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Post by malcolmnl on Nov 29, 2010 19:45:34 GMT
At the request of Gavin but mainly because steam is in my veins here is a thread about steam trains, particularly the locomotives.
I was (adn still am) a Great Western man. My uncle Charlie was a driver for BR (Great Western region) and I travelled many times with him on the footplate. He later went over to diesels but he hated them even though they were much easier to drive. Unreliable sods he called them.
Other drivers in the late-fifties early sixties would let me on the footplate too for just one station, e.g. from Littlemore to Horspath. Then I had to get back in the carraige in case the driver got a rocket.
Oxford was always a fantastic place for duffle coats of the steam persuasion because locomotives from 4 regions arrived and were changed there. I spend many a cold hour perced on a mail thingy at the end of platform 2.
My favourite locomotives. The BR (GWR) County class and the SR Merchant Navy class. But in all honesty I loved them all.
Anybody else out there (Gav already counted) still get a kick from steam?
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Post by ConcreteBob on Nov 29, 2010 19:58:28 GMT
Mu username was actually named after a Diesel Locomotive. I used to go trainspotting in my younger days but gave up because trains are dull and boring these days.
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Post by gottagetbetta on Nov 30, 2010 8:51:34 GMT
My Grandfather was the Station Master at Godalming in Surrey. Family legend has it that as a baby every time I was taken near a tank engine in the goods yard I screamed the place down! Stupid boy! I remember going to London behind Hall and County class locos and being told off for hanging out the window by my Mum. At Wheatley School the boredom of lessons was only relieved as a variety of 14XX and 61XX Tanks,chuffed along the adjacent Oxford - Princes Risborough line. Oh Happy days...mostly!
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Post by Gavin Archery on Nov 30, 2010 9:35:56 GMT
My best steam memory was on a journey from Fort William to Mallaig on holiday in the 70's and with my head out of the window inhaling the clouds of smoke. Scenery breathtaking but steam made it special.
As a kid i went on a school trip to the national railway museum at York and the Flying Scotsman was puffing up and down and the smell is memorable. I always liked the Coronation Scot on the west coast line to Scotland but LNER Flying Scotsman is iconic.
Many more memories to follow.
LOVE STEAM.
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Post by snafu on Nov 30, 2010 19:23:23 GMT
Trains aren't really my thing but I've seen this beast in Williams, Arizona a couple of times..... man it's loud.
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Post by 'Beav' on Nov 30, 2010 19:49:32 GMT
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Post by gottagetbetta on Dec 1, 2010 16:19:18 GMT
That'll be a Swindon fan after the play off finals last year then?
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Post by m on Dec 3, 2010 12:32:27 GMT
Must admit to having very little interest in trains, but one thing malcomnl said piqued my interest.
I spent my very early years in Horspath and it's very hard for me to imagine where the station (halt?) might have been. Presumably it was just off of the green?
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Post by gottagetbetta on Dec 3, 2010 13:56:55 GMT
M.Type Horsepath Halt into Wikipedia and all will be revealed! It was about half a mile west of the tunnel.
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Post by loveandpride on Dec 3, 2010 14:04:09 GMT
Have any of you heard of the film 'The Railway Children' you might be interested in watching it because it actually has steam trains in it... as well other things... probably.
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Post by amarillo on Dec 3, 2010 15:32:37 GMT
I used to go trainspotting in my younger days but gave up because trains are dull and boring these days. weren't they also dull and boring in the past, but there was less to do?
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Post by Yellow River on Dec 3, 2010 17:30:09 GMT
Have any of you heard of the film 'The Railway Children' you might be interested in watching it because it actually has steam trains in it... as well other things... probably.
Worth watching for Jenny Agutter.
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Post by rsrp2 on Dec 5, 2010 11:19:56 GMT
Many, many years ago in the internet's infancy I coded up the original Didcot GWR Society's website. I was IT literate then. There have some great steam expereinces and I think they have extended their track usage over the years round the power station.
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Post by berliner on Dec 5, 2010 12:59:32 GMT
I worked for 7 years on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, coincidentally the very train shown in the last few days in all the newspapers steaming its way through the snow.
Never was a trainspotter, but gained an encyclopedic knowledge of all our trains just be working there.
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Post by ConcreteBob on Dec 5, 2010 14:22:24 GMT
I used to go trainspotting in my younger days but gave up because trains are dull and boring these days. weren't they also dull and boring in the past, but there was less to do? Nah, old Diesels were great.
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Post by Gavin Archery on Dec 6, 2010 9:51:53 GMT
Have any of you heard of the film 'The Railway Children' you might be interested in watching it because it actually has steam trains in it... as well other things... probably.
Worth watching for Jenny Agutter. Try Walkabout.
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Post by junior1 on Dec 6, 2010 9:56:28 GMT
Slighty off subject but surley one of the best routes to take on train is the Torquay route when you go through dawlish and surrounding area. The views are stunning!
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Post by Gavin Archery on Dec 6, 2010 10:00:50 GMT
Try the Fort William to Mallaig route in Scotland Junior, for breathtaking scenery it is amazing.
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Post by Grampsioli.... on Dec 6, 2010 17:02:34 GMT
Try the Fort William to Mallaig route in Scotland Junior, for breathtaking scenery it is amazing. Ah the Harry Potter route! The scenery around the Glenfinnan Viaduct is, indeed, truely stunning.....
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Post by Gavin Archery on Dec 9, 2010 21:08:07 GMT
Does anyone know the route from Paignton to Dartmouth. 0-6-0 hauled steam with the old south Devon countryside as a backdrop.....
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