RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted April 22, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2017 (edited) I thought they were a bit uncommon, but here's one. A bonus point for the location and signal it applied to. Edited April 22, 2017 by TheSignalEngineer 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted April 22, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2017 Rather than a wild card, how about finding a DMU in West Yorkshire green stripe livery. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 (edited) Like this? There is a bit o' Verona green bottom right. Next an EMU in a PTE livery please. Edited April 22, 2017 by leopardml2341 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 22, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2017 I thought they were a bit uncommon, but here's one. CTT_366 - Copy.jpg A bonus point for the location and signal it applied to. A very quick search came up with this, which accompanied a photo of the signal taken from a slightly different angle. It came from a site called 'Signals around the West Midlands'. I had seen it earlier when I was trying establish how common they were. I had already had a quick scout through Dad's albums, without success. When the line to Cheltenham was still open, this stop-and-distant banner repeater on the down platform repeated Stratford-upon-Avon's advanced starter and Evesham Road Crossing's lower-arm inner distant. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 22, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2017 (edited) I don't travel in PTE territory much, unless you count LT, so I had to dive into the family album for this one, from the last holiday we had before our boys got too big to be seen on holiday with Mum & Dad! Somewhere I have photos taken in the Glasgow transport museum - have you got one? A railway subject of course. Edited April 22, 2017 by phil_sutters 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted April 22, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2017 Correct. By the time I took the picture it was controlled by Stratford-upon-Avon East box. Originally it was the Down Home for the West box. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 22, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2017 Correct. By the time I took the picture it was controlled by Stratford-upon-Avon East box. Originally it was the Down Home for the West box. Thanks for the challenge. I spend far too much time chasing around looking for answers to queries on this site, but it's good fun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Well I had a banner home repeater from the start of this week - but sadly no doubles. Anyway - Glasgow Transport Museum it is - or at least as it was when you could actually inspect the exhibits. Here's a couple of well-known locomotives from the collection, taken in 1995. (My profile picture was used in publicity for the new museum). At the risk of another long gap, the next one will be at the late, lamented Clapham Transport Museum. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal.n Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Well I had a banner home repeater from the start of this week - but sadly no doubles. Anyway - Glasgow Transport Museum it is - or at least as it was when you could actually inspect the exhibits. Here's a couple of well-known locomotives from the collection, taken in 1995. (My profile picture was used in publicity for the new museum). pict6570.jpg Brings back many happy memories, my grandfather was a volunteer guide at the Kelvin Hall and to this day my favorite loco is CR 123 (closely followed by 37025). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 I think the great attraction were those beautiful, talismanic Scottish locos that had been restored and repainted into pre-grouping identities - running excursions in the early 'sixties. I was too young to have seen them working, but grew up with pictures of them on special trains. That was my only visit to Kelvin Hall, by sheer good fortune of having a meeting in the morning and a free afternoon. My big regret is that I didn't appreciate and record the Chaplin vertical-boilered loco on display just inside the entrance - which I believe is now stored away from public view. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted April 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23, 2017 EddieB, you have left us hanging. What next? A gas lamp on a station? A BR totem on a closed station? Healey Mills's breakdown crane? What? What? Please tell us what the next photo is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23, 2017 Eddie did ask for a photo from the old Clapham LT Museum. I remember going there, but I don't think that I even had a camera then. Don't get me started on the toddlers' playground that the Covent Garden version has become. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Yes, it may have got overlooked in some discussion and posting another picture from the old Glasgow Transport Museum, but Clapham Museum is the next challenge. For the record, the museum closed before I got my first SLR camera and my Instamatic of those days didn't do well in the dimness of the main hall! Going back many posts, I'm not comfortable that an overturned car on the concourse at Waterloo really satisfies my request for a train at a truncated through station - so that may be coming back like a cheap day return when I next get the baton. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Going back many posts, I'm not comfortable that an overturned car on the concourse at Waterloo really satisfies my request for a train at a truncated through station - so that may be coming back like a cheap day return when I next get the baton. Oi! There's a train in shot, and it used to be a through station, don't see the issue... It's true that I was interpreting the brief as liberally as possible, but if I'd had a picture at Waterloo where the train was the subject i would have posted it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Oi! There's a train in shot, and it used to be a through station, don't see the issue... It's true that I was interpreting the brief as liberally as possible, but if I'd had a picture at Waterloo where the train was the subject i would have posted it... It might be ignorance, but I'm genuinely puzzled as to the extent to which Waterloo was ever a through station. Ok, that was the original intention, but it only really developed as a terminus. Waterloo East (and Waterloo, Belgium) can be regarded as [a] through station, but they're different entities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 (edited) There used to be lines through the concourse and over Waterloo Road to Waterloo East. The bridge is still there, underneath the pedestrian walkway tube.The distances on the old LSWR route are all measured from the junction with the Charing Cross line, so the buffers are at about 5 chains. A little more on that: https://www.londonreconnections.com/2011/the-waterloo-link/ Edited April 23, 2017 by Zomboid Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 So no takers for the Transport Museum at Clapham? For me, it's one of those places from formative memory that I'd love to be able to go back and revisit. I made several visits as a youngster before it closed - and memories take the form of snapshots - I can still visualise a lot of what was exhibited there, but I'm unable to explore those mental images any further. It must also have been a lot larger than memory suggests - without checking I can remember at least 14 locomotives, aside from various carriages. An annex with paintings and posters, examples of track components and the railway collecting dog. As I've said, no worthwhile photos of my own - but a few images in books to remind me should I have need. So here's the best of a poor lot - J69 0-6-0T 68633 restored as Great Eastern Railway no. 87. Right then, the next one will be of a train at a former through station (i.e. it was built and functioned principally as a through station), that has now become a terminus due to line closures (let's say within the last seventy years) - so not Waterloo (though thanks to Zomboid for an explanation)! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted April 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2017 Embsay station. formerly on the line from Ilkley to Skipton, now split from the national network. Here is Embsay Here is Ilkley with a terminal platform 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted April 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2017 Nice one Phil Whats next? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted April 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2017 Nice one Phil Whats next? Phil Oh bum! I forgot didn't I? Do you know what I like? 1970's run down British Rail. Give me your worst. Worse than London Broad Street. Monochrome acceptable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted April 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2017 Oh bum! I forgot didn't I? Do you know what I like? 1970's run down British Rail. Give me your worst. Worse than London Broad Street. Monochrome acceptable. How about a filthy gronk in a litter strewn Worcester Shrub Hill That's the worst I've got - hope that hits the grot spot Phil If so lets have a Baby Deltic please..... Phil 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted April 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2017 (edited) How about a filthy gronk in a litter strewn Worcester Shrub Hill 000057.JPG That's the worst I've got - hope that hits the grot spot Phil If so lets have a Baby Deltic please..... Phil Perfect. Just wish I had a snap of a baby deltic. And a BRUTE! Superb. Edited April 24, 2017 by 96701 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted April 24, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 24, 2017 Baby Deltic D5901 at Kings Cross, 11/09/61. Next, a Thumper. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Probably not the kind of Thumper you had in mind but it's the same engine and there's a MK1 underframe under that body as well! One of NIR's "O'Thumpers", the 450 class, laughingly named after castles, making them NIR's own Castle Class.450 Class DMS, "Moiry Castle" by wombatofludham, on Flickr 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted April 25, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2017 Baby Deltic D5901 at Kings Cross, 11/09/61. Next, a Thumper. Smashing - looks brand new in that shot! So what comes after the O'Thumper? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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