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Couple of trespassers caught on one of the Crewe webcams (no account required to view the videos):

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=801730469916120&set=vb.121163121306195&type=2&theater&notif_t=like

 

Person appears near the Heritage Centre signal box at the start of the clip: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=801731053249395&set=vb.121163121306195&type=2&theater&notif_t=like

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Couple of trespassers caught on one of the Crewe webcams (no account required to view the videos):

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=801730469916120&set=vb.121163121306195&type=2&theater&notif_t=like

 

Person appears near the Heritage Centre signal box at the start of the clip: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=801731053249395&set=vb.121163121306195&type=2&theater&notif_t=like

 

On a totally OT point, that's some curved point - the prototype for the Peco ones?

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I've been scanning some old family photos, and I thought this one might be of interest:

 

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It's of one of my great-uncles. The writing on the back says "Cheyenne 1910/11". He had gone to Wyoming from Scotland with a brother and brother-in-law (my grandfather) and in the 1910 US census records they were all working for the Union Pacific. According to my late Mum, this great-uncle became a track gang boss, and I think this picture may have been taken 'on the job' - see the rails on the left of the picture. There's probably some 'staging' going on, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did carry a gun. My grandmother told us when she lived in Cheyenne - she went out a couple of years after my grandfather - she kept a loaded shotgun behind the kitchen door.

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Photos taken over the past couple of weeks, a rather multi-national selection

 

PW crew at Brussels Midi

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Shunters Zagreb

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Wheeltapper Zagreb

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Coupling up Volinja

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Station master somewhere in Bosnia

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War memorial for railway staff, somewhere in Bosnia

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A trackside worker eyeballs a passing East Midlands Trains 158 as it approaches Werrington Junction, North of Peterborough, on 9th June 2015.

 

 

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