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Sounds like you've had one amazing week!
Sounds like you've had one amazing week!
Looked like a great week. Nice weather and scenery too. I like Bulleids but I've always found them quite quiet with their Lemaitre blast pipes compared to other locos, they make a nice chattering sound though. I would have loved to been on some of their last runs in 67 as they were worked up to a ton at times.
I knew a couple of old drivers at the Mid Hants in the early 90s that had reputedly hit the magic three figures on Merchant Navies.
I liked the headphone trick
Will be passing wareham in car early morning if you need way of wareham to norden, each day for diesel gala.
Middleton Railway and Midland Road TMD, (Leeds). Sunday 9th April 2017.
I drove over the M62 from North Manchester to the Midland Road depot Leeds last Sunday, I`d not been to the area for a sometime, so it was nice to see how busy it still was, and it was a glorious day too. Not an easy depot to visit though for photography and you do have to poke cameras through fencing, I also tend to use step ladders to see over the bridges and fencing, binoculars are advised for scratchers. Nice to see a class 90 on shed, plenty of Freightliner class 66`s and class 70`s too.
My main reason for visiting this region was for the Middleton Railway, it had been a few years since I`d last visited and the Middleton Railway, and the railway, in addition to advertising a steam operations, were also offering guided walks on the history of coal mining in the area.
I arrived at the railway quite early, in fact I was the first visitor to arrive and I was very fortunate and privileged in meeting one of the Railways Directors, David, who very kindly gave me a VIP tour of the entire workshops and site, thank you very much sir, an amazing site.
The Middleton Railway is a relatively small railway in terms of track mileage, but offers so much potential for expansion in this very rich industrial historical location. However, facilities, along with a first class museum and tea rooms and shop are one which you would expect on a much larger railway and the locomotive collection on site really is second to none. The staff are exceptionally friendly and you can quite easily spend a full day both on the railway and in the surrounding environment.
After my first trip to the top of the line at Park Halt, I joined the guided walk; it was a really enjoyable and enlightening tour lead by very knowledgeable guides. After a break at the visitors centre, I returned to the Railway and walked the track back to the main station at Moor Road, for a bite to eat in the tea room; I later walked back up to Park Halt to obtain some lineside photographs. I spent the rest of the day riding the line until the last train. Haulage was courtesy of former North Eastern Railway (NER) Class H, classified as Class Y7 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a class of 0-4-0T number 1310, in Apple Green liveried.
I`d like to thank the Middleton Railway for an excellent visit, I can certainly recommend it.
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You certainly get around, will check out photos on wifi later. Seem to use up phone data looking thru pictures
Fascinating area Shred. 55013 went there recently and I ended up looking at the area a bit more in detail online than I had done before. I must go and have a look sometime, the trouble is I have to pass the Severn Valley railway on the way and it pulls me in like a tractor beam in Star Wars.
So much to see up your way, brilliant pictures.
Thank you very much Anthony, yes I`m lucky living in this region.
Yeah its pretty much boring down this way. Full of disclosure lines
Ouch on that hostel being rubbish. There are a few dodgy places on Booking.com (as I found out by booking a place in Leyton area last year which was a converted house with beds inserted into random rooms, checking in at a random house nearby)
Some nice photos taken there.
Indeed, we booked some awfully small apartment in Rotherhithe last summer via booking.com. And by that I mean it was a bed rammed next to a small fridge with a velux window. Heck, i've had full price stays at Hilton hotels for less than I paid for it.
I would definitely contact booking.com about your experience! A rough experience there, I've never heard of anywhere quite as dangerous!
Sounds like I've missed out badly! I need the EOR for coverage, let alone the monsters in use over there. One day...
I assume you're doing the SVR gala? It promises to be insanely hellfire, and not just because it's my gala of choice this year! Unleash the thrash already!
Excellent Shred. I've not been on the Epping and Ongar line since I was a kid in the 80s.
A couple of old favourites at the gala then. 33002 being my favourite 33 from back in the day and 47635 which I had on the S&C in the late 80s.
Looks we're all going to be at the SVR in a few weeks time. Perhaps a pint should be arranged?