David Spencer
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
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(Leaf litter) Early morning ‘first train’ out might sometimes see me climbing down to our cabs lower step! Wheels spinning (Lack of adhesion), A little sand in our cabs bucket in my left hand! Invariably the wheels would bite at 5mph? ‘Ive got it’ shouts my driver! Its just the same old areas when leaf litter would fall! All locos had a…
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clive BRretired posted an update 3 weeks ago
(Horses for courses) I had several of the Riddle 4Mt sorts! 80037, 41, and 64, to memory? But the 82 standard 3Mt sort being allowed to be cut up with not one survivor beats me! Not very old? Not too many miles? And a very nice in between engine that would replace or merge in with the M7 or Ivatt 2Mt beauties! On branchline work i would have…
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Jonathan Fry posted an update 3 weeks ago
Class 14XX steam locomotive numbered 1450 doing its best to hide from me in the yard at the Avon Valley Railway on Friday 1 November 2024 ahead of the weekend’s end of season gala!
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How can you lose a train, it’s big and not easy to hide?
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(Hi Jon) Look at that lovely graded coal! In my day a huge lump would need breaking with the club end of pick! During an earthquake as footplates doin 80 mile n hour?
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clive BRretired posted an update 3 weeks ago
Those steam engines i would see in Ghana and Nigeria back in 1970 were large normal gauge ones! The one that fascinated me was the Hudswell Clarke built in Leeds (but only 2ft gauge)! Built for the Allied troops in the 1st world war it later worked in the goldmines of Ghana! But derailed and fell into a river killing its driver! Its now…
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clive BRretired posted an update 3 weeks ago
(Gold for a President) Well! With gold still $2737 an oz i don’t think the world awaited our Budget result? So over £2130 an oz the gold they seem to trip over in the Australian outback must be USA inspired? I would suffer the bloodless loss of General Gowan, But Murtala Muhammid was nice bloke? President Jimmy Carter turns up! So it…
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I did’nt head this very well? It covers my years working in West Africa installing water filtration and distribution works from early 1970s! Poor water would mean a long walk with a heavy container! General Muhammid now has an international airport named after him! (Formally Lagos Ikedja)
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clive BRretired posted an update 3 weeks ago
(All’s ship shape) In return for a neighbour hanging me over nearby cliffs for seagull eggs when i was a kid, He would lend his wife’s pram for me to get coke from the (street lighting) gas works! And later, I would get that very coal with my BR Ivatt engine at the port /docks, Cant remember if coal imported or Welsh coal come round lands end…
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Nuclear missiles offered to Cuba! So beer n fags go up in budget? So nothing changed much really?
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Jonathan Fry posted an update 3 weeks ago
Class 73 locomotive 73968 and class 66 locomotive 66304 behind locked fencing at Fort William having broght the Edinburgh to Fort William leg of the Caledonian Sleeper to its destination. It still seems odd seeing a former Southern Region locomotive working in Scotland.
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Very nice photos Jonathan well done hope you had a nice time bye for now Philip
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Jonathan Fry posted an update 3 weeks ago
Views of Glenfinian Viaduct taken from the Midland Pullman.
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Jonathan Fry posted an update 3 weeks ago
Class 57 locomotive 57307 Lady Penelope stands in sidings at Carlisle Station; the only Thunderbird left these days!😭
The photo was taken from the carriage!
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Jonathan Fry posted an update 3 weeks ago
Power car change at Crewe and a view of the yard from Crewe station
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