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On 08/02/2021 at 08:32, Harlequin said:

Hi @johnw1 Could you use the Share function in Flickr to allow RMWeb to display your photos directly in this thread, please? It's much easier for RMWeb readers to have direct access to the photos than jumping back and forth between websites.

 

Like this for your Sincil Bank photo:

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It's still a link to the photo, not a copy, and Flickr wouldn't allow the photos to be shared if access were restricted so there should be no copyright issues. (As you can see it does allow sharing of this photo, for instance.)

 

Thanks,

Hi Phil, I have had this discussion on page 1 of this thread. My reply was and still is as follows "I preferer to post them as links, if the particular subject is of interest you just have to click the link, if not then you can just quickly pass bye on to the next posting". I personally find displaying the actual photos makes the threads incredibly long, sorry Regards John

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One of the very strong reasons for the start of RMweb over the other forums at the time was the ability to post photos within topics rather than just links to external sites. Please can you reconsider John? Most of us it seems would prefer to see the actual photo. 
 

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A couple of preserved ones:

 

Washford, West Somerset Railway, 11 April 1991

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and Cranmore, East Somerset Railway, 12 April 1991

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Also a 'working'(?) box at Brereton Sidings, seen on 2nd June 1991. I think this one has been shown before in more recent times but doesn't seem to have been indexed yet. Keep at it guys, you're doing a fine job.

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17 hours ago, Tim V said:

Tintern, 1993

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Somewhere I have a 35mm slide of that box when we lived in the next village up the valley, before restoration.  Window frames were missing, wild roses growing round it.  The restoration of both the station building and the box was done by youngsters on one of the those job creation schemes.  The site became a tourist picnic site with the box as a craft shop.

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I had a day, starting at first light, photographing all the boxes from York to Scarborough and down to Hull and across to Goole. Just made it before it got dark. This one took ages to find on the end of a narrow lane at Gristhorpe, first box on the single line to Hull from Scarborough. Large heavy hand operated gates.

 

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22 hours ago, Tim V said:

Tintern, 1993

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Love that place so much.  Of all the places I wish I had a time machine to visit that is one.  To see a 64xx or 14xx simmering quietly, or a cheerful toot on a Desilux horn as a railcar came along Monmouth or Chepstow bound.  Heck, a D9500 running round a ballast from the quarry would have been good enough.

 

My own rough attempts at recreating in N, now sadly consigned to history, are here.

 

About 5years ago spent quite a while crashing through the undergrowth at Brockweir hoping to find an insulator with GWR on it.  To match one with LNER on I found bear Ayot St Peter Peter station.

 

Beautiful part of the world.  Should of course have been posted in Railways of Wales.

 

Cracking.

 

Matt W.

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Another mixed bag

 

Bellwater Jn 2014

 

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Bury St Edmunds Yard (with an inconvenient fence) 2019

 

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Yeovil Pen Mill 2013

 

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Furness Vale 2016

 

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Andy

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, Coach bogie said:

I had a day, starting at first light, photographing all the boxes from York to Scarborough and down to Hull and across to Goole. Just made it before it got dark. This one took ages to find on the end of a narrow lane at Gristhorpe, first box on the single line to Hull from Scarborough. Large heavy hand operated gates.

 

Mike Wiltshire

Did you find Lebberston Road though?

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4 hours ago, Coach bogie said:

I had a day, starting at first light, photographing all the boxes from York to Scarborough and down to Hull and across to Goole. Just made it before it got dark. This one took ages to find on the end of a narrow lane at Gristhorpe, first box on the single line to Hull from Scarborough. Large heavy hand operated gates.

 

Mike Wiltshire

 

 

I've had a couple of days like that, Eating fish and chips in Llandudno or Llanelli at half eight at night before driving back to the Midlands.

 

Then getting up 0430 for an early shift the next day.

 

Can't wait to get back out there with the camera

 

Andy

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16 hours ago, 50A55B said:

Back to NE territory, an even smaller one than Gristhorpe. 20th September 2020.

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A bit bigger than it used to be, though - extended at the Harrogate end a few years ago to provide the signalman with 'facilities'!

 

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