NOSTALGIA - Real Railways

[Meld]

Sit back and enjoy this slideshow - Real trains on a real railway

http://flickr.com/photos/barkingbill/sets/72157603696416788/show/


TBW - Enjoy mate

 

[theblackwatch]

Sit back and enjoy this slideshow - Real trains on a real railway

http://flickr.com/photos/barkingbill/sets/72157603696416788/show/


TBW - Enjoy mate

Some stonking stuff there (and a few spoons!). All from before my time (I didn't enter traffic till the 70s), but fascinating all the same.

 

[Coxster]

Sit back and enjoy this slideshow - Real trains on a real railway

http://flickr.com/photos/barkingbill/sets/72157603696416788/show/

Some interesting shots there. So, we all now know what the railway was like back when you were in your late thirties

 

[Meld]

Some interesting shots there. So, we all now know what the railway was like back when you were in your late thirties

Glad your enjoying

Damon - Stop smoking the same stuff as god

 

[Coxster]

Damon - Stop smoking the same stuff as god

But it's very addictive....

 

[Respite]

Sit back and enjoy this slideshow - Real trains on a real railway

Now I seldom use this phrase, but crikey that really is HELLFIRE!

Just like reading my past present books & the collection of diesels in the regions (circa 1970's) I have, its lovely to see "proper" railways but so depressing when you look at the state they are in now.

 

[me123]

I must say, it was enjoyable to see wht the railways looked like before I was born Thanks for posting that, Meld.

 

[Craig]

I've seen them before, some cracking shots there. This one is my favourite, taken 16 years before I was born :roll:

These two sites are well worth a look too:
http://www.monkeysnaps3.fotopic.net/
http://tracks.revisited.fotopic.net/

 

[Meld]

Give you that one its a cracking shot but how about the next one http://www.flickr.com/photos/barkingbill/2128271721/ Steaming EM2s Now that really is a rare shot to see one actually heating the stock

 

[Bill EWS]

Thanks for that great link Meld. The railways as I remember and worked on them. Great shots at Aberdeen Ferryhill Depot and the great shots of the Western Hydrauics that I also worked on. Hoped that I may have been seen in one, but no luck. It really was a different railway back then and a joy to work on. In spite of the lower wages and in particular, the grimmie conditions in the steam days. Fantastic, not a miserable, cheapie plastic Unit in site.