Railways and People

It needed a lot of straps

 

You have obviously not been to Chelsea Flower show then?

 

A 14 year old @Gladiator 5076 at Bristol Temple Meads prior to boarding the Western for a cab ride to Swindon, which I had won in a raffle at the Bristol Bath Road Open Day on October 22 1966.

 

Didn't come from a certain wall twixt Carlisle and Newcastle did it?

 

An everyday scene at Shanklin in 1966

 

Token exchange at New Bridge:

 

One from yesterday......

https://www.flickr.com/photos/duty_druid/54097202038/

 

SNG Trust Engineer has a moment of rest exiting Sharpthorne tunnel

 

D.B. Pacific No. 012 063 at Norden, West Germany with the 16-55 from Rheine on July 8th 1973.

 

Norden, that must be the 10:40 service to Swanage then

 

Wondered how long it would take someone to spot that!

 

Sheffield Park with "Camelot" posing as "Linette"

73097 at Sheffield Park by Stephen Morley, on Flickr

 

Anticipation and Sadness

 

Its still crooked!

 

If you do not do a good job I will make you clean the other side as well.

Although you could probably run a caption competition for it.

 

Guess who.

Durango and Silverton Railway, Colorado, October 1974......crikey, 50 years ago!!

 

Visiting an autumn steam gala… in a country at war

Bill Parker, the founder and owner of the Flour Mill locomotive workshops at Bream in the Forest of Dean, tells how he visited Ukraine in late October to attend a public steam gala which went ahead despite the country being locked in its war with Russia and under threat of regular bombardment.
(From Heritage Railway Magazine).