Mike 84C Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 Photo taken at Sheringham 12 May 18. Very friendly lococrew on 90775, Lewis,Fozzie and Ralph. Invited me onto their footplate brought back happy memories and a very long time since I was last on any kind of Austerity. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 18, 2018 Author Share Posted May 18, 2018 (edited) From the Daily Wail, 1961... old Phil the bubble and squeak had many a footplate ride and drive in those days... Edited May 18, 2018 by Rugd1022 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 Just look at the state of the class25,s at Euston they look as if they are held together by rust bet they were on there last legs and the wind probably whisteled through every crack! I was a passenger on the tour, the Mersey Rat-catcher" still have the commemorative ticket, " There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle" the express train speeds of those two rusty old 25 's bucking and rolling down to Euston would have put an 85 to shame 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 From the Daily Wail, 1961... old Phil the bubble and squeak had many a footplate ride and drive in those days... FB Phil The Greek D8xx 130561.jpg I wonder how many locos he and his wife have "cabbed"? I know his good lady has been in the one I use for my avatar. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2018 I wonder how many locos he and his wife have "cabbed"? I know his good lady has been in the one I use for my avatar. And a tube train, (Victoria Line IIRC). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 19, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2018 Outranked by King Zog of Albania, a member of his country's footplatemen's union and the only King to have every been a member of one, fully trained and route signed to drive the 'Orient Express', which he frequently did in the 1930s. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 I didn't know the modern 3rd-rail railway used a stud contact system... Nah it's NR's patent "we can't be relied on to install & stress CWT properly" system ................... belongs in the same place as painting rails white IMHO .................. There is now a sleeper (the exact designation escapes me atm) that permits extra rails to be installed in the 4ft to do the same job - a much neater solution 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted May 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2018 I thought they were to prevent lateral movement of the tracks? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 Nah it's NR's patent "we can't be relied on to install & stress CWT properly" system ................... belongs in the same place as painting rails white IMHO .................. There is now a sleeper (the exact designation escapes me atm) that permits extra rails to be installed in the 4ft to do the same job - a much neater solution "If it moves, salute it, if it doesn't paint it white"... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Louch Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 Yep, fully agree. I recall a TV play in the 1970s/1980s which focused on a royal visit to a colliery in Yorkshire when he apprentices had to paint the slag heap white before the visit - hilarious...!the Queen thinks everything smells of new paint....!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 24, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2018 Yep, fully agree. I recall a TV play in the 1970s/1980s which focused on a royal visit to a colliery in Yorkshire when he apprentices had to paint the slag heap white before the visit - hilarious...!the Queen thinks everything smells of new paint....!! Ken Loaches, the price of coal 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted May 25, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2018 track work at Ifield Crawley Road railer by john brace, on Flickr 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 27, 2018 Author Share Posted May 27, 2018 Down on the Glos & Warks this morning... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 64B Posted May 28, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2018 (edited) Royal train working about to depart Craigentinney for the short run up to Waverley in preparation to take the Queen from Edinburgh to Glasgow Queen Street. If I recall this took place sometime during 1981. The train was formed using a specially prepared push pull set hauled by 47711. The loco was manned by an Eastfield driver and traction inspector, sadly after all those years I don't recall their names other than the traction inspectors name was Willie. Edited May 28, 2018 by 64B 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 64B Posted May 28, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2018 In August 1981 BR ran a couple of Sunday specials from Edinburgh to Oban using Deltic 55021. This photo was taken on Sunday 9th August. On the way to Oban, the train picked up an Eastfield driver at Springburn to act as conductor to the Haymarket crew from Springburn to Oban. The Eastfield driver (in the driver's seat) on that occasion ended up driving the deltic from Glasgow to Oban and return. It was such a lovely day all the passengers enjoyed their trip to Oban and all for 5 pounds per person. I was also lucky enough to get to travel on the loco on both occasions. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 The "human interest" is the Evening Standard, left on the seat of this Bakerloo-line tube. This 1972 Tube Stock is the only type left now to offer transverse seating bays. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Neasden, 1942... Angel Islington, 1968... Coalville Driver Freddie Miller, photo by Steve Marks... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DY444 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 The "human interest" is the Evening Standard, left on the seat of this Bakerloo-line tube. This 1972 Tube Stock is the only type left now to offer transverse seating bays. P1190301.JPG 72TS is the only deep level tube stock with transverse seating bays but if you include the SSL then most* of the S8 stock on the Met has it (*all except one unit iirc). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 (edited) Neasden, 1942... FB NEASDEN 1942.jpg Angel Islington, 1968... FB Angel Islington 1968.jpg Coalville Driver Freddie Miller, photo by Steve Marks... FB Freddie Miller photo by Steve Marks.jpg One for the exhibition rivet-counters: Class 47, two-tone green with full yellow ends, freshly renumbered into TOPS with full data panel - a hand painted shed allocation (?) - and someone's nicked the works plate... Edited June 5, 2018 by talisman56 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 The 'NB' isn't the shed allocation, it means 'non boilered', the photo was taken in the Summer of '76, about two years after it was renumbered! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 1970... A bit earlier than 1970...! Harrow & Wealdstone... Barmouth in the mid '70s, photo by Mat Wilson... Italian actress Monica Vitti at Edinburgh Waverley in 1968... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Loughborough GCR Loco shed. 25 May 2018. P 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Italian actress Monica Vitti at Edinburgh Waverley in 1968... FB Monica Vitti La Ragazza Con La Pistola 1968 EDWAV.jpg Ahhhh. Monica. A film worth watching just for Monica alone, never mind the railways, the cars and 1960's the British locations. (Despite them reversing Tyneside) 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 GCR-73156-©PwDEditSm.jpg Loughborough GCR Loco shed. 25 May 2018. P Excellent, as have been many other postings. This topic continues to astound me with it's content. C6T. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 9, 2018 Author Share Posted June 9, 2018 Another gem, c/o Stanley Tout who is also in the photo... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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