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hi i do not know where you have gone,but where ever you are may i wish you all a very merry christmas and a happy new year and of course lots of railway topics. i have put my train on the shed at SPM.lol

Yes a very Happy Christmas to you OldChapie and to everyone else on here as well of course.

I've too put my Hymeks to bed for the holiday

well we are still around have a good rest with your hymec 7007 my favourite

I was lurking in the bushes wondering who was going to kick off the season's greetings. Merry Christmas to one and all.

Merry Christmas from me too and best wishes to all for 2013

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Mad Hattie, all posters and readers.

Likewise from me also. To all of you. Lets hope santa sends us lots to see and discuss next year...

Christmas greetings to all on the site. 2013 should see Barrow Road Jubilee 45699 Galatea back in service after 49 years !

'Trafalgar' is the only Barrow Road Jubilee I can remember with any certainty. I presume she succumbed to the cutters torch on withdrawal. Can you envisage a scenario whereby we could one day see 'Galatea' carrying Trafalgar's name and number? Do we know what happened to her plates?

A Christmas memory from 1968...

I was travelling from Bristol to Stoke on Boxing Day to see my then girlfriend (now my wife). The train broke down on the Midland line just under the M4. I suggested to the guard that the quickest way to get help would be to use the M4 emergency phone (I could see one just on the bridge) - which he did.

But I always wondered what motorway control made of a message 'my train has broken down' in the festive season!.

Green Mile wrote
'Trafalgar' is the only Barrow Road Jubilee I can remember with any certainty. I presume she succumbed to the cutters torch on withdrawal. Can you envisage a scenario whereby we could one day see 'Galatea' carrying Trafalgar's name and number? Do we know what happened to her plates?

She was the last Barrow Road Jubilee after the withdrawal of 45685/90 in March 1964.
Her final weeks

Wednesday May 6 1964 Bristol Temple Meads

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolste ... 5395704513

Friday May 8 1964 Final Passenger North at Sheffield

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave1963/6929381003/

She was withdrawn on May 18, suffering a fractured cylinder on ecs to Bath Green Park, where she is in store following withdrawal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60631240@N02/7844811384/

Sold to a scrapyard in Swansea, she left Bath Shed in October 1964 and is seen here on Swansea Shed, awaiting removal to the scrapyard

http://www.flickr.com/photos/camperdown/8164743835/

She still has her front numberplate intact !

It would be great to see a Jubilee in Bristol again - there has not been one, I believe, since 1965.

All this slightly off thread, I admit.

Great photos especially approaching platform 12 at TM, which brings back lots of memories of spotting as a teenager. Nearest I have seen to a Jubilee in Bristol in recent years was a Black 5 and then Princess Elizabeth. What a massive machine she is. If I remember correctly, back in the late 60's was she not stabled in a siding on the up side north of Gloucester, possibly Ashchurch? Was it something to do with Dowty's?

the green mile wrote:.....Princess Elizabeth. What a massive machine she is. If I remember correctly, back in the late 60's was she not stabled in a siding on the up side north of Gloucester, possibly Ashchurch? Was it something to do with Dowty's?

Good grief, I'd completely forgotten about the Princess being at Ashchurch. Yes - it was Dowty's siding just to the north of Ashchurch station between the main line and the Tewkesbury branch.
Talking of Ashchurch, I remember seeing ex-Midland 0-4-4 tank 41900 standing there on the Tewkesbury branch passenger often as I went past on the morning Bristol - Newcastle 1N70, early 60s.

46201 attended the Bath Road open day in October 1967.

Here is a colour shot of her going through the closed Mangotsfield station on the way back to Dowty's.

Probably the last steam engine to do so ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rustysea/2 ... otostream/

I have just located the same move captured on video by Terry Nicholls passing Kingswood Junction with Divisional Mechanical Locomotive Inspector Reg Paton waving from the footplate. For some reason, I thought 46201 was painted red but in this clip she is in Brunswick green.