Holtonpc
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Holtonpc posted an update 5 weeks ago
Remembrance Sunday at Llangollen and the 2:30 remembrance train awaits departure with veterans, serving military personnel and their families
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Holtonpc posted an update 6 weeks ago
Sunday 3rd November 2024. A great day at Dean Forest Railway for their “Royal Forest of Steam Gala” It was a very dull day so the day seemed even shorter than you’d expect for this time of the year. I’ve included a selection of pictures taken at Norchard although i did spend quite some time at Lydney Junction getting close up to the…
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Peter, I missed this Gala electing to go and watch my local football team; had there been a loco I hadn’t seen before I may have bumped into you!
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Excellent photos, Peter. One to put on my ‘to visit’ list
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Holtonpc posted an update 2 months ago
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Sunday 13th October. Having booked to spend the day at the East Lancs Railway I was not able to drive myself there but managed to persuade my wife to drive me in the afternoon. My primary interest was to finally see the Jinty (as part of my project to see 75 operational locos to coincide with my 75th birthday … only 2 to go now)
I also…
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There is a build up of weeds at Rawtenstall, but the ELR have a solution in the form of a locomotive called Douglas which regularly sets fire to the line side vegetation.
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Excellent photos, Peter!
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Holtonpc posted an update 3 months ago
Does anyone know what happened to Blue Peter today – it started on a test run from Crewe to Preston but when I checked later, just before heading to try and catch it on the return, the outbound leg showed as cancelled due a problem with the steam locomotive – or words to that effect. The Inbound leg shows as cancelled due to late arrival of…
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We havent had anything official confirmed, but it ran into an issue at Warrington Bank Quay and instead of continuing to Preston, they used the Class 37 on the rear to drag it back to Crewe
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Holtonpc posted an update 3 months ago
Friday 13th September. The Cogwarts Steam Punk Festival was held in Llangollen over the weekend and on Friday evening The Llangollen and Corwen Railway ran a Steam Punk Special charter service. Seen here waiting at Langollen and later working up the 1 in 80 gradient to Berwyn Station
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Jonathan Fry and
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Holtonpc posted an update 3 months ago
I seem to have lostvmy friends too – is it something I’ve done
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Nothing you have done. To get the speed increase of the website we have had to rebuild LocoStop from the ground up which has meant that ‘friends’ have now become connections and those who use connections will need to become reconnected. You can see the member list here: https://www.railadvent.co.uk/members/
We are working on some documentation…
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Holtonpc posted an update 3 months ago
What’s happened to my photos…. “Nothing found” is all I find.
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Hi Peter, access to the ‘legacy’ version of LocoStop with your photos there to save if needed should be released tomorrow all being well
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