BBC Trainspotting Live

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Woodylubber, Jul 8, 2016.

  1. Is that the clue to 11 Across ;)?
     
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  2. Not too far from me ;)
     
  3. Go there, you will enjoy it. Park in the car park next to Horsted Keynes station (its much quieter than Sheffield Park, which can be a fair walk from car parking to the station). Sheffield Park has the loco sheds and workshops, if you want to see the workshops, go on a Saturday or weekdays, closed on Sunday. Horsted has the carriage works to view and its a fine station in a country setting.

    Bluebell is an all steam railway. Well worth a visit.
     
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  4. Can't beat the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway to make you feel like a giant! :)
     
  5. Worth to go up the old light house.
     
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  6. Defo.
    And read the semi-humerous signs about what to do if there is nuclear fallout from the power station!
     
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  7. MorkC68

    MorkC68 Administrator

    There wasn't many Cl. 37's :(
     
  8. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    The Bluebell railway now starts at East Grinstead,
     
  9. ron

    ron

    while its good to see the preservation railways , my stepfather while visiting one of them , shaking his head related how as a fireman on the flying scotsman working hard on the footplate sweaty from the intense heat but your back was freezing from the open cab it wasn,t fun then lol
     
  10. Indeed it does.

    The line was extended 3 years ago and now runs from Sheffield Park station through to East Grinstead. The BR station is next to the Bluebell's own station. But parking is difficult at East Grinstead so I always drive to Horsted Keynes and park there. By train its easy to East Grinstead. Sheffield Park is busy at the weekends for parking.

    Horsted is sleepy hollow and I like the tranquility of it. You can buy tickets for the whole line at Horsted . Its an interchange station, so up trains and down trains meet there.
     
  11. I had an uncle who was a BR fireman based at Tonbridge shed and they lived in a railway cottage in Priory Road. When I was a kid I liked to visit my aunt and uncle as their back garden backed onto the engine shed yard where the locos were.

    I remember my older brother had a girl friend who lived in a farm cottage at Bank Farm, Tudeley which was next to the main line between Tonbridge and Paddock Wood. I remember we got invited for tea one Summer Sunday and I loved the express engines flying past the cottage, lots of Bullied Pacifics and the Golden Arrow train hauled by Britannia class 'William Shakespeare'. Magic days they were.
     
  12. Everybodies Grandad has fired 'Flying Scotsman' in Grantham...:rolleyes:
     
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  13. ron

    ron

    :D pity in only went edinburgh - newcastle - london
     
  14. Anyone can buy a one day steam experience on the heritage railways. Quite expensive but you do get to learn about the loco and oil it up, do firing and driving. Sometimes on a big express engine. Normally light engine, the loco on its own, not pulling anything.
     
  15. I think it was based at Kings Cross Topshed. I went to the shed on a school railway club visit in 1958, it was full of express engines, A1's and A4's and A3's mostly but the Scotsman wasn't there, but I did see it at Kings Cross station one morning on another visit. I think it was hauling the 'Elizabethan' to Edinburgh.
     
  16. Through Grantham on the East Coast Mainline, which runs North from Kings Cross to.....Newcastle to Edinburgh;)
     
  17. ron

    ron

    :D
     
  18. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    I know a great taxi firm in East Grinstead
     
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  19. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

  20. o_O
     
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