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Just saw this on BBC who are reporting over £40K. Brilliant. Sadly doesn't bring back years and years of work though.

 

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Now reporting over £50k.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

10k from Rod Stewart...I seem to recall nominating him for the national treasure thread, this surely will lead to his elevation:

"The 74-year-old, who built up his own model railway over more than 20 years...."

 

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Now at £63,000!!!!!!

 

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Rod Stewart
Not his biggest fan, but hey, good on him.
Still Doesn't make me want to see him on his current tour.

 

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What a great bloke Rod is.
Sir Rod 'devastated' for model railway club

 

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£77,000 and rising!

 

[StoneRoad]

TBH, even a million might not compensate for the loss of so much detailed work.
I think a few model shows and heritage railways will be seriously considering hiring night shift security personnel ...

 

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And that's just shut. Some of these places operate on a shoestring as it is.
why can't people respect other people's property.
(£10k couldn't buy that much publicity for Rod).

 

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And that's just shut. Some of these places operate on a shoestring as it is.
why can't people respect other people's property.
(£10k couldn't buy that much publicity for Rod).

I don't think Rod is desperate for publicity right now.

 

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He's had no trouble selling out his gig's?

 

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He's had no trouble selling out his gig's?

I don't think a small donation to an obscure model railway club is going to send his audience out on a ticket buying frenzy, even if he was having trouble.

 

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There are still plenty of rod tickets available should you want some.

 

[Dogsauce]

TBH, even a million might not compensate for the loss of so much detailed work.
I think a few model shows and heritage railways will be seriously considering hiring night shift security personnel ...

Yeah, it’s not really about the money, it’s the hours (or years) of work put in that you can’t get back, must be heartbreaking to have something you’ve put so much into just get smashed for kicks. Utterly shit thing to happen. Hope some of that work is salvageable.

Seems to be more stuff like this happening recently, guess it’s partly the delayed effects of austerity and the short termism of closing sure start centres and youth projects.

 

[existentialist]

Yeah, it’s not really about the money, it’s the hours (or years) of work put in that you can’t get back, must be heartbreaking to have something you’ve put so much into just get smashed for kicks. Utterly shit thing to happen. Hope some of that work is salvageable.

Seems to be more stuff like this happening recently, guess it’s partly the delayed effects of austerity and the short termism of closing sure start centres and youth projects.

We're going to pay a heavy price for the cheeseparing savings made by closing down youth resources, and we're going to be paying it for a long time to come.

 

[Smangus]

Something slightly different, the flying Scotsman being loaded up for a trip to Oz in about 1980 , Tilbury docks.

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[Mumbles274]

I know it's not the same as the destruction of that exhibition but I had all my locos and stock stolen so can really relate. I had kit built locos, customised locos, detailed coaches with lights and passengers, basically a whole load of personalisd stuff stolen. I stopped modeling for about 8 years after that. Money from insurance didn't matter. I can imagine that some of those guys will never model again after that. It's not just old people that make models. But it does take a huge investment and when that is lost, it can be hard to see how it can be regained. I also feel really sad for the people that did this. I feel like they have taken a path that betrays them for what ever reason. I'd like to see leniency for them if they were willing to be repenetent. Not sure their victims would but you never know.

 

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More wankers: ‘Arson attack’ on bridge

 

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[Puddy_Tat]

as ever, found these while i was looking for something else -

the Gravesend - Grain / All Hallows on Sea branch, 1958



and Westerham branch, 1958

 

[Puddy_Tat]

and what started it, trying to find out how capstans in goods yards worked



frankly,

 

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as ever, found these while i was looking for something else -

the Gravesend - Grain / All Hallows on Sea branch, 1958



and Westerham branch, 1958

All Hallows was a gloriously misguided venture to create a major seaside resort.

An article published in April 1932 in Southern Railway Magazine indicated the SR's aspirations for the line: ‘near the small village of Allhallows, amid fields where cattle graze and the ploughman walks his furrow, workmen are busy constructing roads and laying the main drains and conduits for the gas, water, telephone and electric light services to houses of which not a brick has yet been laid. In contrast to the urban development of an earlier day, the prospective house-purchaser (and season-ticket holder) at Allhallows will approach his future home from a modern reinforced concrete carriageway, instead of stumbling through the ruts of an unmade road.’

The Allhallows-on-Sea Estate Company was incorporated with the intention of transforming the flat, featureless, windswept marshland in the area into a new holiday resort. The SR had a financial interest in the new company and worked closely with it in the construction of the line. The new company donated land for use for the railway and contributed £20,000 towards the construction of the line.

Disused Stations: Allhallows On Sea Station

 

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Oh yes!

 

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The Titfield Thunderbolt, a great film, was iN part filmed on a now closed branch Line just outside Bath.

 

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Oh yes!

 

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I don't think Rod is desperate for publicity right now.

Have to say Ed, even for tonight there are face value tickets still available

 

[Mumbles274]

This has been round Kent twice today. On its way back to london

 

[existentialist]

They really are quite magnificent machines, aren't they?

 

[Mumbles274]

They really are quite magnificent machines, aren't they?

Im always taken back by how big and powerful they are. It seems a silly thing. Oo isn't the train big but it's something about how the whole machine is about making the power to pull all these coaches. Modern traction has an engine hidden somewhere behind a body shell. A steam loco dispenses with such things. It's all there to see and wonder at

 

[StoneRoad]

Saturday 15th June 2019 and the FFWHR are running "The Snowdonian Limited"
Porthmadog to Blaenau to Boston Lodge (engine change to a Garrett) then non-stop to Caernarvon then back to Porthmadog.

Before he died I promised to take me Dad on this, so, Saturday his ashes will accompany me on the round trip.