rogerzilla Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 It's amazing how much this stuff goes for on That Auction Site - does anyone have a real loco nameplate? A fully working semaphore signal? Lots of wagon D-plates? Judging from the YouTube videos of his layout, Pete Waterman has spent a lot on this stuff over the years! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted May 12, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2016 I've not found it after a few quick searches, but there is a similar thread from a few years back which got quite a few posts. It might be worth finding and adding to. I'll post here if I find it. Thanks Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 (edited) Junk? Railway artefacts please..... Edited May 12, 2016 by jonny777 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 My dad had a BR 'No Parking in this area, Rail Property' (paraphrased) sign in his garage. Seemed apposite as it was where his layout was... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I have an old LSWR "Penalty for not shutting gate £2" sign which I relieved a gate of not far from Delabole on the old North Cornwall line. I've put it on a gate in the garden. I also used to have a concrete milepost from the same place but for some unfathomable reason my parents didn't take it with them when they moved. Heathens. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted May 12, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2016 (edited) Previous thread, http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/67286-the-stuff-we-collect-what-have-you-got-in-your-railway-memorabilia-collection/ I think there may be another thread on ephemera, but could be wrong Thanks Dave Edited May 12, 2016 by unravelled Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I still have some British Rail / Inter City mission statements and prospectuses from 1985. Also some journals from the early days of the 4247 Preservation Society. I even have a small stack of EMGS Newsletters and Society Digest in the attic..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I have an old "Bowyers" pork pie bought on the Bristol - Newcastle express back in 1970. It was hard and stale when I bought it, and probably had already traveled a few thousand miles !!!!!! Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 (edited) It's amazing how much this stuff goes for on That Auction Site - does anyone have a real loco nameplate? A fully working semaphore signal? Lots of wagon D-plates? Judging from the YouTube videos of his layout, Pete Waterman has spent a lot on this stuff over the years! Ah but Pete will tell you they came free with the locos when he bought them. The out of the ordinary that I have are a few of the large ownership plates off tank wagons - given by various companies when we were measuring wagons. Even the NRM doesn't appear to have any despite them being required on all privately owned tank wagons. They just sit in the garage! http://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/ncbtankwagons/e1e06eaed http://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/icichlorine/e2eba263 Paul Edited May 12, 2016 by hmrspaul 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted May 12, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2016 I even have a small stack of EMGS Newsletters and Society Digest in the attic..... ......just above that noticeable sag in the ceiling..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 (edited) The name board from Forres SB, several wagon plates, a BR 9F tender numberplate, several NER cast iron door and gate plates, a BR first aid box (used as such), a couple of LNWR and FR bridge number plates (one of which is, by complete co-incidence, the number of our house and sits by the front door - the future Mrs CKPR thought it was intentional but I'd just left it there), a couple of NER oil cans, an awful lot of old paperwork form the pre-group lines in West Cumberland, various framed RCH maps, a couple of working LMS hand lamps, a noticeboard from Bassenthwaite Lake station, etc. In my defence, I haven't added to this mini-museum in the past couple of decades and gave away a load of similar stuff a few weeks when I moved house and just abandoned several cast iron track chairs along with a Furness Rly brick (!) Edited May 16, 2016 by CKPR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forest2807 Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 My father owns or has owned in the past (amongst others), a nameplate from A3 'Persimmon', a wooden signal box name board - from a colliery near Nottingham, (I forget which), a platform bench (Great Central?) from Nottingham Victoria Station, and numerous number plates/works plates from wagons. The bench has undertaken a very awkward and very distant house move (much to my mother's dismay, not to mention the removal team, due to its weight!) My father is at present trying to organise new homes in museums or heritage centres for his collection of railwayana, as he is well aware that he can't take it with him, and nobody else in the family really wants half a ton of semi-restored bench. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 (edited) I have an old "Bowyers" pork pie bought on the Bristol - Newcastle express back in 1970. It was hard and stale when I bought it, and probably had already traveled a few thousand miles !!!!!! It wouldn't travel well if you tried to eat it It's probably solidified sufficiently to break a plate glass window by now. ......just above that noticeable sag in the ceiling..... Actually, no, they're strategically placed to cover a hole. Edited May 12, 2016 by Horsetan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted May 12, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2016 I do have a Pandrol clip that I found at the western end of the Woodhead Tunnel back in 1989. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Where do you start? Just yesterday I acquired a BR S&T toolbag in blue and cream with red double-arrows on, a 1983 PTS leaflet and other ephemera. There are countless items of branded PPE, at least two mileposts, a gradient post and Catch Points board somewhere, three nameplates, a flamecut, cast cycling lions, D-plate, shunter's pole from 62C and more besides.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted May 12, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2016 A Westinghouse searchlight signal, a Metrovick Hernia (see the searchlight story thread for an explaination!), LNER and GWR handlamps, a LBSCR chair (I have no idea why, anyone fancy swapping a HR one for it?), some insulators. LNWR drawing of the Duke of Sutherlands salloon. I haven't actually got that much, theres people I know with much more, but I have to keep it in check just in case I get one of those looks from the wife... Andy G 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted May 12, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2016 I have an old "Bowyers" pork pie bought on the Bristol - Newcastle express back in 1970. It was hard and stale when I bought it, and probably had already traveled a few thousand miles !!!!!! Brit15 Very valuable if it ever comes up for sale would be the cheese sandwich (see APT-E thread) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Where do you start? Just yesterday I acquired a BR S&T toolbag in blue and cream with red double-arrows on, a 1983 PTS leaflet and other ephemera. There are countless items of branded PPE, at least two mileposts, a gradient post and Catch Points board somewhere, three nameplates, a flamecut, cast cycling lions, D-plate, shunter's pole from 62C and more besides.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I have a short offcut of FB rail by the back door, as it makes an excellent door stop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 12, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2016 I don't have a massive amount at this house unless you count the BR parked in the garden! I did buy a genuine BR carriage print of Hutton le hole the other week. I've mounted and framed it and put it in the guest room. Most people won't realise it's anything to do with railways. I also have an English Electric plaque of a class 40 engine that is on the cabinet I've the meter and fuse box,that is outside my railway room which is obviously full of railway crap!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 (edited) I never liberated nuffink from the demics in Whitemoor yer honour, and exhibits A thru F, including cl08 & cl20 speedometers and various plates plaques and panels, are an obvious "plant" to besmirch my good name. C6T. That said, I still regret not taking a spanner to a couple of cl45 cab seats. If I was even there. Which I weren't. Edited May 12, 2016 by Classsix T 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted May 12, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2016 I picked this up from eBay for a tenner - mislabelled as "old sign" probably a house clearance. It cost £15p+p, one for renovation and to go on my garden pub wall. I suspect it's worth considerably more than that. One day will get some replica D800 and D1000 plates that's for sure, for now have made do with some D plates from a variety of stock including a Swindon built van, freightliner flat, a diag 1/108 mineral and a catfish ballast wagon. Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I do have an original Midland Railway internal Pullman carriage door in the garage. Also a signal arm that I think graced one of the gantries at the notrh end of Derby station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Very valuable if it ever comes up for sale would be the cheese sandwich (see APT-E thread) Only if it still has the original "Travellers' Fare" wrapping. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted May 12, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2016 Ah but Pete will tell you they came free with the locos when he bought them. The out of the ordinary that I have are a few of the large ownership plates off tank wagons - given by various companies when we were measuring wagons. Even the NRM doesn't appear to have any despite them being required on all privately owned tank wagons. They just sit in the garage! http://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/ncbtankwagons/e1e06eaed http://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/icichlorine/e2eba263 Paul Not from a tank wagon but I have a similar plate from a 7-plank rescued when I had a summer job on a coal wharf around 1963. It was attached to one of several bits of old wagon holding up one of our coal stacks. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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