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Will be interesting to see what it looks like when rolled out over a whole fleet and how somewhere like King’s Cross or Paddington will look like with stock in this livery at every platform; especially after being exposed to suitably seasonal weather and under several layers of dirt.
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Interesting lunchtime strolling around the site at Ruddington (and a very enjoyable ride on the miniature railway, hauled by a superb model B1).
There was some shunting going on which was interesting to see. The frames and cab of a tank engine were taken out of one shed hauled by the Cl37 which...
You get a view of Tewksbury Abbey across the fields around Ashchurch when heading towards Birmingham from Cheltenham.
Tenuous maybe but as you approach Hereford from the south you can see Hereford Cathedral.
Apologies if the wrong place to post (relative newby here)-was changing trains at Cheltenham at lunchtime and saw D213 come through-sounded and smelled fantastic!
There was a BBC Film circa 1987 called The Little Train to Lynton-2 episodes-and on one of these someone was privately running a short stretch of line in one of the cuttings-perhaps this? Both episodes used to be on YouTube I think.
Unsure about a mouse or a rat, but a ferret boarded a train at Long Eaton some years ago and proceeded to run around a lot before eating the driver's lunch.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/3039021.stm
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