Puddy_Tat
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purely from personal memory, i don't remember them doing that much freight on the SE division (as then was)
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purely from personal memory, i don't remember them doing that much freight on the SE division (as then was)
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Liverpool St in the 1980s
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Photos of Liverpool Street Station and Bishopsgate in the 1980s - Flashbak
We’ve seen Tim Brown’s photographs of London’s East End in the 1980s. And now we zoom in on Liverpool Street station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without. Tim used to travel on the 149 bus from Stoke Newington in Hackney to work as a train...
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Looking back, I did my hanging around mainline railway stations and getting interested in stuff not a moment too soon. I didn't realise at the time that I was witnessing the dying days of a particular kind of railway...Liverpool St in the 1980s
Photos of Liverpool Street Station and Bishopsgate in the 1980s - Flashbak
We’ve seen Tim Brown’s photographs of London’s East End in the 1980s. And now we zoom in on Liverpool Street station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without. Tim used to travel on the 149 bus from Stoke Newington in Hackney to work as a train...
cybershot
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Railway workers to strike over three days in June
The action planned for 21, 23 and 25 June is being dubbed the "biggest rail strike in modern history".
www.bbc.co.uk
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Are they the same as locomotive services limited?
en.wikipedia.org
According to that wikipedia article, they've taken over the operation of Steam Dreams tours from West Coast Railways.
Locomotive Services Limited - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
According to that wikipedia article, they've taken over the operation of Steam Dreams tours from West Coast Railways.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
They’re owned by an absolute ringpiece who bankrolls Lawrence Fox’s political career. Politics stink, but he’s put a lot of money into railtours and preservation, including the class 40 rail tour I watched storm through Pilning station this evening.
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I am not convinced
www.railadvent.co.uk
Steam Dreams and 61306 Mayflower acquired by Crewe based Locomotive Services Group
David Buck's LNER B1 61306 Mayflower and Steam Dreams Rail Co have been acquired by Crewe based operator, Locomotive Services Group.
www.railadvent.co.uk
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Isn't there something similar about the WCR owner?
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Possibly. It’s the sort of hobby that needs very deep pockets (so hedge fund tax dodging types) and attracts the sort of nostalgic kind that wish it was still the 1950s when there were steam trains, women knew their place etc.
Dogsauce
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davesgcr
Reading books
slightly tenuous, but it's a railway parcels mechanical horse on its way from the goods depot
posted on teh tweeter today.
think it's junction of goods way / battle bridge road / pancras road (under the international station now) - 1950s map here
A capture from the film "The Ladykillers" I think.
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RESULT!
www.theguardian.com
Burying of Victorian bridge in Cumbria must be reversed, says council
National Highways to be forced to remove 1,644 tonnes of gravel and concrete used to infill bridge arch
StoneRoad
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planning permission refused !RESULT!
Burying of Victorian bridge in Cumbria must be reversed, says council
National Highways to be forced to remove 1,644 tonnes of gravel and concrete used to infill bridge arch
so, IMO, if NH don't dig out all that F****ing concrete, then the council should do the work & bill NH for the costs ...
Puddy_Tat
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being a cynical old cat, i wonder if the whole damn lot will collapse when they try to dig the concrete out and have to be replaced with something 'more practical'
in the same way that buildings that get planning permission refused suddenly seem to be more flammable...
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I also very cynical where developers, listing and planning permission interact. If that bridge does collapse, unlikely as that seems, then I think NH should be made to rebuild it ... a bit like when some ******s have demolished listed buildings by "mistake" - which also seem to be a touch inflammable when planning permission is refused, or hung about with a great many restrictions - see also the bonded warehouses on Newcastle Quayside ...
weltweit
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StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
me ! me !! I can !The driver of this couldn't face the journey home at 4mph so they left it with us. A handsome addition to our car park. Though none of us know how to drive it!!
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I know how to drive 'em ... but whether I could take the sheer boredom of trundling at 4mph for a couple of hundred miles ... not to mention finding the coal, oil & water needed.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
and don't park your waggon on the ECML, please.
halfway down the page is a clip of the crane at work.
Major rail route reopens after lorry crashes onto tracks in East Lothian
The lorry crashed on to the East Coast Main Line between Wallyford and Prestonpans in East Lothian.
www.bbc.co.uk
halfway down the page is a clip of the crane at work.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Getting back to EDs... yesterday in a last minute unusual substitution, a pair of class 73s did the return trip between Kent and Southampton docks that carries imported gypsum. This runs most days and is usually diesel hauled all the way - but yesterday ran under electric traction and therefore spewed out no particulate pollution as it passed through London and elsewhere. A demonstration of what could happen with different incentives.
High Voltage
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Books, not bombs
bastards (big fan of the GCR as well)
Great Central Railway: Thieves steal 1946 steam train parts worth £50k
Copper piping, steam boiler valves and expansion links are taken from a depot in Loughborough.
www.bbc.co.uk
T & P
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This is a massive problem in countries that carry the electric juice on overhead cables rather than a third rail. My brother is an independent, one-man firm electrician, and even he (and other small firms up and down Spain) gets contracted by RENFE a few times a year to help replace stolen copper cables at nighttime, because sometimes their in-house engineers are not enough to replace all the stolen cabling.bastards (big fan of the GCR as well)
Great Central Railway: Thieves steal 1946 steam train parts worth £50k
Copper piping, steam boiler valves and expansion links are taken from a depot in Loughborough.www.bbc.co.uk
