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It's strange seeing long American style rail cars on Euro rail roads.

 

I believe they are a GWR design that predates WW1. I think they intended it for carrying oversize boilers, traction engines, that kind of thing. When the war started the War Department order some from the GWR. There was a subset built with mounting points so you could mount and fire an AA gun on them If I remember rightly.

 

 

Not an unknown pattern for heavy loads in Europe. I have got an H0 railcar that looks like this with a steam boiler loaded. I really should find space for the old H0 Trix and put it up.

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1907 steam crane that was in use until the late 70s.

 

https://i.imgur.com/eVjVoDY.jpg

 

 

Note the light weight buffers and chain and hook.

 

https://i.imgur.com/ui1rqxc.jpg

 

https://i.imgur.com/TySQxfg.jpg

 

So cute! :)

 

Is that normal gauge or some narrow rail that it was used on?

 

 

 

Standard gauge.

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Worlds first steam railway opened today in 1825.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway

 

Happy Birthday! have you built that line and added the proper early trains to that trainsim you work on?

 

 


 

How to process freight trains the oldschool way:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMho1c1lnLc

 

according to the description this is digitized from a VHS cassette found in an old Bundesbahnschule building. So they were still using this to teach the procedures in the eighties?

 

 

Spot the DDR DR rail car that sneaked into the film! ^_^

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Worlds first steam railway opened today in 1825.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway

 

Happy Birthday! have you built that line and added the proper early trains to that trainsim you work on?

 

 


 

How to process freight trains the oldschool way:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMho1c1lnLc

 

according to the description this is digitized from a VHS cassette found in an old Bundesbahnschule building. So they were still using this to teach the procedures in the eighties?

 

 

Spot the DDR DR rail car that sneaked into the film! ^_^

 

 

Ive built part of that network, mainly the parts that headed west off of Darlington to the Colleries and outlying towns. But we didnt do any steam locomotives for it. We set it in the 1960's with diesel loco's and diesel railcars. Apparently steam loco's dont sell, or so they told me anyway.

 

Good film, reminds me of some of the British Transport Commission films from the 1950's.

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I see European culture has taken a turn for the wurst :huh:

 

Stuart, in the U.S. one can take a bus to, AFAIK, all moderate and larger cities in the U.S., coast to coast. Is this option available in the U.K. or the rest of Europe?

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I cant speak for the rest of Europe, but most of the major cities have a 'park and ride' scheme, where you can park on the city limits, and ride into town on a bus. Its are we have long distance bus routes, though some services like National Express have city to city services as you have in America.

 

Speaking for the UK< privatization has resulted in a fragmentation and general loss of routes. We only get a bus once a week in the village where I live, and its one way only IIRC.

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I cant speak for the rest of Europe, but most of the major cities have a 'park and ride' scheme, where you can park on the city limits, and ride into town on a bus. Its are we have long distance bus routes, though some services like National Express have city to city services as you have in America.

 

Speaking for the UK< privatization has resulted in a fragmentation and general loss of routes. We only get a bus once a week in the village where I live, and its one way only IIRC.

From what you have posted about English trains, it seems the way to go.

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The trains are not bad within certain limits. They are safe (I think possibly among the safest in Europe if that accident rate is any guide). They are reasonably fast. Not bullet train standard, but even with 40 year old trains we can do 125mph running on most of the mainlines, and 90mph running even on tertiary routes. The signalling is a mixed bag, it tends to play up under extreme weather. The electrification is patchy, and again, tends to play up in extreme weather. Its punctual by region, and again unpunctual by region. Its also expensive for what you get, about the most expensive fares in Europe. And thanks to Beeching, it doesnt always take you close to where you want to go, so you end up taking a bus or a taxi.

 

Its a mixed bag. Whats good is good, whats bad is lamentable.

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A friend of mine makes DLC content for the Train simulator game, I thought you might find these of interest. Its a 3d model of 'Bochebuster', a WW1 railway gun that was rearmed with an 18 inch RN naval gun in WW2 when it was pressed back into service. The rest had 13.5 I believe.

 

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The blue and red a post-war livery as used in the Longmoor military railway. The railway you see incidentally on the film the st drink and great train robbery. A kind of British version of Fort Eustis.

 

The wartime livery was of green, as you can see in Pete's blog. The Dutch livery was fairly similar I believe.I

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Here is a few he unwrapped and already in the sim.

 

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And this is a war deparment 2-8-0 Austerity, as used by the British Army in WW2.

111019_1.jpg

 

 

https://victoryworksts.blogspot.com/

Did British carriages have spoked wheels during the war? I know Russian carriages did. I made a 3D computer model heavy duty flat car that had 4 2 wheel trucks for the Stalingrad rail yard.

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