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6 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

 

So..............Wot about pretty ex Great Eastern locos then...........? 

All Great Eastern Railway locomotives are pretty in their lovely blue livery.

 

Some even looked good in LNER green. Thankfully none were unfortunately painted in GWR  diesel green like many of the engines from the red railway and the big ones form the apple green railway.

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18 minutes ago, rab said:

Amazing what you can do with a bit of plasticene.

 

Quite. Just ask Morph. 

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12 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

If this is a foretaste of the conversations expected during the virtual Member's Day..... :chok_mini:

Par for the course I'd say.

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Fat finger correction, sorry if it spoils replies
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17 minutes ago, rab said:

Pat for the course I'd say.

Ear ! Didn't you leave the letters S and Y out of that first word ?

by cake you did make a right pie of that answer

keeping the quality of the replys up for Stubbys sake !!!

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Well as I understand it

 

You can beat an egg

 

But you can't beat a lurvely Dean Single !

 

 

( And it has NOTHING to do with James or records before anyone starts !!! ) :crazy_mini:

 

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1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said:

All of which goes to prove that you can't beat a pretty little pannier for sheer good looks and nice manners.

 

 

10 minutes ago, bgman said:

Well as I understand it

 

You can beat an egg

 

But you can't beat a lurvely Dean Single !

 

"You can if you've got a big enough stick!"

 

 

Oh dear, I feel a virtual ban coming on...

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35 minutes ago, Ramblin Rich said:

 

"You can if you've got a big enough stick!"

 

 

Oh dear, I feel a virtual ban coming on...

 

Quite. Bad Ramblers.  Off to the naughty step for ewe for even suggesting it. 

 

I shall consider contacting Grayson to administer the finest of thrashings in the boot room. 

 

 

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37 minutes ago, Ramblin Rich said:

Hope the naughty step is sufficiently wide to allow distancing, seems it might get crowded ;)

Also, I don't even know where my boot room is.... :O

 

 

youm not proper country then.

 

Don

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5 minutes ago, Ramblin Rich said:

Nope, escaped Midlander dragged (willingly) to Devon my my good lady wife :D

 

The name Boot room seems more common in the South West but up in Shropshire  a lot of the houses in the country would have a room or a large lobby where wellies would be kept  ready to don. Which bit of the Midlands  Rich?

 

Don

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9 hours ago, Donw said:

Which bit of the Midlands  Rich?

 

Don

I grew up in Bilbrook (1st station out of Wolverhampton on the Shrewsbury line) and worked at Birmingham QE Hospital for 18 years before S 'liberated' me :)

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2 minutes ago, Ramblin Rich said:

I grew up in Bilbrook

 

Posh side of town! Used to drive through there each day between Brewood and Chapel Ash to pick mum up from work. She worked at the QVNI next door to Bonks's. 

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5 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

Posh side of town! Used to drive through there each day between Brewood and Chapel Ash to pick mum up from work. She worked at the QVNI next door to Bonks's. 

Yes, we always said we had 1 field of greenbelt between us and Wolvo' ;) Mum grew up in Whitmore Reans & dad in Fallings Park but moved into Bilbrook before I was born. Seems a long time ago and a long way away now....

Am I allowed off the naughty step now?

 

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7 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said:

I grew up in Bilbrook (1st station out of Wolverhampton on the Shrewsbury line) and worked at Birmingham QE Hospital for 18 years before S 'liberated' me :)

 

I know the station when living in Brosely I modelled in EM and used to get the Train from Wellington to Euston for the EMGS get together at The Great Western Hotel. I would rarely drive through Billbook althrough I do remember it vaguely  Going to The Black country it was either the A41 into Wolverhampton or the Rat run via Wombourne.

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Didn't realise you'd escaped too Don!

Bilbrook was not much of a station, just 2 platforms with shelters, in fact it was "Birches and Bilbrook Halt" when first opened. Still, trains from there got me to Brum for first few years of work before I moved.

For a while the stopping train I got was actually one of the Shrewsbury-Wolves-Euston sets and would stop with the 1st class section by the platform (due to the short length). So anyone getting on there would have 1st class seat for all of 10 mins before being turfed out at Wolves. Then into a 310 if lucky (or a 304 if not) for the run to New St...

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