trisonic Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Sir A. Conan Doyle was one of the people responsible for popularizing Shooting Clubs. It was because of the appalling performance compared to the Boers during that war. The idea was to form a corps of sharp-shooters. My club at Harrow was formed in 1908. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmustu Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Hi dmustu this is a quote from Kit Spackman who was tilt engineer on the APT-E across on the APT-E thread Yes, that's Hartley House on the opposite side of the road to the main bit of the RTC. It was the centre for the Scientific Services Divsion when I was there, and my wife worked there for a bit too. That's good to know, Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 A lot of places had such ranges, including Telephone exchanges. Bang! That'll teach the little b@$#@%& to ring 999 for no reason . 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Point of interest, regarding the theatre under Waterloo. Is that the present day theatre next door to the Drain depot, or was it somewhere else? My "office" is next door to the present theatre, if fact the emergency exit comes through our premises. Stewart 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 (edited) Sir A. Conan Doyle was one of the people responsible for popularizing Shooting Clubs. It was because of the appalling performance compared to the Boers during that war. The idea was to form a corps of sharp-shooters. My club at Harrow was formed in 1908. Best, Pete. In the 1970s when I was a student living in Brighton, there was a public rifle range undeneath the now almost completely vanished West Pier. My recollection is that the entrance was in the first set of buildings after the entrance and it ran beneath the boardwalks with the targets at the seaward end. I think the rifles were the same .22 Lee Enfield training rifles that we'd had at school. Edited May 13, 2016 by Pacific231G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 If anyone is interested i found this article on the subject of Rifle (and Pistol) Clubs post Boer War and the promotion thereof by both Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. http://www.rifleman.org.uk/index-29.html Best, Pete. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted May 14, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2016 A monument to the Cheshire Lines, an old bridge pier which has been left in situ at the bottom of Georges Road. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andye Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 On a slightly different note, the NSE clock on the stairs at banbury station has gone,, does anyone know where its gone? I rather wanted that one! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2016 Still a few on the South Central side platforms at London Victoria clicking away though. The ones at London Bridge have now gone though during the transformation into the plastic turd that is has now become. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lankyphil Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Just still visible on the Gobowen - Oswestry line at the A5 level crossing. "To Contact BR" 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted August 20, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 20, 2016 (edited) . Edited November 12, 2016 by 4630 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paragon Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Still a load of circular signs outside Leeds city station platform 1 approaches advocating 'North Sea Gas' , 'Opencast Coal', one with an intercity swallow on, another with Wallace Arnold (coaches) and lastly Leeds Bradford Airport which has Concorde and an old biplane on Must date back to the late 80s/ 90s surely! Also, anyone spotted the phantom lift shaft on p1 at Leeds from the Parcels and Mail days? It used to lead up to an over bridge to Wellington street sorting office. Now demolished,there is a signpost to 'Royal Mail' still visible in the taxi/ drop off turning circle outside the 'new entrance' by the long stay car park at Leeds which has had a white vinyl sticker put on it to obscure the fact it was torn down years ago... There's also an old mural to WYPTE Metro branded trains at Shipley which includes an artistic depiction of a class 158 still visible, it's on the triangle junction for the line direct from Forster Square to Keighley/ Skipton. Can't remember the platform number... Also, signs which have 'Great Northern Electrics' on them as a title at Moorgate above the escalators down to the old BR platforms from the old BedPan terminating lines and the City, Hammersmith and Met platforms... Paragon 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 (edited) A couple of old gradient signs I spotted while cycling the route of the old Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin railway. This first one near the start of the cyclepath where it crosses Lasswade Road: Why the cycle path doesn't continue further east is a bit of a mystery - the embankment certainly continues further but is very overgrown. Instead you get dumped out on to Gilmerton Station Road, a derestricted semi-rural unclassified road which isn't much fun on a pushbike The second was a few hundred yards after crossing the Bilston Glen Viaduct (itself a notable railway relic, of course, but hardly "forgotten"): (The direction I'd approached from was shown as "LEVEL". I couldn't make out what the right-hand arm used to read, but I definitely needed to drop a couple of sprockets to maintain my usual pedalling cadence.) Edited August 20, 2016 by ejstubbs 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 27, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 27, 2016 Not ghosts in the working railway, but a pair of concrete stiles on the Scarborough to Whitby line at Fylingthorpe. These are possibly ex-LNER? They have stood there since the line closed in 1965. Apologies for the poor quality, these were clips from the camera on my bike. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolseley Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I suppose it's a bit late to be mentioning this but, back in 1975 in London, at one end of a passageway connecting an Underground station with a BR terminal, there were a couple of disused ticket windows with a sign "LNER Tickets" above each of them. It was probably Kings Cross, but at this distance in time, I'm not 100% sure. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Not ghosts in the working railway, but a pair of concrete stiles on the Scarborough to Whitby line at Fylingthorpe. These are possibly ex-LNER? They have stood there since the line closed in 1965. Apologies for the poor quality, these were clips from the camera on my bike. stile2.JPGStile3.JPG 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 (edited) LNWR buffers attached to a buffer stop in the parcel bay at Chester Station. Not sure if they are wagon or carriage ones but I doubt if they are ex loco. They are on a non-passenger line but units etc are stabled there regularly. Wouldn't like to hazard a guess when they were last compressed or the likely outcome of that occuring . Rumours abound of replacement of the ones in the adjacent platform one with squishy ones but nothing for these old stagers. They must be about 100 years old! JF Edited October 1, 2016 by Jon Fitness 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 1, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2016 The buffers in platform 1 got compressed quite considerably in 2013 by a voyager! And an arriva drivers bike got flattened too http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/78872-spotted-on-twitter-voyager-whoops-in-chester/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted October 1, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2016 I was at Leicester on Thursday, at the end of platform four in the cess is a hydrant with a hose still attached to fill boiler tanks on loco's 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 The buffers in platform 1 got compressed quite considerably in 2013 by a voyager! And an arriva drivers bike got flattened too http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/78872-spotted-on-twitter-voyager-whoops-in-chester/ I know, I was on duty at the time ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 1, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2016 I know, I was on duty at the time ! And I believe that the RAIB officer is a member of RMWeb. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 (edited) And I believe that the RAIB officer is a member of RMWeb. Jamie OOps, I'd better... JF Edited October 1, 2016 by Jon Fitness 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted January 10, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2017 I'm pretty sure there are some ghosts here - hiding in the shadows at foot of the steps of one of the two existing footbridges over the LNWR mainline over the Pennines - at Heyrod. Apologies for the graininess but this was taken last weekend, with my phone, during heavy mist we call drizzle! Kev. ..who is suspecting that this footbridge will be lost during the electrification of this Trans Pennine route.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinWalsh Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Back in the summer last year I was working alongside the Lavender Line at Isfield putting in new footpaths and kerbs, when clearing the ground in preparation for the works I can across a drainage cover stamped with SR. Rather than replace it with a modern one (main contractor was being a little tight with the budget) I rebuilt the surround and moved the cover slightly to ensure it was in the new path and preserved. Once I can find where I put the pic I'll post up the one I took of the original position and when I get a chance I'll pop over to take a pic of it in it's new position. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dan Randall Posted January 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2017 Paddington Station, 17th September 2016.... Note incorrect spelling of "complied" in first picture! Regards Dan 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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