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| MTA |
I'm hoping to be there, even if it is just to have a look around. It is just a matter of getting there which is the only hurdle really 
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| Titan |
This any help?
JOURNEY SEARCH RESULTS Return Journey from Barnham (BAA) to Leicester (LEI) Outward: Saturday 08 December, 2007 Return: Saturday 08 December, 2007 BAA BAA BAA BAA BAA LEI LEI LEI LEI LEI LEI LEI LEI LEI LEI BAA BAA BAA BAA BAA 08:00 08:11 08:20 08:46 09:00 17:00 17:05 17:30 18:00 18:05 11:34 11:55 12:03 12:23 12:34 20:37 20:51 21:03 21:37 21:54 advance ticket costs £21.00 (Although it will probably go up in Jan) Bring a suitcase full of engines - well cushioned of course! |
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| MTA |
It is indeed a toss up between train travel or National Express at the moment, so I shall research further! |
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| James |
Eee you could have come with me if you lived in Lincolnshire 
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| MTA |
If only, if only 
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| James |
But then you would be a Northerner 
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| MTA |
Why do you think I used the crying emoticon?
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| James |
Cheeky little get!
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| Andy |
best to be a northener, even thow i got realtive down in wales. still rather be from up north. up north were the best steel came from, and also were the best men come from | ||||
| Steely |
Hi everyone, I wonder if you can still remember me lol. Well I'm just popping in to ask if I am allowed to go to STIA on the forum stand this time around because I must admit I havn't been the most loyal member here, but my love for steam is still there and I would love to see you all again in February. Cheers, Steely. xxx | ||||
| Titan |
Well you will certainly be welcome on the railway !! As indeed I'm sure you will be on the stand - the more the merrier!! | ||||
| steamyjim |
Titan can i use the railway pleaaaase
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| James |
LMFAO!
STEELY! IT'S BEEN SOOOO LONG! |
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| Wilescoman_123 |
cant wait !!!!! wilesco d32(if i get it fixed in time ), running fairground rides, a few bings ,and a few mamods ! and many more and my mate the legend poparod ! looking forward to seeing some of james engines ! went this year for the first time how many engines as james got? 
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| Titan |
Everybody who has a loco is welcome to have a run on the railway!! If it looks like it will get busy I may introduce a running roster, but there was no need last year, I think Titan did iro 75% of the running!! |
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| James |
I'll have me Bowman replica! | ||||
| steamyjim |
Ill have County Of Somerset. | ||||
| James |
A Wurzels CD?
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| steamyjim |
Nope my loco
Ill have your Wurzels CD... got my wood
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| James |
Hell yeah
I'll have my County of Lincolnshire 
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| Titan |
Hmm, might have been a bit too general there - any loco that will run on Mamod track can use it - Bowmans flanges might be too deep? Bring it anyway, if it won't run on my layout you can probably blag a run on one of the others if you ask nicely! |
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| James |
It's home built mate, so if the wheels are o'er big I'll get me mate to turn up some more for me 
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| Steely |
Great! Cheers everyone I cant't wait...again. lol. This year I think I'll bring everything I've got as long as there is space on the table.
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| Sandman |
It will be great to see you again Steely. Roll on.
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| Steely |
Cheers Sandy, it's been quite a while. aka exactly one year.
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| Rob |
where abouts is it held? just goodled it an it says abbey pumping station, leiceter, which is just 5 mins from my house. if it is, ill deffo see you all there. could i get an entry in to show off my loco and layout? if not closed.
[url]http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|le44ar#t=r&map=52.66219,-1.12959|15|4&route=DC,-1.12641:52.66882;-1.13050:52.65511,0|le44ar:le45px|LE4%204AR:LE4%205PX[/url] |
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| Steve_S |
Yes, it's at the Abbey Pumping Station, next to the Space Centre. Old and new technologies alongside! | ||||
| Mamodman123 |
Yes its there, if you want to take your layout you best contact Fred Crammond! |
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| Rob |
has anyone got a contact for him? | ||||
| Mamodman123 |
Anyone remember the Bombman 
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| Sandman |
Yep, I do.
Had us all diving for cover.
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| Mamodman123 |
I gave the forum stand a shower
I drowned Steelys 46 SE1
Last years stand although this year it won't have the engines from the guy with the floppy hair
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| Rob |
if i cant get room for my layout, ill bring my rs1 for display if you want? i realy hope to have my threshing drum, elivator and agricultural engine done for it, so will bring them aswel to steam up and show off. | ||||
| Stilldrillin |
http://www.fcrammond.clara.net/ You`re welcome!
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| Rob |
cheers mate. ill print one off and post it. better get cracking on my models then... | ||||
| fcrammond |
I'd just like to remind members that the closing date for applications is 1st January. If you wish to access the site before the public opening time of 1.00 pm you need to be registered as an exhibitor. Otherwise its £2 a head ,no fuel allocation and wait in the queue until 1.00 pm. If you are not on our list of booked in exhibitors you will not be able to wander in on the grounds that you are "with the forum" . Be warned.
Fred PS We've had examples of those rather stolid American engines at STIA for years. They just don't show up much amongst all the real class stuff.
F. |
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| Andy |
what is the date that it is happening | ||||
| fcrammond |
Sunday 3rd February 2008 | ||||
| MTA |
I have decided I will not be going next year, although I will make every effort to be there for 2009 (I should have a car by then!) | ||||
| Mamodman123 |
Got mine yet Fred?
I personally will be looking out for Jensens having never actually touched one
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| tmuir |
When you see a 75 for the first time you will be amazed at how big and solid it is even compared to an se3, I know I was. |
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| johnreid |
Just imagine a 55 then, or for that fact, a 51, those things are HUGE | ||||
| Atticman |
Can anyone advise about SITA.
Ive never been, but fully intend to be there for 2008. The questions I have, especially pressing following Freds posts are 1. How big is the show. 2. My Dad is very much wanting to go too but he is pretty immobile and in need of a wheelchair (we have one) how accessible to wheelchairs is SITA 3. Because of Dad I dont think I can stay for too long- ie Not sure I can justify a display stand. Also even if I had one- For the reasons above and below I wont be able to "man" it for some if not a lot of the time. 4. How "secure" is SITA? I am not into our toys/ hobby for value at all (though its always nice to get a bargain ), but am aware some are of interest to undesirable people who think a burner slipped into a pocket is fair game, and I did read somewhere about someone making off with someone elses engine .
5. I have a few mamods and Bowmans, but not really of any huge note-I was thinking that I could bring a few German engines(say 5 or 6) and the 3 Bowman boats as a minimum, but if I do where can I put them? and will "the forum table" have meths etc. reading this thread there may be one or 2 less items on the forum table for this year! 6 In view of Freds comments re "forum members" etc, whilst I would like to come early both to meet members and have a look round with Dad before it sounds like it gets a scrum, it sounds like unless I have a display table that cant happen I would welcome comments from all |
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| James |
Fred, I'm just sending my application form off now. It might get there a couple of days late (cos of post offices not working over crimbo) but that's alrate.
How do I go about putting a page advert in the programme?? Do I have to pay etc? |
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| Mamodman123 |
Its a big show, you best PM Fred for a few of them but if you bring a few engines then we'll always have some room on our forum stand! From what I remember (which isn't very clear because its me) They do have a wheelchair lift for the beam floor (loco section) But i'm not 100% sure |
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| johnreid |
MM, I thought you would like a size comparison, here is my Jensen 25 and my SE1A side by side to show the difference in size.
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| fcrammond |
A few replies:
In order of arrival A/. Yes James, arrived yesterday. B/. 1. Supercolossal. We usually have around sixty exhibitors and between one and two thousand visitors. 2/. The main site at STIA is wheelchair accessable. There is an electric wheelchair lift into the engine house but there is no wheelchair access to the beam floor where all the railways will be. We have disabled parking on the site but you may need to use the Corporation Road entrance. I will PM you on this when I have checked with the staff. 3/. I am hoping to put some of the Forum people together on an assembly of tables. Perhaps you could join in with mutual benefits for security, wandering off etc. 4/.Only paid up visitors can access the site during the event but we have had problems in the past particularly when it was free entry. There is always going to be a fringe to the hobby that considers "winning" desirable items to be acceptable. The only solution is to keep alert not only on your own behalf but on your fellow exhibitors behalf as well. United we stand. 5/.See above re Forum table. You will only get fuel if you are booked in as an exhibitor. 6/. True. C/. James(II) Adverts need to be with me by 1st Jan. Email will do at a pinch. I prefer jpegs. The rate is 1/4 page £5; 1/2 page £10;full page £15. I am prepared to accept a slightly late application from yourself. No doubt you nodded off whilst counting sheep. (Xmas is acceptable and has a long and distinguished history. Crimbo...........Yuk! ) Hope this helps Fred |
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| James |
O aye o aye o aye alrate then ta
Have a good crimbo
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| fcrammond |
YUK! | ||||
| Mamodman123 |
Wow John thats mighty impressive
Might have to get me one of those
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| tmuir |
I think James find his sheep to exciting to fall asleep counting them.
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| steamyjim |
Me to
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| James |
Well that deserves a history lecture
The term "counting sheep makes you fall asleep" is thought to come from the old Lincolnshire way of counting sheep. Yan (1) Tan (2) Tethera (3) Pethera (4) Pimp (5) Sethera (6) Levera (7) Hovera ( 
Covera (9) Dik (10) Yan-a-dik (11) Tan-a-dik (12) Tethera-dik (13) Pethera-dik (14) Bumfit (15) Yan-a-bumfit (16) Tan-a-bumfit (17) Tethera-bumfit (1
Pethera-bumfit (19) Figgot (20) When you got to Figgot (20), you cut a notch in a stick and started from Yan again. It's the ancient way of counting sheep but it has mostly died out now... It's said to be so smoothly flowing and the way the shepherds kind of used to sing it, could send you to sleep. You can hear it in the song "The Lincolnshire Shepherd". |
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| steamyjim |
AAAAAH I heard about that
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| James |
Off me lad?
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| steamyjim |
No, cant remember where i heard it
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| James |
O aye? | ||||
| steamyjim |
Tell you what it was. There were this programe on Longwalls last year. Thought id better watch it to make are James happy, so i did
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| James |
Ooooh how we built Britain?
There were a bloke called Frank MArtin on it I think... he's the bloke I got 2 of mine from I ain't seen the programme yet! |
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| steamyjim |
Yes i think it was
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| James |
The Humby Flock of Lincoln Longwools
Next time it comes on, tape it for me!! |
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| steamyjim |
If it does I will
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| James |
Cheers lad!
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| fcrammond |
I hadn't realised that the Yan Tan Tethera counting system was used as far south as Lincolnshire. Perhaps a few northern shepherds were imported to show the turnip fanciers how to look after sheep and brought the counting system with them. As it's believed to be basically Celtic in origin it's unlikely the present inhabitants, with their Saxon and Danish roots , would have used it themselves.
F. |
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| ajs |
Like you Fred I didn't know it was used as far south as Lincolnshire. The only reference I can find to it's use in Lincs. is as the chorus of a song written in 1930. In case anyone wants to know more about Yan Tan Tethera here's a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera |
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| MTA |
If you watched the last series of Qi, that is probably where you heard it
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| James |
WTF?
Umm maybe if you lived, worked, was born and bred with farmers and shepherds, go to shows with other Lincoln breeders who know the old tricks of the trade, then you would. It's not the sort of thing many people do now adays! Only the rare shepherd! Most people that keep sheep in Lincolnshire know of it!! You clearly know alot about sheep then, so, come on, how many sheep have you got? What type? Tell us the history of the breed? |
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| fcrammond |
My main contact with the woolly maggots was many years ago in Mid Wales where all the farmers wear welly boots and belted mackintoshes. Nuff said?
Incidentally somewhere in my life i have the biography of a South Downs shepherd and i'm fairly sure it mentions a local version of Yan Tan Tethera. That would be around the end of the last century but one. Must see if i can find it. Fred |
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| James |
But to say that in a county where there was once 400 sheep a mile seems a bit stupid don't it?
A county that mainly the money from the wool trade from Lincoln Longwools built! A mate of my old man, Farmer Wink, he shows his own way of counting sheep (slightly different to mine) in the Nobbut a YellerBelly book. I ain't going to be dragged into and caught up in this petty arguement any longer, which is clearly what is wanted. |
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| MamodFan |
Where's the argument,? I for one have been interested to find out about this interesting way of counting. I think everyone knows that counting sheep makes you fall asleep, but not many will no about this ancient method. |
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| MooseMan |
I know it as Yan, tan, tether, pether, pimp, sether, lever, hother, cother, dek. That's the way it's used in Cumbria...I've got a mate who works for an animal transport firm in Longtown near Carlisle. I was very interested to hear about it, because there's a clear link to the Welsh: Un, dau, tri, pedwar, pump, chwech, saith, wyth, naw, deg Must be that Celtic thang
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| Mamodman123 |
I am officially pulling out of this years STIA | ||||
| Stilldrillin |
I`ll leave me SE3+ at home then!
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| steamyjim |
Why? | ||||
| James |
I think I'm with MM on this one! | ||||
| Stilldrillin |
Woss gooin off?
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| Atticman |
WTF WTF WTF
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| steamyjim |
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| MooseMan |
WTF????? | ||||
| steamyjim |
Moose I might have the Streamlinier ready for STIA if you want me to bring it? | ||||
| MooseMan |
If it's no trouble mate.... |
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| steamyjim |
If i get it finished i shall try
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| MooseMan |
Cool mate! | ||||
| steamyjim |
Aye we need James and MM! | ||||
| tmuir |
Too far for me to come.
Unless you will pay for my airline ticket during peak season, then I'll even bring a couple of scorpion engines.
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| johnreid |
Too far for me too, but now my curiosity is aroused. Surly it isnt due to a sheep counting problem?
I have been enjoying the DVD, looks like a great gathering from what I can see. |
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| MamodFan |
It must be that time of day where everybody falls out over toy steam engines again.
It really is getting a bit tedious with much head banging required. Lets us all enjoy the gathering and more important lets put on a great show for the public and make Fred PROUD of us all. |
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| James |
I've just been talking to a good friend of mine, and I've decided that I WILL be attending the event, regaurdless of some people wishing otherwise!!
Anyways, see you there guys
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| Atticman |
Brilliant- look foreward to it James
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| steamyjim |
Good! | ||||
| James |
Aye mate! Will be good to meet the members I couldn't meet last year!
I'll take me crook
Oh aye, and we'll be taking the stock trailer with me engines in it (they all won't fit in the back of the car with the seats down), so when you see a car with a green and silver Ifor Williams on the back with "The Fieldside Flock of Lincoln Longwools" turn up, with an old yokle in the front, I've turned up
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| Atticman |
Arrrr And when you see someone with pale skin and green hunter wellies tis I from me attic in Gloucestershire | ||||
| James |
LOL!!
They don't make Hunters any more don't they? Might get me mother to do some baking or summat, she's a rate good cook, or get me some LINCOLNSHIRE sausage, and then I'll cook them up on a stove and flog them to members for their snap like
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| Atticman |
Oh yeeh,, not just green ones now. Mind my wellies are black toetector ones - stops me from putting fork into me feet on veg patch .
http://www.wellie-web.co.uk/wa/1/...;gclid=CK_qtuG0y5ACFQPalAod-HliNw Mind I likes the yellow ones best, them Hunters not to get dirty, they more for wearing by the fireplace
I will try to get Glos Old spot sausages for the event, but them not a patch on lincs ones really
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| MooseMan |
Excellent - we all need friends like that!! |
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| James |
Lincs doggage is the best hands down!
Should have a Lincs feast, stuffed chine, haslet, plum bread, *mouth waters* |
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| Atticman |
This sounds like the best SITA ever- now with added Plum bread mmmmm nice (not sure bout haslet though, cant remember what part of what animal its from- tried to forget when i found out)
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| James |
It's just pork, and all that, with herbs and crap. Bloody lovely!
Stuffed chine is from between the shouler blades on a pig, a real Lincolnshire delicacy! |
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| Mamodman123 |
I've decided to go afterall, so I will be at STIA this year
Someone managed to persuade me
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| Roly Williams |
HURRAY!!! |