Quiz of the day

[chalkie]

Think your spot on Alan

[menticknap]

Is that the bridge between Fimber and Burdale ? Its number escapes me at the moment. I remember walking underneath it in the hot summer of 1978 and the cutting ahead (heading south) was infested with rabbits, you could see their heads popping out of the burrows as they scattered everywhere,

Bang on.

[AlanL]

So here is a question from another forum.
Where in the UK can you travel on LNER rolling stock on the main line and it isn't owned or run by a preservation society ?

[menticknap]

Isle of Wight?

[AlanL]

Isle of Wight?

Full marks ! The 1938 tube stock which is to be phased out this month is apparently plated "Property Of The LNER". I did have a ride in 1983 on the really old 1920s tube stock and that was amazing.

[chalkie]

Directly on the old track bed of the malton to driffield railway.

But where

[menticknap]

I know, I know.
I cycled there last year.

[Rail Rover]

Kelleythorpe Industrial Estate

[chalkie]

Kelleythorpe Industrial Estate

A,easy one to start, i have various phto albums created by a local fellow of various locin the north, so as a start a easy one.


Its interesting to note that quite a length of the trackbed that ran behind the old airfield has been built on or occupied by companies yards or completletdug up to create a drainage ditch for these yards

[Rail Rover]

Its interesting to note that quite a length of the trackbed that ran behind the old airfield has been built on or occupied by companies yards or completletdug up to create a drainage ditch for these yards

Yes, & I don't know whether these companies actually own that strip of land Probably not an issue in my lifetime!