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cybershot
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Last week we squeezed in Papplewick Pumping Station (complete with steam punks) , beautiful & well worth a visit Papplewick pumping station: Industrial museum and unique wedding venue in Nottinghamshire
This weekend have just found this http://www.nmscs.org.uk which happens to be near where we are headed...pigs in shit
This weekend have just found this http://www.nmscs.org.uk which happens to be near where we are headed...pigs in shit
treefrog
Saddle up
I know this is an old post, but saw this and thought I'd share the time I rode my motorbike over this bridge in wet weather and the rear wheel lost traction on the metal railway line as I exited the bridge
thankfully low speed so no serious damage but I've had the heebies every time I've gone over it since.
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Books, not bombs
An off the wall steam driven thing, but it still working and has magnificent engines which can be viewed. Welcome to Waverley - Waverley Excursions
I see she's coming to London in September.
I see she's coming to London in September.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
She tours the country (the coastal bit, anyway), and I went on her on an excursion from Milford Haven. Lots of polished brass and moving steel.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Slightly tangential, but I thought you'd enjoy it...
This is the shiny thing that Avon Fire and Rescue use to go to fires/emergencies in the Severn Rail Tunnel - a big lorry filled with toys that has rail running gear fitted to the chassis to access rail lines. Tasty...
This is the shiny thing that Avon Fire and Rescue use to go to fires/emergencies in the Severn Rail Tunnel - a big lorry filled with toys that has rail running gear fitted to the chassis to access rail lines. Tasty...
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I did a trip from Avonmouth more than three decades ago. My lasting memory was of them cooking something downstairs that stunk out the whole deck and made me feel sick. It was hanging around the Severn estuary for a while, sometimes running from Clevedon Pier when that was resurrected, as well as Minehead and South Wales. I thought it had gone elsewhere for a while, possibly Scotland.
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
She is berthed along from my office. I see her when she's not out cruising. Having been on a load of modern ships with thrusters it was lovely vo see her berth the other night. She came in slow a spot astern to stop then two lines launched over and winched in. Simple.
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
PS Waverley
Lancman
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She can't turn her paddles independently of each other and must be a pig to handle at low speeds with little water flow over her rudder, hence the berthing lines.
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hiraethified
existentialist
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Ooh, that is nice. I think Class 40s are possibly one of the top 3 or 4 attractive loco designs. Especially in BR green.
(FTR, in terms of eyecandy, the top 3 are probably 40s, Hymeks and Westerns, in no particular order. The bottom 3 would be the Metrovick Co-Bo, SR's class 71/74, and the 21/22/29s, although I still have a soft spot for the uglies)
existentialist
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That, too. In my teenage trainspotter days, I got a Red Bus Rover and went to King's Cross (probably to see Deltics). But it was a 40, departing, that really impressed me.
ETA: it was probably Euston. Chances are, I went to the wrong station
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weltweit
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I went to a Vintage show last Saturday, Gloucestershire Vintage and Country Extravaganza
there were
Scale model traction engines:
And some full sized ones also:
There were also vintage military vehicles, motorbikes, bicycles, trucks, tractors, and I expect there would probably have been loads of vintage cars but I gave up with heat stroke before I found them and went home. :-/
there were
Scale model traction engines:
And some full sized ones also:
There were also vintage military vehicles, motorbikes, bicycles, trucks, tractors, and I expect there would probably have been loads of vintage cars but I gave up with heat stroke before I found them and went home. :-/
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I think you'll find those "scale model" ones were just normal ones, a very long way away. With, naturally, giants riding on them.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Oh, that big black traction engine in weltweit 's post. Another lovely mechanical beast.
It is a Leeds built Fowler ploughing engine, they normally work in pairs.
Here's one at Pickering - it is actually working at ploughing.
psr - fowlers par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity
It is a Leeds built Fowler ploughing engine, they normally work in pairs.
Here's one at Pickering - it is actually working at ploughing.
psr - fowlers par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity
weltweit
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You would be amazed how many giants there were !!
davesgcr
Reading books
That is an impressive restoration - though the class had a following , as useful engines they are far behind (IMHO) a good (preferably Welsh) class 37 , or a 47. Driven both on main lines with authority both - the 47 was always a supreme drive with great power application and braking - the 37 was what I would imagine flying a Lancaster would be like. (specially when you had a partly fitted train behind you of about 10 steel wagons with vacuum brake and 20 unfitted loaded coal behind them) - I got shouted at by the driver. Happy days
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Oh, they were a ludicrous anachronism - IIRC, wasn't the whole leading wheel thing because the weight just kept going up and up during the design process?That is an impressive restoration - though the class had a following , as useful engines they are far behind (IMHO) a good (preferably Welsh) class 37 , or a 47. Driven both on main lines with authority both - the 47 was always a supreme drive with great power application and braking - the 37 was what I would imagine flying a Lancaster would be like. (specially when you had a partly fitted train behind you of about 10 steel wagons with vacuum brake and 20 unfitted loaded coal behind them) - I got shouted at by the driver. Happy days
davesgcr
Reading books
The handbrakes could not be trusted (cos the were so heavy) , so when stabled ,the instructions were to apply wheel chocks to the bogie wheel sets. Really helpful at 0100 in the rain in some siding.
I suppose charitably - there was a learning curve....
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I hadn't realised quite how much a direct descendant of 10201 et al they were...quite remarkable, in a way, that they lasted until the mid 80s!
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I never encountered the WR diesels in the wild.
Class 33s are part of the sound of south london
definitely deltics, then class 40s otherwise - did a few railtours behind class 40s in the 80s when they and chunks of the railway network were under threat - two 40s and 14 coaches over the settle & carlisle was one (think that may have been the one that for reasons unknown got a single class 31 for the last bit of the day back to euston - never established whether that was intentional / someone's idea of a joke / a clerical error and it should have been an 81 or what...)
