Swimming Against The Tide

Posted in Railways on 30th August 2004

A Bank Holiday is a time to get out of Weston, or to be swamped by day trippers. Having a day left on my Rover, it was just a case of where I would end up today. Set out early enough to leave me a few options, with a quick...

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Bellicose Bank Holiday

Posted in Updates on 28th August 2004

Despite arriving home tonight to scenes of disturbance on the station, despite even seeing tides of already semi-inebriated youths heading for town on my walk home, I had a strange urge to get out and about tonight. So, after the decidedly nerdy and antisocial activities of adding up my mileage...

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More Summer Skips and Semi-Retired Trams

Posted in Railways on 28th August 2004

Set out on an initially almost identical mission to last week. Having received the allocations this morning, realised that I only needed one of the 67's out today. 67016 was on 1E99 which I could have picked up later at Weston, but decided instead to head south and board at...

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