Railways and People

No 7 Tom Rolt at Nant Gwernol on the Talyllyn Railway:
(Photo by Colin Thursby).

 

Somebody must have told the locals something was happening.
LMS Jubilee No 45596 “Bahamas” arrives at Swanage on 220922 with the rescheduled "Swanage Belle"

 

Steam age meets digital age.
Swanage Driver Nathan Au at Norden on the phone. On arrival back at Swanage the loco (34053 Sir Keith Park) was failed. October 5th 2019.

 

Thousands of children in parties of 200 a day visited the London North Eastern Railway Museum, York, where they were shown over types of engines. These Yorkshire schoolboys in the photograph are sitting on the tender of one of the new L.N.E.R. engines while the driver gives a practical demonstration of how he handles the controls - 1933.
(Photo from John Burrell).

 

Ladies on their lunch brake from the nearby hospital wave as the Scarborough Spa Express heads away from York, 2017


Peter

 

My word! Seems a long time ago 5699 was in a certain shade of red!

 

Selling tickets for footplate rides then finding your seat is in the tender on the coal is a little disappointing, but exciting nevertheless!

 

Premier Dining as long as there is some bacon being cooked on the shovel.

 

Well they may all look the same, but is anybody bothered? A small portion of the admiring crowds at Didcot this weekend for the gathering of the Castles

I have to say what an enjoyable day it was.

Peter

 

Severn Valley Railway:

 

'Lady of Legend' at Irwell Vale, ELR.

 

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'Sir Lamiel' meets 'Sir Nigel', Garsdale, October 1982.

 

It was always the fireman's job to look back to see that the train was complete and following safely as they pulled away. Leaving Ramsbottom ELR 10th March 2023

 

Also from the ELR charter -- whatever the weather !

 

Sybil Mary and Margaret (the names of the locos, not the crew!) at Capel Bangor, VoR, 26/09/2015.

 

'Lady of Legend' leaves Heywood, ELR.

 

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I've seen worse ......

Cheers, Neil

 

We’re just gifted amateurs @Romsey, not professionals