barry.wilson

He gets very angry and turns green when you spell his name like that. It is Graeme.

Good point. I believe that Peter Townend's cleaning team were mainly of Polish origin. I don't know whether they were new arrivals or men who remained in the UK after the ww2.

The photo is in Yeadon Part 31 and is captioned 2939 (ie 696). Indeed a sad end.

They certainly were along with chips at 2d a bag and bottles of Tizer and Jubbly the latter if you were of the orange juice persuasion.

Something happened at PN (the real one) yesterday evening that we couldn't see back in the day. A non-stopping A1 hauled train travelling at 77mph - hope you saw her.

They didn't appear very often. I saw them all but none in Hull.

It was certainly a double track in 1956 when I started spotting and I suspect it was doubled when the Waterworks box was removed during the resignalling after the war.

I believe that was 60020 Guillemot , not 60016 Silver King, which was cleaned to work the down Tees Tyne. Guillemot was scheduled to work the Night Sleeper and was standing pilot and was substituted as the rostered loco was not ready. PNT does not say if the rostered loco worked the night sleeper instead of the Tees Tyne.

Sorry no. I only used up one exposure on the thing. The footplate crews in Hull certainly didn't like them and they quickly disappeared elsewhere before being withdrawn.

...another heap of junk! Dairycoates was full of them at the time.

...and from t'other side. On second thoughts it is not the other side - ladders are the clue! Sorry!

Doesn't it say it is Bridlington?

Much better than all of mine!

Nah - that was "Wildebeeste"!

A poor photograph of a couple of Hull stalwarts at Dairycoates.