• (So distracting)! I keep swinging around to watch Big Jet plane landings on my 48inch OLED tele (You Tube)! Very windy up country but they are on about Vickers Viscount or Brabazon aircraft? I’m sure when i would spend hours putting goods together with my old multi wheeled steam Austerity or 5 or anything at Bristol Filton? Or was it…

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    (Hasty times) And Gold price gone bonkers! My Krugerrand on Thursday made £1982! Now £2002 today? So what price Coal in this volatile world ? China and others increase consumption while we close another coal fired steel plant? Do Heritage club together to buy Coal in bulk? (Proportional of course to suit number of engines you have)! Spose its…

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  • Comments not so frequent now! Dont know if anyone reads my stuff? But the beauty of talking to oneself is that you can never be wrong! That said, Clan lines lovely blue carriages are just passing the Devon nurse training centre on the left of shot! Back in 1960 this was a siding where Merchant navy Clan Line could run to when uncoupling from…

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  • My friend Chris is off today visiting a miniature rail place on the south coast called Pecorama! I’ve asked he might get me some photos! The engines look very detailed.(miniature sized)?

  • 13.10.24 Hawthorne Leslie 3860 passing South Leeds Stadium and at Middleton Park Halt

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    Senior fireman heeded! But Driver the boss! Shunting or banking to many different Branch lines from Adams, M7, Ivatt 2Mt, 82 standard to 8000 Riddles and suddenly the smokebox or ashpan didn’t need raking out? Ok with driver so i get home a little earlier after an 8 hour turn! But mother or me would clear our house fire grate each morn! Fire…

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      Possibly the best Branch engine going?

      • One of my earlier engines! When i saw a cab torch cut on an auction site, I had to have it! Daft really! (Its behind model of 9F matchstick engine)! In photo of Ivatt 41318 i see my driver walking the platform with his hands clasped behind him, Just as Prince Philip would do all those years ago!

      • (short yarn) 1963 GW combined with Southern region! If my driver disappeared for a couple days it might be a new traction or to learn a new route! So this special i’m firing (Only an 8000 Riddles but quite capable)! And driver briefs me with (We’re not stopping at Exeter)? Oh, That’s a bit different i thought? Southern / GW link with a Plymouth…

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        13.10.24 Hawthorne Leslie 3860 passing South Leeds Stadium

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        14.10.24 Hawthorne Leslie 3860 leaving Middleton Park Halt

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