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A couple more 'Westerns'..........

On 5 March 2013, 43192 leads a First Great Western's formation towards Paddington - the westbound Theale-Robeston empty tanks can be seen in the distance. This was only a couple of weeks before the PS at Didcot closed.

 

Another mixed bag......of Westerns this time.......

An unidentified Western departing Paddington with an express during November 1974. 

A bit obvious

Probably a Golden Rover if you used the Green Line coaches to and from Central London.  Nice little collection there.  The 336A went around some very rural lanes indeed into highly unlikely territory where even in 1972 everyone seemed to own two cars and several horses.  If I remember correctly there were two GSs on the final run as Garston had expected a modest turn-out of last-riders and enthusiasts.  Not only for the last 336A but the last GS in service.  And after the 336A at least one is recorded as having run an impromptu 309A back to Garston Garage with passengers aboard.  

Thanks for the clarification re the Golden Rover.

Correct re the 309A - we were on it 

I recently touched base with the person I did this trip with after a gap of some 45 years! From the correspondence we have had to date I am assuming this was Green Rover adventure using Greenline coach routes to escape the Central Area. It was the last day of regular GS operation and we also visited Tring and Amersham on our way to Rickmansworth for the last run.

SM453 spent its nine-year active career at London Country's Amersham garage where it was photographed on 29 March 1972.

London Country's MB108, seen here outside Amersham garage on 29 March 1972, entered service in January 1969 and was withdrawn in January 1980.

XMB15 had been renumbered MBS15 by the time I photographed it at Tring garage on 29 March 1972, looking as though it wasn't seeing a lot of use at the time.

The last revenue route for the GS class was on the the 336A from Rickmansworth to Loudwater Village. On 29 March 1972, GS42 of Garston Garage waits to depart on the very last run.

That is always the problem we face with all of our projects, but the pay-off for customers who back our projects unseen is that they get the models at the best price.

 

Cheers, Mike

Stick to your guns guys. 

I wonder how many more times you will have to explain your business model before the penny final drops?

Maybe that would make a good photo challenge for tomorrow?

Pub signs/names etc. with a railway connection. e.g. in Aberystwyth there is "Y Hen Orsaf" A 'Spoons establishment

Similarly eating & drinking establishments overseas.

 

Keith

The Railway Hotel at Faversham

The Railway Inn at Barnetby

What a challenge..............my first railway memories are all associated with the Southern Region, I work for Southern Shorthaul Railroad, I have a few images taken on the Southern Railway in India and my favourite US railroad is the Southern Pacific. Alas with the latter I have no images - my only visit to the US being during a times when my interest in railway was at a low ebb.

So, on the Southern Region, E5001 sits at Dover Marine with the Golden Arrow in August 1967 - the first railway photograph I ever took

On the Southern Railway in India, Southern Railway WP class 4-6-2 no.7607 departs Quilon for Trivandrum on 26 December 1978. Built by the Canadian Locomotive Company, Ontario in 1956. 

Sadly a dearth of buffer stop shots in my collection...........these were both taken around February/March 1989. Nice quirky subject too.

A couple more from South Australia.......

A GWA class loco on the unloading balloon loop inside the Whyalla Steelworks complex (July 2013). On the hill in the background is the lookout that the pic a few posts above was taken from.

The Viterra  export grain silos at Outer Harbour (Adelaide) - Feb 2016

Yes there is a train in it...........unloading at the iron ore pellet plant, Whyalla Steelworks, South Australia, Feb 2013.

Preparing a Thermit weld - taken near Adelaide River during construction of the Alice Springs to Darwin railway in May 2003

I knew I had a couple a bit more closer to 'home'........

Class 37 37131 passes West Ealing with a westbound empty domestic coal service during March 1989.

Again March 1989, 37411 'The Institute of Railway Signal Engineers' passes Great rocks with the return Speedlink working from Warrington.

I'm not convinced the rack system has been engaged by the locomotive here as 0-10-0T E1067 (built Nippon Sharyo/1967) climbs the grade above Batutabal, West Sumatra, pushing two hoppers of coal and some decrepit passenger accommodation en route to Padang Panjang - September 1978. 

Not my photo, but that's me crouching bottom left. Broken Hill, New South Wales - August 1986.

There is a fence there, somewhere beneath the undergrowth. NSW TrainLink 4-car EMU, set H6, heads the 1559hrs Sydney Central to Gosford service near Koolewong on 19 November 2014.

Just going back through my fairly meagre ticket collection and I came cross the Red Rover from the day the images in post #518 were taken...

There was also the Weekender which covered Red and Green buses, Greenline and the Underground. The cost of these made a serious dent in one's pocket money, so I can only remember using these on two or three occasions. How were we able to give our parents any idea of what time we would be home? I suppose we always had enough change in our pockets for a payphone, which were in greater profusion back then.

Brilliant! Waited at that stop in Kingsley Road many times for the 110 or 111 home to Heston. Alternative was the 232 from the garage (that's probably the DMS in the 116 bay...). I loved the RFs - the trip out to Chertsey was sometimes the start of a Saturday Red Rover with mates. One day in 1973 we got at far as Dartford, much to my mother's concern! Well, we wanted to get our money's worth, we were only 12! Still got those very tickets...

Thanks for the memories. I was a few years ahead of you - both these tickets were back from when I was 12. And yes we ended up all over London and the outer suburbs in our quest to visit every LT red garage back then.

A few pics from the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch rally at New Romney on Sunday.

 

LT line up

 

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Eastbourne Corperation 72, and RM8

 

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Maidstone & District line up

 

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A very enjoyable day, with plenty of bus rides to and from Dungeness.

 

Les

A good line up., especially the M & D group. I went a couple of years ago and was a bit disappointed at the lack of variety, but that's just the way it is sometimes. I'm just jealous.

Adelaide Station entrance - March 1985. Not too dissimilar today, except for a ruddy great modern hotel behind it. Formerly the headquarters of the South Australian Railways, today it's main function is as a casino, however the main entrance in the pic is still used to access Adelaide's suburban railcar services which depart from the lower level.

Eastbourne - July 2015

East Croydon - August 2015

Bewdley - September 2015

Jha Jha, Bihar, India - January 1979