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bonkers · Post by **bonkers** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 7:15 pm

Hi My dad has worked with trains all his life 1st he was cleaner at Liverpool Limestreet then he was a gard in LPLS then he went to be a driver at blackpool north then a gard again the station staff at blackpool north now he works with rail track working the crossings back in liverpool. In all these years i must have been in the cab about 20 times its not that good like every one says it is. I dont know the point of this post but hey!

Post by **martinhodgson** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:51 pm

I got a cabride Lancaster-Morecambe in a 142. I was about 4, and the driver asked me If I wanted to. Eing a train lover even then, I couldn't refuse

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salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:55 pm

ok..... ive been in as follows:

Class 20's (3 times) 901, 903 and 172
class 31's ( once ) 31421
class 33's ( once ) 33108
class 35's ( once ) D7029
class 37's (roughly 30 times) the ones i can remember are 37008, 010, 047, 070, 077, 090, 110, 116, 354, 402, 405, 407, 408, 411, 414, 417, 418, 421, 422, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 510, 667 and 906

class 40's ( 40016 and 135 )
class 45's ( 45113 )
class 47's ( 47972 )
class 50's ( 50026 and 044)
class 56's (56008)

class 150's (001, 120 and 210)
class 153's (301, 323, 354 and 367)
class 156's (all central trains ones bar 422)
class 158's (half centrals fleet)
class 165's (013)

class 323's (201 and 204)

37413 · Post by **37413** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 9:26 pm

I feel we are flogging a dead horse with this subject. It has been covered in another thread last week.Feeling were running high about it at one point because of the safety aspect of it. There are a lot of railway staff who comes on this site, so the least said about it now the better. Therefore I think it should be dropped.
Alan.

ThinLizzy · Post by **ThinLizzy** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 10:51 am

I have been in the cab of a 421, 411, 423, 442, 455, 155, 150, 158, 33, 73, 08, 101, 170. This was all done whilst the trains were out of service, so no safety rules were broken, and i always had the driver, or depot supervisor's permission to go up and have a look.
I have been on the Footplate of, a standard 5, merchant navy 35005 {Canadian Pacific}, west country {34016 Bodmin} {both rebuilt}, Flying Scotsman {4472}, Taw Valley {dont know the number}.
Again, all above board

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 11:52 am

I been on the footplate of a B1 in the 1950s, bwtween Hull Paragon Station and Botanic Gardens Shed. Not "above board" but then the diriver is probably not around now ........

yourdomingo · Post by **yourdomingo** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 1:55 pm

had a cab ride in a 50 from basingstoke to woking.

completely illegal, i expect, but i don't remember anything else about it!

Fodda · Post by **Fodda** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 3:22 pm

I've been on quite a few footplates, and I've been in a couple of diesel cabs too. Sounds good but you must realise they were all static displays except for one GWR steamer which had raised to light steam to show members of the public how hot a footplate could be.

My daughter however has not only ridden on the footplate of a kettle, she got to blow the whistle, release the brakes and help stop under the bowser when they topped up the tender! And to think after she climbed up, I refused to join them because I wanted to get a photo of her on the passing loop! What a total eejit I was!

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 3:44 pm

I've been in the following

421 - From Polegate to Victoria
414? (4HAP) - From London Bridge to Slade Green (rear cab)

319 - London Bridge to Haywards Heath.
332 - Old Oak Common depot shunt move.

170 - Fratton Depot - Stationary
158 - Fratton Depot - Stationary
411 - Fratton Depot - Stationary
442 - Fratton Depot on a shunt move.

121? - Mid Hants Railway - Stationary

HST - Kings Cross - Stationary (1988 / 1989)

GavinW · Post by **GavinW** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 5:45 pm

Been in lots of cabs, some good runs - one in blizzard conditions north of Edinburgh on an HST one night. And driven a NRM loco on the main line when it was in service.

rikfarish · Post by **rikfarish** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 6:20 pm

GavinW wrote:Been in lots of cabs, some good runs - one in blizzard conditions north of Edinburgh on an HST one night. And driven a NRM loco on the main line when it was in service.

The NRM loco you were referring to wasn't the 1829 Shutt End Colliery 0-4-0 Agenoria was it? Proably about the time you did your apprenticeship?

GavinW · Post by **GavinW** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 8:18 pm

Might have been, but with the pasing of time I can't really remember.

It were all so long ago. We used to live in a cardboard box in the middle of street you know.

There you go, a nice start to a hijacking of a thread. Over to you Rik!

phat2003uk · Post by **phat2003uk** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 8:55 pm

ThinLizzy wrote:I have been in the cab of a 421, 411, 423, 442, 455, 155, 150, 158, 33, 73, 08, 101, 170. This was all done whilst the trains were out of service, so no safety rules were broken, and i always had the driver, or depot supervisor's permission to go up and have a look.
I have been on the Footplate of, a standard 5, merchant navy 35005 {Canadian Pacific}, west country {34016 Bodmin} {both rebuilt}, Flying Scotsman {4472}, Taw Valley {dont know the number}.
Again, all above board

Isn't BODMIN at Mid Hants Railway

micksasse · Post by **micksasse** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 10:01 pm

A bloke in East Berlin let me drive his tram a short distance after I expressed mild interest! So much for rule-bound Germans...

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 11:41 pm

oh i forgot to add i dug out a photo of me in the cab of 43111 at aberdeen. no scanner though so it will have to wait.

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