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[CUTLER2579]

7 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

 

I was too young for beer 

 

 

I was forced to partake by my Elders who claimed they were my Better's.  

 

The next morning my 19 years of age stood me in good stead against them at Breakfast. Never got hangovers then,but after 40 goodness me did I pay for it   

Edited September 17, 2020 by CUTLER2579
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[31A]

Between Shenfield and Ipswich - soooo many to choose from, but I'll choose Witham.  I used to visit it for work sometimes in the 1990s and it struck me as a well preserved country junction with most of its facilities still functioning, although by then only one of the two branches was open.

[FarrMan]

11 minutes ago, CUTLER2579 said:

 

 

I was forced to partake by my Elders who claimed they were my Better's.  

 

The next morning my 19 years of age stood me in good stead against them at Breakfast. Never got hangovers then,but after 40 goodness me did I pay for it   

 

That sounds like a long time to get a hangover!

 

Lloyd

[St Enodoc]

22 minutes ago, CUTLER2579 said:

after 40 goodness me did I pay for it

After 40 pints you deserve all you got...

[St Enodoc]

Has to be Halesworth, not only for the connection with the Southwold Railway but also the peculiar level crossing that incorporated parts of the platforms.

[Clive Mortimore]

This is a hard one to decide.

 

Witham, Colchester, Chelmsford, and Ipswich were all places I lived and worked, in fact I lived in Derby Road, just down from the station.

 

Then there is Manningtree, change here for the continent and Friton for a more sedate and old fashioned way of life. 

 

Then there are locations which in the past were quite busy railway wise despite no one living nearby. Marks Tey and Thorpe-le- Soken come to mind.

 

Today's choice for me takes us on a little trip. Ernie the lamp boy under the supervision of the signalman clears the line and our rail bus trundles off picking up speed as it goes under Catholic Bridge. The driver whistles to alert the wood worm to link arms as we cross the trestle bridge over the River Blackwater at the same time slowing down for today's station Wickham Bishops.

 

Here is a delightful model of Wickham Bishops by Len Wilkinson.

 

I worked with Ernie when we both worked at Marconi's and he was a lamp boy at Witham junction signal box when he left school and told me a few stories.

 

 

[Flying Fox 34F]

I’m with St. Enodoc, Halesworth for me.  Strangest Level Crossing gates in existence, plus those 3’ gauge curiosities to the sea.

 

Paul

[Clive Mortimore]

37 minutes ago, Flying Fox 34F said:

I’m with St. Enodoc, Halesworth for me.  Strangest Level Crossing gates in existence, plus those 3’ gauge curiosities to the sea.

 

Paul

Hi Paul

 

But isn't Halesworth on the East Suffolk line which is/was a mainline north of Ipswich?

[great northern]

18 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Paul

 

But isn't Halesworth on the East Suffolk line which is/was a mainline north of Ipswich?

It is Clive, and I did specifically include the East Suffolk,  because of places like Halesworth...... and Beccles...... and Saxmundham.

[Flying Fox 34F]

2 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Paul

 

But isn't Halesworth on the East Suffolk line which is/was a mainline north of Ipswich?

Clive

 

Your skim reading the Rules and Boundaries again?????

 

Paul

[Metropolitan H]

Halesworth (- No more than half wot you pay for it!) for me too. There is a superb brewery at the other end of the 3ft gauge Southwold Railway.

 

Regards

Chris H

[mullie]

Halesworth for me too cos of 'wot e said' about gates, narrow gauge and the route to a pint of Adnams.

 

Even in the mid 60s it was still busy, there are some interesting photos in Dr Allen's Diesels in East Anglia.

 

Martyn

[TrevorP1]

For those interested in Hunt couplings I've fitted a few more of different types today. To save repeating the information, if you are interested in them have a look here on my Burngullow Lane thread.

 

Once again thanks to Gilbert for spreading the word. They really do make a difference.

[TrevorP1]

12 hours ago, great northern said:

Just a couple more high level views this lovely morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This picture. So evocative of a photo that any schoolboy spotter could have taken on his Mum's Box Brownie back in the day. Brilliant!

[Clive Mortimore]

2 hours ago, Flying Fox 34F said:

Clive

 

Your skim reading the Rules and Boundaries again?????

 

Paul

Yeah.

[great northern]

Two more shots from on high tonight, but looking in the opposite direction.

 

 

 

 

And you are allowed to mention golf if you like. I know that means that you won't.

[DaveF]

 

I doubt anyone else will choose this but I am going for Mistley, on the Harwich branch.

 

I often visited the village and tok a number of photos of trains there.

 

There was alo the remains of the very steep line down to the quay on the River Stour.

 

Dabid

[Market65]

Well I have a photo’ of Beccles in a book with an E4 on a passenger train, and the first carriage is a Gresley third open. So just because of that I’m going with Beccles for this poll.

 

Rob.

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Don't know the area very well, only went to Gt Yarmouth once, but I'll go with Diss.

 

manna

[great northern]

More high level shots this morning, but angled more from East to West.

 

 

 

 

Got to go and have blood taken shortly, which I don't like very much at all. Soon be over though, and then I have a day free for railway matters.

[great northern]

It seems not many of you ventured to the lovely far east of England, as there were only 8 votes registered. Half of those were for Halesworth, so it was the winner.

 

Today though we stay in the same area. looking at cross country lines beween the Ipswich and Cambridge main lines, and with a northern boundary of the Ipswich to Ely route. The Colne Valley and Stour Valley lines alone should provide plenty of choices.

[St Enodoc]

Braintree & Bocking. I had a model of it once (well, an Airfix platform anyway...).

[TheQ]

Thass'l be in Suffuk, thass'l be on the dark Side, I I'nt a play till yew get's hare.. 

Edited September 18, 2020 by TheQ

[CUTLER2579]

Clive stated :-   Witham, Colchester, Chelmsford, and Ipswich were all places I lived and worked, in fact I lived in Derby Road, just down from the station.

May we refer to you as Gipsy Clive Mortimore in future. i knew you referred to Horses but never realised they pulled your caravan around North Lincolnshire.

How do you fit a model railway in?

[great northern]

51 minutes ago, CUTLER2579 said:

Clive stated :-   Witham, Colchester, Chelmsford, and Ipswich were all places I lived and worked, in fact I lived in Derby Road, just down from the station.

May we refer to you as Gipsy Clive Mortimore in future. i knew you referred to Horses but never realised they pulled your caravan around North Lincolnshire.

How do you fit a model railway in?

Clive has been everywhere, and had a go at just about every job ever invented. Unfortunately this does mean that he gets rather a lot of tasks inside and outside his home these days. There is a caravan, but he doesn't live in it. And he has a lovely railway room too, which he occasionally visits when he isn't pulling up ragwort or thistles, or clipping conifers, or plumbing, or decorating, or.........