Other Railway Adventures
A place to post about your other railway adventures which may not fit into another group
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Other Railway Adventures 3 months agoA firebox from the inside
Had a day off from my usual narrow gauge work when I got invited to spend a day helping out at a standard gauge loco shed. In between a lot of grinding and drilling (and getting to see some stuff I unfortunately can’t share) I also got to climb inside the firebox of a loco being restored, a first for me and an amazing experience.
I was a…
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I’m quite sure that if the tube blower turned up to open the smokebox door and commence his operation that you would of shown just how athletic you could really be? So now you are ok for inner motion or the inner big end of likes of Clan Line Merchant navy? I too was once a ferret when I was fifteen/ sixteen?
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I knew all the mainline drivers in late 50s, The new ones would chuck down a rusty to kneel and peer under the boiler of likes of Clan line type while I looked for hand holds n stuff to oil them! Some of lesser ones would need squeezing up through its motion I called mincing machines! Quite scary on a very busy pit! If an engine had only…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 3 months ago(Granny's ghost)
Gran said, If you earn a pound you don’t spend a pound and a penny! And i would ruin a good trolly when hauling wind blown firewood about the countryside! But then the railway! On land given over to engines as old as Gran herself! Even the Bulleid’s were relatively modern! End of war, 1945 or so? But then I put Tangmere (An ‘Unconverted’…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 3 months ago(Things so different this day)?
Late 1950s, You become a Passed Cleaner! (You still clean engines/ oil n paraffin mix)! But Inspector says your fit to fire or do other things? Or fit to do something but no one knows what yet? Maybe an incoming fireman falls off his bike! And suddenly your tearing over North Devon on a twin bogy Maunsell! A nice engine if not going tender…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 3 months ago(The unloved engine)
There was never a bad steam engine! Just a few needing a little service? You get relieved of your outward journey! Cross many lines with two fast through lines, To wait your return to Bristol! Its the bright red Royal mail coaches, And its late! Eventually it enters the long platform! What’s it to be this night? Your eyes dart over the…
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Cracking insight to footplate woes and highs, you should write a book. Bath Rd, being a Derby boy I remember having a shed visit with my dad I was hoping to capture a few Westerns and Warships, but the highlight was the arrival of D1200 Falcon just off a Paddington train. Cabbed and engine room walk through (boy it was hot in there!) little…
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Thanks for that Philip, Nice to see some read my memories of the different traction! Your shed visit 50 odd year ago would have me already working in Africa thousands of miles away from Barrow road steam with Standard, Midland or GW engines! With ever increasing days on diesel at Bath road! They say it’s all changed now? A different footplate…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 3 months ago(Doh! Nothing on here n Its chucking it down with rain)!
So I resort to telling my mates missus my true yarn of my north coast run on Southern Maunsell or maybe Bristol Standard sorts? When travelling east for me to have to cross the cab floor when my driver shout’s WHALES? My Young eyes search that wide Severn estuary to see not a sausage! Certainly no huge Ocean Mammal, No, No, You dipstick…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 3 months ago(If only I could remember)!
A recent mention of Storm Ingrid kicking Dawlish sea wall as it passed up the Atlantic Ocean, reminded me of 1960s when older drivers born of steam to live with steam, But then to clamber onto many horse powers of Diesel! I myself discovered the screen wipers on a type 22? A gentle touch of throttle as apposed to grabbing a handful of stiff…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 3 months ago(Stormy weather)
There’s talk of some disruption to the Dawlish section of the GW Plymouth, Penzance line? High tide of (3-50 meter) at 9-35pm (this evening) with an angry looking sea? Portugal named the storm Ingrid, As it passes Lands End! (It doesn’t look too bad on Youtube at the moment)! But trains getting a good wash!
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The news says the USA to get its worse storms in past 5 years? Old saying says when they catch cold then we belatedly cough n sneeze? Storm or nuclear war, Is your emergency bag full? I’ve got solar lights! For indoors! So i can clearly see what I fall over!
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 3 months ago(Memories)
Transferring under the old Rule 3 preference system meant somewhere new to rest your head! A wash? A Bath and totally different steam loco’s! My old Z banker had eight drive wheel’s! But its dark and I ponder this new sheds inhabitants of Western, Standard and Midland stuff! I’m not very old! On my tod! Its dark, When I look, Then straighten…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 3 months ago(Our past, And Back to the Future conveyance)
On this day 50 years ago, Concord took to the skies! But what Carbon footprint would Steam or Diesel show? From the discoloured steam exhaust, To the many obnoxious gasses of the other? Divided by the many passengers they convey! Both with a similar top speed, But the other, Then maybe a little more sprightly? But one is single manned! (A…
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I have been on concord it very small inside, how small? My head was touching the ceiling and if I extended both arms out I could touch both sides. A HST has more room and is more comfortable.
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It got 5 ‘likes’! So I tap tap away if some actually read the yarns that I type? I’m up to 7 letter’s a minute now, Maybe my vocation should of been secretarial work? We would put our trains together Stoke Gifford? Filton, Cant remember now offhand? Names like Brabazon, Whispering giant but Concord much later in early 1970’s? 60’s we still…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 3 months ago(The Crow)!
This days derailment has not Identified a cause? But when I think of speed! Then Up to 100 MPH you will spill your cup of tea for sure? Over that, And ‘Inertia’ dictates and becomes a low flying aircraft incident! On certain sections and at great speed I would gaze down to my wheels trying to part from my boiler? To ‘mutter’ the word…
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Critical speed restrictions for certain areas of line should have the same manual deletion / cancellation system as the distant section’s that signalling has!! (Just Imagine a driver ‘daydreaming’ for a minute during a three hour journey??
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