Ghosts in the Machine.

[dvdlcs]

20 hours ago, Wickham Green said:

D'you mean THIS building south of Oxted by any chance ? ........... it's not very far south - just off the platform end in fact !

 

Actually no :-) Sorry :-)

 

The building I am thinking of is to the south of the station on the east side of the line and looked, to me at least, more like an equipment hut than what you showed. Definitely not brick-built, might be concrete or some kind of pre-fab panels.

[Wickham Green]

OK ..... must find an excuse for another visit ! ( probably another visit to the Bluebell )

[rockershovel]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSWR_F9_class

 

read to the end for the reference to the surviving parts! 

 

In fact these things even have a thread of their own, although none seem to survive 

 

 

Edited August 14, 2019 by rockershovel

[sir douglas]

a quick search later

http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=2610

[Steadfast]

Some history on this mullet. Civil Link branding, Carlisle Currock fox and Transrail stencil. All present in 2019

 

Jo

[Mark Saunders]

Both plates tell a tale!

 

[Steamport Southport]

On 14/08/2019 at 06:14, rockershovel said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSWR_F9_class

 

read to the end for the reference to the surviving parts! 

 

In fact these things even have a thread of their own, although none seem to survive 

 

 

 

Part of a scheme to rebuild it. Although I think it's a bit wishful thinking personally.

 

 

 

 

Jason

[Wickham Green]

On 14/08/2019 at 06:14, rockershovel said:

....... none seem to survive ....

 

Don't forget Gazelle : https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/1-0-4-2wt-shropshire-montgomery/

[Steamport Southport]

Cornwall is a far better example and from a proper railway. As is NER Aerolite. The Caledonian Single 123 was also used as an inspection locomotive at one point.

 

 

 

 

Jason

[pinzaboy]

Found this in the trees near Workington harbour last weekend. I assume it was something to do with the old steel works. The lights were red, amber and green. The track was long gone but the single track rails were still in situ where it crossed the adjacent road. 

 

Tim

[TheSignalEngineer]

Away from the BR Machine, I spotted this early 1990s map today in a Buffet Car on the East Lancs Railway. Has Waterloo to the Channel Tunnel as a dotted line for a proposed service. Sorry about the quality as it had a bit of a rock on at the time

 

[unravelled]

I don't know if this fits in here, but this stop marker doesn't look modern era to me. It was in use on the Oxford shed site in December 2017,  but not there in 2016 or 2018.

 

Were these  regularly used so late on or is this just a convenient one-off installation?

 

Thanks

 

Dave

[The Stationmaster]

21 hours ago, unravelled said:

I don't know if this fits in here, but this stop marker doesn't look modern era to me. It was in use on the Oxford shed site in December 2017,  but not there in 2016 or 2018.

 

Were these  regularly used so late on or is this just a convenient one-off installation?

 

Thanks

 

Dave

It's a standard GWR/WR pattern STOP board.  I can't date the end of installing them in new work exactly but I would think around the late 1970s when Reading Signal Works (where they were made) was closed.  I'm not sure if there are still any about but some definitely lasted well into the 1990s and that one is a marvellous survival well in to the 21st century.

[unravelled]

A correction to my previous post. The STOP board has been there since  at least 2005, as I found after checking through older photos, and now I look for it, it was still there last Christmas. It is at the exit from the engineering sidings where the tampers live.

 

Thanks

 

Dave

 

[melmerby]

1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said:

It's a standard GWR/WR pattern STOP board.  I can't date the end of installing them in new work exactly but I would think around the late 1970s when Reading Signal Works (where they were made) was closed.  I'm not sure if there are still any about but some definitely lasted well into the 1990s and that one is a marvellous survival well in to the 21st century.

It looks as if it is designed for an oil lamp as the top is vented and it has a clip to open it.

[The Stationmaster]

19 hours ago, melmerby said:

It looks as if it is designed for an oil lamp as the top is vented and it has a clip to open it.

It was  - they used a (GW/WR) standard signal lamp interior as far as I can recall.

[eastwestdivide]

A three-year-old ghost (the franchise changed over in April 2016): the "old" Northern Rail logo is visible under the scrap of sticker on this poster from a Northern 144 yesterday (31 Aug 2019). 

 

Edited September 1, 2019 by eastwestdivide

[4630]

I don't suppose that this humble cast milepost dates back to the opening of Woodlesford station in 1840, but judging by its chipped appearance it's probably received a few coats of paint over the years.

 

 

I very much doubt that the neighbouring station name sign will last anything like as long!

[Wickham Green]

1840's pretty early - would it have been 190 miles from the datum then ? ............... I don't know the place but it seems to have been Midland Railway at one time and the datum would have been Derby so the 190 mile measurement probably dates from its 'move' to the North Eastern Region in 1950.

The post looks to be double-headed rail so THAT definitely doesn't date from 1840 !

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, Wickham Green said:

1840's pretty early - would it have been 190 miles from the datum then ? ............... I don't know the place but it seems to have been Midland Railway at one time and the datum would have been Derby so the 190 mile measurement probably dates from its 'move' to the North Eastern Region in 1950.

The post looks to be double-headed rail so THAT definitely doesn't date from 1840 !

That's a Midland  milepost and the distance is from St Pancras. Midland dustances were originally based from Derby. The whole line was re surveyed, I think round about 1900 to the St Pancras datum.

 

Jamie

[4630]

A L&NWR boundary post at Bradley, Huddersfield on 20th October 2019.

 

Hopefully this one and an identical post nearby, will find safe (and legitimate) homes in due course as the local council are planning some major alterations which will affect their current locations. 

[eastglosmog]

A switch lever seen on the track from Castle Meads car park to Gloucester docks: 

 

The track is on the viaduct that used to carry the sidings from the riverside wharf to the power station, as shown on the extract from the 1970 OS map (care of oldmaps.co.uk):

 

The loading wharf is still present, although heavily silted:

Edited October 26, 2019 by eastglosmog
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[Owd Bob]

I often wonder just how old some of these sleepers must be seeing as they were probably quite old and used by the time they got cut, shaped and erected as fencing. Don't see many like this anymore especially left in and around the Wigan area like this short surviving stretch at Crow Nest Bridge, Hindley. I hope his bit survives because there's been some recent shrub and tree seedling clearing on the bridge which is now exposing the fence more. 

 

[adb968008]

Had an interesting conversation with some guy in a garden centre once, who was upselling the benefits of used Railway sleepers in the garden to a small crowd.

I then said, “arent train toilets directly flushed onto the track and hence the sleepers?”...

 

killed the conversation and the small interested crowd moved on, leaving the seller a little grumpy.

[melmerby]

33 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

Had an interesting conversation with some guy in a garden centre once, who was upselling the benefits of used Railway sleepers in the garden to a small crowd.

I then said, “arent train toilets directly flushed onto the track and hence the sleepers?”...

 

killed the conversation and the small interested crowd moved on, leaving the seller a little grumpy.

A little extra manure does the plants no harm..........