Granitechops Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Don, Really appreciate your photos sir. Next time your down at Boat Cove can you see if some 'cops' by some intrepid spotter in the 70s/ early 80s are still there - I'm sure it used to say 46044 and 45xxx on the left hand side of the Kennaway tunnel portal, and last time I looked I think they were still there. In about 1983 I repainted a mainline 00 peak and renumbered it as 46044 using A1 detailing parts (who remembers them), with sealed beam headlights on the strength of the 46044 number at the tunnel entrance. If the number is still there god knows what was in the paint....... My favourite lower quadrant home signal, ( with sighting board) used to show a train was imminent in my summer holidays at the Beach Hotel in the 70s. Love your photos of Dawlish Don - just wish there was more freight. Matt Wood Hi Matt yes there are some faded nos still on the tunnel side wall, did wonder about them, will check it out next time I am in there again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Don, Really appreciate your photos sir. Next time your down at Boat Cove can you see if some 'cops' by some intrepid spotter in the 70s/ early 80s are still there - I'm sure it used to say 46044 and 45xxx on the left hand side of the Kennaway tunnel portal, and last time I looked I think they were still there. In about 1983 I repainted a mainline 00 peak and renumbered it as 46044 using A1 detailing parts (who remembers them), with sealed beam headlights on the strength of the 46044 number at the tunnel entrance. If the number is still there god knows what was in the paint....... Matt Wood 45069 and 46001: https://flic.kr/p/fV14Rv https://flic.kr/p/3DaPsW 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D826 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 BR (s) Thanks.......see what happens to your memory when you're 47..... I definitely used a1 detailing parts and while I am sure it was in OO, the way I'm going perhaps it was gauge 1 ! Thanks Matt Wood Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 22, 2014 Dawlish Air Show tomorrow, folks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 (edited) Cap’n. The weather for Dawlish looks set fair! And the Americans are usually pessimistic..... Best, Pete. Edited August 22, 2014 by trisonic 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted August 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 22, 2014 Yep, lots to see in the air and trains making extra stops too. We used the train to go to see the carnival at Dawlish last Friday,that was busy enough but the platform staff reckoned they may have 10,000 visitors tomorrow! The airshow website implies that channel 4 will be filming, don't know if that's to do with the airshow or another series of "the railway" (or was that C5?).Cap'n Kernow did mention they ffilmed the log train at Riverside yard earlier this year.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 22, 2014 The airshow website implies that channel 4 will be filming, don't know if that's to do with the airshow or another series of "the railway" (or was that C5?).Cap'n Kernow did mention they ffilmed the log train at Riverside yard earlier this year.... Well I've not been informed either way, although I have attended most of the planning meetings with FGW and the air show organisers. I was wondering when the second series would be aired, perhaps it won't be until this years 'major events' are over? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 BR (s) Thanks.......see what happens to your memory when you're 47..... I definitely used a1 detailing parts and while I am sure it was in OO, the way I'm going perhaps it was gauge 1 ! Thanks Matt Wood 47? 47????? wait till your 74! then you also could have number dyslexia ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Saturday 23rd August 2014 Dawlish Air show from Dawlish Warren Red Arrows 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Don, The third shot is brilliant! Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Don, The third shot is brilliant! Best, Pete. The pilot had disappeared inland over Haldon Hills and flew back out to sea right over our heads, low level made all the kids in the crowd shriek only just got the camera up in time!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) Did I mention Dawlish was busy? Had to vacate the seawall in Dawlish town at about 8.30 am as it was getting too crowded to move in a wheel chair Did not even get a chance to do a photo there Dawlish Warren was also crowded had to pull into a wider bit of the Redrock path after doing a U turn to wait for room to move, but did get this shot local service to Paignton, heading south for Dawlish & beyond after all, just remembered, it is a railway forum!! Crowds all along the seafront path all the way to Red rock Edited August 23, 2014 by Granitechops 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heed Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Dawlish was extremely busy today, took me 40minutes to get on a train after the airshow today. Heres a couple of pictures from today On the way up The main reason I went. Was a truly enjoyable day and was good to see how well Dawlish station is looking now after all the work since winter. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 The pilot had disappeared inland over Haldon Hills and flew back out to sea right over our heads, low level made all the kids in the crowd shriek only just got the camera up in time!! This one came across Teignmouth from the river, flew across the Brimley valley and on towards Dawlish Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted August 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2014 We were on Boat Cove beach most of the day, but went up on to Lea Mount to watch the Lancasters etc at the end in order to escape faster! Was a good show, enjoyed seeing the Canberra, Read Arrows and the Blades aerobatic team. Took loads of photos but not downloaded from camera yet... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 (edited) That door in the Cornish end of Isambards Bridge Buttress looks like a candidate for a future episode of Dr. Who imagine the chase scene through the tubes with all their casting webs etc inside!! Edited August 24, 2014 by Granitechops 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 (edited) The old Met Office in Bracknell had a mysterious door like that (albeit with a small balcony). Although I worked there for six years I never found out what it was used for... however shortly after the building closed I discovered the balcony was used as a filming position for the car chase in Casino Royale (1967). Edited August 24, 2014 by RJS1977 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 25, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) That door in the Cornish end of Isambards Bridge Buttress heed's royal albert dr. who crop.jpg looks like a candidate for a future episode of Dr. Who imagine the chase scene through the tubes with all their casting webs etc inside!! I think it was IKB's special trainspotting lair! Keith Edited August 25, 2014 by melmerby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Heads Up, Cap’n. Hurricane Chistobal is currently heading more or less straight for Bermuda. Whilst not a Super Hurricane it will retain hurricane force winds until almost across the Atlantic. Of course it is making a beeline for the UK....probably in about 7 days, difficult to be precise. Maximum sustained winds are 85 mph - it will decline in strength but it is possible that you may see gusts to 70mph. It is also possible that it may miss you altogether... Just bear it in mind to check regularly with the Met Office from a couple of days hence. Forewarned is Forearmed... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 27, 2014 Thanks Pete. The Kernow Observer Corps on the westernmost tip of St Agnes has been alerted and sent an additional cagoule, plus a cheese sandwich. From there, a relay system from the Swagonian Streamlined Rowing Brigade will bring the news to a semaphore station at The Lizard, from whence it will be transmitted to the Kernow Emergency Weather Bunker, aka 'Geronimo's' Navaho-themed cafe under Dawlish station... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 (edited) You’re so efficient! Maybe half a pound of sausages together with the cheese sandwich will see them through it? Best, Pete. Edited August 27, 2014 by trisonic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted August 27, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 27, 2014 Might've been mentioned earlier in the thread but whatever happened to all the containers? Call me daft but I'd like to see one in the NRM. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 27, 2014 Looks like to good Cap'n had better get his sunnies out according to a Met Office view of the possible impact of Christobal on the UK http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/503569/UK-weather-forecast-Tropical-storm-Cristobal-to-hit-Britain http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Met-Office-Hurricane-Cristobal-bring-heat/story-22833249-detail/story.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-summer-could-make-a-late-comeback-thanks-to-hurricane-cristobal-9693551.html http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hurricane-cristobel-heading-for-the-uk--bringing-temperatures-of-25c-to-london-9692870.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 (edited) And there you have it, Mike! I like the Standard with their 25C heat!!!! We’re having a rather nice 32C today from a cool start to a cool evening. What worries me is when the BBC say that "impact will not happen” - actually that really worries me............ One thing is for sure - the K.O.C. at St. Agnes will be the first to know (but will they remember to tell anyone)?. Best, Pete. Edited August 27, 2014 by trisonic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 27, 2014 And there you have it, Mike! I like the Standard with their 25C heat!!!! We’re having a rather nice 32C today from a cool start to a cool evening. What worries me is when the BBC say that "impact will not happen” - actually that really worries me............ One thing is for sure - the K.O.C. at St. Agnes will be the first to know (but will they remember to tell anyone)?. Best, Pete. The Met Office will know before then Pete - they have various weather buoys to the west (and in other directions) of our fair land. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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