Silverlink cafe stirling

[chris_webb]

harry_gill:

Chris Webb:

stravaiger:
Absolute trivia but I suppose everybody knows the name came from the 1936 bridge. The Silver Link bridge. 'course you knew that A regular port of call for me, except on days when the farmer opposite spread that stuff from the rear end of a pig If that’s organic I’ll settle for GM …jim

I stayed there a couple of times in the 70s and it was ok.
A bit more trivia.“Silver Link” was also the name of a LNER/BR class A4 Pacific loco that ran between Kings Cross and Edinburgh.Built at Doncaster 1935 and scrapped at Darlington 1963.It was 2509 in LNER days and 60014 in BR days.Saw it at Peterborough in the early 50s in me spotting days.

Anorak off and away…

hiya,
Anorak, bobble, hat, notepad and pencil all safely stowed on t’isle i dare bet.
thanks harry long retired.

Nearly right Harry.Still got the old 1954 spotters book although it’s a bit dog-eared like me now.Never used a pencil,always a biro and never had a bobble hat or anorak and never will.“Silver Link” will have whizzed past your Durham house many a time.

[harry_gill]

Chris Webb:

harry_gill:

Chris Webb:

stravaiger:
Absolute trivia but I suppose everybody knows the name came from the 1936 bridge. The Silver Link bridge. 'course you knew that A regular port of call for me, except on days when the farmer opposite spread that stuff from the rear end of a pig If that’s organic I’ll settle for GM …jim

I stayed there a couple of times in the 70s and it was ok.
A bit more trivia.“Silver Link” was also the name of a LNER/BR class A4 Pacific loco that ran between Kings Cross and Edinburgh.Built at Doncaster 1935 and scrapped at Darlington 1963.It was 2509 in LNER days and 60014 in BR days.Saw it at Peterborough in the early 50s in me spotting days.

Anorak off and away…

hiya,
Anorak, bobble, hat, notepad and pencil all safely stowed on t’isle i dare bet.
thanks harry long retired.

Nearly right Harry.Still got the old 1954 spotters book although it’s a bit dog-eared like me now.Never used a pencil,always a biro and never had a bobble hat or anorak and never will.“Silver Link” will have whizzed past your Durham house many a time.

hiya,
Yes Chris the rear of my house overlooks the East coast main line but if the old girl was pulled to bits in Darlington in 1963 it’s very unlikely i ever saw her with not becomeing a North Easterner until 1972, and there’s nowt the matter with anoraks and bobble hats i still wear mine but limit the wearing of for weddings and dining out, well you have to get tarted up sometimes don’t you,
thanks harry long retired.

[wheel_nut]

Aye, that’s me, away for my piece, sounds rather quaint in a Scottish lilt.

It always reminds me that the Silverlink was the first “Road House” that I ate Lorne sausage in.

[nb12]

Was this place not called the silver tassie?.

[alexsaville]

To think this thread started about a Transport Cafe and ended up with a locomotive!
Yes, Chris, GTF is a well know farewell here in Caledonia!
As for a Silver Tassie:-

Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine,
and fill it in a Silver Tassie,
That I may drink before I go,
a service to my Bonnie Lassie.
(Rabbie Burns)
You drink from it, those south of the border might call it a ‘Goblet’.
See, you can learn a lot on Trucknet!
Alex