clive BRretired
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clive BRretired posted an update 8 hours ago
(The Hare and the Tortoise) Ive mentioned before that the eight drive wheel duck or Z class steam engines firebox could burn as white as the Sun on the hottest day! As it would settle down to 5 or 10 MPH for that hard slog up St Davids Bank with the heaviest of trains! Compare that to todays ‘Parker’ probes orbits of our Sun (The Hare)?…
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clive BRretired posted an update a day ago
(The festive season) And a terrorist with a heavy car has caused havoc yet again! But if the heavy concrete block (centre stone) blocking a section had a 12volt battery compartment for its simple rollers and brush bar to allow an emergency vehicle through, if so needed, with a simple code from a handset? That one weak link has allowed carnage yet again!
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 days ago
2 days ago (edited)
(?) Cant think what this was sposed to be? Got bit bored with the A4! I started on the boiler! So maybe chop two double bogeys off this instead? Half its bunker, Add side water tanks and bingo, A standard 82 3mt branch line engine i once loved! Non saved! Left water tank obscures the reversing gear come valve stroke, Three fire irons lay on top…
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The overwintering bird in my kitchen!
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clive BRretired posted an update 3 days ago
(Roses for mother Earth)! Who’s north pole stops its crazy roll away from the Sun, To ponder its return this day! Santa specials but no Britannia for the winter Solstice! And when William Lassell discovered ‘Triton’, The large moon of Neptune with his expensive new telescope, It was paid for by his occupation! Brewing Beer! So now we all have…
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clive BRretired posted an update 4 days ago
(Steam or Atom for galactic trains?) I gaze at a small segment of space kindly shared by Hubble or James Webb deep space telescopes, (With fascination), A favourable planet with a star we would refer to as the sun for solar power, Vegetation sat brewing gas or forming coal. And as i speak, Someone has prised out a diamond or lump of gold…
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clive BRretired posted an update 6 days ago
6 days ago (edited)
(Bit cold out) Its ok, I’m not adding another old rail yarn! (that resolution starts Jan 1st 2025), Mean it this time! But one length on from my picture of 35028 is where the ACE would stop! Clan or any Merchant Navy too heavy to go on! We took them to shed for coaling, turning and of course i would oil them for their return to Salisbury…
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This felt like yesterday? Not 64 year ago! Where the hells time gone?
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clive BRretired posted an update 6 days ago
(Hagley Hall) Was earlier a St Phillips and Bath rd Bristol engine at some time? And while i was banking St Davids its driver would give a wave or nod out of Exeter (Late 50s-60s) for its majestic run of Taunton or Templemeads! And as i was boiler first i would have incoming Plymouth (southern route) drivers giving me the nod, that i would…
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clive BRretired posted an update a week ago
Early to mid 60s and i would drive up Bath rd on motor bike or my Maroon Mini, Park on the wasteland opposite Bath road entrance, and sign on to then clamber up the steps of Western Hero, Cavalier, Hussar, Legionnaire or Prince etc or any 800 Warship sorts that given for that day was so different! I could of parked that mini of mine in the…
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clive BRretired posted an update a week ago
a week ago (edited)
(Old drivers never die) They just fade away! Ive never mentioned a name anyhow! What’s gone is gone! They were all gents, And a grand lot without exception! But one dropped his money for half a crown to bounce down the rocking bars slot? In todays terms 6 or 7 quid of beer in a pub? How much a pint in your pub these days? Four quid or so? I…
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clive BRretired posted an update a week ago
Should this be a white xmas this year? With ten foot snowdrifts throughout the country, May i suggest a new parlour game for those amongst us that don’t possess winter ski’s? Its simply a large blow up picture of the many steam ‘scrap lines’ of the 1960s! You simply try to find a preserved engine, and with a bonus point for knowing where its…
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Got the message Clive, I got the beer truck heading towards Evercreech Junction in the Mendips
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