Catkins Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I wouldn't call this forgotten equipment - But still doing the job it was designed for! These are LNER marked fence posts at the north end of platform 2 on Grantham. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
auld_boot Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Yeovil Pen Mill Excuse the loss of quality with the large crop please: 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 28, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2013 I wouldn't call this forgotten equipment - LNER post.jpg But still doing the job it was designed for! These are LNER marked fence posts at the north end of platform 2 on Grantham. These posts are quite common, there are/were plenty to be seen all over the ex LNER lines. During the 80's many of the EMU's working on the GE lines out of Liverpool Street that were equipped with Gresley bogies sported axle box covers impressed with LNER in similar style. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingsignalman Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 While scanning Hooton South Jcn SB diagram sketches, I scanned these too. Block restoration tickets, the first an LMSR one and the second a BR one, both dated 14th May 1977 (obviously not a good day for the Signalmen! ). 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 About 300yds inside the London end of Box tunnel the lower quadrant aspect frame of Corsham SB's outer home (?) signal still stands on it's post in the up cess (just the aspect holder on its pivot as no arm was required)................. and no, there are definitely NO steam engines....................... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 British Railways sign at the L&NWR Nunnery Goods Depot, Sheffield by ta||tim, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 6, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 6, 2013 and no, there are definitely NO steam engines....................... Shock, horror, the strategic reserve must have been moved elsewhere (in secret!) Keith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Careful, I think SouthernMan is a governent spy, sent to nab our photo's and gluing techniques. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Shock, horror, the strategic reserve must have been moved elsewhere (in secret!) Keith Hasn't it been moved to the channel tunnel. Easy access to the continent to keep out exports going. Some subterfuge about turning one of the TBMs off to the side and leaving it down there was used. What else is down there with the TBM? Ghost of engines past? Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 (edited) I now regularly travel by train lately and the other week i was on my way home on a northern rail pacer, and i noticed something which really amazed me. the emergency ladder strapped up next to the middle door still had BR painted on it. and a few pics i took a few years ago of 3 stone L&YR boundary posts inbetween Wakefield and Normanton Edited December 12, 2013 by sir douglas 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 In the course of my duties i have wandered into a strange region of our railways and came across this... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 9, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 9, 2013 In the course of my duties i have wandered into a strange region of our railways and came across this... DSC04616.jpg DSC04615.jpg Looks like it needs to 'restored' again - I think it was last done in 1985 for GW150. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingsignalman Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Taken a while ago (on 11/3/2001 to be exact) was this LNWR and GWR boundary stone which was by College Drive bridge near Bebington station. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted August 11, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 11, 2013 I don't have a photo, but some years ago, whilst walking the old Three Bridges to East Grinstead route (a really good foot/cycle path) I found some coal in what would have been the 'cess'. OK so that's really exciting isn't it, but I have ground that up & used it in many tenders on my loco's and several wagons. My other source of coal for layout use is on Potteric Carr Nature Reserve (Yorkshire Wildlife Trust just south of Donny) where part of the reserve is on railway land where there were loads of sidings and I'm told wagons and coaches were broken up there as well. P 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 (edited) Some years ago I parked up at Hunstanton, the car park was not surfaced, and was located where the old loco shed had been. I found a couple of lumps of coal there, & put them in the boot, for use on my GE section locos. Quite ironic that many years later (ie now) I am building a layout based on Hunstanton! Genuine steam coal from the actual prototype. Stewart Edited August 12, 2013 by stewartingram 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingsignalman Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I was at Birkenhead North station this morning and when I came home and looked at the photos I'd taken I noticed this point rodding still in situ, to the left of the siding, just over 19 years since it became redundant. The post(s) behind the mesh on the platform are the last remains of the old footbridge, removed in the early hours of Sunday the 17th. They will shortly be removed by hand so as not to damage the platform wall. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2013 I was at Birkenhead North station this morning and when I came home and looked at the photos I'd taken I noticed this point rodding still in situ, to the left of the siding, just over 19 years since it became redundant. PB205629.jpg The post(s) behind the mesh on the platform are the last remains of the old footbridge, removed in the early hours of Sunday the 17th. They will shortly be removed by hand so as not to damage the platform wall. That's not long - there are still a few signal wire run pulleys attached to the side walls of one of the platforms at Swindon, 45 years since the signal wires running through them were removed when Swindon panel commissioned (March 1968). 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Former NetworkSoutheast trolley at Ely the other night. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 28, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 28, 2013 becot fuel point, stopping points for locos 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Woodford, Central Line on the London Underground (ex GER line though). Stewart 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Some of you might consider this posting (rather long but stay with me...) off-topic, but here goes. Whilst in Kings Lynn today, I popped into the station, as I'd heard the refubished 365 was stabled there for the weekend. Not relevant here, but I'll post it anyway. Now to the relevant pics. Outside the station I noticed plenty of these lamps. New installs of retro design LED lamps, but tasteful. My attention was then taken by a small notice stuck on a hoarding. I had a double take at this one!. And there were more..... Then round to the main entrance at the front. Though closed, due to the ongoing refurbishment works, I noticed the canopy behind the scaffolding. Look closely at this cropped and heavily Photoshop adjusted picture. Apologies for the quality of pics btw, all taken on my smartphone Inside the station I found this poster board. I've also taken a closeup of the LHS, you don't see many FCC notices headed British Railways! Another one outside This one is really something different. And just to finish off - the whole station has been resigned with these totems. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev_Lewis Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Great post Stewart. I presume King's Lynn Station is past of a Community Rail Partnership? That's the only reason I can think of for the retro refurbishment. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev_Lewis Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 A bit of Googling reveals that the "heritage-style makeover" at King's Lynn has been funded by Network Rail and First Capital Connect, following consultation with local groups, including the Fen Line Users’ Association. Full details here: http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/better-stations/kings-lynn/ Well done them. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 3, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2014 Rather like all the retro at Birmingham Moor St. (some original GWR some new copies.) Keith 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
auld_boot Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Taken a few years ago now, but these cattle pens might still be there buried further in the undergrowth the other side of the road bridge at Yeovil Pen Mill 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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