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It's a Renault 5 GT Turbo, I believe - quite a sought-after & very 'stealable' car back in the day, so the 'boot' might well be an anti-theft precaution by the owner rather than parking enforcement 👍

I found myself in York for a couple of weeks back in November & visited the NRM to pay my respects to this old stager - not the easiest thing to photograph, but hopefully you get the idea 🙂

Those Misterton photos are excellent - not an area I'm really familiar with & I was born & educated in Gainsborough!

As others have already said - that was a lovely tribute to a remarkable lady. The pain of loss is always there, but what wonderful memories of both your mum and dad you must have. Best wishes, Kevin

I'm from Lincoln, but to be honest, I've not noticed that before & have no definitive answer to your question, I'm afraid. I will say though that the level crossing you can just see in the foreground was a major choke-point between rail traffic, road traffic & pedestrians, and had been since the railway was first built in the 19th century (it's alleviated a little now that the High Street has been pedestrianised, but still causes a lot of frustration for pedestrians). It may be that that particular arrangement was to allow a terminating DMU on platform 6 (on the right) to pull forward & then reverse across the crossover to head back to the depot without having to close the gates to road traffic. I Honestly don't know if this was a 'thing', so purely supposition on my part. Kevin

As DOCJACOB said, I believe it was bought by the city council when it was withdrawn & 'plinthed' to represent the end of an era for Lincoln's railways (station pilots/shunter allocation, not sure which). Here it is towards the end of its working life (1987/1988) sat in its usual home in what used to be Platform 3...

Not the best photo, but here it is in its 'stuffed & mounted' phase.

Sobering to think that in the last two sets of photos posted, even the most 'modern' shot is now over a quarter of a century old. Feels like yesterday...

Only just catching up on things RMweb, so a bit late to the party (and I apologise if I'm completely missing a joke here), but the sills of a car are meant to be load bearing, so a glued-on bit of thin brass (or fibreglass) simply isn't going to do the job, I'm afraid. What you need as a minimum is a similarly profiled piece of steel seam-welded over the hole - myself, I'd cut the rot out & joggle the edges so the repair piece fits flush to make the repair as neat as possible. Incidentally, the textured coating is stone-chip - that needs to be stripped off in the area of the repair (it catches fire when you're welding, don't ask how I know...) and a new coat painting on afterwards before the top-coat.

He's likely in his 40s now, so probably looking for a desk job if his back's owt like mine...

Happy birthday Dave! Thanks for so many wonderful photos, which in turn trigger so many wonderful memories - can't put a price on that

The days when big stations NEEDED to have BRUTES all over the place...

Thanks for another year of wonderful photos, Dave. Happy New Year when it arrives & may it bring good health & good cheer!

Mine tripped on the brink & fell over head-first! It didn't help going to Tracks to the Trenches 2018 the other weekend & travelling behind 778 either...

My credit card wishes you hadn't noticed that...