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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
Sorry! But that mention of big mammals in Goa earlier, And i’m back to steam in 1960 on North Devon runs! My Driver screams out Whales! I’m across that footplate and my eyes are good to search for those magnificent Mammals! And all i see is sod all! No no he shouts, Cardiff Wales over there look! I lift my eyes over the wide Severn estuary…
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Wish i had a nice picture of Blackmore Vale, 257 or 92 squadron to put on, But i hav’nt so i wont!
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If you call that thing a Mouse I would hate to see a Cat get loose
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The winding river is so disparaging to the African hunter, A cat in the middle of nowhere? Foxes that stand their ground is creepy! Or too friendly pigeons.
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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
I feel for Werner of the visiting Switzerland group (Below)! Trains doors and windows locked? In all my days on the steam footplate no one stepped off a train at 60mph? It could hurt a bit, Or at the very least mess your trousers up! People apt to do so should maybe stay at home! I admit to still looking both ways on an official…
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The Jacobite steam service is sold as being the same as the one in the Harry Potter films, and it does romanticize it to the extent t hat you expect to be traveling in the same type of train, what people don’t realise is that the steam service is running under on normal Network Rail line and as such is governed by the same rules and…
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I have been on two other steam railways. The Bo’ness % Kinneil Railway and the Strathspey Railway. There you could take photographs and the train was not so closely monitored by stewards.
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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
(Standard 3Mt) Bristol Barrow rd shed, A span of yard, With nearby gassometer, And brick arched road running over it! 60 year or so ago a grubby urchin spotter would look down or stand the steps to take numbers on his way home from school! Possibly a 73 year old urchin now with a nice shower in his bathroom in his nice expensive house?…
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If anything happened on my walk to picture a steam engine pass by! I could be missing for months!
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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
(TT Steam) Invariably firing would start / finish at shed! Be it your own engine or another light engine movement, (steam taxi)? But sometimes a fellow fireman with an Ariel 1000 square four M/bike that he swore would do a Ton would offer a lift to or from Central! Fast, Very fast! Climbing on 92 Squadron was like my 2nd flying lesson of the…
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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
Oliver Bulleid of the Merchant Navy, Westcountry, Battle of Britain Pacific mainline Southern region sorts? Apprentice to Gresley and Ivatt! (Married Henry Ivatts daughter). But a designer in his own right! Would eventually retire to a Devon seaside resort called Exmouth! Clean refreshing air and cheap beer? But only twelve mile from Exmouth…
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clive BRretired posted an update 7 weeks ago
(Total confusion), There’s an engine called Mayflower! Then separate from (Golden Hind). We (Steam crew) missed Southerns link to a warship hauled Paddington bound in 1960? Now Collets Castle Mount Edgcombe brings Mayflower West? Wish they put a headboard on and not just the tour group name or something! (For the benefit of the older folk…
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clive BRretired posted an update 8 weeks 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 8 weeks 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 8 weeks 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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