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Martin Widdowson posted an update 6 weeks ago
60163 Tornado passing Hellifield working The Shap Mountaineer
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markstrong became a registered member 6 weeks ago
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David Spencer posted an update 6 weeks ago
Looking forward to the weekend when services recommence for summer season ’26.
All will suddenly be in full colour.
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Have you got a steam craving going on David.
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D G became a registered member 6 weeks ago
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(Wow! Drive)!
I read an old rail yarn of mine of a year or so ago! Dreadful Composition? Something goes awry between my brain and my index typing finger? Even now I check its not raining outside as I have washing on the line! So I don’t dither or mention stuff like that anymore? But its mid 1960s, Driver and I have steam out of Bristol Temple meads…
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Oh my! Heart-stopping moment, I’m sure, as that chap fell off the platform: I dread to think what kind of condition he ended up in. Not entirely surprising you forgot to turn off the steam for the heating pipes. One experience I certainly hope I never have.
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Don Fitton became a registered member 6 weeks ago
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michealgoodyer posted an update 6 weeks ago
45407 "The Lancashire Fusilier" running The Cheshireman #feature
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Guarding and Steaming
After putting Emmet’s plugs back in and refilling her boiler last Tuesday, I met up with our head of steam first thing Saturday morning and checked all round for leaks. All the washout plugs were dry, as was the fusible plug in the crown plate of the firebox, so we were looking good to put a fire in—a wood fire in this case to warm her up…
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Another well written piece if I may say so? I’ll send you my yarns and you compose them for me ? Lol! Unusual a sight glass to break? Maybe warmed after a chilly night? I would always break the vacuum first on steam! So nothing moves while i am in between? But things so different with air today! Cheer’s.
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Mike Ashworth posted an update 6 weeks ago
Anyone have any April Fools Day ideas?
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HS2 to finish under budget and 30 years earlier than expected, Ordsal Chord not a white elephant, or all ticketing and fares to make some sense?
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We will see, I have no faith in GBR, the unions will use it as excuse to not modernise and hold passengers to ransom. BR was an utter fiasco, privatisation was a mess, but it did draw people to the railways.
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Mike Ashworth posted an update 6 weeks ago
I can see clearly now
2N14 Preston to Colne Northern DMU 156414
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