Alistair20000
Very well known Exeweb poster
Oliver Bulleid ?I remember Exewebber 34001 once asking me the same question, years ago!
Oliver Bulleid ?I remember Exewebber 34001 once asking me the same question, years ago!
Before my time on these boards. Although I do have a full size gun metal nameplate used for disguising 34I05 for it's role at Exeter Rail 150, together with scroll, and badge surround. Painting of the badge for the middle is a "Roundtuit" however.I remember Exewebber 34001 once asking me the same question, years ago!
Interesting re the simulator, but although I do sell a lot of signalling stuff in my sideline as a railwayana dealer, and it is always very popular, I have never got bitten by that particular bug. However I know a man who does and will pass that on. He was my sidekick all those years ago, and of particular interest to us were the 17.45 Exeter Centrall to Exmouth (non stop) and thence to Budleigh, and the 17.49 all stations Central to Exmouth. The former was of interest in making sure we didn't accidentally get on it, and then have to explain to an irate ticket collector at Exmouth why we only had tickets to Posloe Bridge Halt !I believe that they also weren't allowed to depart Central unless there was a clear run through into Plats 3 & 4 (the old "Southern" ones prior to the 1980s remodelling of ESD) in case they "ran away" down the bank.
Incidentally PC Rail do a Exeter Central signalling simulator, covering the main lines plus the Exmouth and Budleigh Branches, set in the steam days. It's quite challenging keeping on top of all of the simultaneous movements once things get a bit busy, but quite engrossing. The program is a little pricey (about £30) but you can download a demo version to try out which covers the first few hours of a timetable to get a flavour of it for free.
With pencil and book in hand I spent many a hour there. In those days they charged us kids 1d to go on the platforms or sometimes nothing if you said you wanted to use the Buffet. In this day and age I imagine youngsters might be required to dig a little deeperBlimey lads, you all speak in tongues. Did you all collect train numbers down at St David's back in the day???
2d for a platform ticket in my day. Then I found I could go there on the train from St. Thomas for the same price!With pencil and book in hand I spent many a hour there. In those days they charged us kids 1d to go on the platforms or sometimes nothing if you said you wanted to use the Buffet. In this day and age I imagine youngsters might be required to dig a little deeper
I am friends with Richard Parkinson, author of the book "Exeter Memories" Exmouth Junction Fireman, which was published by Kevin Robertson, under the NOODLE BOOKS imprint in 2010.Does anyone remember any Southern Region's train drivers and Fireman? My mate Brian Jones was trainee fireman while his dad and older brothers were all mainline drivers. Poor Bri, who passed away many years ago, ended up building roads when the arrival of diesels made his job redundant.