Barclay Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 I wonder how long it is since an HST ventured into Euston? I must admit I have never seen one there. Apologies for the dodgy photo - tried to do it incognito! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 19, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2023 18 minutes ago, Barclay said: I wonder how long it is since an HST ventured into Euston? I must admit I have never seen one there. Apologies for the dodgy photo - tried to do it incognito! the NMT still goes into euston monthly 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barclay Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Interesting - did they ever run revenue services out of Euston? I presume the very short stop was in order to line up the power cars with a vent or something, to avoid filling that wretched station with smoke? (Especially in the Valenta days!) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 19, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2023 Yeah they use to go to Holyhead right up until virgin days (I actually unofficially drove the last ever one part way along north wales coast while road learning Holyhead with FNW!) 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoke West Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 3 minutes ago, Barclay said: Interesting - did they ever run revenue services out of Euston? I presume the very short stop was in order to line up the power cars with a vent or something, to avoid filling that wretched station with smoke? (Especially in the Valenta days!) They were used on Holyheads and other workings , at Stafford late afternoon two up trains ran in close succession 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67451874 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 I remember the late Cyril Gotobed of Cambridge giving us a talk at the Cambridge Railway Circle, and mentioning experiences he had at that same crossing when he worked there. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted November 19, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 19, 2023 (edited) newbury Edited November 19, 2023 by adb968008 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted November 20, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, ess1uk said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67451874 Try your luck on street view and watch the car in the distance dissapear, and spin around you’ll see the transit van dissapear too as you move up and down the lane. https://maps.app.goo.gl/obgAwpPEmfo6KaGm8?g_st=ic Edited November 20, 2023 by adb968008 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 6 hours ago, stewartingram said: I remember the late Cyril Gotobed of Cambridge giving us a talk at the Cambridge Railway Circle, and mentioning experiences he had at that same crossing when he worked there. The accidents at Connington might well be haunted; there have been several fatal incidents there. The crossing was accident prone because it seemed to get very thick fog locally. North signal box (built of brick) was moved a short distance after those. There was also an accident (if that's the right word for it) where a train was derailed by the signalman changing the points under a train travelling at speed; he was acquitted of manslaughter but still got two years for his actions. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted November 20, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2023 (edited) Connington loop 15th December 1961.. 3 trains, 60977, 60078, D9012 https://www.tracksthroughgrantham.uk/railway-life-at-grantham/loco-department-staff/grantham-crews-miraculous-escape/ The signalman with mental issues caused a derailment March 5th 1967.. with D9004. in addition to the fatality mentioned with the former Peterborough mayor (16th Oct 1948) , and the other incident with the 6 German POWs (March 1st 1948) Edited November 20, 2023 by adb968008 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 8 hours ago, adb968008 said: Connington Not helped by the fact that there's two of them nearly 20 miles apart, both in Cambridgeshire! One is in South Cambridgeshire but not on the railway and the other is in what used to be called Huntingdonshire, but that historic county got abolished and moved into Cambridgeshire when local government was mucked about with. And HMRI can't tell which is which as the accident reports use spellings with both the double n and the single n (the current preferred version for both of them). I expect the postman knows all about which streets are in which one! 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 When the new combined control room for the Fire Service opened (there used to be 2, north & south), they did indeed have problems identifying which Conington it was (happily sorted rapidly). 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted November 20, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 20, 2023 On 19/10/2023 at 16:45, Stoke West said: They were used on Holyheads and other workings , at Stafford late afternoon two up trains ran in close succession I seem to remember an early Up Holyhead having one when I was working on the Trent Valley. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 14 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said: I seem to remember an early Up Holyhead having one when I was working on the Trent Valley. OH - you mean HSTs ..... I thought we were talking about Coningtons ! 😊 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6150 Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 Back in a wintry looking Huntly today. Behind the modern Scotrail signs the original (?) Goods Shed is still there. I didn't realise how much it had been altered, and it seems to be out of use at the moment. The old-fashioned floodlights look a bit melancholy above the small forest that's grown up around the goods sidings. I think the track is still in there somewhere. On a more positive note the waiting area in the modern Station has an interesting collection of railway photos from the 60's and earlier. Thanks Ken 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aire Head Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 Shipley Station just before the entrances to the Network Rail Yard 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 Yes, it looks like that wall needs something to hold it up ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6150 Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 (edited) Back in (a very cold) Keith today. If I've got this right, the last train between Keith and Keith Town ran in 1991, so these signs have been redundant for 30+ years. To be fair the level crossing sign (which I think must have guarded a foot crossing) looks a good deal older. Good to see the old Goods Shed is still hanging on, although the remains of the sliding doors are starting to come away from the gable end walls. Thanks Ken Edited December 5, 2023 by D6150 Bad spelling! 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 52 minutes ago, D6150 said: Bad spelling! Yes I spotted the missing 'H' 😎 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6150 Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 7 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said: Yes I spotted the missing 'H' 😎 🙂 I'm also intrigued that at some point the phone has been removed, but the sign has been left.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cctransuk Posted December 5, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 5, 2023 1 minute ago, D6150 said: 🙂 I'm also intrigued that at some point the phone has been removed, but the sign has been left.... Ah - but removed by whom - with, or without due authorisation? CJI. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted December 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 5, 2023 Another one spotted back in August.. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 21 minutes ago, D6150 said: 🙂 I'm also intrigued that at some point the phone has been removed, but the sign has been left.... Makes a change you should see some of the places phones have been left 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6150 Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 A bit further South I was in an equally cold Insch, where the base for the water tower is still there 60+ years after the end of steam in NE Scotland. Sun shining on Dunnydeer Hill 👍 Does anyone know when regular steam workings finished in NE Scotland? I think 61A Kittybrewster was almost entirely switched to diesels in the very early 60's? Thanks Ken 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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