#The Three Railway Engines

[railway323]

HAPPY NATIONAL TRAIN DAY!!!!

take some multi-colored trains

[thomasfan48573real]

YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS.

WHY IS 98462 A MUSICAL ARTIST?

[number1spongebobfan]

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

Happy 79th Anniversary !

Ohhhh boy, this book is 79 years old? Blimey! The book that started in all, The Three Railway Engines. Cheers, Wilbert… however imperfect your stories were, it did have a positive impact in that it inspired the love of steam locomotives in younger generations for years to come.

Cheers to the first three… Edward, Gordon and Henry!

Salut!

I know it’s a bit late, but here’s my tribute inspired by the poster for Trainspotting.

[duskstargazer]

[1923]

Dusk had descended on the yard by the time Edward returned to the sheds. Most of the other engines had already settled in.

“Oh, here comes the showoff.” Muttered a voice.

Edward paid it no mind.

“I’m going out again tomorrow!” He told the other engines. “What’cha think of that?”

“Brilliant.” 8754 grouched. “Stay out of the way of my express goods, and we won’t have any trouble.”

“Sounds fine to me.” Edward smiled.

Gordon and 2984 then spouted some likely hurtful words, but Edward tuned them out almost immediately. He was in too good a mood to be dragged down by them.

He closed his eyes, and drifted backwards into the sheds - falling asleep almost before his buffers touched the bar.

[neviagreatestart2003]

Happy 79th Anniversary to "The Three Railway Engines" and Happy Birthday to Thomas The Tank Engine.

[bruhstation]

seventy-nine magnificent years

[thefluffyrailway-official]

Three Separated Engines

(Eddie has glasses now)

Poor Gordon... He'sso sad he'd lost a buffer 😭

(AU inspo creds: @steam-beasts <3)

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

"the sad story of henry" it's also a sad story for everyone around him 😂 yeah he had a bad day and he made it everyone's problem

[portrait-paintings]

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Bt

Artist: Francis Grant (Scottish, 1803–1878)

Date: 1872

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London

Description

Railway engineer; appointed by Brunel locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway; designed the best locomotives of the period; in 1865 became Chairman of the GWR and rescued it from bankruptcy; severe and puritanical in character, but Brunel's closest supporter and friend.

[mwolf0epsilon]

Once I'm done with like, at least half of these WIPs, I really wanna sit down and work on two TTTE OCs of mine that actually predate my engine OCs... The concept is a fun one and even touches on the whole 'What Makes An Engine/Vehicle/Machine/ETC Alive?' idea I've had microwaving in my brain for a while...

[number1spongebobfan]

The Three Railway Enginamals!

Edward the K2 Flemish Giant

Gordon the LNER Shire Horse

Henry the Black 5 Quarter Horse

[scotland]

135 years of engineering excellence! Yesterday marked another milestone for the Forth Bridge—an enduring marvel of design and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A true feat of Victorian ingenuity that continues to stand strong.

🌉 Some facts:

Opened on 4 March 1890, it was a groundbreaking achievement in railway engineering.

It carries around 200 trains daily, connecting Edinburgh and Fife.

The bridge is 2,467 metres (8,094 feet / 1.53 miles) long, supported by three massive cantilever structures.

It was the first major steel structure in the UK, using around 53,000 tonnes of steel.

The phrase “painting the Forth Bridge” comes from its once-continuous maintenance cycle, which ended in 2011 with a new long-lasting coating.

It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015, recognised for its pioneering design.

Have you seen the Forth Bridge in person? 🚆

[scotianostra]

On February 21st 1842 ­Scotland’s first inter-city railway, the Edinburgh-Glasgow mainline, opened to ­regular traffic.

The building of a railway between the two cities was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1838 following several years of public discussion.

Construction work on the 46-mile line took almost four years. It was no easy task. To ensure a level route, numerous cuttings were dug, four viaducts were built and three tunnels were driven through hills and solid rock. Members of the public were invited to walk through the Queen Street tunnel on New Year’s Day 1842 to satisfy growing interest in the project. The line opened to regular services on 21st February that year, following a ceremonial opening of the station three days earlier, as I posted on Sunday.

The railway put an end to the slow and cumbersome stagecoaches that had linked Glasgow and Edinburgh for more than a century, and would eventually drive business away from the canal network as well.

The project’s engineers had wanted to build a bridge over the Forth and Clyde canal – but the canal’s owners refused. A tunnel under the waterway had to be constructed instead.

The Scotsman reported in February 1842 that “it rarely happens that a railway can be brought into the centre of a great city”, as it announced the opening of Queen Street station in Glasgow. But the original Edinburgh terminus at Haymarket was greeted with rather less enthusiasm. It was hoped that eventually the train line would stretch further into Edinburgh.

An extension to North Bridge was duly completed in 1846, and work on building the present Waverley station began in 1868.

The line was popular with passengers from the beginning. Initially, four services travelled in each direction from Monday to Saturday. Controversially, two services also ran on Sundays – provoking strong opposition from Sabbatarians. The number of trains throughout the week quickly increased.

Passengers could choose to alight at many more intermediate stations than today – with stops at Gogar, Ratho, Winchburgh, Linlithgow, Polmont, Falkirk, Castlecary, Croy, Kirkintilloch (later Lenzie) and Bishopbriggs. The Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway Company which built the line was absorbed by the North British Railway (NBR) in 1865. The NBR would in turn be absorbed by the London & North Eastern Railway in 1923.

There have been several high-profile train crashes on the route over the years. The most recent occurred on 30th July, 1984, when a rush hour commuter service out of Waverley struck a cow that had wandered on to the tracks near Polmont from a nearby field. The collision caused all six carriages to derail, killing 13 people and injuring 61 others.

The worst accident, in terms of loss of life, took place on 10th December, 1937, at Castlecary. During a snowstorm, the 5.30pm Waverley to Queen Street express collided with a late running local train from Dundee to Glasgow. The locomotive hit the rear of the standing local service at the now-closed Castlecary station at an estimated 70mph. Four carriages were completely destroyed by the collision, killing 35 passengers and injuring 179 more.

The £742m Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP) is the biggest project on the route since it was built 174 years ago. It will eventually see all-electric trains operating on the line, with faster journey times and more seats for passengers. The average journey time by train between Glasgow and Edinburgh (Waverley) is now 1 hour and 14 minutes, with around 191 trains per day.

A new passenger hall at Haymarket station opened in 2014, while Queen Street was recently comprehensively rebuilt.

[www-islandofsodor]

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