Roygraham Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Funny you should say that Roy, as I've got photos somewhere of them being refurbished ... my Dad and a mate took them around 1978-9 when they were on a WR & BCR mission! I guess it may well have been some of your family they bumped into / asked permission?! What a small world! Not my family, they wre/were mainly Copshaw, Riccarton, Hawick. My wife's family but still, small world as you say. roygraham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steele Road Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Apologies if this has already been mentioned elsewhere but I see that a new book on the Border Counties line is due for publication in a few weeks time. http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Hexham-Hawick-Roger-Darsley/9781908174086 It is part of the series that has already covered Carlisle to Hawick and Hexham to Carlisle. Personally, I hope the book includes some previously unseen pictures. One for the Christmas list? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roygraham Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Apologies if this has already been mentioned elsewhere but I see that a new book on the Border Counties line is due for publication in a few weeks time. http://www.bookdepos...y/9781908174086 It is part of the series that has already covered Carlisle to Hawick and Hexham to Carlisle. Personally, I hope the book includes some previously unseen pictures. One for the Christmas list? Yes, it does include some Previously unpublished photos but still no picture of Plashetts S.B. or Howford E.S. roygraham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roygraham Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Does anybody else remember this? roygraham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 That's quite some grade! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 24, 2011 Author Share Posted November 24, 2011 Oh wow, if that's where I think it is, then there's no way Google Earth or Old Maps can do it justice. I'll need to reach for some resource with serious contours in. There's also a uniqueness about that landscape which speaks volumes about socio-industrial history. Breathtaking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 It's quite striking from the other direction as well: http://sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_image.asp?digital_doc_id=4644 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Surely that's not the BCR main line, how could a loco and coaches handle that? Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 It's Slater's Incline, Plashetts ... more gen here: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Plashetts_Colliery_Waggonway/frame.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 24, 2011 Author Share Posted November 24, 2011 Hehehehe, sorry Dave, I should've clarified that! Spent ages on Old Maps the other week looking at the mining lines, after Disused Stations' gen landed, quite ambitious schemes fed the BCR hereabouts, and there are remains worthy of exploration IIRC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roygraham Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 It's quite striking from the other direction as well: http://sine.ncl.ac.u...tal_doc_id=4644 Yes, it is but you don't remember it surely. Because of the curve this was taken about half way up to Slaters Pit and A good mile from Seldom Seen pit which was served by 2ft gauge trains only. roygraham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Yes, it is but you don't remember it surely. I know I'm balding and sometimes feel as though I'm getting rather old & wrinkly but no, I don't ... and I definitely don't remember it like this either: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roygraham Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I know I'm balding and sometimes feel as though I'm getting rather old & wrinkly but no, I don't ... and I definitely don't remember it like this either: No, there's not many of us left. roygraham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roygraham Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Remains of the Brick Works at Plashetts in1962. roygraham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 Reedsmouth from the signal box: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=36819 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 Thorneyburn five years ago. Amazing how little appears to have changed in the intervening half-century since closure. http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=38167 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 What Motive power would have been seen on the BCR from about 1945-51? Just layout research. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 What Motive power would have been seen on the BCR from about 1945-51? Just layout research. I can do numbers but I need to check against dates and appropriate classes and home sheds. I'm fairly sure the standard works are a decent starting point, which may provide pictorial evidence of certain locos from which we can then extrapolate. I won't have access to the texts until much later, but once I have I'll happily do a wee bit teccy work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thank you Chard, what are the standard works? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Stewart Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 What Motive power would have been seen on the BCR from about 1945-51? Just layout research. There is a good selection of pictures in Neil Caplan's Border Country Branchline album, mostly final days but it will give the overall impression of motive power on the route and in the area.The book can be picked up second hand for less than £10. Colin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Ian Futers wrote several articles on the border branches way way back. He also wrote a letter to one of the mags with a list of locos known to have worked the line. His email address should be fairly easy to find. I would suggest you contact him or find the mags. I will try to look up various lists that I have over the weekend. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fegguk Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Neil caplans Border counties branchline book photo graphically records Scott Class D30 62422 62425 J21 65110 65090 65042 65061 J39 64705 K1 62023 62022 V3 67687 Std 3MT 77011 Std 4MT 2-6-0 76049 76046 J27 and D49 recorded elsewhere Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 D49/2s 62747 'The Percy' and 62771 'The Rufford' were also regulars on the line. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Those all sound right up my alley. Ta to all Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Most of the locos quoted so far only appear right at the end of your period. In the first few post war years it would seem that a large proportion of the services were hauled by D30 and J36 locos. Photos from this period are not so common as in later years. Hawick locos were subsheded at Riccarton Junction for the BCR services. 1950 allocation at Hawick. D30 62417 62420 62422 62423 62425 62428 62432 62440 Now where have I come across that number ! J36 65232 65242 65259 65279 65317 65340 Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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