Steam Railways

[Barbirollians]

You brilliant person! I have used this nom-de-plume on a number of forums [fora] over a number of years, and you are the first to come up with that, and you are right, of course.

I have a confession to make in that I am an out-and-out Great Western man, but as you know, our names are all generic castles, halls, etc, so I look north and east for my codewords and so forth.

I'd like to say that you had won a prize for your perspicacity, but you know how it is - we poor old pensioners, and all that..............................!

I assumed it was after the 1949 Gold Cup winner the mighty Alycidon after whom the Deltic was named !

[alycidon]

I assumed it was after the 1949 Gold Cup winner the mighty Alycidon after whom the Deltic was named !

Fair assumption, and indirectly, you are quite correct as well. It's just that I follow locomotives, rather than horses.

Do you know the correct pronunciation? Although I have never had cause to pronounce it, for many years I tacitly thought that it might be ally-SIGH-don with the accent on the third syllable. More recently, however, I have come round to thinking that al-EYE-si-don, with the accent on the second, might be the correct way.

[Barbirollians]

Al-issy-don . Well judging by how Peter O'Sullevan used to pronounce the Alycidon Stakes at Goodwood in late July when commentating - which has since the mid 1980s has gone by the meaningless marketing nonsense of Glorious Stakes instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAdUIMZ1I8E

Digressing Castle Keep so often flattered to deceive !

[alycidon]

Al-issy-don . Well judging by how Peter O'Sullevan used to pronounce the Alycidon Stakes

Yep! That sounds pretty logical. Thanks.

[cloughie]

You brilliant person! I have used this nom-de-plume on a number of forums [fora] over a number of years, and you are the first to come up with that, and you are right, of course.

I have a confession to make in that I am an out-and-out Great Western man, but as you know, our names are all generic castles, halls, etc, so I look north and east for my codewords and so forth.

I'd like to say that you had won a prize for your perspicacity, but you know how it is - we poor old pensioners, and all that..............................!

I suppose your only other alternative as a GWR man would be one of the Castles not named after a Castle, but then do you want to be known as a bomber? Interesting to look at how the class evolved from Stars and how names changed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GWR_4073_Class_locomotives

My origins are LMS and LNER - probably Jubilees and A3s are the locomotives for which I have most affection.

[Vile Consort]

As a friend of mine (now deceased) said as we were consuming our interval ice creams in the Bridgewater hall and looking out at the GMex centre, "Last time I was in there I arrived behind a Jubilee".

[alycidon]

I suppose your only other alternative as a GWR man would be one of the Castles not named after a Castle, but then do you want to be known as a bomber? Interesting to look at how the class evolved from Stars and how names changed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GWR_4073_Class_locomotives

My origins are LMS and LNER - probably Jubilees and A3s are the locomotives for which I have most affection.

When choosing codewords, I always try make them as disparate as possible, and the A3 names do this nicely - unless, I suppose, you are very well acquainted with names of racehorses. I could, as you say, select names such as Blenheim, Hurricane, Beaufort, and so on, but I feel that a clever hacker might be able to get to these rather easily. Most of the racehorse names are unusual spellings [my dad used to say that that was because if a punter spelt a name wrong, his bet was void - I wouldn't know], and perhaps more appropriate.

One of my abiding regrets in this life is that I didn't take more notice of the Jubilees when I was younger. I grew up in Bristol, where we had eleven allocated to Barrow Road, but we were never impressed by them, partly because of the small nameplates, and partly because they were always filthy. I only ever recall the Devonian arriving behind a grimy Holbeck or Canklow engine, and they just did not impress. How wrong I was. Never mind, my favourite, Galatea, is up and running again, but what a shame that she is in Midland red, rather than Brunswick green!

[Nick Armstrong]

Is your nom de plume in honour of D9009?

Very good spot, cloughie!

This pic of the beast with an elderly relative is rather moving, I think

I think it ba e agreat idea to have aFor3 get together at The Bluebell Railway in West sussex. Restaurant with real ale etc! Very convivial methinks!! :)

That sounds a great idea, Bbm!! Might even prise Anna from her Welsh fastness for that!!

[Hornspieler]

Swanage Railway Station



The Swanage to Wareham steam railway link. (An exercise in perspective)

My apologies for putting my brother on the platform, but I couldn't resist the temptation.

Hornspieler R.A. (ex Royal Artillery, not Burlington House!)

[alycidon]

That sounds a great idea, Bbm!! Might even prise Anna from her Welsh fastness for that!!

Best of luck with that - but you aint going to prise me from my Scottish fastness, I'm telling you. Why don't we have it somewhere a bit more central - like the Strathspey Railway at Aviemore!

[mangerton]

Best of luck with that - but you aint going to prise me from my Scottish fastness, I'm telling you. Why don't we have it somewhere a bit more central - like the Strathspey Railway at Aviemore!

That would suit me too and it's a lovely railway, but might be a bit far for the southerners amongst us. Similarly, the Bluebell is a long way for alycidon and me. What about a compromise, eg the KWVR or the NYMR? I'd be up for that - and the beer in Yorkshire is good too!

[Sir Velo]

You brilliant person! I have used this nom-de-plume on a number of forums [fora] over a number of years, and you are the first to come up with that, and you are right, of course.

The first to mention it: not the same as the first to notice it!

TBH, I thought it was so blindingly obvious that I never saw fit to raise it. In the same way that Cloughie's nom de plume is obviously a tribute to the great eccentric Welsh architect, Clough Williams-Ellis.

[Sir Velo]

Cloughie, do you have details of the channel 5 documentary? particularly when?

This might be what you're elooking for Slarty.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/monster-moves/episodes/monster-moves-titanic-train-trek

[slarty]

This might be what you're elooking for Slarty.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/monste...nic-train-trek

Thank you Sir Velo, that is exactly it. Excellent work.

[Hornspieler]

Does anyone remember the Pines Express, which ran between Manchester and Bournemouth on the old Somerset and Dorset line; through Evercreech Junction?