RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 8, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8, 2014 My guess is that the location in the background isn't a Network Rail location. Odd then that they should put the notices on a gate - or are people meant to block it when parking? And in supermarket car parks when you have a lot of shopping you can actually get it into your boot without difficulty if that end of the car stands open. And it would also be a lot safer if people actually manage to park centrally in a space parallel to the lines (if they are parallel to each other of course) so I reckon Mickey's comment was on the money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Dad - 66 068. That's the same as my Bachmann! Mike Wiltshire 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted June 9, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2014 Is the worker on the left standing in a sensible safe place? The photo was taken while the wooden part of Chesterfield platform over a road bridge was being replaced. Chesterfield Class 47 D1568 Sheffield to St Pancras via Nottingham November 70 C413 David 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 (edited) Caption to post 934: Dad, I've found a fiddle yard with grass. Edited June 10, 2014 by roythebus 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted June 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 10, 2014 My guess is that the location in the background isn't a Network Rail location. It is ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted June 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 10, 2014 It is ! I sit corrected. I also never reverse park in supermarket car parks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Me either. I looked around the French supermarket car park and almost no-one had. As I was putting a large lawnmower into the car it would have been quite inconvenient. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 10, 2014 I'm wondering if the sign was meant for vans, which should always be reverse parked for safety reasons (you can see bu**er all whats behind one when reversing). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted July 13, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 13, 2014 May 1990, and I think I may have been spotted on the opposite platform. Where are they all now I wonder, 24 years later? I hope they are as happy as they were this day. Martin. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer_London Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Following post 898, which featured a picture at Ickenham with a weekend closure for drainage renewal on one line, here's another image from early this morning. Track replacement has started on the London-bound line just south of the station. It's a long-planned block closure for multiple works, lasting three weeks and associated weekends: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/improvements-and-projects/tube-improvement/metropolitan Of course this means a bus diversion to West Ruislip and today, catching the first eastbound Central Line train to work. Literally seconds before this berthed, a fleeting chance for pictures and later, during a morning break, two photo-merging experiments. Locos and barrier wagons are stabled on the link line between Ruislip depot's 27 road and main line signal ME589, probably awaiting return northwards later in the day. No human interest, but included for interest and modelling clues. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer_London Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 This evening's state of progress, plant and people just on the London side of Ickenham on the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines: 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 I will have to ask the question. Are those bespoke concrete sleepers by the catchpit or has someone been out with the disc cutter? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer_London Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Some progress at Ickenham on this second weekend of a three-week block. Conductor rails are down on the London-bound track as far as the sub-station gap. Looks like an end-of shift track walk in progress. ...something to stop and mark for attention: Meanwhile the trains continue to run through the village in the form of the rail replacement bus service: 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I will have to ask the question. Are those bespoke concrete sleepers by the catchpit or has someone been out with the disc cutter? I did ask the question but forgot to post. The concrete sleepers were trimmed to fit where the catch pits are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer_London Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Just passing through, tonight. A track worker walks towards Uxbridge and a machine follows at a steady pace: 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 That is a well trained track machine. Doesn't even need a lead, better than a dog! Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted July 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2014 Bunyola, Mallorca. C E Steele 2014 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Oiling round after the 50 mile run from Wolsztyn, the loco in question being Poland's sole remaining pacific, PM36-2, named 'Beautiful Helena/Piekna Helena'. Interestingly the diesel in the background was withdrawn. Poznan Depot, March 2012. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted July 31, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2014 derby today 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
station cat Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 (edited) Achenseebahn Austria Brakeman Driver backing onto his train Orient Express staff at Innsbruck Attentive Slovakian Station Master Edited August 3, 2014 by station cat 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer_London Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Track check at Northallerton, Friday 8th August, 2014 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted August 13, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2014 I'm sure they're plenty of downsides, but this looks to be a splendid way to spend a working day in August. At least five railwaymen in the rear of Network Rail Inspection Saloon 975025 'Caroline' as it's hauled by 47790 on 2Z02, York to Derby, at Bradley Junction Huddersfield on 13th August 2014. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 (edited) And working on a preserved line can have it's good times In August. "Just two Cornettos" Sheffield Park last week. Edited August 13, 2014 by Merfyn Jones 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo C. Cupier Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Please stand clear of the platform edge, this train is not scheduled to stop .. .. but it did, very briefly, to deposit a staff member. Reminded me of the Jethro story, " this train don't stop Camborne, Thursdays" 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Scott Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 A fascinating thread. I have colected a number of autobiographies of old railwaymen which are fascinatting. Autobiographies by drivers and signalmen are significant in number. Guards stories are however rare. Any ideas why? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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