Barry W

I am back, no thanks to BT's Infinity! So much interesting stuff thank you all, always nice to get a drivers perspective too. So Matt, The only Eden Vale I know is a very good ale from up Carlisle way, highly recommended. I believe the coal merchant was G.W.Talbot, at least that is the name mentioned with a photo of the 04 shunter on Flickr. The green 08 was 08011 'Haversham' and a local celebrity it would seem, this page tells the story http://www.leightonlogs.org/08011locostory. Caradoc, nice find! I will have to seek out that book, I wonder how long that traffic lasted? Not long it would seem. HMRSPaul, interesting stuff, I have already purchased some photos of the Ermefer tanks from your site, but missed the others. I Don't suppose you know what the freightliners were doing there? Junction3, So the 25 would come light engine from Bletchley to pick up the wine and coal from Risboro', seems like a long trip for a small number of wagons. With regard to the underground stock, was it just delivery of 1983 stock or did other rolling stock pass through also? Thanks again for all the info. Barry

Hi Rob, Now you mention it I do have that photo of two 25's hauling coal from the north, DOH! I have indeed seen the derbysulzers site, it was my interest in 25's that first brought the variety of traffic at Aylesbury to my attention. As you say there was the wine concentrate and LU stock movements and also the binliners too. I'm loving the variety there seemed to be in the parcels vans, some of the CCT's look ready for preservation! Thanks for your comments. Barry

Thanks for the replies guys. Caradoc, would that have been the all over blue era? There are some nice photos on flickr from that period and judging by the empty car park could be the weekend too! Matt, thanks for sharing your memories, some good information there, the thought of having an 08 in residence is pretty cool. Do you recall seeing much in the way of engineers wagons at Aylesbury, would be another source of interest. Cheers Barry

Hello all, I have been looking for a location to model and reckon Aylesbury looks like an interesting prospect and after much internet trawling have a lot of good information and photographs. I do however have a few questions that I was hoping the collective knowledge of the forum may be able to help me with? Did international alloys have an active flow in this time period or did the coal depot takeover their site? Speaking of the C.C.D I believe the household coal was sourced from up north, but did it arrive from the north or the south? I only ask as I think the coal for Chinnor came via Banbury and presume the two flows originated from the same place. Were there ever any bricks worked south through Aylesbury from Calvert to London, from what I have read I guess most went north to Bletchley? To the north of the station adjacent to the Oxford Road there were oil tanks with rail access, did this facility ever have a delivery in the above time period? And finally, the four sidings in the 'east yard' adjacent to the Mandeville Road, did these ever have a use in the 70's/80's? Every photo I have shows that area as being empty. Apologies for a mammoth first post, I have been lurking for a while and I am itching to get back into modelling, so any info would be greatly received. Many thanks Barry