Recent content by peterslade15@yah

If nobody wants to bother to reply to a posting (with exception - thanks- to "midnight Sun"|), I feel as a new communicant that I will not be attempting to share my observations on our hobby with you all in future. You've obviously all far more entrenched and cosily established. I honestly...

I was at Hornsey last week and glimpsed a pair of Colas 56 or 57's getting ready to exit Ferme Park towing a rake of 313's on their final journey north ...

Were they then? ... and when ?:rolleyes::rolleyes: A 37 hauling a rake of doomed 313's into oblivion would be sad, but worth looking at. Bit gloomy though .. :(:(

Were they then? ... and when ?:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Yeah - remember those well! you're dead right there!

Takes me back to my early teens when, with my Geordie cousins, we used to ride around on The Blyth & Tyne into and out of Ashington, now being talked about re-instatement. Take a look if you're in the area, it's all still in place ..... now on GBRf workings to and from Tyne Yard to Lynemouth on...

Was that what was called "The TyneRider" ? i remember those - we had Geordie relations in those days

Well OK the - nobody's said "in service" - Or was that implied? If so, I would probably have to go with the post that suggested the 73's on the Sleepers

Or as I have just posted - a 313 for scrapping or hauled preservation on a heritage line?

For scrapping at HNC , Rotherham, or possibly 1 or 2 units here and there for preservation,m n stripped and for haulage? Peter S