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You’re very welcome, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it!👍

I’m really pleased that you enjoyed the video. Yes, it is a dear place. Thanks for your comment👍

Really pleased that you enjoyed the video, thank you👍

Glad you enjoyed it👍

Glad you enjoyed the video! On the occasions that I met your Dad he was a real gentleman. He always seemed very focussed on his job, but still had time for a chat, and would often invite us into the bothy for a cup of (very strong) tea. Great memories, thank you for your lovely comment👍

My dad was a great man and a great dad, and ive never met anyone who loved there job more than him!​@iainrobinson6566

I’m really pleased that you enjoyed the video, it was fascinating (and frustrating 😂) to put together.Fire Queen is really special, I can’t wait to see her in her new home. The coal tank is one of my favourite locos, along with the ex L&Y Barton Wright tank. I never saw it at Penrhyn, sadly. Thanks very much for your comment.

I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it, and glad it brought back some good memories. Yes, those IA books are so evocative😀 thanks for your comment👍

Blimey, that must have been hearbreaking. I had the chance to go to Barry, but I couldn’t face it… so sad. Still, at least you had your memories of working on the locos. Thanks for your comment👍

Thank you so much!❤️👍

It was quite a place, eh!👍

Thank you very much, that is very kind of you to say👍

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video! The first time I saw the coal boats was incredible, it was a fascinating process.👍

Thank you very much, Bill. I tried very hard to get in touch, as I would have loved to feature some of your superb shots, but the Railscot site seems to be broken, the contact links don’t work. Very pleased that you enjoyed the video👍

Thank you, yes, I started a model a while ago and I agree. As yet I haven’t worked out a scheme to fit in the washery🧐 and Pennyvenie in within the space I have🤣 thanks for your comment👍

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Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed this👍

Thank you so much, Chris, really glad that you enjoyed the video👍

Thank you so much Stephen for your fascinating comment. I would have liked to have seen more of South Wales back in the seventies, but it’s a long way from Scotland. I did get to Nantgarw coking plant and Maerdy, both of which blew my tiny mind😂 yes, I’ve been following the bunfight at Fros y Fran, in fact we were at Merthyr a few weeks ago. Despite the popular opinion of it, it’s still a fascinating place. I decided not to go into the involved politics of the Ayrshire opencast mining, butI get a feel for what you’re saying🧐about Merthyr. Wish I’d seen it back in the day like you did!👍

@iainrobinson6566 Ah, so you are more than aware of Fros Y Fran? My tenuous connections with the place go back a long way. When my dad started his coal mining career back in the early 1950s, both the local steelworks & pits were still tipping their waste there. Then, after the Aberfan Disaster, caused by the waste tips created by the colliery my dad worked at, ie, Merthyr Vale, the waste was diverted to FyF. His final job prior to the mine closing was to check boreholes at the site to ensure the water levels inside the FyF tips were at safe levels. I'm not old enough to remember steam locos at Cwmbargoed (the place where the coal was loaded onto trains, on and off, for decades: there was always both NCB & private mines operating in the area) but I do recall double & even triple header class 37s with HAA wagons snaking their way up & down the Bedlinog valley, until the 66s took over.

@@stephendavies6949 thanks, Stephen, yes, I live in Wales now (gogledd) and I’m very interested in the slate mines here as well as the mines in the south. I didn’t know about Merthyr tipping into Fros, that’s a little disturbing. Oh, I would love to have seen those last trains with double headed 37’s, very fine. I was just getting a taste for them when the coal mines in Ayrshire closed down altogether… typical me😂 thanks again for your fascinating comment👍

Thank you very much👍

I’m really pleased that you enjoy the videos… yes, I hadn’t thought of them like that but you are right. I should do what you have done for my Hattons Barclay, it would be prototypical too! Thanks for the idea. Oh Mr porter… a classic! Thanks for your comment👍

@@iainrobinson6566 exactly that, I wanted a "proper" way of adding a trailer to hide the equipment 😁 It wasn't difficult to do at all, Take care!

Thank you very much. The locos are all preserved, although only no.10 is at work. No.17 might come back to life in the next few years, but I don’t think there’s much hope for the others… new boilers are hideously expensive as you know. Thanks very much for your comment👍

Thank you so much, really glad that you enjoyed the video👍

Thanks very much for your comment, it means a lot to hear from one of the DVR team. You do a great job. I’m very pleased that you enjoyed the video👍

Yes, I know what you mean- as you can imagine, I have one as well. I’d like one of no.24, but I’m afraid the HighLevel kit is beyond my pay grade😩 thanks for your comment!👍

Oh, that would have been very fine! My sounds are courtesy of a friend who spent time at the trackside at Minnivey. At the time I thought it was a faff, but I’m glad of the sounds now! Thanks for your comment👍

Thank you! We might have met, it was 73 when I moved there. They were such nice folk, as are the people at the DVR today. I’m so glad they made you welcome. Thanks for your comment👍

So pleased you enjoyed it. It's brought back many memories, making the film, I'll probably make a sequel!

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!

Thank you, really glad you enjoyed the film! I'm sure that the day spent with Tam on no.24 is a very special memory for you. Tam was a real gent, as was Davie, his fireman. Yes. it's still a fascinating place. Thanks for your comment.

Thanks so much, I’m really pleased that you enjoyed it👍

Thank you, very pleased that you enjoyed the video👍

Great! Thanks so much for your comment👍

Thank you so much!

Thank you very much, I’m very glad that you enjoyed the video👍

Thanks for your comment. I wish I’d have been nearer to the shed… did you have a strategy for getting in … we were not lucky! 👍

@@iainrobinson6566 No strategy. We just walked in through the entrance. It was always on a Sunday so the place was usually deserted.

@@icdgyixifyinstereo ah, yes… I guess our friend from the sand furnace would be having his beef and yorkshire pudding 😀 glad you got round without bother👍

You're very welcome!

Thank you very much. I'm glad it brought back some good memories of spotting days.

Thank you! Horwich works was so important to the community back then... how times change. That must have been a sad sight, seeing all the steam locos waiting for the cutters torch. I'm glad I brought back some memories, thanks for your comment.

I’m really glad you enjoyed it, thank you👍

I hope she has a lovely day, it will be an emotional reunion for you all 😍As you can see from my video, Fire Queen is very well cared for!

I had to go and have a look… that’s amazing! I wish I’d known that👍

It must be amazing to be able to say that… a direct line from one of the original masters of industry. Thanks for your comment👍

Thank you so much, I see that you understand👍

Thank you so much👍

Glad you enjoyed them👍

Thanks for your comment, good to hear from a Boltonian trainspotter! Yes, that green liveried standard five was special, it was a shock to see it on the scrap line on our second visit. It’s only to be expected, I suppose, that some locos were “pets”, I know Jim Markland also talks about one standard five that was never any good, “everything was too much trouble for it” he writes. Thanks again for your memories too… I was never a number taker, but I drank the atmosphere up like a fine wine👍

Thank you, I’m really pleased that you enjoyed it and thank you for your kind words👍

I know that Jim Markland mentions a lot of Bolton Enginemen in his books on Bolton (Foxline) but they are about the sixties, while you are talking about the seventies. I hope somebody knows him on here. The hallmark of a driver indeed, how he handles loose coupled freight- must have been a skilled man. Thanks for your kind comment👍

I've got all of Jim Markland's Bolton books, and there are a couple of photos with Bert Welsby on them.

Thank you, so glad this struck a chord with you! I know what you mean, locomen were usually friendly, especially to us boys. It was a brilliant time to be young, we were so lucky. Thank you for your subscription, there’s usually a new video every month.👍

@iainrobinson6566 Like you, I grew up in the twilight of steam and I've loved steam locomotives ever since. When I was small, my dad took me open day at a locomotive works. One loco had its smoke box door open and had a set of steps so you could climb up and look inside - which I did. Unfortunately in my haste, I tripped and tumbled head first into the smoke box. I came out black from head to toe. When dad reached me a kindly railway man was vainly trying to clean me up. I've never forgotten that episode or the scrubbing I got in the bath when we got home. It gives me a laugh everytime I think of it. Your mention of your pal Dave getting covered in coal dust, and the reception you received from all but the grouchy rail worker reminded me of it.

@@bahoonies That’s a lovely story, and I’m so glad that the trip into the smokebox didn’t put you off steam locos! I agree, the locomen were generally kindly, and tried not to see us, unless you were doing something dangerous. They had a certain nobility, probably because of the many years learning their craft, and the best ones had a respect for each other. Nothing like that these days. Thanks for your memories, and for your kind comment👍

@iainrobinson6566 Put me off? Ha, not a chance. l mean it's not every boy who gets the chance fall into a smoke box?

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Thanks for your fascinating comment, and for adding to the tapestry of memories- I had clean forgotten about that model on platform 3 as well. You were brave and very lucky to see that A4, but what a sight to a young lad steeped in railway lore! I can’t imagine allowing my children when they were that age to do most of the things we did without thinking when we were young either! Thanks again👍