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Roadkill said:
It wasn't running on Saturday. Plus, Clan Line didn't make its scheduled stop at Guildford on Friday afternoon 'cos it was running late so I only got one photo of it approaching the station - and even that wasn't a very good one. My weekend's anorakishness was a bit of a disaster really. :o :D

As partial consolation, a video from last year of
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Do you know how much longer the Hull Trains one is going to be running, by the way? Wasn't it only supposed to be until March or something?
 
Roadkill said:
Did the anorak have a megaphone, so as to be able to lean out and shout 'Sing to me baby!' more loudly?

No?

Oh well, can't have been me then. :p
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Wow, you have a megaphone to go with the anorak, limp sandwiches and flask of weak lemon drink?

*in awe*
 
teuchter said:
Do you know how much longer the Hull Trains one is going to be running, by the way? Wasn't it only supposed to be until March or something?
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There seems to be a bit of confusion about it. They've got an Adelante being prepared for service at the moment. However, Hull Trains (yes I did ask :o ) seemed to suggest that 86101 would be in service for a bit longer, whereas the Rail article I read suggested it would have been replaced by now.
 
They should keep the 86 for longer! It obvious attracts extra business for them (all the anoraks) as well as normal passengers. Win win!

Plus who wants to go a on a crappy adelante anyway? :confused:
 
Last train to Derby Friargate on the GNR. This video starts off at Etwall Station, which ran right behind my old school and ends with a view of the Goods Depot. This still stands today, is grade II listed and in a sorry state.

 
Apologies for bumping this thread, but I had to add this.

, shot from a car running alongside the train. The camerawork is perfect, and the engine sounds great.
 
Yay, it's back! :D Cheers for the bump, teuchter. :)

This one's alarming: train driver's view of a very near miss with some idiots trying to cross the line.

Oliver Cromwell is back in steam, seen here on its first day in service on the Great Central.

Lovely archive film of freight trains on the old Great Central main line.

Footplate ride on King Edward I on the main line.

Tangmere at speed on the main line last September. I think the first sequence was shot shortly after I'd seen it blast through Hele level crossing, near Exeter. It was an awesome sight.

Clan Line at Guildford in April, when I went down to see it and it didn't stop. Come to think of it, I remember seeing the bloke filming this. And earlier the same day, near Gomshall.

:cool:
 
Ever wondered what would have happened - and what you would have been wearing - if you had been riding on the Glasgow Underground in the early seventies and the train had broken down? .

And Francie and Josie have .
 
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I've just finished Andrew Roden's book on the Duchesses, and it prompted me to have a look on Youtube. I came up with some lovely recent videos of mainline steam:

charging up Shap

on Beattock bank - lovely bit of filming IMO

The new loco, on a loaded test run.

in Britain at the National Railway Museum.

Long video of on a Waterloo-Exeter train - some excellent shots.

And on a rather different note, on an open day at Merehead Quarry.
 
So I'm sitting at the computer watching videos of steam trains and my 18 month old son climbs on to my lap, points at the screen and quite plainly goes "Toot Toot"

Then he's happily sat watching them with me for the next five or ten minutes. It must be genetic or something :D
 
cybertect said:
So I'm sitting at the computer watching videos of steam trains and my 18 month old son climbs on to my lap, points at the screen and quite plainly goes "Toot Toot"

Then he's happily sat watching them with me for the next five or ten minutes. It must be genetic or something :D
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watch that video that bees linked to, show it to your son, then tell him 'those are daddy's friends from the internet!' then watch his bottom lip quiver as he bursts into tears with fright :)
 
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