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[Richard A Thackeray]

Selby today, with the swing-bridge, over the Ouse
A slightly damp, cooler day (still decent enough, for just a t-shirt though)



Drivers eye-view, of the bridge
This was part of the East Coast Main-Line, before it was realigned, due to (presumably) subsidence in the Selby coalfield area


http://www.movablebridges.org.uk/BridgePage.asp?BridgeNumber=496



This was after taking daughter to Birkin Fisheries Café, for cake!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I was cycling over the bridge at Church Fenton this morning and saw a plume of steam off to the north of the station, and thought of your post.

So I stopped, and slowly but surely the Flying Scotsman wafted into the station where it stopped to take on water - so I grabbed a few pics

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I then rode off and did a loop of the airfield and when I came back through about half an hour later it was gone, but the water tanker and several photographers were still there. - was something else due through?

60103 is passing through Church Fenton again, on Sunday, not stopping this time though
Scheduled for 10:00, & 21:05 on the return
http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-waverley-03-09-17

http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t17/t0709c.htm

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

60103 is passing through Church Fenton again, on Sunday, not stopping this time though
Scheduled for 10:00, & 21:05 on the return
http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-waverley-03-09-17

http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t17/t0709c.htm

Saw it, slightly delayed, up at Roman Ridge Bridge (A656, where the line goes under the Castleford - Aberford road), just north of 'Peckfield Bar', where the A63 (Selby-Leeds road intersects)
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/125375

The pics aren't that good, as it was an old Fuji XP compact, that I keep for slipping into a jersey pocket, etc...

 

[tribanjules]

[QUOTE 4847202, member: 45"]Just got back. Very long day but very enjoyable. Hanging out of the back window while it charged up the Lickey Incline was particularly good, as was the driver forgetting to stop at our station.[/QUOTE]
What did it sound like giving it some beans up the lickey incline ?

 

[SteveF]

Having a pleasant pint overlooking the swing bridge at Reedham..

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Whilst out with daughter this morning, I pulled over to photograph quite possibly the last remaining (visible) structure connected with the narrow-gauge railway that ran between Ledston Luck Colliery, & Peckfield Colliery, adjacent to the Leeds-York main-line, where it was loaded onto wagons

I was driving from Castleford, along the (A656) 'Barnsdale Road', which becomes the 'Ridge Road', after Peckfield Bar (where A63, Leeds - Selby crosses it)

Below this occupation bridge is a cutting, albeit very heavily overgrown...
I've noticed the Gate before, but never quite made the connection



http://www.geoffspages.co.uk/specials/ledstonluck.htm


This link, should(!!) open a 1954 OS map of the area
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=53.7901&lon=-1.3432&layers=10&b=1

This picture shows the line, alongside the RidgeRoad, with the Leeds-York railway cutting visible

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

60103 is passing through Church Fenton again, on Sunday, not stopping this time though
Scheduled for 10:00, & 21:05 on the return
http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-waverley-03-09-17

http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t17/t0709c.htm

The 'Waverley' is scheduled again, for tomorrow morning
If I don't head out with Wakefield Triathlon Club, I may try & time my ride to co-incide with it passing under the A656 (between Micklefield & Garforth)

http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t17/t0813a.htm

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Just like that episode of The Simpsons


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-eng...museum-in-bid-to-preserve-1960s-uk-hovertrain

 

[BrumJim]

For all you fans of electric trains in general, and multiple units in particular, the Electric Railway museum in Coventry is closing, and the last open day is coming up soon:
https://electricrailwaymuseum.co.uk/
Sunday 8th October.

I'm afraid I shall be washing my hair that day, so don't expect to see me.

 

[TheDoctor]

Bugger. I might have to get along to that.
BTW, is it sad that while cycling on the Monsal trail this weekend, I wanted to make 'Chuff chuff' noises in all the tunnels?

 

[BrumJim]

BTW, is it sad that while cycling on the Monsal trail this weekend, I wanted to make 'Chuff chuff' noises in all the tunnels?

Yes.

 

[TheDoctor]

BTW, is it sad that while cycling on the Monsal trail this weekend, I wanted to make 'Chuff chuff' noises in all the tunnels?

Yes.

Succinct!

 

[robjh]

There's another thread going on at the moment about 1987, which reminded me of this picture I took in the summer of that year in Leicester. The last of the Peaks still had a few months more to go on the Midland mainline at that time, occasionally standing in for HSTs and hauling parcels trains and the like.

 

[SteveF]

Bugger. I might have to get along to that.
BTW, is it sad that while cycling on the Monsal trail this weekend, I wanted to make 'Chuff chuff' noises in all the tunnels?

As I recall, the tunnel on the Tissington trail at Ashbourne has a soundtrack of a train, quite eerie

 

[classic33]

There's another thread going on at the moment about 1987, which reminded me of this picture I took in the summer of that year in Leicester. The last of the Peaks still had a few months more to go on the Midland mainline at that time, occasionally standing in for HSTs and hauling parcels trains and the like.
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"Vampire", withdrawn 10:40, 4th Febuary 1988.