Jonathan Fry
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Robert Minter and
Janine Booth are now connected 7 weeks ago -
clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
A modern looking unit heads eastwards to Exeter in Devon! Looks twin electric doors? I suppose they can be over-ridden if trains on its side with no driver! The one i knew in 1963/4 had lots of compartments, Each door with a brass door handle! N, U, S15 Maunsell sorts 31874, 855, 853, 30841 stood outside Heavy lift road blocking road by…
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I must keep my comments down! Is it a hundred letters till (Read more) comes into play?
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clive BRretired and
Michael Ashworth are now connected 7 weeks ago -
clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
Them Southern Bulleids would come n go! You might get something quite different back, Airstream gone! Fancy new Walschaert gear? A recent show on here of Eddystone was a similar path like Taw Valley, Both Atlantic coast express regulars! 92 then 257 squadrons in that order would follow, Then Manston! So many of them! Life would go on,…
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Robert Minter posted an update 8 weeks ago
A few shots from my recent visit to the NYMR for their Autumn gala including 9F 92134 masquerading as 92079 #NYMR #Steam #gala #feature
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David Spencer posted an update 8 weeks ago
8 weeks ago (edited)
68153 on the Middleton Railway, ably banked by Hunslet 2387 Brookes No.1
If you expect a normal steam loco sound from the Y1, you’ll be surprised to hear very little other than the chain drive rattling away. There’s almost no steam exhaust sound, even though the tiny vertical cylinders will be working like stink.
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clive BRretired posted an update 8 weeks ago
Silver on the up! But VAT spoils it? Gold goes through the roof this morning at £2,007 an ounce or $2665 US Dollars! So what price coal for Heritage, They only take a very small amount, But with a large steel plant closing coal burning furnaces this very day and high quality arc steel production some way away? Then imported loss must be…
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Clive I love your sense of humour, I know how they make steel from cast iron (they add carbon) so if they stop using coal where is the carbon content coming from, the dirty coal imported from many miles away is going to create far more CO2 than if we mined it in the UK, so the new Arc plant will create more CO2 than the old one!!!???
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clive BRretired posted an update 8 weeks ago
(Nostalgic) But must be said) Dos Castles (I’ve a small place in Spain so i must practice the lingo)! So i get to think of my cleaner to firing days and sat on my eight wheel banker discussing the latest Cuban crisis when in comes King Edward or King Henry the V1 whose driver navigates red cow crossing and i always get a wave .from its…
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Cant Edit out half that stuff i write now! (With this new system)? Think what i tried to say was how do Steam tours turn engines for their return from Plymouth!
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I was 15yr old cleaner with oil n parafin bucket and cotton waste! (65 odd yr ago)), Never get them to todays high standard though! Hats off to them that do!
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David Spencer posted an update 8 weeks ago
29.09.24 Sentinel Y1 drifting down from Middleton past South Leeds Stadium at the rear of the train
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David Spencer posted an update 8 weeks ago
29.09.24 Sentinel Y1 68153 at the GN curve on the Middleton Railway
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