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  1. Sunbird24

    Rail made in UK

    Hope this is OK as it was made in UK. Assuming it was made in Workington, UK. Would just like to clarify the meaning. BS British Standard, 45 is it the number of the standard or the weight of the rail? 9-22 September 1922? SAR is South African Railways and the location is the Sandstone Railway.
  2. Sunbird24

    Metropolitan Tanks on the South Eastern Railway

    In 1880 Beyer Peacock sold three of the Metro B class 4-4-0T locomotives to the SER, possibly for use on the line from New Cross to Shoreditch, or perhaps the line through Ludgate to the west or north. In 1883 the locomotives were sold to the Metropolitan Railway where they became numbers 57-59...
  3. Sunbird24

    Westcliff (on sea) station.

    Is anyone able to give any history on this station, such as when it was built and what names it has had over the ages. Westcliff itself did not exist on a 1904 ordnance survey map but the station was there, near Hamlet House but not much else. Did it start out as a halt for the Hamlet House...
  4. Sunbird24

    AC electrics away from the wires

    Many years ago I saw some AC electric locos from the WCML running through Reading behind class 47s with the electric loco DiT. These were diversions via Banbury, and Didcot to Paddington due to a disruption on the WCML out of Euston. I manage to get the odd photographs but have not located them...
  5. Sunbird24

    Sheffield - Rotheram Train-Trams

    One of the new train-trams was out on the test track at Albuixech last month (August). https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10204835297940918.1073741880.1192973669&type=1&l=998afa1050 I notice that the doors are at virtually ground level, does this mean that it will not stop at normal...
  6. Sunbird24

    Class 88 UKDual & EuroDual

    Last week I saw the EuroDual mock-up at Albuxech. The front-end is similar in shape to the class 91 but it is said the bodywork will be similar to the Euro 3000/4000 series. The class 88 is said to have the same body as the class 68, but I wonder if it will have a similar front (& rear) end as...
  7. Sunbird24

    SNCF BB 60000 works numbers

    Does anyone know the works numbers for this relatively new class? There is a gap in the Vossloh works list from 2293 to 2500 which they could all fit into and I know 460009 is 2309 so they may run in sequence from 2301. The plate numbers are too small to be read on the vast majority of internet...

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