Rugd1022 Posted August 6, 2020 Author Share Posted August 6, 2020 Photo by Ron Collen Jones : Mick McGlade in No.1 section control at Kings X.... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trog Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 9 hours ago, iands said: Non standard footware - wouldn't get away with that on today's railway! Small beer I remember a PW maintenance supervisor with dodgy feet, working on track in carpet slippers - would not get away with that these days either. I seem to remember that it was a Saturday night north of Northchurch tunnel, with thunder and lightning rattling round the hills, the signalman picking that time to mention that the tunnel was supposed to be haunted. For some reason the track gang had not turned up, and the two of us young and old had to finish digging out the start hole for a ballast cleaner on our own. Happy days/nights. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 HMQ takes a ride on the opening of the Victoria Line, 7th March 1969.... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 Photo by Nev Sloper : Driver Wilf Stone at Overseal in 1975.... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 Photo by Graham Carlson (the chap in the red jacket on the right) : St.Pancras, 8th May 1987 with 45 124.... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippel Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Next from the right, is that Andy King? And the guy in the middle with the camera is that 'Swish' from MML control?I Paul. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 Yes that's right on both counts Paul 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 I presume the logo above the running number is an unofficial addition? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted August 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2020 The set of pictures at the top of this page are brilliant reminders of the time, Nidge; a driver’s cap worn at a jaunty angle, flat caps, fixing your car on company time (maybe), uniform that fits where it touches and sideburns. Absolute belters, every one of them. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted August 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2020 42 minutes ago, Western Aviator said: fixing your car on company time (maybe) That rang a bell. Mad panic early one morning about 50 years ago when no-one had seen the guard for the 3.20 Vic - Brighton paper train, the most closely monitored train of the day! I think he was found at the last minute, out in Hudson's Place, fixing his motorbike..... Brendan was an engaging Irishman and decent chap (hopefully still is!) and got a job in Control not many years later, I believe rising to be DCC (Shift Supervisor), in which post he would have been required to report misdemeanours like his own on that occasion. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted August 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2020 I’m sure no one will mind me putting this in here as the other thread is locked the 2 railwaymen who tragically died yesterday in Stonehaven have been named may all your signals be green gentlemen https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeenshire/2405491/train-driver-and-conductor-killed-in-stonehaven-derailment-named-as-investigation-into-tragedy-begins/amp/ 1 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share Posted August 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Western Aviator said: The set of pictures at the top of this page are brilliant reminders of the time, Nidge; a driver’s cap worn at a jaunty angle, flat caps, fixing your car on company time (maybe), uniform that fits where it touches and sideburns. Absolute belters, every one of them. I do have a flat cap which is worn on cold nights when waiting for a taxi in the middle of nowhere after a ballast job, my uniform still fits reasonably well and I have sideburns, but so far haven't needed to fix my car on company time...! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted August 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: so far haven't needed to fix my car on company time...! buy a BMW mini then! Saltley depot the other week 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share Posted August 13, 2020 It wasn't a Saltley man driving the lowloader was it, getting in some overtime...? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted August 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: It wasn't a Saltley man driving the lowloader was it, getting in some overtime...? he was on mileage 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike 84C Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Saltley seagulls, turned up everywhere. Even back in the '60's some things never change! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Those seagulls must have ben on mileage too! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 Photo by David Maxwell.... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold big jim Posted August 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 14, 2020 14 hours ago, Mike 84C said: Saltley seagulls, turned up everywhere. Even back in the '60's some things never change! coast to coast and s**t on everybody 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rugd1022 Posted August 19, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 19, 2020 Dahn the tube in the '80s.... 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted August 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19, 2020 7 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Dahn the tube in the '80s.... Was that really the 80s fashion??? Worthy of a caption competion these two... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 The notice of the Covent Garden lift renewal ought to help in dating it. I must admit, it looks more 60s/70s to me. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ray H Posted August 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 20, 2020 A (quick) Google search suggests that the said lifts may have been renewed again within the last decade. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 They were. I can remember going to the ROH in around 2013 or 2014, the lifts were under maintenance, and having to climb the stairs out of the station. I was knackered, but my wife, an asthmatic, had to stop three or four times on the way up. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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