Robert Minter
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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
Has Mayflower got away from Taunton yet? Its due through YouTube Dawlish cams around Mid-day (12ish) today? But i see no times on mainline steam reports! I will put on the cam and hope its just a glitch!
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The rail systems show it due to pass through Exeter St Davids any minute 🙂
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Ah, 12-30ish
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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
Sorry! But that mention of big mammals in Goa earlier, And i’m back to steam in 1960 on North Devon runs! My Driver screams out Whales! I’m across that footplate and my eyes are good to search for those magnificent Mammals! And all i see is sod all! No no he shouts, Cardiff Wales over there look! I lift my eyes over the wide Severn estuary…
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Wish i had a nice picture of Blackmore Vale, 257 or 92 squadron to put on, But i hav’nt so i wont!
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If you call that thing a Mouse I would hate to see a Cat get loose
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The winding river is so disparaging to the African hunter, A cat in the middle of nowhere? Foxes that stand their ground is creepy! Or too friendly pigeons.
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baywick posted an update 7 weeks ago
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No. 34046 ‘Braunton’ approaches Minster with the ‘Golden Arrow’ – 21st September.
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Nice picture that!
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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
I feel for Werner of the visiting Switzerland group (Below)! Trains doors and windows locked? In all my days on the steam footplate no one stepped off a train at 60mph? It could hurt a bit, Or at the very least mess your trousers up! People apt to do so should maybe stay at home! I admit to still looking both ways on an official…
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The Jacobite steam service is sold as being the same as the one in the Harry Potter films, and it does romanticize it to the extent t hat you expect to be traveling in the same type of train, what people don’t realise is that the steam service is running under on normal Network Rail line and as such is governed by the same rules and…
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I have been on two other steam railways. The Bo’ness % Kinneil Railway and the Strathspey Railway. There you could take photographs and the train was not so closely monitored by stewards.
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Michael Ashworth and
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alf posted an update 7 weeks ago
Empty aggregates train from Boston Docks to Toton running through Heckington today with a loco on each end. Aggregates train on a Monday…quelle surprise. Apparently the rear loco avoids the need to run round the agons in Boston Docks which is problematic if there is also a steel train in, which there was today.
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2 for the price of one; lovely!!
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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
(Standard 3Mt) Bristol Barrow rd shed, A span of yard, With nearby gassometer, And brick arched road running over it! 60 year or so ago a grubby urchin spotter would look down or stand the steps to take numbers on his way home from school! Possibly a 73 year old urchin now with a nice shower in his bathroom in his nice expensive house?…
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If anything happened on my walk to picture a steam engine pass by! I could be missing for months!
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Michael Ashworth posted an update 7 weeks ago
https://youtube.com/shorts/lpyYjMcGFTI
The 6J72 Civil Engineering Service running from Preston Dock Street Sidings to Castleton was operated by a Colas Plasser & Theurer Unimat 08-4X4/4S-RT Switch and Crossing Tamper Colas Fleet Number DR73930 and is seen coming off the Accrington Viaduct and starting to climb the bank and pass under the…
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Michael Ashworth posted an update 7 weeks ago
The 6J72 Civil Engineering Service running from Preston Dock Street Sidings to Castleton was operated by a Colas Plasser & Theurer Unimat 08-4X4/4S-RT Switch and Crossing Tamper Colas Fleet Number DR73930 and is seen coming off the Accrington Viaduct and starting to climb the bank and pass under the Iron Bridge on…
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Michael Ashworth posted an update 7 weeks ago
Heritage Peak Class 45 Diesel Locomotive 45108/D120 East Lancashire Railway Rawtenstall 22/092024
The Heritage Peak Class 45 Diesel Electric Locomotive number 45108/D120 is seen on the East Lancashire Railway at Rawtenstall Station switching tracks before reversing onto it’s coaches at the Station and then departing…
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