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  1. Great night out with the Future Of Rock nc Roll (The Strypes.....all younger thsn my kids)...on the Last Virgin outta Euston sitting next to the Caledonian......86401 off the ECS lookimg spanky and taking me back 30 years.....literaly. Great day

  2. Great night out with the Future Of Rock nc Roll (The Strypes.....all younger thsn my kids)...on the Last Virgin outta Euston sitting next to the Caledonian......86401 off the ECS lookimg spanky and taking me back 30 years.....literaly. Great day

  3. Would it have been a works test train? The class 31 looks pretty spanky and ex-works, and they would have utilised older stock. Just a thought.....
  4. Alternate day diagrams Mick. Diagram 1 Monday, Diagram 2 Tuesday, Diagram 1 Wednesday etc. Looked at going up on the first day but can't swing it with work. The 10.04 goes ECS til the 14.37 working on diagram 1.
  5. Plated, pinned and plastered. I think it's time to contemplate a shunting layout whilst I'm laid up!

  6. Sitting here, plastered up, fractured tibia and fib above the ankle. That'll teach me to do Airsoft at my age! 6 weeks, plans wrecked. "Insert choice profanity" !

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    2. Russ (mines a pint)

      Russ (mines a pint)

      :( wrong sort of plastered for xmas :(
    3. New Haven Neil
    4. balders

      balders

      Cheers all. I shall be tapping em' up for better pain relief in t'morning

  7. December 8th (istr) 1984' Coventry - Newcastle. Via Stockport, Denton, OA&GB junction, Huddersfield, York. Non-boilered 45044 from Stockport to York was obviously the best choice with ice forming on the inside of the windows....."Merrymaker...hohoho!" The route was definitely a highlight for the time!
  8. C5190 looks like 40011.....old fave, vac braked, formerly named (studs on bodyside) plated doors one end. Lovely pic cheers Dave
  9. No, she was active certainly in November. Last one I saw in operational use on my first ever memorable trip to York, on a KX evening train.spine tingling.
  10. Loving these photo's Dave. The Norwich rats look fantastic *edit* 14.30 Yarmouth-Walsall from Alan Bayliss' excellent site, with a photo-credit to yourself Dave.
  11. What a great photo of an ex-LMS coach in as-withdrawn condition! I wonder if it still exists? Shame it can't be blown up to make some sense of the number. Lovely photos Dave!
  12. Now going back along the rake I think I've got a Fruit D, and LMS CCT (or is it a 6 wheel van?), but what's after that? Roof profile overhangs? Granted its at the limit of my zoom! Great photo. Guy
  13. Fantastic shot of the 25 with that marvellous rake of mostly SR vans! 1976? And still in green. Makes me feel old. And I was 9 then! *edit* apparently 25102 was the only outstanding 25/2 or 25/3 in two tone green in 1976, turning blue later that year......
  14. I must admit that D342 is now my desktop background! Fantastic photo. Thanks Dave!
  15. Apologies for being a bit off topic, I didn't realise 40055 was used as an ETH trial. Can anyone enlighten me with a few details please? Many thanks Guy
  16. Lovely shot of the Perth-Euston.....MK1, porthole BSK and what appears to be a Thompson SK back to back. Marvellous!
  17. Vauxhall Nova saloon! No doubt all of those vehicles long consigned to scrap, exported in bits and re-imported as Chinese metal products!
  18. Lima 27 re-motored! Only taken 4 years to get round to. Weathering next. Happy days.

    1. Mallard60022
    2. balders

      balders

      Don't like to rush......it's the lads...found it at the bottom of the project box and fel a tad guilty! 8-)

  19. Reading a potted history of the construction of the Great Central. Utterly staggering engineering. What a shortsighted waste!

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