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Chris Totty gets new track in the book in Scotland
The Great Summer Croatia & Czech
Bash, 2008
Pete Callaghan heads back to Central Europe.
Cycling Lands End to John o'Groats
Ian Rear 'gets on his bike'...
USA - April 2008
Pete Callaghan makes another trip Stateside.
Chasing Loud Locos in Czech
Pete Callaghan in action yet again!
Steaming around the Balkans
Pete Callaghan in action again.
USA - October 2007
Pete Callaghan takes a trip Stateside.
I'm here to
work...honest!
Photo dairy of some personal time on a business trip.
"How Far do you Think to the
Next Gas Station?"
'Bista' and friends on the bash in the US in 1996.
"The Boys Are Back In Town - USA Tour
2006"
The 2006 US bash.
"The No, We Are NOT Australian - USA Tour
2005"
My second US beer & trains bash.
"Southern Britain Bash"
Martin Thorn travelling around the south of the country.
"6-Day Scottish Bash, 2005"
Stuart Smith finishing off Scotland (so to speak).
"The Forgotten Route"
Jason Warner heads north for a day.
"Shafted..."
PRAR on a not so good day out.....
"Duff Bashing"
Mark Honey gets in some class 47 mileage.
"The Wot, No More Sam Adams? - USA Tour 2004"
Thirteen cranks "do" the US.
"The Last Post"
A little of what's left in the UK, from Janet Cottrell.
"Bashing 101's & HST's"
Hellfiregrowler gets in one last 101 bash.
"Seeking Rare Loco Haulage"
A day out for "Hellfire Growler".
"Bashing Virgins"
David Russell out and about.
"A Weekend in New York"
Simon Bennett thinks big for a weekends bash!
"Daytrip on 47's"
Gary Wiseman reflects on a recent days bashing...
"Back in the day..."
Matthew James goes on a bash round Scotrail territory
"The Case of the unidentified
37"
Nigel Benning goes Scotrail sleeper bashing too!
"Bashing in your sleep"
Sleeping through four required loco haulages!
9th June 1976 - 9th June 2001 : 25
Solid Years of Trains....
Part 2 - The 1980's
9th June 1976 - 9th June 2001 : 25
Solid Years of Trains....
Have I really been "doing it" that long?!?
2nd June 2001 : Daytripping....
Jonathan Wilcox on a runabout in the Birmingham area
27th January 2001 : You Can't Beat a
Good Crank....
"Selby" goes bashing around a Pathfinder Railtour.
13th January 2001 : A Quiet Day In....
Tractors everywhere!
2nd January 2001 : Cheap Spoon Bashing
Adrian Knight on a CENTRO Daytripper, bashing spoons.
28-30th December 2000 : GM v. EE
Sampling "the last" in two different countries in as many days.
July 2000 : Last Week of the 37's?
Jonathan Wilcox out chasing tractors on the North Wales Coast.
10th June 2000 : One Last Bash...
Tractors, preserved stuff and a Freightliner Skoda, all in one weekend.
18th March 2000 : Cardiff Valleys
Diesel Gala II
David Clark again reports...
5th March 2000 : West Highland
Napier
Ralph Barrett gets cold and wet in Scotland!
19th February 2000 : Cardiff Valleys
Diesel Gala
Something about rugby players and strange shaped balls...
23rd January 2000 : Anglian Deltic
Napier power on a class 1 Anglia Railways express!
28th August 1999 : A Crompton, A Peak
& a Pair of Kettles
A Saturday spent scratching new preserved railways, with diesel traction of
course!
29th May 1999 : First North Western ~
Diesel gala (?)
Proof a days loco bashing can still be fun....and profitable!
10th April 1999 : Peds on the Marston
Vale Line
Fragonset 31's on Silverlink service trains between Bletchley & Bedford.
6th March 1999 : The Settle &
Carlisle Diesel gala
Diverted WCML services over the "S&C".
5th December 1998 : D9000 makes it to
Newcastle....again
Ralph Barrett describes another journey to Newcastle with D9000.
19th September 1998 : D9000 heads
north for a change
Not the normal Saturday outing to Ramsgate for D9000...
Ralph Barrett describes the journey to Newcastle with photographs by Craig
Oliphant.
31st August 1998 : Anglia Railways
"Deltic to the Sea"
Ralph Barrett describes a trip from London to Great Yarmouth with Deltic D9000.
29th - 31st August 1998 : A three-day
Weekend - trains, trains and....trains!
A Bank Holiday weekend spent on the rails.
8th & 9th August 1998 : Another
Desperate Weekend...
Two days spent chasing "preserved" traction on the mainline.
25th July 1998 : A Day (Well, 40
Minutes) at the Seaside
An outing behind Deltic D9000 on the Virgin Trains service to Ramsgate.
14th February 1998 : Valentines Day
with Muriel
A tale of Muriels outing on Valentines Day - by Andy Flowers.
14th February 1998 : The Virgin Footballer
Another perspective on Muriels outing - by Ralph Barrett.
12th January 1998 : Class 33 in the
Welsh Valleys
A tale of diesel bashing out of Cardiff Central.
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