railways

went too this site in early September last year because i had seen it loads of times on trains too london, i unfortunately didnt get many photos of the inside as the building is heavily fire damaged and i recorded a video of most of the inside that i think may have been lose when my pc needed a...

The historic landscape area of Cwm Bargoed Washery essentially comprises the site of the washery established during the later half of the 20th century with its extensive tips and lagoons. The washery has removed or buried most of the mining and transport remains, which previously stood in the...

Derelict Finnish Locomotive #1077 After seeing an article on the internet mentioning this 'Harry Potter train hidden mysteriously in the Suffolk woodlands' I decided I would have a go at finding the location. About 15 minutes spent online, and browsing a couple of old railway forums sent me...

Had this one to visit for quite a while, then it suddenly appeared in the newspaper last year and named “ the Harry Potter train” :D. Was going to visit withJake and Dan but they stitched me up and sneaked off to see it themselves the rotters ;). So the next week me and my trustworthy mates...

Greenside Tunnel - 618 Yards — G.N.R PUDSEY & LOW MOOR BRANCH — In 1882 the Great Northern Railway & Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway entered into an agreement to build a series of short connections to existing railways with a view of improving existing services through mutual running of the...

Introduction I’ve had this one pinned for the best part of a year but for some reason, I just never got around to doing it until now. It’s certainly something a bit different, especially for East Anglia. Visited with @V50jake. Information & History Located at a business park a few miles from...

Butterhouse Tunnel - 329yards. Constructed by the London and North Western Railway Company (LNWR) the 329 yard Butterhouse Tunnel was part of the “Micklehurst Loop” running between Standedge and Stalybridge, Opened in 1886 to aid congestion on the mainline running between the same locations...

Evening, Having been grabbing extra hours at work I’ve had zero time to explore new places or process past visits! Ive got a couple more explores to upload then probably nothing until the new year.... Chesterfield Railway Tunnel 474yards. June 1892 saw the arrival of the Manchester Sheffield...

The St. James's Gate Brewery belonging to Guinness had what was apparently the longest private factory railway system in Ireland. In total there were 10 miles of track of which 8 miles were narrow gauge. There were some interesting innovations included within the system - a spiral in narrow...

History London North Western Railway built the viaduct in 1882 to bypass the congested lines leading to the present-day Leeds Station. It's 1,500 yards long and has 82 arches. The track remains on one side of a gate erected by Network Rail. Trains stopped running on the line in 1988, but the...

A recent explore of the long abandoned Bentinck Colliery Branch Lines did not reveal much at first, however the deeper we pressed, the more we found. In this video, join us as we walk and explore not one but two branch lines for Bentinck Colliery. From abandoned rails, hidden gems in the...

History. As part of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, the railway from Rock Ferry to Birkenhead Town is one of the oldest stretches of track in the world. The line was completed and opened on 23 September 1838, less than nine years after the Rainhill Trials, across the River Mersey, on the...

Hillhead Tunnel is located in Northern Northumberland; near the rural village of Edlingham. Built in the 1880s, It was once used to bypass a steep gradient in the landscape to ensure trains could continue travelling safely on the now disused, abandoned and overgrown Alnwick to Cornhill line...

Point of Ayr Collier (site of), Flintshire, North Wales. Visit to the site in 2013. The site was North Wales' last colliery and closed in 1996. There were no buildings left, just a footbridge and lots of railway lines, standard gauge and narrow gauge. One photo shows the Talacre gas terminal...

Background In Sweden, the trains run/runs mostly on electricity, but it is not good enough with ordinary 220/230 volts. The voltage at the incoming high-voltage line is usually 220, 130, 70 or 50kV 3 phase. This voltage is then transformed down to 6.3 kV, which is the supply voltage converters...