Calling Paignton
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Calling Paignton
Hi
I might have a chance to move to Paignton!
Any comments good or bad regarding the town please?
Where would my nearest branch be?
Many thanks
I might have a chance to move to Paignton!
Any comments good or bad regarding the town please?
Where would my nearest branch be?
Many thanks
1952 Series MM, 918cc sidevalve, 4 door saloon in Empire Green with a matching hotwater bottle
0-60 eventually
Just outside Exeter http://www.morrisminoroc.co.uk/modules. ... &sid=area4 about 23 miles
Paignton is the junction between the main national rail network and the Paignton - Kingswear privately owned steam line. It's a very steep incline from Paignton and last time I was on the Torbay Express (steam hauled from Bristol Temple Mead by a Battle of Britain 4-6-0) we got stuck and had to be rescued by "Goliath", a local GWR 0-6-0 as a double-header. A great trip along the Dawlish sea wall. As with driving Moggies, it's great to see locomotives running at express speeds as they were designed to do.
Well, this is in the off-topic section
Well, this is in the off-topic section
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Re: Calling Paignton
Paignton is a nice town with the sea and walks and of course the steam railway, but like a lot of places it can be let down by the falling standards of people living here.
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Re: Calling Paignton
So sad, I remember going there from PZ on the train as a school child and it was a great day out.......
Re: Calling Paignton
Paignton has probably changed in the 17 years since the original post ! . ——-and Squiggle disappeared years ago.
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Re: Calling Paignton
So did most of them - I wonder where they all went?
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Yes these old threads feature many people that we never hear from again. The Morris Minor perhaps just a passing whim.
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Same as old wagons/trucks/lorries being given a bit of welly...."enthusiastic" gearchanges etc.simmitc wrote: ↑Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:37 pm Paignton is the junction between the main national rail network and the Paignton - Kingswear privately owned steam line. It's a very steep incline from Paignton and last time I was on the Torbay Express (steam hauled from Bristol Temple Mead by a Battle of Britain 4-6-0) we got stuck and had to be rescued by "Goliath", a local GWR 0-6-0 as a double-header. A great trip along the Dawlish sea wall. As with driving Moggies, it's great to see locomotives running at express speeds as they were designed to do.
Well, this is in the off-topic section
Further investigations uncovered it was an inside job!!