Guest Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Denshaw-martin Reagan. Me to Robbie,plus I liked the colour of the film ( Eastman?) had more of mod feel to it! Didn't the nickname "anorack" originate from our lot? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Better name than cagoule Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Benjamin. Is that B17 nameplate still at City Ground? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Sorry bilbra,don't know' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 It was when I went on a guided tour a couple of years ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 The other one came up for auction not long ago. The name plates of ex-GWR Bulwell Hall and Wollaton Hall are both at the Wollaton Park industrial Museum. As is the nameplate off Stanier Pacific (better known to us kids as Semis) City of Nottingham. That is unless someone has swiped them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2015 Somewhere on a previous thread I posted these two images. They were too small. I have increased their size. As spotters will know, they were taken at Basford and Bulwell LNER station, and show the line coming in from and going to Daybrook. If anything gets my nostalgia buds oozing its is remembering the days I sat alongside Dobby bridge, in the background, watching trains come round the bend off the Great Central Line, or diving down into the rat-hole on the way to the GC and Victoria. Also, the squealing sounds of engines' wheels on the curve up to Bulwell Common. Like it was yesterday I remember 'Liverpool' just idly rolling past me having come from Daybrook. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted June 16, 2015 Report Share Posted June 16, 2015 Happy days eh Chulla? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 I'm at a loss,where the heck is/was Itchen Abbas? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 Itchen Abbas is a village on the River Itchen about 4 miles north-east of Winchester in Hampshire. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 Thanks Michael.. have you been there? I've not a bad knowledge of even tucked away places..but that had me stumped,cheers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 We live and learn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 Eyup Bilb,that was one good thing about train spotting.. you got to know your country and use your cokeum!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 Too right. Either cycling locally or getting the train to such as Manchester or even further. And the classes. Jubilees were about the Empire. Scots about the regiments. Not to mention the the western Halls, Castles, Granges and Manors. Then if you liked Walter Scott there were plenty of ex-LNER locos to help you out. What an education. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 And here's me thinking Pretty Polly were stockings. (whoops). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 Sorry about that. Never mind. One could learn about King Arthur by standing on Southampton Station. But the Patriots confused me. Why did Eric Sykes get a naming but not Hattie Jacques. (sorry) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 Steam had long gone,by the time I was copping..but it helped with history and geography.. Watching a 70's film the other day,I shouted " type 2 electric"..my kids just rolled their eyes! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 Shortest Name 61018 GNU Longest must be one of a number of the Duchess class Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 A couple of long names I remember:- A V2 class loco (60809) was called "The Snapper, The East Yorkshire Regiment, The Duke of York's Own" Another V2 (60835) was called "The Green Howard, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 I ment actual length of the Duchess class like City of Nottingham The V2s plates were done on a curved plate + two lines underneath. fitted above one of the splashers. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 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? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 Or Wandering Willie! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ValuerJim 277 Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 What a great thread. My favourite spotting place was Grantham, in the late 50s. 'All trainspotters for Nottingham and Derby must leave on the 3 o'clock train', just as the down Elizabethan steamed through. I tried the Midland at Derby and Tamworth, but the locos, with their insides hanging out, didn't appeal. Got all the streaks except Empire of India, and copped the last A1, Bonnie Dundee, at Waverley in 61. Have any of you tried the simulations by SIAM or PCRail? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 The reason I asked about Itchen Abbas,I watched a 1961 film about Waterloo station..fantastic!!. Flicking on the old destination board was..said place..so I presumed it must have a station? Titfield.. came into mind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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