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    Collectors corner was excellent when it was at Euston, the one that replaced it York was rubbish not surprised it didn't last long. I had a bit of a run in with the owner as I didn't think they should be selling master keys to the public for a fiver. The transport police agreed!
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    Did the main lighting MCB trip Jim?
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    Excellent again Dave.1884 is probably the condensate from North Walsham which still runs today. It's the only freight which serves the refinery at Parkeston now. There are other freight services on the branch but are just for stabling in the yard such as liner trains and engineering trains. Strange how the port of Harwich as contracted while Felixstowe on the othersde of the river has boomed. Note the bardic battery electric tail lamp on the tanks
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    It's nice to know some people are still employed by the coal industry in country Durham, I wonder if it uses local coal?
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    They were all big works, I remember them working. I was surprised how many of the smaller ones there were, I bought a book last year about Bearpark and there were ovens there closing about 1960 I think there was also some at Langley park. I remember being told to take deep breaths when walking past a tar spreader!
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    I think that platform number is LT one
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    They certainly aren't the greenest of places,thats not good. I don't there are many left now,maybe Scunthorpe and port Talbot and two closed ones on Teeside as they only ones I can think of. They were once very common a lot of collieries in Durham often had them on the same site.
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    That loco was a regular in East Cleveland, I remember taking it to Boulby on numerous occasions. The bit of paper said the alloy wasn't required at the depot? When arrows and totems were removed at Thornaby it wasn't quite what the BRB had in mind, all of them were given away to staff who wanted them. It was name in hat basically. The Thornaby totems being first out. I won a Toton one and an arrow of a 37 which I still have. I forgot to mention earlier I have a block bell as a door bell
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    Same name different substance!
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    I haven't been up there for a year but I think housing is the plan for it. What the future occupants will do for a living is anyone's guess
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    Definitely a guard, if he liked the secondmans seat so much he could have taken a fiver a week pay cut and legitimately sat in it looking out the front! It would have also saved him taking an aptitude test the following year when guards were given the chance to train as drivers
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    That was Avenue coke works, up until a couple of years ago it still had the coke oven smell even though it's years since it was open, Orgreave was the same. Both had massive excavations to clean them up ,massive holes about a hundred feet deep to clean the crap that had got into the earth. Still I'd rather see them working, you can't beat a good coking plant!
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    I'd never noticed how wrong the P train looks without the black window surrounds,looks like K9!
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    The 80s seem like yesterday as does those images. What is that guard doing getting in the front,doesn't he know his place :-)
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    I don't have a massive amount at this house unless you count the BR parked in the garden! I did buy a genuine BR carriage print of Hutton le hole the other week. I've mounted and framed it and put it in the guest room. Most people won't realise it's anything to do with railways. I also have an English Electric plaque of a class 40 engine that is on the cabinet I've the meter and fuse box,that is outside my railway room which is obviously full of railway crap!!
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    Notice all the smokebox number plates have gone, I wonder if the numbers were such that if the plate was upside down it would look like an LNER Pacific's one, obviously increasing the value!!
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    Hiya Mick, is that a normal traffic signal on the gates? Am I right in thinking that not all electric boom gates have lights? What year was that by the way lorry looks like a late 60s scamall Cheers
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    Thanks again Dave, I hadn't realised there were all blue 312s. These units especially the GN ones must have had headcode blinds with the shortest use of any unit.
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    He's gonna fall off the footplate not as he can't see now!
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    Fascinating system,shame it ended though it's nice that it made the blue era. When you pass high dyke it's hard believe it ever existed
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    I've not actually seen the final days footage, but we stopped outside the box at Wymondham and filming under floodlights was taking place. I went in the box for a couple of minutes and had fresh sausage rolls and other stuff. When I got on the phone at Norwich to Colchester I asked the signalman what food he was going to give me and I think he thought I'd lost the plot. The former manager of the line may have some DVDs you know who I mean
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    Is that the DVD that has footage of the last day? If it is I'm on the 57 and I made a headboard ' farewell to arms ( and bulbs) ' for the occasion
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    Your garden signal collection is a most normal mainstream thing to do with a garden (I had two at Sheringham) well when I say we are normal anything is compared to the garden toilet museum!!!
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    I'll have seen your IB distant shining bright on many many occasions. Much better than those horrible LED types that blind you on clear nights then disappear in fog! Man Vic had some strange signals ,horizontal signals,four aspects arranged in clusters to name a couple
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    Hi Andy, do you know where any of these are from? I take it when you say there is something odd it's because it's red and yellow. Although mainly found at terminus stations, Tinsley yard had these as running signals. I suppose the idea of no greens was down to the fastest running lines being 20mph
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