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Something for the Weekend - Part 227 - Going loco!

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Thank to all who took part in our previous 'puddles' challenge. After all that walking and splashing, this week I thought we should look at more modern transport. of course 'more modern' is relative and this locomotive is on the South Tynedale railway in Alston, a 2 foot, narrow gauge, railway.

 

As the train pulls into the platform, what happens next?

 

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Christelle RD
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November 9, 2024

Travelling to the Alps by train!

 

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November 9, 2024

If it's the Swiss Alps, the train had better leave on time 🙂

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Christelle RD
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November 9, 2024

😂 exactly 👍 
Thanks Dave!

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November 9, 2024

This is what first came to mind 🙂

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November 9, 2024

It must be Thomas' friend James - the red engine 🙂

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derekwatson
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November 11, 2024

Drat! Beat me to it! 😄

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November 9, 2024

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November 9, 2024

Every child should have a train set 🙂 There are also many grown men with model railways including, famously, Rod Stewart.

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Monika Gause
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November 11, 2024

I wouldn't limit that to men ... 

Kevin Stohlmeyer
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November 8, 2024

Mind the gap

 

davescm
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November 9, 2024

It looks a bit like on of our tube stations. Is it a real station or AI generated?

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Kevin Stohlmeyer
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November 11, 2024

The station is real but cut apart and rebuilt to fit the perspective. Only things AI are some clean up and the smoke.

 

Kevin Stohlmeyer
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November 8, 2024

Incoming!

 

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November 9, 2024

That looks like it is about to pass us at speed, which is a new lease of life for the loco as the Tynedale railway as a 15mph speed limit! 🙂

I just looked up the history of the engine, which generates all of 70 hp, which is a lot less than a family car! It was originally built in Poland in 1957 and was rebuilt at the workshops in Alston in 2001. It is the Naklo mentioned here: https://www.south-tynedale-railway.org.uk/locomotives-stock/#1547126320348-2f8696d1-d4f6

 

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November 8, 2024

Anybody up for a game?

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November 9, 2024

I'll play ! Is that based on a real game GC?

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War Unicorn
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November 9, 2024

"Ticket to Ride," I think.

Jacob Bugge
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November 8, 2024

 

                                                                                       Sine Loco

 

 

 

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November 8, 2024

Ah so that's how you get a standard gauge loco on a narrow track - squash it! 🙂

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JR Boulay
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November 8, 2024

We're no longer in the 19th century!

(again)

 

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November 8, 2024

Haha - it is in Alston! I'd like to see that train make it up a two foot wide track 🙂

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EuanWilliamson
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November 8, 2024

Typically it was one of those days when the wrong sort of leaves on the line halted service.

"Please alight your bus rail replacement"

Best regards, Euan.
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November 8, 2024

Frosted leaves, a particularly nasty type 🙂

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November 16, 2024

Not the substitute bus!