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I remember the Scotsman being parked outside the Derby loco works, visible from the main line, during my travels to Tech in Derby during the mid 70's. not sure if that's when it came back from its fated USA tour or not, waiting to be recommissioned. it was there a fair few weeks from memory.

Still got my house there in Mainstone - same tennants for the last 16 years and from Nottingham as it happens ! Although you wouldn't know it from her accent now LOL

There were many.........Sad & Tormented was another that came to mind.

Reading everyones posts here, brings back memories It was a great job and some of the stuff we did then you wouldn't be allowed to do today, for many reasons LOL It was poor pay though and at the end we were relying on Sundays to make the pay up. When I left I went to Plessey ay Lenton in the drawing office, and I never thought I'd end up back in the Railway business. I stayed at Plessey a year (didn't fit in......motorcyclist!) the was lucky enough to score a position on the test facility at Derby with Rolls Royce. Another brilliant job I held down for 5 years.

Ian sorry mate I haven't been on here for a while................... yes it was - why do you ask ?

Hi, I'm new on here and this is probably my first post but I'll sort the intro elsewhere. This thread on the old London Rd Station was of interest as I began my apprenticeship with British Rail as a Signalling Technician at this depot the day after August Bank Holiday 1974. Looking at the link above I seem to remember that the gas works had gone. The GC bridge over London Road was still there for a few years more. The low level station at that time was a goods station and I used to take a short cut through there to get to the station for my train back to Long Eaton after

Hi I'm new on here, I stumbled upon this forum accidentally while trying to find archives of BR staff from the 70's. I grew up in Toton, Stabbo then Long Eaton. I started as a Probationer(S&T) in 1974 with BR at the London Road station S&T offices; August Bank Holiday 1974 straight from school, doing the rounds with the various trades in between college until I left BR as 2nd Tier Technician at Trent Power Box late 1979. (any further progress was in dead mans shoes as they say.......) My Paternal Grandmother, Elsie Hardy, was a signalwoman in a box on the old Toton High Level. My