GWR Class 800 No.800024 departs Moreton-in-Marsh amidst a variety of semaphore signals with 1P34, 15:16 Worcester Foregate St - Oxford. The sun had only just come out for this shot, after an hour or so of heavy rain in the Cotswolds.
Tags: 800024 Class 800 Moreton-in-Marsh 1P34 Great Western Railway
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SY 0959 leads its train back into the pit at Jalainur opencast coal mine. An impervious layer of rock within one of the coal seam meant that water flows erupted from the face at this level and formed a row of ice waterfalls in the bitterly cold conditions.
Tags: steam railway locomotive train ice jalainur manzhouli nei mongol china coal mining industry
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37405 & 37407 'Blackpool Tower' with 1Z33 Network Rail test train pass Churcham. Cardiff Canton Taff Vale Sidings to Derby RTC. Wednesday 13th November 2024.
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2TE10U-0494 of the Tranco - Nura climbs up from the Molodezhnyy opencast mine complex paralleling the A17 road to Karaganda for a few kilometres, bound for the main line interchange at Nura, around 100km distant with 48 wagons loaded with coal. Karaganda Oblast. May the 13th 2024.
At this point you can see the driver is making a video of us. Whether in astonishment at our actions of chasing this train or for security reasons we did not find out.
2ТЭ10У-0494 с угольным поездом на перегоне Молодежный - Кушокы - Транко Нура ЛЛП. Караганинская область, Казахстан. 05/13/2024.
This particular place is pivotal in the instigation of this trip. Sven had sent me a photo of the cuff, it was a green unmodified 2TE10M with a coal train. I asked if it was in the past, he said no, just a few days ago. So I searched and found the picture on Parovoz.IC, a Russian Railfan website. It told me the location which I found on satellite mapping. Another check on the possibilities and realities of getting to and of being in Kazakhstan where made and the research and planning began. Having put the possibilities of seeing the TE10 in action on ice for the foreseeable future, first because of covid then because of war, I have Sven to thank for instigating this trip.
Tags: Molodezhnyy Tranco Nura LLP 2TE10U-0494 2TE10U Молодежный 2ТЭ10У-0494 2ТЭ10У Coal Industry Coal Coal mining Kazakhstan
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Our first photo tour of the upcoming year is confirmed to run from 11 to 20 February 2025! The tour will run scenic winter railscapes along the mainline and some branch lines in the northern part of the Trans-Mongolian railway!
Limited seats are left for booking...
📩Join & Inquire about 2025 tours: monrailpic@gmail.com
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