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Re: Stations and places
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:31 am
by R. pike
Three of the accidents here involved Deltics. I have no box diagram for this location though i do have a lot of S&T plans and locking charts given to me by the locking fitter who relocked the frame after the 1967 'accident'.
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:26 am
by Ferrybridge Flyer
Just the kind of place to sit and read "The Signalman" on a stormy night!!
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:29 pm
by R. pike
Try reading ''A Significant Accident'' ISBN-13: 978-1844260461 or
http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docume ... on1967.pdf
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:12 pm
by hq1hitchin
Ferrybridge Flyer wrote:Just the kind of place to sit and read "The Signalman" on a stormy night!!
With just a Tilley lamp hissing away for illumination, FF - don't recall they had mains electricity there
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Re: Stations and places
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:25 pm
by Ferrybridge Flyer
Talk about sobering reading.What a thing to have on your conscience.
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:18 pm
by hq1hitchin
Ferrybridge Flyer wrote:Talk about sobering reading.What a thing to have on your conscience.
I've said it before on here but no apologies for repeating it - he was a disgrace to railwaymen. I heard some while back that he died, I hope he rots in hell.
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:53 pm
by R. pike
After reading the book and chatting to some S&T guys who knew a bit about it i reckon they could have got rid of him long before the incident.
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:58 pm
by Ferrybridge Flyer
One thing i will say,hq1,with regards to railmen (in my experience anyway) he was an exception rather than the rule.You're a decent lot on the whole.
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:03 pm
by Malcolm
I'Mmmmm Baaaackkkk!
Hello Boys,
Back in Blighty after 20 years, and boy is it a shock. Never mind. Got no choice. Back for good and looking for work, but in the meantime to remind you of what I like best:
Malcolm
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:18 pm
by 52A
Welcome home Malcolm, good to have you back.
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:28 am
by Trestrol
Yes welcome back did you need a special visa to end up in Swindon? they have some funny ideas there about railways.
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:24 pm
by Ferrybridge Flyer
Welome home Malcolm!! Have you got over the shock yet??Never mind different country,i bet it feels like a different world!Good luck with your jobsearch,i've just been out of work for 8 months,and it was no picnic.Don't expect much help from the jobcentre folk-they're rather snowed under at the moment!!Managed to get a job myself,but i was starting to worry.
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:48 pm
by Malcolm
TRESTROL wrote:Yes welcome back did you need a special visa to end up in Swindon? they have some funny ideas there about railways.
Yes, GWR land is a little strange, but the museum is okay I suppose. Only temporary though as I am looking for work anywhere in the UK.
In the meantime here are two more.
Malcolm
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:56 pm
by Malcolm
More good shots.
Malcolm
Re: Stations and places
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:50 am
by Ferrybridge Flyer
Yet more cracking photos-you really are spoiling us!Bet you dont have any of Flamborough station in East Yorkshire(he says hopefully!).