nicktamarensis

Thanks for all that info gentlemen. Much obliged. I guess if they went to the Eastern Front they would have needed a gauge change or did the Wehrmacht railway troops convert the Russian gauge?

Thanks very much gentlemen. I guess that almost settles it - enough for my purposes anyway.

Thanks very much gents and especially to you Kevin. Nice find! I found my copy on an obscure Swiss photographic site covering all manner of subjects - not just railways!

Attached is an undated view of the above looking fresh from a paint job and ready for foreign service. I would greatly appreciate any background info as to its history and eventual fate if known Many thanks.

Thanks Rangers. Spot on.

Very good questions...... Passenger services were ceased over the branch as from 19 May 1952 so there was no regular passenger service along the line when the coach was installed - unless of course the record is wrong. The coach is parked on a siding next to the one remaining platform which is fenced off and the only other way of getting into the coach is a set of wooden steps seen at ground level in the yard. The picture is undated but the coach looks newly converted. Strangely, the print shows another carriage at the station platform beyond the camper but there's not enough detail in the print to provide any further clue.

I have a picture of the camping coach parked at Lochmaben between 1956 - 1961. (DM SC30) Question - if the station was closed to passengers (as Lochmaben was in 1952) how were customers supposed to reach it ? The usual qualification for booking one in that period was the purchase of a minimum of 4 adult return tickets and a hire charge of around £10 per week, but as the nearest stations to Lochmaben were either Dumfries or Lockerbie in this period how did the punters get to their holiday destination - or am I missing the obvious?

That's one of my old stamping grounds at platform 5 at 'The General' from around '58 until '65 when I gave up after 81D closed. I hadn't realised there were so many spotters still inhabiting that hallowed ground into the '70's! Nice pic and thanks for posting. Here's one from the 1950's taken at the London end. Times and fashions change!

I'm trying to find out a little more on the signalling aspects on this almost forgotten line - particularly for Lochmaben the most important intermediate station on the line. Both the CRA and the SRS resources appear to have little to offer and so any assistance on this would be most gratefully received - particular for the 'boxes and their lever sizes. The 'box at Lochmaben was said to have replaced the function of two smaller boxes until these were dispensed with in the 1870's as a result of the line being used as a test bed for a revised Tyer system. A substantial box also existed at Locharbriggs and a lesser one at Shieldhill. Many thanks in advance for any contributions which would go towards an article on the line to appear in Railway Bylines. Nick.

Many thanks for the info Mike. Noted.

Apologies for the senior moment chaps - I meant 'up' not 'down'! Here's the pic. for clarification. Nick.

Thanks chaps. The photo taken from the footbridge to the west of the station was definitely of a down train passing the HW 'Middle 'box coming in from the West Wycombe direction, carrying Class A lamps and with the 'B10' reporting number - not chalked but boarded. As you say, the lamps by this date would indicate '1' as a prefix. Chris - this was a query in conjunction with the Transport Treasury not BRILL or Bylines! Nick.

Hello. I have a photo of 6015 entering High Wycombe with a down train on 7 July 1962 bearing this number. I assume it was a service from Birkenhead/Birmingham/Wolverhampton but I can't trace this number for that period. Can anyone help please? Nick.

This is just a tail end comment to this topic. Credit for the images which I used in the original posting should have been given to Martin Hubbard who took the original photographs at the crash site. Apologies Martin.

Thanks very much Paul - sorry for the tardy reply.

Thanks chaps. A separate source having the benefit of access to NERA records states that this was an NER 3cpt Brake 3rd ex-NER 1490 built to diagram 18 which was probably converted to service stock about 1951/2 and was allocated to the Engineer at Stratford. The date as either 1895/1906 or 1908. Looking at the style of the panelling probably about 1906 – just before the elliptical roof designs became standard.

Hello all. Attached are a few pictures of DE320111 taken during the summer of 1963 when it was parked in the station yard at West Horndon on the LT&SR line. I'm assuming it was a Holden clerestory of the type produced from 1898 - 1906, but clarification would be most welcome plus any detail of its eventual fate. The pictures show it two different positions and it may have been part of a clear up operation after a derailment of stock at West Horndon on 17 July of the same year. Until the following summer piles of smashed stock removed from the accident site awaited clearance. Many thanks. Nick

Thanks for all the info. guys. I think as this shot faces east the Caledonian Canal lock and Loch Linnhe is out of sight to the right. The 'big hill' in the Pullman shot might be one of the lesser lumps a bit to the north of Ben Nevis - possibly Coire Ceirsle?

Thanks very much Jason. I'll have a trawl....

Many thanks Wickham Green too - that clinches it. Not having the Profile No. 5 data may I ask whether you can furnish Savona's the build date, operational use and eventual fate? Thanks again.

Thanks Stephen. I'll keep my fingers crossed. If of any help, I found a 1957 listing in another thread for ScR CC locations - but whether any of these would have included the later arrival of the Pullmans is another matter.... 6-Berth coaches: Aboyne, Aberdour, Aberfeldy, Aberlady, Appin, Arisaig, Benderloch, Burghead, Carnoustie, Carr Bridge, Eddleston, Elie, Fairlie High, Fortrose, Glenfinnan, Gullane, Kentallen, Kingussie, Loch Awe, Lochmaben, Lundin Links, Monifieth, Morar, Plockton, Portressie, St Combs, St Monance, Strathyre, Strome Ferry, Tyndrum Lower, West Kilbride Nick.

If the style of the platform bench has been identified correctly this is somewhere on the former NBR system - but where? Does anyone have any info on this location and the coach itself? The location may be somewhere in the Highlands rather than the Borders area if the mountain in the background is anything to go by. Many thanks. Nick.

Lovely job Mick. Any thoughts of a complementary 'canal corner' like Peter Denny used to have at Buckingham?

Lovely stuff Mick - bags of atmospheric 'dark satanic' looks. How dirty are you going to make it and will it have a Fred Dibnah style chimney ? Nick.

Nice piece of atmospheric work, Mick. Those Victorian arched window heads look particularly good. Nick.