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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2005 18:06:02 GMT
Hi there,
Although not in relation to LU, I am currently taking videos and photo's of trains coming down the branch line here.
I am on Monday visiting Halifax station to video and photo some trains.
The reason i tell you is I am accepting requests for what people want on video.
I will put a list here and if you decide you want a video of that selected train, please leave me your MSN or e-mail address here.
If you do not have MSN or E-mail address I can't send you them.
Train List -
Class 142 - 'pacer' - Nothern Spirit Livery
Class 142 - new 'pacer' - Metro & Arriva
Metro - Super Sprinter - Metro
Transpeninne Express - First.
Class 60 & 66 EWS freight trains
Thank you.
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Post by Christopher J on Aug 5, 2005 19:23:09 GMT
Luke, why don't you sign upto Fotopic (Fotopic.net) and start an Album? They give you 250MB free space for Photo's and AFAIK Videos too! I would be interested to see some of your material.  At the moment I'm creating a Fotopic Allbum to host my Photo's, I have over 1,000 Railway images from all around the country which I have taken over the last 3 years. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2005 20:38:20 GMT
I have one, and it would be good if they hosted videos, but I don't think they do  Thanks Chris. But you can still request people  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2005 21:19:37 GMT
I'd be interested to see some piccies of the TPE services. When I last used the Newcastle -Liverpool trains they were always a class 47 + Mk2c coaches. Or how about a summer Saturday Liverpool - Scarborough hauled by a class 40 with about 10 mk.1 coaches. There also used to be an 0710 SO York - Huddersfield all shacks train formed of a class 141 'MetroTrain'. There is a hell, and I have travelled on it (but only to Leeds)!
Would the person that mentioned 'Sprinters' please leave the room.
I would also reccomend you use your Fotopic site.
As soon as I get a slide scanner, I'll be able to share Trans-Pennine 1980's style with you.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2005 21:27:56 GMT
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Post by piccadillypilot on Aug 5, 2005 21:46:45 GMT
all shacks train formed of a class 141 'MetroTrain'. There is a hell, and I have travelled on it (but only to Leeds)! Try Llandudno Jnc to Valley, stopping at every blade of grass and with every rail joint dropped.  (If anyone needs that last bit translating, don't be afraid to ask. ) |
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Post by Christopher J on Aug 6, 2005 1:27:43 GMT
all shacks train formed of a class 141 'MetroTrain'. There is a hell, and I have travelled on it (but only to Leeds)! (If anyone needs that last bit translating, don't be afraid to ask. ) Please sir! ;D I have not travelled on a 141 before, but I have travelled between Manchester Victoria and Eccles on a 142(047), that was long enough for me! ;D |
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Post by piccadillypilot on Aug 6, 2005 8:59:34 GMT
I have not travelled on a 141 before I'm not sure that there is any significant difference between the Pacer classes. They're all four wheel buses with rail wheels that give a lousy ride. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2005 9:06:36 GMT
I once travelled on a class 142 which was working in multiple with a 150/1, from bridlington to Hull. Now I know how tin cans behind a wedding car feel.
The 141's were built at the Leyland National plant in Workington. Unlike 142's etc, they were only bus width. Cheap and nasty.
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Post by yorkie on Aug 7, 2005 23:48:39 GMT
I'd be interested to see some piccies of the TPE services. (South TPE can only be 2-cars!) yorkie.fotopic.net/p15906540.html (Not TPE but the same route across the Hope Valley) Bizarrely I don't have any photos of the North TransPennine route, probably because it's so common to me, but it's the same 158s but at least 3-cars. In the peaks if you're really lucky you can get 5 or 6-cars on some services. When I last used the Newcastle -Liverpool trains they were always a class 47 + Mk2c coaches. Or how about a summer Saturday Liverpool - Scarborough hauled by a class 40 with about 10 mk.1 coaches. Oh how I wish I could have seen those!  As soon as I get a slide scanner, I'll be able to share Trans-Pennine 1980's style with you. Please do! I have travelled between Manchester Victoria and Eccles on a 142(047), that was long enough for me! ;D Ah yes the Manchester meet, glad you enjoyed it ;D We have to endure pacers a lot up north! |
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Post by q8 on Aug 8, 2005 2:26:44 GMT
Blimey do you mean to say that Trans-Pennine actually DO run trains? Because whenever I look at the travel info on TV they either seem to be cancelled or ages late. TP must be the worst performing railway firm in the UK.
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Post by Chris M on Aug 9, 2005 22:48:43 GMT
I haven't travelled on a 141, but I have done Leeds - Nottingham on a 142 and many many journeys on 143s, including Swansea - Bristol Temple Meads (stopping at every station beeching didn't axe) and Bristol Temple Meads to Portsmouth Harbour. Not pleasant, but still somehow preferable to Bristol Temple Meads to Crewe on an overcrowded 220 with non-operational airconditioning. Whose crazy idea was it to run cramped, narrow 4-car trains on cross-country intercity routes?
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Post by Christopher J on Aug 9, 2005 22:58:59 GMT
Whose crazy idea was it to run cramped, narrow 4-car trains on cross-country intercity routes? Blame this bloke. ;D  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2005 16:45:37 GMT
Never trust a man who smiles all the time and never trust a man with a beard!!
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Post by q8 on Aug 10, 2005 17:03:36 GMT
]Never trust a man who smiles all the time ... ********************************************* Oh so THAT'S why I hate Tony Blair |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2005 20:57:23 GMT
I remember going to Scarborough one Summer Saturday. Coming home, tired, with sand in shoes etc., entering the station we saw this long train, with a faint whistling sound coming from the front. After my Dad and I walked to the front, dragging the rest of the family along, I enjoyed a front coach, head-out-the-window ride back to York behind an awesome cl.40. Happy days.
As regards the cl.47-hauled TP services, they were considered boring, with dull [then] class 47s on. You could go to sleep on one and be woken up by the sound of the clasp brakes rumbling away on those mk2c coaches as the train started to slow for York.
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Post by Admin Team on Aug 11, 2005 20:33:17 GMT
]Never trust a man who smiles all the time ... ********************************************* Oh so THAT'S why I hate Tony Blair Yeah - but consider the options............. |
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Post by Admin Team on Aug 11, 2005 20:43:19 GMT
Back to the thread though...
Sadly I don't actually remember too many of the loco's that would have hauled the trains I've used over the years.
But, memories from the '50's - holidays to Swanage and the Isle of Wight, so I guess were Southern Region - though I do seem to recall a Battle of Britain Class loco.
60's - *probably* Castle's to the West Country in the early part, various trips to Glasgow for holidays in the west of Scotland ex Euston IIRC up to about '63 and then in the latter part of the decade one memorable trip from Glasgow to Tour (in the Loire valley) all by rail in just over 26 hours, which included transfers by LU and the Paris Metro to various terminii. My travelling companion and I still remember that trip VERY well!
70's - probably only 'work trips' to Halifax ex Kings Cross via Bradford/Wakefield etc - no idea what would've hauled those!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2005 20:51:28 GMT
! 70's - probably only 'work trips' to Halifax ex Kings Cross via Bradford/Wakefield etc - no idea what would've hauled those! Probably something rather interesting with two Napier 'Deltic' engines  to Wakefield, or a big Brush |
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