shed64a

What a picture.  I wonder how many more are hiding out there.

On 23/12/2022 at 20:26, St. Simon said:

 

 

Hi,

 

Found the signalling plan and I'm afraid to say it definitely can't show red, EMB282 is a standard 2-aspect distant green / yellow distant:

 

 

Simon

Simon/ Micheal,

Thanks for both of your replies.  I was convinced that I saw it show red, my mistake, but thanks for the explanations.

chris

Definitely can show red.  Didn’t have my phone out in time to catch it.  
 

Will try to get back and catch it showing the red aspect.

I spotted this signal yesterday, it is on the approach to Gorebridge station on the Borders railway.  It appeared to show red, yellow and Green, would this be the norm for a single track line with passing loops?  And I wondered what the label means too?

any help would be great

@Rammstein2609 thanks for that very detailed reply.  Lots to think about and explore.

chris

Saw this at St Andrews, brilliant looking.  Didn’t get a chance to say hello as you were deep in conversation.

Would love to know more about the control panel and how it all works.

Thanks again to everyone for pointing me in the right direction.

The kit linked above looks great, I’m doing this in N so it’s probably a job for the 3D printer.  Thankfully A.A.Maclean’s book “A pictorial record of LNER constituent signalling” has some drawings which will be a great help.

Thanks for the quick answers.

I am planning a visit to Bo’ness in the next week so I’ll have a look if I can.

Hi,

My research for my current layout build has thrown up posts on a platform and fence that I haven’t been able to identify.  I’ve cropped the posts in question and hope someone can help.

it looks like the same thing just at either end of the platform area.  It is from Loanhead, which was a North British station.  The photos are from around 1959ish.

I’m only a couple of miles from there and it definitely looks like Gorebridge to me.  

@Ian Mac on the 1965 signalling diagram could Reniston Colliery possibly be Arnistion Colliery, for the Emily or Gore pits?  Wish I’d asked about the Lady Vic signal box when I was considering that model.  That fell victim to over ambition!

I thought I’d add a couple from a site that might not be commonly seen.  This is the Biomass loading site at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool.  The ships arrive on one side and are discharged into the silos and the trains run through and are loaded.  As has been said earlier it is usually 60’s and 66’s that supply the motive power and the wagons are a good mixed of livery.

Just had my latest ebay purchase, Cinerails  "Railways of Scotland Vol. 2 - The Waverley Route" VHS (cheaper than buying the DVD and it still works!) drop through the door.  For someone who is too young to have experienced the Waverly route as a working line its an enjoyable watch.

Lots of useful modelling inspiration, just a pity that the camera operator was on the Lady Victoria signalbox side as they went past!

Recommended viewing.

Here's another picture from my Lady Victoria visit on 25/5/71 - the A7 bridge just south of Newtongrange station with the platforms visible beyond.

 

Bill

Slowly emerging again are the platforms at Newtongrange.  In good condition so far, just a pity they won't be used.

The original station was roughly where the fence crossing the site at the top of the photo.

Just found this picture, which I assume shows an RCTS tour, date isn't given.

http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?img=G-066-09&serial=2641&page=165

I think it is a more unusal view of the line and the Lady Victoria Pit can be seen behind the bridge.

Can anyone shed some light on the DMU and would this have been a type that ran over the line normally?

Here is Glenburn, the latest N gauge Scottish based layout of the Glasgow & West of Scotland MRC. Work to get it running finished at 10pm the night before its first exhibition, namely Model Rail Scotland 2013. Designed with 4 feet width of scenery at either end because we wanted scenery to dominate the rails and not the other way around.

Glenburn was the highlight of Model Rail for me.  We visited on the Sunday and it was quiet enough to spend a long time looking at layouts which with 8 and 4 year olds can be tricky, and thanks to the operator who allowed my wife close inspection of the brass footbridge that had only been completed on the thursday night.  She is now inspired to help my layout efforts,

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/44346-lady-victoria-colliery/

On the Lady Victoria thread the question of coal being picked up local was asked.  I have just bought some of the RCTS books, Locomotives of the LNER and came across this picture in book 7.

The wagon behind the loco is from the Arniston group of collieries at Gorebridge, this may confuse the question further but the caption suggests it may have been picked up on the way back.

Chris

Here's another picture from my Lady Victoria visit on 25/5/71 - the A7 bridge just south of Newtongrange station with the platforms visible beyond.

 

Bill

The same bridge last year, it has now been dug out.

Do you have any looking south from here, I am trying to identify this structure on the embankment under the colliery.

I can't find it on a map or plan. It is roughly inline with the shaft but overlooks the route of the railway. Open to all suggestions.

Chris

Waverley related gem - NCB No.6 presumably of the Lothian roster at New Craighall Coll.

 

The picture has been captioned wrongly, that is the Lady Victoria in the background, the buildings visable on the right of the photo are the NCB central workshops and these still back onto the A7.

It is a more unusual view, great!

Morning all, am I right in my thoughts this My linkis at Easkbank and Dalkeith?

 

kind regards

 

Duncan

Couldn't find these when I replied earlier but here is the same spot a bit closer to the footbridge

Here is a view of the steps down to the platform from the station building.

These were taken in February, and they are much more over grown now. Not much has really changed.

Chris

Morning all, am I right in my thoughts this My linkis at Easkbank and Dalkeith?

 

kind regards

 

Duncan

Yes, I think your right. The station building is just visable on the top right of the picture.

The platforms are heavily over grown and the track bed is part of the Penicuik to Dalkeith walkway (for now).

Just arrived from Hattons,

Without realising it this B1 appears regularly in Waverly route books, now I just have to build the layout to go with it.

The plan is for something around the Lady Victoria pit as its a short walk from home to take pictures and watch the reconstruction.

Chris

The new route looks to have a slight alignment difference to the original route, this map from Midlothian council shows the new route through Sherifhall in red.

http://www2.midlothian.gov.uk/images/pdfs/MLP%20Waverley%20North%202008.pdf

This might explain the difference in distance. The new Newtongrange station is only about 150- 200 yards further south than the original. It is on the other side of the A7 road bridge.

Great picture, and such a great livery for the claytons, never saw one in the flesh myself but that looks superb.

 

I'm from that area, cycled round that area more times than I can remember but its still very difficult to pinpoint exact pieces of track in the niddrie/newcraighall area.

 

Thanks for alerting us to that picture though, super stuff.

I would think, using google maps and some knowledge of the area that the picture was taken from where the A1 now goes across the Niddrie North - Niddrie West section (think thats what the junctions are) or from where DFS now is. The pylon helps place it.

Chris

These are pictures that were taken on my walk from Eskbank to Newtongrange, I am researching a future model before construction starts and access becomes harder.

View on Lothianbridge Viaduct looking north. All looks good apart from the trees, I sat the camera on the sleeper fence for the picture.

Here is another, this time at Eskbank looking north at the station footbridge and two road bridges.

I hope they are of some interest.

http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=32912

The footbridge was replaced with a new wooden bridge after electrification and the white house at the top left of the picture removed for the building of the link road to the city bypass. I remember walking to see the donkey in the field on the right whilst at school in Newcraighall in the 80's.