RMweb Premium Simon Lee Posted January 14, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2013 Just discovered this one :- My brother and I on the last English V2. Drapers scrap yard, Hull July 1967. Regards Simon 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted January 14, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2013 Just discovered this one :- V2 Drapers.jpg My brother and I on the last English V2. Drapers scrap yard, Hull July 1967. Regards Simon You didn't get that axle box cover per chance? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 A few from me.. The S&T heavy gang load the remains of an LNER welded steel bracket signal into their lorry at Bageney Road, March. The March lampman goes about his business.. I believe this is driver D Stock on the last northbound loco hauled train to King's Lynn.. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 It's amazing to think of Parafin lighting of signals lasting so long! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 It's amazing to think of Parafin lighting of signals lasting so long! It lasted into the mid/late nineties on the York - Harrogate line. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 15, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 15, 2013 Captions please! He is an RMwebber with about three posts and good friend of mine, and appreciates most forms of humour Cheers, Mick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Williams Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 We ought to have an annual RMweb day where everyone went to their nearest line or station and took a handful of snaps and uploaded them somewhere for posterity. It would be mundane now but in 50 years modellers and enthusiasts would thank us for the foresight... One of the US magazines (I think it is Railroads Illustrated), do a 'Day in North America', where photographers do something similar. Not stations as such, just general railway photographs. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 (edited) We ought to have an annual RMweb day where everyone went to their nearest line or station and took a handful of snaps and uploaded them somewhere for posterity. It would be mundane now but in 50 years modellers and enthusiasts would thank us for the foresight... People meed to get out now! For example, the Hull - Selby line is due to be resignalled in 2016. A whole load of boxes with their semaphores will be gone forever. The situation is the same everywhere and people don't make an effort many scenes across the UK will be gone. Edited January 16, 2013 by James 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted January 15, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2013 "Oh now I get it: Wheels!" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 (edited) Captions please! He is an RMwebber with about three posts and good friend of mine, and appreciates most forms of humour 153s.jpg Cheers, Mick And here is where we put the Conservative minister of transport...... (and The Weasel?) Edited January 15, 2013 by devondynosoar118 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 15, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 15, 2013 Captions please! He is an RMwebber with about three posts and good friend of mine, and appreciates most forms of humour 153s.jpg Cheers, Mick My own caption is: in a nasal voice style "Errrr - this is fitted with the alternative Hornby spare part X 9987 instead of the factory fitted X9986, so that makes it worth more on Ebay according to G*stude" Cheers, Mick 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 16, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2013 It's amazing to think of Parafin lighting of signals lasting so long! probably lasted longer than the class 47 drivers mullet (you would hope) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Just discovered this one :- V2 Drapers.jpg My brother and I on the last English V2. Drapers scrap yard, Hull July 1967. Regards Simon Cor look what weve found ,do you think mum would notice it if we put in the back garden? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 (edited) Yours truly demonstrating two alternative methods of moving a signalbox... Smash it up with a 360 and load it in a trailer.. Pick it up with a crane and place it on a low loader.. (recommended method) Edited January 16, 2013 by LNERGE 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I need to find someone with a low loader - I reckon come the 2016, a local box would make a fantastic conservatory! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 17, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2013 I need to find someone with a low loader - I reckon come the 2016, a local box would make a fantastic conservatory! I do know that parts of a signal box near to me became the last signalman's greenhouse when it closed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Preparing to leave Rheine for the north - 1971 Brit15 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I do know that parts of a signal box near to me became the last signalman's greenhouse when it closed. At one time I believe old window frames were sort after items as boxes closed for very similar reasons! My uPVC widows probably won't have the same appeal when we close! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I need to find someone with a low loader - I reckon come the 2016, a local box would make a fantastic conservatory! I know a chap based in Immingham would do you haulage at a sensible rate. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I know a chap based in Immingham would do you haulage at a sensible rate. I might come back to you when we're resignalled!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I need to find someone with a low loader - I reckon come the 2016, a local box would make a fantastic conservatory! The trouble is you'll need to have everyone Network Rail approved. Despite the low loader for Spellbrook not actually being on the railway they insisted it had to be from one of their approved suppliers. The crane and low loader cost a king's ransom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 The one I want could, we reckoned, be dismantled - maybe esier to remove then. One, if you built a house in the stye of a NER cottage adjoining it, would I think be a lovely place to live! You can see I've given this some thought!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) Thinking of the sadder side of staff photos, I used to work with a driver calld Grindley at Addiscombe in 1979/80, he was a young driver from Warrington and moved south for promotion. I lost track of him when I transferred to Waterloo. The last I heard of him was on one of those unsolved murder police shows on TV a few years back. It turned out he'd been murdered somewhere by a main road in Derbyshire. I don't know if they ever tracked down his killer. Edited January 18, 2013 by roythebus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) This is a special photo for me. Take a look at a few thing's. The most obvious is the two illuminated signalbox diagrams, also the door is off the relay cabinet and the chap is fiddling with a lock economizer contact. There are works in progress in connection the abolition of Horsemoor box with March South taking control of that section of line. This photo captures the very moment i decided i wanted to become a new works tester, with the biggest obstacle at the time was me not working for the railway. I am now a Signal Works Tester, specialising in mechanical signalling. It's been an interesting journey. Edited January 18, 2013 by LNERGE 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 As part of the works mentioned above this signal became redundant.. The gas axe has done it's business.. and gravity takes over with a little help from the gang.. and the gas axe finishes the job.. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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