The Flying Scotsman

[GT49er]

http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/U55276/2017-06-03

Goes past my back garden at lunchtime.

Strewth - Victoria to Woking via Willesden and Kew.......talk about round the houses!

 

[skipper734]

https://www.beholder.uk/steam/ This is the trainspotters site. Lines East of Southampton seem to be ignored this year. Not a single train through Botley this year, for viewing by NSC members( Steam Branch)

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Strewth - Victoria to Woking via Willesden and Kew.......talk about round the houses!

Well Kew is roughly on line of route to be fair, (it's on the Hounslow loop), but Willesden seems a tad strange. Network Rail seem to keep these charter trains well out of the way of scheduled services. Reminds me of some of the weird and wonderful routings the old Seagull Express was forced to follow back in the day.

 

[GT49er]

Well Kew is roughly on line of route to be fair...........

Well, only if you are coming from Willesden! Having reached Clapham Junction, there is a direct route to Woking that doesn't go within miles of Kew. I can only think the object of the exercise is to give the punters a longer (and much slower) ride!

 

[Brok]

http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/U55276/2017-06-03

Woking 1152
Guildford 1213
Reigate 1305
Redhill 1310
Purley 1323½
East Croydon 1329
Windmill Bridge Jn 1330
Norwood Junction 1333½
Bromley Jn 1335½
Crystal Palace 1337½
West Norwood 1342½
Tulse Hill 1345
Herne Hill 1349½
Brixton 1351½
London Victoria 1400

Cheers, Del.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Well, only if you are coming from Willesden! Having reached Clapham Junction, there is a direct route to Woking that doesn't go within miles of Kew. I can only think the object of the exercise is to give the punters a longer (and much slower) ride!

Or to keep old steam engines away from the main line lol, (however glamorous they may be!).

 

[Seasidesage]

Now that was a pub!

 

[GT49er]

Or to keep old steam engines away from the main line lol, (however glamorous they may be!).

Not very successful, then - on some very busy lines out of Victoria, has to slow down for Clapham Junction to make its way across to the West London line, then up for a quick wander around the West Coast main line at Willesden. So, about a 30 mile detour, only to rejoin the main line from Clapham Junction to Woking about half way down! So, about ten miles of the SW mainline avoided, ten miles which, given a straight run through it could have whisked through in very little over ten minutes!
Still, it is often said by many ITK that the trouble with the railways is that they aren't run by railwaymen any more!

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

I thought this was about the "bar" in Kings Cross..

Palace
regards
DR

 

[Honky Tonx]

Gary Anderson?

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Palace
regards
DR

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Not very successful, then - on some very busy lines out of Victoria, has to slow down for Clapham Junction to make its way across to the West London line, then up for a quick wander around the West Coast main line at Willesden. So, about a 30 mile detour, only to rejoin the main line from Clapham Junction to Woking about half way down! So, about ten miles of the SW mainline avoided, ten miles which, given a straight run through it could have whisked through in very little over ten minutes!
Still, it is often said by many ITK that the trouble with the railways is that they aren't run by railwaymen any more!

Indeed, and as far as your final paragraph is concerned, thereby lies the problem!

 

[Surf's Up]

I met a lovely Brazilian girl in there once.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

I met a lovely Brazilian girl in there once.

with a Brazilian
regards
DR

 

[Is it PotG?]

with a Brazilian
regards
DR

Pele WAS there, standing proud.

 

[Bry Nylon]

https://www.beholder.uk/steam/ This is the trainspotters site. Lines East of Southampton seem to be ignored this year. Not a single train through Botley this year, for viewing by NSC members( Steam Branch)

A friend of mine always wanted to be run over by a steam train. When it happened, he was chuffed to bits.

 

[AlastairWatts]

I thought this was about the "bar" in Kings Cross..

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that bar closed down I think last year. Going to be a tex mex restaurant or similar. The licensing regime, immigration rules and penalties plus the kind of rents now being demanded in that part of the world made it difficult to justify continuing in business...

 

[Dirk Lehmann's Python]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that bar closed down I think last year. Going to be a tex mex restaurant or similar. The licensing regime, immigration rules and penalties plus the kind of rents now being demanded in that part of the world made it difficult to justify continuing in business...

It's now quite a nice pub with a roof terrace. Bizarre!

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[AmexRuislip]

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west...ent=LoveIsland5&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter

I saw a brief glimpse of this old chuffer in Ealing on Friday, marvellous sounds and smells

 

[Grombleton]

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west...ent=LoveIsland5&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter

I saw a brief glimpse of this old chuffer in Ealing on Friday, marvellous sounds and smells

Shame they didn't giver her a proper rake to pull, would have looked glorious.