RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted September 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2020 I will go for Dereham. I don't know the area but I had a skilled and helpful workmate who came from there and who worked for Crane's Trailers. He pronounced Dereham as "Dare'um" and hole as "hul" but when he got exited nobody understood a word! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted September 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 19, 2020 Well, I’m going with Berney Arms too for this poll. I seem to recall an article in one of the magazines from the early 1980’s showing how the postman used the train to deliver mail. I know the train was a class 105 Cravens unit. Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 19, 2020 The Up Ripon arrives behind Prince of Wales. and has a five minute rest. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 G'Day Folks Fakenham, hope it's not to big. manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Berney Arms just because it reminds me of Berni steak inns 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 North Walsham Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 20, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2020 Prince of Wales thought he deserved a close up. and as he left, he met a 9F coming under the bridge with a York parcels. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 20, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2020 Another close poll, Berney Arms beating Dereham by 4 votes to 3. Today, from the London suburbs up through Cambridge and Ely to Kings Lynn, but none of those count, as they have already had their day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2020 Harlow Town. Modern Image beauty. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted September 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2020 Audley End gets my vote. Regards Chris H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2020 Seven Sisters. My Mum's aunt and cousin lived just round the corner and her cousin's house in Westerfield Road backed on to the line. I remember watching EMUs in the early 60s - no doubt Clive will tell us what sort they were. Interesting junction too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 45 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Harlow Town. Modern Image beauty. "Modern Image"? I thought that phrase was banned in your universe, Clive? 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2020 1 hour ago, St Enodoc said: Seven Sisters. My Mum's aunt and cousin lived just round the corner and her cousin's house in Westerfield Road backed on to the line. I remember watching EMUs in the early 60s - no doubt Clive will tell us what sort they were. Interesting junction too. Hi Sainty AM2s, AM5s and AM8s, the AM5s were the most common. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2020 1 hour ago, LNER4479 said: "Modern Image"? I thought that phrase was banned in your universe, Clive? All of Harlow is modern image. Here is a song by my former work mate Darren, 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 G'Day Folks. Would 'Palace Gates' be to far of the mainline. I've got plenty of memories of PG. manna 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 20, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2020 Does anyone else get slightly annoyed when TV programmes refer to locomotives as trains, rails as tracks, and train stations instead of railway stations? Well Radio Times nearly did much better today, referring to Union of South Africa as a steam locomotive. However the preceding words spoiled it a bit, as it reads "and 200 passengers travel on the steam locomotive Union of South Africa". Very crowded surely, how would the fireman manage to do any firing with so many in the cab? I'd have thought they would have been better off in the train. 1 6 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Gilbert, A similar scene is portrayed in the cab of a J94 in the St. Trinians Great Train Robbery of course. One lump of coal each please, with Frankie Howard, Reg Varney plus main other well known characters. Social distancing, what social distancing. Paul 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Social distancing had not been invented then. Oh, happy days ... Chris 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Dont forget to throw the points lever in the pond 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 20, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2020 To celebrate the fact that I have worked out how to repair something which I thought was beyond me, here is a bonus shot of 92177 about to emerge from the gloom. 28 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Ponders End, there was a fascinating article about it in a Great Eastern Journal that has really stuck in my mind. However, my vote goes to Hitchin, I still remember changing trains there, got out of a 310 electric ( sorry Clive if my memory has failed me!). Waited for a while then got in a refurbished 101 in white with a blue stripe. Front seat all the way up to St Neots. It has an effect on a 13 year old boy allowed to do the journey from Brentwood through London on my own. How many children would have been allowed to do that now, probably got the train back too. Martyn 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 20, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2020 18 minutes ago, mullie said: Ponders End, there was a fascinating article about it in a Great Eastern Journal that has really stuck in my mind. However, my vote goes to Hitchin, I still remember changing trains there, got out of a 310 electric ( sorry Clive if my memory has failed me!). Waited for a while then got in a refurbished 101 in white with a blue stripe. Front seat all the way up to St Neots. It has an effect on a 13 year old boy allowed to do the journey from Brentwood through London on my own. How many children would have been allowed to do that now, probably got the train back too. Martyn Sorry Martyn, my fault when I go back to what I wrote! What I meant to specify was the GE main line from the London suburbs. I'm saving the GN till last. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, great northern said: Does anyone else get slightly annoyed when TV programmes refer to locomotives as trains, rails as tracks, and train stations instead of railway stations? Well Radio Times nearly did much better today, referring to Union of South Africa as a steam locomotive. However the preceding words spoiled it a bit, as it reads "and 200 passengers travel on the steam locomotive Union of South Africa". Very crowded surely, how would the fireman manage to do any firing with so many in the cab? I'd have thought they would have been better off in the train. I don’t get slightly annoyed when people talk about “train stations “ instead of railway stations I get almost moved to violence! Audley End railway station for me as well, partly for the same reason I gave for Saffron Walden in the earlier competition, and partly because there is a great restaurant in Belleair Bluffs near Clearwater , Florida , called Cody’s Roadhouse that is decorated with all kinds of American memorabilia, and hanging up among all these number plates, and old petrol pumps and things is an old station sign in Eastern Region dark blue directing people to the trains . I am quite probably the only person that’s ever been in there that recognises it as coming from Audley End. I pointed it out the the Mrs but for some reason she was singularly unimpressed Edited September 20, 2020 by jazzer 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 2 hours ago, mullie said: Ponders End, there was a fascinating article about it in a Great Eastern Journal that has really stuck in my mind. Martyn I have happy memories of Ponders End. Not the railway station, but the LT Bus Depot. Spent a very entertaining day sign writing all the lettering on a friends freshly restored RT double decker prior to attending the Barking rally in the 1990’s. If you are wondering what this has to do with Peterborough North, I was involved with the NVR and sign writing was one of my self taught activities. 92 Squadron, 34081 was my biggest job in 1998. Paul 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 8 hours ago, great northern said: Does anyone else get slightly annoyed when TV programmes refer to locomotives as trains, rails as tracks, and train stations instead of railway stations? Yes to the first and last of those but the one that really irritates me is when ‘the’ is put in front of the locomotive’s name. The most common one is ‘the Flying Scotsman’ when referring to 4472. I think the trend of using ‘the’ for locomotives probably originates from confusion between Flying Scotsman and The Flying Scotsman. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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