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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 didn't collect the numbers of BR standard locos at first because these were only printed in the Eastern Region book and the Combined Volume, neither of which I had...

The RC church does accept the baptism administered by other Christian denominations as valid provided it is done with water in the name of the holy trinity. Trumps problem is that he would have to be ordained a deacon, then a priest and then consecrated a bishop and then become a cardinal before...

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.

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 ago but it's still running today. The 24 service sets off from Lerwick mid-afternoon and is carried on the ferry from the Shetland mainland to the Isle of Yell...

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 station will eventually be successful.

Which will go first, the company or the river?

The information counter at Chorley bus station was manned at 17.45 tonight and was handing the new LCC timetables out on request.

Here's a photo I took of E213 in happier times, around 1972, at the coaling stage at Sernada do Vouga.

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 the night here and returned on the 7.00 departure next morning. The line required four Mallets because there was a lot of freight traffic from a quarry at...

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 probably one of them. The loco is visible on Google Earth but it looks in a sorry state. I had E209 on my trip to Miranda and back.

The old 119 ones are still on the bus stops too.

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 to York, going via Otley and Harrogate. I repeated the trip in 1965 when the B1 was replaced by a brand new class 47.

I think when they play the Planets suite by Holst on radio 3 they still use the bottom line!

Stravinsky; The Rite of Spring played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink. Second hand cd from Oxfam.

70045 to 70054 didn't have the same type of tender as the others. They didn't have the cutaway at the top, allowing them to carry a bit more coal.