Keith, you are just like harry, all you think about is ■■■, " The Titfield thunder bolt", nooooooooo , It was " The Tiffield thunder Bolt", because we have a village on the A43, between Blisworth and Towcester, of the same name, That barrel that harry fell in , you must have pulled that name out of ha ha ha, but still very good photo’s of the modern railway still in UK. Sandman Norman
hiya,
Norman,getting your full moniker because i’m going to have to chastise you yet again, i’m afraid you’re wrong, and Keith is correct it is the Titfield Thunderbolt named after the branchline at the village of the same name, just google on in there man.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Norm forget me head if it was loose, you are sort of right in one way though it’s got nowt to do with that barrel of ■■■■ i keep landing in and emerging sucking my thumb.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Keith nice piece of kit you’ve got there would have liked something like that, but the the mainline loco’s would have been a bit too heavy, i used a n ex wd scammel ballasted up and a heavy duty dolly backed under an old king low loader which i think was used to transport the ark, the trailer had permanent rails attached to the bed, somebody once said the movement could take 120 tons, i never had that much weight on her but i never knew how much a mainline loco would have weighed i’ll have to try and find out i think the best the old girl would do was round about 30 mph which was plenty loaded but a bit of a bind coming back empty, usually to do the same thing all over again.
PS just had a look “ontinternet” and the things i was taking to the scrappers was between 80 to 90 tons without tender didn’t think they weighed that much, just never bothered at the time that was for the guvnor to think about, the tenders went separetly good job the old motor wasn’t very quick.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi boys
Harry thank you it’s not very often i’m told i’m right Norm I thought you would have known about ■■■■ in a field especially with all those encounters with foreign ladys. Being generally interested in steam I went a few years ago to see those engines at Barry If I remember right there was a very steep hill down to the scrap yard.It was a very sad sight but at least quite a few were saved it to preservation. I think i’m right in saying a chap named Eric Larrance moved most of them out again.I did see a video of him moving one a while ago.
Regards Keith
hiya,
Keith you’ve been to barry since me but you mention a biggish drop down to the old goods yard and when i was taking stuff in there in the latish 60s there was nowt coming out, i think some had been bought but not yet ready for transport out but there was quite a lot of guys cutting them up every time i was in there,i think i added about six to the total but there was quite a few firms taking them in mc’elvies did some from scotland i think, mine was collected round the manchester area just pleased some made it into preservation, i think most of the “namers” escaped the acetylene torch.
thanks harry long retired.
Keith, I am a betting man, and I still say the film, was the not Titfield, the film industry, would not use such a vulgar name, The Tiffield Thunder bolt, whether they changed it who know, I have seen the film about six times, its about a private railway line trying to get a certificate to run a passenger paying railway to carry the post, and a coach firm, owned by two brothers, who tried to sabotage them getting the mail, because they thought it would kill their trade, Starring Stanley Holloway, as the major who likes his drink, and puts money into it because when the train is running, the bar is open. Sandman Norman
Hi all, does this help
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Director:
Charles Crichton
Writer:
T.E.B. Clarke (original screenplay)
Release Date:
March 1953 (UK)
Genre:
Comedy
Plot:
Comedy of railfans who take over their village’s passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when British Rail abandons it
Ray
YES , but until I see it on the screen, I have doubts, I may be wrong, or my eyesight is going wonky. Sandman Norman
hiya,
give up Norm you’re well and truly thrashed on this one, three against one is a bit much methinks, i’ll make you an appointment at SPECSAVERS.
thanks harry long retired.
The company at Barry that scrapped the steam locos was called Woodham Brothers.There was still a load of locos there in the late 70s when I was going into Powell Duffryn Storage tank farm next door.
Of course I never had a camera. 
a company called A.L.E move a lot of locos about nowadays.
hiya,
Chris yes Woodhams thats it just couldn’t remember the name last time i was on the island was about 1972, not to the loco yard but to a showmans yard to pick a 50/55 ft trailer up for glendennings still plenty of stuff in Woody’s at that time though, i remember the other “big lads” off wynns the really heavy push and pull guys used to pull my leg with stuff like, just put that little thing in the cab i’ll drop it in on the way past, of course i was only casual so got the mick taken a bit 80/90 ton was big enough for me, at least i had only the weight to worry about they was’nt wide or exessively long.
thanks harry long retired.
flishflunk:
Hi all, does this helpThe Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Director:
Charles Crichton
Writer:
T.E.B. Clarke (original screenplay)
Release Date:
March 1953 (UK)
Genre:
Comedy
Plot:
Comedy of railfans who take over their village’s passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when British Rail abandons itRay
I believe it was filmed on a disused rail track near to Bath – Limpley Stoke I think…
Sid James & Stanley Holloway were the only actors names I can recall !!
It is shown on TV on a regular basis 9Sunday afternoons) so it’ll be appearing again soon TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT …
hiya,
howay Norm get yer hands up and come out, your beat on this one too many batting for keith.
thanks harry long retired.
Humbug, double Humbug, I think someone, has changed the title. Sandman Norman
hiya,
nobody changed it Norm, but you had a good try.
thanks harry long retired.
God loves a trier, i FEEL LIKE Christopher Wren, I try to be good, for I know That I should.
hiya,
Norm should’nt that be Christopher Robin or was he the guy who went down on Alice.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi boys
Thank you Lads Norm you cannot win them all even if it is your site.
If my memary is correct those locos at Barry had names of preservation groups painted on them. I was told the groups would pay a deposit and when they had raised all the money the loco would be collected.
Harry you mentioned long and wide.Heres somthing that might interest you boys sorry Norm not ME.
We got a job moving 3 loads of curved beems 68ft long with a 12ft drop from Wickhams fabrications Ruabon nr Wrexham to a place near Sheffield for shotblasting and painting, then pick them up a couple of weeks later and deliver to Slough. There they turned the beems over, joined two together to make a big arch to form the roof of Slough ice ring.Well being a small haulage firm with a lot of initionative and not having a trailer to move them we decided to make one.We got a 40ft flat,cut it in half and spread it appart. We then took another 40ft, removed the running gear, slid it under neath, jacked it up and welded in.This is what we ended up with.
It worked well but did not like corners with those axles right at the back. We did find a little other work for it like the ones below before a chap from Telford bought it off us to move overhead cranes.
I hope those where of interest. Norm have you considerd changing the name of your thread. 
Regards Keith.
Interesting pictures and an interesting trailer Keith,just a bit of cut-in on bends 
but it obviously did the job. Was it Darnall Shotblasting in Sheffield where you took the beams? they did a lot of work like that.
Going back to Woodhams at Barry I read somewhere that a certain ex GWR loco was the 99th to be rescued from the torch at Barry and that may not be an up-to-date figure.I do remember a “West Country” Pacific being there with the preservation society name on it but can’t remember which one.It had no nameplates of course,they’d long been removed.