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WCME 24th January.

Discussion in 'What's Going On' started by RalphW, Jan 17, 2015.

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  1. Fred Kerr

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    William Tell - I presume ??:)
     
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  2. Macko

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    Greenholme was a failure due to that Westerly wind, but I did manage a panning shot as 45407 whipped up the bank by a very powerful banker :)
    We had weak sun at Waitby common but it was certainly chilly ! Hopefully Leander will grace the S&C sooner rather than later, a shame for those onbaord who missed out on a Jubilee roar.

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  3. RalphW

    RalphW Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Administrator Friend

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    But there is one glaring error, where are the telephone posts and wires....:rolleyes:
     
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    Aye Swiss, do you think I could get Henry's wheelchair up to where this shot was taken?
     
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    Always one.... ;)

    I think I ran myself crazy doing such an edit! I need a week's recovery before I begin to contemplate telegraph poles and wires. And then the question begs, we're they situated next to the Up or Down lines?

    So many things to think about!
     
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  6. RalphW

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    Well at Scout Green on the right going up the bank so that's on the
    d̶o̶w̶n̶. up .!!!
    Also note they have about 7 crossmembers.
    You wanted another challenge.

    . Scout%20Green%203%20panorama.jpg
     
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    Just wait til your my age Mr W. lol xxxx









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    If on the right at Scout Green while going up the bank, would that not make the telegraph poles be situed on the south heading Up Line?

     
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  9. RalphW

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    Oops got my up and down wrong again, well really they were right but there is this stupid rule that says we go up to London when on a train. When on motorways or other roads most of us go down to London.
     
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  10. RalphW

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    Yes dammit.
     
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    The reason that no pictures were ever known to have been taken in steam days from that field approaching Dillicar Troughs, was as a consequence of the fact that the telegraph pole route was on the east ('up') side of the line throughout the length of the Lune Gorge. Not only that, but the poles themselves were not all that tall and also carried no fewer than nine crossbars ... as can be faintly discerned in my picture of 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' picking up water whilst heading a Fridays only Manchester-Glasgow relief during the summer of 1967.

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    Tiviot Dale, Jan 26, 2015
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  12. John Stewart

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    We always go up to London and down from London. You would go down from London to Oxford or Cambridge for most purposes but up to those places if you had been accepted by the universities and were making the journey. Only the British can understand this.
     
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    Oxford and Cambridge are certainly not places from where one would wish to be sent down!

    Tom
     
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    Yes, was good to put a face to a name. Very good day out. Well, as long as no one was counting how much we had or what of haha!
     
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  16. KentYeti

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    Magic photo Ralph.

    Those really were the good old days. Working that crossing box must have been quite interesting!
     
    KentYeti, Jan 26, 2015
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    Indeed it must have been interesting as my late fathers stories about working it kept me entertained .
     
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    ....but if you go 'up North'
    and we go 'darn sarth' then isn't a journey from the North to that there London also down ! (or darn, lol) (notwithstanding all the other interpretations)
     
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    Most English railway companies followed the convention of "up" to London, "down" to the country, though IIRC on the Midland it was "up" to Derby. In the south Wales valleys, "up" was usually uphill, away from Cardiff, Newport or where-ever - though I expect there were a few exceptions! What about the Scottish companies? Did the Caley or North British follow English convention, or was "up" towards Edinburgh?

    (... but we digress!)
     
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    Gets confusing once you get to lines going nowhere near London though, Birmingham to Bristol or transpennine for example.
     
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