'CHARD Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 Thanks again to Kenneth Gray's tenacity in the line's final fortnight, we have this classic portrait of D192 on 1S65, which I think coincidentally answers a conundrum posed way back on this thread, as to which Peak had the larger, squared-off headcode panel. In the earlier shot we saw her arriving at Hawick, with a shedplate below the unusual (perhaps unique) feature. Now we have a positive i.d. Fantastic! http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=32380 And a classic branchline freight shot, with the ubiquitous Jocko at the helm, courtesy of Bruce http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=32384 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 classic portrait of D192 on 1S65, which I think coincidentally answers a conundrum posed way back on this thread, as to which Peak had the larger, squared-off headcode panel. In the earlier shot we saw her arriving at Hawick, with a shedplate below the unusual (perhaps unique) feature. http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=32380 That's interesting, hard to see from that shot just what it is (not aware of any physical diffs in the panels, I wonder if it's some sort of paint treatment). Any chance of a link to the earlier shot Chard? And a classic branchline freight shot, with the ubiquitous Jocko at the helm, courtesy of Brucehttp://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=32384 Bruce might well know different, but that looks sadly like a demolition train Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 Any chance of a link to the earlier shot Chard? Voila: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=23712 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Bruce might well know different, but that looks sadly like a demolition train The date seems to fit for a service train as Robotham gives a closure date of July 19th 1965. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 This is what a demolition train looks like http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=32396 Into the bargain, the caption gives an appetiser of the forthcoming definitive WR book. Tasty stuff indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Voila: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=23712 and if you're eagle-eyed, you can catch a glimpse of a van about to be attached to the rear by the Hawick station pilot. As Bernard says that stub of the Berwickshire branch was closed on the following Monday, so Friday 16th July 1965 was the last Gala - St Boswells- Earlston - Gordon - Greenlaw working. Here's a typical freight in March 1965 passing the site of Fans Loanend siding, closed in the 50s. Bruce 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Probably time we had a Langholm photograph. August 1967. Looks like RailScot thought it about time too! http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete.php?id=32410 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 And a Kelso one! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 A few photos have appeared at: Transport Scotland images of the Waverley Route - I can't be sure if I've seen some of them before. Also nice to see that Transport Scotland have linked their History page to the WRHA website here - despite naming WRHA slightly incorrectly, ah well - something's better than nothing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Here's part of Stobs Camp sidings up for sale at Acreknowe, at £95,000.00 per serviced plot, assuming you've got that lying around. http://www.scottishproperty.co.uk/pdf/D/D011733.pdf In that part of the world when they say 'offers over'they usually mean 'offers considerably over'. The brain is ticking over estimating the cost of connecting to the leccy and the water supply and the provision of drainage. Not to mention the upkeep of the access road. Then it's a case of finding a builder mad enough to work there. It would be a bit too isolated for me. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 1968 in 1968 - and a new contender for one of the ultimate WR shots, thanks again to Kenneth Gray for sharing this: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete.php?id=32464 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I wonder if this will affect the line's solum, or is that notionally protected south of Hawick? Judging by the small location map on the PDF there's a bit of distance between the plots and the solum. Having been through the difficulties of obtaining planning permission on another part of the solum a bit further south, any property developer proposing building on the old line would struggle to get anything passed by the SBC planning department! Perhaps of interest to anyone into that kind of thing, the planning hoops and hurdles I am talking about involve a long stretch of the solum stretching south from Whitrope - and it was granted - but that's maybe as it was for its original intended purpose?! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Another ebay find http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Railway-Photograph-BR-Melrose-Station-Waverley-Rte-27-/130480391424?pt=UK_Collectables_Railwayana_RL&hash=item1e613cc500 Enough distraction already, I'm off to look at Diesel-Hydraulics..... Nidge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 30, 2011 Author Share Posted January 30, 2011 In response to a question in a PM, I hope no-one objects to me posting a wee bit of gen here in public... Most of the WR DMU photos seem to feature, in this order: Met-Cam triples Edinburgh - Hawick Gloucester twins Peebles loop Lightweights Carlisle - Hawick However, the Met-Cam power-trailer combo was far from unknown on the line. And here one of the Standard Works (Caplan) comes to our aid. On page 31 we see what looks very much like 64H's SC51247 leading possibly SC56405 at Hawick in GSYP in an undated photo. This is further interesting in that this twin was only at Leith Central (Home of the Borders DMU) during 1966. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 The January '69 Files, Part XIV http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=32526 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 In response to a question in a PM, I hope no-one objects to me posting a wee bit of gen here in public... Most of the WR DMU photos seem to feature, in this order: Met-Cam triples Edinburgh - Hawick Gloucester twins Peebles loop Lightweights Carlisle - Hawick However, the Met-Cam power-trailer combo was far from unknown on the line. And here one of the Standard Works (Caplan) comes to our aid. On page 31 we see what looks very much like 64H's SC51247 leading possibly SC56405 at Hawick in GSYP in an undated photo. This is further interesting in that this twin was only at Leith Central (Home of the Borders DMU) during 1966. Thanks 'Chard, just the ticket I needed and even more so being GYSP. Sure I've got that publication somewhere. Thanks for your efforts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 From a set I don't believe we've featured before, mainly because of the collection owner's mispelling of Waverly (sic). Anyway, worth a click to see some of a wintry Bowshank with its proto-concrete architecture and other structures on the northern section, including Eskbank footbridge. http://simon681.foto.../p64061091.html Anybody know why Bowshank Tunnel south portal had an overlaid portal frontage? Was it simply to match the new retaining walls? http://simon681.fotopic.net/p64061092.html The aperture of the portal does look rather odd at this end. Partially rebuilt? Strengthened? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Anybody know why Bowshank Tunnel south portal had an overlaid portal frontage? Was it simply to match the new retaining walls? http://simon681.fotopic.net/p64061092.html The aperture of the portal does look rather odd at this end. Partially rebuilt? Strengthened? A few more shots here. http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=18797151 The odd shape does, to me at least, indicate some sort of disturbance that needed remedial work. Particularly noticeable when compared the other end in it's original state. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 It does look a rather unhappy structure. When was the strengthening added? Are the any pictures of the tunnel with track in it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Anybody know why Bowshank Tunnel south portal had an overlaid portal frontage? Was it simply to match the new retaining walls? http://simon681.fotopic.net/p64061092.html The aperture of the portal does look rather odd at this end. Partially rebuilt? Strengthened? There was work done, I think, in the early 60s to Bowshank at the south end. Our Geography teacher travelled by train and he said something about the tunnel being shortened and the work making his train from Melrose to Hawick run late some days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 There was work done, I think, in the early 60s to Bowshank at the south end. But would any one own up to designing/allowing the work in that soviet brutalist style? Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Old chums Soil Mechanics (no connection other than satisfied customer, and that's in 1:1 scale) have been contracted to carry out G.I. work on the new Waverley Route, aka Borders Rail Link (which sounds suspiciously like the no.95 bus). BBC News story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk...otland-12391790 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted February 8, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 8, 2011 Hi All, Please note... Work appears to have started again! Scaffolding has appeared around two of piers of the Lothianbridge Viaduct near Newtongrange. Not had chance to go and speak to the contractors. However, this appears to be initial work and a scafflod frame to protect the buildings of the caravan park from damage by falling objects. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Hi All, Please note... Work appears to have started again! Scaffolding has appeared around two of piers of the Lothianbridge Viaduct near Newtongrange. Not had chance to go and speak to the contractors. However, this appears to be initial work and a scafflod frame to protect the buildings of the caravan park from damage by falling objects. Thanks Phil What sort of state of repair is the structure in? Its a fine looking bridge for sure but I wonder what state of repair its in. I presume irrespective of condition it will have to be brought up to good repair, which I assume is what this work might be or is it perhaps just them having a closer look at what's there. Either way good news I suppose. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 I'm sure that one or two forum members will have David Cross's book on the Waverley Route. On page 7 is the gradient profile. I've seem similar before marked the same way as this reproduction. Can anyone explain the significance of: (i) the diamonds at Abbeyhill, Portobello Junction, Glenesk Junction, Gorebridge, Galashiels, Hawick, between Hawick and Stobs (this one also has a left pointing arrow), Riccarton and finally Canal Junction. also (ii) the small squares at St Margaret's tunnel, between Riccarton and Whitrope and again between Riccarton and Steele Road (both these have right pointing arrows) and finally Longtown. Many thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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