The Lurker

I guess I'll have to go back to spending more time doing work!!

Thanks very much for sharing all of these photos of a world that is before my time; it strikes me that they pick up wide cross-section of railway life - and not just the big expresses - and this is what makes this thread so good.

Look forward to the Northumberland pictures - it's one of my favourite parts of the country and those old branches that wandered the country are long lost.

Get Me Out - New Model Army

Nine Mile Point - on the Sirhowy Valley, near Wattstown. My Grandma grew up there!

Pretty in Pink - The Psychedelic Furs

Woolwich - home of the arsenal

Me Myself I - Joan Armour Plating

Hawkhurst - terminus of a branch from Paddock Wood (closed 1961)

Howling Wind - The Alarm

Yardley Hastings - small village in Northants

The Back of Love - Echo and the Bunnymen

Over the hills and far away - The Mission

Thanks to Armchair Modeller and P D & SWJR for the Nottingham-Northampton route. My attempts to follow dismantled railways on the current OS / Street Maps was flawed because I foolishly assumed that the lines connected at Melton!

_{Thanks - and thece to Syston I presume, and then Leicester, Mkt Har?  Although I lived in Northampton for 10 years most of the lines in the area had long been taken up and with it a myriad cross country services}

I'm interested by the references to Nottingham Victoria to Northampton trains (7302 et al). What route did these run by? If I understand things correctly Nottingham Victoria is a Great Central line station. Did the trains make their way from there on to the MML and via Market Harborough and on to Castle Station - or did they take another route off the GC later?  The services are clearly LMR motive power.

The Whole of the Moon - the Waterboys

The Same Deep Water As you - The Cure

Nettlestead - village/hamlet in Kent, near Paddock Wood and East peckham

Well that's it, SAF has announced his retirement (BBC website this lunchtime)

Today is a Good Day - New Model Army

SEMG online has the following in the H1/H2 section:

http://www.semgonline.com/steam/h1-h2_02.html

which would seem to show more than a static trial. The same photo also appears in the Leader section:

http://www.semgonline.com/steam/leader_02.html

with the added note that Hartland Point performed succesfully at speeds up to 80 mph

Ghost Rider - Suicide

Ballad of Bodmin Pill - New Model Army

Dover - another famous port town

^{Hawkhurst - terminus of a SER branch - closed 1961}

_{Pretty Fly for a white guy - the Offspring}