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Post by Sandra on Apr 5, 2004 15:13:52 GMT -5
I was planning on traveling up to Yorkshire for the Easter Weekend but then got summoned for Jury Service starting the Wed after Easter so I now have to work for most of the weekend but I am off down to stay with a friend for a 2 days she lives in Somerset. I will be making my way to Yorkshire sometime in June - then I also have some chance of catching some filming in Scarborough  I hope. I have photos of the trains at Grosmont as well as we drove to the station then started and finished there. I enjoyed my trip on the train. Where we had pitched our tent we was sitting outside and heard a train looked through the bush and you could see the train going past at the bottom of the field I love Yorkshire and had said that if I had failed my driving instructors exams last year I would have sold up and moved to Yorkshire but that not to be as you know I did pass so now live 5 miles south of Gatwick. Hope you not mind Steve I have posted the link for the photo board that you found me for Sarah to look at over on the other forum. |
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Post by Steve on Apr 5, 2004 17:12:49 GMT -5
That's a little coincidence Sandra - I was on jury duty directly following the Easter break last year. I've been called up for jury duty four times now, but I've never actually been selected yet.
That would have been the journey from Grosmont to Pickering and back again eh. I've watched the trains down there often enough but I've never been on one.
I was in Goathland in the summer of 2000 and they were having a Thomas the Tank Engine Day. They had one of the engines decked out as Thomas and you could hardly move in Goathland because there were so many people - same through in Grosmont too. The kiddies were all loving it of course, and the weather was superb so that helped. I don't normally like having crowds of people around, but there was a nice atmosphere that day. My favourite engine is the Sir Nigel Gresley, it's sort of greyish blue and it's very elegant - well for a big steam engine it has elegance, if you know what I mean. I should probably take a camera with me too, but I never do.
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Post by Sandra on Apr 6, 2004 3:45:08 GMT -5
Yeah Steve take your camera with you - I dont go anywhere (well apart to work) with out my Camera. Talking off work I best go get my arse into gear and go got a pupil with test today (hope she passes but don't hold out much hope unfortunatly) I'll change my picture this evening and you can tell me if the picture of a train I have got is the one that you like. Sandra |
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Post by sootycat on Apr 11, 2004 6:08:40 GMT -5
 This for you Steve ;D |
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Post by Sandra on Apr 11, 2004 7:45:51 GMT -5
This for you Steve ;D Thats cool - I bet Steve likes it |
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Post by sootycat on Apr 11, 2004 10:10:50 GMT -5
 I have just worked out how to do these ;D |
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Post by Steve on Apr 11, 2004 15:52:14 GMT -5
Thank you kindly, Sootycat. That's making me feel a bit peckish, hehe. You're becoming a dab hand at all this tech stuff now eh.
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Post by Sandra on Apr 11, 2004 16:38:56 GMT -5
I wont go there and ask how it done - not after all the probs with getting my pics on a web site.
Oh and saying that I not changed my picture - will do it now and you can tell me if it the train that you like Steve.
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Post by Steve on Apr 11, 2004 17:11:48 GMT -5
Hi Sandra, you had the weather on your side that day and no mistake eh. Having said that, I like the moors in any kind of weather.
No, that isn't the Sir Nigel Gresley. Hold on let me find a photo. Okay here's one and that is the Sir Nigel on the right, with a more conventional engine on the left. It's a bit like putting an e-type Jag beside a Ford Anglia. The Sir Nigel is all sleek and streamlined and thoroughly elegant. I like that engine. I've seen it a few times through in Grosmont. Oh dear, now I'll start pining for the moors again.
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Post by Sandra on Apr 11, 2004 18:19:14 GMT -5
Oh right I not see that train when I was in Yorkshire. Yeah as I said we had really good weather. What I like about the train pic (without sounding big headed) is the 3 lots of different steam coming out from the engine. I have a pic of the Moors as well will look that one out - oh sorry Steve just realised that posting the pics is making you pine for the Moors sorry  |
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Post by sootycat on Apr 12, 2004 8:24:29 GMT -5
Thank you kindly, Sootycat. That's making me feel a bit peckish, hehe. You're becoming a dab hand at all this tech stuff now eh. Can do some of it. Not able to post pictures though |
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Post by Steve on Apr 12, 2004 14:00:13 GMT -5
I assume you mean you can't post pictures on here? Well it's just exactly the same as posting an animated gif (cartoon) so if you can do one then you can do the other.
If you see a picture that you want to post on here, just right-click on it and then select Properties and then copy the address, which is http://etc. Then you just insert the link to the picture, the same way that you insert the link to the animations.
Sometimes it won't work just because the host site objects to remote-linking, but mostly it works ok.
Hmmm, I'm sure you know all that already, so maybe you mean posting pictures of your own on here? Well that's just a matter of opening a freebie storage account, then uploading pictures to it, and then linking across to it. Sandra and The_Royal_Rocks and I are all using Photobucket, and so far it seems to work just fine.
Link: www.photobucket.com
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Post by sootycat on Apr 14, 2004 5:16:51 GMT -5
Thanks Steve, it was own photos I meant. Do you have to have a digital camera or anything ( We'll be paying you commision soon for all your advice )
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Post by Steve on Apr 14, 2004 19:34:46 GMT -5
A digital camera would be one way of doing it - just connect the camera to the computer and (using the lead and the software provided) transfer the images directly from the camera onto your computer.
A conventional (film) camera has no means of directly tranferring images to the computer, but you can still transfer photos by putting them (the photos) into a scanner and transferring them that way.
If you don't have a scanner, but know somebody who does, then they can scan them for you and then save the files to floppy disk or cd and that's another means of getting them onto your computer.
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Post by KateLovesDennis on Apr 15, 2004 14:41:49 GMT -5
Oh right I not see that train when I was in Yorkshire. Yeah as I said we had really good weather. What I like about the train pic (without sounding big headed) is the 3 lots of different steam coming out from the engine. Just for your info, The Nigel Gresley spent last summer in the engine shed at Grosmont having its regular strip down and checkup so it can get its certificate or what ever the steam engine equivelent of an MOT is called. I hope this doesn't upset Steve but the engine was totally unrecognisable when I last saw it, there was a big sign saying "View the The Nigel Gresley" and we trailed up the steps to look at it, they had it in a million (and I am not joking) bits, the pretty blue pannels were all stacked up, the wheels were outside and the men were working on the boiler, which is an ugly metal cylinder with lots of pipes. If it didn't tell you which train it was you would never have worked it out! I hope they have put it all back together by now and I hope its back on the rails for the summer. I did see it's sister train "Mallard" last Sunday when we were at the National Railway Museum in York. |
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