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  1. SouthernBlue80s
    A close call for you. I always went on Saturday afternoon too. Here is a view you will be familiar with
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    I was never caught in that grim foot tunnel. were you? I once stopped for too long near to where that 37 was and was thrown out. I soon discoved the secret was to keep moving.
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    A couple of views of Carlisle. I984 I think.
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    I seem to remember walking down that platform and on the right was the stabling point and then further down the platform on the left is where the spotters were. It was a long time ago now. I just loved the smells and atmosphere on the railway then. A misty empty Stratford on a Saturday afternoon.
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    Another Liverpool street memory for you. This is a special picture for me as it the first non 73,33 or 47 I ever saw. I caught the train to Victoria and the tube to Liverpool Street walked down the platform and saw 31160, took a picture and tried to print it and develop it myself at the age of 14. I didnt have much of an idea of what I was doing...but this was the result
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    Thanks, they are not great quality compared to most that are posted on the forum. However hopefully they sometimes capture the atmosphere and trigger a few memories. Saturday morning, early 80s at Liverpool Street.
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    Class 56112 at Worksop. This was a cop for the southern guy that had seen all the 73s and 33s, as it was vice versa for Northern folks coping 33s at Waterloo and the like.
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    New Units at Clapham Junction with the leaky footbridge in the background. These were quite a novelty when they first arrived in the sea of slam doors.
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    Rats running through an empty Milton Keynes on a listless scorching hot day
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    Seeing as I mentioned Dover town yard, here is 33050 on a sunny Summers morning in 1980. My memories of the railways in these days as teenager in Kent are full of atmosphere.
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    33/1 at Clapham Junction on push pull services. We never saw them in depths of the South Eastern Divison. One however did make it to Dover town in the early 80s.
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    The EMU pictures remind me of my youth in Kent. Also I find it facinating that in 1967 there were clean modern electrics with big power and also steam on the network at the same time.
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    A close call. Taken off the bridge near Willesden at the start of the walk down to Old Oak Common. The 47 with the steel train is hard on the brakes trying to stop before hitting the light engine 37 at the red signal. It just made it. It is hard to see, and I am not sure, but is the cab door open at the front of the loco?
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    Class 33. A hot summers day at Temple Meads
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    47583 County of Hertfordshire was my favourite 47, I can´t quite remember why, I guess it was because it was an early recipient of large logo. Here it is in the early 80s at Stratford after having suffered a spot of bother.
  16. SouthernBlue80s
    Thank you. I will amend the caption.
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    Yes I remember that. The grey seat moquette with the yellow, blue, white and red bits in it takes me back whenever I see it, to the world of lightbulbs, mirrors with BR logos on, wooden window frames with gaffiti and orange curtains. I wonder if Broadlands above is working on of the first workings, given its headboard?
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    Early days of the Gatwick Express at the old Victoria Station. An EMU in the background with the old orange curtains and comfortable seats that I remember.
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    Having looked at it again, I see what you are saying. I had a look at the origonal under a magnifying glass but can not make it out. Perhaps it is a picture of the return working of 47072 from Margate in 1983, as pictured above.
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    Finsbury Park a year or two before closure. Always the friendliest depot in London I felt, I would ask to look around and it was always no problem. A sketchy part of London back in the 70s and 80s.
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    A class 86 and Brutes at Euston.
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    Margam. Developed and printed by myself as a young man... which is why it is not the best. I have fond memories of these places in South Wales.
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    A slightly blurry Severn Tunnel Junction Not the best picture but captures the atmosphere.
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    20s at Tinsley about 1988
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    A few of my latest editions, still working on them. Now back to the day job..
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