freight trains

[The Transport Youtuber]

may i ask why do train enthusiasts like freight trains over standard passenger trains

i often see them ignoring the passenger trains but recording and taking pictures of the freight service

[Tony]

Locomotives have always been the main interest to the majority of rail enthusiasts  

There's obviously people who like multiple units, carriages and wagons, but never as many as Locomotives

[B7RLE]

Depends where you look - as part of the younger generation, myself and most the rail enthusiasts I know are more into things such as multiple units. That's not to say I have zero interest in locomotives and freight movements, however for example a 323 beats any of that for me.

[Wumpty]

may i ask why do train enthusiasts like freight trains over standard passenger trains

i often see them ignoring the passenger trains but recording and taking pictures of the freight service

Locomotives have always been the main interest to the majority of rail enthusiasts 

There's obviously people who like multiple units, carriages and wagons, but never as many as Locomotives

I lived in North Walsall as a youngster overlooking Ryecroft Junction just outside Walsall and was always fascinated by rail traffic, the majority of which was freight until the Walsall to Hednesford passenger line reopened in 1989.

I'd see a swathe of activity as I walked over the junction bridge on the way to school, though the sight of a far more stirring Bristol VRT on the old 319 route approaching from Hatherton Road ready to turn onto Butts Road then North Street towards home!

As I got older and started to use my Centrocard to explore far flung destinations like Coventry (!), then a greater interest in HST's and class 91s overtook freight locos - to the point where taking my Nan shopping usually meant walking from the Birchills to Wolverhampton Road, cathing a 529 to Wolverhampton then an Intercity to Brum was far more appealing than the slamdoor DMUs employed on the Walsall to Birmingham line.

I've never been a train spotter or rail enthusiast perse, though the sights of a bullnose Class 37, with it's warbling tick over, growling acceleration and plumes of Gretha Thunberg-worrying clag still stir the kid in me.

Just my romanticised opinion........

[karl724223]

See the Tesco train on the stour line regular 

[Sandy Lane]

may i ask why do train enthusiasts like freight trains over standard passenger trains
i often see them ignoring the passenger trains but recording and taking pictures of the freight service

I've never been a train spotter or rail enthusiast perse, though the sights of a bullnose Class 37, with it's warbling tick over, growling acceleration and plumes of Gretha Thunberg-worrying clag still stir the kid in me.
Just my romanticised opinion........

By coincidence I hear the Severn Valley are supposed to be having a cl 37 only do later this year. Rumour I have heard is there may be as many as TEN cl 37's locomotives turning up and in use on passenger trains! Don't think that has ever been done previously. Should be a heck of an event.
Why not go and along and see if it floats your boat?
https://svr.co.uk/event/65-years-of-class37/

[Wumpty]

By coincidence I hear the Severn Valley are supposed to be having a cl 37 only do later this year. Rumour I have heard is there may be as many as TEN cl 37's locomotives turning up and in use on passenger trains! Don't think that has ever been done previously. Should be a heck of an event.
Why not go and along and see if it floats your boat?
https://svr.co.uk/event/65-years-of-class37/

Too late!!! 

[Stu]

may i ask why do train enthusiasts like freight trains over standard passenger trains

i often see them ignoring the passenger trains but recording and taking pictures of the freight service

I'm in no way any kind of train enthusiast, but I will admit that I do find freight trains fascinating to watch. 

I don't go to the lengths of taking photos or making videos, but from our car park at work, I do get a view of the freight trains passing along the Camp Hill line over Stratford Street North in Sparkbrook. Some of them must be around a mile long.

There's been times I've been waiting at Small Heath station and a freight train passes through, apart from the ones where its all Tesco carriages, its interesting to look at all the different carriages being hauled. 

I think the most striking one I remember though was when I was over in the Czech Republic some years ago now - I was with a group of friends and we were somewhere (I forget where now) and we were waiting for a train to take us back to Prague. While we sat and waited on the one platform, coming through the next one was a freight train that seemed to go on forever, and all its carriages were carrying brand new cars, Audis I think. 

So that's the difference between passenger trains and freight trains, as I see it, and why I think some enthusiasts might find freight more interesting.

[The Transport Youtuber]

Thanks

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

I'm in no way any kind of train enthusiast, but I will admit that I do find freight trains fascinating to watch.

I don't go to the lengths of taking photos or making videos, but from our car park at work, I do get a view of the freight trains passing along the Camp Hill line over Stratford Street North in Sparkbrook. Some of them must be around a mile long.

There's been times I've been waiting at Small Heath station and a freight train passes through, apart from the ones where its all Tesco carriages, its interesting to look at all the different carriages being hauled.

I think the most striking one I remember though was when I was over in the Czech Republic some years ago now - I was with a group of friends and we were somewhere (I forget where now) and we were waiting for a train to take us back to Prague. While we sat and waited on the one platform, coming through the next one was a freight train that seemed to go on forever, and all its carriages were carrying brand new cars, Audis I think.

So that's the difference between passenger trains and freight trains, as I see it, and why I think some enthusiasts might find freight more interesting.

Trains haul brand new Ford's I assume from Essex to the Docks or a Central Area and JLR Veichles from Halewood or from Castle Brom to Elsemere Port or to whatever docks JLR use for the Exports, assuming there going abroad and not for Scotland or Northern England or Northern Ireland/Channel Islands. 

[Rachvince53]

I'm in no way any kind of train enthusiast, but I will admit that I do find freight trains fascinating to watch.

I don't go to the lengths of taking photos or making videos, but from our car park at work, I do get a view of the freight trains passing along the Camp Hill line over Stratford Street North in Sparkbrook. Some of them must be around a mile long.

No freight trains in the UK are a mile long (try the US or Austrailia) but certainly the container trains can be very long. During the relatively short time it existed, I used to watch with fascination the freightliner depot in Dudley which was partly built on the site of the old station.