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Great photos, thanks for posting.

Thanks Magdalia, by 1977 I had been drafted to Portland and was using the trains to Weymouth.

Trying to remember the make up of the 23:45 Paddington to Penzance via Bristol that we matlots used to catch back to Plymouth and in my case Redruth during the 70's. I remember it had several sleeping cars on the front, lots of compartment stock for us jolly tars, several vans at the rear for...

Not sure, it must have been late eighties as I finished traveling to London by then.

I do, used it a few times when visiting London, had some very nice hotel stays through them. Then one year went to book a stay and found the office was no longer there.

One day in the early 70 s at Penzance, I remember seeing a 42/43 bring a train into the arrival platform and, once all the passengers had disembarked, the warship pushed the coaches back out of the platform and into a siding which was next to sea and near the signal box. After a while I heard...

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The railway from Aberdeen to Inverness was built on part of a canal as far as Inverure. There are still parts of the old canal still to be seen in Inverurie.

During my training for the Navy at HMS Ganges at Shotley Gate near Ipswich in 1967-1968, the Navy would charter special leave trains from Ipswich to London Liverpool Street for all us southerners and also trains going north for all the northerners, and then return trains at the end of the leave...

How about the Chatham dockyard railway? Its only freight demonstrations, no passenger carrying and just a mile long with a couple of 0-4-0 saddle tanks.

My first memory of railways was standing on the footbridge that crossed over the small engine shed and goods yard at Faversham, with my dad watching the trains going to Ramsgate and Dover and back, when my dad spotted a friend of his walking to the shed. He gave him a shout and we were invited...

That's it, thanks Kev.

I watched a YouTube video yesterday uploaded by nodrog of a site visit he made recently. Sorry I don't know how to post a link Shap Summit.

Ah, I remember the 0300 Holborn to Ramsgate papers, I used to help to unload the papers at Whitstable in the 1960s. The down platform is on a right hand curve and the driver couldn't,t see where to stop as the Whitstable van was near the rear, so we would position somebody further along the...

I can remember triple headed class 37s passing through Bristol Temple Meads in the 70s I think hauling stone from South Wales for the building of the M5 motorway.