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I know you meant Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto, West Ender -- but it is indeed a great romantic movie -- one of my favorites. It evokes all the wonderful steam railway sights and sounds for me.

James

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You're right, James, Concerto not Symphony. It was late and I'd had a fair bit of red wine. I should have known better as I have it on a CD. ;)

Trouble is, I can't hear that piece of music now without being transported straight to Carnforth train station and hearing Trevor Howard saying, "Can I help? I'm a doctor". :D

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STEAM TRAIN colne to blackburn 39 miutes.

todays sheds colne to blackburn 39 minutes.
and we are supposed to be going forward? it beggars believe me.

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I remember my dad taking me down to stand at the little gate by the side of the"underground" at the bottom of Crossland Street to watch the first diesel train to come through Accy. Must've been the late 50's. It was actually announced in the Observer and a crowd of people had gathered to witness this momentous event (eeh, we knew how to live in them days!).

Can't say I was impressed...

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trains today just dont have that majestic look of spender and carissma . they were awesome flying through the countryside ,and you could hear the clickerty clack ages before they came into view ,,,that picture of that train going over the arches says it all ..

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My mum grew up in the Station House at that station. She lived there from the age of 3 until she was 16 (in 1926). She used to say they never really noticed the trains even though they were, literally, right under the windows.

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I will "getting rid of my steam" next Tuesday on The Jacobite Steamer from Fort William to Mallaig. This is the is line used in "Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets."

http://www.westcoastrailway.co.uk/

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have you ever been to mallaig before?me and the other half where touring scotland and we hadnt seen a deer or stag anywhere, so we went to visit mallaig not much there ,so had a brew in the sailors cafe and went to watch this boat unload its cargo,what where they unloading??? red deer all dead so i said to the misses take a photo and you can say you have seen one....smack around the head whilst chuckling to myself.

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Never been to Mallaig before staggeringman. Been to Scotland quite a few times and seen more than a few red deer (and caught more than one or two brown trout).

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been up there loads of times never wet a line in the rivers once yet, been out sea fishing thats good crack.hired a boat at lochgilliped at the side of loch long cheap for what it was.

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heres a couple of piccies took whilst being in the right place at the right time?the train is the DALESMAN it is a LMS BLACK FIVE NO.45407 carrying passengers from hellifield to carlisle. the interesting thing about this train is it used to run out of accrington so if any of you codgers know it give us some history.

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Jamesicus. Thanks for showing the picture of the 'clan'. As soon as I saw it I had massive goose bumps allover. I actually started tingling. I was a mad very enthusiastic train spotter in my younger days and railway modeler to boot. I went all over the place to see steam locos. Two of my most memorable moments were running along the platform at Manchester 'London Road' to get my first decko of a brittania and then another time after sneaking into Crewe shed and 'wow' standing next to 'City of Glasgow' . What a monster from ground level. This loco I never ever thought I would catch sight of because it had been damaged in the Harrow and Whealstone rail disaster along with 'Princess anne (the turbine and the jub 'Windward island(I think). The only 'Coronation' class I never got to see was 46222 Queen Mary. Its all too late now of course. Damn!!!

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Nearest I got to a steam train. The Jacobite running from Fort William to Mallaig Over the Glenfinnon viaduct (Harry Potter). Hope the pics came up ok:Banane45:

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Ok it didnt work so i'll try again. Foolowed mi moto as mi sister is better at this than me. I'm to young to have know the age of steam and the first one I saw was the ones going up Snowden but The Jacobite was something else best description "what a corker".