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Post by roger on Jul 16, 2006 9:34:11 GMT
Hi Stuart, Yes, it was the first thing I said to her! Roger
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Post by Dave on Jul 23, 2006 13:09:10 GMT
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Post by Steve H on Jul 23, 2006 13:36:02 GMT
Hi Dave, Thats a great link, It is interesting to read his comments on the right to take photographs where ever you want to. Superb photographs. You can find more of his work here. thomashawk.com/Thanks for the link Dave. Steve H
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 23, 2006 22:47:36 GMT
Hi everyone! I just thought I'd give you a taste of the pictures I took today. Does anyone else find trains fascinating? <3 Caite
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Post by Joe on Jul 24, 2006 3:08:53 GMT
Thanks for the pic of the train, Caite. There used to be a railroad track near my house but it's gone.
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Post by Steve H on Jul 24, 2006 7:25:56 GMT
Hi Caite,
Great train pic, I love all the angles in the picture and the way your eye runs from bottom left to top right!
Do you live close to the railway track?
Steve
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Post by postscript on Jul 24, 2006 8:45:58 GMT
hi Caite!
A female who loves choo choo puffers!!!!
I love train journeys even in modern rolling stock full size and various model sizes too.
I cannot visit a deserted line without standing on a rail. On hot summer days even deserted tracks give off the smell of oil and creosote, evoking the smell of steam.
Peter
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Post by Steve H on Jul 24, 2006 9:09:10 GMT
hi Caite!
On hot summer days even deserted tracks give off the smell of oil and creosote, evoking the smell of steam.
Peter Hi Peter, Last year I was lucky enough to travel on the Nene railway into the centre of Peterborough by steam train, it was like going back 100 years. www.nvr.org.uk/The only negative point about the railway is that it brought about the demise of the Canal system , but due to the commitment of successive governments and the hard work of the BWB (British Waterways Board) tourism has kept the old traditions alive. Like the Buckby Can !! Steve H
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Post by Steve H on Jul 24, 2006 9:22:56 GMT
Now you have got me started again Peter! Here is a picture of the most famous Steam Driven Motor PRESIDENT with her Butty. Taken at the Bottom of Stoke Bruerne Locks, Northampton May 2003 And as she was in the early 1900's (NOT TAKEN BY ME!)Steve H
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Post by postscript on Jul 24, 2006 10:22:38 GMT
Hi Steve.
Yes, I'm familiar with 'The President', visited her one year up at the jamboree, can't recall its canal name but it is near Paddington station and under the M4.
I bet you probably know by repute and having seen a picture of the house I am currently 'house sitting'.
Photos follow in due course.
Peter
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Post by postscript on Jul 24, 2006 10:29:36 GMT
Hi Steve,
regarding the railways causing the demise of the canals, the lady whose house I am house sitting was a major contributor to the waterways being as they are, which aren't as she wanted but nowhere near as disastrously as they would have been had Heseltine (whom she opposed) had his way on the bill as originally intended.
Perhaps this post should be under Caite's enquiry about 'anyone else like trains', whatever that title was, so I'll post the rest of this there.
However, on canals, this lady's enthusiasm for the canals has given me both a twinge of guilt about my love of the railways and also an interest in canals and their history and the general overall development of industrial Britain.
Peter
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Post by roger on Jul 24, 2006 14:48:52 GMT
Hi everyone! I just thought I'd give you a taste of the pictures I took today. Does anyone else find trains fascinating? <3 Caite Hi Caite, You have a wonderfully articstic eye. That is a superb shot of a train taken from an angle which many would not even look at. However, were you really standing on the edge of a precipice when you took it? In answer to your question, yes, I am fascinated by trains but not these modern electric things. Bring back the old Puffing Billy and ideally all the track that was closed in the 60s. Roger
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 24, 2006 15:14:07 GMT
Hi Roger!
Yes indeed I was standing on the edge of a precipice. Daring me even climbed onto the bridge to stand next to the train so I could take more pictures. Good thing it didn't start rolling again or I would have been in trouble.
<3 Caite
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Post by roger on Jul 24, 2006 15:25:14 GMT
Caite, you worry me! Roger
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 24, 2006 15:49:22 GMT
I don't intend to worry! Here's another. <3 Caite
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