clive BRretired
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clive BRretired posted an update 2 weeks ago
I just went on my inbox to find ‘messages’? i didn’t know about! Doh! Sorry about that! It’s a complicated World! Before torches were invented, every steam engine had a ducklamp! A flame wick in a paraffin vessel! Never seen one since! And the tray over the fire door would warm your oil, But keep the tea can warm too? But never place under…
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Maybe favourite music is a ‘Group’? Over n over by Sinatra, Or Nimrod on a large cathedral organ? Hun’ wraps’ No 6 on piano or just old Sinatra or Ella?
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(Bombed with rain)!
So I start writing a book! Those of us old enough, will recall the two Atom bomb’s that decimated two cities and wiped out their population’s to end World War 11 in 1945? Today’s Hydrogen type are much advanced! And in great profusion! That’s why terrorist groups supported by Iran must never obtain one? In essence my story is of Clive! (A…
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Thanks Malcolm, just one like justifies the effort! Lol. I need a driver! I’m fireman!
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(Not a regular model)
But a scaled size, less than the real thing no less? I intend removing two lead bogy wheel’s! And adding side water tanks! Change front section! and open up its tender? Bingo, A Riddles 8000 4Mt tank engine? It was always a bit of an ‘All’sorts’ engine that I modelled in matchstick’s! I did once have a proper model (Duchess of Athol) in the…
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You best not act as fire man on these
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(Time waits no one)
It’s late 1950s? And I’m boiler first! (Sat on Red cow crossing spur)! GW express trains pull away! Driver sacrifices speed for adhesion! Cab layout dictates he is my side, He is so close! Waiting a mad wheelspin but still lifts a hand to me that I return! GW meets Southern crews, But so briefly! His Mayflower, Riviera Express whatever is off…
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(Its a mad World)
34028 goes through Newton Abbot 2 minutes early! Fireman will be happy! ! (Only once! And pulling the Royal mail train was I caught out by a bad steam engine)! For Par it has ventured ever West! And I daydream of my allocated engine of the mid 1960s from Bristol Templemeads on the Western 1000 sort like Duke, Hussar or Prince (I had over a…
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And Nirvana who played / sung the Man who sold the world has 653 million viewings on U Tube! One of my favourites?
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(The Hen party)!
When I was 17yrs I would have possession of a long train of low loaders of Sidmouth VW vans that were converted into campers! All the rage for the adventurist type who loved Leonard Cohen songs! Oh sister of mercy? But my rendition was Suzann takes you down to your place by the river! Drivers off somewhere with the signalman again? I’m on my…
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(Not many folk)
Read my yarns, So i will knock it on the head! I thought news of the 50s/ early 1960s might break up the countless photo’s a bit? Iv’e spoken of my oiling of many types of engine when I was cleaning, and passed cleaner for firing duty! Clan lines recent run with the Atlantic coast express got me wondering of its inner bearings need of oil? As…
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I always enjoy reading your accounts of your time on the railways. I hope you’ll keep sharing them with us.
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I enjoy them too, please keep printing them.
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My neighbour cant say a sentence that I understand! Her carer says its dementia! Another neighbour convinces me its Sunday today? (Which I know its not)? So typing comes as an uninterrupted view of ones World that simply needs editing tomorrow??
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(Fireman who cant dance)!
Late 1950s and two lowly passed cleaners set down their bucket of oil n paraffin for Sir Frederick Pile that was to be converted, To go find a quiet engine on shed with steam operated fire doors? I hated them and steam reversers! Setting my left foot for the coals reach! To pivot and to depress the ‘tread peddle’ for the shovel’s swing to…
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(Clan Line memories)
1959/ 1960 We await Clan Line down from London with the Atlantic coast express! I mention this in Main Line section as its doing a return some 66 years later on the 23rd of this month? We come down from Exm’th jct on Blackmore Vale, And on platform 2 we sit on a very large and well loaded Porters cart! (I simply have to re couple) or prep…
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(The train still standing)!
Preservation or Heritage never show Devon’s Exeter Central as the terminal of the heavier Merchant Navy or Packet that’s just done a Waterloo / Salisbury run to a shed that a lot of Bulleids first started on being 72A Exmth jct! Even them on 9 Elms n places would visit, then return after a bit of coal n subsistence and maybe the hope of…
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