BOATS AND CANALS

(isn't the left hand flag upside down?)

Updated link for Dawlish Webcam also with some more photographs of Sir Nigel Gresley, scroll down right
http://www.dawlishbeach.com/wp/?page_id=45

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Maurice

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Correct cheap imports from far east.

This camera is now subscription only.

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about five/six years ago before i retired,i used to stand penkridge market on a saturday,anyone who knows it,also knows the railway runs right next to it.
as a lad we used to call these trains streaks ( mallard ect )but i used to live by the great western line at soho and winson green station,i had never seen one in real life and was told by one of my customers that sir nigel would be coming through penkridge about 7pm,so after work i went back up to see it.
it was fully laden and was flat out,heard it before you could see it,
it really was a wonderful sight,lots of happy people aboard
i had it on my phone but alas i never had my pc then and could not put it on my hard drive to store and of couse it has now been lost,
another thing i am hoping to do is go to the york train museum.

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.... my memory,s not what it used to be.
also my memory,s not what it used to be.

............................mike.

These are a couple of my own photographs, taken at York Museum 22 years ago hence the poor quality. Chris my son is the boy in the second photograph aged 8. The reason he is looking wary is because he shouldn't have been sitting on the Mallard.

I was also lucky enough to be lineside to watch the The Great Railway Cavalcade Rocket 150 at Rainhill in 1980, in a field and it was free. http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7305.shtml

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