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Post by maxnod » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:04 am

Narrow Minded:44557 wrote::lol:  :lol: Once bitten.......................................... :lol:  :lol:





Is that you in the Knorr beef-stock advert? :lol:
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Post by Narrow Minded » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:20 am

Is that you in the Knorr beef-stock advert?
Dunno - I don't get to watch much telly :D
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Post by bessytractor » Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:11 pm

maintenance on my garden railways proving difficult. The 3rd rails so much more threatening in icy weather :lol:

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Post by MoelygestLR » Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:51 pm

SillyBilly:44540 wrote:I wish we'd had this sort of weather when I was at primary school, I could have enjoyed it proper then.
what do you mean? im still just like a big kid and im in Uni! running outside to have snowball fights and when it snows properly here (only had the slightest amount, seen more white stuff come off someones head who has dandruff!) ill be getting the sledge out.

if it hasnt snowed properly by the weekend im considering getting my sledge and heading for the hills in wales to get my fill :)
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Tue Nov 30, 2010 10:39 pm

Once bitten..........................................
Is that frost bitten?
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Post by Sir haydn » Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:46 pm

I have 12 inch of snow now. Its over the top of my model pylons!

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Post by Sir haydn » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:36 am

another 3-4 inches fell over night. my car is now just a snow drift! Cant plough the line but our street NEEDS ploughing!

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Post by Narrow Minded » Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:17 am

Cant plough the line but our street NEEDS ploughing!
And it's still coming down! - The whole garden is just one white carpet, no sign of any railway features at all :roll:
Somehow I really don't think we'll be going to Aylesham tomorrow :|
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Post by maxnod » Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:31 am

And more is due!!
Weather warning on Radio Derby, over 300 local schools closed, they keep reading a list of closed schools, I think it would be quicker to read out schools that are OPEN! :lol:
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Post by Sir haydn » Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:17 am

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an over view of the line

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and looking at the spiral with the bridge in the fore ground
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My car
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Knee high in the drifts on the street
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the street
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Post by Pendo Pilot » Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:33 am

Crikey thats a lot of white stuff. Proper old style snow as well.

Nothing like that down here.
Tommy Dodd may have an ARS key but I have a TASS button & a Rope Ladder, just like pirates, except the TASS button bit.

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Post by Narrow Minded » Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:03 am

Just cleared a path to the bird feeders down at the bottom of the garden - don't forget our feathered friends at this time of year! (There's no finer sight than a pair of Tits hanging round your nut sacks) - and did a sneaky assesment as to whether I'd get something running........................

Just about sight of the railway in sheltered spots

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The quarry won't be opening

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and neither will those crossing gates!

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This is all that's visible of Station Road

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and here's Codnor Halt. Meanwhile, Loscoe has disappeared beneath a blanket of snow!

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Finally, here's the path at Ivy Bridge, just below those nut sacks :D

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It didn't take this chap long to turn up! :D

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Post by Pendo Pilot » Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:38 pm

Wow Greg, is there actually a railway (or garden come to think of it) under that lot! PMSL at the story.

Snowing nice here now, ploughing like mad to keep it open but it's the ice that is packed underneath that I'm having the problem with. Plus I used the Edrig as first plough loco, crew is miffed at that choice with its open cab. About to break out the Carrie as I've only got half way with the Edrig before gas was low.
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Post by MoelygestLR » Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:51 pm

WOW! thats some pretty serious amounts of snow there!

Wish I could have that amount here! fancy shoveling some in my direction haha.
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Post by Narrow Minded » Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:13 pm

MoelygestLR:44626 wrote:WOW! thats some pretty serious amounts of snow there!

Wish I could have that amount here! fancy shoveling some in my direction haha.
Right! - Where d'ya want it????? :lol:

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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:28 pm

Haha! Brilliant! That is a deffinate photocomp photo...
Which reminds me, I must get the next theme up there.
Miffed, we have a measily amount of snow and even so I have had no time to go out and play with it.
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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:19 pm

For Christ sake, i'm in wales, it always rains, so why isn't it snowing like that???? :?: :?: :!: :roll: :cry:

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Post by peterbunce » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:19 am

Hi,

Three photos from yesterday when the wind was blowing the (very cold and dry so equally very light ) snow around, and drifting it against the hamlet.

The first is of my trestle which has (temporarily) lost is lower half.

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This one is of my water tower (made from a 10 litre paint tub as an indication of its size) and the frosty topping is 8" high

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A final view of the hamlet of Sycamore Creek with the school (which is the snow lump at the extreme right), and bridge gang huts being also fully covered in the stuff.


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Post by SLRmidge » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:32 pm

CRICKEY! Only a smattering in Morecambe :?
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Post by LMS-Jools » Fri Dec 03, 2010 2:57 pm

Very Snowy pictures indeed. :twisted:

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