RMweb Premium nightstar.train Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 13 hours ago, Andy Kirkham said: A couple more gems from Roger Joanes I love this, it's absolutely fantastic. Narrow gauge, wonderful station building, hilly terrain, lots of trees, seems to be on some sort of bridge. Fantastic location to model, if I didn't have other projects on! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Isherwood Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 3 minutes ago, nightstar.train said: I love this, it's absolutely fantastic. Narrow gauge, wonderful station building, hilly terrain, lots of trees, seems to be on some sort of bridge. Fantastic location to model, if I didn't have other projects on! ...... and a Giesel ejector to boot! CJI. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Will Crompton Posted June 19 Popular Post Share Posted June 19 An Inner Party train being marshalled in Airstrip 1. Alternatively a picture of Bradford Exchange from May 1967 by Robert Anderson. 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nightstar.train Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 (edited) 16 minutes ago, nightstar.train said: I love this, it's absolutely fantastic. Narrow gauge, wonderful station building, hilly terrain, lots of trees, seems to be on some sort of bridge. Fantastic location to model, if I didn't have other projects on! (Apologies for the faux pas of quoting myself) Found this picture on wiki commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Librería_Escolar._Oviedo._Asturias._Estación_de_Fuso_de_la_Reina.jpg The location is even better than I thought, straight off a massive viaduct into the station and a tunnel! Very model railway! Edited June 19 by nightstar.train Can't spell 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 1 hour ago, nightstar.train said: I love this, it's absolutely fantastic. Narrow gauge, wonderful station building, hilly terrain, lots of trees, seems to be on some sort of bridge. Fantastic location to model, if I didn't have other projects on! It lasted until quite recently. According to this it closed in 2009 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuso_de_la_Reina 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 1 minute ago, Andy Kirkham said: It lasted until quite recently. According to this it closed in 2009 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuso_de_la_Reina And strangely enough, the station building seems to have lost its upper stories, then regained them post-closure. https://www.railastur.es/el-ministerio-buscara-alternativas-de-uso-a-diez-estaciones-en-la-rampa-de-pajares/fuso-de-la-reina/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 Another place with a similar configuration was Međeđa in Bosnia. There was a junction beyond the bridge and each branch disappeared into a tunnel. In this photo the second tunnel is hidden behind the station building 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 Want BIG industry but will small footprint? Try Bolsover: 20064 Bolsover 17-7-86 by John Dedman, on Flickr 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Andy Kirkham said: Another place with a similar configuration was Međeđa in Bosnia. There was a junction beyond the bridge and each branch disappeared into a tunnel. In this photo the second tunnel is hidden behind the station building Here's a better picture (from here https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnische_Ostbahn) Edited June 19 by Andy Kirkham 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Crompton Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 OO ER MRS!!!! Look closely if you dare. Photo by Adrian Nicholls from Flickr. 10 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hexagon789 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 3 minutes ago, Porcy Mane said: New one on me. Towards the end of its life in Britain, it became more common on freight as concerns with Kestrel's high axle load (even after lighter Class 47 bogies were substituted for its originals) saw it side-lined from passenger duties. It had previously done a stint on one of the load limited accelerated Newcastle diagrams. 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt37268 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 6 hours ago, hexagon789 said: Towards the end of its life in Britain, it became more common on freight as concerns with Kestrel's high axle load (even after lighter Class 47 bogies were substituted for its originals) saw it side-lined from passenger duties. It had previously done a stint on one of the load limited accelerated Newcastle diagrams. Wasn’t it allocated to Shirebrook towards the end of its life? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hexagon789 Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 8 hours ago, Matt37268 said: Wasn’t it allocated to Shirebrook towards the end of its life? Believe so, yes. It appeared on Freightliners as well as coal traffic. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted June 20 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20 20 hours ago, Andy Kirkham said: It lasted until quite recently. According to this it closed in 2009 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuso_de_la_Reina Looks pretty intact on the Google Street View image, dated 2012. No upper storey, though! https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3186517,-5.9249657,3a,75y,136.89h,90.45t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYfgB45T0rpPY4tMGN_CWMA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DYfgB45T0rpPY4tMGN_CWMA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D136.88860530404426%26pitch%3D-0.4455232697134761%26thumbfov%3D90!7i13312!8i6656?authuser=0&coh=205410&entry=ttu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted June 20 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20 22 hours ago, Andy Kirkham said: And strangely enough, the station building seems to have lost its upper stories, then regained them post-closure. https://www.railastur.es/el-ministerio-buscara-alternativas-de-uso-a-diez-estaciones-en-la-rampa-de-pajares/fuso-de-la-reina/ And the answer is, there is (or were) two stations at Fuso de la Reina, both at entrances to tunnels and both wye shaped! They were at two corners of a triangular junction. https://www.google.com/maps/search/fuso-de-la-reina/@43.3212676,-5.9306659,18z?authuser=0&entry=ttu The western one has a single storey building, quite modern looking while the eastern one is the two storey building shown in the OP. I'm not sure what the current status is, but on Google Maps which seem to date from 2008-2012 the track looks in very good condition to the west, but disused / abandoned to the east. The line doesn't appear on the RENFE Oviedo area network map. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted June 20 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20 (edited) 3 hours ago, hexagon789 said: Believe so, yes. It appeared on Freightliners as well as coal traffic. An old thread on RMweb mentioned Kestrel on Hull-Stratford Freightliners: 4C66 & 4C70 southbound and 4H66 northbound. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/142073-kestrel-hull-stratford-freightliner/ (Flickr links in thread don't seem to work anymore but not had time to see if there are any pics elsewhere). Potted history of Kestrel at derbysulzers mentions the various passenger & freight duties (Test trains and in-service evaluation) https://www.derbysulzers.com/HS4000.html Edited June 20 by keefer 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted June 21 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 21 Yorkshire Pullman Hadley Wood 1970 by KDH Archive 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 (edited) 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: Hadley Wood Anyone know if that view is still possible? Looking at maps, there seems to be a footpath running from the station up the hillside, but it's hard to see if the vegetation is in the way on an aerial photo! Edited June 21 by eastwestdivide Punctuation Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 27 minutes ago, eastwestdivide said: Anyone know if that view is still possible? Looking at maps, there seems to be a footpath running from the station up the hillside, but it's hard to see if the vegetation is in the way on an aerial photo! It certainly looks like it. Play with the transparency slider on the NLS map to get an idea. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.5&lat=51.67092&lon=-0.17784&layers=168&b=1&o=100 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 5 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: Anyone know if that view is still possible? Looking at maps, there seems to be a footpath running from the station up the hillside, but it's hard to see if the vegetation is in the way on an aerial photo! Cab ride videos can be useful for this sort of thing nowadays. Here's one from autumn 2023, on a nice sunny day so you can see the lay of the land fairly clearly... https://youtu.be/5DCGyoWR7m0?t=576 Freeze-frame it when you get past the unit in the down slow platform. Usual lineside scrub-fest by the look of it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted June 22 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22 On 19/06/2024 at 12:59, Steven B said: Want BIG industry but will small footprint? Try Bolsover: 20064 Bolsover 17-7-86 by John Dedman, on Flickr Telegraph poles both sides of a single line. Probably also qualifies for 'prototype for everything' section. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted June 22 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22 Huge number of arms on each pole too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 23 Author Share Posted June 23 (edited) I've always wanted to model Bradford Interchange ever since there was a feature about in Practical Model Railways and I think this picture just about sums up why... Bradford Interchange 1977 by Robert Carroll Edited June 23 by montyburns56 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 @montyburns56 And don't forget Deltis too at Bradford. Oh it was all so different back then - I think whoever designed the new station was a railway modeller looking for a simple layout to build but run big trains on haha. 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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