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Pass, I imagine there must have been reasons, I was disapointed myself with the performance of the 45 on the Sunday I was behind it, never broke into a sweat with the 33 doing all the work. Also, why was the event, which was planned months ahead, so poorly marketed, both days should have been heaving, a chance to bash three classic diesels on a line with a decent speed limit.
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This is good news. I was talking to the duty manager at Okehampton a week or so ago and he told me that they had asked for 45060 three years in a row, and had been unlucky with it. He also said that 47701 and a 33 were due down.
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Any idea when the 26 arrived and when is it due to go back?
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There was a great atmosphere on the train. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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It has been mentioned further up the thread so I hope everyone is aware. Still some tickets left so I hear.
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We are just out of shot on the left.
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super pics. I was on Paignton platform with my son. I probably saw you.
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No, the pic I saw wasn`t mine. It was from a well known collection.
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North Devon line (was Eggesford July 2014)
gasky replied to Ramblin Rich's topic in The railways of Devon
Here's a reminder of Crediton footbridge and signals just before they were replaced by the MAS post. -
Some super pictures on this thread, indeed on the whole site. It has re-ignited my love of railways and made me get out with my camera after not taking any railway pics for twenty odd years. Here`s one from 1993, at the NRM. I liked the way the highlights ran along the engine.
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Yes, that is interesting. MOD traffic from Devonport maybe?
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Odd, i`m sure I can remember lots of sunny summer Saturdays in Paignton. I just can`t find any photographic proof.....
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That brings back a lot of memories. I started spending a lot of my summer saturdays riding down to Paignton and back. Shame I didn't get my first proper camera until 83 though.
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Thanks Mudmagnet. Just out of curiosity, I have been going through a lot of the pics on here and on some of the Flicr accounts just to see if I can spot myself in any of the photos. Has anyone else found themselves in other peoples pictures.
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Here`s another from Crediton 47575, Oddly enough, I saw a picture of the same loco, running light engine through Crediton, (taken from a different angle, but presumably on the same day), for sale on e-bay. I couldn't see myself in the other picture though. Odd, because I don't recall seeing anyone else on the platform that day.
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Same day, I think it was a Saturday or Sunday evening. Behind P464 is the old Shiphams factory, now Tescos. I use to bemoan the DMU's, but would give anything to have them back. Not least because they were infinitely more comfortable than today`s units.
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Looks like it could be the one, that solves a 32 year old mystery.
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I can`t see an ETH box, so i don`t think it could be 45150, 048 seems to ring a bell mind.
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No, no flicr account, although maybe in the future. sadly a lot of my pictures from the eighties have not survived the intervening decades. and there was a good twenty odd years when I stopped taking pictures of railways. However i shall post what i have for any who are interested, and if the topic is relevent. I have started to take railway pics again, the difference in style after twenty odd years is remarkable. Anyhow, here is 50013, on one of the first 50 ventures to Waterloo.
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Same year, probably same day....my notes have long gone i'm afraid. Showing the sadly missed middle box.
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Just thought i would post some of my pics from the early eighties. A golden age for spotters it would now seem. This one is an unknown peak from 1983, although the depot sticker on the nose might be a clue for someone to recognise it.