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Here's a very weary looking class 50, despite the D411 showing it's actually 1979 at Reading. He might look in his early 50's but the western had alot of ageing drivers, keeping gents like this back as passed men for years.

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I'm currently copying this weathering in 4mm.

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Here's a very weary looking class 50, despite the D411 showing it's actually 1979 at Reading. He might look in his early 50's but the western had alot of ageing drivers, keeping gents like this back as passed men for years.

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I'm currently copying this weathering in 4mm.

And it still looks better with the pre-tops number  & arrows under the cab windows

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Which all largely and eloquently explains why I left the railway. The dereliction, the wasted resources, the management that was determined to close whatever it could; it all made me permanently angry, and that's no way to live your life.

 

don't worry BR lives on in Colas, that one quote sums up how i'm feeling at the moment so time to get out 

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Not quite railway, but Blackpool tramway, North Pier stop 02/09/2017.

Elf & Safety at work. Note the number of Security Jobsworths (6?) on the platform, and the barriers. We were forced to wait on the right, until the tram came to a stop, then they refused to move the barriers and made us squeeze between the barrier and the tram. And the queue size wasn't much longer (apart from me joining it) by then.

Crazy.

 

Stewart

 

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A few from Saturday; first observers of the railway

 

The Royal Albert Bridge linking Kernow and England (during the Saltash station stop the chap in the photo arranged with me that he'd take a couple of shots, then duck inside to let me get mine)

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Enthusiasts throng the platforms at Exeter St Davids. Who says railways are no longer interesting?

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The serious task of HST trailer number taking at Exeter St Davids

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Secondly a few railway staff going about their business.

 

A Guard keeps a close eye out as her HST departs westwards

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A quick few words chat during the crew change as the train reverses 

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Dispatch at Chippenham

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A few from Saturday; first observers of the railway

 

Secondly a few railway staff going about their business.

 

A Guard keeps a close eye out as her HST departs westwards

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Coach F next to Coach K?

 

By my counting K is 11th in the alphabet. How many coaches are they putting between HST DMBs these days?

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Coach F next to Coach K?

 

By my counting K is 11th in the alphabet. How many coaches are they putting between HST DMBs these days?

 

7 or 8 on GWR sets K is adjacent to E on a 7 car set and adjacent to F on an 8 car set it being a (now permanently declassified) vehicle in some sets but still 1st class (hence K - adjacent to L) in a few sets.

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I thought exactly the same thing when I saw that!

Is it him? Is he still around?

I was only thinking last week

haven't heard much about him lately.

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Some tip top 1960's gricing images in this gentlemans photostream.

 

18375563343_8f2b2f1c53_b.jpgWhere's Wally? by Alastair Wood, on Flickr

 

and

 

17927603901_324ceec799_b.jpgSixties Trainspotting by Alastair Wood, on Flickr

 

and a few Wives/girlfriends appear to be enjoying themselves,

 

18949248144_575fb044e8_b.jpgMore serious breaches of Health and Safety by Alastair Wood, on Flickr

 

and the 4th of August, fifty years ago:

 

33045646724_23f4831783_b.jpgLast few hours by Alastair Wood, on Flickr

 

Anybody know this fella?

 

41008702581_2285370bd5_b.jpg'Class 37' diesel D6802 at Kings Cross 1965 by Glen Fairweather, on Flickr

 

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