUT and take your coal fired rubbish with you





oh and epic cold start

 
Mr Joshua said:
The 37s always seemed to throw out a lot of muck from a cold start.
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Sure they do but it clears pretty quickly when the engine is working properly!

[TW]Fox;18847958 said:
Last year I went to Belgium by train.

Not a single train in Belgium was on time - one was over an hour late.

By contrast every train on the UK part of the journey was on time.
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By contrast I have travelled in Germany by train and only one train was late. A whole minute late, a minute that was announced on the station message boards. The damn system was like clockwork.

My trains I take in the UK (and I don't take that many) nearly always tend to be a little late. That's not the real problem. The real issue is the fact that they are nearly always overcrowded with people even sitting in the bogs ffs!
 
memyselfandi said:
Ha ... if you want to get lost try Shinjuku station in Tokyo, preferably at rush hour, or if you want something on a massive scale try the main entrance hall at Kyoto station.

If you want utter boredom try Beeston station just outside Nottingham.
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Obviously never been to Falmouth then... :p 1 train that goes back and forward on a single line of track without even a ticket office.

Foxtrot26 said:

anything doing this much damage to the environment MUST be cool :)
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Are you sure there's not a volcano going off behind that train?
 
cymatty said:
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Ahh the A4. Last summer when I was at NYMR near Whitby I noticed the Sir Nigel Gresley was running. I was like a giddy schoolgirl riding through the moors (in Gresely carriages not the less) by an A4.

For some reason the wife preferred the return trip being pulled by the Duchess of Sutherland. Heathen...

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American? Burgh. :D
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If someone in Ancient Greece had been blessed with a spark of creativity and connected the railways with Hero's steam engine, we could have had steam powered railways in the first century AD. :D
 
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