occasional extracts from old Railway Magazine

[sir douglas]

There was a few De Glehn what ifs in that year

[sir douglas]

1906

 

inside Garston LNW creosote plant

 

London & Birmingham carriage

 

Doncaster 1848

 

Heysham docks

 

LBSCR inspection railcar

 

wagons at Hull docks, when did NE wagons have an "R"?

 

Kalka station, interchange between the broad gauge mainline line and the narrow up to Simla

[cctransuk]

On 18/02/2024 at 20:48, figworthy said:

 

Bottom left hand corner looks like a stretch of canal complete with narrow boats.  I wonder if the container on the crane is for loading or unloading the narrow boats.  Perhaps one of our Midland experts can identify the location.

 

Adrian

 

I think that the container on the crane is precisely that - a container.

 

Such 'boxes' were loaded into and unloaded out of narrowboats by crane - look carefully, the boats have several heaped boxes in each one.

 

CJI.

[figworthy]

27 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

 

I think that the container on the crane is precisely that - a container.

 

Such 'boxes' were loaded into and unloaded out of narrowboats by crane - look carefully, the boats have several heaped boxes in each one.

 

CJI.

 

Looking again carefully, the narrow boats don't appear to have cabins.  That strongly suggests that they are BCN day boats (used for short haul journeys), in which case the photo is somewhere in the Black Country.

 

Adrian

[sir douglas]

1907

 

Cardiff

 

Carlisle

 

Glasgow central

 

Clapham (Yorks)

 

Churchill viaduct on the West Midland

 

wagons being loaded with heather

 

Port Louis on Mauritius

Edited April 23 by sir douglas

[D7063]

On 22/03/2024 at 20:01, sir douglas said:

1906

 

inside Garston LNW creosote plant

 

London & Birmingham carriage

 

Doncaster 1848

 

Heysham docks

 

LBSCR inspection railcar

 

wagons at Hull docks, when did NE wagons have an "R"?

 

Kalka station, interchange between the broad gauge mainline line and the narrow up to Simla

I can almost smell the Creosote in that Garston picture!!!!

[sir douglas]

1908

 

Beckton gas works

 

taking on water from the canal aquaduct on the Alcester branch

 

HC 656 "Somerton" belonging to CJ Willis on the Birmingham & North Warickshire

 

Borsig 5896 "Marquesa", No15 of the Coquimba railway (FC de Coquimba) in chile

 

a GW bus at Paddington

 

MW 237 "Nellie" belonging to the Met for shunting Neasdon EMU depot. it was the only steam loco in the Met fleet light enough to cross the Brent river bridge, it had just come into service here at publication replacing an 1886 Hudswell clarke

 

portrait of old David Joy, there is a lengthy 8 part article "links to the evolution for the locomotive, basically a history of locomotives with drawings from David Joy's diary

 

Santiago shed

[sir douglas]

1909

 

2 useful photos of crates and boxes

 

i found this article an interesting read "A day's work on the footplate" a fireman's account of working an express from Euston to Manchester. the first paragraph being a rant against arm chair experts that claim to know about the working enviroment of crews in previous articles so this one describes a day on the job as it actually was

 

Antofagasta & Bolivia rly (FCAB), Loa Bridge

 

FCAB dining car, i thought this is interesting just because usually when you see a photo inside a dining car, its of the first class seating but rarely see the kitchen

 

FCAB sleeping compartment

 

early Maryport & Carlisle carriages

 

Hull Dairycoates

 

unidentified fairlie, the closest match i have is a 1874 Yorkshire for Georgia (east of the black sea not America)