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Direct Rail Services Class 37s, 37601 "Class 37 - 'Fifty'" and 37607 are seen leaving the old Great Central line and heading up Whisker Hill to platform two at Retford working top and tail on a Network Rail test train.
1Q64 08:53 Derby RTC - Neville Hill T&R.S.M.D.
DRS class 37 number 37422 stood at Lowestoft having worked 2J80 1455 Norwich to Lowestoft.
37419 'Carl Hayland' on the rear.
Direct Rail Services 37606 and 37611 at York with the 1Z47 Cardiff - Scarborough Cheshire Cat railtour. (30/6/12)
After Completing The 3S13 This Then Worked The 3S14 11.33 Woodburn Jn To York Thrall Europa The Route And Timings Were
Woodburn Jn 11.33 . 11.25 8E
Broughton Lane Jn 11.38 . 11.32 1/2 5E
Tinsley South Jn 11.39 . 11.33 3/4 5E
Tinsley North Jn 11.41 1/2 . 11.34 1/2 7E
Tinsley East Jn 11.43 . 11.35 7E
Rotherham Central 11.48 . 11.43 1/2 4E
Rotherham Parkgate Jn 11.50 . 11.45 1/4 4E
Aldwarke Jn 11.53 . 11.51 1/2 1E
Swinton (South Yorkshire) 11.57 . 11.56 RT
Mexborough 12.00 1/2 . 11.58 1/4 2E
Conisbrough 12.03 1/2 . 12.03 1/2 RT
Hexthorpe Jn 12.07 1/2 . 12.09 1/4 1L
Bentley Jn 12.12 . 12.14 3/4 2L
Kirk Sandall Jn 12.16 1/2 . 12.18 1/4 1L
Kirk Sandall 12.17 . 12.19 1/4 2L
Hatfield & Stainforth [HFS] 12.21 1/2 To 12.31 1/2 12.24 . 12.33 1/2 2L
Kirk Sandall 12.37 . 12.37 1/4 RT
Kirk Sandall Jn 12.38 . 12.37 3/4 RT
Bentley Jn 12.41 . 12.41 RT
Hexthorpe Jn 12.47 To 12.49 N/R 12.49 RT
Conisbrough 12.54 . 12.53 1/4 RT
Mexborough 12.57 1/2 . 12.56 1/2 RT
Swinton (South Yorkshire) 13.00 1/2 . 12.58 1/2 1E
Aldwarke Jn 13.02 1/2 . 13.00 1/4 2E
Masborough Jn 13.06 1/2 . 13.03 1/2 3E
Masbro S.S. Jn 13.10 1/2 To 13.15 1/2 No Report
Masborough Jn 13.21 1/2 To 13.31 1/2 N/R 13.32 RT
Aldwarke Jn 13.40 . 13.36 3/4 3E
Swinton (South Yorkshire) 13.44 . 13.41 3/4 2E
Bolton-on-Dearne 13.48 1/2 . 13.46 3/4 1E
Goldthorpe 13.50 1/2 . 13.50 1/2 RT
Thurnscoe 13.52 1/2 . 13.52 3/4 RT
Moorthorpe Goods Loop 13.58 No Report
Moorthorpe 13.59 . 13.58 1E
South Kirkby Jn 14.00 . 13.58 1/2 1E
Hemsworth Loop 14.05 . 14.03 3/4 1E
Fitzwilliam 14.07 . 14.04 3/4 2E
Hare Park Junction 14.13 . 14.11 3/4 1E
Crofton West Jn 14.16 . 14.14 1/2 1E
Oakenshaw Jn 14.18 . 14.16 1E
Calder Bridge Jn 14.20 1/2 . 14.18 2E
Turners Lane Jn 14.25 1/2 . 14.19 1/2 5E
Normanton 14.31 1/2 . 14.23 3/4 7E
Altofts Jn 14.33 1/2 . 14.24 1/2 8E
Whitwood Jn 14.39 . 14.31 1/2 7E
Woodlesford 14.43 . 14.38 1/2 4E
Milford Jn 14.52 . 14.46 3/4 5E
Sherburn Jn 14.56 1/2 No Report
Sherburn-in-Elmet 14.57 . 14.48 3/4 8E
Church Fenton 15.02 . 14.51 1/2 10E
Ulleskelf 15.05 . 14.53 1/4 11E
Colton South Jn 15.09 . 14.57 12E
Colton Jn 15.10 . 14.58 11E
Colton North Jn 15.11 . 14.59 12E
York Holgate Jcn 15.16 1/2 . 15.04 12E
York Yard South Jn 15.17 . 15.04 12E
York Yard Nth R.S. 15.21 To 15.29 15.09 1/4 . 15.08 21E
York Thrall Europa 15.34 . 15.13 21E
Ain't no misster E. from my perspective: I'll take an 'original' Dodge Challenger over an 'ersatz' version any day! As I see it, 'retro' cars in general haven't worked particularly well, mainly because their designers take too many liberties with the original styling. To my eyes, the 'retro' Challenger looks bloated, puffy, and heavy-handed. It may indeed be a great performance car, but retro is all about appearances, is it not?
I'd like to see somebody do a new, technologically-updated version of the 1953 Studebaker Starliner, KEEPING THE ORIGINAL LOOK. Now that'd be a conveyance worth seeing-----and maybe even buying, for those who understand and appreciate the meaning of the word 'classic'.
Direct Rail Services Class 47, 47818 is seen pushing inspection saloon 975025 "Caroline" through Shirebrook with a Derby to Derby trip via Derby, Worksop, Nottingham, Newark, Sleaford, Boston, Grantham, Nottingham and Derby. 2Z02 07:39 Derby - Derby.
youtu.be/LrpM4_fPIT4?t=1s Trailer
youtu.be/t5UmxJyV_bI?t=2s Theme Song.
Starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling, Michael Ansara, Frankie Avalon, Regis Toomey, John Litel, and Henry Daniell. Directed by Irwin Allen.
Irwin Allen did not let disappointment over Lost World get him down. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (VBS) was a hit. It spawned a TV series that brought sci-fi adventure in "inner space" into millions of mid-60s living rooms. Allen provided a mix of classic Jules Verne style travel adventures with techno-gadget appeal. The story turns out to be more of a human drama than sci-fi, but the sci-fi element at least still fairly visible. There is a visual slickness to the production which heralds the coming flavor of second-generation sci-fi. VBS was also the American edition of a world cast into sudden global warming. The first was the British film The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
Synopsis
The new atomic submarine USOS Seaview has completed it's trial voyages. A congressman and Dr. Hiller, a psychiatrist, come aboard for a demonstration voyage under the polar ice cap. The ensuing tour of the ship is as much for their benefit as for the viewers to marvel at Seaview's coolness. After a couple of days, Seaview is being gently bombarded by falling chunks of sea ice. Seaview surfaces. The crew see that the sky is on fire. Meteorites have somehow ignited the Van Allen Belts. The earth is being scorched. Top scientists are convening at the UN to find a solution. Admiral Nelson is ordered to attend. Before they leave, they find a lone man on the ice. They take Alvarez aboard. At the UN, Nelson proposes firing a nuclear missile at the belts to "pop" them. A rival scientist says the belts will burn themselves out. The UN body likes the do-nothing plan, so Nelson storms out. They rush aboard the Seaview and speed off. Nelson plans to fire the missile anyway. The trip around South America is long enough to build some sub plots. The men are growing restive with worry about loved ones. Alvarez talks of accepting doom if that's God's will. Captain Crane is often at odds with Nelson over the men. Nelson gets death threats. Dr.Hiller suggests that Nelson is delusional and faked the threats. Crane is conflicted. A UN sub tries to sink them, but blows up trying to match Seaview's diving ability. It turns out that Dr. Hiller is actually the saboteur, but she is eaten by a shark and her damage repaired. Just as the savior missile is about to be launched, Alvarez holds everyone hostage with a bomb. Crane dons scuba gear and triggers the missile manually. In the jolt of launch, Alvarez is overpowered. All are safe. The missile does the job. The fires are poofed out. Everyone reconciles their differences and sail happily for home. The End.
There is ample action and no shortage of subplots. Walter Pigeon (Morbius of Forbidden Planet ('56) ) gives a good show as the misunderstood champion. Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeanie) does surprisingly well as more than just eye candy.
While commies aren't present, there is the metaphor of the burning radiation belts which will soon destroy the earth. The solution is a well-placed atomic warhead. Add in some spy story sabotage, and the Cold War is well represented.
Allen positions VBS as the modern replacement for the 19th century's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Like Nemo, Admiral Nelson is lauded as the brilliant (one man) inventor/scientist and builder of the amazing submarine. Like Nemo, Nelson pursues his own inner vision of what must be done to save the world. Like Nemo, the world is out to stop him. Having Peter Lorrie among the cast makes for an unmistakable tie to Disney's 1954 film version of the Nemo story. In VBS, his role is peripheral, but the connection works. In the TV series, Nelson's adventures in Seaview become a modern Nemo & Nautilus for the 20th century.
Just two years after Atomic Submarine, the notion of a high-tech nuclear submarine, on adventures to save the earth, still had legs. What a difference two years made too. Where 50s films were rife with war surplus equipment, Allen's Seaview represented more of a forward looking design.
A few movies before have suggested climate upheavals due to space phenomena. When Worlds Collide had this in 1951. The Lost Missile ('58) had a rogue missile burning up swaths of earth as it orbited. This was more of moving a local problem than global, but still... Also from 1958 was an Italo-French production, "La Morte viente dallo spazio" (Death comes from space) which had a mass of asteroids raising global temperatures. In an interesting coincidence, the english dubbed version, entitled The Day the Sky Exploded will be released only a few months after VBS. Then, there is The Day the Earth Caught Fire (' ) which also features a scorched earth. A cooked earth was becoming, (dare I say it?) a hot topic. (sorry) These early looks at extreme global warming have an intriguing relevance again.
The television series based upon VBS would buck the trend. Often enough, TV series based on a movie would not live up the film's magic. Not so with VBS-TV. The series was, in many ways, better. For gadet-crazed young boys, the Flying Sub was too cool for words. The crew of Seaview, much like Roddenberry's Enterprise crew a few years later, would take their wonderful ship on many amazing adventures. After all that, the original movie seems tame.
Note the wall of blinking square "computer" lights in the control room of Seaview. It was not new, but recycled. In the age before personal computers, someone had gone to a lot of trouble make the light-bank blink its lights in such an artful, almost thoughtful, way. It was too cool of a prop to leave in storage. It was part of the evil super computer set in Invisible Boy ('57). The light-bank appeared again in Return of the Fly ('59).
Bottom line? VBS is well worth the time. It may be a bit light on the science (or just plain wrong, such as sinking ice), but it is briskly told story that avoids predictable traps.
DC Direct: Re Activated - Series 1 - (2006)
First Comic Book Appearance: Omega Men # 3 (June 1983)
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Heads Off To Woodburn Jn To Form The 3S14 11.33 Woodburn Jn To Hull According To Realtime Trains The Route And Timings Were
Woodburn Jn 11.33 . 11.20 1/2 12E
Broughton Lane Jn 11.38 . 11.24 13E
Tinsley South Jn 11.39 . 11.25 13E
Tinsley North Jn 11.41 1/2 . 11.25 3/4 15E
Tinsley East Jn 11.43 . 11.26 1/4 16E
Rotherham Central 11.48 . 11.48 RT
Rotherham Parkgate Jn 11.50 . 11.50 3/4 RT
Aldwarke Jn 11.53 . 11.52 3/4 RT
Swinton (South Yorkshire) 11.57 . 11.56 1/2 RT
Bolton-on-Dearne 11.59 1/2 . 11.58 1/2 RT
Goldthorpe 12.00 1/2 . 11.59 1/2 RT
Thurnscoe 12.01 1/2 . 12.00 1/2 RT
Moorthorpe Goods Loop 12.04 1/2 No Report
Moorthorpe 12.05 . 12.04 1/4 RT
South Kirkby Jn 12.06 . 12.04 3/4 1E
Hemsworth Loop 12.09 1/2 . 12.07 1/2 1E
Fitzwilliam 12.11 . 12.08 1/2 2E
Hare Park Junction 12.15 . 12.13 1E
Crofton West Jn 12.19 . 12.16 3E
Oakenshaw Jn 12.20 . 12.17 1/2 2E
Calder Bridge Jn 12.22 To 13.06 1/2 N/R 13.07 1/2 1L
Turners Lane Jn 13.14 . 13.10 1/4 3E
Normanton 13.20 1/2 . 13.14 3/4 5E
Altofts Jn 13.22 1/2 . 13.15 1/2 6E
Whitwood Jn 13.25 . 13.17 3/4 7E
Castleford 13.27 . 13.22 1/4 4E
Milford Jn 13.41 . 13.30 3/4 10E
Gascoigne Wood Jn 13.44 To 13.58 13.32 . 13.56 1/2 1E
Hambleton West Jn 14.02 1/2 . 13.59 3E
Hambleton East Jn 14.04 . 14.00 3E
Selby West Jn 14.08 No Report
Selby 14.09 . 14.08 1E
Barlby Loops 14.09 1/2 No Report
Wressle 14.15 1/2 No Report
Howden 14.18 . 14.18 RT
Eastrington 14.21 1/2 . 14.21 1/4 RT
Gilberdyke 14.24 . 14.23 1/2 RT
Broomfleet 14.27 . 14.26 1/2 RT
Brough 14.32 . 14.30 1/4 1E
Ferriby 14.36 . 14.33 2E
Hessle 14.39 1/2 No Report
Hessle East Jn 14.41 1/2 No Report
Hessle Road Jn 14.43 No Report
Anlaby Road Jn 14.46 No Report
Hull [HUL] 14.49 . 14.46 3E
The National Cycle Route 647 travelling away from the former Clifton-on-Trent station on the disused Chesterfield and Lincoln Direct Railway, in Nottinghamshire.
The station was opened in March 1897 by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway on its main line from Chesterfield to Lincoln. It was closed by British Railways in 1955. The station was at the eastern end of Fledborough Viaduct, which crossed the River Trent. It was a short walk to the river and was popular with anglers. The station buildings and Stationmaster's house were all built in the company's distinctive architectural style, which had clear echoes at Arkwright Town, Bolsover South and Warsop, to name but three.
Like most new railways of the time its purpose was the carriage of coal. The project's leading light was William Arkwright, a descendant of Richard Arkwright who had made the family's fortune by mechanising the spinning of cotton. William Arkwright had settled at Sutton Scarsdale Hall near Chesterfield and with the land came extensive deposits of coal.
The rail network in the vicinity provided by the Midland Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway was still in its infancy and would not meet his requirements. In 1887 the Chesterfield and Lincoln Direct Railway was proposed independently to join with Midland lines at each end. It would cross his land but received insufficient support.
Arkwright decided to promote an independent line to provide through roads to opposite coasts of the country. In time it became known as "The East to West". It would be sufficiently large to maintain itself in the face of competition from other railways. There were a number of lines already approved but not carried forward which could be incorporated. With the Newark and Ollerton there was the Macclesfield and Warrington Railway and the Lincoln and East Coast Railway. A number of other lines had been considered but not formally proposed and these, together with plans for dock works at Sutton on Sea which had been approved in 1884, gave Arkwright his route and support from the various landowners involved. The Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Company was formed at 27 George St in Westminster and published its plans in 1890.
There was initially a deal of opposition from landowners and other railway companies but, in the end, the main opponent was the MS&LR because the line would bypass its own line from Sheffield to Retford and thence to London. The Great Eastern Railway turned from opponent to supporteer, realising that the line could give it an entree to the Midlands coalfields. The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Act authorising building the line was given Royal Assent on 5 August 1891.
Due to lack of investment, only the portion from Chesterfield to Lincoln was built. To have continued west of Chesterfield would have required some extremely expensive and difficult engineering works. It was an ambitious undertaking, with some extremely expensive engineering works, crossing the Peak District which had always been a major headache for railway builders. Even to the east it crossed lines of hills running north and south. In addition it would conflict with the lines of a number of other railway companies.
From Lincoln the line would continue eastward over the Lincolnshire Wolds, with a junction near Stainfield as it crossed the GNR Louth to Bardney line. Proceeding well to the north of Horncastle it would cross the East Lincolnshire Railway to the southwest of Alford passing to the south. It would then join that line's loop (at that time known as the Willoughby Railway) near Thurlby turning north east to Sutton on Sea, where the North Sea port would be built.
Passenger services over the line to Lincoln finished in September 1955.
Direct Rail Services Class 68, 68033 arriving into South Gyle working 2L69 1745 to Cardenden, service had started at Edinburgh Waverley, taken 9th July 2018
CN M394 proceeds eastbound at Pulham Road on the CN Strathroy Subdivision west of London, Ontario. Taking charge of the train is Canadian Pacific AC4400CWM 8157. This train caused quite a stir, as CP (or foreign power as a whole) is a bit rare to come by leading CN trains through Southwestern Ontario. The light was decent enough for this shot, the sun going in and out of the clouds. It's good enough.
September 16, 2023.