pH Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Those notes put my scrawls to shame! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
filtonjuncktion Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 February 27th 1987 Filton Junction for a couple of hours 33011/31 37189/690/99 47148/293/445/552 50020 33031 haulage to BTM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
filtonjuncktion Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Seen at Bristol TM 30 years ago 1987 08483/819/900/950 31287/403/4 33008/16/23/53/58 37135/233 47147/285/331/404/567/597/632/646/48/901 50002/13/45 56036/57/83 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
filtonjuncktion Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 31st March 1987 Filton Junction Station Early evening 31404 33059 45126 47145/237/370 50028 56039 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted March 31, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2017 Saturday, March 31, 1962. Only one entry in Dad's log book - so I won't scan it. Highbridge - 44417 - 82G - wharf shunting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D860 VICTORIOUS Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 3 4 71 Southall-Reading-Southall 808 818 824 D836 857 D1029 D1030 D1035 D1036 D1038 D1040 D1045 D1062 D1065 D1066 D1071 1570 1584 1589 1637 1640 1654 1659 1660 1670 1672 1673 1724 1926 1929 1931 3831 3948 3953 3954 3955 3959 3965 3966 D6332 D6340 D6343 D7041 D7066 D7071 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
filtonjuncktion Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 40 years ago pre pub hour plus at filton J 45133 & 50026 both now in preservation (hope to see latter at Swanage in May) 33039/58/210 37426 all on cardiff-BTM-cardiff 47150/293/564/627 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
filtonjuncktion Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 30 years ago april 7 1987 (should read 1987 above) Bristol Parkway 47097/482 56031 Swindon Works 08303 25027 Depot 08795 47509 Reading 08936 33045 47626 50030 acton 56001 59003 Victoria 73121/130/135 Paddington 08944 31464 47476 50006/16/40 Didcot 47112 Swindon 56045 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2017 On this day in 1957 Dad took a four day trip, from our home on Mendip, to Cardiff where his in-laws lived. This is day one - if you want you can have each day as they roll on - another ten pages! Italics! How Neat. When I started secondary school (it was a Technical School) they tried to force everyone of us to write in italics, even to the point of having to have a regulation pen - an Osmiroid with oblique nib. Needless to say it failed and we all ended up with worse handwriting than we started with! A bit like when they used to force southpaws to write with the right hand. The handwriting produced was invariably atrocious. Ah, the politics of education, please save us from them. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pobrien Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 One day late, I'm afraid... Steam workings in Bristol on Tuesday 7 April, 1964 http://www.bristolsteam64.co.uk/page126.html and three photos of the trains in the above link Castle 5055 Earl of Eldon https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/9464153117/in/photolist-SDokF9-fqjfZK-fqjfZe-fqjg1g-fqjfYK-fqjg1H-fqjfYc-dAyGeq-aqd47w Jubilee 45589 Gwalior https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/32418078492/in/photolist-RoF8iN-iaUQqg-dhSPWT-9YBbRj Hall 6903 Belmont Hall https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/16742641845/in/photolist-rvuq7H The Castle and Hall had taken over en-route from failed Warship Hydraulics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_A Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Edward Thomas, poet, dies in France, a century back. http://www.acenturyback.com/2017/04/09/arras-edward-hermon-victor-richardson-edward-thomas/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53744 "The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D860 VICTORIOUS Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 13 4 71 Southall-Paddington-Southall D837 867 D1001 D1010 D1024 D1035 D1044 D1055 D1058 D1064 D1067 1598 1659 1667 1670 1684 1714 1948 3601 3954 3961 3966 4177 7606 5513 5536 D7023 D7028 D7032 D7033 D7036 Kings Cross 159 184 188 259 277 1106 1108 1109 1503 1511 1517 1538 1543 1548 1549 1552 1566 1621 1761 1762 1763 1764 1992 1996 1999 5588 5592 5593 5594 5599 5601 5603 5610 5612 5614 5624 5627 5646 5647 5678 9009 9012 9015 9020 St Pancras 22 35 38 41 45 68 83 86 87 98 152 1631 1949 3306 Euston 7530 E3001 E3008 E3053 E3079 E3088 E3123 E3130 E3136 E3169 E3170 E3175 E3176 E3181 E3190 E3192 E3197 E3199 Waterloo 818 E6023 E6102 E6109 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 15, 2017 On this day in 1950 John Sutters travelled from Hereford to Ripon 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 15, 2017 (edited) Italics! How Neat. A bit like when they used to force southpaws to write with the right hand. Keith In 1964 in my A level physics class our teacher suddenly said "Stop writing and hold your pens in the air." Then he said "As I thought, seven out of the sixteen in the class are left-handed. That is a remarkably high proportion." So not all schools tried to fight nature. Edited April 15, 2017 by phil_sutters Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
filtonjuncktion Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 19th Arl 1987 Bristol temple Meads 08483/819 31128/413 33001/25 47122/293/588/663 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2017 (edited) On 24th April 1951 John Sutters was visiting his parents in Hereford Edited April 24, 2017 by phil_sutters 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted April 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2017 Fantastic notes! Where else could you see two Saints, a Patriot and a Lanky 060?Many thanks for sharing Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2017 (edited) Fantastic notes! Where else could you see two Saints, a Patriot and a Lanky 060? Many thanks for sharing Phil You are very welcome, Phil. He stayed there until the 28th and then went back to Ripon, where we were living, via Moreton-on-Lugg (I had to include that magnificent name!) Shrewsbury, Crewe, Manchester, Rochdale and Leeds - eight and a bit more pages. I don't intend to pop-up each day to put that day's pages on this thread, but if it is of interest I can upload them into my gallery. I could or perhaps should include the journey down with a further seven pages! (Earlier in the month on the 7th, he took a trip to Doncaster and Mexborough sheds and filled 13 pages. The notes above have been cut and pasted to make a neat upload, but they represent a couple of lines over one page. You can see the large number of locos he saw in one day from that.) There are a few photos from this trip which I will get round to uploading to the gallery some time soon. Here's one from 'tomorrow'. Edited April 24, 2017 by phil_sutters 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rail-Online Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 You are very welcome, Phil. He stayed there until the 28th and then went back to Ripon, where we were living, via Moreton-on-Lugg (I had to include that magnificent name!) Shrewsbury, Crewe, Manchester, Rochdale and Leeds - eight and a bit more pages. I don't intend to pop-up each day to put that day's pages on this thread, but if it is of interest I can upload them into my gallery. I could or perhaps should include the journey down with a further seven pages! (Earlier in the month on the 7th, he took a trip to Doncaster and Mexborough sheds and filled 13 pages. The notes above have been cut and pasted to make a neat upload, but they represent a couple of lines over one page. You can see the large number of locos he saw in one day from that.) There are a few photos from this trip which I will get round to uploading to the gallery some time soon. Here's one from 'tomorrow'. LNWR 0-8-0 49146 Hereford 25 4 1951.jpg LNWR 6 wheeled NPCS 'Combination Truck' leading up the freight Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 26, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2017 LNWR 6 wheeled NPCS 'Combination Truck' leading up the freight Tony Cheers Tony I thought it looked quite distinctive. I am glad it was of interest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted May 2, 2017 Author Share Posted May 2, 2017 On this Day in History – Edinburgh 2nd May 1976 (Sunday) Haymarket MPD 08246, 08575, 08717/89, 20223/24, 24069, 24112/19/28/30, 25014/26/29/93, 25226/28/29, 26002/05, 27106, 27203/04/11, 40058/63, 40142/61/64/67, 47268/70/71, 47403, 47541/53, 55010 Millerhill 08247, 08572, 08714, 24107/15, 26001/03/04/06/46, 27037, 40103/23/54/60/62/69 A number of the above were photographed during there career and can be found in this collection. As always feedback and comments welcome 08572 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5661686719/ 24115 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6268065003/ 25014 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5663155793/ 25029 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5938746669/ 25093 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/7554102624/ 25229 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/15577494351/ 26004 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5645727196/ 26006 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6825608812/ 27204 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/7614074794/ 27211 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/15336453417/ 40103 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/15939314759/ 40142 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5663153863/ 40154 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/16144207148/ 40160 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5890155824/ 40167 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6314542534/ 47271 (47854) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/9396747847/ 47403 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/13553863605/ 47553 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6827947329/ 55010 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5668746878/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 4, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 4, 2017 On this day in 1950 my father travelled from our home in Ripon to Bletchley where we had lived previously. He returned on the 7th, so this is a one way journey 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 5, 2017 (edited) I see a few WDs still to be renumbered as well as a number of company locos still not got their BR number. Also only one pacific on the WCML. Keith Edited May 5, 2017 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pobrien Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 May 9 1964 The famous "Castle" high speed run. A few days earlier 7032 Denbigh Castle was at Bristol St Philips Marsh for possible use on the Bristol- Paddington leg https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/5499433791/in/album-72157626201932662/ On Sunday May 10 7029 Clun Castle was resting on the turntable after its record breaking run, with two other members of the class https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/5500030236/in/album-72157626201932662/ 4079 Pendennis Castle failed at Westbury and 6999 Capel Dewi Hall took over to Taunton. Here it is on SPM earlier in the year https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/5499433715/in/album-72157626201932662/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted May 10, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 10, 2017 May 9 1964 The famous "Castle" high speed run. On Sunday May 10 7029 Clun Castle was resting on the turntable after its record breaking run, with two other members of the class Sorry it's effectively a day late, but here is a photo of Clun Castle in action 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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