On Shed August 2012 edition

On Shed August 2012 edition

"Preserving the steam locomotive legacy..and more..on film"

August 2012 Edition
FRONT PAGE



Regina delle Nevi - The Snow Queen   (ATTS Italvapore) Courtesy: Pierluigi Ciantelli

Contents:Welcome, and site news...

Steam Tube Video Highlights

Steam Tube Photo Highlights

Tornado- The Story Continues

On This Day - August in Years Gone By....

UK Heritage Lines News

New Build News(VSLC & V499 Project)

"Ghost" or Parliamentary Trains

Reopening Railways: Reshaping the future?

Around The World in 80 Railways.No 25: Hospital Trains

From Christian Wolmar....

Contents:Welcome, and site news...

On Shed gives a warm welcome to all Steam Tube members (1,119) and readers of

this monthly newsletter and features magazine.

As ever, thank you for the continuing support of Steam Tube with your excellent

contributions of videos and photos of steam activity near to you.

On the video front, Tornado just recently hauled the return leg of "The

 "Elizabethan (London King’s Cross to Edinburgh return) on Wednesday 25^th July

2012 with iconic Deltic D9009 Alycidon.

Read more on the AI Steam website.

We also update progress on the Australian VSLC and the V499 project (courtesy

Jonathan Newton)

And we take a look at trains that are not there (ghost trains), and trains that are there

for those who really need them (Hospital Trains).

Next month we shall take a look at the forthcoming WATTRAIN Congress.

Meantime, enjoy this months edition of "On Shed- Preserving the Steam Locomotive

Legacy..and more..on film"

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Steam Tube Video Highlights (4,345 videos in the Steam Tube archive!)

Steam Tube Photo Highlights (22,468 in the Steam Tube archive!)

Tornado- The Story Continues

On This Day - August in Years Gone By....

--/08/1923         Great Western Railway takes delivery of its first Castle Class 4-6-0 express passenger steam locomotive from its Swindon Works, No.4073 Caerphilly Castle.

Chris Eden-Greens excellent documentary:
 "Steam Locos in Profile- GWR Castles"

02/08/1870      The world’s first underground tube railway, the Tower Subway, opens in London, England. On its first trip, 12 people travel 450 yards(411meteres) in 11(eleven) seconds.

04/08/1883        Volks Electric Railway, the first of its kind in Britain, opens at Brighton.

04/08/1914        British Government takes control of railways as a wartime measure

 

08/08/1968       Steam locomotive power was withdrawn from British Rail

 

10/08/1840      Regulation of Railways Act

                       This act introduced government regulation to the railways

                                                                                                         

Measures contained in the Act were;

·         No railway to be opened without notice;

·         Returns to be made by railway companies;

·         Appointment of Board of Trade inspectors;

·         Railway byelaws to be approved by the Board;

·         Prohibition of drunkenness by railway employees;

·         Prohibition of trespass on railways.

11/08/1880          The Wenningtonjunction rail crash in England kills 8 people

14/08/1927      Royal Scot class of locomotives introduced

6100 Royal Scot (C) John Edkins.

14/08/1915        A rail crash in Weedon kills 10 people

15/08/2012        First West Coast Limited is the new operator for the ‘InterCity West Coast’       franchise, ending the 15 years operation of Sir Richard Bransons Virgin Trains.

17 Aug 1857    West Somerset Railway Company incorporated by Act of Parliament

18/08/1837      Daniel Gooch takes up his position of Locomotive Superintendent of the GWR.

Sir Daniel Gooch by Leslie Ward, 1882

19/08/1921 &nbs


On Shed August 2012 edition