[Signal Box Photos]

Greenford box is still in use. West Ruislip box closed in 1990 and has been derelict ever since.

[Signal Box Photos]

The signalling on the Uxbridge branch has been automatic since 1930, which is probably when the blind windows and the adjacent equipment room date from. Ruislip box hasn't been functional for many years, but it is listed along with the station buildings.

[Tintern Building plans/drawings]

10 hours ago, stevel said:

Hi Khris

 

 

this is probably your best bet,

note the station and signalbox are still there as a vsitor centre.

Ian Pope, Bob How and Paul Karau, An Illustrated History of the Severn and Wye Railway: volume one, Wild Swan Publications, Upper Bucklebury, 1983, ISBN 0 906 867 17 7

 

Stephen

 

Erm... Tintern isn't on the Severn and Wye. The book you cite covers the stations at Lydney (Junction and Town), Whitecroft and Parkend.

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3 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

A lovely layout spoiled by the signal box nameboard. Sorry, such things just jump out at me.

Glad it's not just me that notices things like that.

[How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.]

26 minutes ago, jcredfer said:

 

The pictures and references that I have seen, seem to indicate GCR and many others were lower quadrant.  Maybe they altered by the time the 20s and 47s moved in, although I haven't seen any information to lead to that conclusion.

 

Of course they were, and had been altered by the 60s. My point is that those are nice models of upper-quadrant signals which, for whatever reason, are shown drooping well below the horizontal in a situation where a train is passing, giving the impression that something is seriously wrong.

[How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.]

14 hours ago, 43110andyb said:

And 20144 captured earlier arriving from the north!

It would help the illusion if the signals (assuming they are meant to be at 'clear') were set in the upper quadrant that they were designed to move in.

[Signal Box Photos]

On 17/12/2021 at 17:30, Tim V said:

A visit to South Wales, Taff Well 1986.

 

 

That's Walnut Tree Junction

[John Miles]

Nice one! 

[John Miles]

Has he any connection with railways? If not, why is this here?

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On 04/10/2021 at 21:17, Headstock said:

 

Good evening 4069,

 

not completely the case, the Hornby model has the smokebox type fitted to the minority of the class. The majority had the type as represented by Tony's other two models.

 

See link.

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/monthly_11_2012/post-98-0-55738700-1352037973.jpg 294.52 kB · 0 downloads

My apologies- I didn't mean to suggest that any of the O1s had the wrong type of door. The point I was trying to make is that so often the shape of the smokebox door is a weak point in a whitemetal kit. Thick, clumsy-looking doors that do not match the subtle curve of the real thing spoil the face of the loco and stand out like a sore thumb. RTR manufacturers usually, but not always, get this right.

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2 hours ago, Jesse Sim said:

It’s a trick, they’re all Hornby….

 

………Run away…………

As is so often the case, the Hornby is the one with the right shape of smokebox door. On the right.

[Signal Box Photos]

Wem North, according to the Signalling Record Society.

[Signal Box Photos]

6 hours ago, Moxy said:

 

I think that's an LNWR box.

Neither LNWR nor LMS- it's actually BR LMR, having opened in 1948.

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I'm delighted to hear that you were able to rescue that lever description backboard from the water tower, and look forward to hearing more about it.

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13 hours ago, Ian Rathbone said:

The evidence is a works grey photo in Russell’s Locos of the GWR. It shows the lining on the cylinders on a background that is not black. Further examination shows lining around the frame apertures, again on a non-black background. One can only assume that the cylinders and frames were Indian Red. The caveat is whether works grey photos were followed literally in the painting of locos in service. In my opinion the few that were painted prior to 1906 probably had red frames, but not for long.

 

Ian R

I'm not suggesting you are wrong about the frame colour, but surely every Swindon works grey photograph shows light frames and cylinders, even in the era when we know both were black in service?

[When the real thing looks like a model]

10 hours ago, DavidB-AU said:

Sheffield Victoria, 1966. The next 20 seconds of this film.

 

 

That's Sheffield Midland

[Bridge bashing]

41 minutes ago, ColinK said:

Just found a better photo of the bridge bash at Plymouth.  What it looks like to me is that the lorry was just under the maximum height of the bridge. But when it started to climb the steep hill just beyond it, the top of the truck caught the bridge.

 

Going to be an interesting (and profitable) one for the lawyers - ‘the sign says 3.3 metres and my truck is 3.25 metres, so according to the signage I’m OK to pass through’.  If the road has been resurfaced since the signs were errected, the clearance could be less than indicated.  Could change who gets the blame and pays the bills.

 

One of the major bus companies is working with suppliers to devise a system that alerts the driver through their ticket machine if he/she is approaching a low bridge.

No- the lorry is 13'4" high and the bridge is signed at 10' 9". No room for doubt there!

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20 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said:

Just been reminded of this - a scene from 'Man In A Suitcase' that was shot in 1967 but I can't remember where it is, despite having watched the entire series....

 

I'd put (a little) money on Denham Golf Club

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3 hours ago, iands said:

Very nice photo, thanks for sharing. Small turntable far right, was it just for turning wagons or were they only small engines that worked this line - anyone know? 

The 23'6" turntables at Yelverton and Princetown were provided for turning snowploughs. They were too short for the 4400 class locomotives which usually worked the branch.

[New Railway in Derbyshire]

Try this: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSzl0C-qyWY/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

Should work for anyone

[Signal Box Photos]

26 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said:

Bristol Temple Meads....

 

Properly Bristol Old Station, of Midland Railway origin but with a GWR frame since 1908, and closed in 1965

[Prototype for everything corner.]

On 04/08/2021 at 23:02, melmerby said:

I was taken by the stubby little signal arms.

They must be the shortest full height arms going.

I'll raise you Wimbledon

 

 

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I'm glad I took the plunge as it is indeed a very fine book. Nice to see evidence of actual proof-reading, in the correction to the Bath Junction plan date from the pre-publication image posted at the start of this thread. One wonders if that actually cost any sales- it was certainly a close-run thing for me, but the positive things said by people on here tipped the balance.

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2 hours ago, melmerby said:

Did you find your lost Templecombe diagrams in the OPC book?

It's all there in 5 pieces with a small simplified diagram to show you how it all fits together.

Look hard at page 66, upper diagram, right-hand side.

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17 hours ago, Peter Kazmierczak said:

The track plans are identical to those previously published in the OPC Historical Survey book.

The photos shown have also been published before.

 

 

...and in the OPC book the plans were correctly dated!

 

Not impressive.