BR(S) Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Not the safest thing to do bearing in mind the starter is on! I hope he knew there was nowt coming on the down He started his walk after the Swanage-bound train had passed, as shown here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/81713-class-33-photos/?p=1692173. Edited December 7, 2014 by BR(S) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 These guys seemed to keep smiling when meeting the hoards disembarking for the Great Goodbye at Shildon. (See the queue going off to the museum under the bridge). Hope they weren't temporary agency staff paid off with a cynical smile after the event. Porcy 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted December 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2014 Wash and brush-up at Reading; Tuesday 5th September 2000. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Simon Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Wash and brush-up at Reading; Tuesday 5th September 2000. 100105LR.jpg Funnily enough, despite a brand new station, they still do that at Reading! The old ways are the best! Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Not when the wires are up I hope! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted December 12, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 12, 2014 With just over a couple of weeks until the contract moves to Colas in January, it looks like DBS had a Christmas outing judging by the crowded cab of 60015. 60015 on 6E32, 0855 Preston Docks to Lindsey at Mirfield East Junction on 12th December 2014. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
South of 1E Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 (edited) clear road ahead for the driver on Clayton 8568 accelerating out of Horsenden bound for Chinnor, 030514 NR Edited December 13, 2014 by South of 1E 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger440 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Cracking photo - I loved those peak hour Thames Valley commuter services. Well maintained large logo Old Oak 50s on 7 coach VB Mk1 sets, with enthusiastic drivers like RMWeb's Brian Daniels - what's not to like? Fast from Paddington to Reading, often above the rated maximum for the stock with the BR1 bogies banging and hunting away over the points at Dolphin Junction and Ruscombe, before rolling into Reading in 27 mins for the 36 miles. Then crossing to the Down Relief for the main event - all stations to Didcot: flat out in notch 7 from each start until the last possible braking point, then hard in with the brake for a beautifully judged stop each time....Tilehurst, Pangbourne, Goring, Cholsey, Didcot....before a final sprint to Oxford. Deep joy! If I ever make enough money, one day I'd like to pay for a preserved 50 and Vintage Trains' VB set to do it all over again.... David Bit late to the party here, but you are just so right! In 86/87 when i was at apprentice school in swindon, mid week when the rest of them were trying to get served in the pub, once or twice a week i would scoot down to reading straight after work soley for this purpose. As you say, the stoppers were just the best. Count me in when you hire the stock to to it again :). Happy days! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 18 D7026 and drivers wtg dep from Paddington by edgehillsignalman, on Flickr 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted December 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 12, 2014 Gotta give them something to do, it wouldn't be fair if they spent all day in the cabin drinking tea Yeah, but it might help if signalmen didn't keep offering us tea every time we pop up the box in the first place In any case isn't it bad manners to refuse hospitality and we wouldn't want to hurt their feelings (you never know when you might need their co-operation) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 12, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 12, 2014 Yeah, but it might help if signalmen didn't keep offering us tea every time we pop up the box in the first place In any case isn't it bad manners to refuse hospitality and we wouldn't want to hurt their feelings (you never know when you might need their co-operation) You should count yourself lucky that you are offered tea - one of the worst things you can do with anyone on the railway is to make tea and not offer them any. I remember the night the layout was altered at Yeovil Jcn back in 1975 and there were well over a dozen folk in the 'box as well as the Signalman, he made a brew in a very large teapot and offered a cup to everybody - me, the Groundmen, the locking fitters and the Locking tester, in fact everyone, except the DI. The latter got the message and duly stumped off into the night 'to look at the clamp lock' (which was in process of commissioning at the far end of the platform; about 20 minutes later I took the two Groundmen down to do a bit of familiarisation with manual operation on the clamp lock and there was no sign of either the DI or his van, which had been parked opposite the station. There's definitely a message when it comes to tea. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggesford box Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 The flip side to that. I remember when I first went to Abergavenny box and made the linesman and his mate a cup of tea and the surprised look on their faces. Where I had come from in Devon the S&T where a great set of blokes, nothing was to much trouble and the maintenance was first class (and needless to say in a reorganisation the linesman was pushed out of the job he loved and was good at). They always took their break in the signal box. The pair in south Wales where nowhere near as well thought of and maintenance seemed to be minimal. The Ivorine on the inner home was worn through to the black where the signalmen used to put their foot on it to pull the up home and you never used No.13 clamp lock crossover unless you had no choice as it would fail as often as it would work. I was less inclined to make them a cuppa the better I knew them! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Driver Tom Clark and fireman Jack Lewis wait in the cab of 6220 Coronation before their record breaking speed run of 114mph. 29/6/1937. Clark would later recieve the OBE and this was Lewis's last mainline firing turn. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted December 13, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2014 He got the OBE for almost wiping Crewe station out? Did Joe Duddington get one? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Speaking of Joe Duddington http://streaming.britishpathe.com/hls-vod/flash/00000000/00050000/00050548.mp4.m3u8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted December 13, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2014 There's a song that mentions him here http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1aCZGM6z9Ls Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted December 13, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2014 (edited) There's a song mentions him hereWatch "Big Big Train - English Electric Part 2 - East Co…" on YouTube Big Big Train - English Electric Part 2 - East Co…: Edited December 13, 2014 by russ p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WessexEclectic Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 He got the OBE for almost wiping Crewe station out? Did Joe Duddington get one? There's an apocryphal story of a LNER driver when asked for his thoughts on the day of a speed run replied, "If we hit something today, we're gonna hit it 'ard!". 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Wash and brush-up at Reading; Tuesday 5th September 2000. 100105LR.jpg "Must wash off this nasty green paint" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 18, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2014 Eastbourne, 10th December 2014 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 How to attract Gentlemen to the Hobby? Porcy 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted December 20, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2014 This was taken at Clapham Junction around 1988/89. How times have changed. The 4 Bep unit was moving at the time, albeit fairly slowly in the yard, with the driver in conversation with the shunter...who is riding on the step of the motor bogie...above the third rail. Not much evidence of PPE on the shunter either. I imagine that that was part and parcel of normal or accepted operating practise on the railway at the time. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Those on the platform are probably taking the opportunity for a quick refresher on the loco-to-HST coupling procedure! HST no. 43069 @ Newcastle, 21/01/1988 [slide 8820] by graeme9022, on Flickr 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted December 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 22, 2014 Crikey! A ped assisting an HST, has it got there yet or still en-route?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted December 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2014 Crikey! A ped assisting an HST, has it got there yet or still en-route?! I know we need an irony button, but could it be the other way around? Bizarrely, the HST has been called to aid the 31. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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