#North London Railway

[vox-anglosphere]

A superb etching of a London railway & Underground landmark

The Liverpool Street North London Railway terminus opened in 1874

[hazel-of-sodor]

Presenting Tornado The Young Iron! As she appears in the amazing series by @tornadoyoungiron

I'll be posting the full sheet of IRL Liveries later today, and the full livery list is still being worked on, but it was time Tornado got the chance to shine

[londonedge]

An empty Lambeth North underground station with its peeling tunnel roof

[lomotunes2008]

Just got a very nice D11/2!

I also took some pictures of it with my A5 (They're both GCR engines so I thought it was fitting)

They frens :)

[the-time-lord-oracle]

An LNWR Claughton passes beneath the "Birdcage" bridge at Rugby with a Euston-bound express, while a Great Central 9P passes above with a northbound express.

[hartage]

introducing the big four. the main troublemakers. berwyn (GWR) is probably the only one who still has this photo.

ask box is now open as well !

[aneverydaything]

Day 1875, 11 August 2923

[eltristan]

(if you get it you get it) 🦆

[all-action-all-picture]

Poster celebrating the LNER No. 4472 Flying Scotsman completing the London-Edinburgh trip in May 1928 without stopping.

[aryburn-trains]

FS 025 meeting SB Flambeau '400' by Joseph Petric Via Flickr: Meeting the Flambeau '400' July 1970

[bacony-cakes]

this is my blorbo btw

[mjalford98]

Made a turn by King's Cross to have a look at their relatively new family waiting room on my trip to London last week. I was there mainly for the model railway, but the whole set-up is so brilliant I thought it really did warrant a bit more coverage.

Opening in 2022, the family waiting room features a variety of seating areas and a play area to keep children entertained while they wait for their train, and its design includes lots of references to the heritage of the East Coast Main Line, aiming to pique the interest of young travellers in the hope that it might bloom into a career in the rail industry. In all honesty, the thinking does seem a little cliche and almost politicised, but I still love the idea of a place where some thought is put into the experience of travel in an age when experience isn't nearly as frequently enough of a consideration as it should be. Raising a family can be challenging, and travelling with one even more so, so if we want to encourage families to travel at all, let alone by public transport, then putting the effort into creating places where children can be engaged and occupied during periods of waiting can go a long way to help.

[hazel-of-sodor]

What are they doing?

They're express engines. They're discussing the state of the railway (gossiping)

but fun thing, there are only 4 A4s here

far right isn't an A4, it's Hush Hush

yep, the LNER's rebuilt white elephant. By all acounts I've found, post rebuild she was just a non-standard A4. Although it is worth noting Gresley was considing rebuild the A4s with the boiler fit to no.10000, so he was impressed with that at part of the rebuild at least.

heading left, we have Golden Eagle

Empire of India (my beloved)

Golden Shuttle, who was later renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower and Preserved

and Dominion of New Zealand

[keepthemacramesecret]

hey big finish friends who know shit abt england, where do we think 22 Edward Grove is? if one was coming up w a fake address. for reasons.

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

Take a nice, long look at LNER A1 Pacific Flying Scotsman in their first version and the VR S-Class Pacific S300 (later to be named Matthew Flinders) pre-streamlining (built in 1928, designed by Alfred E. Smith).

Very similar, huh?

The overall form is quite similar, even down to the little dip in the running plate. The S-class Pacifics had a pure Gresley conjugated valve gear between the two Walschearts cylinders as well.

[regular-ordinary-human]

It's really unfortunate that I spent such a significant portion of my time playing on my main character not... really paying attention to the actual text in the quests, in the beginning, at least.

I know part of it is because I mostly do this on my phone, and for some reason I'm incapable of actually taking in the text, compared to when I'm playing these kinds of games on my computer.

I don't want to restart the character (my Watchful and Persuasion are 212, I'm not restarting this thing at all). But I'm disappointed in myself for not really letting myself get the full experience until recently.

It also doesn't help that I go anywhere from a week to a month without touching this game. Which is also unfortunate because I love it.