Loco sheds and other railway buildings...

[Flying Phil]

[quote=P5BNij]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....



By way of a reality check I took this photograph in 2019! A bit further up the GCR at Rothley......

[P5BNij]

mcdjl said:

P5BNij said:

I relieve my mate on it at Battersea in the morning then take that portion up to Wembley where loads of faffing about will ensue to join it up with another portion which comes from Paddington New Yard. Once it’s all nailed together I then take it up the WCML to Bletchley and across the branch to Bedford where I get relief. All in, it’ll be about 4,000 tons when both portions are joined together.

A way short of me then! I'm within a few hundred yards of the Great Central Railway where British gypsum have their east leake mine/branch which then links to the midland mainline a few miles away- though due to a bridge loosing masonry that may not be running right now.

Swithland / Mountsorrel area...?

[mcdjl]

P5BNij said:

Swithland / Mountsorrel area...?

Other side of Loughborough, East leake. Though the 'station' is rushcliff halt.

[bristolracer]

Flying Phil said:

Some sheds were quite small!

A USA tank engine in Okehampton July 1966.

Is that Meldon Quarry?

[Dr Jekyll]

The old station and engine shed at High Wycombe. Brunel era and basically in the car park of the current station, ceased to be a station in 1864 but being restored.

[Drooles]

This is a great thread! I’ve loved looking at all the pictures.

I’m no expert on anything railway related but you guys might find this picture interesting. Must have been taken around 4-5 years ago as I replaced the XE in 2017. Darlington, North Road Station

[Drooles]

And a more recent one of the old engine shed.

Edited for typo

Edited by Drooles on Thursday 18th March 16:22

[Flying Phil]

bristolracer said:

Flying Phil said:

Some sheds were quite small!

A USA tank engine in Okehampton July 1966.

Is that Meldon Quarry?

I think so, it was a quick photograph from a train window.

[anonymous-user]

My local viaduct was attached by two Messerschmitts, the bullet holes are still there as was one bomb crater nearby. The second dropped a bomb on the station which hit the ground under the entrance arch, bounced up and exploded in the air causing very little damage.

As you were.

[legzr1]

Drooles said:

This is a great thread! I’ve loved looking at all the pictures.

I’m no expert on anything railway related but you guys might find this picture interesting. Must have been taken around 4-5 years ago as I replaced the XE in 2017. Darlington, North Road Station

32 years on the footplate and I didn’t even know that place existed until bringing the 800 trial trains out of Hitachi recently !

[Drooles]

legzr1 said:

Drooles said:

This is a great thread! I’ve loved looking at all the pictures.

I’m no expert on anything railway related but you guys might find this picture interesting. Must have been taken around 4-5 years ago as I replaced the XE in 2017. Darlington, North Road Station

32 years on the footplate and I didn’t even know that place existed until bringing the 800 trial trains out of Hitachi recently !

It’s on the original Darlington to Stockton line but it’s not the very first station - it was built 1842 a few years after the first passenger train. Happy to be corrected, but that’s my understanding

[P5BNij]

Old railway stations can make fantastic homes, not that long ago we looked at buying Dunchurch station on the Rugby - Leamington line when it came up for sale again but after some serious number crunching realised we just couldn’t push things that far. Pity really as it came with a huge garage / workshop that was built in the old goods yard. Would have been a nice family connection too as my great uncle Harry worked there in LMS days.

On my route card there are several old stations which are now private homes still on open mainlines, albeit fenced off - Great Glen, Kibworth Beauchamp, Desborough, Glendon & Rushden, Burton Latimer and Irchester on the Midland Mainline, plus Desford station on the Knighton Junction - Coalville line. There are also a fare number of old goods sheds surviving on the Midland. At the south end of Northampton’s up sidings right next to Spencer Road bridge there’s an LMS water tower which has somehow escaped the reaper.

[RyanOPlasty]

Drooles said:

And a more recent one of the old engine shed.

Edited for typo

Edited by Drooles on Thursday 18th March 16:22

This building was originally the S&D carriage works, but more recently has been the "New" Darlington locomotive works. Tornado was built there and 2007 is currently under construction. Closed to visitors at present as you would expect, but there is a virtual tour here

[Tyre Smoke]

Most days I drive past Umberleigh Station on the Exeter-Barnstaple branch line. Despite the station being very much still in use, the old GWR station master's house, waiting room, etc ate still there but seem to be in private ownership now. I'll try and get some pics when I'm passing.

There is also the old station and cattle sheds at Brushford on the Dulverton to Morebath line in private ownership. Platform has been 'modified' into a garden terrace since the line was lifted in the 60s. But is still unmistakable as a station building.

[mcdjl]

P5BNij said:

Great story, love it! Sadly I’ve never worked over the East Lancs but have travelled on it a few times. Stories like that were the folk lore of many a mess room in BR days. One of our now retired drivers wrote a really good book called ‘Life On The Leicester Line’ about his time as a secondman based at Coalville, there are some good funny tales in that. Back in 1980 my great uncle wrote one, ‘Country Station Life’ about his time with the LNWR and LMS at Rugby and the various lines radiating from it to Market Harborough, Leicester and Leamington Spa.

I’m on an unusual job tomorrow, working a special ‘jumbo’ test train out of Wembley Yard with a 70, a 66 and two sets of wagons, it’ll be my first time driving a 70 on my own.....

Google suggests I read. https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2021/03/watch-heavies...

Going back to 08 shunters I saw one at Derby yesterday.

[Venisonpie]

mcdjl said:

Google suggests I read. https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2021/03/watch-heavies...

Going back to 08 shunters I saw one at Derby yesterday.

3,800 tonnes - I imagine that takes some stopping..

[Drooles]

RyanOPlasty said:

Drooles said:

And a more recent one of the old engine shed.

Edited for typo

Edited by Drooles on Thursday 18th March 16:22

This building was originally the S&D carriage works, but more recently has been the "New" Darlington locomotive works. Tornado was built there and 2007 is currently under construction. Closed to visitors at present as you would expect, but there is a virtual tour here

I saw them bring Tornado out in grey primer years ago, under her own steam. It was a really moving sight!

Thanks for the link - that’s great

Edited by Drooles on Saturday 20th March 09:57

[P5BNij]

Venisonpie said:

mcdjl said:

Google suggests I read. https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2021/03/watch-heavies...

Going back to 08 shunters I saw one at Derby yesterday.

3,800 tonnes - I imagine that takes some stopping..

It would have done yes as it was fully loaded coming south, but when I worked the empties back north it was only just under 1,200 tons. Quite an eventful day too, I had a bit of trouble with the 70 at Wembley when it kept shutting itself down! I relieved it at Stewarts Lane stone terminal earlier, which is officially called 'Engine Shed Sidings' as its the site of the former steam shed....



Another old station now a private home - Theddingworth on the Rugby - Market Harborough line, the signalbox is now a study / office....

[P5BNij]

matchmaker said:

Here's an interior of the original 1956 Cowlairs Panel, taken in the mid 1970's (possibly 1976 - note the shirtless signalman!) The geek standing in the background is yours truly

Just found this....

[matchmaker]

P5BNij said:

matchmaker said:

Here's an interior of the original 1956 Cowlairs Panel, taken in the mid 1970's (possibly 1976 - note the shirtless signalman!) The geek standing in the background is yours truly

Just found this....

I remember that - from Rail News?