Yes the locos are at the museum. In another building. There's quite a few on display, steam and diesel. Funny today because I spent quite a bit of time looking at the controls in the cabs and all the equipment on the lower part of the train.
I wouldn't have spent much time studying it a few months ago.
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Why would they want to close such an exquisite old building?...That is the old railway station and it is beautiful.
The exhibits are pretty fabulous too. That place was empty and derelict when we used to go there...We stayed nearby in the Grand Hotel...Breakfast was really good and I always had the "Full House" English Breakfast
Thanks Eddie!
A worthwhile visit.
Said to Mrs Airspeed.."can't believe they are thinking of closing, what would they do with that huge building?"
Then I read Peter's similar comment.
petermcleland wrote:We stayed nearby in the Grand Hotel...Breakfast was really good and I always had the "Full House" English Breakfast
Oh - there you go! Full English at the Grand Hotel - now you're talking, Peter. One of the wonders of the modern world! The centrepiece was the Black Pudding and this breakfast was the only thing that would get a whole crew out of bed in time anywhere in the world! I hadn't realised that shuttle crews stayed here as well - I expect you were up much earlier than the VC10 and 707 crews and that's probably why they sometimes ran out of black pudding before we got there
Eddie - wonderful pictures of the museum and I have to agree with the others about the building. It's beautiful but as with everything nowadays - there isn't any money. Taxpayers can't pay any more so the money would have to be taken from one of the other hundreds of needy causes. I'm glad it's not my decision.
Hopefully the trains you'll be driving will be a bit more modern than that - although I know most of them will be museum pieces! What have you learnt so far?
Lovely shots Eddie, must have been a thoroughly enjoyable day for you.
One photograph you took was that of the glider.......correct me if I'm wrong but it very much looks like an Olympian. Used to fly one that was privately owned by Peter Hatton, a local farmer who was a member of our gliding club.
His wife used to cook lunches for us in an old bus we used as a crew room, had it fitted out with cooker and sink. Boy, those farm house stews and pies (extra large helpings) were fantastic and it took a lot of effort afterwards to run alongside a glider holding the wing up for launch.....!!!
Nigel.
I used to be an optimist but with age I am now a grumpy old pessimist.
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