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A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely not...
DIR By: kev
Date: October 18, 2014, 3:54 pm
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And you thought it could only happen in 'The Titfield
Thunderbolt'.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6XEVvVRB_4&list=WL&index=142
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Re: A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely
not...
DIR By: s.o.t.d.
Date: October 18, 2014, 4:13 pm
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Love it! ;D
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Re: A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely
not...
DIR By: Doug_T
Date: October 18, 2014, 4:56 pm
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Sometime mid 1980's we were on a family holiday down there in
Dad's 109. Mum driving, blazing row going on in the front seats,
goes the wrong way...
Dad: "watch out for the tracks"
Mum: "don't be stupid, it's probably just a tram"
I'm sure I don't need to tell you what happened round the next
corner! Suffice to say those things look f***ing big when you're
trying to squeeze past them in a Land Rover. Still, it stopped
the argument quickly.
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Re: A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely
not...
DIR By: AlexB
Date: October 19, 2014, 2:11 am
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Fantastic.
Is / was this a regular thing? Never heard of it before.
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Re: A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely
not...
DIR By: Albert Ross
Date: October 19, 2014, 4:50 am
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Yeah, regular service for boat trains... hence the
"streetwalkers"....
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Re: A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely
not...
DIR By: Snailer
Date: October 19, 2014, 5:21 am
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Whereabouts did this take place?
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Re: A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely
not...
DIR By: mark-h
Date: October 19, 2014, 6:15 am
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looks like the council is now trying to remove the line. why?
gets some trams on it.
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Re: A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely
not...
DIR By: Albert Ross
Date: October 19, 2014, 2:26 pm
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Weymouth Harbour.
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Re: A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely
not...
DIR By: clemo902
Date: October 20, 2014, 6:47 am
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I did the line a few times each way in the late 70's and early
80's on the boat train to connect onto the Sealink ferry to the
Channel Islands as we used to camp in Guernsey with the Scouts.
First time I went in 1977 our kit was collected by a National
Carriers lorry about a week before we got there and was sent to
Weymouth in a wagon in a freight train.
It finally got back to Oxford about 2 weeks after we did.
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Re: A train you say?, going down the street you say?, surely
not...
DIR By: niteram
Date: October 20, 2014, 4:09 pm
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this was a regular service but hasn't run for years,
if you look at goooogle maps the line is now overgrown
dunno if this works
HTML https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.6151299,-2.4561566,3a,75y,4.85h,65.98t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1scJ2ihOuLz2AueB-P2nsEhg!2e0
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