Loco sheds and other railway buildings...
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Venisonpie said:
Further South there's the odd track arrangement at Souldrop where 2 lines run through a cutting and 2 run through an adjacent tunnel.
Is that the Wymington Deviation? I was curious about that, apparently it was originally built to reduce the gradient for goods trains.
ralphrj said:
Venisonpie said:
Further South there's the odd track arrangement at Souldrop where 2 lines run through a cutting and 2 run through an adjacent tunnel.
Is that the Wymington Deviation? I was curious about that, apparently it was originally built to reduce the gradient for goods trains.Venisonpie said:
I think you can from Leeds too. Last year I got on a new Azuma for London and it headed north, at first I thought they must have programmed it incorrectly but it took a circuitous route to the East Coast mainline and ended up heading South albeit back to front.
You can also from both Edinburgh Waverley and Haymarket.Dr Jekyll said:
Tyre Smoke said:
You should do Devon too. The number of towns and villages with a "Station Road" and no railway any more...
Thanks Richard Beecham.
Beeching. I heard of at least one former Station road (somewhere near Bolton I think) now called Beeching close.Thanks Richard Beecham.
Looking for something else on youtube earlier I came across this old favourite, the Blue Pullman run from Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill.... road learning made easy.... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ-NOmN3TkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ-NOmN3TkE
This stuff is all a bit modern for me 
You might be interested to read about our ongoing project to restore and conserve Boston Lodge works on the Ffestiniog Railway.
https://nlhfproject.festrail.co.uk/
Boston Lodge is the world's oldest railway workshop, and the only one to have built locomotives in three different centuries.
Hope you find it interesting!
You might be interested to read about our ongoing project to restore and conserve Boston Lodge works on the Ffestiniog Railway.
https://nlhfproject.festrail.co.uk/
Boston Lodge is the world's oldest railway workshop, and the only one to have built locomotives in three different centuries.
Hope you find it interesting!
Gareth1974 said:
I’ll have a lot of pictures to upload to this thread, so here’s a start, Saltley Power Signal Box, where I started my career on the railways in 1990.
Centre of the known universe according to two of my old guvnors who both started at SY as secondmen in the '70s! Post as much as you like Gareth Some local stuff to me - Rugby Midland in the late '50s with the route to Brum and the North West at the top of the pic and the old Midland Counties line to Leicester branching off top right, bottom right of the pic is part of the loco shed which had twenty five roads.... at one time it was possible to depart from the town in nine different directions by train....
A Class 40 / EE Type 4 hauled southbound passenger working has failed in the up platform and is being assisted by another 40 in 1965....
One of the local 08s at Bilton Sidings on the remains of the Leamington branch in the late '70s, the line off to the right went into Rugby Portland Cement Works and was the scene of my first incident in 1982, I'd called the driver on with a handsignal before the level crossing gates had been opened just round the corner and he propelled a rake of coal wagons right through them, not my best day on the railway....!
The 1965 built power box at Rugby taken in 2010 during the massive remodelling project when it was decommissioned....
Tyre Smoke said:
St David's being the only station in the UK where trains depart for London in opposite directions, North for (GWR) Paddington and South for (Southern) Waterloo.
Wasn't it similar at Plymouth North Road - depart west for Okehampton, Exeter and Waterloo on the SR (probably behind a West Country Pacific) and east for Newton Abbot, Exeter and Paddington on the GWR (hopefully behind a King) ?
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I love these old pictures. Here's an example of how things change, but are still recognisable after a century.
The railway bridge over Sackville Street in Manchester - Sackville Street, London & North Western Railway Company Bridge, south elevation. Photo taken in 1909.
And the StreetView in 2019.
SD.
The railway bridge over Sackville Street in Manchester - Sackville Street, London & North Western Railway Company Bridge, south elevation. Photo taken in 1909.
And the StreetView in 2019.
SD.
Incredible contrast there Phil between 92220 and the AC 'leckies
More Rugby area bits 'n' bobs - the last train on what was left of the Great Central line awaits departure back north to Nottingham Victoria at Rugby Central on 3rd May 1969, the line had already been truncated just south of the station in 1966....
Rugby PSB's territory when opened in 1965, the line to Leicester isn't shown as it closed in '62 and the GCR line passing over the top at the south end is also missing from the diagram....
A Class 85 sits in the old platform 8 bay c.1980 with an assorted rake of parcels vans, at weekends the bays at both ends of the station would often be full of 25s and AC electrics around this time....
The last remnants of the GC 'Birdcage' bridge were removed and cut up on site over the Christmas 2006 period, I was on a couple of the ballast jobs that week so grabbed some photos before it was too late. Decades before this my dad and his mates used to play chicken on the bridge as kids, daring each other to run the full length of it before a train appeared....
The very last Rugby - Peterborough train calls at Lilbourne, the second station out of Rugby in June 1966 with Sulzer Type 2 D5036 up front....
BR corporate image in February '67, beyond as an AM10 / Class 310 unit in the up carriage sidings....
Apologies for the crap quality - the prototype Deltic heading north out of Rugby at Newbold troughs c.1955/56....
85 014 awaiting relief on the Up Goods in November '84....
D224 on an up express on 29th March 1965, taken by Bill Wright who was quite a prolific photographer in this period....
Another of Bill's shots taken on the same day, photos of diesels on Rugby shed are quite rare....
Another 1965 shot with one of the later batch of EE Type 4s on shed, with the new AC electrics taking over the mainline work the Type 4s were often used on three coach locals on the Market Harborough line until it closed in June '66....
More Rugby area bits 'n' bobs - the last train on what was left of the Great Central line awaits departure back north to Nottingham Victoria at Rugby Central on 3rd May 1969, the line had already been truncated just south of the station in 1966....
Rugby PSB's territory when opened in 1965, the line to Leicester isn't shown as it closed in '62 and the GCR line passing over the top at the south end is also missing from the diagram....
A Class 85 sits in the old platform 8 bay c.1980 with an assorted rake of parcels vans, at weekends the bays at both ends of the station would often be full of 25s and AC electrics around this time....
The last remnants of the GC 'Birdcage' bridge were removed and cut up on site over the Christmas 2006 period, I was on a couple of the ballast jobs that week so grabbed some photos before it was too late. Decades before this my dad and his mates used to play chicken on the bridge as kids, daring each other to run the full length of it before a train appeared....
The very last Rugby - Peterborough train calls at Lilbourne, the second station out of Rugby in June 1966 with Sulzer Type 2 D5036 up front....
BR corporate image in February '67, beyond as an AM10 / Class 310 unit in the up carriage sidings....
Apologies for the crap quality - the prototype Deltic heading north out of Rugby at Newbold troughs c.1955/56....
85 014 awaiting relief on the Up Goods in November '84....
D224 on an up express on 29th March 1965, taken by Bill Wright who was quite a prolific photographer in this period....
Another of Bill's shots taken on the same day, photos of diesels on Rugby shed are quite rare....
Another 1965 shot with one of the later batch of EE Type 4s on shed, with the new AC electrics taking over the mainline work the Type 4s were often used on three coach locals on the Market Harborough line until it closed in June '66....
Hi P5BNij
That GCR May last departure I saw arrive back in Leicester Central!
Earlier, in March, there was the meeting in the waiting room to effectively found the MLPG (Main Line Preservation Group) which became the MLST (Main Line Steam Trust) and then the preserved Great Central Railway.
And of course we still have the Loughborough engine shed which, hopefully, will still have escorted "Shed Tours" when allowed.....
Taken in 2018
That GCR May last departure I saw arrive back in Leicester Central!
Earlier, in March, there was the meeting in the waiting room to effectively found the MLPG (Main Line Preservation Group) which became the MLST (Main Line Steam Trust) and then the preserved Great Central Railway.
And of course we still have the Loughborough engine shed which, hopefully, will still have escorted "Shed Tours" when allowed.....
Taken in 2018
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