Donington Road

Just be careful you don't end up at that white building with the blue sign.🤕

That's wheeltappers's mate, four eyes Frank, he's the one ready to straighten the tension lock couplings after a hard shunt.

Just an update view from Cock Lane 11th Feb 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENx6FXThX0w Edit: The above link I have shared only to this thread so there is no embedded picture this time.

It must have taken a few bags of post fix to secure that. Never seen such a high gate post as that before.

From the Peterborough Telegraph website yesterday.

Every rail enthusiasts must have, the ubiquitous duffle bag, with strings that cut through your shoulders should it contain more than a Combined Volume and a Lyon's pie.😀

What an interesting set of photos which leads to more of the Manchester Ship Canal Railways. https://www.flickr.com/photos/50559291@N03/albums/72157717287093953/

A rather ornate lamp on the side of the building and another one just showing on the opposite side. I wonder what those two contraptions are on the platform?

Agree with that Matryn. Infrastructure can be very interesting and a lot of Davids photos show this very well such as the latest Swayfield batch. I always like the train in the landscape views rather than those three-quarter shots of just locos that almost everyone takes.

Like Ian said David, no-one is going to be bothered about duplicates. This thread is no different to thumbing through your favourite photo book time after time.😀 We all know it is quite a commitment to post something every day and we really appreciate the effort you put into this.

St. Peters Road Huntingdon. https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3369207,-0.1894147,3a,75y,228.63h,90.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSmHEs9tRPqT4dmlIRnCN4w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu

Also featuring the Harringworth Viaduct in the background of photos 1 and 4 in the lovely Welland Valley. So sad to see the destruction at Seaton.

Its just a new gizmo for reducing the back to back measurements of your wheel sets.🙄

Nice video of 91101 arriving. I captured the very same train a little while earlier moving slowly at Werrington Junction. The clip is in the video below at 27:00 minutes in.

I find Google Maps aerial views are great way to follow old trackbeds. There are still many scars left on the landscape by railways that closed nearly a hundred years ago.

Those above photos two years apart shows how quick nature soon reclaims the land. It would never happen like that in steam days with a few leaky ashpans to control the growth.

His & Hers bath tubs conveniently hung ready for placing on the platform and to be filled with the slacker pipe of the last passing train before taking a skinny dip under the stars.😁

It still doesn't stop you putting petrol in a diesel.😢

Being from the same era as you I can relate to all those examples you quoted and I also find as I get older that more and more things often trigger the memory of those childhood moments. Children today miss so much in their early years not having the freedom we had which is quite sad really. Living in the countryside it was a three mile bike ride to school from the age of 10. Now living in the quiet suburbs my neighbour takes her kids of 10 and 12 to school and home again by car, 951 yards away! Constantly looking at their mobile phones I doubt they would be able to find their way home again if they had to.🙄 Whilst I'm here, many thanks for your photos every day, they really are interesting and appreciated. Not an easy task to keep doing that.

Care free and enjoyable times exploring and learning for the kids before health and safety and the lawyers got involved. The occasional grazed knee and a splinter in your finger wasn't going to kill you.

Correct.

They have probably come from Dow-Mac at Tallington and heading towards Ely.

I have it on good authority from Thomas that Devious Diesel pushed BoCo in the pit for being too smelly.😁

""Back then you could go just about anywhere on site as long as you kept off the running line."" Back in the days when everyone was responsible for their actions and used that now rare commodity called common sense. But then again there where some who took on very risky jobs without any safety gear who should have known better, as demonstarted by the chap stringing wires on the telegraph pole

It was still open for iron ore trains from the Nassington Quarry which closed in February 1971.