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Discuție în 'Bullhead Memories' creată de Matt37401, 16 Iun 2014.

  1. gwalkeriow

    gwalkeriow Well-Known Member

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    Go back to 56A Wakefield in the early 1960s to watch my Grandfather driving :)
     
  2. 30854

    30854 Resident of Nat Pres

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    ..... and ride nearly as well!!
     
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  3. 4468BenV

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    I have so many choices, some that have already been suggested by others like 3rd July 1938 to watch Mallard go by, the filming of the Titfield Thunderbolt film just so I could experience Lion in working order.
    Being greedy I'd want to go and see my wee Barclay running back in about 1956 up at the gypsum quarry where it worked all its life. I'd also like to go back in time to experience my local line, the Furness Railway in its heyday and see the 4-4-0 express locos and the big Baltic tanks go by.
     
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  4. Cartman

    Cartman Part of the furniture

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    Go back to 1966 ish, armed with sufficient funds to buy a loco. The choice being either an A4, or a WD 2-8-0. And pick the WD!!
     
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  5. johnofwessex

    johnofwessex Resident of Nat Pres

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    Ditto the HST??
     
  6. johnofwessex

    johnofwessex Resident of Nat Pres

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    My late father alluded to have travelled on one of these sets on the Selsey Tramway
     
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  7. 30854

    30854 Resident of Nat Pres

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    £2 grand, whoch would have saved an LBSC K Class doesn't sound a lot nowadays, but trust me, it was a hell of a lot of money back in 1963!
     
  8. Matt37401

    Matt37401 Nat Pres stalwart

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    How much for something like a J37?
     
  9. 30854

    30854 Resident of Nat Pres

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    Probs about the same. My TARDIS doesn't work either. :(
     
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  10. Matt37401

    Matt37401 Nat Pres stalwart

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    My TARDIS sort of worked today, I had a day out over to Norwich much as I love the sound of a 12CSVT power unit in a class 37, there were things like the smell and the hiss of the brakes, that really took me back to my yoof, it's a really strange thing to describe, but the slight tang of diesel fumes mixed in with toilet cleaner(!) and compressed air, really took me back today, sounds really weird but there's nothing quite like it!
     
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  11. 30854

    30854 Resident of Nat Pres

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    And I blame the eardrum shattering sound of Whizzos under the roof at Paddington 50 years ago for my tinnitus .... despite which, the YouTube clip of "Western Champion" performing a full startup from cold at Blaenau Ffestiniog is still one of my favourites!
     
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  12. sir gilbert claughton

    sir gilbert claughton Well-Known Member

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    i'd like some of those pennies that got the 8F treatment
     
  13. johnofwessex

    johnofwessex Resident of Nat Pres

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    Racing through Dawlish behind a Peak..............
     
  14. The Green Howards

    The Green Howards Nat Pres stalwart

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    A ride on the entire Muddle & Go Nowhere.

    And a ride on the Southwold Railway.
     
  15. paullad1984

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    ..... Smuggle the Falcon out of the scrapyard.
     
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  16. Matt37401

    Matt37401 Nat Pres stalwart

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    The Diesel Traction Group wanted to buy Falcon, but when BR bought it from Brush there was a clause in the contract that it couldn't be sold on to anybody else.
     
  17. Matt37401

    Matt37401 Nat Pres stalwart

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    Not that long ago,but can I just go back to work? I never thought Id say this but I'm missing the 387 units opposite on the carriage sidings, and the 66 that said it was lunchtime.
     
  18. martin1656

    martin1656 Nat Pres stalwart Friend

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    If I could, I would go back to 1967,with enough money to buy W31 Off Kings , to stop it being cut up and try to by the last 02 at Newport at the time off Jolicliffes 33 wasn't it? hire a low loader to move both 24 and 31 to Newport
     
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  19. paullad1984

    paullad1984 Member

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    Back to when the peel to Douglas section of the isle of man railway was still in place, with a couple of million and buy it, some of they're coaches and a few of the beyer peacocks and run it as my own big trainset. Probably 14 Thornhill, 5 Mona.
     
  20. 30854

    30854 Resident of Nat Pres

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    I'd have loved to see ex-LBSC saloon 6986 make it to preservation, but back then, and rotting quietly in the sidings at Ryde St.Johns Road, converted for pw purposes, t'was deemed 'past it'. If only we'd known then just how much expertise all those magnificent restorers would go on to accumulate! Isn't hindsight wonderful?
     
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