Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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. . a train stops again in Lydden. Not quite the High Speed but it's a start
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Terry Nunn
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Madam Chairman of LRCF might like to know that a diesel loco 73205 has been named after her!
Terry
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Reminded me I saw this recently, this is what you call a train engine -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13592652Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
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wonderful stuff about the Deltic - saw it on the Beeb a couple of days ago
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Sorry, that's just a PR stunt about the Deltic. There are huge numbers of more modern suitable locos in "cold" and "warm" store that could have been used. And what's more, locos with better emissions than an ancient two stroke.
Terry
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I still miss travelling on the 'Hayling Billy' leaning out of the window catching smuts in the eye as it steamed from Langstone over the harbour on the way to North Hayling Halt then ending at our destination of South Hayling Station - Halcyon Days
Jan Higgins
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I prefer Thomas or even the pictures I saw the other day of the refurbished Flying Scotsman in it's in wartime colour.
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Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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I used to work with Jeanette at Whitemoor yard. She was a train assistant then-but now a driver for GBRF-a capable lady. GBRF have a policy of naming their locomotives after their lady employees. A number of the type of locomotives used on the Hayling Island Branch survived into preservation. These were the famous Terrier class- two of which now are in service on the KESR.
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Community-run railway lines are thriving in rural and urban areas despite funding cuts
Here's a link to an interesting story which covers not only the re-introduction of lines but also illustrates the 'big society' at work.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/31/community-railway-lines-thriving-despite-cutsMarek
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Interesting to read about those community train services, maybe my joke post wasn't such a joke after all - I'll get Vic onto it if he eventually gets to one of our parish council meetings!
Here's another one of those dirty old two strokes - I was standing 10 feet in front of it when it started up, that was fun. It's pulling 12 British Pullman carriages from Southampton docks to Victoria instead of the mail trains it was built for.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Re: Beeching - guess who appears on a "Branch line" of Bob's family tree!!!
Bob is descended from Beechings of Shadoxhurst area!
Barry W-S I have ancestors from Hayling Island and area. Oyster fishermen ! I once sat in the stocks in S.Hayling churchyard....
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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One of the Terriers was placed in the pub car park in situ in the village of Mengham so obviously it was named 'The Hayling Billy', after around five to six years she was refurbished and freighted over to the IOW and she is back doing her old job.
Kath, strange coincidence, I also have family living there. The old oyster beds were along the shoreline where the steam train used to run at North Hayling Halt. If memory serves me right the stocks and whipping post are by the Lynchgate in St Mary's churchyard around the corner from The Hayling Billy.
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Barry W-S
I was told a few years ago that the stocks are now in a local museum. It was in 1970 I sat in them !
My ancestors (Russells) lived on a house Russell's Island, a little island off the tip of the Farlington Marshes to keep watch on the oyster beds, their house unoccupied was used a target practice during the WEW2.
They were also connected to Langstone, Emsworth, Jersey and Concarneaux with the oysters.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I think you're right Kath, I'll ask my sister the next time I see her. I always wondered if anyone lived there.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Barry W-S - look at this site and scroll down the page, to see my ancestor's house on the little island.
(I think I am going off the subject.....)
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Very interesting Kath, I always wondered what happened to the house
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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Now here's a real big society initiative to run a railway and regenerate a town-right on your doorstep! They have close on a thousand members!
http://www.theremembranceline.org.uk/Never give up...
