dodgy place this internet...

This site contains affiliate links for which LandyZone may be compensated if you make a purchase.
rads <[email protected]> uttered
summat worrerz funny about:
> HOW COULD YOU.
>
> Please take 100 lines
>
> "I must not post steam porn to A.F.L."
>
> ;-)
>
> David

I was fortunate enough to get to steer a steam traction engine around the
arena at a show in Cheshire a couple of years back. It was one of Fred
Dibbnahs many engines and at the time Big Sis was with the guy who tended to
this particular engine. Nothing quite like the smell of coal, oil and steam.
Fantastic! Worth every penny of the petrol it cost to sneak in the back door
of the show ground on the exhibitors pass :). The chap who tended to the
engine said it cost something like £4000 for the gold guilt paint on the
wheels alone, still can't see the chavs half inching one.

Lee D


 
On 2006-06-23, Lee_D <[email protected]> wrote:

> The chap who tended to the engine said it cost something like £4000
> for the gold guilt paint on the wheels alone, still can't see the
> chavs half inching one.

Not likely, my old man had an Aveling Barford diesel roller, one of
the first diesels ever made, with two sodding great big flywheels on
either side. Half a tonne each, one sheared off and capered off down
the road at great speed and shattered, glad it didn't hit anyone! The
proper steam fairground engines are bloody expensive though, quite
amazingly expensive.

Steam fairs are great, there's a big one coming up near here soon, the
smell of the old engines is fantastic. You usually get a brace of
101s and landies showing up in military garb.

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 

"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> you find ways to spend money you haven't got...
>
> http://www.festrail.co.uk/guestdrv.htm
>
> --
> Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
> Satisfying: Satisfy your inner child by eating ten tubes of Smarties
> from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.

Thankfully these B*gg*rs have not mailshotted me for a bit or I would be
even more skint http://www.flymig.com/packages/
Derek


 
Austin Shackles wrote:
> you find ways to spend money you haven't got...
>
> http://www.festrail.co.uk/guestdrv.htm

Sod you Austin. ;-) I'd just about managed to forget that work
commitments mean that I have missed a 350 mile steam excursion today.


--
EMB
 

"EMB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Austin Shackles wrote:
> > you find ways to spend money you haven't got...
> >
> > http://www.festrail.co.uk/guestdrv.htm
>
> Sod you Austin. ;-) I'd just about managed to forget that work
> commitments mean that I have missed a 350 mile steam excursion today.

It's strange when you think about it....... it seems to be the case, more
often than not, that people who are passionate about landrovers are often
passionate about steam power, yet those very people get so hot and bothered
if the steam comes from the landrover.......DOH! ;-)
Badger.


 
Badger wrote:
> "EMB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Austin Shackles wrote:
>>> you find ways to spend money you haven't got...
>>>
>>> http://www.festrail.co.uk/guestdrv.htm
>> Sod you Austin. ;-) I'd just about managed to forget that work
>> commitments mean that I have missed a 350 mile steam excursion today.
>
> It's strange when you think about it....... it seems to be the case, more
> often than not, that people who are passionate about landrovers are often
> passionate about steam power, yet those very people get so hot and bothered
> if the steam comes from the landrover.......DOH! ;-)
> Badger.
>
>
My only claim to real steam is having built a little Stuart Turner
Victoria engine a few years back, and going on the footplate of a
freshly restored loco being tested at Gympie with my beloved. We both
were amazed at the feeling of raw power as the loco moved off.

Karen

--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast
 
In message <[email protected]>
Karen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:

> Badger wrote:
> > "EMB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >> Austin Shackles wrote:
> >>> you find ways to spend money you haven't got...
> >>>
> >>> http://www.festrail.co.uk/guestdrv.htm
> >> Sod you Austin. ;-) I'd just about managed to forget that work
> >> commitments mean that I have missed a 350 mile steam excursion today.
> >
> > It's strange when you think about it....... it seems to be the case, more
> > often than not, that people who are passionate about landrovers are often
> > passionate about steam power, yet those very people get so hot and bothered
> > if the steam comes from the landrover.......DOH! ;-)
> > Badger.
> >
> >
> My only claim to real steam is having built a little Stuart Turner
> Victoria engine a few years back, and going on the footplate of a
> freshly restored loco being tested at Gympie with my beloved. We both
> were amazed at the feeling of raw power as the loco moved off.
>
> Karen
>

Dirty inefficient things! We used to shunt the bitumen sidings
at Cranmore, adjacent East Sommerset Railway. On one trip they
wanted to move Evening Star out of the shed for a photo shoot
to promote the "Heaviest load moved by a steam locomotive"
world record stunt at Merehead Quarry. It would have taken 2
hours to raise steam, and something like 4 hours to cool down
and clean, all for 2 mins work.

We, completely aginst the rules, used our Class 47 to loose
shunt it! - and shunted their sidings while we were at it.
As the BR driver observed (he'd passed out on 9F's during
the steam days) - "nice to look at, and excellent for
making breakfast, but I'd not swap for all the tea in China".

Tin hat donned......

Richard

--
www.beamends-lrspares.co.uk [email protected]
RISC-OS - Where have all the good guys gone?
Lib Dems - Townies keeping comedy alive
 
Karen Gallagher wrote:

> My only claim to real steam is having built a little Stuart Turner
> Victoria engine a few years back, and going on the footplate of a
> freshly restored loco being tested at Gympie with my beloved. We both
> were amazed at the feeling of raw power as the loco moved off.

That and the fact they feel "alive" - anything alive with that much
power is some form of magic.

--
EMB
 
On 2006-06-24, beamendsltd <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tin hat donned......

I doubt you'll need it, they've died out for good reasons,
specifically the ones you've stated! Even a 30-year-old car in a
modern environment is unjustifiable other than on nostalgic grounds.

Now I might need a tin hat for that one ;-)

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 
On or around Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:58:01 +0100, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On 2006-06-23, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> you find ways to spend money you haven't got...
>>
>> http://www.festrail.co.uk/guestdrv.htm
>
>14 miles of driving sounds nice, but 14 miles of firing? Sounds like
>hard work!

I've done a bit of firing down at Henllan on the Teifi Valley, and it's
fantastic fun, and quite a challenge to get right so that when the driver
opens the regulator there's steam aplenty. However they only have a mile or
so of track - 14 miles would be a lot more challenging but I'd love to have
a crack at it.

sadly, I don't have the time (or anyone to cover my regular work) to get
down there now - if you're going to fire the loco you have to be there at
about 8 ack emma to light up and stay all day 'til after the last train and
then draw the fire and put the loco to bed. buggering off mid-afternoon
would be frowned upon (I reckon I could get away with asking someone else to
light up, as I could get there early enough to do all the oiling and
cleaning). Obviously I could easily get there at weekends, but there're
lots of people who want to fire and so on at the weekend so it's difficult
to get on the footplate.

Had I still been going there regularly, I reckon by now I could possibly
have got a driver's ticket. The gwili, in carmarthen, run standard gauge
steam and have a full, working, signalling system and it used to be and I
assume still is possible to get a mainline steam driver's ticket there.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to
a great lie than to a small one" Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
from Mein Kampf, Ch 10
 
On or around Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:58:53 +0100, beamendsltd
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>
>Dirty inefficient things! We used to shunt the bitumen sidings
>at Cranmore, adjacent East Sommerset Railway. On one trip they
>wanted to move Evening Star out of the shed for a photo shoot
>to promote the "Heaviest load moved by a steam locomotive"
>world record stunt at Merehead Quarry. It would have taken 2
>hours to raise steam, and something like 4 hours to cool down
>and clean, all for 2 mins work.

Once, I was in Minehead for a day on a different excuse and noted the
station which is now the terminus of the north somerset railway or whatever
they call it. glanced through the gates... coo, a steam loco, lets go and
have a butchers. Only the bloody Evening Star sitting there at the
platform. It's bloody big close-up.

>We, completely aginst the rules, used our Class 47 to loose
>shunt it! - and shunted their sidings while we were at it.
>As the BR driver observed (he'd passed out on 9F's during
>the steam days) - "nice to look at, and excellent for
>making breakfast, but I'd not swap for all the tea in China".

the 47 was pretty successful - they had and doubtless still have a hell of a
lot of 'em.

I've been behind one on the relief train from Paddington on friday night,
hauling about a dozen coaches with no apparent effort.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to
a great lie than to a small one" Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
from Mein Kampf, Ch 10
 
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:58:01 +0100, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> scribbled the following nonsense:

>On 2006-06-23, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> you find ways to spend money you haven't got...
>>
>> http://www.festrail.co.uk/guestdrv.htm
>
>14 miles of driving sounds nice, but 14 miles of firing? Sounds like
>hard work!

should imagine it is.... They run on fuel oil as I found out last
year when I asked the question. The fuel oil is burned to generate
the steam. Something to do with coal generating sparks in a national
park...
--

Simon Isaacs

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote"
George Jean Nathan (1882-1955)

ROT13 me....
 
Simon Isaacs wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:58:01 +0100, Ian Rawlings
> <[email protected]> scribbled the following nonsense:
>
>
>>On 2006-06-23, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>you find ways to spend money you haven't got...
>>>
>>>http://www.festrail.co.uk/guestdrv.htm
>>
>>14 miles of driving sounds nice, but 14 miles of firing? Sounds like
>>hard work!
>
>
> should imagine it is.... They run on fuel oil as I found out last
> year when I asked the question. The fuel oil is burned to generate
> the steam. Something to do with coal generating sparks in a national
> park...

Oil converted ones just ain't right - they smell wrong and they are far
too easy to fire.

--
EMB
 
On 2006-06-24, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've done a bit of firing down at Henllan on the Teifi Valley, and it's
> fantastic fun, and quite a challenge to get right so that when the driver
> opens the regulator there's steam aplenty. However they only have a mile or
> so of track - 14 miles would be a lot more challenging but I'd love to have
> a crack at it.

I am of course assuming that "firing" is basically shovelling coal
into the boiler, might be interesting for a mile or so but could be
boring, not to mention tiring. As a professional computer geek I like
to avoid all that grotty physical stuff whenever possible.

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 
EMB <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:

> Oil converted ones just ain't right - they smell wrong and they are
> far too easy to fire.

I'd think it's a bitch to shovel too, make the footplate a bit slippery.

;-)

Lee D


 
Ian Rawlings wrote:

> I am of course assuming that "firing" is basically shovelling coal
> into the boiler, might be interesting for a mile or so but could be
> boring, not to mention tiring. As a professional computer geek I like
> to avoid all that grotty physical stuff whenever possible.

There's a bit more to it than just throwing coal into a firebox -
getting it right is an art form which takes a fair while to perfect (and
which some people can never master).

With you being a non-physical computer geek type I think that after a
mile of shovelling your arms would probably drop off which is likely to
be amusing rather than boring. ;-)


--
EMB
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

A
disco 1 200 type cubby box
Replies
2
Views
552
Derek
D
A
V8 3.5 injection, differences.
Replies
2
Views
641
Austin Shackles
A
A
Series leaf springs.
Replies
17
Views
2K
Alex
A
A
OT- PSV testing
Replies
9
Views
953
Austin Shackles
A
A
tracking gauge
Replies
8
Views
1K
Austin Shackles
A
Back
Top