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« on: June 25, 2015, 09:18:33 » |
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Bearing in mind that I was travelling in the regular passenger accommodation of an HST▸ when I took this picture, what can you tell me about where I was and the service I was on?  |
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chrisr_75
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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2015, 11:07:04 » |
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Well, it looks to me like you lost the other half of the train somewhere!!
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tomL
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2015, 11:43:45 » |
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That the train was formed of 7 coaches?  |
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Fourbee
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2015, 11:53:56 » |
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It's a "rail level crossing" the only one I know of is Newark I think, but there are others... and I think this must be one of them.
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BerkshireBugsy
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2015, 11:57:54 » |
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It's a "rail level crossing" the only one I know of is Newark I think, but there are others... and I think this must be one of them.
That was my thought but the focus tends to be shaper that I would have expected for a train moving at any sort of reasonable speed - |
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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2015, 13:09:08 » |
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Where's the river if it's Newark? I've walked to the crossing from the West on the towpath and you end up right by it. Unless it's looking East but i didn't think there were any houses between the Lincoln line and the river.
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« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2015, 13:13:09 » |
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Graham, you've got us thinking. Looking at the elevation of the picture I don't think it was taken from a rail over rail crossing but may be wrong. So unless you had your own personal observation car attached to the back of a standard HST▸ set I can only think this is a flat crossing  |
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« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2015, 13:15:46 » |
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So you had your own personal observation car attached to the back of a standard HST▸ set I can only think this is a flat crossing And there is only one of those in the UK▸ and HSTs do go over it. |
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« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2015, 15:08:07 » |
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I think it was taken from a rail over rail overbridge, where your train had fortuitously stopped, using a good camera and long lens to give the impression you^re closer to the tracks than you really were. Reason? On the RH track there is a check rail, indicating that there is may be a facing turnout, possibly protected by the signal in the distance. You wouldn^t have a turnout so close to a flat crossing.
And it^s not Retford Newark.
I^d thought maybe through the small window in the gangway door at the end of an HST▸ minus its rear power car, but it^s too clean!
Or it could be from a coach on a low loader on a level crossing to/from Laira during the Dawlish blockade, but I don^t think you would have been allowed on that!
But I^m probably completely wrong.
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« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2015, 16:00:28 » |
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I think it was taken from a rail over rail overbridge, where your train had fortuitously stopped, using a good camera and long lens to give the impression you^re closer to the tracks than you really were. Reason? On the RH track there is a check rail, indicating that there is may be a facing turnout, possibly protected by the signal in the distance. You wouldn^t have a turnout so close to a flat crossing.
And it^s not Retford Newark.
I^d thought maybe through the small window in the gangway door at the end of an HST▸ minus its rear power car, but it^s too clean!
Or it could be from a coach on a low loader on a level crossing to/from Laira during the Dawlish blockade, but I don^t think you would have been allowed on that!
But I^m probably completely wrong.
GTBE I had the same idea about the disconnected power car and the small window which would never have been that clean! GRAHAM...put us out of our misery! |
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grahame
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« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2015, 16:04:32 » |
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GRAHAM...put us out of our misery!
No-one's even warm ... sorry  |
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Fourbee
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« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2015, 16:36:06 » |
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Clutching at straws now, turntable?
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Gordon the Blue Engine
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« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2015, 16:41:21 » |
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You say "the service I was on" - so am I getting even a little bit warm by saying that's a clue to it being a specific service at the extremity of HST▸ working eg Newquay, Pembroke Dock, Inverness etc?
This has really got me thinking and I should be concentrating on something useful. It's a very clever picture quiz and I'll be VERY cross when you have to give us the answer!!
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ray951
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« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2015, 16:42:54 » |
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So you had your own personal observation car attached to the back of a standard HST▸ set I can only think this is a flat crossing And there is only one of those in the UK▸ and HSTs do go over it. I believe that there is also a rail crossing at Porthmadog where the Welsh Highland crosses the Cambrian Coast line, although of course there are no HST's just Garratts and class 158's. |
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ChrisB
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« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2015, 16:48:43 » |
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Was the HST▸ on a charter, rather than on a timetabled service perchance?
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