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Nice video here on YouTube:

Trains DID start to use one of the tubes again while they constructed the new deck alongside. Then that tube was dismantled once the rail traffic moved to the other side.

I would say the Britannia Bridge in Anglesey qualifies to a certain degree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Bridge#Fire_and_reconstruction " The Royal Engineers were quickly brought in to save the bridge, rapidly deploying vertical Bailey bridge units to fill the original jacking slots...

This just goes to show the importance of getting the business / company structure right for this kind of operation - as they clearly did here. If the assets had been owned by the trading company it would have been a much nastier outcome. I hope 2021 brings them good fortune and they can turn...

One of the stupidest things I saw was at Dusseldorf airport. An escalator heading down to towards the boarding bridge with a closed barrier right at the bottom. I pushed the emergency stop button before a crush occurred but from what I could see this was by design and would most likely happen...

I think you miss the point of this discussion entirely. Or are you the member of the station staff who claims to be reading this thread?? :D Many people here are reporting appalling encounters with staff even when they don't have their "spotters hat" on.

In the early 90's I was bashing and took a run in on the Euston - Blackpool North with a 47/8 and mark 2's. I remember distinctly standing on the platform watching them shunt and nobody bothered me. What did stick in my mind was the shunting technique which ended up with the rake hitting the...

Funny you should mention that branch line stub as I was given a first hand account by one the local spotters of seeing a class 90 heading down there until it ran out of wire. They described the pantograph shooting up in the air and then coming back down fully - I assume that is some kind of...

If I was a skilled cartoonist I would love to do a sketch of a GC class 90 trying to enter Blackpool station platform with some jackass staff member demanding to see it's ticket before being allowed in!

Well look at it this way. If you want to tell them what pathetic, worthless losers they are then just post it here and they will read it in due course :D Personally I hope the drunks puke on their shoes every single day ha ha

That statement is full of holes and inherently wrong. See the following link for better information. I agree that it gets into a grey area on private land but the above statement is incorrect. https://www.blpawards.org/competition/photo-rights

"Covid filming" - that's what they call a Freudian slip! But seriously covert filming is no different to someone just not seeing that you are doing it. I am not a lawyer but from what I read as long as you are one half of the conversation then it's legally fine. It's when you start secretly...

From reading all these horror stories it strikes me that some covert filming and posting to social media of the more extreme examples of rudeness would be in order. I have often thought that a smartphone in the top pocket with the camera facing forward and set to record video would be enough to...

The talk of hydraulic wheelslip reminds me of this video I saw on YouTube:

Wow!!! Cool pictures and clearly he knows how to use a drone to it's full advantage.

HST's working Newcastle to Sunderland evening local stopping services in the early 1990's vice DMU were fun to see. Didn't fit most of the platforms but safety was not such a concern in those days :D

Maybe he took offence to this comment - both the Flickr account is gone and YouTube videos deleted o_O

Would be cool if it was 40145. Especially as there is another current thread in Railway History & Nostalgia which mentions 40152 working a rake of mark 3's in 1983 across the S & C. Would be quite a nod to that working to see classmate plus mark 3's.

Ha ha - I laughed at that. Reminded me of what I heard the initials BLS (Branch Line Society) really stands for - Bufferstop Licking Society.

I remember 40152 doing that turn. Found this picture on Flickr of it - not my photo just to be totally clear. At the time I was only 8 years old :D whistler on the scot by stephen mcgahon, on Flickr