One of the most damning things you could say about something in the 1960s was that it was 'old-fashioned'. Instant trip to the dustbin.
How 'original' was any loco after its first service? When a loco went into the works and a faulty part was discovered, or a replacement needed...
Br Database says that while it was withdrawn off St Margarets, it wasn't scrapped there. It says 'Sold to P W McLellan, Langloan for scrap...
I knew it was going on and familiar locos were vanishing month by month in the early 1960s. It would have been hard to miss. It really struck...
I hope that this doesn't mean that 68078 (an old friend of mine from its Widdrington days) goes the way of the unfortunate Catalina flying boat...
Thanks to him a whole nation learned to spell the name of a place nobody had heard of.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] It carried a 50A shedplate to reflect the fact that after purchase it was stabled at York. Withdrawn 5 September 1966...
Just a bit.
Today is the day that Tornado becomes the longest-serving A1. It 'entered' service on 23 July 2008, so its life since then is now one day longer...
There wasn't time? They've had 25 years since the last event to think about it!
45428 was looking very neat and tidy indeed when I saw it on BR duty on the last day of steam in the Leeds area. I wondered why at the time....
My apologies, you're correct. I had intended to go across to Beattock for the run, but hospital appointments got in the way, and I based my reply...
60007 went up Beattock unassisted just 4 days ago, plus Blue Peter up Shap in April as has been mentioned.
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I saw 61306 on my visit to Leeds on its last day of service, 30 September 1967, and very smart it looked too, in its lined BR black livery. I'd...
Coming from the no-man's land north of the wall, yet south of the border, I'm by no means familiar with GWR locos including Castles, other than on...
Nothing looks better in apple green, not even apples. It's also historically wrong for an A1 at the end of the production run, by which time they...
A Facit?
Beautiful!
Not always managing to dodge the showers at Ais Gill. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Separă nume cu o virgulă.
