Mol_PMB Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 'Eclipse' belongs in this thread, in fact I'll copy it there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 3 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: You clearly haven’t developed an eye for the industrial electric railway aesthetic yet. This one might help you along the road to enlightenment. Irish Peat Development Company at Annaghmore in NI, now Peatlands Park, which has a very civilised faux bog railway for tourist visits, using diesel locos. You’re not helping!!! At least with that one, you can’t see the awful colour! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 17, 2021 Author Share Posted December 17, 2021 23 hours ago, montyburns56 said: How many modelling cliches can you fit in one station? Byfield Station 1966 by The Jeyes Even more cliches at Byfield it seems... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 Like many photos of the SMJ, taken years after closure to passengers, and even after closure to goods, it shows how the stations were simply abandoned, hardly vandalised, and just left, Mary Celeste fashion almost. When I first came across Stoke Bruerne station c40 years ago, that was an abandoned relic, and had been for donkeys years (last passenger train about 100 years previously, closed to good c30 years previously), it was just stood there, gently decaying in an ever-flourishing shrubbery. It’s been fully refurbed as a house in the intervening years. Fascinating but of railway at many levels, except possibly if you’d invested in building it! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 Rothbury Station 1967 by The Jeyes 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 Was this kind of set up rare, unique, common? Leicester Central 1966 by The Jeyes 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbles2 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Can someone please explain to me how to put a picture from my own Flickr pics on to RMweb, I'm sure I've done it before but can't seem to made it work now, do I go to 'Other Media' and insert URL, if so what do you do then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 14 minutes ago, bubbles2 said: Can someone please explain to me how to put a picture from my own Flickr pics on to RMweb, I'm sure I've done it before but can't seem to made it work now, do I go to 'Other Media' and insert URL, if so what do you do then? If you copy the web address of your flickr image, then paste the text into the normal rmweb post, it should sort it out for you automatically. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbles2 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Ok that worked, thanks. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 Banbury Merton Street 1966 by The Jeyes Banbury Merton Street 1959 by Geoff Dowling 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Merton St Banbury was an interesting station as it was next door to the cattle market ,the biggest in the UK but as far as I know did not have much traffic from Merton St.In steam days locos seemed to be class 2 tanks and trains were only two carriages and not well filled .DMU,s were interesting as the first units were the prototypes from Derby but even these did not increase traffic. The line from Verney junction via Buckingham was an interesting one and passed through some very pleasent countryside .One station being in a valley bottom with level crossing gates goods shed and platform surounded by trees .Used to drive past here in the nineties and you could see it had been a station.Banbury is an interesting place as you could see a very ecletic mixture of locos from Kings to Black Fives and when DMU,s arrived a reasonable spread of them .Did not like the new station buildings they were a shoddy build and when a through train went under the main building it shook not a good experience.Merton St was busy on Banbury Mkt days and Sats but otherwise very quiet but was worth watching as an antidote to the main and busy one. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 4 minutes ago, lmsforever said: but even these did not increase traffic They did though, very significantly. But what they couldn't do was perform a miracle. Despite the huge increase in passengers and receipts, which were much higher that anticipated, an official visit on January 4th 1957 by a party that included the LMR General Manager concluded that the branch could never generate enough income to cover the running costs. The area was very lightly populated, the villages were often some distance from the line and served by a reasonable bus service. The experiment would be allowed to run for the full twelve months before the service would be discontinued. [Railcar.co.uk] There are more details in one of Bil Simpson's books. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 Nottingham London Road High Level June 1967 by The Jeyes 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Well they bothered to clean the loco number and the yellow panel, but the rest of it is filthy! If you weathered a model loco like that, people wouldn’t believe it. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 From Paul Anderson on Flickr, this is ostensibly a photo of the exceptional load in the foreground but there's plenty of railway interest too. The date is 1964 and the location is Darlington. Note the BR 05 shunter with a brakevan in the background, and presumably an industrial RH shunting loaded plate wagons in the foreground. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 This is a beauty, from Ernie, showing the Guinness Brewery internal railway system. Lots of interesting details here - has anyone modelled this system? 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 John Turner has some great wagon portraits on Flickr. Now, what’s happened to this brake van to produce the zebra effect? Is it some sort of sealant applied to reduce draughts, perhaps? @Quorn Wagon might be able to give us an insight? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted December 22, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2021 "Ladies and gentlemen this is the future of rail travel. No longer will passengers think of dirty old trains when they think of British Rail...." 30 seconds later.... "Oh, FFS!" Bristol Temple Meads 1975 by Andy Kirkham 11 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 23, 2021 Author Share Posted December 23, 2021 Corkickle Marchon Works 1970s 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 43 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Corkickle Marchon Works 1970s What a lot of filler hatches! Jon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: Corkickle Marchon Works 1970s https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/tipair Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 24, 2021 Author Share Posted December 24, 2021 22 hours ago, hmrspaul said: https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/tipair Paul So these are those tipping wagons that were built by Standard Wagon Works at Heywood? There's a great picture of one of them in the raised position in David W Tandy's book, but I didn't recognise it with the tank lowered! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 24, 2021 Author Share Posted December 24, 2021 ICI Soda Ash Works Northwich 1994 by Adrian Nicholls 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted December 26, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2021 Canada Dock Goods Station 1982 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 4 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Canada Dock Goods Station 1982 It was all still there well into the 1980s. http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/c/canada_dock/index.shtml Like a lot of the docks and the railways around them they were "mothballed" rather than totally closed. Expecting an upturn in trade that never happened. I believe Canada Dock was mostly involved in timber. Jason 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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