Robert Minter
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Jonathan Fry posted an update 2 weeks ago
Class 57 locomotive 57307 Lady Penelope stands in sidings at Carlisle Station; the only Thunderbird left these days!😭
The photo was taken from the carriage!
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Jonathan Fry posted an update 2 weeks ago
Power car change at Crewe and a view of the yard from Crewe station
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Jonathan Fry posted an update 2 weeks ago
My transportation to Fort William courtesy of the Midland Pullman. The day didn’t start too well as 10 minutes later we were held at Yate for over an hour. Good job I had a cooked breakfast to eat!!
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Jonathan Fry posted an update 2 weeks ago
Freightliner locomotives numbered 66414, 66585 and 70007 at Bristol Parkway on the morning of Friday 25 October 2024.
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Janine Booth posted a new post. 2 weeks ago
HST to be part of East Lancashire Railway DMU GalaThe world’s fastest diesel train – the InterCity 125 – is to appear at the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) in November.
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Nice to see an HST on the ELR, it will only be idling on the first notch when it runs.
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Guilty as charged. In the 1970s, I hated the HSTs for taking away our beloved Westerns and Deltics, yet more recently, I have waited for a later train to ride in an HST rather than a Voyager (being over 6’ tall,… Read more- View 1 reply
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Michael Ashworth posted an update 2 weeks ago
The 6U33 Civil Engineering service running from Wigan Canal Sidings to Guide Bridge B side sidings was operated by Network Rail’s Departmental Stone Blower Number DR80213 and seen coming off the Accrington viaduct and climbing the bank towards Burnley on the East Lancashire Line on the 28th of October 2024.
#6u33 #engineers #guidebridge #wigan…
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Michael Ashworth posted an update 2 weeks ago
The 6U33 Civil Engineering service running from Wigan Canal Sidings to Guide Bridge B side sidings was operated by Network Rail’s Departmental Stone Blower Number DR80213 and seen coming off the Accrington viaduct and climbing the bank towards Burnley on the East Lancashire Line on the 28th of October 2024.
#6u33 #engineers #guidebridge #wigan…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
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(A quick yarn)? Then i ‘shut up’ promise? Saw a GW Hall 6990 somewhere on here? One of my engines on Barrow road shed (Bristol). In fact one of the many i would take to scrap all through 1965 and leave at Severn tunnel jct sidings for the scrapyard! From my footplate i felt like some past band leader! My live pulling engine would hammer out…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
Ive taken this picture of Clan line from an old video of mine! (Where you ‘still’ the picture and take ‘A frame’)? Its last carriage is where the new Marsh Barton station now stands on the GW Penzance line! You can see by the track distance that it was once 7ft Broad gauge, (Until 1892). And Atmospheric propulsion for a while of course!
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
Dawn, And clouds of seagull fly upriver and inland to herald the first working day since the clocks went back!
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