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clive BRretired posted an update a day ago
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(Critical care) Blue Peter (below this page) looked to have a Saphos tour board up! Maybe a 2025 visit to the west Country on the cards? I do hope so! It visited Exeter in 1966! Since then it spun up to severely damage its drivers arms from the spinning reverser? Motion doing 140 MPH with water surge mentioned! Sight glasses can give…
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I must add my joking ‘jiggle’ / slam is near the crucial mid point when flying faster than a racing pigeon and your cabs a mind of its own.
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 days ago
The person who sat watching a kettle boil was lost to the guy who pulled the first train of people as fast as a horse over a certain distance at Stockton? Open to wind n rain! But no ruts n bumps of the rough stage coach? But how was that info broadcast to the world i once asked? No television coverage, No phones or computers? Suddenly every…
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 days ago
Any snow about? Ive turned off central heating and donned my heated waist coat! I’m gambling its battery recharge is cheaper than my Ideal Logic combi boiler? Ive a large exercise bike in the back bedroom, whose only downside is that it spills my drink if i go too fast! I also love todays Step counter on our mobiles! It can show pleasure,…
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clive BRretired posted an update 3 days ago
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(Its a funny old world), Driver says ‘Special job’! Wash hands, Spruce up were going Plymouth? I politely reminded him that id washed the previous week! We went out to points and found a light engine going to Central then down to St Davids! Went down on old Bulleid sqdn 34075 and then went passenger to Plymouth Laira! collected our first…
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clive BRretired posted an update 4 days ago
1965/6 sat up front of the 1000 Western Prince, Legionnaire, Huntsman or whatever? Temple Meads to Newton Abbot (A fair run) on what sounded like half a dozen W/W 2 Spitfires going over? The countryside flashes by and my Stones boiler sings as we hit the English channel, So totally different to steam? But couldn’t last! Single manning sends…
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clive BRretired posted an update 4 days ago
(The wistful fireman up a creek)! Has been shunting alone for an hour n a half? With only my Russian ballet dancer shunter and his long pole for company! Prior to this my driver had been firing! He dug and used up all the lumps and has now gone home? Ive now only less than half a ton of fine dust left in my bunker? A large grab moves coal from…
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Think run around engine is Riddles 800, I had several, 80064 fav’. Mind you the 82 3Mt was a nice engine! None saved? Before that the M7 sort! They actually had a larger wheel than the 2Mt. And could shift, My drivers a bit heavy on the regulator? (That’s putting it mildly).Lol.
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clive BRretired posted an update 5 days ago
(The meeting), This old meets new shot is the same location as the Jubilee passing! But with the new station completed. The old brick ‘Ship canal’ bridge can just be seen under the new green bridge crossing on the GW Penzance line! Ive added the original layout of the proposed station platforms.(Taken from that same Brick bridge)!
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clive BRretired posted an update a week ago
(Tiptoe steps n long-uns)! I’m cleaning my kitchen worktops n walls with Flash! A sort of spring clean, So i visit West Somerset web site for their Spring gala? But is it an old page? Or for 2025? I ask because 6990 Witherstack Hall appears! An old engine of mine i knew on Bristol Barrow rd, Late 1965 i took it to scrap! And 6984 Owsden was…
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clive BRretired posted an update a week ago
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(Rock n Rolle to all shook up) Ive spoke of early 60s before, But that’s all lost in the ether of time! With the change of Loco’Stop layout! A Temple Meads run east toward London? (Steam), A big station with two fast through roads? (Ok, I forget)! And as usual i join driver to view a very busy platform! The new dress! Attire! The short mini…
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Blimy that was quick Michael! Dr Beeching ordered me east to Bristol? A large GW Railway Hostel house in Cotham with 30 or 40 fellow railwaymen and long distance crews? A new small end i fitted to my Arial Huntmaster twin for the trip! A fireman’s fancy of BSA, Norton or triumph? Dream of Trophy but afford T21! Lol. Some story there? But not…
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clive BRretired posted an update a week ago
This is the picture i meant to download below! The others a bit blurred? London – St Davids recent Atlantic coast express! And 65 year ago, Dont forget tail lamp! Dont forget that Clan Line often go over 100 MPH on these runs! So a drop of water on shed!
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