The Classic Machinery Network

hi ian Do you remember what job you drove the h52 on by any chance, i think it spent sometime working on the llangennech bypass. regards that was before my time, llangenech bypass was about 1983, if im right, thyssen main contractor i think, i was a teenager then, i drove the 52, in 1992 i think, o...

Hi Paul ah ha mystery solved ! I was almost sure there was only the one H52 down here in the south. I wonder how many actually came to the uk. Glad we sorted that out tho ! i seem to remember as a young lad, tycroes plant, purchased a vast amount of ford excavators off short bros, in 1982, remember...

B100 LOADER wrote:I will be there Saturday,looking forward to it
Martyn

me too going up sat, by train 6am from swansea, realy looking forward to it

ok , grabbed some video footage and have lots of pics of the restoration in progress, scanning them all in now! any questions ask away, he's registered on here as Andrewsdig now, is just awaiting account approval. here's a couple more shots I took today to check out, while I upload the video (fairl...

Hi folks,just wondering if anyone can help me with any contacts to get me my dream job.Unfortunately its not what you know,its who you know.i have a cpcs ticket for articulated dump trucks and am desperate to get my operator career started.can anyone put me in the right direction.??? I stay in ayrs...

..... and lastly, as well as a Bible and a copy of Shakespeare's works, you are allowed one piece of plant or machinery with necessary fuels, oils and spares, on your desert island. What would it be and why? Tone it would be a hymac 580c,as it reminds me , of better time in the late 1970,s, beng a ...

As our so called summer comes to an end we see that our gas and electricity bills will be higher next month.Just as the weather gets cooler. So much for Thatchers promise of the 1980's,cheaper bills and shares in the companies.The people of this country have been well and truely shafted.Rail fares ...

Did your uncle know John Horrel, John Bazley,Pete Gibson, Mike porter and Barry Evans ? Arriva is now part of DBS,so hopefully there will be loco hauled trains to the Royal Welsh. Landore had a few Westerns allocated there in their early days.But all were allocated to Laira depot Plymouth. I was on...

B100 LOADER wrote:I knew a few people that worked at Llandore,No 37's this year unless hired in.I guess the class 67 will be on the Royal Welsh jobs.
Martyn

my uncle is wynford, been there since 1967,he does a lot on the 08,s, im thinking, they will prob use 150,s to royal welsh

I have found some photos of this locomotive taken in May 1975.We stopped it being cut up at Swindon works by giving it a paint job.It was then purchaced by the Western Loco Assc. It has been in preservation for a few years now.The WLA hope to get it passed for main line running.Around £90k will be ...