Thailand - railway through Market
 

Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...times-day.html

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On 17/08/2012 11:15, wrote:
Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...times-day.html

This is a hardy perenial. Someone at the Wail is obviously bored.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

Thailand - railway through Market
 

In article ,
(Graeme Wall) wrote:

On 17/08/2012 11:15, wrote:
Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...stalls-shopper
s-dodge-bustling-commuter-train-times-day.html

This is a hardy perenial. Someone at the Wail is obviously bored.

Beats stories of people frying eggs on the pavement. They should get some of
those at the weekend.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Thailand - railway through Market
 

We've got the same thing in Birmingham, only different.

Bus routes not railways, on certain main roads through the Balti
Quarter, only no bugger gets out of the way.

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On 17/08/2012 11:30, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 17/08/2012 11:15, wrote:
Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...times-day.html


This is a hardy perenial. Someone at the Wail is obviously bored.

I have seen videos of trains going through that market before. Are there
any other trains that go through such built up areas or something similar?

I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India, which
runs at street levels via some residential areas, for example.

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:20:49PM +0100, wrote:

On 17/08/2012 11:30, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 17/08/2012 11:15, wrote:
Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...times-day.html
This is a hardy perenial. Someone at the Wail is obviously bored.
I have seen videos of trains going through that market before.

You can't have. It's in the Daily Mail, and is therefore a lie!

--
David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders"

Repent through spending

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wrote in message
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On 17/08/2012 11:30, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 17/08/2012 11:15, wrote:
Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...times-day.html


This is a hardy perenial. Someone at the Wail is obviously bored.

I have seen videos of trains going through that market before. Are there
any other trains that go through such built up areas or something similar?

I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India, which
runs at street levels via some residential areas, for example.

Ahem ... India? Indiana maybe? Mind you nothing like what it once was
and they keep talking about rerouting out of the streets of Michigan City.

As for others, the Darjeeling runs alongside the road through towns which,
by their nature have markets along the roads. On a significantly lesser
scale there are still a couple of places in New Zealand where the railway
and road share a bridge. In Fort Collins, Colorado it was possible to see
full size BNSF freights running through the street; they've been relaying
the track and I'm not clear whether this has resulted in greater separation.
There's somewhere in Pennsylvania where it happens too. Switzerland has a
number of narrow (metre?) gauge lines that run through streets in much the
same way the US Interurbans (like the South Shore) used to. The Hershey
interurban on Cuba has street running in places.

It does depend on definition. I came across 2 lines in Japan, one in Tokyo
(Toden Arakawa line) and one in Kyoto (Randen) which use tram like cars but
run largely on private RoW but short sections of street running.

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On 20/08/2012 14:42, Graham Harrison wrote:

wrote in message
...

On 17/08/2012 11:30, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 17/08/2012 11:15, wrote:
Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...times-day.html


This is a hardy perenial. Someone at the Wail is obviously bored.

I have seen videos of trains going through that market before. Are
there any other trains that go through such built up areas or
something similar?

I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,
which runs at street levels via some residential areas, for example.

Ahem ... India? Indiana maybe? Mind you nothing like what it once
was and they keep talking about rerouting out of the streets of Michigan
City.


It does depend on definition. I came across 2 lines in Japan, one in
Tokyo (Toden Arakawa line) and one in Kyoto (Randen) which use tram like
cars but run largely on private RoW but short sections of street running.

What about Aguas Calientes in Peru? There's no road there and the main
street of the town is dominated by the railway that runs straight through it

Thailand - railway through Market
 

"Someone Somewhere" wrote in message
...
On 20/08/2012 14:42, Graham Harrison wrote:

wrote in message
...

On 17/08/2012 11:30, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 17/08/2012 11:15, wrote:
Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...times-day.html


This is a hardy perenial. Someone at the Wail is obviously bored.

I have seen videos of trains going through that market before. Are
there any other trains that go through such built up areas or
something similar?

I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,
which runs at street levels via some residential areas, for example.

Ahem ... India? Indiana maybe? Mind you nothing like what it once
was and they keep talking about rerouting out of the streets of Michigan
City.


It does depend on definition. I came across 2 lines in Japan, one in
Tokyo (Toden Arakawa line) and one in Kyoto (Randen) which use tram like
cars but run largely on private RoW but short sections of street running.

What about Aguas Calientes in Peru? There's no road there and the main
street of the town is dominated by the railway that runs straight through
it

Absolutely.

In the days when the trains in Peru were run by the government they ran a
daily train from Cusco to Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca ( went on it
in late 1979). Once a week the train ran on, from the station, through the
streets of Puno to connect with the overnight boat to Bolivia. I think the
tracks are still there but I'm not sure how much use they get.

Thailand - railway through Market
 

" wrote in
:


On 17/08/2012 11:30, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 17/08/2012 11:15, wrote:
Occassionally the Daily Mail come up with some gems:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...uit-veg-stalls
-shoppers-dodge-bustling-commuter-train-times-day.html


This is a hardy perenial. Someone at the Wail is obviously bored.

I have seen videos of trains going through that market before. Are
there any other trains that go through such built up areas or
something similar?

I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,
which runs at street levels via some residential areas, for example.

On the metre gauge Linha da Vouga in Portugal there is a bridge shared
between rail and road traffic just outside Sernada da Vouga. There are no
traffic lights or railway signals.

Until recently there was a standard gauge track down the middle of a busy
street in the city of Coimbra. Although mainly used for empty stock
workings there was one scheduled passenger working each way between 5am and
6am. I did see it one very wet morning in 2008 from an hotel window. A
picture was impossible. This was the line to Serpins, closed in 2009 for
conversion to 'Tram - Train' which project was promptly cancelled.

Thailand - railway through Market
 

I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,

"India", wow, never knew you could catch through train from North America to
India! :-)

Street running of passenger and freight trains in North America wasn't that
uncommon.


--
Cheers.

Roger Traviss


Photos of the late HO scale GER: -

http://www.greateasternrailway.com

For more photos not in the above album and kitbashes etc..:-
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l9...Great_Eastern/

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[Apologies if my trimming has mucked up the attributions]
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:16:12 +0100, Someone Somewhere
wrote:
On 20/08/2012 14:42, Graham Harrison wrote:
wrote in message
I have seen videos of trains going through that market before. Are
there any other trains that go through such built up areas or
something similar?

I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,
which runs at street levels via some residential areas, for example.

Ahem ... India? Indiana maybe? Mind you nothing like what it once
was and they keep talking about rerouting out of the streets of Michigan
City.


It does depend on definition. I came across 2 lines in Japan, one in
Tokyo (Toden Arakawa line) and one in Kyoto (Randen) which use tram like
cars but run largely on private RoW but short sections of street
running.

What about Aguas Calientes in Peru? There's no road there and the main
street of the town is dominated by the railway that runs straight
through it

San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The one passenger train service in the country
runs daily along tracks that were colonised by the surrounding market when
the service was suspended about 5 years ago. The rest of the time, vendors
spread their wares right across the tracks.

The train consists of two ageless coaches between two large diesel locos.

It could give rise to a new form of train robbery: train shoplifting, by
grabbing stuff through the windows. Except that the train goes at about
jogging pace, so you'd get caught.

Colin McKenzie.

--
Cycling in the UK is about as safe as walking, and helmets don't make it
safer. Make an informed choice - visit www.cyclehelmets.org.

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On 20/08/2012 20:21, Roger Traviss wrote:
I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,

"India", wow, never knew you could catch through train from North America to
India! :-)

Street running of passenger and freight trains in North America wasn't that
uncommon.


I saw such a case some years ago in Portland, Maine.

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On 20/08/2012 20:21, Roger Traviss wrote:
I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,

"India", wow, never knew you could catch through train from North America to
India! :-)

Street running of passenger and freight trains in North America wasn't that
uncommon.


Indiana, everybody. I meant Indiana.

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On 21/08/2012 01:02, wrote:
On 20/08/2012 20:21, Roger Traviss wrote:
I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,

"India", wow, never knew you could catch through train from North
America to
India! :-)

Street running of passenger and freight trains in North America wasn't
that
uncommon.


Indiana, everybody. I meant Indiana.

Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

Thailand - railway through Market
 

wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:02:05 +0100, "
wrote:

On 20/08/2012 20:21, Roger Traviss wrote:
I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,

"India", wow, never knew you could catch through train from North America to
India! :-)

Street running of passenger and freight trains in North America wasn't that
uncommon.


Indiana, everybody. I meant Indiana.

Wailing cat siren goes off in head,
You Sod, I've now got "Indiana wants me" as an earworm.


Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD5UdXq-JLQ
(1971, BBC Top of the Pops, weird video)

Also, for fans of Northern Soul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S7aiDdZ1A0

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On 21/08/2012 11:07, Bruce wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:02:05 +0100, "
wrote:

On 20/08/2012 20:21, Roger Traviss wrote:
I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,

"India", wow, never knew you could catch through train from North America to
India! :-)

Street running of passenger and freight trains in North America wasn't that
uncommon.


Indiana, everybody. I meant Indiana.

Wailing cat siren goes off in head,
You Sod, I've now got "Indiana wants me" as an earworm.


Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD5UdXq-JLQ
(1971, BBC Top of the Pops, weird video)


For Indiana, read Dorset! IIRC that was shot in the quarry they used
for Dr Who. Is that a Vauxhall Victor masquerading as an American
police cruiser?

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:41:17 +0100, Graeme Wall
wrote:

On 21/08/2012 01:02, wrote:
On 20/08/2012 20:21, Roger Traviss wrote:
I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,

"India", wow, never knew you could catch through train from North
America to
India! :-)

Street running of passenger and freight trains in North America wasn't
that
uncommon.


Indiana, everybody. I meant Indiana.

Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there.

Interesting that you should quote a Canadian, R. Dean Taylor...

Thailand - railway through Market
 

On 23/08/2012 02:29, Nobody wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:41:17 +0100, Graeme Wall
wrote:

On 21/08/2012 01:02, wrote:
On 20/08/2012 20:21, Roger Traviss wrote:
I know that there is the South Shore Line from Chicago into India,

"India", wow, never knew you could catch through train from North
America to
India! :-)

Street running of passenger and freight trains in North America wasn't
that
uncommon.


Indiana, everybody. I meant Indiana.

Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there.

Interesting that you should quote a Canadian, R. Dean Taylor...

Not interesting at all, I didn't even know he was Canadian.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail