Google StreetView trainspotting

[DaveNewcastle]

Hiding in the bushes, near Inverness airport.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=gollanfield&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.668567,56.469727&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Gollanfield,+Inverness,+Inverness-Shire,+United+Kingdom&ll=57.550609,-4.011383&spn=0,359.972427&z=16&layer=c&cbll=57.550633,-4.011208&panoid=vw7EO0p2cRAa3wOSWm_VEA&cbp=12,1.86,,0,20.62
The setting sun casts the shadow of the street-view camera on the bushes

 

[sheff'd victoria]

A very quiet Sheffield Midland Station

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...oid=3W70JRLZ8mdqOnVzTEMzSA&cbp=12,130.91,,0,5

 

[DaveNewcastle]

You were probs all just waiting for me to post this one.

Some unit trundling over the Forth bridge :
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=south+queensferry&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.668567,56.469727&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=South+Queensferry,+West+Lothian,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.989766,-3.39466&spn=0,359.55883&z=12&layer=c&cbll=55.989746,-3.394471&panoid=dkWaJNHfA-8CLhFsa2PjPw&cbp=12,48.15,,1,-0.57


and a race to Plymouth over the Tamar Bridge :
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=tamar+bridge&sll=50.408274,-4.204646&sspn=0.039166,0.103254&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Tamar+Bridge,+Plymouth+PL5+1,+United+Kingdom&ll=50.408299,-4.200726&spn=0,359.974186&z=16&layer=c&cbll=50.408274,-4.204646&panoid=KGIfRYi4V8FCYuLgpuIelQ&cbp=12,249.26,,1,8.34
My bet is on the man with the buggy - the train's bound to be slower, and there's no overtaking on the bridge!

 

[TheWalrus]

HC at Hayes

 

[The_Stig]

A 322 having been split at Shields depot.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Balloch,+Alexandria,+Dunbartonshire,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.846566,-4.284876&spn=0,359.99858&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=55.846499,-4.284347&panoid=h7pRtM3lSt5ClZCBtI13EA&cbp=12,0.33,,0,4.32

 

[90019]

Some unit trundling over the Forth bridge :
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=south+queensferry&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.668567,56.469727&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=South+Queensferry,+West+Lothian,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.989766,-3.39466&spn=0,359.55883&z=12&layer=c&cbll=55.989746,-3.394471&panoid=dkWaJNHfA-8CLhFsa2PjPw&cbp=12,48.15,,1,-0.57

It's a Turbo

Also, there's one of the police cars from the airport behind the google car. Seems a bit far from the airport :?

 

[466.networkers]

Just about make out a 466 (I think, could be a 465 - depending on when the Street View images were captured) at Sittingbourne:

http://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=sittingbourne+rail+station&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=21.962056,57.084961&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sittingbourne+railway+station&ll=51.341819,0.73441&spn=0.011286,0.027874&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.341838,0.734291&panoid=vDwp7KNKfxA9HOboQ9PHRA&cbp=12,16.46,,1,1.7

 

[The_Numberer]

Southport - Merseyrail 507/508s and a Northern 150

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...oid=aWgB0KtsxPKydWGzgeifwA&cbp=12,198.86,,1,5

 

[DaveNewcastle]

Some unit trundling over the Forth bridge :

It's a Turbo

Also, there's one of the police cars from the airport behind the google car. Seems a bit far from the airport

A Turbo? - they're all much the same to me if they've got noisy diesels under the floor. Units. Sorry.
Yes, I noticed the police car and followed it (if you know what I mean by "followed" on Street-View) along the High St and up the hill till it dissappeared after the supermarket. I did wonder if it was stalking the car!

I notice that you havn't been so quick in identifying the culprit in my Inverness Airport posting a little further up! You even get a second glimpse if you click once to the right, then pan hard left (train was moving in opposite direction to car). Well, a hint of a roof, at least. I thought I deserved some sort of award for finding that one!

 

[The_Numberer]

Garston FLT - Freightliner 66

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...d=1eAKpZ-IcdBq0ktzGwalyw&cbp=12,161.62,,1,2.4

 

[90019]

A Turbo? - they're all much the same to me if they've got noisy diesels under the floor. Units. Sorry.

A 170.

I notice that you havn't been so quick in identifying the culprit in my Inverness Airport posting a little further up! You even get a second glimpse if you click once to the right, then pan hard left (train was moving in opposite direction to car). Well, a hint of a roof, at least. I thought I deserved some sort of award for finding that one!

I haven't read most of the thread only the last few pages, but the one in the previous one is a 158.

In Edinburgh itself, on George IV Bridge, there's another google car following behind the one taking the photos;
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...d=CuZYr1KA-mQKbdSvSYqAaQ&cbp=12,342.42,,1,5.1

 

[DaveNewcastle]

on George IV Bridge, there's another google car following behind the one taking the photos

. . . . and again, the Google car is being followed by our friends in the Constabulary!

That really is an excellent image!

 

[90019]

. . . . and again, the Google car is being followed by our friends in the Constabulary!

That really is an excellent image!

Yep, although I think those images may be being replaced soon (with ones with my car in ), because I drove past one of them driving along there a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Bittern]

but the one in the previous one is a 158.

Easily. I'd recognize that roof anywhere!

 

[90019]

Easily. I'd recognize that roof anywhere!

That, the pink stripe above the windows and the windows themselves. Turbos have the black surrounds and 156s have hopper windows, so it could only be a 158.

 

[DaveNewcastle]

Easily. I'd recognize that roof anywhere!

Hurrumph.
So it was too obvious then, was it? sigh

Guess I'll have to try and find something less in-your-face obvious than that 158, then

 

[90019]

Hurrumph.
So it was too obvious then, was it? sigh

Definately

 

[flymo]

Some First Great Western stuff from a sunny Cornwall

Penzance Sleepers

57602 & Night Riviera stock at Longrock

Falmouth Branch

150 en route to Falmouth

St Austell

FGW HST with 43002 leading heading to Penzance approaching St. Austell

 

[222meridianfan]

how do you get the links to work?

 

[Turbostar]

how do you get the links to work?

Er, you click on them...

 

[222meridianfan]

Er, you click on them...

no, when i compose the message and i put the link in it doesnt go blue

 

[Dai.]

no, when i compose the message and i put the link in it doesnt go blue

If it doesn't go blue when you post it surround it with the tags [PHP][url][/PHP]


Ie -

[url="link here"] link name/url [/url]

[url="railforums.co.uk"]RAIL FANS![/url]

[url="railforums.co.uk"]railforums.co.uk[/url]

 

[222meridianfan]

hmm.....

 

[defitzi]

Hi I was looking at Google StreetView around the area I live and was blown away to see a DRS 37 and 20 loading up with nuclear cannisters - note the armed police!

google class 37 and 20

Wonder if anyone else has found remarkable train shots on Google...

(Oh and hello by the way, Alan in Dunbar)

And we'll all go together.....

 

[The_Stig]

I found this, it looks like a 314 disappearing!

Eerily enough is nearly the exact spot that the Newton train crash happened!
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
I also found what looks like two driving coach ends of a Pendolino or Voyager together on the main line!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Balloch,+Alexandria,+Dunbartonshire,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.81899,-4.137553&spn=0.000435,0.00142&t=h&z=20

 

[jopsuk]

Now things such as the Pendo are common- it's due to how the photompa is constructed. Most of the high res imagery is from aircraft (not sattelites). It consist of many thousands of photos, which are goetagged. They use computers to stich and blend thme together. Obviously, with moving objects such as trains, this can result in things being cut off or misaligned. Doesn't even always get permanent features right- as seen just south of Cambridge, where a Networker and the northbound line turn into a hedge, whilst the southbound and northbound lines get confused.

 

[Bittern]

I also found what looks like two driving coach ends of a Pendolino or Voyager together on the main line!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Balloch,+Alexandria,+Dunbartonshire,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.81899,-4.137553&spn=0.000435,0.00142&t=h&z=20

It's a Pendolino.

 

[sharplea]

Merseyrail 507/508 heading south to Hooton

Two more 507/508 Merseyrail's at Birkenhead North

 

[The Planner]

Apologies if anyone has done this one already:

66184 at Swindon

 

[ADRboy]

156 at Sheilds Rd.


http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...5.848072,-4.281675&spn=0.001205,0.014656&z=17