Michael Ashworth
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David Spencer posted an update 7 weeks ago
7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 weeks ago
29.09.24 Sentinel Y1 68153 at the GN curve on the Middleton Railway
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David Spencer posted an update 7 weeks ago
240929 Sentinel Y1 68153 at Moor Road Station
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David Spencer posted an update 7 weeks ago
29.09.24 Hunslet 2387 on banking duty and passing South Leeds Stadium on the Middleton Railway
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David Spencer posted an update 7 weeks ago
29.09.24 185109 on the 1P76 Saltburn to Dewsbury passing 66511 at Stourton. 66511 stood there all weekend after the FlT closed.
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Robert Minter and
Holtonpc are now connected 8 weeks ago -
clive BRretired posted an update 8 weeks ago
A picture i saved from a frame of my video. Click on the three dots, Save a frame! Its a bit hit n miss. (Mayflowers tour to Plymouth today).
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