The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Mad Doug Biker]

Why do you think I put their names up!

But you made out that I forgot when in reality I was just responding to what was written in the article!

Just for that I'm not going to be posting this interesting site link....0
http://www.worldrailfans.info/forum/index.php?sid=417fdace5402f8559c3b2a5be5ebb13

AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!! ANOTHER FORUM!! I'M OFF TO HIIIIDE!!

With another forum, I'd NEVER leave the house at all!!

 

[Milzy]

They lose interest just outside Leeds!

It has to pass through Wakefield to get into Leeds station then goes back. I'll just replicate the event with my Hornby train set then.

 

[classic33]

But you made out that I forgot when in reality I was just responding to what was written in the article!



AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!! ANOTHER FORUM!! I'M OFF TO HIIIIDE!!

I never posted the link, so no other forum!

I posted the names of the other two crew members because they were missing from the article. How could I have known that you had known their names, let alone had time to forget them!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I never posted the link, so no other forum!

Oh, right, Mum's the word

I posted the names of the other two crew members because they were missing from the article. How could I have known that you had known their names, let alone had time to forget them!!

Have I ever told you my Grandpa was a fireman on Mallard in 1938??

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

50014

Warspite

 

[vernon]

50014

Looking through my 1974 Ian Allen Combined Volume, I needed to see four class 50s to complete the set. They were not named then. I don't recall seeing any of them with name plates.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Looking through my 1974 Ian Allen Combined Volume, I needed to see four class 50s to complete the set. They were not named then. I don't recall seeing any of them with name plates.

They were only named when they moved to the Western, and became a 'new' 'Warship Class' of sorts.

Benbow Agincourt Warspite Valiant etc etc.

 

[classic33]

Oh, right, Mum's the word



Have I ever told you my Grandpa was a fireman on Mallard in 1938??

Was he the LMS one trying to put the fire out or was he just a passenger on the trai?

 

[Speicher]

@Mad Doug Biker

Are there any passenger trains in Corsica that run to a timetable, or is it just Private Charters?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

@Mad Doug Biker

Are there any passenger trains in Corsica that run to a timetable, or is it just Private Charters?

I don't know. I'd need to look it up, sorry.

EDIT: Yes, seemingly there are!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemins_de_Fer_de_la_Corse

http://www.corsicabus.org/Train_services.html

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g187139-i701-k6228030-Trains_of_Corsica-Corsica.html

http://home.nordnet.fr/~lbeaumadier/index.shtml

http://home.nordnet.fr/~lbeaumadier/photos.html

Very picturesque, you lucky thing!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There were 2 steam charters around here yesterday

I missed them both in the morning;
'Ebor Streak' (Bittern) http://87.106.232.248/tours/t13/t0629c.htm (would have liked to have seen it at Great Heck @ a decent speed)
'Scarborough Flyer' http://87.106.232.248/tours/t13/t0629b.htm

I rode over to Pontefract in the evening though, to see it at BagHill Station tking on water, & the driver managing a superb re-start on the (quite sharp) curve, with some wheel-slip, but not much

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

92MPH!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23109971

 

[Speicher]

@Mad Doug Biker

I have been watching the Tour de France in Corsica. It looks a lovely place for a holiday, mountains and seaside. No definite plans as yet.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I rode over to Pontefract in the evening though, to see it at BagHill Station tking on water, & the driver managing a superb re-start on the (quite sharp) curve, with some wheel-slip, but not much

Like this clip from last year at BagHill

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

@Mad Doug Biker

I have been watching the Tour de France in Corsica. It looks a lovely place for a holiday, mountains and seaside. No definite plans as yet.

Remember when we agreed to escape all the guff and go to Germany when people here are celebrating.....I mean 'commemorating' the start of the first world war next year?

Well, why not Corsica instead?