For those watching Channel5 now... Steam Trains.

[Olf]

That chap learning Tod and son how to drive steam engines... He taught my Dad 45 years ago...

[mybrainhurts]

You might like to tell Puff Puff...

[R5GTTGaz]

What a top chap.

[Olf]

R5GTTGaz said:

What a top chap.

He's very lovely. He also looked after us when Dad passed away. Dad got his dying wish.

[anonymous-user]

Watching this with interest.
The opening shot saw them on a Schools Class....which Grandpa Crossflow drove in service (having followed the same route to the footplate as Todd'n'kid have done....engine cleaner...fireman....driver)

[sniff diesel]

mybrainhurts said:

You might like to tell Puff Puff...

You mean me?

[Olf]

Crossflow Kid said:

Watching this with interest.
The opening shot saw them on a Schools Class....which Grandpa Crossflow drove in service (having followed the same route to the footplate as Todd'n'kid have done....engine cleaner...fireman....driver)

]

Shame they're going to drive a Schools in Yorkshire but I suppose you can't have everything.

[anonymous-user]

Olf said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Watching this with interest.
The opening shot saw them on a Schools Class....which Grandpa Crossflow drove in service (having followed the same route to the footplate as Todd'n'kid have done....engine cleaner...fireman....driver)

]

Shame they're going to drive a Schools in Yorkshire but I suppose you can't have everything.

Must admit that crossed my mind!
Bricklayers' Arms is probably flats or one o' them new fangled "Shopping malls" by now.

[Olf]

Not sure why they didn't get Clive to do the driver training. It's his business. http://www.steamway.dircon.co.uk/main.html

[anonymous-user]

Seem to recall the Bluebell has something of a speed restriction on it, whereas the NYMR has more open track where they can give it beans (as per the series title). Bit more photogenic too I guess.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 3rd December 21:44

[Mandat]

Crossflow Kid said:

Olf said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Watching this with interest.
The opening shot saw them on a Schools Class....which Grandpa Crossflow drove in service (having followed the same route to the footplate as Todd'n'kid have done....engine cleaner...fireman....driver)

]

Shame they're going to drive a Schools in Yorkshire but I suppose you can't have everything.

Must admit that crossed my mind!
Bricklayers' Arms is probably flats or one o' them new fangled "Shopping malls" by now.

If you're talking about Bricklayer's Arms in Southwark then it's now an industrial esatate and the road running through it is called Mandela Way.

[Mister V]

Crossflow Kid said:

Seem to recall the Bluebell has something of a speed restriction on it, whereas the NYMR has more open track where they can give it beans (as per the series title). Bit more photogenic too I guess.

Edited by Crossflow Kid on Wednesday 3rd December 21:44

[geekmode on] I think all preserved railways have a blanket top speed of 25mph [/geekmode]

[Olf]

Mandat said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Olf said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Watching this with interest.
The opening shot saw them on a Schools Class....which Grandpa Crossflow drove in service (having followed the same route to the footplate as Todd'n'kid have done....engine cleaner...fireman....driver)

]

Shame they're going to drive a Schools in Yorkshire but I suppose you can't have everything.

Must admit that crossed my mind!
Bricklayers' Arms is probably flats or one o' them new fangled "Shopping malls" by now.

If you're talking about Bricklayer's Arms in Southwark then it's now an industrial esatate and the road running through it is called Mandela Way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricklayers'_Arms

My Dad worked out of Nine Elms.

[anonymous-user]

Mister V said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Seem to recall the Bluebell has something of a speed restriction on it, whereas the NYMR has more open track where they can give it beans (as per the series title). Bit more photogenic too I guess.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 3rd December 21:44

[geekmode on] I think all preserved railways have a blanket top speed of 25mph [/geekmode]

Speak to the staff of the Mid-Hants railway, where in hushed tones over a quiet beer they'll make tell of drivers running light from Alton back to Alresford late at night after the public have left.;)
Allegedly the HSE borrowed Hants Plod speed gun in the end!

[anonymous-user]

Olf said:

Mandat said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Olf said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Watching this with interest.
The opening shot saw them on a Schools Class....which Grandpa Crossflow drove in service (having followed the same route to the footplate as Todd'n'kid have done....engine cleaner...fireman....driver)

]

Shame they're going to drive a Schools in Yorkshire but I suppose you can't have everything.

Must admit that crossed my mind!
Bricklayers' Arms is probably flats or one o' them new fangled "Shopping malls" by now.

If you're talking about Bricklayer's Arms in Southwark then it's now an industrial esatate and the road running through it is called Mandela Way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricklayers'_Arms

My Dad worked out of Nine Elms.

Ahhh....names from my childhood.....Seem to recall Gramps ended his railway days at Grove Park on them soul-less lektrickery trains.

[Simpo Two]

Olf said:

That chap learning Tod

Teaching, old boy, teaching...

[snotrag]

One of my favourite bits of the world that, and luckily only just up the road. Cracking driving roads, often meander up there and pull over to watch the trains pass

[Olf]

Crossflow Kid said:

Olf said:

Mandat said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Olf said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Watching this with interest.
The opening shot saw them on a Schools Class....which Grandpa Crossflow drove in service (having followed the same route to the footplate as Todd'n'kid have done....engine cleaner...fireman....driver)

]

Shame they're going to drive a Schools in Yorkshire but I suppose you can't have everything.

Must admit that crossed my mind!
Bricklayers' Arms is probably flats or one o' them new fangled "Shopping malls" by now.

If you're talking about Bricklayer's Arms in Southwark then it's now an industrial esatate and the road running through it is called Mandela Way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricklayers'_Arms

My Dad worked out of Nine Elms.

Ahhh....names from my childhood.....Seem to recall Gramps ended his railway days at Grove Park on them soul-less lektrickery trains.

Dad left. He was there for the steam. Amazing stories though. The one that made me 'laugh' was the father and son (Driver and Fireman) who had both lost legs after being hit by engines! Apparently they'd creep up on you in the yards at night, especially in the fog.

[Olf]

Simpo Two said:

Olf said:

That chap learning Tod

Teaching, old boy, teaching...

Thanking you.

[Mister V]

Crossflow Kid said:

Mister V said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Seem to recall the Bluebell has something of a speed restriction on it, whereas the NYMR has more open track where they can give it beans (as per the series title). Bit more photogenic too I guess.

Edited by Crossflow Kid on Wednesday 3rd December 21:44

[geekmode on] I think all preserved railways have a blanket top speed of 25mph [/geekmode]

Speak to the staff of the Mid-Hants railway, where in hushed tones over a quiet beer they'll make tell of drivers running light from Alton back to Alresford late at night after the public have left.;)
Allegedly the HSE borrowed Hants Plod speed gun in the end!

If they didn't put up signs warning the drivers there was a camera is't not legal!