[modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:20:28 -0700 (PDT)
Drool! Drool!! Youse gents are Sooooo fortunate--you
can visit on a weekend and I can only dream!! Wish I
still had my old copies of "Light Steam Power" so I
could look at the pictures!!
Al
--- Peter Cathcart <peter.cathcart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Al
>
> The Windermere Nautical Museum has steam launches
> which are still fully
> operational. An excellent Museum to visit if you
> ever make it over the
> Pond.
>
> Peter
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Allen Messer
> Sent: 15 April 2008 15:11
> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos
>
> Since we have successfully gotten far O/T, are there
> still Steam launches operating on Lake Windemere?
>
> Al
> --- Tony Wells <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Once brought a boat up from a boatyard in
> > Wolverhampton to Shipley for a
> > boatyard owner, and we came the "scenic" route
> round
> > the Birmingham Ring -
> > in some places there was so much cutting oil etc
> in
> > the canal water from the
> > nearby factories that it looked green ... <sigh>
> All
> > the factories are gone
> > now though, and the canals cleaned up though, so
> it
> > is somewhere else to
> > re-visit when we start canalling again (after my
> > wife retires next year!)
> >
> > Tony.
> >
> > PS, a late reply to Alan's comments about the
> Thames
> > steam yatchts - on our
> > first canalling holiday, over 30 years ago now, we
> > picked the boat up on the
> > lower reaches of the Grand Union Canal, went up it
> > to pick up the Oxford
> > Canal, went down the Oxford to the Thames
> (including
> > a short detour onto the
> > Isis!), then down the Thames to pick up the Grand
> > Union again, and so back
> > to the boat yard. When we were on the Thames
> though,
> > we saw a lot of the
> > little steam powered "yachts", 20 and 30 foot
> steam
> > powered launches with a
> > small day cabin, that Alan mentioned. The
> waterways
> > were just changing over
> > from Commerical to Leisure use, and these yachts
> > were being rennovated left,
> > right and centre - a "must have" to park on your
> > VERY expensive house's VERY
> > expensive river frontage! As we have been on
> nearly
> > every canal in the
> > country, the Thames is the only place where I have
> > seen them, so they must a
> > unique Thames style boat.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Beaman" <dave.beaman@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:16 PM
> > Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos
> >
> >
> > > Try the BCN Al, more waterways than Venice!!!
> The
> > Black Country through
> > > Dudly is worth doing and visiting the Black
> > Country Museum on the way. If
> > > you do come this way, give us a shout.
> > >
> > > Dave.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:03 PM
> > > Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground
> photos
> > >
> > >
> > >> Al,
> > >> There are quite a lot of steam boats over here.
> > >> The Steamboat Association lists many of them,
> > plus there are a lot that
> > >> are
> > >> not listed there.
> > >>
> > >> As for the canals, I once went from Brentford
> to
> > Watford on a coal barge
> > >> that was returning light to...wherever.
> > >> That was in the days when almost all the
> traffic
> > was commercial. (Around
> > >> the
> > >> mid-late 50's.)
> > >>
> > >> Although I have been on many inland waterways
> > since then, I have never
> > >> been
> > >> on the canals.
> > >> Something I plan to remedy, preferably around,
> > what was, the industrial
> > >> areas of the midlands / north.
> > >> Alan
> > >>
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