Recent content by johngie

DP2 is correct but it wasn't actually a Deltic (although it looked like one). IIRC was was the prototype for the Class 50, which was virtually the same mechanically but with different body style. johngie

Name is John - getting near the "three-score years and ten" so I have a few memories! Like crawling over a Metrovick EM1 when I worked briefly at that company. Using lines that are long gone (Bangor-Bethesda, Bangor-Amlwch, Bangor-Caernarfon-Afonwen and Llanberis and Nantlle branches) as well as...

Chester is also served by Northern Rail, a company that runs what must be one of the very few "Parliamentary" trains (Chester-Liverpool via Halton curve)!

I've only just joined this forum (where's it been all my life :-) but I would like to praise the staff at York just under a year ago whilst a Pathfinder "overnight" tour to Scotland was stopped their for an hour or so. Considering the number of photographers all over the station I personally...