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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months 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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David Spencer posted an update 2 months ago
Forgive me, but can I question the number of items which have been appearing recently on the community page that seem to be better suited to the news page? I find that I’m having to scroll through news items in order to find members’ photos. This has only happened since the roll-out of the new website.
Am I alone in finding it frustrating?
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David, you are not alone! I also find scrolling through news items frustrating as there seems to be more news items than members photos. I realise that heritage lines are winding down and the weather may be preventing people from going out to photograph trains but the Community Page would be better used just for RA’s members.
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Hi David
I know you emailed Michael about this yesterday afternoon but he was out of the office for the rest of the day so didn’t get chance to reply, so I thought I would reply here.
I have had a rough count up and just 11 out of 49 news articles have made it onto the activity stream in the last week, we choose which ones to keep on… Read more
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Strange but there appears to be fewer new items in the community page today, you say that there was only one that appeared on the activity stream in the last week, but I observed a lot more than one and there were making it hard to look through the community page and interact. I was going to drop you a message about this but ended up being…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months 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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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months 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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David Spencer posted an update 2 months ago
Ramsbottom, ELR
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Did you have a steak pie?
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months 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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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
(TT Steam) Invariably firing would start / finish at shed! Be it your own engine or another light engine movement, (steam taxi)? But sometimes a fellow fireman with an Ariel 1000 square four M/bike that he swore would do a Ton would offer a lift to or from Central! Fast, Very fast! Climbing on 92 Squadron was like my 2nd flying lesson of the…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
Oliver Bulleid of the Merchant Navy, Westcountry, Battle of Britain Pacific mainline Southern region sorts? Apprentice to Gresley and Ivatt! (Married Henry Ivatts daughter). But a designer in his own right! Would eventually retire to a Devon seaside resort called Exmouth! Clean refreshing air and cheap beer? But only twelve mile from Exmouth…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
(Total confusion), There’s an engine called Mayflower! Then separate from (Golden Hind). We (Steam crew) missed Southerns link to a warship hauled Paddington bound in 1960? Now Collets Castle Mount Edgcombe brings Mayflower West? Wish they put a headboard on and not just the tour group name or something! (For the benefit of the older folk…
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