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Am I doomed? Shall I also send off for a Hushpuppy catalogue too. Cherry wood tobacco for my church warden? Help.
It's called "fail" magazine D_S - some kid must've had a marker pen out in the shop
I'd rather be caught attempting to purchase a copy of 'Big and Bouncy Over 40 Grannies You Want' than Rail Magazine. You perv.
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It's alright fella, I hope to be subscribing to [b]What Hydraulic Fitting?[/b] soon. 😀
I've just been scouring the local second hand shops for vinyl records 😳
I buy it about 6 times a year, but I'm not actually interested in rolling stock....
Derek i bought one as well, its a good read, the Railway Magazine goes into more detail though.
Are there any pics of dirty thirties in there? Is 37425 in it? That's Concrete Bob, my fave loco.
You've reached the end of the line.....
a bit of news about the 37,s being scrapped by DB shenker ex EWS, and sold, and the 56,s being reinstated for timber trafic.
Next you'll be taking up road racing
EWS seem to be running mainly 66s on the lines round here.
I do like a Type 57 Thunderbird.
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Did you think it was going to help improve your cornering in an MBR style?
They got there name from Thunderbirds the tv programe and are named after the puppet characters.
anyone seen a new class 70 thing, designed by someone without a sence of humour, no wonder they droped one on the docks and wrote it off.
EWS seem to be running mainly 66s on the lines round here.
theyre now german owned and called DB SCHENKER
I've just had my brother saying how they cut the end of this train 156417 off at the end of this video
To replace it with new parts to look like this
EWS seem to be running mainly 66s on the lines round here.
theyre now german owned and called DB SCHENKER
And they're mainly running 66s as they've got 250 of the buggers compared to a handful of 56s, 59s, 60s, 92s, 86s, 67s and 90s.
I remember the first 66s arriving when I worked at Rail House, seemed like the entire building was frantic to get a glimspe of the new loco. I'm surprised the building didn;t fall over as everyone rushed to one side to see it running through the stration
Way back in 1988, I was practically midwife to the class 90 and 91. Commissioning them at BREL in Crewe. They were way ahead of their time IMHO. After a 21 year hiatus I'm getting back into rail, writing the tech manuals for NYC Transit's new toys.
Had a shag in the equipment bay of 91006 FYI!
Oh good god .....do you want to buy a british rail rulebook and a sectional appendix i've got spare?
Exhilirating [early] start to the weekend here - only got the 9.22am Stockport to Stalybridge parliamentary with my boy!
[Yesterday - it runs once a week, one way on a Friday].
Stalybridge buffet is a thing of beauty, lovely preserved rooms. Strange place to go for a pint though.
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Stood at Neville Hill depot which is in a rather grim part of Leeds waiting for a taxi. Stood here in the dark and cold I can't see how anybody could be possibly be interested in the dam trains. If you were it would soon knock it out of you. A get fixed quick cure for spotters. The miserable reality of the the Railway! Send the op here and they'd soon put the Rail Magazine down.
I hate trains, think I'm in the wrong job.
A good article on bringing timber from Devon to Chirk near Shrewsbury, and the number of lorries taken off the road, all good for the environmnet.
I subscribe to Creative Knitting...
I stood with a couple of yard hands at a builders merchant next to the West Coast main line a few years ago, watching two engineers start up an old Deltic diesel.
I practically had a semi. Hairs on the back of the neck type stuff. Incredible.
Sure you didnt mean the East coast main line, the deltics where transfered ther after electrfication of the west coast.
or was it a preseved one.
not a steam train
Taki - whilst I was at BREL a deltic was fired up without its exhaust / silencer assembly. I've never heard anything as loud. I could feel it in my bones. Incredible. Think clay pigeon shoot in a biscuit tin x a million. I didn't get a semi on though......
deltic
noisy!
That 1st video isn't a Deltic!
It really isn't, that's a 37 behind the Gronk.
If you want loud try some of the US trains - watching a heavy freight with 5 Dash-9s struggle up out of Truckee, CA with the sound reverberating around the mountains is utterly amazing, my GF, who doesn't give a monkeys about trains, admitted it was impressive!
I've just bought a copy of RAIL magazine. What does this mean?
I've just subscribed to "practical caravan" what does that mean??
I've just bought a copy of RAIL magazine. What does this mean?
I've just subscribed to "practical caravan" what does that mean??
Do you also wear v-neck jumpers with elbow patches?
It's a slippery slope from here to playing Golf ...
I have absolutely no interest in trains or railways, yet I've been involved in pretty much every major rail infrastructure/rolling stock project to have come on the market in the last 6 years or so.
Why someone would want to read about this sort of stuff out of geninue interest is beyond me. I get paid to do it and I still whinge about it.
Most exciting thing was somone lobbing a grenade in our general direction in Nairobi recently. Been sticking to conference calls with that particular client since then.
😀
I guess it means we've reached the point in our lives where you don't really care what other people think of you.
Although I havent subscribed to Rail magazine just yet Kevster. You may be a little more "down the road" 😉
if you rail enthusiasts are in it mainly for the noise surely you should be getting yourselves to some large underground dance events..
the sub bass makes those trains look like toys innit blud 😀
When i was a trainspotting kid the driver of a deltic(K.O.Y.L.I. ,THE GREEN ONE)let me go in the cab and i rode about 50yds along the platform at york station,that was pretty awesome when you are 10.
You should need be made aware that its also known as "liar" for good reason.
Huh?has my memory got it wrong,it was about 30 yrs ago,sure it was the green one?
Am I doomed? Shall I also send off for a Hushpuppy catalogue too. Cherry wood tobacco for my church warden? Help.
This leaves more rampant totty for us real men 😆