And the next photo will have...(real railway version)

[The Stationmaster]

I was looking for something more like this - although it is a bit of a mixture between a junction and a flat crossing.

BR 4 6 2 70024 Vulcan Shrewsbury 20 4 1960.jpg

I had been thinking of Retford or Newark as plain flat crossings, but clearly had forgotten that they were just double track crossings.

 

 

Perhaps a wild card is called for?

 

That's much better but it still isn't a 'proper' flat crossing such as Retford or Newark - but better than other offerings.

[melmerby]

This is the best photo I can find on the net:

http://www.dhke.com/CRJ/21st_photo.jpg

 

Keith

 

Some Googles here of different flat junctions:

https://goo.gl/maps/gBDLG6Ht54R2

https://goo.gl/maps/t1CQueh2AmJ2

https://goo.gl/maps/cVpwoPbyzMQ2

 

All around Chicago

Edited May 5, 2017 by melmerby

[TheSignalEngineer]

How about this one at Round Oak South. Private railway, the Pensnett (aka Earl of Dudley's) Railway crossing the OWW line and BR sidings. Also in the background a steelworks loco.

 

[EddieB]

Here's another famous flat crossing - at Hilal on the outskirts of Izmir, where the lines from the city's two termini cross at right angles.  It used to be a favourite spot for photographers in steam days, when it was out in the open, but now it has been encroached by the expanding city, a network of overhead walkways and an elevated metro line - all of which means that it is just about impossible to get decent shots of trains on the crossing any more.

 

 

So what is currently the plat du jour?  We've had some rather tenuous Greeks (I'm surprised at the lack of named locos such as Achilles, Python, Ixion), various flat crossings, a wildcard leading to a state capital (as opposed to a national capital) and a request for an X2000 set (I have photos in its native Sweden, but not on a World Tour) - I'm befuddled!

 

 

[John ks]

Maybe i was too specific When I asked for the X2000 on its world tour

So if EddieB wants to post his X2000 I be happy & we can move on

Else a Wild Card

 

John

[EddieB]

Ok, here's SJ X2 2022 at Eskilstuna in Fe-brrr-uary 2001 (not much like Brisbane).

 

 

Line drawn

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Let's go with a sort of wildcard next.  Can we please have something from someone who has posted less than five times in this thread?

[Zomboid]

Woody Bay atmosphere. Taken in August 2015...

Next let's have a photo of absolutely anything railway related taken in 48 hours before it is posted.

Edited May 5, 2017 by Zomboid

[bimble]

I'm guessing it's wild card time? Here's a Great Western HST running on what is normally South West lines at Pirbright Junction (just west of Brookwood), due to Reading being closed.

 

 

How about something else not where you'd normally expect it to see it.

[Zomboid]

I didn't expect "take a photo and post it" would be a thread killer...

[jonny777]

I'm guessing it's wild card time? Here's a Great Western HST running on what is normally South West lines at Pirbright Junction (just west of Brookwood), due to Reading being closed.

 

 

How about something else not where you'd normally expect it to see it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

86238 at Brundall 1992

 

 

 

How about a photo with more than 7 locos in shot

[TheSignalEngineer]

57308 Tin Tin and 47786 at Glossop, 10th May 2009. 

 

Next up, let's have one taken in the under portion of a mechanical signal box, showing locking or cranks etc

 

Edit, Beaten to it. 

Edited May 7, 2017 by TheSignalEngineer

[TheSignalEngineer]

I think there at least 11 locos in this shot at Bridgnorth in 1973.

 

 

Next up, let's have one taken in the under portion of a mechanical signal box, showing locking or cranks etc

Edited May 7, 2017 by TheSignalEngineer

[phil_sutters]

I didn't expect "take a photo and post it" would be a thread killer...

I am very lazy. I could have walked around the corner and taken a photo of Martin Murdoch's 5" gauge railway open day, or I could have sat at my desk and forged a view of it, by cutting and pasting an old view of an earlier open day on top of any photo taken today. That would have given an initial impression of a current photo when a quick glance would have shown today's exif info. But I did neither!

[eastwestdivide]

...

Next up, let's have one taken in the under portion of a mechanical signal box, showing locking or cranks etc

I've plenty of photos of cranks, but most are hanging out of the windows of 1980s-era excursions.

[The Stationmaster]

Here you go SE - proper job locking   Complete with some signal engineering folk looking at it or photographing it   (Bishops Bridge on the SDR during an IRSE visit)

 

 

 

And next - an unusual semaphore signal, could be one in a place you wouldn't expect to see a signal like that, could be a rare(ish) survivor of an earlier type, or have unusual arms that might be mismatched.

Edited May 8, 2017 by The Stationmaster

[Metr0Land]

Annacotty (Ireland) Oct 2008.  Irish signals with combined home/distant arms, and one signal on RHS for sighting purposes

 

A narrow-gauge (ie narrower than 4' 8.5") electric loco pls (with or without train)

Edited May 8, 2017 by Metr0Land

[EddieB]

There is an extensive network of 750mm lines serving the peat industry around Tootsi in Estonia (a place Al Jolson was only too happy to leave?).  Tracks in the fields tend to be laid temporarily while the peat is extracted.  The centre of operations has a small fleet of OHLE locomotives, such as this one.

 

 

Next - a before and after restoration project (two photos needed).

[TheSignalEngineer]

Brit on the SVR 1973

 

And at Willesden c1990, can't find the exact date.

 

Now for something McKenzie & Holland, in active service, could be on a preserved line.

[EddieB]

This should be "up my street" as McKenzie and Holland built a number of signal boxes for the Great Eastern Railway, furnished them with their lever frames, which operated M&H lower quadrant signals with distinctive finials.  Here is Attleborough signal box, as repainted back in LNER style, a couple of years ago.

 

 

However, I don't think the box was still "in active service" when I took that picture - so here's an older one of the distinctively propped up signal box at Shippea Hill - definitely in use in 1979 when this shot was taken.

 

 

Next - do we have any wider than standard gauge electric locomotives out there?

[big jim]

This thread has gone a bit too specific in its "ask's" for my liking now!

 

Had someone not put a pic of a signal box I'd be asking what Mckenzie and holland was about now?

 

Anyway for the next pic I want a photo of a pink train with old style OHLE flashes with a mountain in the background with snow on, narrow gauge loco imported from Glasgow works between the dates of 1-7 th June 1903

 

And the drivers name must be Jeff, who owns a cat called tiddles

[EddieB]

Sorry Jim, but which Glasgow works did you have in mind - there's so many to choose from?

[Steven B]

This one might be pushing it a little; It's note quite a loco, but at 3' 6" it is technically wider gauge than the Manx standard of 3'.

Car number 5 on Snaefell summit:

 

 

 

If this is OK, lets have a photo of a railway line after it closed.

[EddieB]

Good try, Steven but technically narrow gauge in my book and not a loco.  

 

Nice photo though!

[TheSignalEngineer]

This thread has gone a bit too specific in its "ask's" for my liking now!

 

Had someone not put a pic of a signal box I'd be asking what Mckenzie and holland was about now?

 

Anyway for the next pic I want a photo of a pink train with old style OHLE flashes with a mountain in the background with snow on, narrow gauge loco imported from Glasgow works between the dates of 1-7 th June 1903

 

And the drivers name must be Jeff, who owns a cat called tiddles

John McKenzie and Walter Holland were employees of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway who in 1862 formed a partnership with Thomas Clunes who owned the Vulcan Iron Works in Worcester to manufacture an interlocking frame. They introduced their first power signalling in the UK in conjunction with Westinghouse Brake on the Great Eastern Railway in 1899. 

In 1901 they were involved with Saxby & Farmer, Evans O,Donnell, and Dutton in the Consolidated Signalling group. 1907 they formed McKenzie, Holland and Westinghouse Power Signal Company which provided signalling for the London Underground network.

In 1920 Westinghouse Brake acquired the interests of Consolidated Signalling and McKenzie & Holland became part of Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signalling, although the McK & H name was used in Australia until the 1970s

[Claude_Dreyfus]

 

Next - do we have any wider than standard gauge electric locomotives out there?

 

 

Not an ideal picture, but this should fit the bill. A 5' gauge Finnish Sr2 at Helsinki back in 2009.

 

Stick with the railway line after it closed for the next picture.

Edited May 8, 2017 by Claude_Dreyfus