RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted August 29, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 29, 2022 (edited) I'm trying to find out part of the track layout at Ipswich in the 1980s, at the time of electrification. I've got a couple of hand drawn track plans that show a pair of double slips at the Up end of the top yard, which ties up with my memory of working there then. I've also found the NLS Ordinance Survey maps that show track layouts from the 1920s that have the slips at the time the goods shed existed - as well as a lot of other track that had gone by the 1980s... https://maps.nls.uk/view/114502285 Google earth only shows the plan from the 90s onwards when the slips had been removed. I've got photos from the Down end of the yard with the pair of slips in place there that disappeared before the Up end ones did but no photos of the Up end slips or where their connections went. The positions of the slips themselves is as shown here in blue. Can anyone help please? Andi Edited August 29, 2022 by Dagworth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave55uk Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 No help to you what-so-ever but I used to work in the TOPS office there. Never took note or photos of the trackplan though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted August 31, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2022 Bumping this at a different time of day in the hope that others may see it and be able to help? Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete the Elaner Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 (edited) Have you tried the National Library of Scotland? A friend put me onto this for historical maps & I thought it was rather odd that maps of English places should be available from Scotland, but it was quite useful for London. It is inconsistent outside of London though, but you may find something useful. Oops. Should have clicked your link first. 😳 Edited August 31, 2022 by Pete the Elaner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted August 31, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2022 Just now, Pete the Elaner said: Have you tried the National Library of Scotland? A friend put me onto this for historical maps & I thought it was rather odd that maps of English places should be available from Scotland, but it was quite useful for London. It is inconsistent outside of London though, but you may find something useful. Thank you for the suggestion but yes, there is an NLS link in my first post. Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete the Elaner Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 1 minute ago, Dagworth said: Thank you for the suggestion but yes, there is an NLS link in my first post. Andi I noticed that after my reply. I feel very silly. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted August 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2022 34 minutes ago, Dagworth said: Bumping this at a different time of day in the hope that others may see it and be able to help? Andi I've pm'ed you a photo of the appropriate 1988 Quail (don't want to post copyright material). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickiegrid100 Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Have you tried any of the Facebook groups. Ally of local railmen on Anglia gen may be able to assist richard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted September 1, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 1, 2022 4 minutes ago, dickiegrid100 said: Have you tried any of the Facebook groups. Ally of local railmen on Anglia gen may be able to assist richard. Thank you for the suggestion but I don’t do Facebook any more, haven’t logged in to my account for well over a year and no desire to go back to it. Most of the useful photos I have been able to find so far have come from a Flickr group about Ipswich station and yards Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I have a feeling that I might actually have some sort of (railway produced) plan of the Upper Yard here at home - but the problem is likely to be finding the thing as most of my rail related paperwork was packed away in boxes when I moved house a couple of years ago - and that's where the stuff is still sitting! I'll have a quick look this coming weekend to see if I can find it......... I remember looking at it when I was sorting/packing the stuff away and thinking "where did I get that from??"! Failing that, I am aware of someone (not local) who has built an N layout of the whole Station/Upper Yard area in their post-electrified state, so I might be able to find out their source(s) of track layout information via a friend of mine who knows the person concerned. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted September 8, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2022 I'm still looking for photos/maps/plans that showed the elusive slips, but also to add to the request does anyone have photos of the shunter's cabin/TOPS office building in the yard, or of the signal box that became a shunter's cabin at the down end of the yard by London Road bridge please? Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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