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21st Mar 2007
to 5th Apr 2007 | Spring! |
11th Jan 2007
to 28th Jan 2007 | January 2007
Snow on the ground and clear blue skies - perfect!
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23rd Dec 2006
to 28th Dec 2006 | December |
| 28th Nov 2006 | Beckton
Dates and photographers unknown
These pictures were rescued by Colin Fairman who went to
East Ham Grammar School just as I did some years later.
He sent these to the EHGS mailing list, and they are reposted here
with his permission. However, the original photographer is not
known. The images labelled GLC came from a retirement album
put together for an employee of Beckton Gas Works - at one
time the largest of its kind in the world. It was operated by the
Gas Light and Coke Company (hence GLC) later nationalised
as North Thames Gas Board. The album was saved from destruction
during a house clearance. The others were found on a skip, with
even less information. They may also be from Beckton, or could
be from any one of a number of industrial railways that operated
on many sites along the Thames estuary.
The following descriptions were hand written in the album
"Beckton possesses 36 locos of which there are nearly always two
in the mechanical shops for periodical complete overhaul"
The loco with the unreadable plate is described as
"The Largest of Our Locos"
No 6 has this description
"One of our Peckett's Goods Locos"
"There are two other locos similar to this one which [are] used for
handling mainline traffic. They are exceptionally powerful and efficient
locos"
No 17
"One of the smallest of our locos - a "jumbo" engine"
"These locos, of which there are three, were designed for use in the
coke holds underneath the stages of the retort houses before
ash ships and hoppers were brought into use"
I am hoping someone here can throw some more light on the
identity of these locos
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| 19th Nov 2006 | November |
7th Oct 2006
to 21st Oct 2006 | October
Pictures sent to alt.binaries.pictures.rail during October
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3rd Sep 2006
to 23rd Sep 2006 | September
These pictures were uploaded to alt.binaries.pictures.rail during the month of September
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| 5th Aug 2006 | Whistler Mountaineer
A new tourist train that operates daily between North Vancouver and Whistler - one trip each way. Run, very successfully, by the Rocky Mountaineer company. One way fares (including very good meals) start at around $100: see
http://www.whistlermountaineer.com/
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5th Aug 2006
to 21st Aug 2006 | August |
| 31st Jul 2006 | Grandview Cut |
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