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Happy New Year everyone!



Who remembers the great blowing of whistles / sounding of horns that always used to happen at midnight on the 31st December?

I certainly remember the sounds of ships' hooters (are they called hooters?) - in Wesbury we thought we were hearing them from Avonmouth and ...

Secondly, as regards reporting him, this is an open railway forum where a lot of serving and former railwaymen participate. If Network Rail weren't aware of this beforehand, I am sure that they are now since you posted the link to the video and we started nattering about it ;)

The video on ...

Fitness to Run - an inspection which a loco must pass - before each day's work on any part of the national network, I think

I have two childhood memories of lying awake to sounds of transport, one railway, one aviation.
Neither bothered me, and if I am woken now by aircraft or railway noise I feel strangely reassured, and easily go back to sleep!

It was only when I heard similar sounds on an Argo Transcord recording ...

What really kindled my interest was The School Railway Club. Prior to then, I had hardly ever been to a station, let alone travelled by train anywhere. There are a couple of earlier influences that may have contributed

û I had a modest Hornby O gauge layout with two tinplate coaches and a ...

Was anybody else on that tour? I seem to remember it being a wet, gloomy day. The Bridgend - Cymmer - Treherbert passenger service finally ended in December 1970 & Rhondda tunnel closed officially.
And didn't the Cheltenham - Honeyborne line close prematurely after the derailment of a goods train ...

Apologies Stantheman - I didn't intend to plagiarise your post of 1st October 2010 in mine earlier today about Longwell Green - I seem to have failed miserably to use the quote function

There were 50 Leyland PD1s in the fleet, all allocated to Eastville depot and therefore as I remember they worked routes 2, 2A, 10, 18, 84, 284 etc.
Half had ECW bodies (eg C4044 - my all-time favourite bus) and the rest had local bodies supplied by Longwell Green or the company's own body shop at ...

Hi,

Think this is news- either that or I need to catch up- I've just heard that Network Rail have put selected documents from their archive online- there are five drawings of Temple Meads at
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/VirtualArc ... ple-meads/

I remember seeing a photgraph in the Evening Post showing an FLF more underwater than not. My friend who lived at Ashton Vale told me that Winterstoke Road Bus Depot was flooded to the extent than no buses were usable.

You probably know these pics online

A Country KSW driving through floods at at ...

Tugboat.

Newlyweds within the carriage,
Please don't consumate your marriage,
Whilst the train is standing here at Crewe;
Please restrain that nat'ral function,
'Til we get to Clapham Junction,
Where there's really sod-all else to do.

And of course my favourite verse:

If twenty pounds you ...

Happy New Year to all, and...

my first proper day of gricing may have been riding to and fro between Yatton and Clevedon on the last day of the branch. As I recall, we stayed on the train for several round trips for the price of one, and - can this be right - a few boys, me included, had a cab ...

I did not retain my spotting notes beyond about 1980. I gave up collecting numbers shortly after five digit TOPS numbers were introduced. I just did not see any point in keeping them at the time.
Discovering some of my books has been like opening a time portal. Once I opened my 1965 combine ...

Hello. I was at BGS between 1970 and 1976, and in the Railway Society from about 1972. I remember working on the model railway in the cellar at lunch times. It was loosely based on the S&DJR, I think, and was never "finished" (which I think is normal for model railways). Went on a few trips: the ...

No, I missed that one - before my time perhaps.