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Joined: 28 Oct 2009 My Line: North Norfolk Railway Posts: 119
Location: Norwich
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:53 pm Post subject: What I do at the weekends
This is what I do at the weekends
Im TTI (Traveling Ticket Inspector) at the North Norfolk Railway (The Poppy Line) which I love doing, made loads of new friends (alot of them around my age! of which NNR must be very lucky to have?), an somtimes I get footplate rides on da locos
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Whitwell & Reepham Station engine cleaner
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Joined: 28 Oct 2009 My Line: North Norfolk Railway Posts: 119
Location: Norwich
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:
Im also Platform Supervisor at Weybourne which I also enjoy I get to show peeps round the loco sheds, and the carriage and wagon work shops - also lets me see what broken in there lol
the loco sheds is now the only place left in Norfolk if not East Anglia where such heavy engineering takes place, and are the envy of alot of other heritage railways due to the equipment in there, we have undertaken tasks for other railways/groups this includes "Tornado's" dome cover!! _________________ North Norfolk Railway TTI and Platform Supervisor
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Joined: 28 Oct 2009 My Line: North Norfolk Railway Posts: 119
Location: Norwich
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject:
I also want to become an engine cleaner here, but cannot do so till I can drive as dads not keen on taking me o Weybourne sheds in the early hours then home again a night
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Joined: 28 Oct 2009 My Line: North Norfolk Railway Posts: 119
Location: Norwich
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:
I also volunteer at Whitwell & Reepham Station as an engine cleaner on Annie http://www.whitwellstation.com/ _________________ North Norfolk Railway TTI and Platform Supervisor
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Joined: 04 Oct 2009 My Line: Severn Valley Railway Posts: 73
Location: home
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:10 pm Post subject:
ahh the life of an engine man iv been on the footplate for 2 years and iv loved every second getting up at five in the morning and getting home at seven in the evening most definatly worth it i got a chance to drive this on saturday when we had to pack away at the end of the last day of the season
Joined: 28 Oct 2009 My Line: North Norfolk Railway Posts: 119
Location: Norwich
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject:
and......
im also a member of a 7 1/4inch gauge railway near Wroxham.
This is called The Ashmanhaugh Light Railway, we're the longest 7 1/4inch gauge railway in Norfolk we think http://www.ashmanhaughlightrailway.co.uk/ _________________ North Norfolk Railway TTI and Platform Supervisor
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Joined: 17 May 2009 My Line: PCLR 5inch and 45mm Posts: 342
Location: Buckinghamshire England
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:13 pm Post subject:
I am a working member of vames and buckinghamshire railway centre . I work at vames every sunday in summer and wednesday in the hoilday work my live steam 45 loco or my 5 inch saddel tank which is being fitted out with air brakes for passanger use als omy dads shuster is also being fitted out with them. I work at buckinghamshire railway centre in the winter i am a loco on the 29 th of this mouth along with plew2105
Both loco have been lined and had name plates fitted now
also i my be boming around on tration engines
power of the god's
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Joined: 09 Jun 2009 My Line: Deben Valley Light Railway Posts: 985
Location: Suffolk
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:21 pm Post subject:
gosh you're up to quite alot, I think I may have seen you TTIing on the NNR some time, I LOVE THE TEAK CARRIAGES!!!
My fav loco ever is J15! _________________ The railway which people forgot
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Joined: 28 Oct 2009 My Line: North Norfolk Railway Posts: 119
Location: Norwich
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject:
this shay loco is our newst engine, and arrived in May, it was scratch built and took its builder 10 years to make!!
a very easy loco to drive, should be passed out on it for next year im passed out on General the blue diesel at the mo as well
pics of the shay, some of them im driving _________________ North Norfolk Railway TTI and Platform Supervisor
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Joined: 17 May 2009 My Line: PCLR 5inch and 45mm Posts: 342
Location: Buckinghamshire England
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject:
love the shay i have never seen on of them beform but i have seen a climax 5 inch _________________ Buckinghamshire Railway Centre !!
VAMES!!
keeping steem alive if a little smaller!
Michael
Joined: 28 Oct 2009 My Line: North Norfolk Railway Posts: 119
Location: Norwich
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject:
Mr. Bond of the DVLR wrote:
gosh you're up to quite alot, I think I may have seen you TTIing on the NNR some time, I LOVE THE TEAK CARRIAGES!!!
My fav loco ever is J15!
yes the Quads look wonderful, nightmere for Guards and TTIs though... - did you see them being hauled by the N2 in September?
my fav ever loco is the B12 - she should be back running again next year and in LNER livery NNRs getting the paint for the loco from LNERs orginal supplier!
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NNRs getting the paint for the loco from LNERs orginal supplier! 
