Luke's photos and videos

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.

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.

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. )

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.

yorkie.fotopic.net/p18507124.html (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.


Oh how I wish I could have seen those!


Please do!

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?

Chris

Never trust a man who smiles all the time and never trust a man with a beard!!

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.

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!