Thanks to Anna for reminder of the new programme on Steam Railways which I watched last night. I realise now that the Blaenau Ffestiniog railway was fairly recently reopened when I visited it years ago. It's wonderful to hear of people who will restore old engines and then give them away. A lovely programme.
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Yes. I like the Severn Valley Railway, also the Settle-Carlisle. And of course I like the Watercress line, which is in Hampshire, not Surrey (shame on you!) - but then I can remember it when it was a British Rail line; a school friend used to ride it every day to school in Winchester.Originally posted by salymap View PostComment
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I can explain the county mix-up Pab. I was staying with a friend in Guildford and we visited the Watercress Line and picked up someone local en route for a holiday walking the Dorset Coast at the Dorset Study Centre. They sort of blend into each other with no border posts that I could see
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I'm confused already!Originally posted by salymap View PostI can explain the county mix-up Pab. I was staying with a friend in Guildford and we visited the Watercress Line and picked up someone local en route for a holiday walking the Dorset Coast at the Dorset Study Centre. They sort of blend into each other with no border posts that I could seeComment
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Could be full circle as EMI own the Virgin label!Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View PostThe 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...
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Obviously gone too far as Rock in Cornwall is now sometimes referred to as Surrey-on-Sea! This sort of thing should be Outlaw...ed!Originally posted by Pabmusic View PostComment
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As I recall, there used to be quite a jolt as you crossed the line and hit the Hampshire potholed tarmac.Originally posted by salymap View PostI can explain the county mix-up Pab. I was staying with a friend in Guildford and we visited the Watercress Line and picked up someone local en route for a holiday walking the Dorset Coast at the Dorset Study Centre. They sort of blend into each other with no border posts that I could seeComment
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If you stay there you're expected to make your own bed.Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
(Er - I'll get my duvet)Comment
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Lots more archived programmes available on the BBC Collection Site
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Not about steam trains but this seems a suitable thread for a geeky anoraky posting!
BBC4 9pm tonight, programme about model railways, The Joy of (Train) Sets. (not that I ever had one but I once went to a model railway exhibition in Chippenham
which was totally fascinating)
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programmes about Welsh railways next week
or perhaps they're repeatsComment
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mercia, repeats but I don't think I've ever seen them so thanks for heads up.Originally posted by mercia View Postprogrammes about Welsh railways next week
or perhaps they're repeatsComment
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Thanks Anna, I must watch that or record,in memory ofmy childhood friend Peter, wholived next door when we were in London until I was seven.
We were born eleven days apart and our mothers were friends, I spent a lot of time with him and he had a Hornby train set, managed by his dad, and which ran on metholated spirits as, shock horror, we had no electricity then. We all loved playing trains, the set-up took up their sitting room. He would have loved that programme but sadly he died a few year's ago.Comment
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