Mark Thompsons letzte Aktivitäten
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Mark Thompson gefällt Brevas Beitrag in dem Thema GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
You might like to know that our infrastructure blog has resumed publication. The latest one is here: https://bridgestobroadway.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheltenham-racecourse-bridge-43-works.html (ignore the web adress title, that's historical)...
12 Juni 2025 um 15:48 -
Mark Thompson antwortete auf das Thema Rother Valley Railway.
Ah, that warm, analogue sound you can only get from old measurements!
12 Juni 2025 um 12:58 -
Mark Thompson gefällt James Hewetts Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.
Or indeed (subject to correction) - 3 miles, 4 furlongs, 1 chain and about 2 rods (which I guess is the way they'd have measured it at the time of construction - using real chains too) - Mr H. I think I still have one somewhere.... James
12 Juni 2025 um 12:53 -
Mark Thompson gefällt Ben Jendens Beitrag in dem Thema Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
66502 has also bought down the ballast I'm assuming that NR has given to the railway following a previous news story elsewhere a few weeks ago as part of R200. Probably part of said agreement was for a loco as part of the private event. Win win
11 Juni 2025 um 18:07 -
Mark Thompson gefällt mikehartuks Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.
The architectural style of the new station building at Robertsbridge is designed to follow the same style as the Colonel's station building at Tenterden - including the 'corrugated iron' roof covering. The roof covering we used on the toilet...
11 Juni 2025 um 13:42
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Mark Thompson gefällt Brevas Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.
I like the choice of brick - the colour is random. It would look like a new house in a housing estate if all the bricks were the same.
10 Juni 2025 um 22:59 -
Mark Thompson gefällt Miffs Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.
Very impressive - a new landmark building for Robertsbridge and a great facility for the railway. But it also somehow reminded me of this: "I suppose you know what we mean by a station, it has a corrugated roofing; it is not a Clapham Junction"...
10 Juni 2025 um 22:59 -
Mark Thompson erstellte einen Anhang in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.
Just returned from a couple of pints at the George. Snapped this on the way in, with the entrance canopy formwork now almost complete: [ATTACH]
10 Juni 2025 um 20:58
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Mark Thompson antwortete auf das Thema Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
I was just recounting on another thread, that when I was 9, my dad took me on a trip to the Isle of Wight on PS Ryde. We travelled on the tram, then, like the Ryde, in its very last weeks of operation. Both were memorable experiences, so for me,...
10 Juni 2025 um 11:17 -
Mark Thompson antwortete auf das Thema Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
We can be so thankful that they did things like this for us, as it was the end of an era for many things. That same trip also saw us on the Ryde Pier tram, which also must have been in its last weeks of operation. I remember looking down into the...
10 Juni 2025 um 10:59 -
Mark Thompson gefällt johnofwessexs Beitrag in dem Thema Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
My father took me on the Bristol Queen and I can just remember watching the engines and sailing down the Avon Gorge. He thought that my brothers and I should 'experience' things Funnily enough he wasnt really interested in ships, the only trip...
10 Juni 2025 um 10:45 -
Mark Thompson erstellte einen Anhang in dem Thema Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
The Ryde Pier tram and trailer takes its first trip to Smallbrook: [ATTACH] https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1208297744424722&set=a.760159079238593
9 Juni 2025 um 20:33
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Mark Thompson antwortete auf das Thema Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
I wasn't handed a shovel on PS Ryde, but as a 9-year old who was fascinated by what I saw, I did find myself invited onto the engineers bridge, being told which lever to pull, in answer to the telegraph. Amidst a gently moving backdrop of...
9 Juni 2025 um 20:13 -
Mark Thompson gefällt johnofwessexs Beitrag in dem Thema Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
In their later years when they were on special trips, anyone who showed more than a passing interest in the machinery of PS Ryde or the Humber Ferry steamers was in danger of bneing handed a shovel & told to get on with it
9 Juni 2025 um 20:03 -
Mark Thompson gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
Relative to the boiler - so the back is closest to the door. (But when they first get on an engine, it seems everyone gets it wrong - so first time you say to a green cleaner “put some in the back” it goes wanging down at high speed to exactly...
9 Juni 2025 um 20:00
