Other Railway Adventures
A place to post about your other railway adventures which may not fit into another group
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures a day ago(To couple is to connect)!
You see some mighty odd coupling methods this day? Like the super voyager of Derby! Wouldn’t fancy coupling that! Back in the day, I would go straight to the vacuum pipes! With an engine coming on to our coaches from the rear! Or my driver not destroying our vacuum, I would prevent something silly happening! Snatch that ribbed pipe at an angle…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures a day ago(Jacob's coat of many colour)!
Seeing ‘low loader’ wagons on here recently, fondly reminds me of 65 yr ago when my engine would bellow through the forest of the ‘steepish’ incline to the southern coast, (at the western end of the Jurassic coast)! Pulling umpteen low loaders of VW Vans to be converted into VW Camper vans that were all the rage back then! Such colours!…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 2 days ago(The Bulleid yawns on the railway)
(Late 1950s to mid 60s) I would transfer on the 3rd pref’ rule from Southern to Bristol sheds Midland, GWR mix of loco in 64? Its all a bit hazy now? (8 yrs)? but no rail retirement pension plan! / money? Many Oliver Bulleid engines would come n go on the Southern! From Mail delivery boy, to cleaner and fireman, the young man would have…
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Maybe I should add that on nights the lighting was poor! And sight glass exhaust is to snatch to create a ”Bob”! Bottom its in trouble? From top then pay special care n attention! You see it all ”On sheds”?
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 4 days ago(To feed that Locomotion)
My word! We feed steam with a coal chute from on high! Dig all Bristol Marsh engines out to Feed the Diesels that replace them! Spill a bit to stink the place out? I would hate working there from Bath road shed! But now I recently see a Unit powered by Batteries?? So why not combine the crane hoist that would separate a steam engine from…
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I see you are ready for the Tour de France, it’s starting up north in England and is passing by the bottom of my son’s street.
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(Mike) I love the new E bike! I have not connected the throttle cable? Just turn its peddles when needed and it takes off! I wonder what Solar power might be generated if a trains (Say, Ten coach rooves) were to be completely covered in Solar panel’s? I spose that could be up to 20 times what’s required for a complete households electrical…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures a week agoTangmere says (Attack to defend) !
The Atlantic sea bed is strewn with Merchant shipping! A good writers subject for someone with time to spare! But Bulleid counterparts of the lighter Battle of Britain or Squadron classes requires a fast typing finger! A pint! And Paracetamol? So rather than the U-Boat, Then the Stuka bomber would be decimated by the Tangmere boys to not be…
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alexf posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures a week agoA firebox from the inside
Had a day off from my usual narrow gauge work when I got invited to spend a day helping out at a standard gauge loco shed. In between a lot of grinding and drilling (and getting to see some stuff I unfortunately can’t share) I also got to climb inside the firebox of a loco being restored, a first for me and an amazing experience.
I was a…
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I’m quite sure that if the tube blower turned up to open the smokebox door and commence his operation that you would of shown just how athletic you could really be? So now you are ok for inner motion or the inner big end of likes of Clan Line Merchant navy? I too was once a ferret when I was fifteen/ sixteen?
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I knew all the mainline drivers in late 50s, The new ones would chuck down a rusty to kneel and peer under the boiler of likes of Clan line type while I looked for hand holds n stuff to oil them! Some of lesser ones would need squeezing up through its motion I called mincing machines! Quite scary on a very busy pit! If an engine had only…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures a week ago(Granny's ghost)
Gran said, If you earn a pound you don’t spend a pound and a penny! And i would ruin a good trolly when hauling wind blown firewood about the countryside! But then the railway! On land given over to engines as old as Gran herself! Even the Bulleid’s were relatively modern! End of war, 1945 or so? But then I put Tangmere (An ‘Unconverted’…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures a week ago(Things so different this day)?
Late 1950s, You become a Passed Cleaner! (You still clean engines/ oil n paraffin mix)! But Inspector says your fit to fire or do other things? Or fit to do something but no one knows what yet? Maybe an incoming fireman falls off his bike! And suddenly your tearing over North Devon on a twin bogy Maunsell! A nice engine if not going tender…
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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
Other Railway Adventures 2 weeks ago(The unloved engine)
There was never a bad steam engine! Just a few needing a little service? You get relieved of your outward journey! Cross many lines with two fast through lines, To wait your return to Bristol! Its the bright red Royal mail coaches, And its late! Eventually it enters the long platform! What’s it to be this night? Your eyes dart over the…
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Cracking insight to footplate woes and highs, you should write a book. Bath Rd, being a Derby boy I remember having a shed visit with my dad I was hoping to capture a few Westerns and Warships, but the highlight was the arrival of D1200 Falcon just off a Paddington train. Cabbed and engine room walk through (boy it was hot in there!) little…
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Thanks for that Philip, Nice to see some read my memories of the different traction! Your shed visit 50 odd year ago would have me already working in Africa thousands of miles away from Barrow road steam with Standard, Midland or GW engines! With ever increasing days on diesel at Bath road! They say it’s all changed now? A different footplate…
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