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[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 18th
3.

Early 60th birthday present

North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Starting Pickering
Return from Grosmont

 

[Bristolian]

Last Saturday was my birthday and I was treated to a day at the West Somerset Railway. Here are a few from the day:

Ex-GWR Manor Class No. 7828 "Odney Manor" taking on water at Minehead ...

... before moving off to haul a passenger service to Bishop's Lydeard

An 0-4-0 saddle tank engine built in 1910 by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. in Kilmarnock getting ready to pull a short freight train from Minehead.

Ex-LSWR loco No. 563 at Williton with a passenger service to Bishop's Lydeard.

Recently restored Beyer Peacock built Hymek No. D7017 standing outside the engine shed at Williton with Class 33 Crompton built No. D6566 stood behind. Both locomotives are owned by the Diesel & Electric Preservation Group (DEPG)

 

[Andy in Germany]

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Train graffiti at Brussel-Midi yesterday.

Unfortunately the scourge of many European railways.

 

[Spartak]

4015 Karel operating on the Avon Valley Railway, Bitton today.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The Guy Martin programme has just finished about Locomotion

 

[Spartak]

Weston-super-Mare at lunchtime today ...

 

[StuAff]

Was in Yorkshire a few weeks back visiting the best mates, and we visited the NRM, first time in a few years for me. The newly-reopened Station Hall is fabulous. I forgot they had Evening Star, I used to have the Hornby version…

Don't think there's a pic of one of the OG Shinkansen Type 0 trains on the thread…

You absolutely, positively, definitely won't get chocolate out of this. No change there then…

Take notice!

We also had the afternoon tea on the Countess of York. Highly recommended, it was fabulous.

 

[Mike_P]

You absolutely, positively, definitely won't get chocolate out of this. No change there then…

i remember one in the mid 80s at IIRC Sheffield (although it could have been Leicester) which on pressing the chosen bar and réfund buttons at the same time duly obliged on both counts.

 

[Moon bunny]

You absolutely, positively, definitely won't get chocolate out of this. No change there then…

It’s a fairly regular task to empty the slot machines at the NRM, most have been blocked off but a few can’t be effectively stopped up.

 

[Moon bunny]

Good to see the “No climbing “ notice still where I put it.

 

[albion]

You will currently find 'Michael Palins Great Railway Jouneys on Youtube. 1980.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Good to see the “No climbing “ notice still where I put it.

Naw, he took it off, went on a tour of the museum with it, then brought it back.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 6th

One of the 2 remants of colliery lines

Old Snydale
(between Normanton & Featherstone)
West Yorkshire

Midland Railway
I'm not sure when they were lifted/bridges demolished
They're on the 1937 - 1961 (1/25,000) OS map
I had a look at a 1976 OS map l have, & it's lifted on that

Taken by turning around, from this photograph

The Cross Keys can be seen on the map; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.6&lat=53.68753&lon=-1.38937&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=100

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2590247

 

[Jenkins]

A couple of paint jobs from Ipswich
90039

And the Sorrento (66709) is finally getting a refresh - sorry for the lousy pic as I was sitting on the Peterborough train as it went through.

 

[Spartak]

Clapham Junction this morning ...