60021 Pen-y-Ghent

Maybe. Or maybe not.

Blea Moor sidings, July 20th 2020, waiting for the road south: Shame about those lineside cabinets.

The rear end of the second of the first day's Skipton-Appleby service on July 20th approaching Blea Moor tunnel.

The second of the first day's Skipton-Appleby service on July 20th approaching Blea Moor tunnel, accelerating away from the speed restriction over Ribblehead viaduct. (Nice sound!)

Not a very good quality photo (had to rush for my camera before the train disappeared!) of 66421 coming off Ribblehead viaduct with today's Carlisle to Crewe working.

Seems to me an occassion when half an hour is a very very long time.

Maybe a Thompson then, it certainly wasn't a mk1. (In my memory anyway!)

Here's my two penn'orth: in 1978 I lived in Clowne in Derbyshire and worked in Leeds. I commuted by train from Rotherham for a while and I am absolutely convinced that the morning train I used (can't remember the service or timings but probably about 8:00 from Rotherham) had a Gresley buffet in the consist.

Some double-headed 31s around Skipton and the S&C: If I'm reading my notes correctly this shows 31446 & 31407 drawing into Skipton, presumably on a Carlisle-Leeds turn, 25th March 1989. I think it's the same pair heading back north later the same day, approaching Helwith Bridge. Passing Helwith Bridge with Pen-y-ghent in the background. This was a WCML shutdown weekend and here I think are 31442 and 31467 coming off Ribblehead viaduct with Ingleborough in view.

I've posted a pic of this train earlier in the topic (https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/141076-class-25-photos/page/3/&tab=comments#comment-3428551) May 3rd 1986 during a WCML diversion weekend over the S&C, 25266 & 25278 depart Blea Moor towards the North.

Two from my collection of 31s in Skipton from the days when 31s handled the Swinden quarry traffic. 31 215 lurks in the sidings (date unknown but early 80s). 31 186 and 31 181 run through the station, 13th Dec 1982.

Presumably this is where the rebuilt box was situated and the original box was sited as in the older map. (I assuming 100% accuracy in map making of course!)

There appears to have been a signal box near the entrance to the goods yard marked on this map: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=56.40768&lon=-5.47322&layers=6&b=1 and referenced in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oban_railway_station so it seems unlikely that there was any need to reverse to the station.

That would be the one run by West Coast Railway Company (Leeds or maybe York to Carlisle) not in its EWS days I think. I don't know how many such trips they actually ran. I saw one with the 33 on (can't remember what was on the other end) but like you before I could book a trip they'd all been cancelled. Shame.

Is that first vehicle the prototype GUV (with 2 doors not 3)?

There's been a topic on this photo: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/137761-identification-required-ango-scottish-car-carrier-c196768/

Have you seen this page? There might be something to help answer your query. https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/M/Mallaig/

For some info on 33s in Scotland have a look at http://www.scot-rail.co.uk/page/class+33

When you say closing what exactly do you mean? ie Does Windows itself keep running and all open apps close or does Windows close and the laptop power down so that you have to power it on again? Is the laptop running on mains or battery power when this happens? I had an issue which happened only on battery power that the whole shooting match would just turn off (similar to Hayfield without the font size switch). I found that the answer to my problem was option 3 in the attached doc along with a good dusting of the innards of the laptop with an air duster. I went from 2 or 3 incidents a week (sometimes a day) to none since February. (It would be worth checking the settings in option 1 as well.) Hope that is of some use to someone. Regards all, stay safe David poweroffissues.docx

Not when you scroll up from the bottom of the page you won't!

So did I. These studs were nailed onto the leather sole of the boot. I well remember trying to play footie wearing a pair of boots so adorned when the nails had come through the sole. Agony! No wonder I was useless.

What about the submarines or frogmen which with a little dab of baking soda (I think) could be made to go up and down in a bottle of water.

There's a village in Cornwall with what I regard as a very exotic name - Davidstow. You might not, but then you might not be called David Stow. I am! Regards everybody, stay safe! David

No. My tins of Creamola Foam never laster that long!

Anybody else remember (and miss, in my case) Creamola Foam?