RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 24, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2014 Are you sure its not the one at Shenfield? On a similar theme there is a row of vans at Willesden that haven't moved for decades. Now heavily covered in graffiti and with shrubs growing through them: http://goo.gl/maps/A613Q You can see them on the left on the way into Euston. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 24, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2014 I think one reason signs such as Piccadily Railway, District Railway, Southern etc. still persist and haven't been expunged is that they are not so different as the later naming - Piccadily Line, Southern Region etc. and were unlikely to cause confusion. Some of the other companies not incorporated into later line names are pretty rare to find. (City and South London Railway anybody?) Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Yes you are right long time since I travelled so I got me stations mixed up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2014 Anybody spotted this in Waterloo Station? Keith 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Anybody spotted this in Waterloo Station? waterloo.jpg waterloo2.jpg Keith Pretty sure they featured in an episode of "The Train now Departing". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) Are you sure its not the one at Shenfield? I understand the Shenfield Shark was removed last weekend. It was jacked up on skates and I think it was taken to Chelmsford for removal by road, no doubt from the old Royal Mail siding. Its destination was the Epping Ongar Railway. Edited October 28, 2014 by Baby Deltic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Another landmark gone! Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Another landmark gone! Best, Pete. Crossrail apparently need every inch of siding space at Shenfield so the shark had to go. Happily its been preserved now, and should be restored in due course. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cold-ash Posted October 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2014 Pretty sure they featured in an episode of "The Train now Departing". It did. Bizarrely I watched it on iplayer only the other day. Think it was the one where the guy takes a dissapoonting trip to Exmouth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted October 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2014 Bucks is a bit optimistic, isn't it? (top photo, post 107) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted October 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2014 Those two BR Blue vans. one GUV and one CCT are still lurking at Oxford Station. Saw them the other day in exactly the same position I saw them in when I last visited twenty or more years ago. I think the station has been rebuilt at least once if not twice around them! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2014 There was a coach at Barking for many years, they even built a roadbridge over it. I do believe that the only way to remove it was to cut it up on site. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted October 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2014 "Bucks is a bit optimistic, isn't it? (top photo, post 107)" Eton village (and of Course Eton College) was formerly in Bucks and served by the LSWR station Windsor & Eton Riverside. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Crossrail apparently need every inch of siding space at Shenfield so the shark had to go. Happily its been preserved now, and should be restored in due course. Now all we need is for all the GWR stuff to be sold from Ongar...... I’m assuming that they still have it? Not that I dislike the GWR it just does not belong there. Best, Pete. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev_Lewis Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I hope this is okay, but Big Jim posted a photo on his "down by the tracks with Colas" thread which gives a nice update on his photo from post #36. The rediscovered Great Western sign at High Wycombe. Jim's caption: "Nice to see they have tidied up the sign that was discovered under an advertising hoarding a few years back, they have added the words 'formerly' to it so as not to confuse non locals!!" 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted January 19, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2015 I took this sometime in May this year. I'm not giving any clues as to where I took it. photo (2)_Post.jpg Now behind hoarding. Is the sign likely to be there when the hoarding comes down? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cold-ash Posted January 25, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2015 I saw these under a bridge on a recent walk in Hampshire. It's an old track bed that's now a right of way. I think they might for telegraph wires, but I'm happy to be corrected! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 There was something similar underneath the north end of Waterloo Bridge in London until recently, it may still be there. It was actually the support for a hanging sign, concerning the Embankment tramway turning across the road to enter the southern portal of the Kingsway tram subway. I must have a look to see if it still exists next time I'm working that way. Stewart 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 An NSE car stop sign at Burnham Bucks however it might well have gone by now as the GWML electrification work progresses. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cold-ash Posted January 25, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2015 Another day, another disused track bed walk. This time near Cricklade on the old M&SWJR. Now this one might require a 'magic eye' sort of look, but in there somewhere is a ballast bin! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25, 2015 An NSE car stop sign at Burnham Bucks however it might well have gone by now as the GWML electrification work progresses. There are loads of them on the chiltern network, particularly on the london underground part of the MET All the messroom signs in marylebone are NSE branded too, dont know if i've posted them in this thread but i've put them somewhere on rmweb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Not particularly old, but topical in light of events this week. Seen at Waverley a year or so ago. Seen on Monday, how many of these BR standard station lamps are still to be found? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 (edited) Anybody spotted this in Waterloo Station? waterloo.jpg waterloo2.jpg Keith Ah the memories - in the late 80's, I worked for while in the office behind that window (Room 159 ISTR). One of the tiny individual windows actually opens - enabling me to check which 50's were on the Exeters' during the day and to pop out for a end of platform photo............... The internal layout of the General Offices have changed out of all recognition since those days - all open plan and grey. EDIT: Also watched the demolishing of old yard & station buildings and the creation of a massive hole opposite into which the WIT was built though by then I'd moved to the less frenetic environs of Fraggle Rock (always loved that nickname). Edited March 5, 2015 by Southernman46 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 5, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5, 2015 Ah the memories - in the late 80's, I worked for while in the office behind that window (Room 159 ISTR). One of the tiny individual windows actually opens - enabling me to check which 50's were on the Exeters' during the day and to pop out for a end of platform photo............... The internal layout of the General Offices have changed out of all recognition since those days - all open plan and grey. They were even more 'open plan' when the conversion work was underway. For some peculiar reason it was necessary to go into them to get your security pass for Fraggle Rock (Friars Bridge Court) and at least part of the access involved walking along a temporary walking route a couple of scaffolding planks wide. Definitely an improvement when the 'all grey' finished version emerged although the bit where I was also had private offices as well as open plan areas one side suited the 'plane spotters while my office looked out over part of the concourse on the (LSWR) railway side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david12345 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 (edited) Seen this lying in a scrapyard in Glasgow. It's travelled some distance to where it used to stand. There were a few more but couldn't make out the names. edit to add photo which had vanished. Edited March 17, 2015 by david12345 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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