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Does anyone have any good links, stories ('true' or fictional) regarding phantom trains. More specifically Harry Potter (sorry) type trains from different dimensions that can be boarded, as it were.
escargot said:There's also a very good book called 'Railway Ghosts' which scared me stiff as a youngster, well-written and with plenty of genuine, findable locations.
(Like the story of Aubrey the signalman, who carried on turning up for work with his scooter helmet tucked under his arm for some time after his death! Yaarrgh!)
I suspect that such a strike would be very rare, if not actually impossible.OldTimeRadio said:When a lightning bolt strikes a steel railroad track, how far does the charge travel? (I assume it would do so equally in both directions.)
Your wish is my command - it's on Radio, available on BBC iPlayer right now! 8)Stormkhan said:Try to find the 'Ghost Train' - a play by Arnold Ridley (the doddering one in Dad's Army. It's been done on tv, theatre and radio and is a most excellent, entertaining work.
rynner2 said:Your wish is my command - it's on Radio, available on BBC iPlayer right now! 8)Stormkhan said:Try to find the 'Ghost Train' - a play by Arnold Ridley (the doddering one in Dad's Army. It's been done on tv, theatre and radio and is a most excellent, entertaining work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... ost_Train/
(I've never heard it before - extra bonus for me, it appears to be set on a train from Exeter to Truro...)
That's railway enthusiast, if you don't mind! Er, yes, you're right with the distinction. Apart from being much smaller than their American counterparts, European locos (British ones, at least) don't have the same sort of lighting - certainly not the giant spooky single lantern-type lights - or cow-catchers. Snowploughs, sometimes, but not cow-catchers! As for early Russian railways, they would generally have looked a bit Germanic.LordRsmacker said:For some strange reason I've always found images of American locos to be more "alive", perhaps because of the "grinning" cow-catcher and the "eye" headlight. AFAIK European locos didn't have these features. (Go on trainspotters, put me right!)
I recall reading something like that, possibly on this very forum. Wasn't it to do with the original inhabitants of Central America finding it literally impossible to see the ships in which the Spanish and Portuguese sailed, because they were so far outside their experience? It always sounded a bit dodgy to me, too! It sounds like a variation on Douglas Adams' SEP Field...LordRsmacker said:I recall reading somewhere once that Red Indians couldn't see early trains because the symmetry of the engine and railway line was totally alien to them, they hadn't developed with heavy industry, it was thrust upon them already formed (Again, the way I've said it sounds a bit dodgy, like they had inferior brains or something, but it isn't meant to be!)
Yes - said thread is here.Peripart said:I recall reading something like that, possibly on this very forum. Wasn't it to do with the original inhabitants of Central America finding it literally impossible to see the ships in which the Spanish and Portuguese sailed...LordRsmacker said:I recall reading somewhere once that Red Indians couldn't see early trains because the symmetry of the engine and railway line was totally alien to them...