morgana
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Mon 8th Sep 2014 11:32am
What a shame Philip . What was the shield on the rail car for. |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 8th Sep 2014 11:56am
Hi Morgana,
The railcar worked initially between Leamington & Coventry. The shield was a derived pattern for Michelin rubber who were trying to develop a rail pneumatic tyre. All rail vehicles have tyres, its just that they are usually made out of high quality steel, not rubber. ![]() |
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morgana
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Mon 8th Sep 2014 12:32pm
Thank you Philip for explaining about the shield and tyres on the trains . Off to watch Oh Mr Porter now on you tube ![]() |
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Kerbstone
Auckland NZ |
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Tue 9th Sep 2014 2:47am
I was very interested in Ron's train photos, those locomotives look very impressive with their flash paint jobs, headlights and things. Excuse my ignorance but are these trains run by private companies or do they come under the British Rail Banner. And What the hell is Evian water? I used to work for British Rail in the 60's as a fireman and boy from these posts have things changed with freight trains to Europe and all that. The photo with the gas works brought back a few memories, weren't those gas holders impressive, like standing works of art, a pity they're gone. I remember going on a school trip for a guided tour of the gas works, we must of walked there from the Broad Street School, I can't remember any transport being supplied. What a place, with all those wheels and dials, the massive buildings, going up and down lots of steel stairways the smells and the dirt. I'm pretty sure we didn't even have to wear a hard hat and went home gloriously dirty. One of the jobs I did on the railways was passenger runs on the Nuneaton line but I can't remember much about it, not even those gasholders, that's why the photo gave me a bit of a shock, how come I didn't remember them while working along there, strange. I'm posting a photo of a local passenger train to Nuneaton that I was fireman on at Coventry station headed by a standard class 5. Cheers
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dutchman
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Tue 9th Sep 2014 3:16am
Love the photo Kerbstone
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Tue 9th Sep 2014 7:55am
Hi all ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red
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Tue 9th Sep 2014 5:37pm
Fortunately, six of these survived into preservation ![]() |
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Midland Red
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Wed 10th Sep 2014 11:21am
One for Philip - I'm sure he will immediately recognise this location - 46050, 14 April 1982
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Wed 10th Sep 2014 6:50pm
Hi & yes to the first picture ![]() ![]() |
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PeterB
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Wed 10th Sep 2014 8:13pm
On 10th Sep 2014 11:21am, Midland Red said:
One for Philip - I'm sure he will immediately recognise this location - 46050, 14 April 1982
It looks like Water Orton, looking east from the footbridge near the station bridge. According to Google maps there is Dog Inn nearby.
Peter.
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Midland Red
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Wed 10th Sep 2014 8:13pm
Without naming it, Philip has as expected immediately recognised the location as Water Orton - clearly popular with train fans years ago, and still so today - and of course, the chippie is close by! ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Wed 10th Sep 2014 9:06pm
Hi both, ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Ron
Back home in Coventry |
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Fri 12th Sep 2014 9:24pm
On 8th Sep 2014 12:32pm, morgana said:
Thank you Philip for explaining about the shield and tyres on the trains . Off to watch Oh Mr Porter now on you tube
Many think it is a joke when you say when a loco or carriage or wagon has a flat tyre.
As Philip has said, every rail-going vehicle has a steel tyre. When you hear a 'ber-dum' as it passes at least one wheel has a flat. When that is the case it must be taken out of service at the very first opportunity due to the severe damage they can cause to todays high-speed/heavy tonnage rails. A flat is normally created by a sticking brake - if the brake locks on the wheel can no longer rotate causing the outer steel tyre to slide along - rather than run - the steel track, thereby creating a flat.
They are replaced in the same way as road-going tyres - knocking the steel rims off the axle and replacing with a new one. Some locos have their tyres 'turned' at depots, the closest so equipped to here is Tyseley depot in Birmingham.
Evian water ???? Incredibly over priced bottled water from a spring in France. Perhaps it's me but I cannot taste the difference between Evian water and Severn Trent. The ironic thing is this traffic first started to run in 2007, a summer that was marked by excessive rainfall that caused flooding in many parts of the Country. Fortunately we missed most of it around here.
Tonight sees me properly back on line for the first time in a little under a month. Once I've got myself up to date I'll post another 'then and now' from the area, especially seeing as work has finally gotten underway on the building of the station at the Ricoh. If anybody has got any requests.....![]() |
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Tue 16th Sep 2014 1:28pm
Whilst riding around Cov on Sunday for the heritage weekend - I rode up London Road specifically to see if I could see Stephensons Viaduct across the Sherbourne. What a truely undiscovered gem. I'll wager 9/10 people who travel along there or visit the tip have no idea the bridge is even there let alone who was involved in getting it built. And a quick google reveals it may even be resurrected as part of a park across Charterhouse fields.............
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Tue 16th Sep 2014 3:33pm
Hi Neil, ![]() ![]() |
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