Diesels at Crown Point and Sovereign St.

[Phred]

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[Dad-1]

Murgatroyd !!
You need to find the Triang bogie Chlorine tank wagon !
New wheels & couplers, well worth finding one.

Geoff T.

[glencairn]

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Murgatroyd !!
You need to find the Triang bogie Chlorine tank wagon !
New wheels & couplers, well worth finding one.

Geoff T.

Yes! I saw that in a list of Triang items.
I also saw a Triang 'Murgatroyds' wagon similar to mine. The difference being the Triang one said Murgatroyds London. Mine doesn't have a town or city on it. Therefore, ideal for a Yorkshire based layout.


Glencairn

[luckymucklebackit]

I seem to remember that Murgatroyd was the name given to the Magpie in the kids TV programme. BBC had Blue Peter and adopted 60532, ITV had Magpie and had to stick a spurious name onto 44806.

Jim

[glencairn]

I seem to remember that Murgatroyd was the name given to the Magpie in the kids TV programme. BBC had Blue Peter and adopted 60532, ITV had Magpie and had to stick a spurious name onto 44806.

Jim

Well. That is me learning something new.

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I have purchased three new buildings. I shall be preparing the area for where they shall be placed. That's a job over the weekend.

Glencairn

[glencairn]

Albert Vinnerd's garage has moved and is now in what was a vacant space.

Cyrus Sharp is now the new owner of the coal yard.

Glencairn

[Phred]

I spent a little while studying those last two photos. So much intriguing detail to take in.

[glencairn]

I spent a little while studying those last two photos. So much intriguing detail to take in.

Just thing s nothing to do with railways.


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Class 47 47423 Sceptre on a northbound freight to Royal Ordnance Factory, Barnbow.

D1008 Western Harrier at Crown Point Depot.

D9011 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers at Leeds Sovereign Street on its way to Crown Point yard

Glencairn

[Richard08]

Love the garage. Pretty sure I bought a car from there... ah, the days when we could drive scrappers

[Phred]

glencairn wrote:
Just thing s nothing to do with railways.

Ah, but it's the 'things' that make a model railway look real!

Richard 08 wrote:
ah, the days when we could drive scrappers

The days when you could actually touch something under the bonnet without blowing up the onboard
computer!

[glencairn]

Love the garage. Pretty sure I bought a car from there... ah, the days when we could drive scrappers

glencairn wrote:
Just thing s nothing to do with railways.

Ah, but it's the 'things' that make a model railway look real!

Richard 08 wrote:
ah, the days when we could drive scrappers

The days when you could actually touch something under the bonnet without blowing up the onboard
computer!

D1035 Western Yeoman arriving at Crown Point Yard.

Glencairn

[Dad-1]

Yes Phred,

The days when we knew how everything worked, partially because
there wasn't much that did !!
No radio
No heater
Adjust 'The Points' every month & re-gap the plugs.
Glencairn manages to take us back there which is why I love it !!

Geoff T.

[glencairn]

Yes Phred,

The days when we knew how everything worked, partially because
there wasn't much that did !!
No radio
No heater
Glencairn manages to take us back there which is why I love it !!

Geoff T.

Geoff has taken me straight back to the early 1960s.

Asleep? In the cab of a road haulage vehicle in a layby Kingdom of Fife.

Those were the days.

Glencairn

[Phred]

glencairn wrote:
Asleep? In the cab of a road haulage vehicle in a layby Kingdom of Fife.

Lord help you! But we were built tougher back then.

I tell my grandchildren how I used to walk to and from school every day, five miles uphill both ways with snow up to my waist. Little Phoebe commented the other day: 'Granpop! Every time you tell that story the snow gets higher! It'll be over your head next!' I told her that was how I learned to snorkel but she didn't believe me.

[Phred]

Dad-1 wrote:
The days when we knew how everything worked, partially because
there wasn't much that did !!

Now everything works great until the preset self destruct date set by the manufacturer so that you have to buy a new one.
Mind you, I don't miss crawling around under the car trying to find the grease nipples!