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and here's a real blast from the past
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:28 pm
by hq1hitchin
Am so grateful I was able to travel through Woodhead behind a leccie - I wonder if it will ever re-open?
Anyway, this merits a DVD, I would have thought
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea52T1kl ... ture=share
Re: and here's a real blast from the past
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:59 am
by giner
Thanks for putting that up, hq1. Very enjoyable. I have a habit of going onto Google Maps and looking at locations that once were something else, particularly railway depots and such - Bridgehouses being a case in point. I ought to stop doing this, it just generates more nostalgia in me.
At 27:00 another wave of nostalgia washed over me - seeing that live group bashing out Obladi Oblada in the railway club. See, I even have to mention the word 'live' now. Such scenes were the staple of my life in the 60's and 70's. Thanks again.
Re: and here's a real blast from the past
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:19 am
by kudu
hq1hitchin wrote:Am so grateful I was able to travel through Woodhead behind a leccie - I wonder if it will ever re-open?
Do you mean an electric? I did that trip quite a few times but was much too late to do it by steam. Saw steam at Darnall and Gorton, though. I can also remember Wath Yard, though I saw no steam there.
Kudu
Re: and here's a real blast from the past
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:54 pm
by PGBerrie
Unfortunately the video is blocked for me - something to do with SME rights.
I was at Penistone a couple of years ago - travelled by the reopened Huddersfield-Sheffield route. The station, the coal drops and the goods shed are still there. You can walk (or bicycle) along the GCR - it's now part of the Trans-Pennine Trail. I though there might be some signs of the electrification like cut off posts - but absolutely nothing. Pity really,
Peter
Re: and here's a real blast from the past
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:36 am
by Deepol
I take it everyone has seen the Woodhead site
www.thewoodheadsite.org.uk if just for the trains at the bottom of the screen!
Re: and here's a real blast from the past
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:04 pm
by strang steel
Those trains at the bottom of the screen are from a program called Railway32 written by Mark Goodspeed.
It used to be downloadable for a small donation, and contained the facility to design your own rolling stock graphics, or improve on the ones that came with the program.
It was basically a screensaver that ran at the bottom of the screen, but I think its availability has been discontinued these days.
Re: and here's a real blast from the past
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:40 am
by Bill Bedford