Sheffs letzte Aktivitäten
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Sheff antwortete auf das Thema Saphos Trains 2026.
Making it look easy. Lovely clean exhaust, Tangers take note!
1 Juli 2026 um 16:23 -
Sheff gefällt nige757s Beitrag in dem Thema Saphos Trains 2026.
60532 Seen from high above Helwith Bridge by kind permission of the landowner. [MEDIA]
1 Juli 2026 um 16:23 -
Sheff gefällt Oswald T Wistles Beitrag in dem Thema Saphos Trains 2026.
If last week was "El Scorchio!" this week saw temperatures fall to more sensible values, throw in some periods of rain and it had become a very much more typical summer. "Flaming June" had gone, into July and the days are becoming shorter,...
1 Juli 2026 um 16:18 -
Sheff antwortete auf das Thema Photographing steam in the Karoo.
Halcyon days indeed.
1 Juli 2026 um 10:58 -
Sheff gefällt The Gricing Owls Beitrag in dem Thema Photographing steam in the Karoo.
The extended caption that will go with this photo in my South African steam loco memoirs book is below. 22 April 1985 and 25NC 3436 ‘Molly’ looked and sounded in superb condition flat out storming past Kalkbult on the 19 coach afternoon stopping...
1 Juli 2026 um 10:58
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Sheff gefällt The Gricing Owls Beitrag in dem Thema Photographing steam in the Karoo.
The heaviest I saw on Kimblerley to De Aar was 21 coaches on the Oranje Express in 1991. When steam had been put back on that train for certain weekends. I think that would have topped 800 tons. Utter thrash from 25NC 3467 most of the way from...
1 Juli 2026 um 10:56 -
Sheff gefällt cksteams Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Great memories both, thanks for sharing.
1 Juli 2026 um 08:58 -
Sheff gefällt 21Bs Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Back when I worked on the W&L in the late 80s there were several locals who used the train every market day to go shopping in Welshpool. The last return was often late while we waited for them to struggle back with their shopping. And one old...
1 Juli 2026 um 08:58 -
Sheff gefällt Steves Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
We used to stop at Farwath several times a week to take the lady who lived at the farm there to and from Pickering. She didn’t drive and used to make besom brooms which she sold in the market. All part of a service long gone.
1 Juli 2026 um 07:13 -
Sheff gefällt garth manors Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Pity as walkers they never tried to open Farwath as a halt, pleasant trek from Pickering, slightly tricky from Levisham.
30 Juni 2026 um 22:35 -
Sheff gefällt Steves Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
That's basically it. One of the problems of running a steam loco to Whitby is that it has to have a fitness to run exam every morning and, if it fails, it can't be used. It can't have an FTR the evening before to check that all is OK. Well, it...
30 Juni 2026 um 20:56 -
Sheff antwortete auf das Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
From what I read in the house magazine, the KWVR is one possible exception.
30 Juni 2026 um 17:28 -
Sheff gefällt SECR 65s Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I went on holiday to Yorkshire in summer 2023 (I think). We, as a train loving family, went to a variety of heritage lines. I'll talk here about the NYMR and the KWVR. In the case of the former, we stayed for a week near Grosmont. In the latter...
30 Juni 2026 um 13:51 -
Sheff gefällt 21Bs Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
This is a change that has been increasingly obvious just looking around at the pubs I frequent. With 38% of the population now over 50, perhaps not surprising. It poses one of the many challenges of adaptation required by heritage railways.
30 Juni 2026 um 13:49 -
Sheff antwortete auf das Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
For me, no steam, no go. (Maybe for a 50% discount, but only if I’m in the area and I need to make the trip for other reasons).
30 Juni 2026 um 12:03
