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8 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

I am going to have the clap at 20.00

You will definitely need self isolation of a certain kind for that

Photos here

This gives a complete list and photos

http://www.bristolsu.co.uk/ls/operatorhistory/easternnational.htm

Just now, gobbler said:

So would you say the drawing of the front is the LS then?

Thanks

Yes - more likely for your period than an MW

Gobbler, in your last post -They are not all the same vehicle design. The first is a Bristol LS, the other two are Bristol MWs

6 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

That second photo certainly confirms the location. The bracket signals confused me as I had not considered the possibility of signalled wrong line working although I had wondered about the facing crossover.

The hut has changed with your photo presumably being earlier.

 

Edit: Signalling Record Society has diagrams for both layouts (old tunnels and new tunnel)

If you look carefully at my first photo link the hut end can just be seen and resembles the OP photo. That suggests that the hut in my second linked photo is a replacement hut, maybe for the reconstruction works.

Has to be woodhead

2 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

BJ punctuates his sentences very strangely, though.

 

He will speak through ......where a full stop should be But then pause in ........ the middle of what should be a ....... sentence Then start on something ........ else without pausing.

 

He also massively de-emphasises, by speaking quickly and quietly, anything he’d rather not have to say. Listen to him announce school closures to hear a stark example.

7 minutes ago, Mark Saunders said:

 

Only when the point motor/control works normally!

 

Seen it in Prague when the tram driver has operated the points.

Happens in Nottingham too

1 hour ago, melmerby said:

There are some decommisioned signal posts in the distance, one of which suggests it may have been an advanced junction signal for the pair shown.

 

Anyone know where it is?

Caption says 31192 & 31241 Foxlow Junction. Possibly the Lackenby - Corby steel. Resignalling in progress, & singling the curve round to Hall Lane Jnc. 27/08/1981

No12 Georgemas Junction?

53 minutes ago, Stephen Freeman said:

Back on main PC now - much more sensible typing. The first two photos were taken at the Midland station, you can tell amongst other things because of the remains of the LNWR flyover track.

The LNWR flyover track crossed the LNWR station too. The first two images are of the LNWR station. You can tell by the track arrangement ( 3 parallel approach tracks with a crossover direct from 1 to 3) and the DMU stabling on the LHS.

4 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

I quite understand what Davexoc is saying ......... the Marston Vale is prime warehouse territory, with large populations in "final ten miles by electric" on the doorstep, so an additional IRFT could easily develop there.

 

Which doesn't alter my point about going to Daventry, the route to which ought to be a tad less busy post HS2, it simply adds another possibility.

 

I'm not clued-up on whether there is an East Midlands IRFT anywhere on the MML or ECML, but if there isn't now, logic would suggest that there ought to be one.

See https://www.slp-emg.com/c/rft.php

1 hour ago, Edwardian said:

Eastern Counties- Green 

No, they used Tilling Red IIRC

Fantastic model. Another suggestion, if you haven't thought of them already -  few fly posters on the frontage?

Btw, anyone else think it amusing that Kawasaki once built steam engines?

So did Skoda

A variation of the turntable / sector plate at the end of the platform lines was, of course, the traverser at B'ham Moor Street. I don't recall seeing mention of such an arrangement anywhere else

I am sure you mean in the UK. Abroad, they existed too. The Gare de Bastille in Paris had them, for example.

Some of the plastic kits on eBay are pretty good and quite cheap. The London ones are pretty specific to London, but the Tower Models SHMD one is pretty general in application and has bogies, so more wheels to pick up from and smoother riding. Keil Kraft ones are OK but not quite as good. Hadfield ones are a bit on the crude side, IMHO.

Sorting through an archive box this week a carrier bag of photos turned up. There were 21 which were taken before site work on Phase 2 of the project started. Some had been used for a presentation in the office and were rescued from the boards that they had been stuck to. 14 were in a congealed lump of picture, glue and sticky tape but a couple of hours in a bucket of water managed to rescue many intact and the wonders of photoshop and rebuilding the damaged ones. Some of these will be posted when I have sorted and cleaned up the scans.

 

The upshot was that the third picture in Post #4 which I thought was at the north end of Kirkby Tunnel isn't there. I was having difficulty resolving it but have found two pictures which was taken a few months earlier from the footbridge over the Pinxton line at Kirkby Lane End. It looks as if that picture was the Kirkby end of the GNR line towards Mansfield and the stonework is where it crossed the Midland line. Many years ago the Midland alignment through the town was abandoned in favour of using the GNR Lean Valley Extension.

 

I have edited the post and caption accordingly.

You can see both the old GN formation towards Annesley in the cutting and beyond that the bridge abutment over the old Midland line from Kirkby town centre (left) towards Pinxton (right) just to the right of the digger.

Just found this, so sorry for the late posting.

I wonder if this one might be Irish broad gauge. Putting the W irons of coaching stock on the outside of the frames is typical of Irish practice. The loco's frames look a bit wide in relation to the cab and boiler too. Maybe a Beyer Peacock 2-4-0?

I think this may have happened to one of the locos on the Madeira Mamoré line.

A picture or two of this appeared in the publication 'Railway Wonders of the World' in the 1930s. Awdry quite possibly read the article. I certainly rmember the photo of the loco in its discovered state with greenery growing through it.

Pretty fair in the round. We had a bit of a curate's egg day by our standards. On occasions we appeared to be having a 'purple patch' where things were going well, following by an attack of the gremlins / operator error where maybe things didn't look quite so good. Having a barrier line alongside the main axis of the fiddle yard as well as the front can be a bit of a double edged sword. Folks like to examine your stock and are often genuinely interested in how the fiddle yard works; however it is a fiddle yard where a fair degree of 'fiddling' is required which ideally should be done out of the public gaze (doesn't excuse points being wrong, mind).

 

Thanks for kind comments nonetheless; let's see what Sunday brings...

Personally, the few gremlins in no way prevented me from enjoying what is after all a truly great layout. I have operated a busy fiddle yard myself in the past and realise how easy it is for things to go slightly wrong from time to time. Having your fiddle yard on full display was an extra bonus for me.

Grantham, Fields and Mostyn all looked great but we spent 75% of the time on Grantham; simply - they knew how to run it and they ran it well. On fields there must have been engineering works on the main lines as the only thing that moved was out of the yard and on the NLL. Mostyn had 'issues' with trains trying to occupy the same bit of track and the inability of one point to work with Class 40's. Most of the smaller layouts were good as well but on one a sound Class 27 was ticking over in a siding for seamingly all of the 3 hours we were there.

 

Trade stands seemed to very effective at selling stuff, unfortunately not me. At least it meant there was time for a thrid circuit of the layouts.

Interestingly, my experience was the direct opposite - Mostyn and CF operating very well, but hand shunting on the scenic side of Grantham, plus derailments and more hand shunting/wrong points being set etc in the fiddle yard.

With very large layouts like these it always amazes me just how well they all run given the mileages the trains run at an average exhibition and the concentration required by the operators.

Well done to the show organisers. I don't think I have ever been to such a good show. The quality was fantastic.

The NLS map site has early OS maps of Dundee showing track layouts etc

e.g. https://maps.nls.uk/view/74415319

It always strikes me as odd that Newark should be in Notts anyway. It's the wrong side of the Trent. A bit like Ostend being part of England, rather than Belgium.