#britishrail — Public Fediverse posts
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Now that’s something you don’t see everyday at #BristolTempleMeads railway station. 🚂
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Now that’s something you don’t see everyday at #BristolTempleMeads railway station. 🚂
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Now that’s something you don’t see everyday at #BristolTempleMeads railway station. 🚂
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Now that’s something you don’t see everyday at #BristolTempleMeads railway station. 🚂
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Now that’s something you don’t see everyday at #BristolTempleMeads railway station. 🚂
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Two storied locomotives with a very special train.
This is Balfour Beatty's drain train, which cleans areas of the tracks where drainage isn't great.
But arguably, the more interesting part is the locomotives, 20901 and 20905.
These are old Class 20 locomotives built in November 1959 and January 1968 respectively, to a design that has it's roots in even older designs, dating back to the LMS (pre British Rail, which was formed in 1948).Out of these two locomotives, 20901 (the last two photos) is the most legendary - having been one of the main sources of motive power on the Kosovo Train for Life, which travelled on rails to Kosovo after the 1999 Kosovo War. This means that it ran through UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and of course, Kosovo. Meaning that it's one of the furthest running British locomotive ever (possibly beaten by 92015 that transported containers that had originated in china, through the Channel Tunnel and into the UK). It faced difficulty in North Macedonia when it was held for a ransom of $8000.
I got really lucky with these photos, since a Balfour Beatty employee noticed me whilst waiting for the train to arrive, who then invited me to go trackside since, I quote, "there's no-one around, it's fine". From there I got these stunning shots of the locomotives.
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Vera star Brenda Blethyn shares retirement plans ahead of 80th birthday
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I've never even heard of Beaver County, or their lazy sevens logo from 2024.
#L7 #LazySevens #BC #BeaverCounty #BritishColumbia #NSW #UTA #STA #UrbanTransit #UrbanTransitAuthority #SRA #StateRail #StateRailAuthority #CityRail #NSWPTC #PTC #Breng #BR #BritishRail #GreatBritishRail #SBB #NS
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I've never even heard of Beaver County, or their lazy sevens logo from 2024.
#L7 #LazySevens #BC #BeaverCounty #BritishColumbia #NSW #UTA #STA #UrbanTransit #UrbanTransitAuthority #SRA #StateRail #StateRailAuthority #CityRail #NSWPTC #PTC #Breng #BR #BritishRail #GreatBritishRail #SBB #NS
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I've never even heard of Beaver County, or their lazy sevens logo from 2024.
#L7 #LazySevens #BC #BeaverCounty #BritishColumbia #NSW #UTA #STA #UrbanTransit #UrbanTransitAuthority #SRA #StateRail #StateRailAuthority #CityRail #NSWPTC #PTC #Breng #BR #BritishRail #GreatBritishRail #SBB #NS
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I've never even heard of Beaver County, or their lazy sevens logo from 2024.
#L7 #LazySevens #BC #BeaverCounty #BritishColumbia #NSW #UTA #STA #UrbanTransit #UrbanTransitAuthority #SRA #StateRail #StateRailAuthority #CityRail #NSWPTC #PTC #Breng #BR #BritishRail #GreatBritishRail #SBB #NS
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British Rail SR-N6 Seaspeed Hovercraft, c.1970 - WJ Nigh & Son Postcard
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British Rail SR-N6 Seaspeed Hovercraft, c.1970 - WJ Nigh & Son Postcard
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Margaret Thatcher wird in ihrem Grab rotieren. #Bahnfahrer schöpfen jedoch Hoffnung für #BritishRail. Mal sehen, was daraus wird.
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Take a look back at the Euston of yesteryear... Where the concourse now stands was housing! #EustonStation #Railway #BritishRail https://youtu.be/8ZZffZ9CRXo?si=Z4MBU3k3z0-ME12F
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This video has everything: #ModernComposition #olivetti corporate staff, vintage #BritishRail trains, and of course what is now #retrocomputing, but back then would have been cutting edge technology.
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British Rail Class K1 2-6-0 No 2005 at Goathland Station - ETW Dennis Postcard
#BritishRail #Railways #Trains #Goathland #Postcard #Postcards
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British Rail Diesel Electric No 67172 at Manningtree, 1979 - J Davenport Photograph
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Have they re-nationalised the railways yet?
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What about now?
#JustChecking
#BritishRail #BritishRailways #BR #trains #UK #GE2024 #Labour #politics -
A picture taken while spending a month travelling on European rails with an #InterRail pass, in August 1985: two #BritishRail #InterCity125 #HST trainsets are seen here at #Plymouth 🇬🇧 station.
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#Plymouth 🇬🇧 in August 1985: a #BritishRail #Class47 diesel is leading a westbound service composed of #Mk1 carriages. Picture taken while on an #InterRail tour.
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Buxton railway station fanlight (some time ago - back when there was such a thing as 'British Rail')
#photography #Buxton #BritishRail #fanlight #Derbyshire -
Contrary to popular opinion: seats in Standard Class haven’t always aligned with the windows… Though the First Class seats on an APT did! Also: do you remember when you could buy cigarettes in the buffet car of trains? I can’t! #APT #TiltingTrain #BritishRail
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GWR Express Cartage Fleet, Paddington Station - British Rail Postcard
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A former #BritishRail #slamdoor unit working a scheduled #heritage train: 3Cig third-rail EMU #1498 is seen here arriving at #Lymington Pier (with the ferry to the Isle of #Wight visible in the distance). Picture taken in, if I remember well, 2006.
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Next leg today: #Aberdeen to #Edinburgh. A former #BritishRail #InterCity125 #HST branded as #ScotRail 🏴 #Inter7City is working this service. No @diningcar here on the train but there is a buffet counter … which is closed. A trolley service provides some catering instead
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I wonder if this bench in #Kemble station was basically one third built when they nationalised #GWR in 1947, whereupon it became part of the Western Region of #BritishRail.
The other benches in the station with the same design have the GWR logo on all three legs.
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Watching a fantastic #Channel4 doc on the #privatisation of the railways. So good that the problems with this plan are being highlighted by a national broadcaster, more people need to see this. #BritishRail #PrivatisationFail #Railways
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A new blog post to round off January:
Capitalist Realism and British Rails flying saucers
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A look back to 2021 with some moving images from my layout, which has been the same green plate for several years now.
The videos include the infamous #BritishRail #APT-P which honestly is my favourite british train by design and I'm delighted I was able to visit the real one in Crewe last summer! The model is from Hornby back when the original still ran and it features functional tilting.
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Former #BritishRail class 55 “Deltic” #55019 working the #DelticSociety “Festival of the Sea” charter to #Havant 🇬🇧 in July 2005. There is also a @diningcar in the consist: Mk1 buffet #1683 labelled “Kitchen Car”.
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Is it just me or does it look like the train grew legs lol
Bristol Bath Road Depot 16th April 1988
Off its bogies and up on the jacks, British Rail Class 43 HST power care 43148 receives attention
InterCity colours & set number 253039 on the nose
#BritishRail #Britstol #BathRoad #Class43 #trainspotting #HST #InterCity 🤓🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SalopianLyne/status/1569731276692766721
