CUTLER2579 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 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? 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 18, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2020 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......... 2 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Oh, so he doesn't make pegs or sell lucky heather then !! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 18, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2020 4 minutes ago, CUTLER2579 said: Oh, so he doesn't make pegs or sell lucky heather then !! Not so far as I know, but he could make the pegs OK, just a bit of cutting and shutting needed. And what a great idea that's given me, he could sell lucky ragwort. "Ends all your troubles and sorrows, Sir". 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 If the heather was that lucky they wouldn't need to sell it I will go for Ipswich seen as i have visited the station Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted September 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18, 2020 Chappel and wakes Colne. Lovely viaduct and a preservation centre as well as "real " trains. David 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 18, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2020 Right, I shall dip my toe in the water. While taking photos the other day I poked the camera under the roof, but for some reason what I saw on the view finder was nothing like what actually appeared, so the whole thing was massively over exposed. However, before binning these I just messed about with them a bit, and thought I'd just see what reaction there is. There's a bit of one of these which is sharp, if you look closely. On second thoughts, don't. 20 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted September 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2020 Another vote for Chappel and Wakes Colne - the preservation centre hosts fantastic beer festivals (in normal times...). Proper beer and proper trains - a wonderful combination! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted September 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2020 I was very tempted by Ongar - where I first went by 1962 Tube Stock - on a "Track Recording Train" run, but then did not visit for many years and last rode into the station on the footplate of Met No.1 0-4-4T from North Weald. However, my vote goes to Saffron Walden which was a pretty station served by some very bucolic branch trains. Regards Chris H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 31 minutes ago, Metropolitan H said: I was very tempted by Ongar - where I first went by 1962 Tube Stock - on a "Track Recording Train" run, but then did not visit for many years and last rode into the station on the footplate of Met No.1 0-4-4T from North Weald. However, my vote goes to Saffron Walden which was a pretty station served by some very bucolic branch trains. Regards Chris H OK I’ll go for Saffron Walden as well for the same reasons. Plus on the roundy -roundy layout of my early teenage years I often spent the day running the real life Audley End - Bartlow timetable in which most trains only went as far as Saffron Walden then back again to Audley End , the service being operated by a Triang Jinty and two LMS coaches. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 How about Clare, I think it was unique as it was built in the grounds of a castle. Any station on the Stour Valley or Colne valley is worth a vote in my view. Martyn 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted September 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18, 2020 I’m also going with Saffron Walden for this poll for the same reasons. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2020 10 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Braintree & Bocking. I had a model of it once (well, an Airfix platform anyway...). Me too, Treebrain and Bonking for me as well. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 18, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2020 A high level view of the forecourt tonight. and a WD starting away on the Down slow, and about to block both main lines as it trudges into the yards. 37 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 G'Day Folks I'll go with Clare to, as I live near Clare in South Australia. manna 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, simontaylor484 said: If the heather was that lucky they wouldn't need to sell it I will go for Ipswich seen as i have visited the station I was once lucky enough to know a girl called Heather (no, she wasn't the one who lived at Dalmeny). 8 hours ago, mullie said: How about Clare, I think it was unique as it was built in the grounds of a castle. Any station on the Stour Valley or Colne valley is worth a vote in my view. Martyn 3 hours ago, manna said: G'Day Folks I'll go with Clare to, as I live near Clare in South Australia. manna Clare didn't live at Dalmeny either... Edited September 19, 2020 by St Enodoc 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 19, 2020 The DE area from on high this morning. and there's a Claud slipping past North box to wait in the old shed yard for its next duty. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2020 A close poll, won by Saffron Walden with 3 votes. Braintree Chappel and Clare had 2. Today, we'll carry on from Ipswich to Norwich, and thence to Cromer and Sheringham. Also Ely to Norwich, and on to Yarmouth, and the lines between the M&GN on the North, the Kings Lynn main line on the West, and the main route north of Norwich, which brings in places like Swaffham and Dereham, and other wayside stations on those rural cross country routes. think smaller again please, the big junction stations have had their go. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2020 Berney Arms. A station named for a pub has to be a winner. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jollysmart Posted September 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 19, 2020 Since you mentioned it, I will pick Dereham, still in use by the MNR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2020 (edited) Not a passenger station but one that handled goods, mainly coal, Swan Yard, Yarmouth. It would be a lovely micro model layout. Edited September 19, 2020 by Clive Mortimore 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted September 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2020 I too will vote for Dereham today. Regards Chris H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Has to be Swaffham - in order to preserve my marriage, as my wife is from there! Anthony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Berney Arms. A station named for a pub has to be a winner. Takes some doing by train! We stayed overnight in Great Yarmouth in order to catch the Sunday morning train that went that route back to Norwich - I think it was a fisherman's train (!?); definitely one of the more quirky parts of the present day network. There was f$&* precious little around those parts, that I do know. Am I right in saying that these nice siggernals are now history? Then we did some more 'required track', narrow gauge style. Then we went home. East Anglia is a long way from home, for me. SO - my vote also goes to the weirdest station on the network: (another category for a poll, maybe?) Berney Arms Edited September 19, 2020 by LNER4479 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Coldham station on the March to Wisbech line. Amazing wooden buildings formed part of the station. Martyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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