andyrush Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Full article about Smeeth Road in GERS Journal No.142 Some more East Anglia: Opening the gates at North Elmham for the daily Fakenham goods on 2 July 1968 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Not just clearing up, but clearing up after a train that shouldn't have even been there in the normal course of things! I bet they were happy . . . Worth heading to the Flickr page to read a description of the incident. We're off the road! by 70023venus2009, on Flickr 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Louch Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Jinty 47406 on a short van train potters past the 'massed orange ranks' at Woodhouses, CGR Winter Gala yesterday. Only managed a couple of hours at Loughborough but looked like a great event, well supported. I'll post a few images in the 'Preservation' section later. Andy 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 Lovely shot there Andy.... me and the missus drove past the bridge you were on and saw how many cars were parked up on the road leading up to it, so we turned tail and spent the morning at Rothley at the top of the cutting instead! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted January 27, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2013 Not just clearing up, but clearing up after a train that shouldn't have even been there in the normal course of things! I bet they were happy . . . Worth heading to the Flickr page to read a description of the incident. We're off the road! by 70023venus2009, on Flickr That shot reminds me of a DS&TE I worked for some years ago. On saloon tours he liked to go everywhere possible at the end of semi-derelict lines. One day at Donnington we went into the disused Granville Colliery branch. After about 100 yards we stopped and the driver came back to tell us that he wasn't going any further in because it was so overgrown he couldn't see the rails 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 Punters aplenty at 'ye olde Reading General' of the not so distant past.... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Captions please! He is an RMwebber with about three posts and good friend of mine, and appreciates most forms of humour 153s.jpg Cheers, Mick "Dom't dig there, dig it elsewhere. You're digging it round!, and it should've been square!" With apologies and acknowledgements to Bernard Cribbins 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 (edited) Punters aplenty at 'ye olde Reading General' of the not so distant past.... Reading Station canopies b&w.jpg Spooky - I think I was watching you taking this - there was someone taking pics today of the station in general (ha see what I did there ) - (about 1:30 ?? just before the 59 on the stone empties ??) Ah, just realised your profession - you didn't bring in 4L32 per chance ????? In which case that might be me sat on the 3rd bench from the left holding the Costa coffee cup - a large skinny gingerbread latte btw Edited January 31, 2013 by Southernman46 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 I certainly didn't take it today... I've been sat here all day! 4L32 sounds like a Lawley Street or Eastleigh man's job, or possibly one of the Reading lads covering one of their's.... sadly I don't sign as far as Reading, Didcot is my current limit down that way ;-) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Grange over Sands, August 2007. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 1, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2013 Grange over Sands, August 2007. Lovely canopies! Too few stations still have such elderly elegance! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 DSCF4287.JPG Grange over Sands, August 2007. They really ought to get that suspension sorted on the 156. Poor guard has to lean against it at every stationn to stop it falling over! Stewart 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Just read through this entire thread it is truly fascinating, david Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Oxford... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted February 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2013 Oxford... OX #1286.jpg Taken from almost the same spot - rather different sort of 'human interest' (and getting on for 50 years previously of course) 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Nice view Mike - hooked off and waiting to move forward no doubt... oh to have been stood there beside you in those days with endless Spam Cans, Castles, Halls, Granges, Moguls, Pannier and Prairie Tanks, 9Fs, B17s, newly arrived Hydraulics and rarely a quiet moment in daylight hours.... you lucky, lucky swine! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted February 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2013 Nice view Mike - hooked off and waiting to move forward no doubt... oh to have been stood there beside you in those days with endless Spam Cans, Castles, Halls, Granges, Moguls, Pannier and Prairie Tanks, 9Fs, B17s, newly arrived Hydraulics and rarely a quiet moment in daylight hours.... you lucky, lucky swine! Not much good for B17s by then Nidge - but there was the weekly B1 of course, and those rather nice 'Duck Eights' off the Bletchley line. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 I meant to type B1s Mike, not B17s...! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 (edited) The "minder" at the crossing to the E end of Exeter St Davids, early 80s. And signal lamp maintenance at Leicester Edited February 9, 2013 by eastwestdivide 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 (edited) Two from the lens of of Dave' Top Shunt' Partner, one of my colleagues at Bardon Hill... Recently retired Rugby Driver Terry McCrannor, one of life's true characters and much missed on the footplate... Dave 'Gridboy' Smith takes a well earned rest at Daw Mill, an ex-Rugby man but now at Bedford helping to keep our satallite depot earning it's keep... (note tea and biccies in attendance) Edited February 15, 2013 by Rugd1022 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted February 15, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 15, 2013 spent many an hour in that cabin nidge, is the toilet systern still filled from the colliery waste water? one from the other day in the snow at stafford, couple of guys photographing the GBRf biomass train.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 Couldn't say Jim, as despite signing for Daw Mill over five eyars ago, I've never been in the place! Stafford looks a bit cold and wet...! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6Y99 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Yes the toilet is still filled that way its awful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Controlled evacuation of a train following OLE damage at Radlett on February 13th: Walking up the track by bluebus, on Flickr Short walk up the track to the station by bluebus, on Flickr Exiting the train by bluebus, on Flickr 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubber Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 The redundant post of Stoke Cannons up home meets its end on 02/05/1985 Stoke Cannon 01.JPG Stoke Cannon 02.JPG AAaagh! And they let that lovely lamp smash down onto the ground???? Philistines..... Doug Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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