Merthyr Imp
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I certainly wish Wales all the best, although from my experience of living here I'm not sure they'd do the same to us if the positions were reversed.
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Yes, Mr Quelch was the master. I don't think Erik Chitty ever played the part (wasn't he in 'Please Sir'?). The actor I remember was Kynaston Reeves, who later was in some of the earlier episodes of 'The Forsyte Saga' as one of the elder Forsytes.
By the way, I only remember ever reading one actual Billy Bunter book - for me it was the TV series, and his appearance in The Knockout.
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The best price I could find for 2 advance tickets, with two senior railcards, from Manchester to Southampton, change at Birmingham, was something like £125.00. I booked two tickets via Euston/Waterloo for £35.00. The journey takes two hours longer, one of which is between the London stations. I got the return tickets at the same price.
Have you tried getting split tickets? It may be even cheaper - although £35 each way seems pretty good.
Maybe you have in fact got this fare by doing that, but if anyone's not aware, it can produce even cheaper fares. Using your journey as an example, it's possible that if you got separate tickets from, say, Manchester to Crewe and Crewe to Euston it may have been cheaper still.
This is the website that explains it all and which you can use to check the fares and buy tickets. Personally I use it just to get the fares but then buy the tickets from another website so I can get cashback.
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Well, looking at the timetable it might be more straightforward to get a train from Bulwell to Hucknall and change there for Newstead, although there's almost half an hour to wait at Hucknall - maybe an opportunity to sample the delights of Hucknall High Street!
Vice versa of course for Newstead to Bulwell.
Or maybe get a tram from Bulwell to Hucknall and change to the train there?
By the way, I note on the timetable it has the station down as Bulwell (Notts) which seems strange as I'm pretty sure there's no other station of that name anywhere else.
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Frank Nugent, Bob Cherry, Johnny Bull, Harry Wharton and Hurree Singh, whose full name (I think) was Hurree Ranjit Jam Singh.
I think it was Lord Mauleverer, a young aristocrat, and in the comic strip in the comic Knockout I seem to remember the school bully was called Bolsover.
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FLY2 - Bulwell isn't a request stop. If the train isn't scheduled to stop there it won't, no matter what gestures you may make to the driver!
You can download the timetable from a link on this page:
http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/train-times/printed-timetables/
In my day (pre-trams) all trains on that line stopped at Bulwell. My guess (and it's only a guess) is that they no longer do so because people travelling to and from Nottingham or Hucknall now have the option of the tram.
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Crackerjack for me was the days of Eamon Andrews.
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I'm afraid train operation has never worked like that anywhere or at any time.
Taking the example you've given, the first consideration is that even if the train was running early when passing through Carlton there's no guarantee it may still have arrived early at Nottingham given that it's not unknown for trains to be held at signals outside the station waiting for a platform.
Apart from this, the driver could hardly decide to stop at Carlton on the off-chance there might be someone wanting to get off there.
As I said - whether more trains should be scheduled to stop at Carlton (or Bulwell, or anywhere else) is another matter for debate, but trains have to run to timetables. If a train is not scheduled to stop at the station they want to go to you can hardly expect people to travel on it in the hope that it might be running early and make an extra stop.
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Also I can't for the life of me understand why a train doesn't stop but fly's through a station when there is plenty of available time for a short stop. The other day a woman getting off the Leicester train from Lincoln at Nottm had to catcg a train back to Carlton,.........................the train she was getting off just passed there without stopping & arrived in Nottm ahead of time !
Well, trains only stop where they're scheduled to according to the timetable.
Whether more trains should be scheduled to stop at Carlton is another matter for debate.
Presumably in this case the woman was aware the train wasn't due to stop at Carlton and had intended all along to get another train back there from Nottingham. Presumably (again) this worked out quicker for her than getting a later train which DID stop at Carlton.
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Interesting to see the trolleybus wires still in place in the photo of Arkwright Street in 1973. Anyone know when the last were removed? (Not just in Arkwright Street).
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~# 1.........................Romance of meeting on a Railway platform al lah' 'Brief Encounter' gone forever then.........ahh,
But in 'Brief Encounter' they were both travelling by train - but different ones, leading to poignant situations when they had to rush off to separate platforms.
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...........oh the things you could do/get for just 'Two Bob'..........
And still have change.
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Garry Halliday.
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Mr Pastry.
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Everyone called Jeremy gets sacked eventually
I wish Kyle would.
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If memory serves me correctly the platform signal boxes were used by the station announcers in the late 1960s / early 1970s
I can't say for that period, but certainly by the mid-1970s the announcer was in a room with a semi-circular bay window at the end of the buildings on platform 4/5 (as they were then) - facing the steps down from the centre bridge.
No idea if it's still there.
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And on the extreme right of that photo you can just see part of what was the signal box on that platform.
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lainie3961 - you should be aware that the map at #12 shows the station as it existed in the 1880s. It was more or less completely altered when the present station was built in around 1903/04. The map below shows the present day station and it's largely the same today, apart from the removal of tracks and sidings on the south side (now a car park).
Comparing the two maps appears to show that all the houses on Queen's Road, plus Queen's Terrace and other premises (except, apparently, a pub!) were all swept away when the new station was built, and there were no houses there for staff or anyone else.
I mentioned a Stationmaster's house earlier, but it seems I misread the book and there's actually no mention of such a house - although if there was one it may still have been the present day British Transport Police building.
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One of the books I was looking at for information mentioned there being a Stationmaster's house when the Midland Station was rebuilt in 1903-ish. Does anyone know where that is/was? Is it what I believe is now used as offices for the British Transport Police around the corner of Queen's Road?
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I haven't come across any specific references to the upper floors of the platform buildings, but the ground floors have always been used, as they mostly are now, for refreshment rooms, toilets, offices, waiting rooms, staff rooms, stores, etc. There also used to be signal boxes incorporated into them - you can still see where they used to be.
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After a long gap my next - and last, to date - visit to Meadow Lane came on 15th August 1995 when Notts, newly relegated to what is now called League 1 were host to Lincoln City in a League Cup First Round First Leg match.
Following relegation Notts had appointed two former Lincoln managers, Colin Murphy and Steve Thompson as General and Team Manager respectively. There were also three former Imps in the Notts lineup in the shape of Phil Turner, Gary Strodder and Devon White. In front of just under 3,500 people, White scored both goals as Notts won 2-0. He did the same in their 2-0 Second Leg win a week later.
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...a mainly cream livery with green stripes, somewhat similar to the dual purpose Leopards 741-764, which in my opinion was a vast improvement over the original livery carried by the Nationals.
Here's a photo I took of 760 in Newark sometime in the early 1970s. It's not clear, but there seems to be a sticker in the windscreen indicating it was on hire to National Express, so may have been on a Cleethorpes to Nottingham service (ex-Trent). But there seem to be no passengers on board.
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Those nationals were green and orange?
As seen in the photo at #1 in this thread.
It seems I never did take a colour photo of one of the yellow-roofed 77s.
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Roy Keane would have as well.