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A few days ago I was up at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway with my brothers, nieces and parents where I’m sorry to say we had a terrible experience. I’m “sorry” because I had thought the NYMR to be one of the best railways in the country. For the full story head on over to Railnuts, the excellent railway community site run by Pete Waterman.
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Sorry not an audio recording. Instead I’m posting about a Hotel I stayed in recently. “Why?” you ask? Well, from time to time I have to stay in Hotels for work and every so often there’s something so bad about them that I just want to get it off my chest.
Take the Clifton Hotel in Scarborough for example owned by English Rose Hotels. I stayed there on Friday the 21st August. The exterior is quite impressive and has excellent views over Scarborough’s North Bay. The staff were incredibly friendly and polite, the food was ok… but the room I stayed in… was hideous. Dirty, damp, peeling wallpaper, mould patches… the lot!
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Recordings of Hunslets “Playing” on the cob at the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales. Recorded in May 2008 Read more
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LNER Class O4 63601 Departs Quorn
I love this engine… it makes a great noise. At the start of this recording you can almost hear it saying “I can do it, I can do it” as as if from a Thomas the Tank Engine story… it then struggles, hisses and pants up the incline from Quorn with a full train finally celebrating with an exhausted “whistle” somewhere past the Rushey Lane bridge. Read more
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With my monthly bandwidth pulling in at over 20gb a few months ago I decided to host all of my sound clips offsite in an effort to reduce costs. Originally I was going to opt for YouTube… until I discovered Vimeo. The immediate attraction for me was the cleaner look and style of its video player, the Vimeo site is also a lot nicer looking than YouTube – and it doesn’t suffer from some of the idiots you’ll find on YouTube too: post a video on YouTube and more often than not you’ll get some moron leaving unfriendly and often offensive comments. Read more
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Over the last few weeks I’ve spotted some stencil graffiti that looks like Eric Morecambe in and around Loughborough. The first one I spotted was on the bridge crossing the Great Central Railway on Rushey Lane (Though it was soon painted over). Then I began to notice them in Loughborough town centre whilst out shopping and on a number of traffic signal boxes and signs. Read more
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Sometimes I make a recording that for some reason or other (usually because I forget to take pen and paper – or because the sound of me writing is too noisy) I can’t identify. If you have an ear for recognising steam or diesel locomotives and fancy a game of “Name that Train” the head on over to the Name that Train page where you can hear the files I can’t identify. Read more
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This is a recording I made in Wales at the Ffestiniog Railway over a year ago… but I’ve simply not had the chance to listen to it and get it ready to put on the site until now! Read more
Summer rain – it’s the best type of rain, especially when your water butt is getting low! I’d just returned from a walk in the countryside when the heavens opened with a crack of thunder and lightning, the rain soon started to tap away on our aluminum garden patio furniture set. Read more
Due to an overwhelming number of visitors (Many thousands a day!) I’ve had to move my Farm Town Blog to Blogspot. You can see all of my posts there including the Farm Town tips and cheats post. Read more
