The Railways

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Les at the beginning is a bit wooden but, there's a fair bit of footage here covering various traction!

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Neil Young's model stuff.

https://www.trains.com/ctt/how-to/toy-train-layouts/neil-youngs-o-gauge-railroad/

 

 

[Captain Willard]

2 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Neil Young's model stuff.

https://www.trains.com/ctt/how-to/toy-train-layouts/neil-youngs-o-gauge-railroad/

 

 

Building a model railway seems to be a bit if a thing for ageing pop stars. Neil young, Rod Stewart and Jools Holland all have huge layouts. Weird phenomenon. 

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21 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

Building a model railway seems to be a bit if a thing for ageing pop stars. Neil young, Rod Stewart and Jools Holland all have huge layouts. Weird phenomenon. 

 

They've usually got pots of money spare and loads of space in their big fuck off mansions in which to indulge. Waterman's got a huge O scale layout in a dedicated outbuilding. Rumoured to have cost £250,000.

[Captain Willard]

4 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

 

They've usually got pots of money spare and loads of space in their big fuck off mansions in which to indulge. Waterman's got a huge O scale layout in a dedicated outbuilding. Rumoured to have cost £250,000.

I’ve met Pete waterman a couple of times. He owns a few actual locomotives as well. Nice guy. Proper train spotter, far more interested in trains than pop music. 

[Captain Willard]

On a work trip to Antwerp. Astonishing station with trains on 3 levels. My photos don’t really do it justice. 
 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

That's an absolute palace. Compare that to something as bland and dull as Liverpool South Parkway.

[Captain Willard]

19 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

That's an absolute palace. Compare that to something as bland and dull as Liverpool South Parkway.

It really is astonishing. Like St Pancras but after years of taking illegal steroids. I’ve never seen main line locomotives on 3 levels before. If you like railway architecture it’s well worth a trip to see it. 

[Rico1304]

I’m going to Bristol today.   The first of 3 trains has been cancelled.   Great start. 

[VladimirIlyich]

On 13/11/2022 at 16:08, Captain Willard said:

I’ve met Pete waterman a couple of times. He owns a few actual locomotives as well. Nice guy. Proper train spotter, far more interested in trains than pop music. 

He should be so lucky!

[Captain Willard]

46 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

He should be so lucky!

Hes got one of those turntable things for his locomotives that spins them right round like a record right round round

[Frank Dacey]

On 15/11/2022 at 13:55, Captain Willard said:

It really is astonishing. Like St Pancras but after years of taking illegal steroids. I’ve never seen main line locomotives on 3 levels before. If you like railway architecture it’s well worth a trip to see it. 

Have you seen the series, 'The Architecture the Railways built'. It's on Dave, I think. Suff from Britain and abroad, lots of hidden treasures.

[Captain Willard]

34 minutes ago, Frank Dacey said:

Have you seen the series, 'The Architecture the Railways built'. It's on Dave, I think. Suff from Britain and abroad, lots of hidden treasures.

Yes it’s my go to program when I’m doing the ironing. 

[Captain Willard]

4 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

I’m going to Bristol today.   The first of 3 trains has been cancelled.   Great start. 

The universe is sending you a warning not to go there. 

[Rico1304]

15 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

The universe is sending you a warning not to go there. 

Should have listened. Got in at 3am. 
 

My wife is going to London today.  No service in first class and her seat reservation cancelled.  Her ticket was £350.  

[Captain Willard]

3 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

Should have listened. Got in at 3am. 
 

My wife is going to London today.  No service in first class and her seat reservation cancelled.  Her ticket was £350.  

The variability in train fares for the same journey in the UK is absurd. Must be one of the widest price spectrums for a generic product. The profit on your wife's ticket is subsidising us regular using proles in standard and for that we are grateful.  

[AngryOfTuebrook]

17 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

The variability in train fares for the same journey in the UK is absurd. Must be one of the widest price spectrums for a generic product. The profit on your wife's ticket is subsidising us regular using proles in standard and for that we are grateful.  

But when you see how the half-dozen people in First get about a third of the entire train, while it's standing room only for the plebs, you start to see trains as a microcosm of the whole shitty country.

[Captain Willard]

19 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

But when you see how the half-dozen people in First get about a third of the entire train, while it's standing room only for the plebs, you start to see trains as a microcosm of the whole shitty country.

I read a good article recently about the symbiotic relationship between first and economy fare travellers. Us proles in standard need mrs Rico to occasionally buy a £350 ticket keep our fares down and she needs enough of us buying £50 tickets every day to ensure the train companies run a regular predictable service that she can use infrequently. If either stopped the other would lose out. 

[Rico1304]

I should point out Mrs Rico’s ticket is paid for by work.  
 

But as has been said business class on a plane pays for economy.  

[Captain Willard]

3 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

I should point out Mrs Rico’s ticket is paid for by work.  
 

But as has been said business class on a plane pays for economy.  

Yes it does, same with the trains. If you scrap 1st class, the fares for everyone else have to go up as apart from the marginal cost if catering, the costs of operating the plane/train are the same. Crazy prices for 1st class are a form of wealth redistribution.
 

Equally the passengers in 1st class who travel much less frequently (mainly) need the steady demand from standard class to incentivise the train/plane operators to run a regular service rather than one offs specials which would be insanely expensive. Hence the symbiosis. I think it’s a great theory. 

[A Red]

8 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

Should have listened. Got in at 3am. 
 

My wife is going to London today.  No service in first class and her seat reservation cancelled.  Her ticket was £350.  

1st class travel you say?

 

Is your wife a Conservative voter? Filthy tory weasel fighting their dirty underhand war.

 

Or perhaps she's a lefty? Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking life and limb for blighty!

[Captain Willard]

13 minutes ago, A Red said:

1st class travel you say?

 

Is your wife a Conservative voter? Filthy tory weasel fighting their dirty underhand war.

 

Or perhaps she's a lefty? Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking life and limb for blighty!

I think he said her work paid. Besides this is the railway thread, people post mostly about train sets, locomotives and Victorian architecture. We tend not to argue much here. 

 

That said, if somebody said a class 33 was a better looking locomotive than a Deltic I’d be the first to offer the cunt out. 

[A Red]

1 minute ago, Captain Willard said:

I think he said her work paid. Besides this is the railway thread, people post mostly about train sets, locomotives and Victorian architecture. We tend not to argue much here. 

 

 

I know I know! 

[Captain Willard]

3 hours ago, A Red said:

I know I know! 

Don’t start on O gauge versus OO gauge. There will be blood.

[Rico1304]

I’m travelling from Rose Hill to Rose Grove today.  As far as I can see the only two stations in the U.K. with ‘Rose’ in their name.