Robert Minter
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clive BRretired posted an update 4 weeks ago
Any snow about? Ive turned off central heating and donned my heated waist coat! I’m gambling its battery recharge is cheaper than my Ideal Logic combi boiler? Ive a large exercise bike in the back bedroom, whose only downside is that it spills my drink if i go too fast! I also love todays Step counter on our mobiles! It can show pleasure,…
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clive BRretired posted an update 4 weeks ago
4 weeks ago (edited)
(Its a funny old world), Driver says ‘Special job’! Wash hands, Spruce up were going Plymouth? I politely reminded him that id washed the previous week! We went out to points and found a light engine going to Central then down to St Davids! Went down on old Bulleid sqdn 34075 and then went passenger to Plymouth Laira! collected our first…
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clive BRretired posted an update 5 weeks ago
1965/6 sat up front of the 1000 Western Prince, Legionnaire, Huntsman or whatever? Temple Meads to Newton Abbot (A fair run) on what sounded like half a dozen W/W 2 Spitfires going over? The countryside flashes by and my Stones boiler sings as we hit the English channel, So totally different to steam? But couldn’t last! Single manning sends…
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clive BRretired posted an update 5 weeks ago
(The wistful fireman up a creek)! Has been shunting alone for an hour n a half? With only my Russian ballet dancer shunter and his long pole for company! Prior to this my driver had been firing! He dug and used up all the lumps and has now gone home? Ive now only less than half a ton of fine dust left in my bunker? A large grab moves coal from…
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Think run around engine is Riddles 800, I had several, 80064 fav’. Mind you the 82 3Mt was a nice engine! None saved? Before that the M7 sort! They actually had a larger wheel than the 2Mt. And could shift, My drivers a bit heavy on the regulator? (That’s putting it mildly).Lol.
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clive BRretired posted an update 5 weeks ago
(The meeting), This old meets new shot is the same location as the Jubilee passing! But with the new station completed. The old brick ‘Ship canal’ bridge can just be seen under the new green bridge crossing on the GW Penzance line! Ive added the original layout of the proposed station platforms.(Taken from that same Brick bridge)!
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Janine Booth posted a new post. 5 weeks ago
North Yorkshire heritage railway holds talks with engineering construction industry skills bodyThe UK’s busiest heritage railway has begun discussions with the engineering construction industry’s skills body on working together to enhance railway engineering skills.
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Sorry but I dismiss this being the busiest heritage railway as mentioned at the start of this article. I have been visiting and supporting this railway since my first visit back in 2003/2004 and sad to see… Read more- View 1 reply
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All I was stating that the ELR can be very busy at times, they do have the resources to tun DMU service to bury and link up directly with the Manchester Metro System.
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Michael Ashworth posted an update 5 weeks ago
Day one of the East Lancashire Heritage Railway’s DMU Winter Gala 2004 Class 43 HST 43159 + 4308 is seen passing through Ramsbottom Station on the 9th of November 2024.
At Hall Royd Junction in Todmorden on the 11th of November 2024 to catch the heritage HST come through as the 5Z44 empty carriage stock service…
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I was sat on this, such a comfortable ride!
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Next time i will, think we cross paths a lot
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clive BRretired posted an update 5 weeks ago
(Tiptoe steps n long-uns)! I’m cleaning my kitchen worktops n walls with Flash! A sort of spring clean, So i visit West Somerset web site for their Spring gala? But is it an old page? Or for 2025? I ask because 6990 Witherstack Hall appears! An old engine of mine i knew on Bristol Barrow rd, Late 1965 i took it to scrap! And 6984 Owsden was…
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Janine Booth posted a new post. 5 weeks ago
East West Rail consultation beginsThe Department for Transport has opened a consultation on plans for the East West Rail project, giving people ten weeks to input their views.
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The Eastern section between Bedford-Cambridge needs to be built with new stations added. And to re-connect rail services from Oxford to Cambridge and to Ipswich and Norwich.
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baywick posted an update 5 weeks ago
5 weeks ago (edited)
No. 44871 Passes Minster and heads for Sandwich and London with the Armistice day special tour of Kent – 11/11/24 #feature
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