RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted February 25, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 25, 2018 It's a fascinating photo tht sh I was sent this photo, many years ago, from a friend in a Leeds Forum of some sort. Sorry i have no copyright, or know of one. It's a fascinating photo that shows so much. Obviously the main line railways dominate. It also shows the other roundhouse mentioned above and the ramp up to the high level lines. What t does show is the large number of industrial leads and sidings that supplied industries, probably too many to name however I'll try to name a few. a) At the bottom right of the picture are the sidings that supplied coal to the gas works. The bridge abutments for these still exist with white glazed tiles forming part of the walls to the Inner ring road as well as other signs. b) in the centre at the bottom you can see the first part of a fascinating set of goods yards that occupied the 'island' between the canal, to the right, and the river. These yards connected with several places sometimes via bridges over the river or canal. One lead lead into the Leeds council Highways department via a bridge and the council had a small electric shunting loco to shunt the yard powered from overhead. I believe it ended it's days at the tram scrapyard shunting trams for burning. The system ended up connecting to the Leeds Forge that built al; sorts of vehicles including coaches for Wagon Lits. c) directly above the roundhouses on the other side of the viaduct to Leeds Central is Doncaster's Monk Bridge foundry on both sides of Whitehall road. This was rail served and the part on the far side of Whitehall Road is now a car park and the rails are still visible in the yard. The works were accessed from inside the Holbeck triangle of line via an underbridge though to get down there were IIRC two reversals from the connection which was on the Wellington curve that freights still use to avoid Leeds station. There are of course many more things that could be said about this tangle of lines. Jamie 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 25, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 25, 2018 Old OS map of area: http://maps.nls.uk/view/125642452 Keith 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 this Kitson worked just across the tracks at Monkbridge Iron 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Old OS map of area: http://maps.nls.uk/view/125642452 Keith WOW. Just look at all them wagon turntables , near Leeds Central. Prototype for anything. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Leacon Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 This is at Norbiton station (on the LSWR Kingston Loop), on the Platform 1 subway steps. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted March 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5, 2018 (edited) Old gradient post, presumably LMS rather than MR, on the former Midland line into Bristol TM, about 1/2 mile south of the site of Fishponds station. No trains have passed this post since about 1970.Not sure of what it used to say, but at a guess 1:60 or 1:66 to the right (towards Bristol), and 1:100 to the left. I don't have my book of gradient profiles handy, no doubt someone on here can enlighten us!Edit: though it looks like it's attached to the concrete fence post, it isn't, it's on a piece of T-shaped iron. Edited again:-found my gradient profile book. It would have read 1:81 towards Fishponds, and 1:67 towards Bristol. It certainly feels like that when cycling! Edited March 11, 2018 by rodent279 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted March 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5, 2018 (edited) Not quite ghosts, but these are in Staple Hill tunnel, which I'm sure has its fair share of ghosts!Some pretty spectacular icicles appeared during the early March 2018 cold snap. By the time I visited on the afternoon of Sat 3rd, the best had gone, but there were still some impressive specimens.I'd imagine these could do a fair bit of damage to a passing train if they fell in the right place. Edited March 11, 2018 by rodent279 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Another one from the past at Darlington! Mark Saunders 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted April 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2018 Old gradient post, presumably LMS rather than MR, on the former Midland line into Bristol TM, about 1/2 mile south of the site of Fishponds station. No trains have passed this post since about 1970. Not sure of what it used to say, but at a guess 1:60 or 1:66 to the right (towards Bristol), and 1:100 to the left. I don't have my book of gradient profiles handy, no doubt someone on here can enlighten us! Edit: though it looks like it's attached to the concrete fence post, it isn't, it's on a piece of T-shaped iron. Edited again:-found my gradient profile book. It would have read 1:81 towards Fishponds, and 1:67 towards Bristol. It certainly feels like that when cycling! Comparison with Fig. 2 in Midland Style (HMRS, 1975) confirms this is a Midland (or at least Midland-pattern) gradient sign. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted April 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2018 Hmm. So it's a bit of a relic then? Must be the best part of a century old. Would be nice to see it tarted up and have it's numerals re-instated, but it'd probably get nicked! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted April 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2018 The Midland Railway Study Centre has a drawing but not, as far as I can make out, a physical example. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium amwells Posted April 25, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 25, 2018 With thanks to Big Jim for pointing me to this thread... although more recent history than many items here, an old National Express whoosh logo on the Caledonian Sleeper this morning 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Banger Blue Posted September 10, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2018 Saw this last night but as a passenger in the car, didn’t have time for a photo so have had to track it down on ‘Street View’. Heading into Reading on the A33/A329 I saw this ever so out of date roadsign: 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Saw this last night but as a passenger in the car, didn’t have time for a photo so have had to track it down on ‘Street View’. Heading into Reading on the A33/A329 I saw this ever so out of date roadsign: C4AE0EBF-B0DF-457A-A9CD-388FFEF8CAEC.jpeg Looks rather like the low bridge WASN'T avoided at some time ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted October 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2018 (edited) Top of the ramp at Paddington this afternoon. Edited October 4, 2018 by 96701 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjlf1 Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 This loading ramp seen this morning at Liverpool Street (Not Chesunt as indicated on the ramp). Interesting that the label refers to 'British Railways' - I thought that this was shortened to 'British Rail' in 1965 or thereabouts, and this ramp looks to be more modern than that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Ramp.jpgThis loading ramp seen this morning at Liverpool Street (Not Chesunt as indicated on the ramp). Interesting that the label refers to 'British Railways' - I thought that this was shortened to 'British Rail' in 1965 or thereabouts, and this ramp looks to be more modern than that. There never was any organisation called 'British Rail' - that was ONLY a marketing name for British Railways .......... though it doesn't stop countless authors-who-should-know-better using the term for the years before the new 'Corporate Identity'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdlcs Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Ramp.jpgThis loading ramp seen this morning at Liverpool Street (Not Chesunt as indicated on the ramp). Interesting that the label refers to 'British Railways' - I thought that this was shortened to 'British Rail' in 1965 or thereabouts, and this ramp looks to be more modern than that. Tried to tie this to a date range via the manufacturer and telephone number, but without much success. Walden's Trucks (Brandon, Suffolk) are now Hyprosteps(.co.uk) but the About page on the website doesn't give any information about the companies history, or when it became Hyprosteps. The telephone number was in use until 1995, when the STD code became 01842, but I can't find any further information such as when it was introduced etc. from the brief search that I did. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 At Cottesmore showing tippler to ingot mould to iu tippler at Pitstone. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackthorn Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 I noticed this section of rail being used as a header in a church basement in Guelph, Ontario. I had to find some chalk to highlight the lettering, but it reads "Sheffield Toughened Steel 4mo 1879". I wouldn't be surprised if it has been there all that time as I think that was when the church was built. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 This loading ramp seen this morning at Liverpool Street (Not Chesunt as indicated on the ramp). Interesting that the label refers to 'British Railways' - I thought that this was shortened to 'British Rail' in 1965 or thereabouts, and this ramp looks to be more modern than that. The double arrow is "of non-standard proportions" as well, so I imagine the whole label was produced by the ramp company without much reference to the BR style guide. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 11 years after the franchise ended, Central Trains makes an appearance on a ramp on board a Northern 153 at Sheffield last week 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 11 years after the franchise ended, Central Trains makes an appearance on a ramp on board a Northern 153 at Sheffield last week Central Trains 2018.jpg We have one or two ramps on 156s stencilled 'property of Wales and West Railway' 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted December 30, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2018 (edited) One of the biggest ghosts in the machine, until it was dismantled in 2006, was the GCR bridge over the WCML at Rugby. Here is a photo of it when it was still just about in use, in early 1967. Taken from the top of the old coaling tower, by my father who at the time was Depot Superintendent at Rugby. Edited December 30, 2018 by rodent279 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted December 30, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2018 Despite the yard at Chichester having closed to goods at least forty years ago, the weighbridge is still in situ: Original goods yard weighbridge at Chichester Station in West Sussex - December 2019 by John Upton, on Flickr 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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