Loco makes a flying visit to Swindon (From Swindon Advertiser)
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Loco makes a flying visit to Swindon
12:10pm Monday 30th August 2010 in News
Loco makes a flying visit to Swindon
TRAIN enthusiasts were treated to a flying visit of a Swindon-built locomotive this weekend.
Ken Mumford captured these pictures of the 6024 King Edward I loco as it passed through the town on its way to London from Bristol Temple Meads on Saturday.
The train, which is now known as The Bristolian, was built at the the railway works in the early part of the 20th century under the watchful eye of chief mechanical engineer George Jackson Churchward.
It is owned by the 6024 Preservation Society, who are dedicated to the restoration, maintenance and operation of the steam locomotive.
These pictures were taken as the engine crossed the bridge over County Road, near the Transfer Bridges Industrial Estate.
Comments(10)
sun_set
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10:46pm Mon 30 Aug 10
supercalifragilisticexpealidoucious
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11:05pm Mon 30 Aug 10
Blackmalkin
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6:43am Tue 31 Aug 10
umpcah
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8:41am Tue 31 Aug 10
Blackmalkin wrote:Are you seriously expecting the Adver to get its facts right ?
The Kings were designed by Collett, not Churchward. And, as the article says, the TRAIN is The Bristolian, not the locomotive - but it then implies that the locomotive has been renamed.
Janais is back
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10:31am Tue 31 Aug 10
Captain Sensible
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3:50pm Tue 31 Aug 10
Always Grumpy
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5:39pm Tue 31 Aug 10
Captain Sensible wrote:It just highlights what a third rate rag the Adver is.
Makes you think though, if they cant get simple facts right about this, is anything they print woth taking seriously?
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys (and only semi literate ones at that).
There are mistakes after mistakes in so many stories in this paper, that you wonder if they employ a proof reader at all. I suspect the best GCSE grade in English of any of the reporters (and I use the term loosely) can't be better than an E.
Bin There
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5:47pm Tue 31 Aug 10
supercalifragilisticAre you serious?
expealidoucious wrote:
Bin- That comment real-ly doesn't make any sense. How can you build some flats inside a train? Ooh la la!
This is Swindon. If that train had stayed here, for a few days, the town "planners" would have figured how many apartments could have been built into the carriages.
With a hotel built on top of the last one.
supercalifragilisticexpealidoucious
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6:19pm Tue 31 Aug 10
Bin There wrote:Asboloutely serious!
supercalifragilisticAre you serious?
expealidoucious wrote:
Bin- That comment real-ly doesn't make any sense. How can you build some flats inside a train? Ooh la la!
This is Swindon. If that train had stayed here, for a few days, the town "planners" would have figured how many apartments could have been built into the carriages.
With a hotel built on top of the last one.
Bin There-Quick bulid some flats in it!?!
Eh?
That quote you posted still doesn't make sense, even after your ellaborate reply! Your off the cuff! comments really are nonsensical! Actually I havn't had a good laugh in ages! HA HA HA
Bin There says...
10:37pm Mon 30 Aug 10
Build some flats in it.