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Mystery Photograph - AD
An early 0-4-0 diesel locomotive named "Rorke's Drift".
Photographed at the Museum of Army Transport at Beverley on 7th June
1998. Can anyone provide builder's details and state what is special
about this design?
Feedback Regarding Photograph - AD
This 150hp diesel-mechanical loco was built in 1934 as LMS 7050. The
chassis was built by English Electric at Preston as their works number
874. The superstructure was by the Drewery Car Co, their works number
2047. She was acquired by the War Department in September 1940 and given
the number 70224. In the 1951 army renumbering she became 846, and in the
1968 scheme she became 240. The name "Rorke's Drift" was applied
in April 1983.
Mystery Photograph - AC
Can you identify this wagon chassis? It was photographed at
British Steel Corporation's Shelton Works on 5th June 1994. The only
information found on the wagon was a maker's plate from R Y Pickering of
Motherwell.
Feedback Regarding Photograph - AC
The length of the wagon, the design of the buffer castings and the
design of the "W" irons are all similar to wagons built for the
War Department during the First World War. These came in two
types: opens and vans. The design of the outriggers
from the solebar seem to indicate that this was originally the chassis of
a van.
Mystery Photograph - AB
Network Rail's Eurail Scout units 999700 and 999701 pass through
Clapham Junction on 10th October 2008, forming test train 1Q98 from Totton
to Waterloo. Does anyone know what aspects of the rail
infrastructure this unit tests?
Feedback Regarding Photograph - AB
This is a Plasser & Theurer type UFM 160 track survey car. It
measures the track geometry and references it to known survey points.
Error reports are produced which highlight where remedial action is
necessary. It can take measurements at speeds up to 160 km/h, which
equates to 100 mph. Each of the two parts of the vehicle has an underfloor
550 kW diesel engine with traction transmission through a bogie.
Factors that are either measured or observed include track gauge, longitudinal
level, twist, rail height, rail head width, rail tilt, rail fractures,
wheel burns, worn welds, ball indentations, corrugations and missing rail
fastenings.
Mystery Photograph - AA
From a family photograph collection here is James Lisney. He worked
for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR) at Redhill.
He worked his way up from locomotive cleaner through fireman and driver to
inspector. Can someone state if the type of SECR coat he is wearing
in this photograph indicates what grade he was at that time? And does
anyone know when he joined the railway, where he worked, when he was
promoted or when he retired?
Mystery Photograph - Z
This rather poor quality photograph was taken by the Rail Album
Webmaster as a teenager in 1967. It shows "Pantrain No.8"
during electrification work at Bescot. Perhaps someone will be able
to identify the origins of this old carriage, provide a list of vehicles
in the train or state how many electrification trains there were?
Mystery Photograph - Y
This strange machine is a self-propelled rotary snow plough built by
SLM at Winterthur in Switzerland in 1910, works number 2149. The driver stood behind the
spectacle plate at the front. The chassis is articulated as an
0-6-0 + 0-6-0. Do you know what railway company this was built for?
Feedback Regarding Photograph - Y
This machine still exists on the Rhaetische Bahn in Switzerland. It now has a body covering the boiler and cab
area. It carries the identification Xrot D 9213. It is based at
PontResina on the Bernina line and is used to clear snow between the
Bernina Pass and Alp Gruem.
Mystery Photograph - X
This shed is carried on broad gauge railway wheels. It was
photographed at Newhaven on 20th August 2000. Does anyone know why a
mobile shed was located here, or if there are others elsewhere?
Feedback Regarding Photograph - X
I believe the hut on wheels at Newhaven contained a navigation light and could be moved if a passing ship's overhanging superstructure was likely to damage
it.
Mystery Photograph - W
Photographed at EBV's Grubba Anna colliery at Alsdorf in Germany on 6th
August 1987, this is a test weight wagon for calibrating
weighbridges. In German it is an Eichwaggon. It seems to be a
private owner vehicle that would have been used all over the national rail
network. Does anyone know who owned it, or if there were others?
Mystery Photograph - V
An incredibly steep former railway incline at an unknown location in
North Wales. The photograph was taken in 1985 and shows the incline
with the derelict remains of the winding house at the incline head.
The photograph was labelled as Penmaenmawr, but was amongst others taken
at Blaenau Ffestiniog. Can someone identify the location?
Feedback Regarding Photograph - V
This
looks very much like Blaenau Ffestiniog. The zig zag path is definitely on
the right of the incline there. The standard gauge rail tunnel goes under
just to the right of this position.
Mystery Photograph - U
This Bulleid Pacific was photographed at Ropley on the Mid-Hants
Railway on 31st October 1993. It was noted as 34067
"Tangmere" but there is now some doubt about it's identity. Can
you help?
Feedback Regarding Photograph - U (1)
That is not "Tangmere". The locomotive in the photograph
is one of those rebuilt by BR as a conventional steam locomotive, but
"Tangmere" was never rebuilt. The signs of a rebuilt
locomotive are a running board, outside valve gear and a rounder
chimney (the unmodified ones were more triangular). But that still
leaves the mystery of what locomotive appears in the photograph.
Feedback Regarding Photograph - U (2)
The locomotive is 35018 "British India Line".
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