Recent content by eastwestdivide

Well, I visited the Cinque Terre in May, and walked the steep but scenic coast path from one village to the next, Monterosso to Vernazza. So many people on that section even then, and that was despite the fact that you have to buy a ticket to walk the path! At the time, I wrote “It's...

There’s an 0505 Gillingham to Sheerness passenger service, eg https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:P18371/2025-06-26/detailed

Meanwhile I remember someone coming back saying they’d glimpsed a newly-named 73, “Arthur something or other”. Turned out to be Airtour Suisse once we got the latest magazine update!

Wasn’t that down to the fluorescent tubes of the time? I had a purplish lens filter to try and overcome that

Is the ”glow” of the lights in those night shots down to a wide-open aperture and long exposure?

Pretty much. It gets a bit awkward round Kirk Bramwith, but from the Trent to Thorne is fine.

Slightly further afield, but along the Keadby Canal, Thorne South-Crowle-Althorpe, parallel to the railway too. Sliding rail bridge at Keadby and impressive bridge (used to lift) over the Trent at Althorpe. Only snag is the stopping trains are only every 2 hours.

If you mean the south-to-west curve to the south of the station, that’s visible from the south end of the platforms, and loco numbers are more or less gettable with binocs/long lenses. Annotated 1 on the map extract below. There’s also the avoiding line from the Humberside direction towards...

Think the machines might be ballast cleaners.

"bit of a step" - depends on how much you like walking. You could always get off the train at Brusio and walk via the viaduct and onwards down to the next station to avoid retracing your steps uphill. In fact I did it in the opposite direction walking all the way from Tirano to Brusio, making a...

Alp Grüm is just the station and its hotel+restaurant, no other habitation. Stunning spot though.

Last week there was a "gift-wrapped" electric loco (84001?), but it was inside the main building

Could this be an 810 move tomorrow 16/6? A 5Q70 1221 Old Dalby to Merchant Park Sidings https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K36995/2025-06-16/detailed

Retranslating, "relation" works better as "link" and then "...one year later, you could travel on a Corail on 100 trains leaving from all Paris stations. All rapid and express trains are being progressively equipped [with the coaches]"

In Kent, we often had excursions starting from Macclesfield (to Margate/Ramsgate). Not sure where else they picked up though.