Matt37268

Definitely one for another thread as this isn’t railway related but it reminded me of a cellar management course I did back in 2015. The gent from the brewery who took us for it told us to take plenty of notes, he also said ‘when I say this is important’ it meant it was on the final exam. Wink 😜 Apparently this semi retired former cellar technician had taken over 2.5 thousand people on this course and he’d only had 4 people failing it… ’Chris’ who’s the most spectacularly inept person I’ve had the misfortune to work with became number 5 How the sodding hell you can fail an exam that is so rigged in your favour I’ll never know. Definitely someone only his mother could love.

The head tilt!

One of the disadvantages of working in a brewery next to a railway line is that every 3 weeks you get something like this come past… not sure of the date but have a feeling this was from summer of 2019?

One of my favourite photos I’ve taken of a EE type 3, this is 716 at Yarmouth Vauxhall during its week on the short set during 2017. This is on September the 2nd. I have a few more of various 37/4s and 68’s working the short set, More than happy to share if anyone wants to see some more.

One for my Dad, one from his youth but he’s very much of the opinion that any diesel should be in a variant of BR green.

Keep your dreams- Primal Scream

You love us, Manic Street Preachers?

I think it might have had some additional mods to its silencing?

You know what? I’m mis remembering a piece from Traction Mag. I’m sure there was a photo with 49 running past the 90 at Llandudno. There goes my ‘top man’ Status! 😜

Quite possibly!

I believe it was 50049 that was used to drag it back to Crewe… One for the prototype for everything thread :0)

This one was the real deal, Not exactly a flask but, this is always worth watching.

That happened a few years later on Tomorrow’s World.

You say that, but how do I put this? It’s not railway related but I had the misfortune to work with someone so spectacularly inept I genuinely wonder how he crossed the road. There’s a few stories about him I could tell and I witnessed them first hand!

Nobody’s saying it’s right, but hindsight is always 20/20. As an example of the change in attitude’s to drink driving I had a mate at college who had just passed his test and wouldn’t even chance it with a cheeky half at lunchtime (1230ish) even though it’d be out his system an hour or so later and we’d be leaving at 4ish. We were both about 18/19 at the time. (2002/3) Compare to this to about 2 years later when I was then at work in a pub down the road from our college and one middle aged customer 52/53 (B) there was told despite having 6 pints that lunchtime it wasn’t a good idea to drive cue the usual ‘I know what I’m doing spiel’ Unfortunately a member of our staff accepted a lift from him. They made it home in one piece luckily, but said they would never get in a car whilst he was driving again, fair play to them, they made the point in the public bar very loudly to B in front of quite a few regulars a week or so after, prompting quite a few comments about how stupid it was to drink/drive I last saw B about 10 years ago, and that incident came up in conversation and he still couldn’t understand what he’d done wrong. There are reasons why attitudes to what was deemed acceptable not so long ago have changed but as I say Hindsight is always 20/20

Not quite with a high powered rifle… but with my Dads car.

I’ve heard a few stories of how shall we put this? Liberal interpretations of the speed limit at the SVR… Major Olver being on the footplate of 75069 and assessing the line between Bewdley and Kidderminster at a speed that wasn’t permitted on the mainline at the time, got off the footplate with a smile on his face and telling management ‘if it’s good enough for X mph, it’s good enough for 25!’ Then there’s the one about being told about how the speedo of a mainline certified loco was always rather iffy when it came back to Kiddy whilst having a footplate ride on it. Apparently it never seemed to have a problem passing an FTR on the mainline though! I did hear a great story from someone about way back in the 1970’s they had a slightly later evening departure from Shropshire than booked but still managed to make last orders in the Western… SVR history could also have turned out a little differently had my mother managed to have taken out Sir Gerald Naborro at Arley in the 1970’s…

The ER B1s had their draw hooks removed, I don’t think 80002 had its motion dismantled.

What about 80002 used as a steam heating boiler until 1969? I think? (It’s rather late and I’m about ready to fall asleep, but It’s worth a check out) I think this might be the only Standard Tank that didn’t end up at Barry.

Didn’t the Hemyock Branch have a 14xx and a Thompson brake in its last years of service?

But weren’t Bescot Drivers trained on 42/43s? They had some of them allocated there didn’t they?

The 37 is 409, I was on this btw!

What band turned this one down as their album cover?! 😀

My first post so forgive the intrusion, rather enjoying the photos on this thread so thought I’d share this photo of the Cam on my way into work a few days ago.