BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Rafflesbear
Date: 25 Jun 09 - 05:41 PM

34067 Tangmere at Bromley South

There are several clips on youtube that fit the subject

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 25 Jun 09 - 04:43 PM

It's a good trip, taking a look at York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Dundee. Lovelly views, super scenery. Just have to watch out between Edinburgh and Aberdeen for roving gangs of thieves. (Who can afford 1st class except MP's ?)

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 25 Jun 09 - 04:36 PM

I met a client today who is travelling to Aberdeen from London tomorrow - standard class - he must be mad!!

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Phot
Date: 25 Jun 09 - 01:18 PM

Not just folk, Heavy Metal Dudes Saxon, did a song called Princess of the night, no prizes for guessing the class!

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 25 Jun 09 - 07:51 AM

There are hundreds of folk songs that mention Kings, Dukes, Saints, Stars, Castles, Halls and Manors, not to mention "Rovers" (can't recall any mentioning Granges though) so I think that the GWR is a major contender for "folk railway company".

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 09:23 AM

I'd have thought John "Giok" MacKenzie would know him, he lives in that neck of the woods.

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 04:15 AM

Well. He's now got an instant supporter. Wish he'd come to Orkney. However when we manage to sell the house and move back to the mainland in the Lossiemouth area. I'm sure I'll find out where he's gigging. Did he go to the Scottish Mudgather?

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Rafflesbear
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 05:27 PM

Hey, perhaps we can get this thread out of the BS and into the music section !!!!!

Dave Goulder is the greatest exponent of the railway song bar none IMHO - because he lived and worked on the railway as a fireman the lyrics rise to another level. None of this "freight train, freight train going so fast" or "Rock Island Line is a mighty fine line" or "the runaway train came down the track and she blew" - instead we have long narrow shovels, lengthmen, black fives, Oliver Cromwell and going home with pockets full of coal. Listening to these songs gives a real insight into railway life in steam days

And he's coming down to Broadstairs !!!!!

Dave Goulder website

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 04:29 PM

Railways have been the inspiration for many songs, so they must have a legitimate place in a folk/blues music site. The first song I ever learnt to play was "Freight train".

Ewan MacColl wrote a few songs about railways. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wifqxq95ldfe~T3 There are also threads before.

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Paul Burke
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 12:50 PM

There's a thread above about Merchant Nay songs. We could certainly have one about West Country songs, perhaps Battle of Britain songs, Schools songs, and Lord Nelson songs.

Can any other railway boast as many classes celebrated in (particularly folk) song?

By theway, there seems to be a major gathering of funny machines at Derby Station- I counted 4 tampers, a ballast regulator and a stoneblower there yesterday, and that's not counting the resident rail grinding train.

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: goatfell
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 04:38 PM

I like trains as well but there is a time and a place

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 04:14 PM

The stoneblower is a track ballasting device that lifts/jacks and packs the ballast as pretty high speed especially compared to doing it with a track jack and a shovel !It does it by pneumatically blowing the ballast into placeunder the sleepers. It's a really smart machine ! I saw one going through Church fenton in spring when I was down there.

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Paul Burke
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 04:14 PM

A Fridat is the best way of coping when you have to eat your hat.

A stoneblower, on the other hand, is a machine for injecting stones into voids underneath sleepers (ties over the water), and are used to complement the work done by tampers, which basically pick up the track and push the existing stones underneath the sleepers.

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Rafflesbear
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 10:36 AM

What's Fridat come to that? - is it a drug?

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 09:05 AM

Paul, what's a stoneblower?

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 07:24 AM

Well, where's the pickies then? Did it look good?

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: ced2
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 06:08 AM

Spam, spam, spam etc etc.

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Paul Burke
Date: 21 Jun 09 - 05:02 PM

M. Troisjambes- that sounds so disturbing, the sun in the wrongb place. Will Humanity survive such a catastrophe?

I can't cap that, but I saw a stoneblower on Fridat....

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Jun 09 - 04:54 PM

I lurched over to Bromley again today to see Tornado - hopeless for photos as the sun was in the wrong place, but an amazing experience all the same.

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: nickp
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 04:10 AM

Lovely. I had the second chance to see Tornado on the West Somerset Railway.

Subject: RE: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 14 Jun 09 - 04:42 PM

Dead on time and a wonderful sight!

Subject: BS: 34067 Tangmere stopping at Bromley South
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 14 Jun 09 - 07:41 AM

This wonderful steam locomotive stops at Bromley South this evening at 20:29pm for 3 minutes which should be a superb photographic opportunity, especially if the sun is still out!