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Morning just wondering what is the small engine on this rail head? near to the former stoke Cockshute depot https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.0124082,-2.192686,325m/data=!3m1!1e3 regards

I read recently of Lairra being known as "the last outpost of Diesel civilisation" has anyone else seen this or known of Laira being referred to as such?

looking through the pics on Rail online and seen this great pic, http://www.rail-online.co.uk/p870200504/h2465909F#h2465909f would anyone happen to know what where 3B76 went?

hi when does that list date from?

much appreciated - thank you,

Would anyone happen to have a current list of depots with a DMU asllcoation please?

With the depot aside a station and mainline, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/25268_Northwich_Motive_Power_Depot.jpg it looks a good candidate for a model. while ready to plant modelling might not be for everyone, this is a rather a good match as a start? https://hattonsimages.blob.core.windows.net/products/44-050_27143_Qty1_1.jpg As well as the near by Lostock works, what other traffic did the depot handle? and does anyone know when the depot and or traincrew depot closed, i.e. when and whether they closed at the same time?

And every loco sill has Arabic numbers on them today....

Great pics, any ideas though what the working was that brought the twenties onto the Avenue Coking plant line? they're running around their train which would suggest that this wasn't a train for Avenue but rather one using the facilities to run round? especially as it has a brake van and HEAs? Also note the twenties and the 58 on the Goods road and the 58 has drawn up behind the twenties!!

Am I right in thinking that the Class 66's that were first locos fitted with wing mirrors in an attempt to overcome this problem, (Stable door - Horse bolted though...... given the demise of unfitted freights which constituted the bulk of the train divided problem)

this depot is always a little puzzling, for its quite a substancial depot ans was built I believe in the short period of Trainload Freight South West...................?

the inspection saloon in on the one line that was left in Avenue Sidings, just north of Clay Cross junction, the 31 has ran round the saloon after bringing it onto the siding from the North, or is departing north to run round and take it south..............

That was done so a train could be started from the siding on the left.

It's actually most probably headed for Oxcroft

Just studying the map below (if the link works?) https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/530503/182500/13/100765 and it begs the question why was the depot called "Cambridge Street" ?

well said Titan, thank you for going to the effort to find those sources, I'm afraid I didn't feel he was worth the effort to go digging for, but I appreciate your time and efforts to find these quotes. Like you say, plenty of people reported it from the court and its quite a specific thing that's states, ball-bearings!!!!

I think you're digging a hole with this one, point is, the brakes were def tampered with, those responsible went to prison for it, sadly several people died because of their actions. Whether it was ball-bearings or whatever was used is kinda immaterial.

I forget the book title and not got it here with me at work, but there are half a dozen or more shots of various peak expresses through Langwith and Shirebrook,

just reading the Directory of British Engine sheds and it mentions at Stoke a two track extension in 1905 to house "rail motors", does anyone know anything more about this shed/depot?

the last trains of the day and often the first of the day, run more limited stop, for reasons you mention, it's because they often travel via a different route to the normal services, such as the one you mention going via Bescot. This is to maintain driver route knowledge etc. Liverpool - norwhich services sometimes go via Toton and Derby etc. instead of via Radford and Trowell.

that might be from the time the tunnel on the mainline south of Dore was removed, thus blocking access to Sheffield from the south, trains were diverted over a wide area, mainly over the Mansfield route, as per the mention of Shirebrook, some then went over the clown branch, others via Woodend into Sheffield, his seems to have gone over the South Yorkshire Joint, to Doncaster then would have come via Mexborough into Sheffield

not sure why you have "Difficulty understanding that allegation"...... the hoses were for the brakes and I quote, "The disablement of the brakes resulting from an earlier application of an excessive hydraulic pressure" http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/RSSB_Tebay2004.pdf http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4816206.stm Prosecutor Robert Smith QC said Connolly, the boss of MAC Machinery Services, had deliberately disconnected the hydraulic brakes on two wagons because it was cheaper than repairing the wagons properly. Connolly had deliberately disconnected the brakes on the two wagons because the hydraulic systems were in such a bad way they would not work properly in conjunction with the crane. He then filled cables connecting the crane - usually filled with hydraulic brake fluid - with ball bearings, giving the impression everything was above board. Rail boss Mark Connolly, 44, of north Wales, and crane operator Roy Kennett, 29, of Maidstone, Kent, were each found guilty of four counts of manslaughter. On Friday, Connolly was jailed for nine years and Kennett for two years at Newcastle Crown Court.

Morning would any one happen to know when BR's Sounthern and Western Regions were tidied up so the Southern no longer had the North Devon area?

what were the trolleys that directly upon the axels and could b lifted off? For I heard a platelayer telling me how they lifted one off once but forgot to chock the wheels and when they turned around they'd gone........................ ended up about 3 mile away wrapped around a brake of a train in the yard at the end of the line.

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