Any (Old) Trainspotters Out There?

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I was cursing because the crossing was closed at one of my local stations when this came along.


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This is an A4 Class Pacific loco, 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, built in 1935,which I think is kept at Goathland on the North Yorkshire Moors. One of its sister locos, 60022 Mallard, still holds the world record for a steam loco at 126 m.p.h.

It was being taken to a gala somewhere near Chesterfield this weekend.I say taken because it was being pulled, backwards, by a modern diesel.

Beautiful engine but it is SO shiny that the pic is not particularly good and I only had a couple of seconds to take the pic and could not set up the camera.
 

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First thing that came into my head Niv when I saw that was, that looks like the Mallard..:nod: Then you say its of the same sister train...Looks superb.

All this talk of Mallards in my thread and now yours..Is it a she or a he..:D
 
I was never a trainspotter but I do love old steam trains.

And I'm old enough to remember standing on the local footbridge and watching steam trains pass by underneath. Used to stand right over the train as it passed below and got decidedly sooty sometimes :D

Can also remember travelling to the seaside with my parents on steam trains as well.

The sign on the carriage doors said 'Do not lean out of the window' and it was usually changed to 'Do not clean soot off the window'

What wags we were eh? :D
 
I was a spotter for a time in the 70`s , me and my cousin both had fathers working for BR and we got free travel , so we used to head up to Crewe and spot...excellent times ...:wave: . The Mallard as recognisable as the pyramids :)
 
Very late 70`s m8 ....78,79 :) , i was only 13,14 and allowed to travel to Crewe with a m8...trusting times indeed
 
In the 40s 50s 60s I were a train spotter pity I didn’t keep my records I could have posted them.

I saw the mallard, flying Scotsman, Castle class, and hundreds of others; I used to go to the rail track at Landore [Swansea] near the engine shed and sit for hours watching the engines go in dirty and come out shinning like a new pin beautiful they were…:nod:
 
The Railway Museum in York is free and well worth a look around. The rest of the town is worth a look if you have a few moments spare aswell. Bores the pants of me as I have been round both hundreds of times. Mind you I did grow up there.

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I have family in a small village in Somerset that is close to the West Somerset Line.
It's amazing to see these old steam trains going through the countryside.
Getting stopped at the railway crossing is so much more pleasurable when a steam train goes past!
Link for the West Somerset Line is HERE
 
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