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« Reply #120 on: December 18, 2015, 16:51:59 »

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« Reply #121 on: December 18, 2015, 17:23:11 »

18th. That'd be Bracknell.
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« Reply #122 on: December 18, 2015, 17:29:47 »

18th. That'd be Bracknell.

Maybe ... also looking for dates and comments, remember!
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« Reply #123 on: December 18, 2015, 17:38:14 »

Wouldn't know the date and don't have much, if anything, to say about Bracknell.  Tongue
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« Reply #124 on: December 19, 2015, 15:25:28 »

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« Reply #125 on: December 19, 2015, 15:31:39 »

"Do not lean out of the window"!
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« Reply #126 on: December 19, 2015, 15:38:27 »

"Do not lean out of the window"!

In my day, they used to say "Do not clean soot off the window"
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« Reply #127 on: December 19, 2015, 15:57:07 »

How about the Tavy Bridge between on the LSWR (London South Western Railway) line between St Budeaux and Bere Ferrers. 

Obviously before the line was singled. 
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« Reply #128 on: December 19, 2015, 19:19:59 »

No.19 - Tay Bridge, Dundee.  Class 47 approaching. Possibly early to mid-1980s?
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« Reply #129 on: December 19, 2015, 19:20:58 »

Wouldn't know the date and don't have much, if anything, to say about Bracknell.  Tongue

Typical. Probably that will be the only place I know well, and might even recognise, and it comes and goes while I'm busy doing something else.  

As it happens, I do know when I was first there - 17th December 1976. I had come for an interview with Ferranti (remember them?), unsuccessfully. My recollections of that day are, to say the very least, a bit sketchy. I would not have been there again until nearly 20 years later - and I suspect the picture was taken in that interval.

As usual, one of the subjects we talked about was what the place was like to work in and live near. My interviewer came out with the classic line (at least as far as Bracknell is concerned) "Bracknell itself is an absolute tip, but there are some quite nice places not far away".

At that date it was of course all pretty new - and the station was very new indeed. Now that 1960s centre is a building site, and after "regeneration" will emerge, dousing its plumage, as "The Lexicon". I'm sure there must be some kind of pun in that name, but I'll need to find somewhere to look it up ...
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« Reply #130 on: December 19, 2015, 19:31:08 »

No.19 - Tay Bridge, Dundee.  Class 47 approaching. Possibly early to mid-1980s?

Looks more likely than my guess
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« Reply #131 on: December 19, 2015, 19:45:42 »

No.18 shows a Class 422 (4-Cig) unit built in 1970 on a Waterloo to Reading service.......I think Tongue

......and if that is the case then the blanked out headcode is either 36, 37, 38 or 39 depending on time of day and route that the train took between Barnes and Feltham Roll Eyes http://www.semgonline.com/headcodes/eheadcodes/eheadcodes01.html
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« Reply #132 on: December 20, 2015, 02:26:19 »

Wouldn't know the date and don't have much, if anything, to say about Bracknell.  Tongue

Bracknell, quite coincidentally, is my 'day job' head office distribution depot. Lips sealed
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« Reply #133 on: December 20, 2015, 16:56:46 »

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« Reply #134 on: December 20, 2015, 17:38:01 »

Tiverton Jn with a down Express at the Taunton end.
Specially note the fine lineside Telegraph pole route ..something that is now very rare anywhere on the old BR (British Rail(ways)) system.
Possibly one of the longest stretches of surviving lineside telegraph pole route was in 2014 fond (and may still be) for about 20 miles on the central part of the Aberdeen to Inverness line.
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