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« on: March 09, 2019, 06:50:39 PM »
Well, just for the weekend.
I drove over to Lincolnshire this morning to see a mate about making a custom aluminium fuel tank for my Pop, (I'm not happy with the rear tank -fittings in the wrong positions & I just want something prettier if it's going to be on show. Still powder coated black though).
From there I drove up the East coast to Billingham, near Middlesbrough to pick up a spare Ford Pop steering box, column & wheel I bought on eBay -the seller turned out to own a drag car that used to race with my brother's club, The Wild Bunch.
I was going to drive straight home from there, but thought it's my long weekend off work, I don't have to go back to work until Tuesday -why not make a weekend of it.
So I stopped off at a steam railway in Grosmont for the afternoon & now I'm sat in a very nice hotel in Whitby, East Yorkshire.
Just about to wander down to the quayside for a fish & chip supper, then back to wallow in a hot bath while listening to the funk & soul show on Radio 6 in the hotel.
*sigh* Life is good Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2019, 07:01:28 PM »
Enjoy mate. Me and her are house sitting near Taunton this long weekend.

Went to see the sea and about to shoot into town for something to eat
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2019, 07:58:40 PM »
Taunton's nice.
Doc, (Twisted Patience), lives there.
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2019, 08:09:36 PM »
AY up boss you're up just past me ,,
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2019, 08:33:53 PM »
We were up in Yorkshire years for a weekend with the Maestro Owners Club, ans as it was so far we made a week of it - had a wonderful time in spite of camping in awful weather.

We went to Grosmont and were lucky enough to see FIVE engines in steam all at the same time, what a sight!
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2019, 09:50:26 PM »
Sadly, I'm a couple of weeks too early for steam -they don't start running the trains till the end of March, but I had a mooch along the platform & in the engine sheds, as well as a slice of Victoria sponge cake in the cafe Smiley
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« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2019, 09:55:29 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2019, 09:55:54 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2019, 09:58:27 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2019, 09:58:57 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2019, 09:59:21 PM »
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« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2019, 09:59:48 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2019, 01:36:47 PM »
Andy , when you took the photo of the signal with the clock underneath it you were probably seen by lots of  people as there is a webcam on that signal gantry facing you running 24/7, there is another one at Goathland station also known as Aidensfield in the tv series Heartbeat.I often have a look when the trains are running, yes i do have an interest in steam locos and no i do not own an anorak or a book with loco numbers in it  Grin
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« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2019, 02:18:43 PM »
Whitby heh. If you see an unmanned vessel,with a large black dog on the deck coming into port. Find a piece of wood, sharpen a point on it and get a string of Garlic to hang around your neck.  Grin Grin
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« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2019, 05:26:25 PM »
No sign of any boats, manned by half crazed sailors lashed to the wheel.
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