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I'm in the ibis this weekend, not a nice place as if its warm loads of noise from road as you need windows open. We don't normally use it but premier Inn and park Inn are all full

Morning Steve, I was thinking blossom Street north has an annex next to Queen Street and was not looking forward to noise of bridge being demolished

6732 was first preserved class 37 to move under its own power and to haul a passenger train.i wa at the controls for both moves Nearly 30 years ago but seems like yesterday. Have nothing to do with it nowadays

I feel sorry for the residents of Queen Street who's houses were below and away form the road but will now be on it I'm not looking forward to staying in the Premier Inn either

I'm still not sure what advantage its going to bring as carpark will be smaller than it was. With York being set in a rural area especially to the north and east its not that practicable for people to use public transport to get to the station and very little if any long term parking near by. Very few hotels have parking in York

To me it was the reverend awdrey railway books were actually real! I remember the engine we had was red .... bloody hell James is real and we passed a green one somewhere so Henry was still working! For what seemed like years later I longed to return to this place

I remember been taken there when I was about 4 and thought it was the greatest place on earth! Great pictures David

Excellent Steve. I'll be ordering some decals from you when my GFYE 31 arrives as I want to do one with 4 large double arrows and tops font numbers

They were very comfortable trains, shame none were saved. Hard to believe its 40 years since they went

Hi Roy, that isn't a toffee apple but obviously with the red know it's easy to see why you would think that A toffee apple controller is pictured here. The handle was removed when changing ends and to reverse the loco the handle was turned https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent-eu.invisioncic.com%2Fy320084%2Fmonthly_2020_05%2F2374074_ToffeeApple.jpeg.4a0c67ee100494f29859389b88d2f0e6.jpeg&tbnid=PNGdeQwGDG6gwM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rmweb.co.uk%2Fforums%2Ftopic%2F154057-class-310-and-311-skinhead-detail-differences%2F&docid=cFt2VhZY9efksM&w=1032&h=1088&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F6&kgs=4950a8433a0190e2&shem=abme%2Ctrie#vhid=PNGdeQwGDG6gwM&vssid=mosaic&ip=1

Most diesels had black dials with white lettering. Some early 20s had white dials

Am I right in thinking this model is based on an American Plymouth switcher

As soon as I saw this viz came to mind Theirs is called danglebury mint, love reading the small print on their ads. I remember one after some mind boggling finance deal it said may the Lord have mercy on my soul, take me down 🤣

I bet there are a few twitching bottoms in margate now Ashley has a hand in things. Only a small hand but a hand nonetheless

Never mind those locos look at the cars! Love the Tara green princess with Dunlop denovo wheels 😍

With the modern day LNER getting involved with this for some reason it would be similar to the parcels company ANC claiming they had a hand in the release of Nelson Mandela!

He gets on a 210! Shame no exhaust thrash might have drowned him out 😀

Excellent pictures David, first looks like brand new peppercorn coach Congratulations on 1100 pages

Morning David That last picture is absolutely stunning. When did Derwenthaugh close? Looking at the TY signal I assume it was close to low fell and probably had all traces removed by the garden festival

When I was driver on Central trains at Norwich we had a driver bring a 170 from Nottingham, came down the ECML at 100mph and on changing ends at Ely he thought where the f##k did that come from on seeing a 156 coupled to the rear! Seemed no one told him. It drove to Norwich with no issues

I'd heard of this but didn't know its identity. I know the slave unit has an air controlled throttle but not sure if the master unit had one. If it did would make driving that 08 quite different to a normal one

For a short period in early 90s 14x units were banned from working with 155/6/8 units there was some kind of incident but not sure what but it didn't last long The 151s were mentioned earlier I believe these could also work with 150001/2 when the 150s were new. This because when they were built both classes had PBL air brakes , externally you could see a second air connection on the couplers The 150s were rebuilt with westcode 3 step brakes as per the rest of the fleet The two 150s had blanked spaces on the desk where the air train pipe gauges had been. Bit of a retrograde step really as with PBL a locomotive with a suitable adaptor coupling would have full control of the units brakes

Morning Kev I seem to remember the name boards being removed so time before it was demolished. It was mainly switched out for years but think it was probably closed about 2003 it then had the boards removed and stairs. Was demolished a year or so later I have a feeling the crossover was removed before closure

I do appreciate that if but bloody ugly

Horrible looking things, they don't even look like trains