Co-presenter Green Signals podcast. Steam loco owner/driver; photographer/archivist. Contemp/hist rail tweets, politics & other 'stuff'. RTs not endorsements.
Joined August 2023
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 13
1943年のイタリア戦線において、ドイツ軍は退却する際に連合軍の追撃を遅らせるため、鉄道やライフラインを徹底的に破壊する「焦土作戦」（Shorn Earth policy）を展開した。「シエネンヴォルフ」（Schienenwolf、直訳：鉄道の狼）は、第二次世界大戦中にドイツ軍が退却の際に使用した、鉄道の枕木とレールを専門に破壊する巨大な兵器（工作車）です。連合軍が鉄道網を利用して物資を前線に運ぶのを完全に阻止するために投入された。→
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 13
Crab 42819 has a decent load on at Astley (unconfirmed but based on looking at another of Derek's photos). Date not known but the bare vegetation suggests it's a sunny, and probably chilly, winters day. Photo: Derek Phillips.
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 12
Hall Class in Sonning Cutting
Oil on Canvas, 20" x 16"
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#Art #Painting #Railway #Steam
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 12
Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'État 231-501 class 4-cylinder de Glehn compound 4-6-2 Pacific No. 231-613 departing Gare de Saint-Lazare, Paris, with a passenger train in September 1927. The mécanicien watches Otto while smoking a Gauloise. (Denver Public Library OP-20551). 📷Otto Perry
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 12
A4 60032 Gannet is near Huntingdon with a Local train on Sunday 11 July 1954 (Rod Steele)
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 12
BR Standard 2MT 78014 seen at #Bradford Manningham shed.
📆 22nd May 1964
📷 Photo by D.J Mitchell.
#steamlocomotive #1960s #Yorkshire #BritishRailways
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 11
Even better - we get back the Longmoor Military Railway!
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Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania
-Colorized by Steve Walker-
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Jun 12
Great Northern line between Belgrave Rd station and Humberstone Road Station, Overton Road Leicester, Leicester Bridge over Victoria Road east..
📷 Graham Wilson.
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 11
BR Standard 2MT 78013 seen at Crewe Works.
📆 8th April 1962
📷 Photo by Frank Hornby.
#steamlocomotive #Cheshire #1960s #locoworks #BritishRailways
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 11
55A Leeds Holbeck Jubilee 45565 Victoria is at Dore and Totley with a Newcastle-Bristol express in May 1959 (Derek Penney)
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 10
9F 92117 at Ais Gill.
📆 Summer 1966
📷 Unknown Photographer.
#steamlocomotive #1960s #BritishRailways
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Nigel Harris retweeted
Jun 10
46245 City of London arrives at Stafford on Whit Saturday 1962 (Rod Steele)
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Jun 10
Because it isn’t!!!
If its so easy, why hasn't anyone done it yet
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Jun 9
Too right, Rog!
I keep hearing from "software experts" about how simple it should be to automate mixed traffic main line railways. I'd love just one of them to put their money where their mouth is.
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God, yes!
Jun 9
Disposing an 8F… hope it’s one with a hopper ashpan.
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Jun 9
The ‘impact’ on them is precisely what scares me witless, Gordon!!
It goes to show you the impact of a steam loco has on the ‘average’ American none of whom will ever have seen a real working engine in their lifetimes.
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