Anyone Interested In A Castle

[jow104]

I took this photograph 11 days ago of a preserved GWR locomotive Castle Class,built around the 1930's. The train was running an excursion from Bristol to Paignton, in the U.K.

[ozwinner]

Hi Woody

I used to be an avide train spotter as a kid in Manchester, brings back some memorys does that picture, Oh I.

Al

[jow104]

So was I , wish I had kept my old ABC's.
Actually form memory there wern't many castles not kopped.

Here's a train spotting story to bring tears to your eyes.

I would go to Kings cross (London not sydney) go to platform 1 on the saturday morning, and get on the express train which would be going north, and would sometimes travel as far as York. When the man in the blue suit came along (with the flat cap) I would be standing in the corridor and when he asked for the ticket I would point to a compartment the other end of the carriage implying that my parents had the tickets. The next move was to go in the opposite direction down the carriage in to the next , and hold my breath.
Returning was another story, the SAS rejected me in the 1950's.
Attaching a better quality picture of the castle .Less compression.

By the way this weeks excursion was an A4 Union of South Africa (60009 but will have to await film developement.

[kiwigeo]

By the way this weeks excursion was an A4 Union of South Africa (60009 but will have to await film developement.

The A4s are pacifics arent they?

[Rocker]

Woody,

I probably travelled in trains pulled by that engine in the 40's and 50's; I remember as a child seeing those Castle class engines at Exeter St. David's station.

Rocker

[jow104]

TO KIWI

Yes the A4 is a pacific, its the same class as the Mallard, the record holding steam train.

TO ROCKER

Your old stamping ground has two preserved railway lines, Totnes to Buckfastleigh. They have a fine selection of preserved steam loco's. In addition there is Paignton to Kingswear along the Torbay beaches to the River Dart, and they get steam excursions from all over the U.K. coming in.

Attaching another picture of the Paignton route, and will use this thread to continue posting if members of the forum give me encouragement to do so.

This is a King class loco of the old GWR railway, there largest locomotive.