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There's one at Bagworth Junction on the Knighton - Burton line, I've not been in there for a while but it's still in daily use for trains waiting to enter Stud Farm Quarry. It's actually the old Up Goods and falls very steeply towards the stop block, you have ot be very careful backing in there.

No More Lonely Nights - Macca

I'm sure there was a regular Bristol - Weymouth parcels which ran in the '70s which often as not had a Western on it, worked by a Westbury crew.

Wonkey decals on your locos...? Worry not...! (Photo by Stuart Williams at Old Oak, 5th September 1974)

Photo by Albert Abear, Old Oak Driver Reg Williams at Paddington, end of an era...

This might seem like an odd question Jim, but is the software able to take into account any gradient that happens to be where the restriction starts and finishes...? You and I both know that when coming off a restriction with a heavy freight you can easily be in notch 8 before you get anywhere near the 'T' board in reality, with the gradient rising but maintaining the same speed speed... I think you know what I'm getting at... . I'll be honest, I don't always use the train length button and rely on experience as much as anything else. Mind you, it did come in very handy when we were working the HOBC regularly which is exactly half a mile long when top 'n' tailed with 66s.

Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

Waterloo station, 1972, no sign of Terry or Julie though, never mind Ray Davies...

Wild Boys - Duran Duran

Slightly more humble than the above Bristol, a pair of old bangers at Old Oak on 4th January 1969 with D1001 and D1901 also i nattendance, photo by Ian Walmsley...

About ten years ago a mate of mine was passing over Desford level crossing with a rake of Bardon Hill bound empties, he was a bout half way over it when a nutter in a transit sized van thought it would be a grand idea to overtake the three cars waiting patiently at the crossing, drive round the barrier and plough into the side of a moving train. Well, it takes all sorts doesn't it...

Many thanks for posting those links - going through them I'm reminded just what a fantastic collection John Turner of 53A Models has, it's a while since I've looked at any of them but there's a lot of very inspirational stuff for the banger blue era modeller, particularly 'oop the north'.

Thanks gents - and apologies for posting in the wrong section

A photo from the Bert Wynn collection, a few of us on a facebook BR group are trying to identify the location - somewhere on the Cambrian by the looks of it with upper and lower quadrants etc... looks like two shortish names on the totem sign...

It wouldn't surprise me if that were the case Phil, although the other Old Oak based 43s were still active on the Worcester line at the same time, and would be until late '71. Opinion on them at Bescot was roughly 50 / 50 from taking to Tony Llewellyn, he quite liked them as they were very different from the usual Sulzer / EE stuff he was used to. He told me that there were plenty of daylight trips on them from Bescot but is still puzzled as to why there are very few photos of them on the Banburys / Salops etc.

Coventry in 1977, photographer unknown... E3192 approaching Bescot from the north with the M6 taking shape in the background, 1st July 1966, photo c/o retired BS Driver Tony 'Lulu' Llewellyn...

Post #10, that's going back a bit! Kettle's on, time for more nostalgia... Temple Meads in 1975 with D1056 'Western Sultan' lurking in the background... D1056 again, running round the 'Western China Clay' tour at Truro on 4th December 1976 which I was on... The WH Smiths stall at Waterloo in 1972... A little piece of 'yuman history from the diary of retired Bescot man (legend and all round top egg) Tony 'Lulu' Llewellyn, note D848 light engine from BS to Old Oak on the Friday...

83 014 at New Street in March 1978...

A few more... Photo c/o Steve Jackson, who isn't going anywhere aboard D1056 in January 1976... Brum New Street, 1965... Brum Snow Hill in February 1972, photo c/o Stephen Burdett...

Ramblin' Rose - The MC5...

Well isn't it a small world and no mistake...?!!

The British Exhbiditionary Force in WWII... Driver Ernie Moss as seen in the famous 'Let's Go To Birmingham' Blue Pullman film, sadly one of three railwaymen who met their demise in the cab of D1040 'Western Queen' at Knowle & Dorridge on the 15th August 1963...

Whilst we were stuck at VC762 signal at Latchmere the panel did manage to get one train round us via the scizzors crossover further back at North Pole. A couple of the lads are due to have a refresher over the route and have already been prewarned to expect a possible wrong routing at this signal.

Common indeed - the early Lotus Europa used rear light clusters also found on the Lancia Flaminia GT and the Fiat Dino Coupe and Lamborghini Miura shared the same rear light clusters.

Up, Up And Away - The 5th Dimension