big jim

my unexpected gift last night was a green signal leaving greenford and not getting a red until my last signal at bescot!

Not my van, mine is currently sat in the Heathrow express depot at old oak common, got to go back and collect it the early hours of Wednesday morning after dropping some locos off at Hinksey first Only managed one pic tonight, my loco 70808 in Bescot after I had shunted the auto hoppers away and stabled it with a couple of 60s It’s one of the locos I’ve got to go back and collect later today and take to Hinksey (5 locos in total so I believe)

no, not me, im in later on, 23:00 off greenford to bescot, just gearing myself up the van drive down to london!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/5732/the-many-faces-of-jeremy-kyle-shows-37-most-unforgettable-guests/ Jeremy kyles finest, gimme 6

turd world problems more like

You know what I’ve read this thread a dozen of so times and only just now realised the question was about the light fitting not the light switch!!

A couple from today, a quick blast between crewe and derby with a test train transit move Black 5 in crewe And in derby on what would have been my last trip down the goods lines as they are getting ripped up on Monday, photo taken from what used to be the carriage sidings too! 37116 leading And 37057 the other end (before I climbed up and put the lights on Got some more pics on thebproper camera that I may upload tomorrow And that’s me until Christmas Day when I’ve got an old oak common to bescot engineers job

08616 is the one, google search ‘Tyseley 08’

Tyseley still has an 08, used for hauling rubbish around the site on a converted well wagon with slips attached to it, can’t remember the number as it has its original ‘D’ number on a brass plate, it’s finished in London Midland livery Allocation wise I think it has a few 150’s and 153s, LM 170s and the whole 172 fleet

Google is your friend https://goo.gl/images/K6KC42

I can see there being ‘local’ protests in the Hadfield/Royston vasey area

Wrexham Central is 2 coaches Long

Your right, went this morning

Just 2 from today, had to show someone round oxford and Hinksey That me til Saturday afternoon

I’m off to Dapol tomorrow morning to swap mine over at the factory

Erm ok classy, I suggest you have another look at the advert

Looking at the state of it they did involve the visually impaired, unfortunaly one was the bloke who designed the livery and the other the was one who signed it off

Some from today Caught the train from llwyngwril this morning Then went over to derby to conduct 73s back to crewe And that was that

Phew, no Colas class 70 this month, gonna save me a few bob (although I do have the WCR 47 on order)

https://www.dccconcepts.com/product-category/specialised-model-accessories/dccconcepts-powerbase/

I’m currently at my mums house visiting her after she discovered her cancer has returned after months in remission, had her first course of chemo today and she’s looking well after it but her next course is the day after Boxing Day where it really kicks in apparently I have a dark sense of humour at times and decided to stare death in the face and covered all her ‘precious things’ in post it’s before she got back from the hospital, when she questioned what I was doing I said I was putting a claim on what I want when she pops her clogs! Some may find that a bit offensive but I can assure you she was really laughing as I’d stickered up everything from her VW camper to the TV right down to a bottle of Heinz ketchup in the larder, what do they call it again, gallows humour! Here’s hoping I’ll be doing the same again next Christmas, as I did last Christmas and she gets over it again, my brothers and sisters also share the same sense of humour, I’ve just been taking to my sister on skype (she lives in LA) and as I’m feeling a bit rough tonight I told her not to bother with talking to Mum as she only has cancer and I’m far worse as I’ve got man flu (the downside being I can’t go near my mum for a hug!) Joking apart though I’m dreading the inevitable when it happens, here’s hoping it’s not for a long long time (although I do have a holiday booked in the camper van!)

Yeah, I’m using the site upload function and a couple of pics came out upside down

Some from today, Wolverhampton to coleham wth a UTU via the oxley chord there was a 350 in wolves in the new LNWR livery, looks a proper dogs dinner in my opinion! Round to oxley and back down to bushbury And away to shrewsbury After that I did a bit of road refreshing to Machynlleth and stayed on to Barmouth Sunset from Barmouth bridge And back to my mums in llwyngwril for the night

Fat controller: The ‘Winsford’ station on the wcml is actually in Wharton rather than Winsford itself but as mentioned there used to be a branch line into the town centre but off the ‘Cheshire lines’ just after cuddington station (I think it’s now a public footpath for most of its length) but a quick google map check shows it’s not near a ‘station road’ at all but the current wcml station is so from what I can make out the OP would like to see pics of the current station in the 50s maybe? Edit: a quick look at disused railways reveals a 3rd station at over and Wharton too http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/o/over_and_wharton/ Must admit I never knew about that one

Looks like me driving it but I’m definitely not in Scotland at the mo, unless I’ve been sleep working again!!