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Not sure if I should be happy or sad! Just returned from Preston MRC exhibition and only spent £10. And £7 of that was to get in!
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What a day! And just when you think it could not any stranger.... You find a double decker vintage tram on a low loader at the end of the street! I think he must have taken wrong exit at jc35...
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Wifey says my railway room is a mess (well post water shed version)! I would like to think of it as well used... That does leave the question of who is using it as I don't seem to find the time to!!!!!
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I think I've killed my back. It only hurts to move or keep still.....
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Ok. Some from Carnforth Station Jc. this morning 37423 on the 2C47 Preston to Barrow - in - Furness service 150118 on the 2Y55 Morecambe to Leeds service An unexpected turn out was 48151 on the 5M51 Carnforth WCR to Hellifield and return on a lightly loaded test run with one support coach and a 47 on the rear. Some of the others abut seemed to be hopping for Scotsman! And looking across to the yard at WCR A very shiny 37685 A collection of 47's, but does anyone know which the faded blue one is that is just visible at the back? Ian -
Just seen 48151 out on test. Photos later when I can feel my fingers and toes again!!!
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My least favourite loco and Statesman Rail my least favourite operator. Paid handsomely for a steam hauled trip Lancaster over Settle and Carlisle to Carlisle and back. 48151 hit problems at Preston (injector) and replaced by class 47 County of Essex at Hellifield. All Statesman concerned about was making up and gaining time so the pleasures of a steam loco wiring hard and lingering views of the countryside were substituted by a diesel flat out and the scenery a blur. Statesman didn't giv...
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Loco Hauled services to return to Cumbrian Coast
11B replied to 11B's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Just to add to Kev's post, I see from the pages of rail magazine http://www.railmagazine.com/news/network/2016/01/21/drs-to-add-third-set-for-northern-s-cumbrian-coast that a third set is coming out to play. Ian -
Well I've done it. Found a new job in the same hospital and told my boss! As she put it well done "ok but you do relise your jumping out of the frying pan and int the fire". Still fire isn't that bad right! After allit's the main ingredient for steam engines?
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Christmas has come early for me! Family xmas today as we are all workin 25 & 26th. Started off with trip behind (we in front of) 37401. What a start to Christmas
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looks like a ride behind a DRS 37 tomorrow morning after SHMBO left her phone at my mums tonight! O well, if I must...
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Confussion.... I have an interview at work for a new job on Monday, but the NHS wont accept my NHS ID badge that they gave me as ID! Why do I have an ID badge if it can't be used as ID?
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during Mondays power cut at tea time I found myself cooking bacon and egg on a firing shovel and the log burner! I could of used the gas cooker, but where's the fun in that?
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Power back on after 31hrs. Well done to the hard working boys and girls from Electricity North West, the Emergancy service, the voluntary emergency services and the British Army for keep the Lancaster area safe
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Lancaster Green Ayre - The Barn Owls have returned.
11B replied to jamie92208's topic in Layout topics
Slightly off topic... Grayhound bridge, the former railway bridge which now forms part of Lancaster's one way system and the A6 has been closed since yesterday awaiting a safety inspection today following the floods. Apparently a shipping container sailed down the river Lune and hit both bridges! Tha army were called in to assist my work mates to get to the Infirmary using some very big army trucks driving over the bridge. What a sight to be hold. Ian -
What a week! Dryer on Hotpoints fault list and lost a slate in the wind...
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Well. I am now the happy user of an insulin pump, which in terms of eating makes me almost not dibetic! Happy days, now of to catch up on al the childhood sweets I have missed for the last 35yrs!
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Jim’s “out and about with GBRf” thread
11B replied to big jim's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
I was thinking DBSO's but now thinking DVT's maybe? Or both? Ian -
Jim’s “out and about with GBRf” thread
11B replied to big jim's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Or are they? And do they have their own power unit built into them? Kind regards Ian -
Well a small update. Things haven't been moving very fast. Namely down to the fact of on my days off I seem to find other things to do. Having had a bit of a think I am aiming to get at least four hours worth of work done on the layout a week. This week I am winning...... The cattle dock is completed and painted (just needs weathering) Some grass is down and hill sides in Likewise, as per post 9, the bridge has been playing on my mind The bridge was a bit narrow (note past tense!), so I have been busy removing the sides, and rebuilding them with a bit more room One side done, and well on the way with the other Photos to follow Ian
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Wow. Occupational health had four railway mags in the waiting room. Not bad for the NHS! Even better when you think it is built in an old railway yard of Lancasters first station...
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At the risk of upsetting a certain Captain Kernow..... I have just located the missing sausages that I thought my step-daughter may have eatten. Looking at the state of them I rather wish she had done... Only fit for the bin now! Note to self - keep the fridge tidy!!!
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Why do Parcelforce, Royal mail and every other parcel delivery group turn up about 20 mins after the bin men take the recycling away! Looks like a run to the tip!
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Well, just found next doors shead on fire! Me and the man at the other side of our house using hose pipe and buckets! When the fireman turn up they can't get water pressure! Still it's out and no one is hurt. What a night
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I thought that a hobby is meant to be relaxing? Today painting is cracking me up, I'm off to iron my work gear to relax from my relaxing hobby!
