Steam Railways

[LeMartinPecheur]

I must now have a search for footage of the G 'n' T Line, which connected Marks Tey in Essex with Sudbury and beyond in Suffolk.

The G 'n' T line?? That would be the Gramophone & Typewriter, makers of early 78 RPM records I guess, later absorbed into HMV, now EMI.

Well, I guess if Virgin can run trains and make discs then so could EMI...

[Serial_Apologist]

In understand it to be the Gin and Tonic line, because gin was manufactured at one end of it and tonic at the other... or at least was back in Holst's day, when he and his St Pauls and Morley College choral groups made their visits to Thaxted; but I'll try and find out more.

[Budapest]

The Skunk train in northern California is well worth a visit. Here's some of my stuff about it:

The small town of Willits is in northern California. We’d been deposited there by a Greyhound bus in the early hours of the morning. One of Willits few points of interest is that it is the terminus of the Californian Western Railroad. Despite its grand sounding name, the CWRR is just a forty mile stretch of single track that begins in the middle of nowhere and ends in the middle of nowhere. It’s an old logging line, referred to as the ‘Skunk Train’ because of the smell given out by the steam engines that used to work it. Nowadays the line earns its living as a tourist attraction. It takes 4½ hours for the Skunk Train to stagger down that forty miles of line. On the way it passes through wooded hills, steep gorges, meadows blanketed with wild flowers and a river valley with enormous fir trees. The pace is gentle, the scenary beautiful, and if you’re ever in this part of the world it’s well worth the trip.

If interested see When I Went Out One Summer's Morn (which is a book that is about a lot of trains, including the old Ost-West Express, and the trans-Siberian and trans-Mongolian),

[salymap]

In understand it to be the Gin and Tonic line, because gin was manufactured at one end of it and tonic at the other... or at least was back in Holst's day, when he and his St Pauls and Morley College choral groups made their visits to Thaxted; but I'll try and find out more.

To me, but I am sure not to Holst, that would be the Goodwin and Tabb line.That was the orchestral hire library where I worked, but years earlier, when they were also publishers, they were the original publishers of Holst's Planets as can/could be seen from the full score.
I think it later went to Curwen when G&T gave up most publishing. And this is why in my day RVW often wandered in for his mss paper, because to him then Holst connection was still there.

Sorry, too wordy and boring. Was Thaxted connected with the Holst 2 Psalms in some way? Tomorrow shall be my dancing day' and 'This have I done formy true love' ??

[BBMmk2]

Sounds like a good idea for a get together, to0 go oin one of these trips?Next summer sometime perhaps?

Lots of food and real ale!!

[Anna]

Last night, Channel 4 at 8pm there was a programme about the restoration of a Great Western steam locomotive by the Severn Valley Railway. It was fronted by Guy Martin (TT Biker) who's annoying in a laddish butch men like to get their hands filthy type of way and overall it was a bit Blue Peterish. However, if you wanted to know what it was like inside the firebox, navvying, nuts and bolts and precision engineering it had some good moments and nice footage at the end when they got it working. Repeated tonight on Channel 4/24 at 8pm

[mercia]

Was Thaxted connected with the Holst 2 Psalms in some way? Tomorrow shall be my dancing day' and 'This have I done formy true love' ??

http://www.gustavholst.info/compositions/listing.php?work=93

[salymap]

http://www.gustavholst.info/composit...ng.php?work=93

Thanks mercia, Augener published those two pieces and I went to Thaxted once with colleagues. It was the Red Priest's Church of course. Holst was friends with him. Wish I didn't forget things now

[salymap]

Well for Anna a heads up of a recent thread on Steam Railways.........

[Serial_Apologist]

Anna - you are esteemed!

[Anna]

Anna - you are esteemed!

Well, I've been called many things .... Esteemed is rather nice .... kind of homely and cute and can bake cakes, yet strangely intelligent!! for a woman!!

[salymap]

Anna - you are esteemed!

You don't miss a track, err trick

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Don't know how to gauge this one.

[MrGongGong]

There was this yesterday that my folks were watching while I was grooving to Ligeti

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p8w38/The_Golden_Age_of_Steam_Railways_Small_is_Beautiful/

[mangerton]

Don't know how to gauge this one.

Yes, difficult to say, isn't it? (Straight and) narrow, or standard? Anyway, I'll be up at six tomorrow, so I'm about to become a sleeper.