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  1. Oh, and can I cancel my Gold membership and subscriptions to every magazine linked to RMWeb please?

     

     

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    2. jonny777

      jonny777

      Thanks. 

       

      Goodbye. 

    3. AY Mod

      AY Mod

      That's not an explicit request to remove your account and content is it? 

    4. truffy

      truffy

      @jonny777 deleting all of your posts will make nonsense of threads that you’ve taken part in, which is just babies. 


      Why not just change your password to something long and random, don’t have your device remember it, and then log out?

  2. That's what I was hoping for. 

     

    Shutting down of debate. Can I remove all my content from this site immediately please?

  3. The U1 performed its banking ritual between 25 and 30 times a day, so some of the firemen must have worked very hard during a shift.
  4. It was a great station, and very impressive to a schoolboy; and I went there a few times with my Dad, but I discovered the delights of Midland (far more 'cops', the Blue Pullman for a time in the middle of the day, and the GC on the bridge across the station) and I'm afraid to say that I used to lobby for an extended visit to the competitor of Victoria.
  5. Is that really surprising? 60 wagons, even older wooden bodied ones, are going to be quite a formidable load (something around 1100 tons fully loaded) to get up 3 miles at a minimum of 1 in 40, and even steeper in places with mining subsidence. That the U1 did it's job for a quarter of a century, is the kind of unsung work which happened without ceremony in those days.
  6. The Cliffe-Uddingston cement trains were about 1000t loaded when I saw them pass through Grantham, although I'm not sure if the 9Fs hauled many of the PCV trains which were 30 wagons plus a brake van. I'm also not sure how many of the earlier Presflos made up the train before the new wagons were introduced. I suspect the details are in a Railway Observer/Trains Illustrated somewhere. Might it be that the 9Fs could not accelerate the train from a standing start quickly enough to pick up water at troughs, and therefore had to stop more often to use the water columns at stations?
  7. I believe they were the train for those people who had saved Persil coupons and traded them for free tickets - Kings Cross to Aberdeen and return.
  8. 50046 is seen at Newton Abbot in 1984. Sadly, the focus leaves something to be desired.
  9. I can't do a triple header, but I can manage 50046 and 50012 passing Teignmouth circa 1984. I'm not sure if this was some form of railtour, but there does seem to be a fair amount of window hanging going on.
  10. It was sarcasm; but if you believe certain areas of the MSM they are responsible for all the bad things that happen.
  11. And road building/improvements could be charged an extra tax for the environmental destruction they cause or help accelerate; not just directly but indirectly due to increased amounts of SO2, NO and CO pumped out by exhausts. For decades everyone (including me) has simply ignored these gases because they are invisible; but our urban children and grandchildren are suffering for our insatiable appetite for the freedom to go anywhere we choose at a time we choose. Sorry, I am drifting away from Beeching - but I doubt Marples-Ridgeway took any notice of the land they bulldozed, or the creatures living in/on it.
  12. How come the GCR have ex-GWR lower quadrants in Leicestershire?
  13. 50030 has a varying assortment of coaching stock in tow passing Teignmouth circa 1984.
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