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Santa special.

Postby eno » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:21 pm

Took the kids down to the local Preserved railway on Saturday for the annual Santa special.

http://www.peakrail.co.uk/index.htm

No pics of Santa .... (sorry guys he's not real) .... but some nice pics of old trains.

Our front end locomotive, the Royal Pioneer saddle tank 0-6-0.
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Our rear end loco.... British Rail Class 44 Penyghent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_44
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Enroute we passed this British Rail Class 55 Deltic in a siding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_55
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Re: Santa special.

Postby pepper_airborne » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:29 pm

Sweet looking loc's!! I alsways found those british diesels look quite strange.
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Re: Santa special.

Postby C » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:42 pm

No pics of Santa .... (sorry guys he's not real) ....


Blasphemy!

How dare you question the coca-cola coloured reindeer-racing sleigh driver's existance. >:(

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Re: Santa special.

Postby Anark » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:58 pm

I was helping "Santa" with some other cadets on saturday at the Embsay-Bolton Abbey railway.
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Re: Santa special.

Postby HawkerTempest5 » Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:32 pm

Very nice, I love old locos. The J94 0-6-0 is the most common preserved type of steam loco in the UK.
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Re: Santa special.

Postby Omag 2.0 » Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:34 pm

Gorgeous heavy metal... but the Steam engine still has the most appeal to me, it's just a league on it's own!  8-)
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Re: Santa special.

Postby evanatorx » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:55 pm

Not real? What are you talking about? You're kidding right?
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Re: Santa special.

Postby Ashar » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:51 am

I love old loco's...I love trains in general too...I'm really looking forward to MSTS 2...The graphics on that look mind blowing ;)

Beautiful photo's Andy ;) 8-)
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Re: Santa special.

Postby BigTruck » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:25 pm

:'(  He isn't real?
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Re: Santa special.

Postby Jared » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:50 pm

fine set of shots of an awesome subject (in all pictures ) :)
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