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Tech, it was good to see your re-emergence too! At least the end of the day job is in sight so that I can concentrate on a) the relation programme - yes, goodbye to "The Smoke" and b) my now part time job of selling books - OK it does not pay as much but is far more rewarding than the Monday...

Mr 13, I really feel for you with 180 odd weeks to go but it's worth hanging in there. I have about 7 weeks to go before its all over. I too am not counting but I did a quick tally today and I have about 20 commuting days left (I have leave to take and also work at home once a week). As ever...

Hi everyone, I am back! Albeit briefly You’ll all probably have noticed my absence from these parts of the world in recent months – to put it simply, other matters have got in the way which have prevented me having numerous trips out. A combination of issues such having a (growing) business to...

Streatham Fast Spur In the down the 07:11 Victoria to Epsom is a good candidate for the spur in the down direction. It's formed off of an up working from East Grinstead and has a 7 minute turnaround in Victoria using platform 18. The East Grinstead is often late, leading to the 07:11 leaving...

LSG - Your bus trips were not unique in being full of characters. I did a few in my number crunching days. The ones that I remember best were a full day tour of the sheds in the Central Belt in Scotland when there used to be day excursions from Bristol to Edinburgh. Full of characters and run by...

Agree that Amberley can be a bit hit and miss. Some are just pure pulp fiction and basically cr@p but others are quite good - thinking the series on Industrial Locos for example Be aware that the latest Strathwood D&E titles are a limited print run of 500 and some are already sold out at the...

Looking back from upon high, yes, it certainly was living on the 50s. But in those days, that was the norm. Leave work on a Friday (if you could be bothered to go in) head for the nearest 50 and pack up on a Sunday night. Into work on the Monday - repeat the following weekend .....

I'm back with more "Tales on the Rails"! 4th December 1983 47565 Bristol Temple Meads To Swindon 50034 Swindon to Paddington 5th December 1982 50019 Bristol Temple Meads to Paddington 6th December 1981 was another decent day on the 50s 50003 Paddington to Exeter St Davids 50017 Exeter St...

As well as the 80, I'm sure other Sutton routes qualify such as 93, 151 and 154

A bit more from me and while I spent a fair bit of time in the 50s, I'll try to add a little variety 27th November 1979 50010 Bristol Temple Meads to Newton Abbot 50013 Newton Abbot to Bristol Temple Meads 28th November 1980 - just a quick spin to Bristol 33027 Keynsham to Bristol Temple Meads...

40065 - I thought for a moment that I was on the same train as you but when I consulted The Haulage Book, it was the Welsh Wonder Relief that I did which ran a week later. That will doubtlessly feature in my OTDIH for 2nd December in due course. 24th November 1979 A full day's 50 bashing...

Started out about 09:00 and finished well after midnight on the 17th. Train was due into Bristol TM at 23:54 but the Westbury diversion added about 1/2 hour

15th November 1981 and I was heading home after a weekend back "home" 50043 Bristol Temple Meads to Gloucester 50036 Gloucester to Stroud 50045 Stroud to Cheltenham Spa 50045 Cheltenham Spa to Paddington 16th November 1980 and I was again returning to the smoke after a weekend at the parents...

All on VEPs - by then the REPs were 20xx numbers

Some more moves from the KJ archives 6th November 1994 47828 Paddington to Banbury via Oxford no suitable loco hauled back so 165035 Banbury to Paddington via High Wycombe 7th November 1984 Cannot find a lot of interest so here's one of my little forays down the Southend Victoria branch...

Got a bit of catching up to do 30th October 1999 5909 Wimbledon to Waterloo 321431 Euston to Wembley Central 321414 Wembley Central to Euston 47810 Paddington to Reading 43143+43175 Reading to Didcot 43142+43174 Didcot to Paddington 31st October 1981 50005 Paddington to Newton Abbot 31118...

There's plenty of folk on here who "collect" Spoons. OK I have a few to my name (47 to be precise, including a couple of closed ones) but I can think of at least one illustrious soul of this parish (noddy) who has nigh on the lot if not all of them. My tally will increase once I give up being a...

The 27th October is not throwing up much of interest 27th October 2003 43019+43170 Paddington to Cardiff on a work trip I returned to Bristol the following evening. 43019 is of note being written off in the accident at Ufton Nervet level crossing 28th October 1985 saw one of my regular...

2014 is the only time that I seemed to have done anything of interest on 25th October when it was a full blown trip in Greater Manchester taking the red pen out for a jolly! 25th October 2014 Dud 390047 provided the traction From Euston to Stockport. Thereafter the following fell victim to my...

Other places not suggested thus far include Cardiff/Bristol I'm sure you could bag quite a few if you could manage a long day with say a minimum of 4-5 hours at each place. One perhaps for next year when the days start to draw out again.