This board's been slow lately so I may as well.
>>903787
Yeah, why not? Though not sure whether you want a thread about railways that are British or one about British Railways?
Non-142s and 156s when?
Noice
>>903970
Hopefully they'll scrap the pacers because of disability regulations. That or they'll refurbish the things and extend the torture.
>>903985
-_-
>>903992
don't you just love a good Northern Powerhouse®?
>>903998
Northern powerhouse: a last ditch attempt to convince the North that Westminster isn't London Centric.
>>904024
>can't standardize platform height
Loading gauge doesn't have anything to do with platform height; just platform & structure clearances.
Ever been somewhere like Germany on a train? The carriages have steps inside. Some of the smaller stations have platforms basically at ground level.
in the last few days we've had Horses on the Line, a roof come off and 500m of overhead lines blow down.
Not been a particular good time in the north-east. Well worse than normal anyway.
Have another qt class 323. I miss the old Centro livery, despite how crap it was.
>tfw 19 and still want to be a train driver
i'm going to uni but i still dream about it
>>903985
There was murmurs of replacing Pacers with refurbished tube trains.
Transport to the lowest bidder
>>904525
Theres still ones near me with that livery, they're god awful
>>904818
>There was murmurs
They're already doing it.
>>904852
Expectation vs reality
>>904857
The expression on the driver's face sums this whole thing up perfectly.
Something positive about British railways:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcUj-iJVE9w
>>904858
Check out his spaz hands
Something absurd about British railways:
https://youtu.be/VUFm2rWn41g
>>903787
I've heard that a deal was struck by Tasrail to send a bunch (if not all) of its old EE locomotives back to the UK.
Any idea what the fuck someone in the UK wants with a bunch of old 3'6" locos?
That train looks like it has downs sydrome OP
>>903985
is this five ways?
>>904888
Is it for a museum or heritage railway?
A lot of 387/2 testing on the Brighton Mainline at the moment, 201-6 may be getting introduced in to the Gatex fleet very soon. New winter timetable this Sunday will have 2 Gatwick Express trains an hour going on to Brighton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plu_W5iN1uY
>>905150
I will be sad to see the Wessex Electrics go.
I remember these machines. A whole nut or a fruit and nut was a treat. And I remember the train windows having leather straps that you pulled and fastened if you wanted to open a window. Some of the newer trains had windows that would slide down, but you could only open the door from the outside, meaning you'd get your sleeve dirty.
I suppose I sound as old now as my dad did when he'd tell me about steam trains.
>>904888
damn, should have been on the lookout for some cool old pommy hardware while i've been living there.
>>904892
New Street. I'd recognise that drab concrete anywhere.
>>903985
>Hopefully they'll scrap the pacers
They're doomed. Next franchise holder won't use 'em. Already announced.
>>905674
That doesn't mean the train lenders won't just rent them out to another TOC.
>>904888
>Any idea what the fuck someone in the UK wants with a bunch of old 3'6" locos?
Engines & traction motors? Fuck all else. There aren't any 3'6" railways in the UK.
>>905187
I caught a FGW train today that only opens from the outside, they're still pretty common.
>>905710
That is called an Intercity 125 and more specifically the Mark 3 coach.
>>904530
i feel ya man
>>905679
Not if everyone up north starts to torch every pacer they see
>>905814
'The 2016 Pacer Riots' has a nice ring to it
>>905840
It was then that the chain of events started that eventually ended up with the Federal Republic of Scotland and Rheged.
>>903787
Pacers are third world tier. Even India has better trains.
So this is a thing now, it's good after several years of it being teased with different operators.
Only thing that needs to be down now is fix up the station and the city and the region
+1 for bestest trains
*bump*
>>906307
>>906057
'Pride of Sunderland'? That is hilarious, what pride does that shithole have?
>>906314
Not being as bad as Hull? It's something, I suppose.
>>903970
156s are fine for short journeys.
New Northern Rail franchisee bid includes promise to phase out Pacers by 2018. We'll fucking see.
>>906527
They're being replaced by Class 230s, which are ex District Line trains.
Anything is better than pacers.
>>906534
I thought they were going to be class 278s... D78 to 278. Where did 230 come from?
>>906568
Dunno where you got 278 from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_230
NS1500/class 77 loco
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Class_1500
>>906906
Does look good in NS livery.
>>906939
I must say I never seen one in a BR livery before but it looks just as good. BTW my most favorite NS livery was found on the 1300 class loco's
>>904058
you got to be shitting me senpai
>>911733
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh2yZf8F-60
>>911752
It is a set
I am upset to discover that my local trains are fucking buses on rails
>>911733
Mang electrostars are gud looking trans
>>904871
I don't know why these people are so silly
but they seem good.
>>912029
POWERHOUSE
>>906488
>Not being as bad as Hull?
Lots of places could have that as their tagline. Most of them would prefer "Better than somewhere that is better than Hull".
>>906527
>We'll fucking see.
It was a condition in the Invitation To Tender (though with a deadline of 2020). The Pacers' doors are reckoned by the regulator to be insufficiently safe and they've been on the doomed list for years.
>>906534
>They're being replaced by Class 230s
Nope. Rebuilds are explicitly not permitted as replacements for the Pacers. Read the ITT yourself. It's a public document.
>>913168
NORTHERN
>>904059
Coming to a local line near you (Exclusive to you if you live outside of London)
>>913245
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-35220361
>Hull has been named one of the top 10 tourist destinations for the year ahead.
>>913826
>Hull has been named one of the top 10 tourist destinations for the year ahead.
Yeah, in the same way that people visit Pripyat. You've got to see it to believe it.
>>912060
They are ride comfy as fuck too
Why do I get such shit 3/4G reception on these trains compared to other classes on the same line?
>>906115
>>906488
>Virgin pendolino
Mah niggas.
>>905152
They. are shit trains senpai, unreliable and entirely unfit for purpose, 442's into the trash they go.
>>916257
stop spouting memes you mong
>>903998
>>904017
>Northern powerhouse: a last ditch attempt to convince the North that Westminster isn't London Centric.
It's being moved to London.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2016/01/conservatives-are-so-committed-northern-powerhouse-theyve-moved-it-london
Got a 6 hour train journey to Southampton coming up, the longest i've been on in the UK.
Has anyone here been on the Caledonian Sleeper?
>>920691
There's 0% need to take a sleeper for 6 hours. I did Plymouth to Portsmouth and back yesterday, 10 hours all up and I was comfy.
>>920728
The Caledonia Sleeper is 12 hours from Fort William to London |Kings Cross. It looks comfy as heck.
>>920755
Yeah the night Riviera is shithouse desu, you can do London to Penzance in a bit over 4.5 hours. If you take the sleeper you need the cabins because you get woken up by lights at every station. I haven't done the Caledonian but, this is coming from an Aussie that has taken train journeys all over the world, there is no need for a sleeper train in Britain
>>920773
>there is no need for a sleeper train in Britain
Unless you want to travel at night. There's a hint in the name.
>mfw as a young american lad discovering that the trains in thomas the tank engine were real
>>920780
>every train at night is a sleeper train.
>>905150
One of the new Gatex 4 cars was being used for stock for the Thameslink service between Gatwick and Bedford today. The livery was still unfinished so dunno what is going on there, apparently they are supposed to be starting being introduced to service by the end of this month.
>>916018
3g/4g can't go through the steel body, only through the windows, and the 222 has pretty tiny windows.
