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  1. Tyke The Tree-Frog

    Tyke The Tree-Frog Well-Known Member

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    Wonder if they'll have another check during half time? Can barely see owt!
     
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    Agreed. I’ve always had a soft spot for York with Linton-on-Ouse being my first RAF posting after training (1971-73) and so much of the city is unchanged even after all this time. I never get tired of walking on the walls and love the fact that I can travel only a few miles from home to see old steam or diesel locomotives at the magnificent station passing through regularly on heritage tours. Last weekend a Deltic hauled a train from Kings Cross then uncoupled to let an A4 Streak take over for the journey to Edinburgh. There were hundreds of enthusiastic spotters packing the platforms just to see and hear them.
     
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    Hundreds of train spotters? Oh how exciting
     
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    Prince of Risborough Well-Known Member

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    It was a brilliant FREE show and so good to be able to appreciate the fact that this country used to produce locos like this.
     
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    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    The Flying Scotsman passed through Dundee only 2 weeks ago. I really should have gone to view and take a picture….but I didn’t.
     
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    Ian would enjoy it - FREE Lol.
     
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    Twice as enjoyable when it costs nothing
     
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    I KNEW it !!! lol.
     
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    Everyone knows it
     
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    I'd say Barnsley has produced hundreds of loco's. Most on em mi mates. :)
     
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    Guw on then, as if a couldn't guess :D
     
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    What was Ronnie Glavin doing running through Dundee, in this chilly McJock weather ?. :rolleyes:
     
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    I think it’s here hear
     
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    Spot on. York is very expensive for most things. For example, a new takeaway sausage booth has opened in the Museum Gardens. Hot dogs from £9 and fries £5 minimum, with a special "meal deal", which offers hot dog+fries for a bargain £13, to be eaten outside in the freezing weather. Beer generally expensive, apart from at a Sam Smith's pub and Wetherspoons. Housing is really expensive. My daughter's 3 bedroomed semi cost £420k eighteen months ago and needed quite a lot of work doing to it.
     
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    Nothing against Harrogate. Had a property there for seven years which we recently vacated - tenants in there now.
     
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    I saw that sausage booth the other day when I was visiting the library. Jaw dropping prices! Like everything else in York which seems to be acting the part of London of the North.

    Speaking of the library I got a free book off them to keep but only because it is in such poor condition. Something I suppose but I doubt I shall be reading it. The font is the smallest I have ever seen in a book and with 600+ pages I shall probably bin it.
     
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    Bring back Mr Sandwich! Tiny place on the Shambles, and you used to be able to get a very decent lunch there for a quid when I was at university.

    That was 20 years ago, to be fair, but even then it was cheap.
     
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    I also was at York Uni 20 years ago. Well 2000 to 2003.
     
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    2004 to 2007 for me. Think there are a few of us on this board, from memory.
     
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