Midland Red
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Wed 13th Jun 2012 12:42pm
The original - and best!
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Wed 13th Jun 2012 12:56pm
Hi all
This just gets better, in spite of the 'South of Crewe' prohibition yellow strip. Somewhere, I have a colour slide of the same loco when it was being serviced at Willesden, but the pictures on here are fabulous. Thank you all so much
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Midland Red
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Wed 13th Jun 2012 3:17pm
I don't suppose this could be a reincarnation of "City of Coventry" ?
No? Didn't think so
Or maybe . . . . . another link
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morgana
the secret garden |
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Thu 14th Jun 2012 1:29am
To think Philip if Lockhurst Lane train station was still there there would be no need for them to build another station at the Ricoh. I recall at 3 years being taken to the station to watch the steam trains go by, in a coach built pram me in one end and a boy from the street Telfer Road in the other end by a teenage girl who use to take us out from the street. |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Thu 14th Jun 2012 2:07am
Quite Morgana, it was yet another example of the short-sighted decision-making which pervaded British Railways.
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Fri 15th Jun 2012 2:24pm
I missed the Deltic a couple of Saturdays ago
"Deltic at Coventry" Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Midland Red
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Fri 15th Jun 2012 2:54pm
Thanks for that - excellent! Missed that as I was eating sausages with Philip! |
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Mon 18th Jun 2012 5:58pm
I like all old engineering, motorcycles/cars/steam loco's, I appreciate it and love to see it/them being used and in the case of the railways and canals I'm in awe of the way folk have rallied around to keep them open. I would never have thought looking at the state of the canals in my early days (1970's) and sitting on the roof of a rusting 9F at Dai Woodhams yard in Barry Island in 1979 that these things would ever become part of our lives again Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Midland Red
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Mon 25th Jun 2012 6:34pm
On 11th Jun 2012 2:05pm, Catshed said:
By the look of the buffers it must have been used for some special event as there's still silver/white paint on the outsides, those old Leamington bays have the Pendolino 'Rescue' locos waiting in them now (or they did a few years ago) with special couplings on the buffer beams so as to be able to rush off and drag a dead EMU from disgrace, they were names after the Gerry Anderson 'Thunderbirds' rescue vehicles if I remember right.
Just for the records, here's "Jeff Tracey" in action at New Street in 2005 |
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Wed 27th Jun 2012 11:26am
Yes MR, they're the ones, they have some peculiar buck-eye type coupling on them.
I've often thought are we the only country in the world that gives names to our locomotives? it must seem odd to an outsider but it does give them more character more so in the days of steam. Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Midland Red
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Wed 27th Jun 2012 12:08pm
No we're not - I don't know in how many countries locomotives are named, but certainly many of the operating companies in Switzerland give names to even to smallest engine
As regards the Class 57 Thunderbirds, I'm not sure that it was mentioned previously that they were used extensively during diversions caused by the WCML upgrade in recent years, pulling the Pendolino electric units along non-electrified tracks, such as Nuneaton to Birmingham |
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Thu 28th Jun 2012 2:44pm
Those loco's helping them through sections remind me of the days when the APT was on test on the WCML, here is APT No.370 001 at Rugby early 80's,
This would have worked if BR hadn't rushed it out for the press and media, all it needed was another year, now we've got Italian (Fiat Ferroviaria) 'Pendolinos' built on this British technology yet again.
Here it's being pulled over the Rugby to Coventry line and Trent Valley line right over to the old Leicester line to hide it in the bushes. I'm standing on what they used to call 'The Wooden Bridge' from Wood St to the GEC works.
370 001 with it's nose literally pushed out of its joint as an 08 shunter drags it off onto the old Leicester line out of the press cameras lens.
08 629 was i seem to remember Rugby's resident shunter (pilot).
Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Midland Red
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Thu 12th Jul 2012 5:26pm
There's plenty of local interest in this new publication by Andrew Coward, a 128-page book telling the story of Les Ross - yes, the local DJ and radio personality - and his efforts to preserve "his" electric locomotive, 86259 "Les Ross"
Illustrated with hundred of photos, mostly WCML, many around the Midlands - it's a smashing book for those interested in railways in and around the area
Here's the front cover It does contain some images of steam locos and diesels (oh, and yes, there is one of mine in there too!) Recommended! |
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DBC
Nottinghamshire |
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Mon 16th Jul 2012 12:28pm
I noticed that today's announcement regarding new investment in the railways mentions that the line from Nuneaton through to Oxford will be electrified. I imagine this is the Nuneaton - Coventry - Leamington line. If so, that's great news. I wonder if it includes (re)opening a station in Kenilworth? Question |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 16th Jul 2012 1:02pm
Hi DBC & Hi all
The station at the Ricoh, (sorry City of Coventry Stadium), Hill Top in Nuneaton & Kenilworth are all in the plan, sad to say though, that I will believe it when I see construction start. HS2 controversy has drawn so much attention away from the real infrastructure, I am not sure that anyone knows which pedal to push. I hope it does, DBC. |
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