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Recent Content by Fred Kerr

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    SVR Autumn Steam Gala

    if you followed from the beginning you would realise it's a question of what is preservation which Gala events try to illustrate; is it a case of...
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM in forum: Galas and Events
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    SRPS Railtours 2025

    Someone has a wrong date here !! According to my Diary August 23rd is a SATURDAY so which date is correct ? Your SUNDAY 24th August or SATURDAY...
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM in forum: What's Going On
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    SRPS Railtours 2025

    As one who had delayed booking until I saw fares and times I feel cheated out of an opportunity that I was keen to sample; I had even booked...
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM in forum: What's Going On
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    SVR Autumn Steam Gala

    Sorry about being possibly obtuse. The point was the simple question of whether preservation adopts the principle accepted by LMS2968 (a valid...
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM in forum: Galas and Events
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    SVR Autumn Steam Gala

    No as 45593 was operated in maroon livery during the 1980s as 5593 and certainly in 1986 when it spent some time at Southport Steamport working a...
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM in forum: Galas and Events
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    SVR Autumn Steam Gala

    Agreed; the person who sees the red 45593 in 2001 but thinks it represents the BR 45593 of his youth is obviously mixing time periods hence...
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM in forum: Galas and Events
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    New photos of Pre 1968 Steam Locomotives of the LMS & B.R. London Midland Region

    April 25 74 / 74 = Bay Horse May 11 92/92 = Stirling
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM in forum: Photography
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    New Photos of Pre 1968 Steam Locomotives of the LNER & B.R. Eastern Region

    51 60024 = Lambert [April 2 posting] 52 60024 = Edinburgh Waverley 53 60024 = Stirling 54 60024 = Ferryhill 55 60024 = Aberdeen 59 60024 =...
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM in forum: Photography
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    New Photos of Pre 1968 B.R. Standard Locos

    73078 should read 73028 [Jan 17 posting] 992037 at Abbots Ripton not Rupton [Feb 4 posting]
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM in forum: Photography
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    SVR Autumn Steam Gala

    I do get concerned with the pedantry of the purists who insist "this" or "that" did / didn't happen. Why not not enjoy the creation of things that...
    Post by: Fred Kerr, Jul 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM in forum: Galas and Events