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15 years ago
'By the light of the silvery moon'
Thanks Morlock I enjoyed that, pity they dont make them like that anymore but then again when was the last time you saw a man with a spade??

...Lister;~)
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rhychydwr
15 years ago
Nice one, as I guessed 1955
Cutting coal in my spare time.
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Most of that routes long gone, this was shot around NY852130 between Stainmore summit at NY885123 in the East and Mouthlock in the West , the quarry guys probably came from nearby Mouthlock which according to the locals was producing stone in 50s. An interesting shot was down off the viaduct which was probably Deepdale at the Barnard Castle End.
The route is still traceable but has disappeared under the A66 in a couple of place particularly going East into Bowes... At Bowes the lovely station building still exists, slowly collapsing but still there.
I also got to the Stainmore summit which can still be traced.

Can you imagine the H&S today if we simply decided "I know, lets set the loco on fire" and also not a high vis in site... how did we manage ::)

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15 years ago
I wonder if cotton waste is still in use anywhere?
Much used when I was an apprentice, ideal for sleeping on or in. ๐Ÿ˜‰
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I'd forgotten that... cotton waste was great bedding in the railway works too! :lol:
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15 years ago
"ICLOK" wrote:

I'd forgotten that... cotton waste was great bedding in the railway works too! :lol:



Did they use those string industrial wipers in railway workshops?
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15 years ago
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Loco' "Leopold", on the down "Dutchman", derailed in the great blizzard of 1891 at Stray Park Camborne.
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Not buying that Spitfire ... thats just cos the tracks crap or more likely subsidence or both... the snow is incidental!!!! ๐Ÿ˜‰ :lol:
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Morlock... you mean the ones that were crap except on sludge and just smeared everything.... Yes in that case :lol:
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15 years ago
"ICLOK" wrote:

Morlock... you mean the ones that were crap except on sludge and just smeared everything.... Yes in that case :lol:



Probably, looked like a string dishcloth, fitters aquired more of them as their service lengthened.
Seem to remember the stores would issue the same number as handed in for washing. ๐Ÿ™‚

sougher
15 years ago
I enjoyed that, many thanks. Sent a link to my grandsons for them to see what snowy winters we had in the past and also to see what the steam engine dinasoars were like and capable of. It brought back memories of standing on Platform 1 at Derby Station waiting the arrival of a steam train from the south to take us north, one felt the platform shudder long before the engine appeared.

Another memory of the snow of Febrary, 1955 was the bad winter up in the Peak and finding the first cases of mxymatosis in rabbits around the Jugholes area. We didn't cave that weekend but spent it instead putting suffering rabbits out of their suffering, and many weekends thereafter. It was horrible, a memory that has forever stuck in my mind.
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Morlock we also had some knitted clothes for removing heavy oil stains on a roll, they were useless and got clotted up in record time... the miserable gits used to make us wash them in turps to get the oil gunge out rather than give us new....

Went to stores once in Wolverton Works and asked for a new pack of these heavy cleaning clothes.. I knocked, the guy appeared at the hatch, I asked and he said we hav'nt got any! But I can see them behind you I replied... No you can't he said, Slammed the door shut and voice shouting come back Thursday when i've got some :curse:
Hence the phrase to be a storeman you need to be a well balanced man... A chip on both shoulders!!! :lol:



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15 years ago
Yep, you'd swear they were paying for the stock. :lol:
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"sougher" wrote:

one felt the platform shudder long before the engine appeared.



Magic times, "Evening Star" had the same effect at Bridgend.

Evening Star a bit further north. ๐Ÿ™‚

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXvF1F-3nTU 
spitfire
15 years ago
Well!!! you can tell that was built in Swindon :angel:
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15 years ago
Really, well it seemed to be working properly! ๐Ÿ˜‰ Good piece of Derby design though.. Brighton also helped abit. :lol:
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sougher
15 years ago
Morlock - thanks for the "Evening Star" on the Settle Carlisle railway film. That took me back even further in time to July, 1951 when four of us plus ruc-sacs, caving and camping gear caught a steam giant from Derby to Ribblehead Station, changing en route at Leeds and Helliefield Junction, where, because our train was late, the Carlisle train had been held up for passengers from Leeds to catch it - would that happen today? I don't think so. Stepping off the train at Ribblehead station with the quarry in the background I wondered where on earth I'd come to, it was the most barren landscape imaginable nothing like Derbyshire. We camped at the back of the Station Inn pub just by the twenty four arched Ribblehead Viaduct, it poured with rain all the time we were there, so although we had done a fair bit of caving we cut short our trip and returned home 12 days later, however, we saw many steam trains travelling across the Viaduct whilst there, never realising that soon the era of steam would end and they would all be replaced by diesel engines. Incidently there had been a major train crash north of the Viaduct at Blea Moor a short time before. Happy memories ๐Ÿ™‚
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15 years ago
That crash dates your visit to 1952, I cant find any more recent accidents there.
It happened on the 18th of April 1952 at 1.23pm. The 9:15 Thames Clyde Express from Glasgow (up working) consisting of 8 coaches and doubleheaded with two locos (pilot loco was Compound 41040, Train Engine was Royal Scot class 46117) was derailed when a brake linkage detached on the 41040s tender splitting the points and derailing 46117 which went onto its side along with the first 4 coaches, the last 4 being derailed only. Amazingly on 34 were injured ๐Ÿ˜ฎ of which 5 were staff. Of those injured 17 were sent home that day.


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thorpey
15 years ago
some smaller drifts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBdxdADmgU 
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