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    Evocotive railway remains, what derelect or abandoned structure stirs your emotions?

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    Only recently demolished, this is the last remains of the structure that used to be Rugby Midland Carriage Shed.... many's the time I've wondered up the slope as a youth to have a wander round on a quiet Sunday morning when there was nobody about. In those days the horrible palisade fencing was a distant thought so it was an easy 'bunk' and no-one seemed to mind (apart from the day me and two other lads went a bitter further than we'd planned and ended up being chased out of the old Loco Testing Station by a P/Way ganger!).

     

    The whole look and feel of the building and particularly the colours in the brickwork, are typical of most of the old LNWR structures that abounded at Rugby, my biggest regret is not photographing all of them properly when I had numerous opportunities. I have some good shots of the old down side goods shed but alas none of the interior, which we used to play in as kids (my Dad's Dad was in charge of it for a while before it closed, after his days as a Guard at Rugby had come to an end).... oh for a time machine...

     

     

     

    I have never understood why Rugby Midland was called Midland when it is on the LNWR main line. I know the Midland reached the station from Leicester but the LNWR was by far the primary user. When was the Midland epithet first used?

     

    Rob

    Bachmann NRM/Locomotionmodels.com - GNR Ivatt C1

    in Locomotion Models

    Posted

    Thanks for maintaining the silence on it folks, I hope everyone continues to do so. If someone leaks it just hit the report link on such a post and I'll deal with it as soon as is possible.

    I have the magazine and thus know the answer. I am not going to state it here as the general opinion seems to be that I shouldn't.

     

    I don't claim to understand the reasons though. This is not a secret, or confidential information or anything that is going to spoil their announcement next week. The information is in the public domain as it is in a magazine that has already been published, via an advertisement placed by Locomotion themselves. It is already common knowledge.

     

    We are akin to the child who sticks their fingers in their ears and shouts LA LA LA as loud as they to avoid hearing something that they don't want to hear but which everyone else can. We are in strange territory indeed as a forum if we are not allowed to discuss something that anyone with half an interest will already know.

     

    ROB

     

    PS And I really don't mind if everyone presses their Disagree button as often as they like! :) At least it will prove my post has been read!

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    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    A few for this evening taken at Crewe in very dull weather in 1971 and 1972.  

     

     

    attachicon.gifCrewe Class 85 E3084 up freight 13th March 71 C480.jpg

    Crewe Class 85 E3084 up freight 13th March 71 C480

     

     

    attachicon.gifCrewe Class 25 7615 up empties 13th March 71 C482.jpg

    Crewe Class 25 7615 up empties 13th March 71 C482

     

     

    attachicon.gifCrewe Clas 08 4143 and parcels van, Class 82 E3053 on left 13th March 71 C498.jpg

    Crewe Class 08 4143 and parcels van, Class 82 E3053 on left 13th March 71 C498

     

     

    attachicon.gifCrewe 304010 Crewe to Altrincham, going away 11.28 5th Feb 72 C811.jpg

    Crewe 304010 Crewe to Altrincham, going away 11.28 5th Feb 72 C811

     

     

    attachicon.gifCrewe Class 50s 404 & 440 Glasgow to Euston 5th Feb 72 C816.jpg

    Crewe Class 50s 404 & 440 Glasgow to Euston 5th Feb 72 C816

     

     

    David

    Dave that leading 50 looks like 406 to me. Great pics and taken on my 4th birthday too!

     

    ROB

    Inspection Saloon

    in Bachmann

    Posted

    Too expensive?  Try building, painting and glazing one. I know which option I'll be taking!   :smoke:

    Something can be 'too expensive' for an individual, regardless of whether it is perceived to be value for money or not. 

     

    There is also an important issue of perception here. I suspect the manufacturers are hoping that they will sell a lower volume at a higher price and improve their margins in the process. I can't quibble with this as they are in the business of making money, not keeping the likes of us happy. I think it will have a different effect on me, I cannot see me reconciling myself to spending over £50 on a RTR coach as I 'perceive' that to be 'too expensive' where I might well have bought two at £35, for example. The net result is that my spending has dropped to zero rather than spending the same and getting less product for my money. I hope for the sake of the manufacturers' futures that most people are not like me!

     

    ROB

    St Ives branch relaying?

    in The Railways of Cornwall

    Posted

    Was down in Cornwall last weekend (playing golf, West Cornwall GC at Lelant was absolutely superb) and noticed large amounts of new steel sleepers piled by the side of the line from Lelant Saltings to a good way towards Carbis Bay. I assume new rail will be used as well? Anyone any ideas when this is likely to happen?

     

    ROB

    Evocotive railway remains, what derelect or abandoned structure stirs your emotions?

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    The tantalising remains of Nottingham Victoria. The blue brick retaining walls visible from the car park, the mouth of Mansfield Road tunnel, the underside of the girder bridge that carries Parliament St all make me nostalgic for a time I never knew. Born in 1968, my memories of Nottingham's once extensive network are limited to images of weed infested viaducts and missing overbridges, wireless telegraph posts and decaying remains.

     

    ROB

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    Washout at Dawlish

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    I suspect that there is less beach at the moment because the sand levels are so low. I have said in a previous post that the sand levels are at least 6 feet lower than they were when I stayed on Sea Lawn Terrace in the late 80s. This difference in vertical depth will translate to a large change in the horizontal extent of the beach at low tide.

     

    ROB

    East Midlands Miscellany

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    Have to disagree Rob and not just because you support Forest :scratchhead:

     

    To me the idea is that one is able to read through a thread. Some of the posts are just text, some include an illustration.That's fine by me because it all flows well.

     

    But where the entire post is just a series of links with just a loco/vehicle number and no indication of the location, then I do find it off-putting and it breaks up this flow. Bit like read something with lots of footnotes at the back.

     

    The poster's images are of excellent quality, but for all of us time is short. It only takes a moment to resize something and post it.

     

    Just my view and doubtless the poster can argue the point himself if he wishes.

     

    Regards,

    Peter

    Ah well, each to his own. We don't all have to agree all the time do we? That's what makes life more interesting!

     

    ROB

    East Midlands Miscellany

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    Can we see the pics please and not just links, we all don't have unlimited download allowances

    Which is exactly the reason why links may be better, if you are worried about your data allowance then don't click them, simples!

     

    It takes time to resize photos and post them on site, which may be time that johnw1 does not have. And as I said, if the picture is in the post then have virtually no choice but to download it, thereby eating into your allowance for an image that you may have no interest in seeing.

     

    When I have posted images I have put them in the post but that was my choice, doing it this way is John's choice and I don't have a problem with it. Also the quality of his images is excellent and I hope he continues to post.

     

    ROB

    East Midlands Miscellany

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    Richard, love the one taken from Five Arches Bridge.

     

     

    On the other side of Derby is the suburb of Peartree. A 3-car Swindon Cross-Country Cl.120 is shown on a Crewe - Lincoln working on a bitterly cold day in 1981. The "Clough for Derby" slogan on the fence behind the signal is a remarkable survivor; not defaced in the seven years that Brian Clough had left Derby in October 1973.

    Of course, Sir Brian went on to bigger and better things at the more illustrious neighbours the other side of Trent Junction!

     

    Rob

    Washout at Dawlish

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    No way should anyone have to put up with this sort of behaviour, but in all the replies/comments nobody has actually reflected upon the apparent reason for the fracas, namely that the persons concerned couldn't request their stop because the guard didn't pass through the train. I would ask why not; if this element is true then the staff concerned should be spoken to by FGW. Isn't that unacceptable too?

    Sadly, this is not uncommon. We travelled from Nottingham to Edinburgh last Easter,changing twice using three different trains and we did not have our ticket checked once in the entire journey. The return journey was the complete opposite, tickets checked on each train, on the long leg from Edinburgh to Newark more than once. Also, on the St Ives branch last summer, a journey on a near empty evening train from Lelant Saltings to St Ives and no opportunity to buy a ticket as the conductor did not appear, so we travelled for free. 

     

    A very variable situation.

     

    ROB

    Washout at Dawlish

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    Thanks Dagworth,, there are two of the Orange army & a digger at work in that pic!!

    This really shows how much sand has been lost from the beach, whether in the recent storms or over a period of time I do not know. I stayed in a flat on Sea Lawn Terrace in the late 80s and regularly walked along the beach to Dawlish Warren and the structure parallel to the wall was not really visible at all. Also, you could sit on the lower level walkway and put your feet on the sand, it now looks to be at least a 10 foot drop.

     

    ROB

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