and here's a real blast from the past

hq1hitchin · Post by **hq1hitchin** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:28 pm

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

giner · Post by **giner** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:59 am

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.

kudu · Post by **kudu** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:19 am

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

PGBerrie · Post by **PGBerrie** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:54 pm

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

Deepol · Post by **Deepol** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:36 am

I take it everyone has seen the Woodhead site www.thewoodheadsite.org.uk if just for the trains at the bottom of the screen!

strang steel · Post by **strang steel** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:04 pm

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.

Bill Bedford · Post by **Bill Bedford** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:40 am

http://www.railway32.net/

The LNER Encyclopedia

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