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09 009 was still at Miles Platting (Collyhurst Street stone terminal) on the 24th of July when I saw it last. It was stabled about 500 yards further west than where it usually stables.

I grew up in Peterborough and was a regular platform ender between 1975 and the mid 80's. I only started using a 35mm camera in 1981 but sadly took few general shots. It is not great quality but this is the view of the north end of the station one Sunday in late July 1981 as seen from Spital...

Both my wife and I contracted it last November from our 25 year old son who got it from a work colleague. Being over 55 with underlying health conditions I thought it was the end but ironically son was more ill than us probably because he had a higher initial exposure. Each day we developed...

I lived in Peterborough at this time and spent many hours spotting either on the station or in the station car Park. In the late 70's /early 80's the service to Hitchen was worked by two car Cambridge based 101 sets. I am fairly sure the service was hourly and I certainly didn't record more than...

There were 4 out today: 607 with 150 285, 609 with 150 256, 616 with 150 253. and 622 with 150 242. 601 was stabled at Treherbert and 602 and 625 were on Canton with one other not identified.

Not entirely true. For a few years after closure it was possible to walk through the new tunnel. According to eye witness accounts there are two side chambers set into the tunnel walls with shafts going up to the surface....

Noted yesterday were: Southport - Hunts Cross services: 014 with 138, 020 with 137, 024 with 002, 008 with 115, 033 with 005, 143 with 009, 027 with 012, and 108 with 123. Kirkby and Ormskirk services: 126, 128, 029, 131, 013, 112, and 015. Chester line services: 111, 125, 031, 025, and 127...

08 584 was my last BR 08 for sight and it was a regular at Meldon Quarry. I was lucky - the weekend I decided to go and get it I found it stabled at Taunton..

I started spotting in 1975 and was a regular platform ender at Peterborough. I didn't get to Scotland until 1980 and despite subsequent repeated visits the Haymarket based class 20's were very elusive partly because they were outbased at DT for Fife coal trains. I managed to get to DT in August...

Well I'll be damned so there is.....

True, Dai Woodham was a businessman and not a sentimentalist as far as his assets were concerned. By making a rational business decision to concentrate on scrapping wagons which were easy and quicker (thus more lucrative) than loco's it gave time for groups of people to raise funds to buy...

I had to remove my Hornby express points because they broke (tie bar failure) after a very short time. In my opinion Peco points are much more robust but you do have to cut flexi track to appropriate lengths to maintain distance between running lines if you use the medium radius points which are...

I have always been fascinated by the Barry scrapyard legend and remember getting my first 'Barry List' and studying what loco's were still in existence. I first visited the yard on March 4th 1982 when there were still 74 locos in the yard but by then the diesels were long gone. Being very...

Asbestos I believe.

This was most likely filmed on or around 5th April 2020 when 056 and 007 moved from Gascoigne Wood to Eastleigh. 142 003 moved on its own on the 13th.

It is all of these things. Bernie Gunther is a detective in the murder squad in Berlin in the 1930's. The novels cover aspects of his life and the author interweaves a current story with some aspect of his past. In simple terms the early novels cover Berlin in the 1930's and the late 40's. Later...

Using google Earth I calculated it to be 943.5 miles. It took a long time to do and the accuracy from this is probably plus or minus 10 miles based on routes I've done and compared to official sources. Hope this helps... 1609754090 I did almost the same amount of miles in 2020 - 10,615 compared...

Many thanks, I was wondering....

It is not a Merchant Navy - their plates were round and mounted on the boiler. Judging by the style of the crest above the nameplate it is a rebuilt West Country so it is after June 1957 when the first was rebuilt...

The Bernie Gunther novels by Phillip Kerr are superb.