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This made me think of Henstridge on the S&D. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.877139128792436&lat=50.9809&lon=-2.3920&layers=168&b=1 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Henstridge-Railway-Station-Photo-Templecombe-Stalbridge-Blandford-Line-9-/262837669557?redirect=mobile

More please.

Newish face book page on the Cromford and High Peak, might throw up some new unseen photographs. https://www.facebook.com/groups/319771571945004/permalink/343537912901703/

http://www.derbysulzers.com/25271wirksworth.jpg http://www.derbysulzers.com/25294wirksworth.jpg The 16 toners in the dust rock would have been sheeted over before departure. Derby Sulzers had more photos of Wirksworth but they have disappeared. Class 25's were not over common at Wirksworth it was mostly pairs of 20's but I have seen 20, 25, 31, 37, 45 and 47's in the late 70's and early 80's.

Tarmacs Hindlow quarry should really be called Sterndale Quarry, Dowlow quarry is more appropriately named being close to Dowlow farm. Briggs sidings, who knows why they gave it that name?

Have you seen this http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/77216-a-visit-to-wirksworth-and-hindlow-10101981/ I knew I had seen something about a visit to Hindlow but could not remember where for the life of me. Anyway, I hope it is of some use to you if you have not come across it before.

Can any one explain this odd track formation at Burslum in North Staffs. At this location the double track line behind the photographer became single. Looking away from the photograph the line on the right went into the exchange sidings for the colliery which was behind the photographer, served by the line he was stood adjacent to. Is it just the remains of a single or double slip? The photographs are from the North Staffordshire Railway enthusiast face book page.

https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/LesTindalls1970sBritishtrains/Wirksworth-quarry-1973/ I have just found these images of the conveyor fed loading area at Wirksworth, this was a massive structure, I have few photographs after closure before it was dismantled which I must get round to scanning some day. I would love to be able to model Wirksworth but to really capture the place as I remember it in the early 80's you would need working lorries to load the Wagons of the dock.

You mention automatic loading, then this http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/121045-white-peak-limestone-tarmacadam/ model briefly shows how it can be achieved and will provide great inspiration for modeling limestone quarrying in the Peak District. The guy who built this is a genius. I have seen quite a few photographs on Flickr of the Hindlow area but I guess you might have seen those already. Coming from Idridgehay near Wirksworth I have an album on Flickr of photographs of Wirksworth yard that I have come across, which whilst not being Hindlow, might provide you with some inspiration.https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/51844670%40N07/albums/72157696326165005/&ved=2ahUKEwiq8uDQnKTcAhWoJ8AKHbT8Ak8QjjgwAHoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw009ynkUjj0c6apZvUimTTP

Buy it now only £800. Unbelievable, if some one has the room that's a steal. Of course they will need a lot of rolling stock.

So I had one mobility scooter try to drive over my foot, two people step back and stand on my foot and several direct hits from back packs with just one apology in total! Charming!

A line which has been virtually abandoned and is just clinging to life has always been quite interesting. The Great Western main line from Birmingham to Wolverhampton https://flic.kr/p/W8czto and the Great Central in Nottingham https://flic.kr/p/6o9Y7i

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.221011056240233&lat=53.0133&lon=-2.2219&layers=168&b=1 https://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=4298&PageIndex=1&KeyWord=Newcastle%20goods%20yard&SortOrder=2 I always thought Newcastle Staffs goods yard was a very modellable location with a natural scenic break

Photographs taken with a phone whose quality does not do your modelling justice.

Star of the show for me. 'Makes me wish I had visited the real location', that's how realistic and good the quality of modeling was. You really believe it could have been based on a real location, not just some ones imagination

'Railways of the High Peak, onwards to...Cromford & High peak Junction Scenes from the past ; 37, part 2' If you can not find this book in the chaos that is Bill Hudson's book shop then Derbyshire Libraries have several copies available for loan

Impatiently looking forward to more pictures, and a track plan and a description of your build. Sound almost like a magazine article would be appropriate. Do you have any exhibition dates booked?

Only in code 80, not code 55.

In and around Matlock some colour light signals were in use by the 1950's. One was positioned at the start of the platform at Cromford, probably acting as a distant signal for Matlock Bath and I have seen another picture of one to the South of Matlock Station just before hightor tunnel. They were probably replacement's for semaphore signals which were a long way from the controling signal box. Would this line have come under the control of Derby power box in the 1970's?

1985. Then you would need class 120 dmu's which were the usual units used on the Matlock branch. If the peak line had stayed open then they would have possible extended the Matlock trains as stoppers to Buxton. Saturday morning spotting at Derby, the lunch time unit to Matlock Bath, dinner at my Grans and then down to Causeway Lane to watch Matlock Town. Happy days, sort of, as Matlock usualy lost. The railway was great before the sprinter revolution. Forget the late 80's you need a blue world.

If you want a class 58 then the Toton Ashburys speedlink is the service for you. That was a booked 58 and ran via the Hope Valley. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=221215 The manch St pancras vans http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=P1kLhI9P2CJisM&tbnid=ji_bgQaP1hCEMM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F72856291%40N05%2F7911554594%2F&ei=1007UeawM9Ku7AbrhIDgBA&psig=AFQjCNHXeHkqr_IRYsWjWK9EYI26iu5uTA&ust=1362927447904265

If the peak line had still been open then I guess 1M25 C18.00 Manch St Pancras vans, which ran via the Hope valley, would have run that way. This train was still running in the late 80's. I use to see it go through Duffield in the early 80's. It was a class 25 turn, some times a 47, 37, peak or 31 and on a good night a class 40. Can not post links from this device but google will bring up some nice images Some of the freights from Toton to the North west would have been candidates for your line so avoiding the busy West coast route. If you fancy a class 56 or 58 on mgr's then the Toton Garston which went via the North Staffs line would have been a possibility for the peak line. Toton Walton old junction mixed freight and Toton Elsmere coal in HEA hoppers could also have been routed that way though I do not know how long those services survived. I have seen images of them at Uttoxeter in the early 80's. If you want speed link traffic how about the Harwich Edge Hill being diverted through millers dale after the closure of the Woodhead route. That must have had some interesting wagons on it.

How about representing the early 80's and having some quality traction on the lime stone trains as found a few miles to the south of Millers Dale at Wirksworth. If is about time Farish produced a quality class 25 as good their class 24's. As a nine year old there was nothing better than watching a pair of class 20’s taking a train up the branch. I