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9 hours ago, Boris said:
Don't use the Ibis either, all the rooms are in a first floor extension over the carpark and a huge bank of airconditioning units that are really noisy. The Elmbank a little bit further up the road is good and the rooms are at the back away from the road.
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
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1 hour ago, 31A said:
Sorry Russ, but I can't see how it'll make any difference to the Premier Inn! The new road will start well to the station side of it.
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
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3 hours ago, Market65 said:
Good evening, everyone. This evening it is time to enjoy seeing another four photo’s. They are courtesy of Paul Smith, Syd Young, Ernie’s Railway Archive, and Colin Alexander, all on Flickr.
The first photo’ is a view of 37409, as it departs Hull Paragon with observation saloon 'Caroline' on the 12th June, 2013.
Next we have a photo’ of 31233, as it crawls under the delightful roof of Beverley station with train, 1Q31, the 07:52 Derby R.T.C.- York Loop Network Rail Train on the 9th December, 2013.
The third photo’ shows class B1, 61021, at Malton in the early 1960’s.
Finally, here’s a photo’ of English Electric Type 3’s, 6732 & 6783, at Hull Dairycoates, in c1968.
Best regards,Rob.
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
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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
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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
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2 hours ago, big jim said:
Sounds like a Spanish resort!
I only visited for the first time a couple of years back and thought it was fantastic, I also after my trip rode my bike from ravensglass to dalgarth and back, I took the family last year and they loved it too (and they hate trains!)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
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9 hours ago, DaveF said:
A trip to Cumbriato look at the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway at the inland terminus, Dalegarth, on 1st August 1975. I think the children in some of the photos may be a bit older now as it is 49 years since Dad took these photos!
Dalegarth 6 River Esk Aug 75 J4645
Dalegarth 6 River Esk Aug 75 J4646
Dalegarth 6 River Esk Aug 75 J4648
Dalegarth 7 River Irt Aug 75 J4653
Dalegarth 7 River Irt Aug 75 J4654
David
I remember been taken there when I was about 4 and thought it was the greatest place on earth! Great pictures David
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1 minute ago, railtec-models said:
Oh go on then. Here you go; just released. I decided to put the AWS sunflowers on there too.
4mm-1212
https://www.railtec-models.com/showitem.php?id=11358
Great to see so many familiar faces at the NEC this weekend. So much for having today off...
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
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2 hours ago, EddieK said:
The vehicle is a DMSK, compartments with side corridor.
They were very comfortable trains, shame none were saved. Hard to believe its 40 years since they went
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1 hour ago, Roy Langridge said:
As shown here in a Class 31 driver’s desk photo on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/d5vWBm
Edit: which of course also shows the reason for the Toffee Apple nickname.Roy
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
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10 hours ago, Melton Works said:
Most diesels had black dials with white lettering. Some early 20s had white dials
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Am I right in thinking this model is based on an American Plymouth switcher
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3 hours ago, 97406 said:
Viz comic does a great line in sending up this sort of tackiness, normally based on the Franklin Mint.
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 🤣
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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
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1 hour ago, montyburns56 said:
Bold Colliery, on the Friday before the Rocket 150 cavalcades. 23 May 1980 by Nigel Menzies
Never mind those locos look at the cars! Love the Tara green princess with Dunlop denovo wheels 😍
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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!
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On 10/04/2024 at 07:38, ess1uk said:
The video for SmallTown Boy
does he change from his Glasgow train at Old Oak Common to get to Paddington?He gets on a 210! Shame no exhaust thrash might have drowned him out 😀
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Excellent pictures David, first looks like brand new peppercorn coach
Congratulations on 1100 pages
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1 hour ago, kevsmiththai said:
Where did the nameboards go?
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
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Just now, Arun Sharma said:
Fortunately, they don't have to - They only need to work like trains.
I do appreciate that if but bloody ugly
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For those interested in "Modern Classic" Cars
in Wheeltappers
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When partner bought her MG3 I asked the service manager what they were like and he said they aren't too bad but they aren't a rover.
That carpet is shocking, I cannot understand why hire companies don't fit even just a cheap set of mats. That carpet will knock quite a bit off resale value and to replace it would be quite expensive in labour alone
What gets me with these cars if they are using crap materials in carpets what else has crap materials in it