Andy Louch Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Cheltenham at the Watercress this morning. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggesford box Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Had to smile the other day whilst stood on the platform at Banbury talking to one of the platform staff. A passenger ignored the member of staff and asked another passenger for directions. I have just the slightest suspicion though that the fact that the other passenger had long blonde hair and long, long legs may have had a bearing! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Not Captain Kernow Posted December 10, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2012 The Ghost of Christmas Possessions Present at Roskear yesterday. A lonnnnnng exposure needed as it was dark and a Network Rail dude walked in and out of shot during this creating the "ghost" effect! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Not Captain Kernow Posted December 10, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2012 Some Network Rail chap at Looe ordering Ambrosia custard... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I had read previously that they could tell who was in the next box by the way the bells were pressed, this seemed to confirm the story! It's amazing how you can tell - you'll even check the roster and then think 'That's not Dean!', for example and ring just to satisfy your own curiosity! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 S&T staff at Llandudno on 5 Aug. 1984, travel in a former GWR motor car van. circa 1980, a trough laying train somewhere on Anglesey. Llysfaen 11 August 1999, and a solar eclipse was due about mid-day. Warnings were put out not to look at the eclipse with the naked eye, but luckily the van was well equiped with signal lenses. Signal mainainance at Prestatyn. Merf. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave47549 Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 (edited) . Edited October 1, 2021 by Dave47549 Removed pointless guff 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted December 11, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 11, 2012 Signal mainainance at Prestatyn. Merf. Ahh the golden days before mandatory hard hats, eye protection and climbing harness (I kid you not) to get up signals. Give it another 10 and I suppose we will all have to be wearing bio-hazard suits lineside. All in the name of H&S you understand 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Ive chatted to Mike a couple of times at Liskeard on the Cement, he's a great chap indeed. Another that sticks in my mind is the driver that was on "Silver Bullet Syphons" all those years ago, a St Blazey man, cant remember his name for the life of me now buts he's another gem of the railway, been fortunate enough to get him on a couple of ballasts over the years and is still SB. has a Yorkshire accent. Steve Wheatley by any chance? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Ahh the golden days before mandatory hard hats, eye protection and climbing harness (I kid you not) to get up signals. Give it another 10 and I suppose we will all have to be wearing bio-hazard suits lineside. All in the name of H&S you understand I got out when the hard hat became compulsory for getting out of the van ! Merf. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Great pics, but I love the last one. Is it a S&T version of a 'What the Butler saw' machine?? He's looking at all the "stripped" wires the dirty chap.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted December 12, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) Steve Wheatley by any chance? Thats the one!!!!!!!!! :good: Top man, thanks for that. Was racking my frazzled brain for days trying to remember! Salt of the earth that guy, spent many great hours rememising about how it used to be. Last time I spoke to him was early in the year, he came to Tavi yard to put a failed 66 over the pit in the OTM shed, it had badly flatted wheels, I think it went away on a skate! Edited December 12, 2012 by Gary H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Not old enough to know any railway staff when this was taken at Camborne in 1984, but sure some of our Cornish members may recognise the driver? Nice one - it's Dave Harvey. Penzance man from Hayle, drinks in the Cornubia! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 15, 2012 Tyseley Open Day about 30 years ago. The lad in the picture now owns a transport consultancy business. Copyright 2012 C E Steele 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Tangmere, Bristol T.M about 7:50 15th December 2012, after The Christmas Devonian. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Tangmere, Bristol T.M about 7:50 15th December 2012, after The Christmas Devonian. Lovely atmosphere in that shot, its almost as if you've gone back to 1964 with a digital camera. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted December 17, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 17, 2012 Lovely atmosphere in that shot, its almost as if you've gone back to 1964 with a digital camera. Ah ha! I saw Tangmere at Exeter earlier that day. The guy delivering the coal for it in a lorry asked me directions to Riverside yard where the train later turned up. Made a nice change from the endless procession of Vomiters and 153's etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted December 24, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2012 I just saw this on BBC news site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-20836102 A great record of long service; bet he has some memories. Pete 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 25, 2012 Author Share Posted December 25, 2012 Good old dependable 92203 and Driver at Toddington... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 30, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2012 A few pics from my photobox, not scanned them but photographed them on the iphone and used photoshop express to edit the pics First up some signallers..... Dovey in Barmouth ? Prestatyn Passengers at chester, first tin that stuck out was the old guys suit and tie and the old lady's "1970s grandma hat", the photo was probably taken about 1985ish Quiet contemplation in crewe A few of me.... On the cambrian coast express in 1987, loving the guy having a "crafty fag" on the left Me and my mate daniel with the APT in warrington Prestatyn 1985 Me with fred dibnah outside the dun cow near knutsford! 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 30, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2012 The 'Quiet contemplation at Crewe' would make for a great caption competition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 A few pics from my photobox, not scanned them but photographed them on the iphone and used photoshop express to edit the pics First up some signallers..... Dovey in Barmouth ? Prestatyn Passengers at chester, first tin that stuck out was the old guys suit and tie and the old lady's "1970s grandma hat", the photo was probably taken about 1985ish Quiet contemplation in crewe A few of me.... On the cambrian coast express in 1987, loving the guy having a "crafty fag" on the left Me and my mate daniel with the APT in warrington Prestatyn 1985 Me with fred dibnah outside the dun cow near knutsford! The unknown box looks like Towyn. In Prestatyn, the signalman looks like Gwyn Davies with in the background, the locking fitter, the late Ivor Williams. Merf. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 31, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2012 just shown my wife the fred dibnah picture, she thought it was keith lemon ooooooosh.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubber Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 The 'Quiet contemplation at Crewe' would make for a great caption competition. ........Yuk...dirty damned dogs.......... D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogauge83A Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Interesting goings on at Newton Abbot, Feb 2012. the travel journalist Simon Calder was also there waiting for the up sleepers and was rather intrigued to see the 'High Speed Train with no carriages' coupling up to the failed 2+8 set. Tony 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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