Wish that I could have gone. Any good?

Do they still have the jumper at the west gate. ;-}}

PA

In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

Wish that I could have gone. Any good?

Do they still have the jumper at the west gate. ;-}}

I didn't go but disappointing was the message I picked up on the C Stock
Farewell Tour. Most of the site was off-limits.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 29/06/2014 17:02, wrote:
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

Wish that I could have gone. Any good?

Do they still have the jumper at the west gate. ;-}}

I didn't go but disappointing was the message I picked up on the C Stock
Farewell Tour. Most of the site was off-limits.

Oh well. I worked at Fulwell Garage 45 years ago and wondered if I
should go or not. Looks like I did the right thing by relying on my
memories.

Some times you just can't go back!

Many Thanks,

PA

p.s. The jumper at the west gate was a long-faced misery (aka inspector)
always ready to nab and book you if you came back at the end of a late
turn early!

Yeah. He got in.

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

I have a few photos from Fulwell on my Flickr stream and even have the
C Stock Farewell Tour. I didn't see the "This is Roland" and "This is
Colin" posters on the train windows though :-)). There are a couple
more photos to add including Trolleybus 1768 which was there.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/24759744@N02/

Nice pix. I guess you caught the return from Barking after lunch. Roland was
in car B, second from the front in your views, and I was in car C, third
from the front. I have a load of pictures, some of which I should find a
place to put them.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 29/06/2014 17:48, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:51:39 +0100, Peter Able stuck@home wrote:

Wish that I could have gone. Any good?

Do they still have the jumper at the west gate. ;-}}

Not wonderful. The weather did not help but the garage itself was out
of bounds. The vehicles and stands were on half of the forecourt
which is rather different to the previous open days this year where
garages have been accessible plus bus wash rides.

There were one or two different vehicles on display but the way they
were laid out meant you were permanently at risk of buggering up
someone else's attempt to get a photo. Well more so than is usually
the case with these events. I only saw one bus (RLM880) on the
special 667 route which was running and couldn't be bothered to wait
in the rain for an hour to see what else was running.

I have a few photos from Fulwell on my Flickr stream and even have the
C Stock Farewell Tour. I didn't see the "This is Roland" and "This is
Colin" posters on the train windows though :-)). There are a couple
more photos to add including Trolleybus 1768 which was there.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/24759744@N02/



Thanks, Paul. When I worked there it was all RMs, RTs transferred from
Twickenham when it closed, I think, and a few RFs. Plus an STL in the
garage - which we were allowed into. Cobblestones and the tram tracks
still visible. That was 1970. My wife advised, don't go back. I guess
she was right.

667 was a nice touch. That was the route (267, or the "london" in 1970)
that we all tried to work on once individual crew - rather than garage -
bonuses were introduced. Before then it was the 285 - just about the
only route that crews could expect to get a tip - and a good tip, too.
(helping people with their luggage at Heathrow).

PA

On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:02:09 -0500,
wrote:

In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

Wish that I could have gone. Any good?

Do they still have the jumper at the west gate. ;-}}

I didn't go but disappointing was the message I picked up on the C Stock
Farewell Tour. Most of the site was off-limits.

Just curious: how was the C Stock Farewell Tour?

I was out that day on the H&C, but didn't see it. I assume they used
a relatively tidy set (I'd noticed it parked in Hammersmith depot a
few weeks ago). Unlike the previous C stock farewell tour, this one
didn't venture off the C stock's normal haunts, did it?

In message , at 13:48:35 on
Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Recliner remarked:

Just curious: how was the C Stock Farewell Tour?

I was out that day on the H&C, but didn't see it.

We went past Kings Cross four times!

I assume they used a relatively tidy set (I'd noticed it parked in
Hammersmith depot a few weeks ago).

It was, yes.

Unlike the previous C stock farewell tour, this one
didn't venture off the C stock's normal haunts, did it?

We did Moorgate to Wimbledon, to Barking-via-Moorgate, to Edgware Road
via Moorgate then round the teacup to Hammersmith.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 13:48:35
on Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Recliner remarked:

Just curious: how was the C Stock Farewell Tour?

I was out that day on the H&C, but didn't see it.

We went past Kings Cross four times!

We travelled between Moorgate and Praed St Junction four times, three inner
rail, one outer rail!

I assume they used a relatively tidy set (I'd noticed it parked in
Hammersmith depot a few weeks ago).

It was, yes.

Unlike the previous C stock farewell tour, this one
didn't venture off the C stock's normal haunts, did it?

We did Moorgate to Wimbledon, to Barking-via-Moorgate, to Edgware
Road via Moorgate then round the teacup to Hammersmith.

Including the West Ham siding in both directions and breaks at Wimbledon and
Barking (an hour for lunch with the train in the sidings). I now have a
souvenir tour car label (they were selling them) and a C Stock line diagram.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:
In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 13:48:35
on Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Recliner remarked:

Just curious: how was the C Stock Farewell Tour?

I was out that day on the H&C, but didn't see it.

We went past Kings Cross four times!

We travelled between Moorgate and Praed St Junction four times, three inner
rail, one outer rail!

I assume they used a relatively tidy set (I'd noticed it parked in
Hammersmith depot a few weeks ago).

It was, yes.

Unlike the previous C stock farewell tour, this one
didn't venture off the C stock's normal haunts, did it?

We did Moorgate to Wimbledon, to Barking-via-Moorgate, to Edgware
Road via Moorgate then round the teacup to Hammersmith.

Including the West Ham siding in both directions and breaks at Wimbledon and
Barking (an hour for lunch with the train in the sidings). I now have a
souvenir tour car label (they were selling them) and a C Stock line diagram.

Was the West Ham siding the only part of the route you couldn't have done
until recently on a C stock service train with a Travelcard (or a more
comfortable, probably less crowded S stock train today)? I'm not a big one
for farewell tours, but the ones that very occasionally attract me are the
ones that run on unusual track (if I'd known about it and been free, I'd
have gone on the earlier C stock farewell tour that went to places like
Northfields).