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Anyone know which 31s or possibly 30s got double arrows with small yellow panels? Not sure if any received the twin double arrows

They look the best they ever did in GFYE, especially with double arrows

If its electric then definitely sacrilege If anyone remembers a comic strip presents episode called Mr jolly lives next door One of the characters mr lovebucket drives a ds I can't imagine him messing about with a bloody cable before going to field on a morning to check a member staffs finger off 😃

I've posted a video of recent improvements, sorry about narration I'm useless at it and my voice is cr@p!

I wish people in high places would stop talking up was as if there is WW3 there would only be one outcome no matter if there is conscription or not. As this country has massively deindustrialised and closed most air bases it would take many nukes to completely immobilise this country Anyone living near an American airbase or big city can look forward to vaporisation in an instant away from that look forward to to a slow painful death from radiation sickness and starvation in a world with no power water or medical care as no electrical equipment would work nor would 99.9% of vehicles I think I'll be having a hearty breakfast or paracetamols in antifreeze that day Everyone should watch threads before talking WW3 up Also back in the cold War there were many bunkers for a futile attempt to reestablish civilization, most of these have been derelict for years

Evening Rob, I hope the B16 is stood still as someone is on the front of it

A thought just occurred to me. Is the pan live when the shoes are on the 3rd rail?

Bit surprised to see a Citroën BX too... sure you didn't take the pictures in Leeds !😀

Excellent pictures Rob Sad that 2023 was last year of DRS on RHTT

What's annoying me is they are saying blast furnaces are coal fired which they aren't. Also the woolly mammoth in the room is that electric arc steel is not suitable for the the manufacturer of car body panels So loosing our steel industry could also lead to the end of the foreign car plants here which also employ thousands As usual with this lot India benefits again 🤬 I won't comment again as it will become political

The one that was at Sheringham that my much missed late friend had as GE models was dark wood colour

They'd have been better using zero1 panels, might have looked neater! Not my favourite railway

Datsun 180. Japanese cars of that era to me were quite strange, They didn't seem to have anything in common with European cars . I know its not but front end grille and lights appeared to be one huge moulding I'm glad some have survived and loved

Morning Rich It's a very small world. I think Terry was more interested in the railway than he used to let on There is supposed to be a reunion this year, been a while since there was one but Dave used to go so hopefully if we have one he will be there so I will pass on your regards Cheers Russ

Ah bless knew them well. Farouk was Bob Gibson great bloke, he had a mate Dave Atkinson who is still a signalman . Real shock when Terry went, he asked another signalman where I lived as great was going to have a holiday in Sheringham. As I lived there at the time we were going to have a beer but unfortunately it wasn't to be. Great bloke and true railwayman

I lived in Guisborough, I worked at Thornaby from 83 to 97 regularly working trains through Brotton I still work into Tees dock quite often The museum is now land of iron. Just been on look north on an item about 60 years since closure

There is a museum devoted to the mining industry in Skinningrove. Used to be tom Leonard mining museum but has changed its name sadly Tom lived in the house out the back of us when I was a kid

Excellent as always David. What was going on on the old road track looks quite rusty?

The area isn't so rural now Chris a relief road was built about 20 years ago between Brotton and Kilton I've been left the area since mid 90s and changed massively

60 years ago today the last ironstone mine in Cleveland closed at North Skelton ending an industry which started the boom in iron and steel making on teesside This is an interesting video which ends showing what could possibly be the last train leaving the mine with a Thornaby crew on a 25

I got a 101 off ebay the other day, these 100s and 105 came to the area in the late 60s to enable Derby lightweights and 79xxx met camms to be withdrawn. I have a feeling some came from the LMR so my M prefix set may be prototypical. I've changed the destination blinds I have a couple of 105s and 4 Derby lightweights . I'm going to sacrifice 2 Derby lightweight vehicles to be part of the withdrawn stock train . A blue one and a gtrren one and run a hybrid set on the layout. I wish Bachmann or Hornby would do a 4 light 101 in a livery appropriate to 79xxx conversion I'm really pleased with the additional backscene as it's opened up a lot more photographic opportunities. Wasn't sure if having them either side of the layout would look odd but it seems OK

They seem from a long gone era but were only 17 years old at the time. Where were the pictures taken ?

Excellent pictures David. Grosmont looks so bare then . I think the layout was as it is in your picture when I was a volunteer there. I was there last week I remarked to my mate that when I was there could never imagined they would have had so many sidings at the shed. I do hope the site is stable as not only is there a river which can get very angry down one side there is also mine workings under it

Fantastic pictures David. Completely unrecognisable now even though basic track layout is still quite similar. Vegetation is completely out of control in the area

There's one next to the GE mainline Richard, where the branch to the LTS goes off at Bow. Probably about the most interesting thing on the journey these days