Chrisjo's train pix

A thread in which I'll share interesting photographs of real-life trains and railways that I've taken.

We'll start off with the view looking west from platform 3/4 at Cardiff Central station in Wales, taken on May 1st this year, at 14:30.

From left to right we can see:

• Transport for Wales 197106 waiting at Cardiff Canton Depot, will be Cardiff to Manchester Piccadilly
  
• Transport for Wales 150260 waiting at Signal 7048, will be Cardiff to Ebbw Vale Town
  
• DB Cargo 66097 hauling freight from Margam Knuckle Yard (Port Talbot Steelworks) to Llanwern Exchange Sidings (Llanwern Steelworks, Newport)
  
• Great Western Railway 802009 waiting in the Brickyard Siding, will be Cardiff to London Paddington.
  

Great pic Dr. Chris! Keep em' coming

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Holy Smokes...I wonder how they kept track in that tangled mess in an era before computers 🤔

more importantly, how can move the trains without derailing them with so many switches

It may look rather congested, but the gantry with the nearer two red signal lights on it is about 500 m (1,600 ft) away from where the picture was taken, the speed limit on the main line drops from 75 mph to 30 mph between there and the station. The 800 class on the right is about 850 m (2,800 ft) away.

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Well that certainly shows a different perspective