Heljan Class 15
 

Anyone got there's yet? I had a wee peek on ehattons, and I must admit I was quite impressed, also tempted...

Still waiting delivery of mine Gorden.

Is that a birthday present as well Syd!

Best wishes,

John H-T.

No John, I had to save up my penny's and pay for this one myself. Now if I can just have a word with my daughter before my birthday!!!

Heljan Class 15
 

Arrived home from work to find this waiting for me.

AHA! So THAT'S what a class 15 is! And I had a photo of one all the time:
http://daverowland.fotopic.net/p44363262.html
taken at Kings Cross around 1964-ish. :)

I remember those type 15's on the Southend and Southminster lines.

I've just uploaded a photo to the gallery.

http://www.railwayforum.net/gallery/...hp?i=16422&c=2

Thanks to both Dave and Philip for the photos. I have never see a Class 15 in 12" to the foot scale.

An odd thing - I have a notebook from 1963 which shows I saw two of these double-heading a train at Reading on a summer Saturday, no idea whether it was a freight working or a special (only wrote down the numbers back then!)

Just to make you all laugh, this is what I looked like when the Type 15 photo was taken !

I was 14 or 15 !:D

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n...gPhilip001.jpg

"Just to make you all laugh, this is what I looked like when the Type 15 photo was taken ! I was 14 or 15 !"

Here's another laugh (if the attachment works), it's me sometime around 1957/58. :D:D

Have you still got that hat Dave?:D
Regards

Mentally, I never take it off! In actual fact, the photo was taken at my cousin's wedding reception, at the Roundabout hotel, Tilehurst - directly across the road from the exact spot I first trainspotted from! :):)

Well that will help me at Roche in a weeks time with the flood of people getting off the train :confused: :confused:.

ccmmick.

I DID say MENTALLY, Michael, so it won't be THAT easy to spot me - I've also got a few years older, with all that implies! Maybe I should wear a different hat - what about the one in this more recent photo? :D:D

I think if you wear that hat you wont get very far on the train you will be out at the next station.
At first i thought it was Lennon reincarnated :eek: :eek:

ccmmick.

That's my Teletubbies hat! That was on one of several fruitless marches in 1998 to save our local hospital (Haslar) from closure. On a cramped, overcrowded, bottlenecked peninsula, they're going to convert it (it's huge) into flats. Common sense prevails yet again! I've gone grey since then... :(

I think i prefer the cone on your head :D :D

ccmmick.

Hats
 

You can always borrow my hat from the 60's

Good grief - that's a disturbing image. Not sure I'm gonna turn off the light tonight...
Actually, I've got a better hat from 1972:

It was taken at the Lincoln rock festival in 1972. Pity I didn't have a camera with me at the other festival I went to in that year at Bickershaw - there was an industrial J94-type 0-6-0ST puffing around right next to the campsite field! :(:D

The tree I was leaning against in that photo was a Paw Paw fruit tree and was full of fruit at the time, but not for long. Next day, when I surfaced, the fruit had all been eaten by elephant and giraffe. It was in a game reserve and the game knew that they were safe.

Dave, that may have been Respite, now at Preston:

http://www.ribblesteam.org.uk/index....ails&Itemid=65

I live a few miles from Bickershaw and remember the 2 steam locos there until the early 80s.

You weren't the Dave in Chas & Dave at any point were you? ;-)

I lived at Bickershaw, when the festival was on.:D. The ST was the Bickershaw colliery engine.
mickey

Quite likely. No, I'm not that Dave, although a lot of people used to say I looked like Chas - I met them on the IOW ferry in the late 70s, they asked if they could sit somewhere quiet (it was a packed summer Saturday); I let them & the drummer sit in my cabin. They bought me a pint! I said about the supposed resemblance to him, he said " Come to fink of it, you ain't a bad lookin' geezer!" :D:D