lowermarshhammer
12:06 Fri Mar 1
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For all you nerds.
https://youtu.be/su-DMP_z_rs
(mild swearing warning)
Driving a steam train back in the day on cross country routes must have been an amazing job. If I had my time again I would have loved to work for ScotRail driving in the Highlands. For the scenery, not the trains of course. 🤣
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yngwies Cat
11:34 Thu Feb 28
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Deltics Rocks
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Far Cough
11:27 Thu Feb 28
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David, correct:
West Ham 0-1 Newcastle United
1st Division 28 Feb 1975
Upton Park 32,753
1 Mervyn Day
2 John McDowell
3 Frank Lampard
4 Keith Robson
5 Tommy Taylor
6 Kevin Lock
7 Billy Jennings
8 Graham Paddon
9 Bobby Gould
10 Trevor Brooking
11 Pat Holland
12 Alan Taylor
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David L
11:22 Thu Feb 28
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We were playing at home that night Im sure I went. Newcastle?
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Nurse Ratched
11:20 Thu Feb 28
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1964
It's a fantastic museum. Aside from the vehicles, the way they have set up the 'streets' with period lights, street furniture, little shops with period goods in original packaging in the windows...everywhere you look, it's delightful. The people who run the place are lovely. One of them let me turn the tram pole (no unsavoury remarks, please) because he picked up on my enthusiasm. Lovely bloke.
I've donated money. If I lived nearby I would apply to be a volunteer. Going back this year, hopefully, taking my daughter with me because she's mad about trams.
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Hammer and Pickle
11:15 Thu Feb 28
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Bungo
Would he perhaps like to make a contribution to the Brexit thread?
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Westham67
11:15 Thu Feb 28
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My old man used to make steam train boilers as a welder boiler maker. He started his apprenticeship in Stratford rail yard 1943
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Westham67
11:12 Thu Feb 28
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The older transportation was more decorative
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Bungo
11:12 Thu Feb 28
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As a fairly small boy, my Dad was a complete train nerd, specifically about the GWR (this would have been in the 1930s).
Apparently he would find random people while on a train, sit down and start explaining to them in some detail how the GWR signalling system worked.
Sometimes they would give him money to go away..
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Far Cough
11:11 Thu Feb 28
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I'm a train anorak but I don't care
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1964
11:08 Thu Feb 28
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Nurse
Been there several times. Fantastic place if your a sad anorak like me.
No piss taking here.
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Nurse Ratched
11:02 Thu Feb 28
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At the very real risk of inciting much pisstaking, one of the very top highlights of last year was a visit to the East Anglia Transport Museum. It's a museum about old buses, trams and trolley buses. I was in heaven. I got to ride on old trams and trolley buses and a 2ft gauge railway.
I am not Alan Partridge.
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Westham67
10:55 Thu Feb 28
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Chip of the old block then
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Hammer and Pickle
10:41 Thu Feb 28
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Being on a streamtrain is specific.
Once at speed, they sort of vibrate.
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Crassus
10:41 Thu Feb 28
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My paternal grandfather was a train driver, in the days of steam
Have pictures of him on the foot plate of The Mallard and Flying Scotsman, although he preferred driving another, name escapes me
Never did get to find how it came to be that he drove the 'celebrity' trains
He was never that keen on the Bosch mind, they shot at his train regularly when he was running it around the docks in the war, not one for forgiving the bastarrds for shooting at his train
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zebthecat
10:34 Thu Feb 28
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I can hear the Bluebell Railway from my garden.
Lovely at night sitting out there hearing them chuff off into the distance.
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Hammer and Pickle
10:29 Thu Feb 28
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One of my first childhood memories is watching the steam engine sparks fly past the window on a train at night.
There were still steam trains in service in Poland on some of the local lines in the 80s.
Massive great black engines, and I don't care what you say.
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Nurse Ratched
10:28 Thu Feb 28
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They didn't need to be FORCED...
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Far Cough
10:27 Thu Feb 28
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Class 40s were a good one, The Great Train Robbery was a class 40
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Westham67
10:23 Thu Feb 28
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Did you force Thomas the tank engine on your children ?
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Nurse Ratched
10:16 Thu Feb 28
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I just remembered I took a couple of phone camera photos of a couple of Class 37s at Great Yarmouth. Unfortunately I wasn't close enough to take good photos.
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