Jonathan Fry
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
(That time of year), Driver sets down his oil can and calls for Sanders! An innocuous feel of the grains between thumb and fingers, A quick swipe of the hand over his trouser leg and move on to next one! An overlapping lid of the sanding tube keeps contents cosy and dry! Strange memories for this time of the calendar? To disturb and blow…
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David Spencer posted an update 2 weeks ago
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70020 + 70006 at Hunslet 06.11.24
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
(Mmm), Just wondered if any Ivatt steam footplate person might be near southern side of the Isle of Wight? A giant A 380 Airliner out of Heathrow is circling very low burning fuel for long time? Its flight to Miami aborted! I added the Ivatt bit so its a bit railway? With over 400 passengers its like a very full train in the sky? Doing…
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X marks the spot!
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David Spencer posted an update 2 weeks ago
DRS 66429 at Hunslet, 3.11.24
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
(Sorry to go on) Clan Line (Below) Bit nostalgic really! Well just as the others of the fleet i spose? Leave home at 4am and pushbike twelve miles in wind or rain? 15 or early 16y old kid from school would clean or awake the giants! Never could explain the responsibility? Put it here, Put it there, Its going central tender first. But only (34s)…
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I do enjoy reading your stories, Clive!
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
(Headache or migraine)? Recent picture of 6990 Hall me n driver took to scrap along with 6916 in 1965! And smoke box shed plate (think) read 82E? But that Barrow road shed number became 22A in late 50s? Plus we took it from St Phillips Marsh (82B) in 64? So an American singers? lyrics of ‘Like a bouncy ball, She come bouncing back to me’ come…
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Thanks for the
Reminder of Bobby Vee’s song.
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I remember back in 70’s going to my mate’s before school and helping to fly and feed his Kestrel (sometimes the cat would join in), it would often climb high in the sky, surprising the old pigeon, then over the road to school and watching the fireless steam engines in the coal yard at the local power station. Then in the 80’s being accused…
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Holtonpc posted an update 2 weeks ago
Sunday 3rd November 2024. A great day at Dean Forest Railway for their “Royal Forest of Steam Gala” It was a very dull day so the day seemed even shorter than you’d expect for this time of the year. I’ve included a selection of pictures taken at Norchard although i did spend quite some time at Lydney Junction getting close up to the…
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Peter, I missed this Gala electing to go and watch my local football team; had there been a loco I hadn’t seen before I may have bumped into you!
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Excellent photos, Peter. One to put on my ‘to visit’ list
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
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34028 Four pictures below was on Exmth jct for years! A frequent Atlantic Coast express engine till late 50s! Cant remember its conversion date but fireman Ed could fire it all day wearing a straight tie and always dressed for going on to a wedding later! But my king of senior mainline fireman G*** Would climb on the engine i was attending to…
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David Spencer posted an update 2 weeks ago
Hawthorne Leslie 3860 on the last day of the summer season on the Middleton Railway
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David Spencer posted an update 2 weeks ago
I’ve not had much time to upload photos for a couple of weeks, and don’t look on Rail Advent as often now due to the new format with a lot of news items to wade through on the community page which we didn’t have on the old system, as they were confined to the news page, so here’s a bit of a catch-up.
27.10.24 150269 at Hunslet Station Jn on…
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That livery does make the Class 70 a better looking locomotive than the Freightliner green and yellow.
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