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78 Comments
4/5/2011 01:25:08 pm
Hi Tom, looking good, you're soon be a expert programmer at this rate. I've opted for SmugMug, not easy!
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Hi Tom,
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Tony C
2/4/2012 11:18:49 am
Hi Tom. All the February pictures are continuing to raise the already high standard. Love the shot of 59101 from yesterday. I captured it at Twyford rather earlier in the afternoon. Keep them coming please. Tony
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Tony C
4/12/2012 11:43:39 am
As usual Tom some cracking shots. How do you keep doing it ??
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MJ
5/8/2012 02:03:11 pm
Because he's retired.
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Mark J
5/24/2012 09:10:19 am
Some nice recent shots TC, silver skip looks good.
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6/23/2012 05:29:08 pm
I thoroughly enjoyed this blog and created a Weebly account too.
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Barry Gay
6/24/2012 08:34:58 am
Hi Tom! You see I did do what you said! Your Deltic phot looked great on Sat, same as mine. Hope rest of the day went ok. Have quickly scanned through some of your pics. 60040 very nice!! Like you my last years at work were shit! History now!! Good to have met you both yesterday. Keep in touch. Regards, Barry
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Mr Smith
8/11/2012 02:12:23 am
On 07/08/12 on the Frome Avoider, 57603 and 57605 was on the 5Z99 (acordding to Taunton Trains) and not 5C99.
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8/11/2012 07:06:01 am
Sir (Mr Smith)...All the informed sources across 3 gen groups stretching from Long-Rock to OOC list this working as '5C99' including several with access to the Railway TOPS Systems........Looks to me like Taunton Trains have made the error! regards Tom C
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Mr Smith
3/31/2013 04:00:39 pm
31/03/13 1O40, 43136 and 43091 and not 43191. I was this at Warminster and it was 091 with 136.
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5/24/2013 01:07:44 pm
Well spotted Mr Smith...This was a typo error.I always picture the rear p/c for the identity and you were right! Pure finger trouble---Now corrected. Tom C
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10/14/2013 01:33:45 pm
Hi Tom, I discovered your website by accident while searching the internet. What an excellent collection with very useful captions. I also worked for BT and retired this years after 45 years. Another coincidence is that I have a 1980 CB250RSA and a few other older bikes,
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10/14/2013 05:11:43 pm
Hi Dave nice to hear from your....What part of the country do you come from? Sounds like you have been living a parallel life to me.....I was lucky to get out of BT when I did....managed a year on pay and pension then they gave me a years money(tax free) to go under release...So all is well and after 4 years away from it I do not miss it one little bit...I just feel very sorry for the poor sods still stuck there...at least they have a job---a small consolation....Yes my 250rsa has been with me now for nearly 30 years.I managed just 1000 miles on it this year mainly chasings freight-trains.I hope to do better next season....My previous restorations included Gold Stars/Tritons/Road Rockets plus several Jap bikes....next project is the CB550k3 which is 'in progress' I just dont know how I fitted in going to work! regards Tom C (keep viewing as site is regularly updated most weeks)
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10/16/2013 01:43:33 pm
Hi Tom, I'm in Southampton which is a great area for railway activity but not so good for attractive photographic locations ! I also had a generous payoff ,the only thing from work I miss is the banter. My other bikes are a 1948 AJS and two Moto Morini 350's which are now getting the attention I never had the time for before. I went to Barry in, I think, 1966 and many other interesting places unfortunately collecting numbers was more important than pictures. Keep up the good work,I will be looking out for updates on your site, best wishes ,Dave.
alan chinchen
11/29/2013 02:54:37 pm
Hi Tom,very entertaining,great pics of steam both recent and back then.Many thanks for making them available to all,regards Alan.
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JOHN HODGE
6/1/2016 03:27:32 pm
Tom - I have just had part 1 of Railways & Industry in the Western Valley published and would like to use some of your Aberbeeg images in Part 2. If agreeable, could you please send me high-res scans of what you have e.g. some at Aberbeeg North. Working on Part 2 now. Thanks.
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Fred N-B
7/14/2016 09:39:28 am
Thank you for your wonderful pictures. Currently modifying a Lima Arc village of Chantry nice to see the Hanson livery. Might change it to that. Shall have get out on motorbike with camera and hunt it down.
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Roger Hardingham
8/5/2016 01:39:14 pm
Hello Tom, I came across your photo site and was fascinated with the Barry Scrapyard pictures. I have written a few books on the subject and made a DVd too. I wondered whether I could use a few of your photos in my new forthcoming book at all?
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8/8/2016 11:57:21 am
Hi
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Hi Tom - came across your gallery while researching a little online article for our Facebook page and website about 34101 Hartland - as you probably know, she's undergoing a rebuild here and we're hoping to have her back in service sometime next year.
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8/18/2016 09:26:12 am
Hi Matt,
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roger Hardingham
8/18/2016 09:28:11 am
Hi Tom, not sure if you got my email regarding Barry photos for my book?
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Graham Andrews
8/16/2016 09:32:45 pm
Re photo of 60039 at Bourton
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8/16/2016 11:18:01 pm
I need your e-mail address to send you the Bourton 60 shot! Tom C
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James
9/29/2016 06:08:13 pm
Please can you stop moaning about the GWR livery, their is nothing wrong with it. Don't forget everyone moaned about Dynamic lines when that first came out!
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Matt Hanson
12/29/2016 10:29:58 pm
Just wanted to point out that 158956 isn't the only GWR liveried Class 158, we had another re-painted and put in service at the start of October, 158957
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12/30/2016 11:54:05 am
Thanks for that information.I will change the caption to reflect that.
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3/11/2017 08:52:51 pm
Hi Tom, I just wanted to say that I've spent a really interesting few hours looking at your site. I recognised a few areas as my mother in law lives near the London Penzance line near Yate and I love to watch the Intercities fly past. I initially found your site as I'm researching GB500tts as I'm looking to get a bike in the next month or so. Your bike look fab and your restored 550 looks amazing. I'd love to have the skill to do something like that, but I'll just have to settle for admiration ! All the best Steve.
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7/2/2017 03:03:38 pm
Please could you kindly adjust the post that concerns Pilning Station? The following statement is not quite true.
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Hi Tom
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7/13/2017 10:12:22 pm
Hi John Bird..I have sent you a reply via your personal EMail address.
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Barry Girling
9/5/2017 04:08:04 pm
Hi Tom great pictures any chance please of a picture of a Britannia Pacific at Ipswich station.I was there! Completing a book on growing up in what was once a great town.We had so much then - all lost in a mere 60/70 years.Will of course give you a credit.Its not a commercial undertaking just a compilation of what was good with the world.Will appreciate any assistance.Kind regards.
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Mark Alden
9/18/2017 05:15:30 pm
Hi, your picture in 1976 of the unidentified 50 showing 4B16... 4B16 was the Yeovil Pen Mill to Bristol T M vans. It worked out as 4B15 at 12.50, coming back 4B16 around 16.00. Co-incidentally there was also a 4B16 20.08 Paddington to Plymouth BRUTE parcels service. Great picture too...
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Tom Curtis
9/18/2017 07:10:24 pm
Yep that certainly fits the sun-angle! That certainly fits with the sun-angle! caption now amended. Thanks Tom c
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Richard Pursehouse
11/8/2017 07:55:51 am
Hi,
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Hello Tom,
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Lena
2/9/2018 08:46:16 am
Very nice shots .. just to correct something you have said about 150001 & 150002 .. both of these sets do have a toilet which is in the 552xx car on each unit.
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James Walker
2/19/2018 05:52:35 pm
Hello Tom,
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2/19/2018 06:53:17 pm
Thats fine no worries-There is a web link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Carless
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James Walker
2/19/2018 08:33:16 pm
Thanks very much Tom.
Tom C
3/26/2018 08:26:47 pm
Yes Andy Nice chat for 20 minutes....All shots from today now uploaded..Standerwick is a definite repeat later when the sun shines again! Tom C
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Bob Francis
7/29/2018 02:49:11 pm
Found your website via a contact on the Isle of Wight. Looking for a shot of W32 dumped lineside near Brading. I have downloaded the photo, but have no wish to steal it from you, will only keep it in my own collection. If you require a fee, let me know.
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7/30/2018 12:12:46 pm
That's Ok Bob..For you personal collection that will be fine.No fee necessary. Tom C
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John
8/12/2018 11:08:12 am
Hi Tom. Older than you by a year!!! Spotter since 1955. Main interest Names. Lax for several years but now trying desperately trying to catch up with remaining 125's. Main locations Castle Cary and Highbridge. Both same distance from my home. John
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9/28/2018 01:57:06 pm
Hi Tom. I'd love to use one of your photos of a Hanson aggregates train for an internal Hanson project and wanted to check if you would like us to give you credit on the photograph and if you are happy for it to be used. My email address is [email protected] if you would mind emailing me back. I can then let you know which photograph it is.
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John Longbottom
11/1/2018 02:41:30 pm
Superb historic evidence of trains through the 21st. Just wondering if you knew when DRS changed to the Compass Livery. Your oldest here is 2006 but would it have existed before 2006?
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11/1/2018 04:35:24 pm
The first DRS 66/4's were introduced in Jan-2004 after arriving the previous month from the USA.They were the first DRS loco's to have 'Compass' colours.Sadly the shot I took at Twerton nr Bath in in 2006
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Jeremy Clatworthy
2/12/2019 08:19:50 am
I saw 66748 returning to Wellingborough at about 1730pm at Pots lane
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2/13/2019 08:18:56 pm
Hello Tom, love the site and it was good to see you today at Sherrington for 50049 - love the shots of the French 37's and wishing I could have been there to see them. Keep up the good work - I am back to Dover tomorrow but will have another look at the pictures when I get a chance.
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2/13/2019 09:25:29 pm
Thanks for your kind comments.Yes the French Trip was a week long Vis Portsmouth and a long-long overnight drive) and very intensive.No digital in those days but I came away with nearly 400 slides (Olympus OM1).Most of which remain still unscanned! Check out my Flickr efforts as well.The link in on the home page of TCRG..Cheers Tom C
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Trevor Tremethick
3/14/2019 12:48:56 pm
Hello Tom
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John Longbottom
2/1/2020 12:51:45 pm
Hi Tom, super site you have and has helped me a lot in my modelling of Uk trains. I have not been able to find anything on carriages or coaches and wondered if you had a section on this subject
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2/2/2020 08:50:46 pm
Thank John for your kind comment.Sadly I am not a carriage or coach man.Hence I do not have a section for those pieces of railway history.
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Kevin Beer
4/17/2020 12:47:54 pm
Hi Tom, great site and photos! I live on the south coast and enjoy heading up to the berks and hants when I can. I can’t at the moment for obvious reasons but looking forward to heading back up there once restrictions have lifted. Just out of interest have you managed to get many shots of class 60’s on 6B33 since they changed the route to via Westbury on a permanent basis?
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Unfortunately I was waiting until the weather improved this year before having a go at this re-routed train on a regular basis.Typically as the weather improved we have all suffered 'lockdown' whilst the best 3 weeks of spring sun has passed us all by...I will be doing some when released from 'prison' I did manage a couple at Great Cheverell in Jan/Feb but that's all Try https://tomcurtisrailgallery.weebly.com/uploads/6/9/0/3/6903499/600666b33cheverell290120.jpg for oneof them.. Glad you like my efforts Tom C .
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Tom - I'd like your permission to use, with (c) acknowledgement, your photograph of 66567 on 6th July 2017 at Southampton Millbrook station on the front cover of a report I'm writing for Network Rail on the readiness of their team to enact a major freight infrastructure upgrade at Southampton next winter. Would this be acceptable please?
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5/11/2020 02:42:01 pm
Yes that'll be fine.. If the 1280/853 image is ok just 'right click' it and save as.However if you require a full size jpeg mail me on [email protected] and i will return it to you asap.. Regards Tom C
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Martin Horne
6/18/2020 05:22:25 pm
Hello Tom, I note your image of 60009 arriving at Glasgow Buchanan Street in 1966 says that the locomotive belonged to St Rollox shed. The shed plate on the front of the A4 clearly shows 61B which was Aberdeen (Ferryhill) where this locomotive was allocated. Nice images though. Martin H
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Trevor Hargreaves
11/5/2020 09:28:07 am
Hi Tom Great shots as usual, however 59 003 working Westbury to Eastleigh via FORDINGBRIDGE ! I don't think so. Many years since Fordingbridge had a station. All the Best Trevor
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11/5/2020 09:54:42 am
Yes I apologise for the error...It is via Romsey then Chanders Ford as '6O39'..Brain fade again thanks for putting me right..Cheers Tom c
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Graham Findley
7/21/2021 03:18:07 pm
Hi Tom,
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7/21/2021 10:29:20 pm
Yes that'll be fine.Always glad to help where i can..Simply 'right click' the full image------my pleasure Tom c
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Jonathan Manley
8/31/2021 08:54:01 pm
43046 was leading the pullman hst 43055 was on the rear when it left Westbury
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Fiona Candlin
9/17/2021 09:13:38 am
Hello,
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