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1. ennywun Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

   Yes, I’m out here, and I’m even on the picture. I remember very little about the club (little wonder after 50 Years). I believe I helped to ‘guard’ a model railway layout we’d put on display at The Majestic Cinema just before Christmas maybe 1957. The manager allowed us to watch an Elvis film for free!!

   There are lots of things in my shed, but the Y & A plate isn’t one of them.
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   ennywun Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

   Here’s a Railway Society shot. Trainers and baseball caps were not even dreamt of! Short pants and long macs never did us any harm. Ken. you might like a look at this .. http://www.flickr.com/photos/80652380@N00/338732789/

   Oops, that link doesn’t actually work. You’ll have to copy and paste.

3. Colombo Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

   ennywun: where did you get the shot of the Railway Society at Darnall ?

   I’ve been searching for it for ages.

4. KenStarkey Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

   Thanks for the GS pic EW [got my doubts about the bike’s pedigree though, looks like an iron cylinder]Mind you once me and my little mate gorr’it going we had no probs doing the ton on Ferriby Bypass!

5. ennywun Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

   Colombo – I’m pleased to have fulfilled your needs, although I didn’t know where it was taken. I don’t know that I dare admit it on this site, but it could well have been a scan from a well known local publication beginning with F.

   Ken – I’m sure you’re right – B31 /33? However, it was a candid shot I couldn’t let go. It was my Cartier Bresson ‘Decisive Moment’ And you’re right, I am one of the crowd who attended our 50th anniversary of the school’s opening! Good to be in touch again Ken.

6. Colombo Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

   Thanks ennywun. I think I know where it went now. It’s one of two negatives that I have lost.

7. KenStarkey Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

   Good to be reminded of that 50th. anniversary reunion , so crowded at one point I thought the door of the telephone box would give way under the pressure!

   Going back t the R/Society I do remember the very impressive exhibition they staged at the school during our first year. Model layouts of varios gauges filled the hall and I think there was a steam model somewhere [Health & Safety would frown on that these days] My Dad was so caught up with it he funded a new set of points for my [our!] Triang layout the following weekend.

   Triang v. Hornby? Any opinions?

8. ennywun Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

   Mine was a Triang Ken, permanently attached to a board with folding legs in the ‘front room’ of our terraced house. Dad fixed up an ex WD rotary converter to convert 240v AC to 6v(?) DC to run it. It made a heck of a racket & interfered with the 9" GEC TV.

   I eventually sold the whole setup for I think £10, and bought an electric guitar.

9. KenStarkey Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

   Always thought Hornby a bit unreal because their tracks had 3 rails although the locos were beautifully detailed and they did have a turntable and a Royal Mail set that worked.

   The big plus point Triang had for me though was the American range they produced, first saw it running in Jordans when they used to have a huge model layout every Christmas.

   Great place Jordans, always remember the smell of oil as you walked in and the wall to wall motorbikes on display.
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    Colombo Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Here’s one that has been published before, showing a party of RHS Railway Society members adorning an A7, during a visit to Springhead.

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