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Going back in time to 1982 - the weekend of Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 January and a SLOA Land Cruise from Carlisle to Mallaig via Mossend with loco haulage over the weekend using 26029 37112 37260 83005 and 85021.  Left Carlisle two and a half hours late due to bad weather and poor connections in England and most of the trip over WHR in dark with a full eclipse moon.  Fort Bill was minus 24 degrees C for the overnight stay.   Train eventually ran all the way back to Euston arriving 02.13 am on the Monday morning.  I wouldn't have missed it for anything!

 

  

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I could look at those ScR photos all day long, wonderfully evocative of the early '80s period. 37112's non standard livery variation was much talked about at the time, in a sea of corporate

 blue it stood out like sore thumb. That same weekend in January '82 I ventured out on the WR and recall severe delays almost every where I went.

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in the depths of Shinjuku station. There are at least two levels of mainline trains above this and countless knows how many metro lines below.....

 

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Staying below street level please.

 

Cheers,

Mick

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err, excellent photos, but quoting myself from the previous post

How about this one, from a train (Class 378) entering the Thames Tunnel between Wapping and Rotherhithe on the ELL. Apologies for the photo quality, slightly blurred, but the auto-focus was having difficulty focusing on something from a moving train in poor light conditions. But you still can't tell what the weather was like.

 

Regards, Ian.

 

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Will the Wath banker do? I don't know the area and Dad doesn't seem to have ventured into the north-west much. Wath and Mexborough seem to be at the eastern end of the line. from what I can Google.

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Has anyone any steam on the line apart from the banker?

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Wath banker?

 

Reverend Spooner eat your heart out.

 

I've had to wait until the 24th December - best one of the year so far.

 

(It will be lost on those of a younger age)

 

Cheers,

Mick

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Honeybourne is reborn in 1981...

 

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Carry on...

Off at a tangent - I can't resist showing you this delightful shot from earlier times at Honeybourne.

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We are still looking for closures or re-openings or even openings!

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I get the impression that this thread has run its course. It's hard to find new topics or fresh ways to play the game. We seem to resort to wild cards more and more. Perhaps it needs at least a break. Any one got any different thoughts?

Set a reminder for February 6th to revitalise it. In the interim, here is a Class 40 on its side at Gannow Junction.

 

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A reopening as such, 60103 passes through Clitheroe on the first day of the reopening of the Settle - Carlisle line after a landslide at Eden Brows, she is the first steam tour through the reopened line. Rather nicely, she was the last steam tour before the land slip and passed through a week before. The photo isn’t on the S+C, but as mentioned above, we need to keep the thread moving.

 

Remember to keep the suggestions broad, spanning eras, regions and if possible, countries to give everyone a go.

 

Next: Another significant train. You explain why, any reason, even just personally to you.

 

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Next: Another significant train. You explain why, any reason, even just personally to you.

 

I saw FS further north on the same day.

 

Although I had already built my first incarnation of the NMT, this was the train that pushed me over the edge into modelling the yellow stuff.

31190/977969/62482/6263/31105 at Derby in 2007

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Now I have layout specifically built for the fleet.

 

It's the first train featured on my yellow workbench thread - linked below.

 

More significant stuff again please.

 

Cheers,

Mick

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