Merthyr Imp
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recycling cutting material to build embankments, island platforms to enhance fast through traffic,
I think it was always standard practice in railway construction to balance out the earth excavated for cuttings with that required for embankments - not just what the Great Central did.
I understood the main reason for the island platforms was to allow for future quadrupling of the track. This would have enabled the extra lines to be laid on the outside rather than calling for expensive rebuilding of side platforms.
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#92 - Alycidon entered service on 21st July 1961, so can't have been long after that.
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Nottingham was obviously full of people with weird interests and habits in the mid 60s.
Present members of this Forum excepted of course!
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Bootham Bar in York, 26th July 2008.
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Always mix your mustard daily.
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According to the book 'The Rise & Fall of Nottingham's Railway Network' Volume 3 by Hayden J. Reed, published by Book Law, 'six spans of the old GC viaduct to the north of Station Street, including the crossing of the Beeston Canal were reused with new cantilevered parapets to carry the platforms of the [then] terminus [at Station Street]. Initial designs had planned to use more of the GCR structure to the north of Canal Street, but the desire for clear space beneath the structure to permit development and the complexity of providing a connection across to Middle Hill led to the old arches being abandoned in favour of a new built structure.'
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It was Captain Pugwash for me. Who can forget Seaman Staines, Roger the cabin boy, and Master Bates?
It's actually an urban myth that there were ever characters with those names in Captain Pugwash.
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Don't know about the class 31, but I would guess the 'Peak' is on an East Leake gypsum train.
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What Shirley Abicair sang was 'Little Boy Fishin' (off a wooden pier...)
(Sorry - didn't notice someone had put a link to the song earlier).
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Tommy Steele & the Steelmen.
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Loved watching Muffin the Mule.
Me too. Didn't you join his club, Margie?
I've put these images on this Forum elsewhere in the past, but here they are again:
Annette Mills, of course, was the sister of John Mills.
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Oh yes plan 9 from Outer Space. Had a couple of big names in cast but one died
Bela Lugosi.
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The L.N.E.Rs habit of naming locos after racehorses came up with some amusing names
Pretty Polly
Salmon Trout
Spearmint
all above were A3s
What would they make of Gay Crusader these days?
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If any of the supply lads mistreated a pony, he'd get his ass kicked big time by the Ostler, then it was the Managers office where he'd get his ass kicked again,
So there weren't just ponies down the pit then?
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I agree, Cliff.
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Sorry If I've said this on here before, but on a day like today my grandma would have said it was 'One o' them dark days afore Christmas'.
Something else she would say - back in the 1960s - was if we were having extreme weather conditions - 'It's because of them men they keep shooting up into space. It's not right'.
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My 15-year-old son thinks Adam Sandler is great...
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Anything with Elvis Presley in it.
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Not lorries, no - and apart from the Barton Guys, which I never photographed, the others mentioned were before my time.
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There's a mention here about the Trowell derailment, with a photo:
On the following site someone says the derailment: "...took place on 1st September 1988 involving a Silverhill - Ratcliffe MGR. Trowell Junction was plain lined as a result and stayed that way for several years. However, this was the era when BR sectors were forced to pay a route's main user a contribution towards maintenace costs and I was always led to believe that it was excessive demands in this respect from the Railfreight sector that drove Provincial, as it was then, to drive forward the reopening of the direct line via Radford."
https://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?img=65-019-04A&serial=3
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A Wednesday night trip in January 1979 to see Forest play Watford (then of Division 3) in a League Cup semi-final first leg match.
Forest won 3-1, with goals by Gary Birtles(2) and John Robertson. Watford scorer was Luther Blissett.
Attendance was over 32,500 - the biggest crowd I'd been in for years at the City Ground. These days no doubt it would have been an all-ticket match and sold out well in advance, but in those days you could just turn up to even a League cup semi-final and pay at the turnstile.
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A last one from Edinburgh, April 1998 - a view of Calton Hill:
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And is Annesley pronounced Anns-ly or Annersley?
Railway Photos
in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
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But to get to Leicester that way you would have had to change at Melton.