clive BRretired
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
200 year anniversary of railway? Blimey, A blink of the eye in earths history! Leave school at 15yrs to take up Mail delivery and engine cleaning duties! Start 6am! So pushbike twelve miles to my shed! Put my bike in the guards van at 2pm to get home. Delivering engine movement stuff and drivers (Turns) For change of times, Destination, And…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
I hope Clan Line does the Atlantic Coast express this year, Its billed! But postponed to later date? I would fuss over it, See to its needs! Oil it on the pits and turn it for Salisbury Waterloo way! A speedy engine recorded over 100 mph with no fuss, And quite warm under! And oil running thin, One of the many that just needed a drink and a…
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Ive put a westcountry converted on by mistake. Battle of Britain sort similar though? Doh. I got Clan somewhere??
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
(Other Groups)! I sit on my boat pondering the many Steam Heritage engines to pass under this bridge! Plymouth, Par, Penzance bound? When i see a head bobbing, And legs franticly paddling? A knackered Squirrel crawls ashore? Its low water! So it must have a brain! But not a big brain? Or it would of walked over the bridge!
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
I saw 34059 Sir Archibald Sinclair below and wondered of Sunday dinner nosh ups at the Henry Ivatt dining table! Oliver Bulleid married Henry Ivatts daughter! Richard Maunsell was an apprentice to Ivatt (you never see any Maunsell engines about on here)? They would supply the ballast to stop the rail network sinking into the ground! I would…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
New fuel filters in Mercury n Tohatsu outboards done wonders! Done my Shark hoover too! Damn thing pulls me all over the place now? If new (Other groups) were private enlisted, We could discuss our tomato crop this year without disturbing the Rail page! Anyone into drones? I got a Viper Pro craft! Or should i say its got me? Because like golf…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
My Blue Pullman pics a washout! But an earlier venture to Exeter Central to see Bahamas hauling the very long Atlantic coast express! I arrived at the gate to see many others turned away by staff, A short chat of Central station back in 1959, 1960 got me a conducted tour and an empty platform to myself! No table with a nice coffee? But a choice…
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Some lovely photos there Clive well done
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
I walked over 8000 steps for a zoom shot of the Blue Pullman over the wide estuary? My pictures not good enough to show!! Instead i show my licorice allsort version of match stick steam? A doodle! A mongrel! Think i might add two side tanks, Remove two inner front bogy wheels? Some rod support and Bingo =(8064 Riddles)! 80064 was one of a…
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Its easy now to say Riddles 80079/80 should not of attempted a heavy train up St Davids bank! They proved the power, But not the adhesion? I wonder when it last used its sanders?
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Just convince yourself that the loco at the front is a well tank with a well hidden tank..
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
(When Moths were bored)! On relief we jumped off the platform to cross four sets of line! Stepping over up fast line to London driver says buck up, Pullmans coming! I’m loitering to put my tea caddy away! Bit of a rush on changeover! To gather things up while giving pros n cons of whatever engine you happen to have, Come 1964 65 you didn’t have…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
Is there no groups now? (The Royal mail train)! Never in my life so knackered? Played rugby for the town! Never much good!, Regular tennis player of no distinction? But a clinkered fire box on a long run to Bristol Temple meads with the Royal Mail train could fill many of these comment boxes! Stopped for steam (blow up) a couple times! (My…
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Groups will be back soon, we still have some things to finalise before we go live
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 months ago
Advent news of 7027 Thornbury Castle being saved must be good news? It would sit on Bristol Temple meads, I have a picture of it having some pep pipe treatment by its fireman! ( i spoke of this and coal damping the other day)! Heady days of my old shed nearby (Barrow rd) With Dunster Castle, And later in 1965 Clun Castle of course. But we put…
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Clive; although 7027 Thornbury Castle has been acquired by the 4709 Group, it’s days as a GWR castle class are numbered as the boiler and other parts are to be used for a ‘new build’ locomotive. The remains of Thornbury Castle will be few and only memories will remain of it’s existence. Very sad!!
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Riviera Blue Pullman through here on Sat 14th. PS, Ill leave my Thornbury Castle to a charity shop.
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The tour is called The Mayflower and to date is being hauled by the two Castles from Vintage Trains. 7029 Clun Castle and 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe are their two mainline locomotives. I’m aiming to seeing them at BTM so pulling out of St Davids should be just as stunning! Hope you get to see them and you get some decent photos!
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