Arthur russell
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Anyone remember GW Hostels for footplatemen and long distant stopover crews? Cotham, Redlands etc? Fried breakfast any time of day! Four or six to a room! Long distance crews in the attic! Nights out could get? Dont think i go there? The various Triumph, 650 twin Areal hunt master or the Ford 100E side valve?
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19 hours agoMainline Steam 19 hours ago(Fireman poisons Driver), When re-reading my imported tea piece a couple day ago, I would chuckle to myself on the memory of my not most favourite driver going off to make the fresh tea in an old ally can! He would disappear for yonks, yapping! while i wake and prep our engine and hose down the cab with the pep pipe! Had i not been so…
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Brilliant photo Clive well done
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a day agoInfrastructure a day ago(Dig all day with no tea break)! Tea was so expensive back in 1800s! For fine China cups in large houses, So the Custom house at the bottom of this road was for the M7 steam engine! Some are still about? Restored / preserved somewhere? A 0-6-4 if memory serves. A couple of ones i fired were saved from the cutting torch? Their cabs quite small!…
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Really enjoy seeing photos that were once part of the rail network, Thanks for sharing Clive 🙂
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 days ago
(Confused) I think ive joined the Infrastructure group twice! But no (create a post) come up! I’m afraid my distant education did not cover atomic fusion nor the speed of Frank Whittles jet engine? My first sentence (On Infrastructure) was to be the mid 1800s steam shovel! And then the vast amount of brick bridges to span huge deep cuttings…
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Hi Clive, i cant see you as a member of the Infrastructure group, wondering whether an internet glitch has meant you never joined?
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clive BRretired posted an update 4 days ago
Should i live in an area of prolific open bush fires! I would trial a 3/4 bore galvanised pipe along my roof ridge with regularly spaced spray heads with water, from my large hole in the ground i would name a ‘swimming pool’ in a ceremony of canned beers and crisps and a small fossil fuel water pump to drench or baptise my building when it…
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clive BRretired posted an update 4 days ago
(-20 up North) They say? So turn my heat up to 17* and dream of my shunting days on my 41 or 82 standard 2 or 3Mt sorts! My Drivers off somewhere with the Signalman again! Summers could be so hot on the footplate, Yet folk build up a coal reserve for their winter ‘open’ fires, So coal wagons fly about the yard! The wagons i bring up from…
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Bigger trains i would use the Maunsell sorts.
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clive BRretired posted an update a week ago
(Ok, Not another rail yarn, But simple fact!) Late 1950s i would be given the new to me Richard Maunsell eight drive wheel Z class steam engine for banking St Davids 1-37 bank to Exeter Central, With heavy trains and Meldon Quarry track ballast trains! A powerful engine with plenty of adhesion built in 1929! Only eight were built because the…
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My picture is awful! Dark and reproduced from my video! May i show the true shot beyond this 80079? Terraced houses for £1350, (And a sensible mortgage)! But todays daft prices because of shortage of stock to house us all? Never mind the young couple hoping to buy a ‘Home’ other than a house to bring up their family without demanding higher…
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