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Posted 01/04/2010 - 23:16
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GX10Cliff wrote:
Its a cracking video as well
Yeah, just rub it in.
Its a cracking video as well
Yves (another one of those crazy Canucks)
Posted 07/04/2010 - 19:11
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Sorry I've come late to this thread, just discovered it. Great set of pictures, expecially the line up of scrap engines at Woodhams. Those WD 0-6-0 saddle tanks were used everywhere, both by the Coal Board and the Eastern and Nothern Eastern regions of British Rail where they were class J94.
david
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Posted 08/04/2010 - 10:13
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Cliff,
What a lovely series, but the last image is a sad one. I suppose at least some of those were retained and restored, as you say.
What a lovely series, but the last image is a sad one. I suppose at least some of those were retained and restored, as you say.
Posted 08/04/2010 - 11:40
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i-Berg,
Dai Woodham, the owner of the Barry scrapyard became very sympathetic to the railway preservation movement. There came a point when no more breaking-up of scrap locomotives was carried out.
In the 1980s, a group of preservationists including at least one MP made a visit to the yard and even managed to get Woodham to chip-in to a collection towards preservation of one of the locos present.
It was not all gloom because loco No. 71000 on the right of that shot was preserved and performs well to this day. See bwichmawr's West Somerset Railway sets and my 'Steam Survivor' pic of a couple of days ago.
Regards
Dai Woodham, the owner of the Barry scrapyard became very sympathetic to the railway preservation movement. There came a point when no more breaking-up of scrap locomotives was carried out.
In the 1980s, a group of preservationists including at least one MP made a visit to the yard and even managed to get Woodham to chip-in to a collection towards preservation of one of the locos present.
It was not all gloom because loco No. 71000 on the right of that shot was preserved and performs well to this day. See bwichmawr's West Somerset Railway sets and my 'Steam Survivor' pic of a couple of days ago.
Regards
Peter
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Posted 08/04/2010 - 12:20
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Thanks PG - that is good news indeed (and for making that connection for me between the respective series).
In the UK, you're fortunate in that you still have an extensive steam collection by the looks, notwithstanding the many that were scrapped.
In the UK, you're fortunate in that you still have an extensive steam collection by the looks, notwithstanding the many that were scrapped.
Posted 08/04/2010 - 12:37
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Hope you don't mind me crashing in on your thread Cliff but here's Duke of Gloucester after restoration, taken at Locomotion, the Shildon branch of the National Railway Museum. It really is a massive engine. It dwarfed the V2 Green Arrow parked alongside.
david
Hope you don't mind me crashing in on your thread Cliff but here's Duke of Gloucester after restoration, taken at Locomotion, the Shildon branch of the National Railway Museum. It really is a massive engine. It dwarfed the V2 Green Arrow parked alongside.
david
Posted 08/04/2010 - 13:50
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Magic !!!!!!
Lovely pic too !!
Tony
Lovely pic too !!
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Posted 08/04/2010 - 13:53
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Who could fail to be stirred by something like that hissing away, even better going at full pelt.
Lovely pic, David.
Lovely pic, David.
Peter
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Posted 08/04/2010 - 14:11
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That's an impressive engine David, and appears to have been restored with care and pride. And nicely shot of course!
Posted 08/04/2010 - 14:36
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pgweber ------ that`s why we used to stand by the side of the tracks in all weathers just to get a glimpse of them - anoraks maybe but very happy ones.
Come back schooldays - pre-puberty and pre-girls - ah - the good life !!
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Posted 08/04/2010 - 22:02
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davidtrout wrote:
Hope you don't mind me crashing in on your thread Cliff but here's Duke of Gloucester after restoration,
david
David, I dont mind at all, post as many pictures of the Duke as you like they are always welcome.
Hope you don't mind me crashing in on your thread Cliff but here's Duke of Gloucester after restoration,
david
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