MR Chuffer

Just reminding you of this excellent post by @Poggy1165 when I opined about "An MR goods train originating from Liverpool - but where from?", might add to our sum of knowledge..

Hold on, that's a little harsh isn't it? Perhaps on reflection, no.....

Oh, and for railway interest, completed in 1850 by the LYR, but which later provided access for the MR north from Manchester and Liverpool Exchange via Blackburn to the Settle and Carlisle via Hellifield and on to Scotland.

Longest viaduct in Lancashire, 7m bricks, 3 deaths during construction. The ornate arches in the first picture framing the Abbey Northwest gate here were specified by the landowner to complement the 14th century monument. Whalley itself has to be seen to experience it, founded in 790, a gem.

I get that but why commission a wagon with twin end doors hinged at the top if not to carry coal/minerals. I have one and it's always puzzled me. Diagram 63,10T Fruit wagon, side and end doors, 1310 built from 1904 until 1910....

Or perhaps coke? The Roberts Davy coke wagon below is common across the internet but looking at the NLS maps of your location, I couldn't identify where they might have sidings unless they delivered direct to the lime kiln. Or is the company/wagon fictitious?

An observation, it is downloadable for free but "Plantin is a Transitional serif typeface originally designed by Fritz Stelzer and Frank Hinman Pierpont in 1913..." So what came before that?

Thanks. @Compound2632, for clarifying

Looked the picture up out of interest and its showing split spoke wheels? I thought the GW, along with the Midland, was a predominately solid spoke wagon operator

@4630 post following mine sums up what my friend told me about this service.

I believe, according to a more knowledgeable friend, this did and still runs. I can get more details if you want if he's in the pub tomorrow night.

2 wrongs make a right?!!! Or Rule 1....

Has no one picked up that Tony Archer has an extensive model railway of Hollerton Junction in the loft? So it must be real! There were a few episodes where he quibbled about his birthday present, he just wanted another loco but others couldn't/wouldn't understand. See here for a reference.

There were 2 wooden station buildings at Glenfield and Ratby on the 1832 Leicester and Swannington line, later the oldest part of the Midland Railway when it was absorbed into the Midland Railway in 1847. Both these buildings were built to the same design by different Midland contractors, Ratby in 1873 and Glenfield in 1875, and both were probably not expected to have much passenger throughput (and didn't!), hence the wooden structures. There are plenty of images on the Internet.

A little lumpy on small radius Peco code 75 points - may be my track laying - and noisy but what do you expect from a model that old. It runs a 12 wagon goods train into and out of Barsden every day. Looking forward to repainting when the weather is better and I have the MR crests and numbers to improve it's looks. Those outside frame coupling rods are quite something when they thrash round. Cheers

Tried to have a word with you on Saturday, I bought a K's Kirtley 0-6-0 off you before Christmas, but you were a very popular person. And the show was great too!

Quite, but the stock did have horizontal bars across the windows to prevent heads and limbs protruding whilst approaching Glenfield Tunnel. There is a photo somewhere of the explicit "special" stock newly outshopped at Derby clearly showing the bars which I cannot locate currently.

I was minded to do it 40+ years in Midland guise, I lived not too far away, but then lost the model railway bug. Now located in East Lancashire but I still have some Leicestershire PO coal wagons that demonstrate good eyesight and the steady hand of younger years. Search the internet for Leicester West Bridge and you'll find lots of photos and materials to stimulate your interest, very modellable...

My HN Twells book has this photo of the old West Bridge station cropped to the building and the wagon next to it reproduced to A4 size, which is what duped me as I thought it was another photo. Reason for passenger services ceasing in 1928 could also include the 6-7 mile branch being 1 engine in steam and therefore interfering with the substantial coal traffic to the wharves there, which continued until April 1966. And also, the station was in a poor place for passenger access having been located there for offloading coal onto the Grand Union Canal, passengers were an afterthought and the main passenger services being through Leicester London Road were far more convenient. Though the Great Central was later to build its Leicester Central station close by the West Bridge terminus and which was equally inconvenient for the majority of Leicester citizens/travellers.

The Leicester - Burton book here, lots of large format photos, principally goods wagon-oriented because that's what the line was throughout its existence. And, of course, the oldest part of the Midland Railway. And Twells was a noted railway historian in my time in the earliest days of the Midland Railway Centre.

Ah, apologies, as I wrote it I had an aching feeling I'd seen it somewhere else.... It was a full A4 photo which made it jump out at me.

There is a 3/4 end on view of what looks like an ancient Midland covered wagon on page 5 of A Pictorial Record of the Leicester and Burton Branch Railway by H.N.Twells. Caption says "The original Leicester & Swannington Railway office with an early covered wagon beyond", dated 13 March 1893. Don't know if the photo is on the internet anywhere.

I was minded to look up Longridge in Disused Stations, where near the end in the section After Closure to Passenger Services, it details the complexities of a January 1936 farm move and wagon loadings.

No one who ever sees or will see my layout will know that, they'll just marvel at its traction engine or farm implement load....

I have one, it appears a direct match to Plate 308 in Midland Wagons vol. 2, 31562 of lot 43. I bought it online but suspect it's a little wider than scale and also a tad shorter but in a mixed train, you can't really tell.