Holmesfeldian

Please remember that discounted examples are also available from the Class 40 Preservation Society - I think they need the money more!! ;-)

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Good luck with that and looking forward to seeing the plan.

 

I have just got the book by Keith Miles, Rowsley Motive Power Depot, its really good.

The book written by the line's true experts is currently a bargain £6.95 (£8.95 hardback) post free !

rowsley-rrc.html

A further update from John Stephens of the Class 40 Preservation Society.

May I please repeat my earlier post and suggest people purchase them from the CFPS as all profits will be ploughed back in to keeping these marvellous machines running for posterity.

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Thank you to everyone who has ordered (or registered their interest in purchasing) the new Bachmann model of SPLIT BOX Class 40 number 40141. 

The setting up of The CFPS account with Bachmann has now been completed.

ITEM NO.         DESCRIPTION.           FEATURES.            CFPS PRICE.     RRP.         APPROX Delivery Date.

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32-475DC     40141 in BR BLUE.    Has chip fitted.          £  90.00       £ 114.95      expected by 19/01/14.

32-480DS      D211  in GREEN.    WITH DCC Sound.        £ 188.40      £ 244.95      expected by 26/01/14.

32-481          D369  in GREEN.   NO chip, just socket.     £  82.80        £  95.95      expected by 20/02/14.

POST and PACKING is an additional £4.95 per model.

If you wish to have the item despatched to you, then please add £4.95 for posting and packing.

Please EMAIL your orders to sales@cfps.co.uk  OR  

Please TEXT your orders to 077 882 40088.

Payment can then be made DIRECT into The CFPS Bank Account, the details being :-

BARCLAYS BANK,  Sort Code, 20-16-08   A/c number, 10719102

Proceeds from the sale of the models will help finance the maintenance costs of our 2 x Class 40s.  

If you have requirements for other loco models, we can also supply those, but a little advance notice would

be helpful to enable us to plan deliveries.

Thanks for your interest and support everyone.

Regards

John

From the Chairman of the Class 40 Preservation Society, owners and custodians of D335 (40135) and D345 (40145).

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​Please consider purchasing your Bachmann class 40s through the CFPS, as all proceeds will be invested in keeping the originals running.

Fresh out the box - sniff the wet paint 

So who has the best pre-order price then, chaps ?

I missed out on a Blue Pullman with blue ends by dithering - not going to happen with a split blue 40 !

A brief interlude for you... :-)

Thanks for those timetables. They will be a great help. Although I wont need headcodes I am intending to run the passenger services to a timetable with freights squeezed in between to make things interesting. Its good to see pretty much all the services I imagined.

 

As you might imagine, the Summer 1953 WTT will take rather longer to transcribe !   

And the even sparser Sunday service !

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3gq7npq4tzfunbt/Peak%20Line%20Passenger%20WTT%20Sundays.pdf

As posted to the Millers Dale in N pages...

If you want to run authentic head codes and workings, here's the penultimate WTT for passenger trains 1966-67 a year before closure.

Stopping times are bold, else just passing times are shown. What strikes you is how quick trains were between stops despite the line being in its death throws and relatively sparse traffic by this time!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwh0av0jx8iphni/Peak%20Line%20Passenger%20WTT.pdf

If you want to run authentic head codes and workings, here's the penultimate WTT for passenger trains 1966-67 a year before closure.

Stopping times are bold, else just passing times are shown. What strikes you is how quick trains were between stops despite the line being in its death throws and relatively sparse traffic by this time!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwh0av0jx8iphni/Peak%20Line%20Passenger%20WTT.pdf

I said it was big !

Excellent video! Some great footage that has given me a lovely feel for Millers Dale.

Speaking of which, I've found my 40ft-1" rating plan of Millers Dale station if you think it would be of use?

It's a big 'un!

Excellent video! Some great footage that has given me a lovely feel for Millers Dale. The 37 thrashing through there on vans is certainly something my railfreight ones will recreate with a snake of stone hoppers!!!

That was on the famous Westinghouse 1 mile long test train just after the line closed.

Have you got a spare 99 ferry wagons ?

Wow, another great bit of film, I'm amazed at the variety of locos on show - far more than I expected - I was expecting 3F, 4F, Crab, 8F and even 9F, but look at all those others, and the different DMUs as well, and a shot of the Blue Pullman!

 

Thank you, is it your own footage? Can you give me dates when it was shot?

 

Cheers,

 

Al.

It was posted on the Bakewell of Yesteryear Facebook page - sadly I don't have any more details.

There is now a good case for buying a Banger Blue class 37 as well :-)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152068884552835

Oh look - banger blue peaks :-)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152064140422835

Hi Al

More fine modelling going on I see, station buildings looking really good.

Incidentally, I saw your post on "Millersdale" about blue peaks not going through Bakewell. I was of the same opinion until I just found this photo of a train leaving Haddon tunnel. All I can say this must have been extremely late on.

Check out the final picture in the gallery on the link below:

 

http://www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/tunnels/gallery/haddon.html

 

Marcus

Glynn Waite of the Rowsley Association advises:- 

"The very last passenger train was 1H18 16.20 St. Pancras to Manchester Piccadilly on Saturday 29th June 1968. This train left Matlock approximately 20 minutes late at 19.35 hauled by D80 [in blue livery] with 8 coaches and a van. Relief signalman Herbert Taylor, who worked the last shift at Church Lane Crossing, recorded that the train past his box at 19.39"

Herbert took the above photograph which is published in Rowsley - A Rural Railway Centre - now available at a bargain price !

http://nicwhe8.freehostia.com/pynot/railway/rowsley-rrc/rowsley-rrc.html

This may also be of interest - the very sad sight of the demolition train. This was posted in the old Bakewell Facebook page...

Probably a bit late now but finally the footbridge - the plans were drawn in 1960 for a proposal to raise the height by over a 1 ft - I cannot confirm whether the works actually took place.

And a 40ft-1" station plan...

I've managed to get my plans down from the loft - first up the 2 chain line plan...

Blimey, that's a lovely, and really useful, plan - as you say, a work of art in itself.

Aren't they just !

The Midland Railway study centre has most of the Derbyshire lines in one shape or another but there are a few gaps (and of course by its very nature no Great Northern or Great Central lines).

And here's a larger version showing Willenhall station, showing the type of station features showed more clearly.

The names displayed around the plans show from whom land was purchased in order to build the railway line. The numbers in a circle are the 'deed number' so the original sale deeds could be identified and retrieved for later inspection from the repository.

2 Chain Line Plans are true works of art, regardless of the location !

The station accommodation (plus locations of gradient posts, mileposts, signals, etc. will be on the 2 chains to 1" Line Plan. I have a copy somewhere which I'll scan for you.

2 Chain Line Plans are a boon for modellers wishing to explore a prototype in detail.

Here's an example of such a beast for Whatstandwell showing the railway furniture locations and station building accommodation...