Fleetfoot Mike

There is a reprint of a 1933 Sectional Appendix to the Working Time Tables for the joint line.  You might find that useful if you can get hold of a copy. Published by Avon-Anglia 1987

Bingo! Just found a copy. Thank you for the pointer. 

Belated followup questions, having I think finally settled on '34 as the date for the layout (keep that shirtbutton out of my sight ), and actually managed to get all the currently stashed stock out of storage. It's time, at least, to start filling holes in the loco and coach roster.

Having access to shed rosters for the likes of Shrewsbury, Craven Arms. Hereford etc, I'm starting to get a decent feel for what's likely to be seen (Webb coal tanks, Fowler 2-6-4Ts, ex LNWR 0-8-0s, J/D 3Fs, Cauliflowers (please, a R-T-R one, someone?), plus Stars (Shrewsbury seemed very fond of its Stars!), a Saint, 51xx's, even a 56xx, 43xx moguls, a ROD 2-8-0...)

Couple of questions - for through (both LMS and GWR) trains from further afield what was likely to be seen, both passenger and freight? Scots? Patriots? Castles? Halls? 

To my not inconsiderable delight, I just found an online copy of a GWR WTT covering the Shrewsbury/Hereford joint line from 1936. Obligingly, the GWR also note when LMS services are running as well. 

Questions:

I note in several places services listed as 'Joint Goods' or 'Joint Passenger'. Which company would have run those? whose stock etc?

I'm also working on the assumption that services that appear to stop at Craven Arms but are noted as 'To Swansea' are headed off down the Central Wales line. Interestingly some of these are also marked 'Joint'!

Also: were GWR locos stabled at the LMS shed at Craven Arms at all in this era?

Thanks I have found this on Amazon.

 

The photos of 5806 and 5816 which I have are all post war and they have a top feed, I would like to find out what they looked like pre war, hopefully this book may give me a clue

5811 on Wenlock shed is definitely prewar - it was only allocated there for a short while till they decided it couldn't handle the gradients.

Also, "Great Western Railway Locomotive Allocations for 1934" (Wild Swan) has a picture of 5818 on Pontrilas shed dated July '35 (page 41, bottom)

Oakwood Press, "The Wenlock Branch" page 164 top picture has a nice side view of 5811.

In the light of the latest updates, Google Street View is a bit handy - I've been checking bridge locations and general look on that for Much Wenlock of late.

As one who watched from the Grange End in 2001 when Cardiff City at the wrong end of the Chapionship dumped out Leeds Utd. then at the top of the Premiership .......... and from which defeat, and the hands of Peter Ridsdale, Leeds have never recovered, I must say well done - any team that riles Ferguson so much he hasn't the grace to show for the post match interview has my congratulations.

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And in view of the fact that the 'Tax Man' may swing his axe in cardiff's direction again this coming month . . . . . any Leeds fans (or Tykes followers) want Ridsdale back ?

When hell freezes over

Mike, Leeds fan since his age matched Big Jack's shirt number, and chuffed to BITS today.