Another Train Spotter from Way Back.

[oldrailbug]

Originally Posted by Silver Fox Phil

Hi Dave and a warm welcome from me too. Hope you enjoy the company on this forum. I too was a late 50's early 60's spotter in the days when times were a changing! Steam was being neglected for the cleaner easier diesels!! Lots of new experimental locos were being seen taking over from the "old ways". I guess it was sad to see so many fine engines going to the cutters, but at the same time there was an air of excitement with the spotting of Deltic's, Peaks, and other fine diesels. Having said that I am a steam die-hard and there is where I belong!
Enjoy and have fun on here
All the best
Phil

Hi phil, pleased I never saw those great locos at the end of steam, I think it was a disgrace to treat steam locos like that after 150 years of great service.

Never saw a diesel back home not even on the trip from B'Ham to Tilbury Docks in 1957, learned a lot about British diesels from books, mags and DVDs, like you I am a steam addict through and through.

[wyvern]

Talking about smell, anyone remember the glue factory in Derby? You'd be on the bus station and this miasma would be floating across. Wonder what today's prissy folk would make of it.

[pre65]

Originally Posted by wyvern

Talking about smell, anyone remember the glue factory in Derby? You'd be on the bus station and this miasma would be floating across. Wonder what today's prissy folk would make of it.

I like to see new (to me) words, and "miasma" is a good one for today.

[Locoman4244]

Hi Dave

As you say yuk !!! You have reminded ne that the horse knackers yard was involved in glue making. If I remember, although we could see the High Level LMS line we had to use binoculars to see the numbers. |As far as the pub - unfortunately I was too young to drink !!

Regards

Tony