Rugd1022 Posted September 8, 2023 Author Share Posted September 8, 2023 4 hours ago, russ p said: Morning Nidge, is Mick on Cross country now? I thought he was on GB Yes Russ he's with XC down at Bristol now, he lives near the rhubarb triangle! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 3 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Yes Russ he's with XC down at Bristol now, he lives near the rhubarb triangle! One of the best named bits of railway. "What 'appened was, I was going round the Rhubarb, and..." The namesake pub has been closed for many years, but still stands. Jo 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted September 8, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2023 6 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Yes Russ he's with XC down at Bristol now, he lives near the rhubarb triangle! Say hello to him when you talk to him 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 8, 2023 Author Share Posted September 8, 2023 10 minutes ago, russ p said: Say hello to him when you talk to him Will do 😉 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 9, 2023 Author Share Posted September 9, 2023 Photo by Roger Wainwright : Tinsley top shed... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2023 Seeing all these pics of train spotters makes me wonder if there are still train spotters or are they extinct? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 9, 2023 Author Share Posted September 9, 2023 (edited) 36 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Seeing all these pics of train spotters makes me wonder if there are still train spotters or are they extinct? Oh they're still about Phil, I see quite a lot on my travels at work. There are some regular faces at Nuneaton and Water Orton, mostly of a certain age but there are few youngsters amongst them. A couple of weeks ago i was waiting to relieve 6M39 at Kettering and a young lad was asking me about 66s, he said he'd only seen a few and was there with his Dad taking photos on his mobile phone. I kept being reminded of myself doing the same thing almost fifty years ago, only with Westerns and Hymeks etc! Edited September 9, 2023 by Rugd1022 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 Whilst I was at KX a few weeks ago, a little old lady came up and took a photo of a class 91... 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 9, 2023 Author Share Posted September 9, 2023 1 minute ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: Whilst I was at KX a few weeks ago, a little old lady came up and took a photo of a class 91... It wasn't Mrs.Lopsided from 'The Ladykillers' was it...? 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 11 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: It wasn't Mrs.Lopsided from 'The Ladykillers' was it...? I didn't have a chance to ask, Nidge, as she got onto a GN train to Cambridge. The 91 was celebratory "Battle of Britain Memorial Flight", so that might have had a bearing on her taking a pic. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted September 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: I didn't have a chance to ask, Nidge, as she got onto a GN train to Cambridge. The 91 was celebratory "Battle of Britain Memorial Flight", so that might have had a bearing on her taking a pic. Who knows might have a son or grandson that flies a Spitfire... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 Spotters in Somerset, waiting for a pair of 56s on a Merehead stone train. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted September 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2023 4 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Doncaster, rain, and spotters... It isn’t, but one of these teenagers could have been me, watching train operations with school friends in the late 70s on a wet Saturday morning 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2023 On 08/09/2023 at 17:01, Steadfast said: One of the best named bits of railway. "What 'appened was, I was going round the Rhubarb, and..." The namesake pub has been closed for many years, but still stands. Jo Jo you'll be telling us next that you know where The Chocolate Poodle was. Just looked on Google Streetview and it still appeatrs to be there but it's closed. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 10 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Doncaster, rain, and spotters... Used that Grampus in the Bay as a seat on many an occasion 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said: Jo you'll be telling us next that you know where The Chocolate Poodle was. It's in my snug lounge - goes by the name of Ted - seen here on a particularly stressful morning .................... 🙄 10 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 21 hours ago, The Stationmaster said: Jo you'll be telling us next that you know where The Chocolate Poodle was. Just looked on Google Streetview and it still appeatrs to be there but it's closed. Indeed I do, though that's thanks to dad pointing it out on countless family trips in the car to Salisbury. Booked route Chippenham, Devizes, Market Lavington and across the plain. I'll be learning the B&H next month, so I'll officially know then! Jo 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Cheese Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 On 09/09/2023 at 12:29, PhilJ W said: Seeing all these pics of train spotters makes me wonder if there are still train spotters or are they extinct? You still see a few regulars at Eastleigh...not entirely sure why but they seem happy enough. I may have become a bit jaded though...if I'm passing by when Arlington release the latest shiny class 50 etc I'm usually happy but temper it with "Ah, saw one of them years ago when they were proper" 🤓 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2023 21 hours ago, Steadfast said: Indeed I do, though that's thanks to dad pointing it out on countless family trips in the car to Salisbury. Booked route Chippenham, Devizes, Market Lavington and across the plain. I'll be learning the B&H next month, so I'll officially know then! Jo Many years ago it was a shout heard across the office from one of the DCCs in Reading Control when somebody asked how a train was doing on the B&H and back came the reply 'Just coming up past the Chocolate Poodle'. It closed down a good many years back but reopened - probably about 20 years ago - bot has long since closed again. Of course the line there was never part of the B&H but was actually the Stert & Westbury although it was authorised as part of a GWR Act of Parliament and used to be commonly know as the Lavington Cut-off - as it 'cut-off' and shortened the original route via Devizes. So while we have all long called it 'the B&H' all the way from Reading to Westbury that railway actually only got from Reading to Hungerford and then 15 years later the B&H Extension took it through to Devizes. It was almost another 40 years before the Stert & Westbury was opened. Enjoy that 17 mile climb up from Lavington to Savernake with several thousand tons behind you. If you leave Westbury with a full load you've just got time to make it to Woodborough Loop before you're overtaken by an IET which left Taunton at the same time as you were leaving Westbury. 4 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Banger Blue Posted September 15, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 15, 2023 "The Chocolate Poodle" - still noted on route diagrams: 5 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 In case anyone is wondering - the former Chocolate Poodle pub in Market Lavington. Chocolate poodle Seen today below & located roughly where the blue arrow is pointing behind the "warehouse" - view taken from the next OB to the West in Cheverall. Lavington (Cheverall) - one of my favourite photo locations - spent many a happy hour photographing the "stone" there and one of the things I miss about not living on the Plain anymore. It would equally be a very useful location for a re-opened station too these days being on the A360. Quick stoppers Westbury - Lavington - Pewsey - Burbage (for Marlborough) - Bedwyn - Hungerford - Newbury. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted September 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2023 I must have been at York station countless times since 2004, but I noticed this on 13th September 2023 and I genuinely can't recall if I've seen it before, although it's obviously been there for awhile. It's good that the human side was recognised. The irony of posting this at the same time as the construction of HS2 beyond Birmingham is in doubt and that the progress of mainline electrification schemes south of the border continues to be glacial is not lost on me. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2023 9 hours ago, Banger Blue said: "The Chocolate Poodle" - still noted on route diagrams: Weird - that diagram is drawn with the south at the top and 'The Chocolate Poodle' on the wrong side of the running lines (the building is on the Down Side at the bottom of the station approach). 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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