LNER4479 Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Ashby Magna. Just like the name! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 4 hours ago, great northern said: A question as well as a poll today. Going back to the E.Lincs, one of the stations had a name containing only three letters. Without looking it up, can anyone identify it? Aby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 6, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 6, 2020 1 hour ago, David Bell said: Aby Correct. Well done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 6, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2020 Just another trip working tonight, A J6 moving a few wagons from South yard to New England, wrong way along the Up main. Perfectly prototypical though, 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted September 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2020 Rothley for this poll. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 6, 2020 14 hours ago, great northern said: Another tie, Woodhead 4 Barnetby 4. Today please retrace your steps from lovely Cleethorpes to Sheffield Victoria, and go from there down the GC London extension, remembering that the emphasis now is more on the ordinary through town or wayside station. The Chesterfield loop is included, and Clive is not allowed to remind me that they all looked the same, so there. Lookie here Gilbert, now agreeing that there are many stations on this line that do have the same architectural style many don't like Annseley South Halt, or those like Gerrards Cross on the bit with the G*R. There are those on the other joint line with the Met Rly. I am going for the 1960s rebuilt station, I do like a bit of 60s railway architecture, of 'Arrow- on- the- 'ill . 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2020 Very early for me this morning. I think I actually saw the dawn. Overrrated. This morning, we see that Velocity has replaced Seagull on the Glasgow. While at Platform 6 a lovely clean B12 waits to take the 1241 Cambridge. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 Not much interest in the GC poll, only 9 votes, and Rothley was the only place to get more than one. It got 2, and so won. Today, I wish to cater for some of our eminent chaps who are more accustomed to railways further to the south and west, and so we will look at wayside stations from Salisbury to Exeter Central, and then beyond into Devon and Cornwall. Any small(ish) through station, or rural branch junctions. Been down there on our holidays, haven't we, surely? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 7, 2020 Port Isaac Road. A typical North Cornwall LSWR passing station. A good mile and more as the crow flies from the namesake fishing port, and really located in Pendoggett, where I believe Peter Coster lives, or has lived recently. When I was very young we would alight from the Atlantic Coast Express, and find Prout's taxi waiting to take us to Mr & Mrs Honey's house on Tintagel Terrace, where mum and dad had stayed during the war if dad was home on leave. Nowadays Port Isaac is better known as Port Wenn, thanks to Martin Clunes. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 Assuming you don't mean just the ex-SR lines, then Par, naturally. If you do, however, then Grogley Halt. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 G'day Folks Templecombe, lovely little place. manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 I will go with Par too- another station with a 3 letter name! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jollysmart Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 7, 2020 Templecombe for me this time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 Seaton Junction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 7, 2020 8 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Seaton Junction. It would be nice if that Mallard chappie were here to agree with you. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 7, 2020 I’m going with Par for this poll. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 18 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: It would be nice if that Mallard chappie were here to agree with you. Well Ian, I'm going to agree with that if only for the point that I've actually been there! One more for Seaton Junction What's happened to Phil? I've been out of the loop a while recently 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 7, 2020 5 minutes ago, bigwordsmith said: What's happened to Phil? I've been out of the loop a while recently I infer from others' gentle remarks that Phil has taken a bit of a personal drubbing during lockdown - like many others, sadly - and is still getting his breath back. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 15 minutes ago, bigwordsmith said: Well Ian, I'm going to agree with that if only for the point that I've actually been there! One more for Seaton Junction What's happened to Phil? I've been out of the loop a while recently He is still around, he is just giving RMweb a bit of a rest. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 2 hours ago, great northern said: Not much interest in the GC poll, only 9 votes, and Rothley was the only place to get more than one. It got 2, and so won. Today, I wish to cater for some of our eminent chaps who are more accustomed to railways further to the south and west, and so we will look at wayside stations from Salisbury to Exeter Central, and then beyond into Devon and Cornwall. Any small(ish) through station, or rural branch junctions. Been down there on our holidays, haven't we, surely? Places I am more confident with! Many possibilities but my vote goes to Okehampton. Way back in 1961, maybe 1962, a very young lad was on the way to his summer holiday in Cornwall. Having joined the Plymouth train at Salisbury we eventually came to Okehampton where the train waited for ages - I now know we were waiting for a path across Meldon Viaduct. The buffet car had gone at Exeter and as it was now early afternoon we were hungry. The catering staff at the station were obviously well aware of the need and as we waited a lady from the cafe pushed a trolley along the platform selling sandwiches and drinks through the carriage windows. Whenever I've been passing in more recent years I've always taken the opportunity to patronise the cafe on the station, an excellent alternative to the plastic food on the main road. Unfortunately I believe it is closed this year for reasons which I am not entirely clear on but, I think, to do with the sale of the station and the length of line to Meldon. Hopefully this will be resolved in a positive manner so that next year we can enjoy a meal on the platform and Carol can hear the above story yet again...! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 I will go with Seaton Junction in support of our lovely Duck. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Oldddudders said: I infer from others' gentle remarks that Phil has taken a bit of a personal drubbing during lockdown - like many others, sadly - and is still getting his breath back. Thanks Ian - Poor Phil I know it laid me out for eight weeks, and according to my pulmonologist, as our Cousins across the water call them, it was only the steroids I'm on that got me through! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted September 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2020 I'm going for Axminster - for the Lyme Regis Branch with Adams Radial Tanks. Regards Chris H 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 I will go with Par, something I never got anywhere near on the rare occasions that I have played golf. Lloyd 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Cambourne even though according to Jethro the train doesnt stop on a Wednesday. It was the destination on my longest solo rail trip from Doncaster left at 810 arrived cambourne 1700 ish. Got absolutely hammered on the way back. I bought an 8 pack from an off licence some matelots got on at Plymouth shared a my table ended up offering them a beer they shared theird with me i was 18 at the time great times 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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