AI-generated (not entirely realistic) railway images

[Sun Chariot]

1945 with BR(Sc) enamel signs?

They were early adopters.

 

[Ashley Hill]

They were early adopters.

I’ve recently tried doing Blue Pullmans in various liveries. I’d be embarrassed at what AI came up with!

 

[Sun Chariot]

I’ve recently tried doing Blue Pullmans in various liveries. I’d be embarrassed at what AI came up with!

I did a Blue Pullman for the RM Web thread earlier this year, a Saltley / Solihull inspired location.
The resulting render not only had all the cab-angles and livery spot-on, it also rendered the two Kitchen Firsts correctly and in the correct train-formation. Impressive.

 

[YSTrains]

This is the best i can do

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If the Great Northern route transfer does go ahead...

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One more concept....

 

[Sun Chariot]

Recalling the period from June 1963 to September 1966, with A4s on Glasgow Buchanan Street to Aberdeen '3-hour' trains.
1) 60024 Kingfisher flies northwards, through Angus county.
2) The Highland Main Line is re-imagined; this A4 is diverted from its 1963-1966 stomping-ground.

I’ve recently tried doing Blue Pullmans in various liveries. I’d be embarrassed at what AI came up with!

Here are:
WR set passing Princes Risbro' (Kitchen First car is farthest-visible carriage).
MR set (as a charter, with two Parlours added at rear) on WR near re-imagined Solihull.


Google's Gemini AI subscription model is becoming less and less-appealing, sadly.
The Gemini Plus recent update severely limits how much Pro-level data (create AI images) can be used; from mid-November, access to Pro will be removed completely.
That means paying a four-fold increase each month, just to get the same as I've previously had; I'm not prepared to do that, so it might mean you no longer see me here.

 

[Topological]

That is disappointing, though as I have never paid for anything Gemini, I should still be able to churn out slop.

 

[Sun Chariot]

I knew I could count on you @Topological

 

[Ashley Hill]

WR set passing Princes Risbro' (Kitchen First car is farthest-visible carriage).
MR set (as a charter, with two Parlours added at rear) on WR near re-imagined Solihull.

Very nice.
Here is the best of what Gemini created for me the other day. Wrong, so very wrong!


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Guess the TV programme?

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Guess the TV programme?
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Little House On The Prairie. Do I win a prize?

 

[Sun Chariot]

Little House On The Prairie. Do I win a prize?

And there was me hoping it might be George Clark's Amazing Spaces, or Escape to the Country.

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Here is the best of what Gemini created for me the other day. Wrong, so very wrong!
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Two-tier travel. Platform ingress/egress for First Class ticket-holders only. It could work.
There was me, thinking Chris Green might have acquired the Pullman sets, given them a fit-out (2+2 seating) and run 'em between Waterloo and Exeter. That would have swiftly culled their engines and traction-motors!

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Sound the horn. Frosty dawn in 1970s north fenland; and the Blankney Hunt's chase is thwarted by an approaching class 37. Today, fox wins!

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Hot date. Inspired by my own ascent of Snowdon's Pig Trail in 1998; and the sight of two young lovers lacking the right type of protection.

 

[D6130]

And there was me hoping it might be George Clark's Amazing Spaces, or Escape to the Country.

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Two-tier travel. Platform ingress/egress for First Class ticket-holders only. It could work.
There was me, thinking Chris Green might have acquired the Pullman sets, given them a fit-out (2+2 seating) and run 'em between Waterloo and Exeter. That would have swiftly culled their engines and traction-motors!

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Sound the horn. Frosty dawn in 1970s north fenland; and the Blankney Hunt's chase is thwarted by an approaching class 37. Today, fox wins!

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Hot date. Inspired by my own ascent of Snowdon's Pig Trail in 1998; and the sight of two young lovers lacking the right type of protection.

Looks more like Kent with the oast houses in the background....and also the North Fenland line would have been double track prior to electrification.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Looks more like Kent with the oast houses in the background....and also the North Fenland line would have been double track prior to electrification.

I had the erstwhile Middleton Towers line in my mind, when I wrote it. Formerly two- track, the gap between surviving pw and the left fence (behind riders) is clue of its former status.
The field begged for a distinctive building, it's an enterprising Norfolk cottage-brewer.

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I wrote a re-imagination of Kings Lynn to Middleton Towers because it was a sedately-paced line at the best of times.
The driver saw the hunt's approach across the adjacent field. Brakes on, blast on the horn, judicuous skill to approach the crossing at a walking-pace. All those Beagles have time to sprint across safely.
The over-fed huntsmen have no such luck, as their steeds are having none of it... You might notice one horse has already dismounted its monacled moron (spread-eagled in the field, off left of this scene).
A virtual guard is shouting obscenities at the huntsmen, from the rear cab.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Hot date. Inspired by my own ascent of Snowdon's Pig Trail in 1998; and the sight of two young lovers lacking the right type of protection.

Talking of Snowdon, the ongoing issue of too many people queuing for a selfie at the summit seems to be getting worse.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Epic image @CaptainHaddock, it's exactly how I remember it in 1998

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Hard at work. The grimy J94 and its driver have no time for the young shirkers. An imminent blast of the whistle will see off their moody demeanour and get them running.

 

[Class73Electro]

Could someone put the 99 in a BR Large logo Livery please? Think 66789. Thanks!

 

[D6130]

Epic image @CaptainHaddock and that iz exactly how I remember it in 1998

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Hard at work. The grimy J94 and its driver have no time for the young shirkers. An imminent blast of the whistle will see off their moody demeanour and get them running.

Breasting the summit of the 1 in 14 Hopton incline on the Cromford & High Peak line, who would expect to find a Teddy Boy convention in progress?!

 

[Sun Chariot]

Breasting the summit of the 1 in 14 Hopton incline on the Cromford & High Peak line, who would expect to find a Teddy Boy convention in progress?!

I rather hoped those five shifty metal-thieves might get their come-uppance...

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I'm thinking about a virtual scene in homage to the late Sir William McAlpine's Fawley Hill Railway, on his Oxfordshire estate. A 1:14 incline rising to 1:13, all adhesion-worked.
Here's a YouTube clip

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Single-line working. Bedlam on the Bentham.
Next stop: Hellifield's town-centre pubs - but will these ladies get police orders before Last Orders...?

 

[EveningStar]

Talking of Snowdon, the ongoing issue of too many people queuing for a selfie at the summit seems to be getting worse.

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Can tell that is AI generated ... not in the deep cloud that normally envelopes the summit whenever I visit.

 

[D6130]

Single-line working. Bedlam on the Bentham.
Next stop: Hellifield's town-centre pubs - but will these ladies get police orders before Last Orders...?

That must have been a while ago....no 156s on the Bentham line nowadays - especially Heaton-allocated ones, although I suppose it could - at a stretch - be the Saturdays-only Rochdale-Ribblehead service. I'm afraid the 'ladies' are going to be rather disappointed. There's only one pub in Hellifield village centre - The Black Horse - and the last few times that I've been past it's been closed and boarded-up.

 

[Sun Chariot]

That must have been a while ago....no 156s on the Bentham line nowadays - especially Heaton-allocated ones, although I suppose it could - at a stretch - be the Saturdays-only Rochdale-Ribblehead service. I'm afraid the 'ladies' are going to be rather disappointed. There's only one pub in Hellifield village centre - The Black Horse - and the last few times that I've been past it's been closed and boarded-up.

They are indeed Rochdale lasses! They had already been barred from Castleton and Oldham; I wager they are the real reason why The Black Horse is boarded-up.

 

[D6130]

They are indeed Rochdale lasses! They had already been barred from Castleton and Oldham; I wager they are the real reason why The Black Horse is boarded-up.