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552290 replied to the thread What made you happy today?.I'm in Pickering and there are no steam trains until further notice due to a fire hazard. That made me sad. I then spotted a group of...
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552290 replied to the thread who or what got you into railways and what was your first kop/haulage.I started trainspotting at the age of ten in 1954 at Leyland on the WCML. At first I used an Ian Alan London Midland region ABC. I...
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552290 replied to the thread The papacy.The RC church does accept the baptism administered by other Christian denominations as valid provided it is done with water in the name...
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552290 replied to the thread Britain's Most Scenic Bus routes.There is now a hotel in Baltasound but I stayed at a B & B. The lady of the house was from Blackpool, I'm from Leyland.
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552290 replied to the thread Britain's Most Scenic Bus routes.How about the UK's most northerly bus on the Lerwick to Baltasound route on the Isle on Unst in Shetland. I did this trip many years...
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552290 replied to the thread 1961 Closure of Midge Hall Station, Leyland?.The 112 Preston to Midge Hall bus takes around 1hr 15 mins to complete it's journey. Hopefully the long standing campaign to reopen the...
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552290 replied to the thread Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon.Which will go first, the company or the river?
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552290 replied to the thread Lancashire Bus Tenders - March 2025.The information counter at Chorley bus station was manned at 17.45 tonight and was handing the new LCC timetables out on request.
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552290 replied to the thread Pocinho, Portugal steam loco identification.Here's a photo I took of E213 in happier times, around 1972, at the coaling stage at Sernada do Vouga.
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552290 replied to the thread Pocinho, Portugal steam loco identification.Of the four daily trains up the line only one was steam hauled, the 15.40 from Pocinho, arriving at Miranda at 20.49. The loco stayed...
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552290 replied to the thread Pocinho, Portugal steam loco identification.When I travelled on the line to Duas Igrejas - Miranda in the early 1970's there were four Mallets at Pocinho, E201/203/209/216. So it's...
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552290 replied to the thread BusTimes.Org.The old 119 ones are still on the bus stops too.
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552290 replied to the thread Skipton-Colne again... sorry!.I went on an Easter Monday excursion getting on at Preston and going to York in the early 1960's. We had a black 5 to Skipton and a B1...
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552290 replied to the thread Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you.I think when they play the Planets suite by Holst on radio 3 they still use the bottom line!
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552290 replied to the thread Now Playing.....Stravinsky; The Rite of Spring played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink. Second hand cd from Oxfam.
