TonyK
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The artist formerly known as Four Track, Now!
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« Reply #540 on: October 28, 2018, 20:12:46 » |
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....and for those that don't do twitter?....  Not sure really. I managed the step change from ink well (I was the monitor in class 3 A) to fountain pen.I didn't quite make the jump to cartidge pen, though suffering many stained shirts, so I share your sense of isolation. |
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Now, please!
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johnneyw
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« Reply #541 on: October 28, 2018, 21:06:34 » |
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....and for those that don't do twitter?.... Not sure really. I managed the step change from ink well (I was the monitor in class 3 A) to fountain pen.I didn't quite make the jump to cartidge pen, though suffering many stained shirts, so I share your sense of isolation. Don't get me started on cartridge and fountain pens at school. Being left handed I would regularly smudge a lot of what I had just written. A biro might have helped there but I just had to adjust the way I held the pen and angle the paper to limit the damage. It still accounts for my rather unfortunate handwriting to this day. Back on topic, there does still seem to be a lot to do during the current possession despite undoubted recent progress. Just what would happen if an unexpected problem emerges resulting in completion taking more time than allocated? |
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« Reply #542 on: October 28, 2018, 21:17:05 » |
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Indelible pencil. It's the way forward.
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johnneyw
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« Reply #543 on: October 28, 2018, 21:29:13 » |
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Indelible pencil. It's the way forward.
Not sure my school, or anywhere, had any in the 1960s. Would have been a cool space agey sort of thing to impress my classmates with though. We still had plenty of fad toys and things then. Some things don't change! |
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« Reply #544 on: October 28, 2018, 21:33:02 » |
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Wikipedia says they've been around since the 1870s. Which doesn't mean your school had any in the 1960s, or even mine in the 1970s and 80s.
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Red Squirrel
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« Reply #545 on: October 29, 2018, 12:14:54 » |
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Went and had a look at Narroways this morning... nothing to see really, just a regular four track main line.
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #546 on: October 29, 2018, 13:03:07 » |
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« Reply #547 on: October 29, 2018, 14:34:04 » |
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It's beginning to look a lot like......erm, a 4 platform station.
Busy, busy when I got there, lots going on including work on the old platforms. Here's a few pics, first ones looking south towards Bristol, the last one looking north towards wild uncharted lands.
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johnneyw
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« Reply #548 on: October 29, 2018, 14:35:47 » |
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And one more as it wouldn't fit on the previous post. This one looking north.
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johnneyw
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« Reply #549 on: October 29, 2018, 14:41:40 » |
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Sorry abound the picture quality, I couldn't really see what I was taking due to the glare on my screen from the sun. 😕
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« Reply #550 on: October 29, 2018, 15:18:12 » |
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« Reply #551 on: October 29, 2018, 15:24:10 » |
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Looking a lot more hacked about around old Horfield station where the new Horfield junction is being built between the new main & relief lines
Note the old down main has been lifted and moved across onto where the new down relief will be, both north and south of Constable Road bridge...
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Oh for the day when I can catch a train from Mangotsfield to the Centre, Bath and Yate! ;-)
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metalrail
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« Reply #552 on: October 29, 2018, 15:25:58 » |
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And the same going on south of the bridge down towards SRD...
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Oh for the day when I can catch a train from Mangotsfield to the Centre, Bath and Yate! ;-)
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metalrail
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« Reply #553 on: October 29, 2018, 15:28:30 » |
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Then just south of FIT. First 2 pics looking north towards the station, and finally 1 looking south showing where the old Filton South junction to platform 3 has now been severed ready for the line to continue directly south
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Oh for the day when I can catch a train from Mangotsfield to the Centre, Bath and Yate! ;-)
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« Reply #554 on: October 29, 2018, 16:03:58 » |
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Thanks for posting those photographs, Metalrail. At least it was a nice day, if a bit cold. Keep them coming.
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