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clive BRretired posted an update in the group
5 weeks agoOther Railway Adventures (Footplate or passenger)! I think my only train journey in the last 58years is when i travelled to Heathrow via Reading? (To fly to USA Georgia for the Masters Golf)! I found Tiger Woods ball! That then saw me in the front of the crowd to watch his next shot! But the trip i plan when the weather warms up a bit is the new section opened up from Exeter St Davids to Okehampton! Computer says its only 22 miles, And a trip ticket site says £4-80? It follows the river a while then skirts Dartmoor, I would do that run with the 30 or double bogy Maunsell, With a tarp’ up to keep the rain out, And return with heavy track ballast trains to then pull them up St Davids bank to the Southern region! With bankers on the rear! Or the lighter N single bogy 31s like 31874 being done up at Swanage heritage site i would fire for North Devon destinations with passenger or goods trains! My Bulleids would run out that way as well of course, But we had loads of the Maunsell sorts! A nice engine group! I look forward to seeing what they have done at Okehampton?
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A Rock Star family friend (he is in the rock n roll hall of fame) was planning to fligh back to California from New York last year but his flight got cancelled due to a major storm. Someone told him to go by train which he did and he liked it and the best bit was that it stopped at his own town in California.
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Oliver Bulleids Clan line was boiler first from London Waterloo, Salisbury, Exeter, St Davids and still boiler first for Bristol, London Paddington with no turntable needed! Not many rail regions can manage that? I would feel happier if its inner bearings had a little oil for its return out of East yard! But maybe its greased bearings these days? Dunno, Dont think there’s a pit for access in that east yard? PS, Ive mentioned before that Drivers (left) side big end at 10 passed TDC was the best position to do its innards! I once did Clan on its speed timing run, (No rods! They were just a blur)? Lol.
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