TheSignalEngineer

If you look to the left of the line in the second picture of Hartlebury you can see a short pole which carried the wire feeding the ATC ramp, which is also visible if you enlarge the picture. I remember replacing that signal with a colour light when the ATC was replaced by BR AWS. That would have been about 1975/6 I think. I wonder if those four wagons are still in the siding at Elmley Lovett. They are visible on Google Earth but may have gone now. The MOD siding was disconnected about 30 years ago. Edited to add picture, you can see the underframes through the trees.

And 5p short of £155 on the catalogue page.

Stops the rain from getting in your beer while you are watching the trains.

These were used at the transition from Semaphore to Multiple Aspect Signalling arears, usually where the signal box was expected to have a short life due to subsequent planned schemes. See paragraph (ii) and diagrams 2(a)/2(b)/2© in Appendix A of this document http://www.rssb.co.uk/rgs/standards/SSP022%20Iss%201.pdf

Clay Cross - Trent PSB, down direction. TT22 Down Goods TT23 Down Main TT24 Down Derby Goods

Agreed Coach. I don't think that FS ever carried other than Brunswick Green in BR service as a LH Drive A3. It certainly only carried the late crest with the double chimney and the blinkers were not added until about 12 months before it was withdrawn. It spent about 3 years in Apple Green after becoming an A3, the first one as LNER 103 before becoming E103 then 60103. I have only seen one picture as E103 and it looks to have British Railways but only the first bit of the tender is visible. It also reportedly carried BR Blue for about 2 years but I can't recall seeing a picture of that.

The load looks fairly light for a 59, it could probably do it with about twice the amount of stone. The brake should still be operated from the front cab so some sort of supply would be needed.

That's how I felt when I got blown off my mountain bike just below The Lion.

I will look forward to this layout. I have had a sort of passing interest in the area since taking shelter at The Lion on a walk about 30 years ago. After crashing out on one trip and ending up in York Hospital I finally rode the full east and west branches last year and visited the site of your proposed model. Eric

'Fraid not, the Specsavers ad was photoshopped in. The original press photo have an advert for a holiday company IIRC. Try Googling "Dublin Tram Crash"

I think a speed of 125mph is a bit optimistic at Stockport.

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Likewise i have given up on pre-orders due to the length of time they take and pricing uncertainty. Meanwhile, another tick for Hatton's service. The order I placed on Saturday evening thinking at least I'll have all I need for the January 2016 Engineering Works was here at 8.30 this morning. Wonder if I can sneek in a possession for next week? I know my new soldering iron is waiting under the Christmas tree.

Sorry, forgot to add the link. Done now. The last of your pictures is Tamworth High Level, Derby end of the station.

I felled that pole in the foreground in 1967. It also appears in the 6th photo about half way down this post, http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/103821-can-you-identify-these-locations/page-23#entry2120454 it's the one behind the Clan at the signal. I recon you were standing at the top of the steps coming up from Lawden Road, which now forms the inbound section of Small Heath Highway.

A similar or possibly even the same Gresley coach featured in a photo of a train doing the station shunt at Templecombe that appeared in (IIRC) Modern Railways in the early 1960s. It consisted of a Bulleid 3-coach set and a Gresley full second of some description, headed by a pannier tank with a 9f bringing up the rear.

Regarding terminology for the facilities, the projects I was on which were referred to as Disposl Points were all operated by the Opencast Executive branch of the NCB

As far as operation is concerned, there are rules about which end the loco can be at when going over the auto-weighing equipment. You get a different weight recorded if the train is being pulled or pushed and depending on any gradient involved. At disposal points I was involved in, specially built for MGR wagons, the signalling within the terminal was controlled from a small switch panel in the same room as the bunker operating panel,

If you are thinking of the places where MGR trains were loaded I was involved in building several in the west and north midlands for both deep mine and opencast. By the tme they went to MGR traffic most of these were worked wholly by BR locos, especially at opencasts, although in some cases an NCB loco moved wagons through the loaders and into exchange sidings. When you post a sketch of the layout it will be easier to see what you are trying to achieve and we can come back with some pointers of where to look.

When I did a bit of work for the merchant where my great aunt was the manageress in the early 1960s at busy times we had the lorry pulled right up against wth wagon then the door dropped down onto the flatbed. We had the scales on the back of the lorry and shovelled the coal straight out into the bags, saved double handling. If it was for store we shovelled the coal onto the lorry, took it through the weighbridge, then shovelled it off onto the stacks.

We could start a 'Spot the 16 Tonner' thread with shots like that

One proposal back in 1988/9 was to move the junction down towards the old S&T Depot car park so that the platform could be put on the part of the bank where it is 4 tracks wide and a train could turn back withouit going onto the flyover.

The number is only a few off a GWR Ling in one of Paul Bartlett's pictures. I didn't think the Grampus came in until BR days. The GWR Tunny and Ling had fixed ends where the Grampus had removable panels. Although they all looked similar the Ling had lower sides, for the rivet counters it had one less rivet in the hinges by the look of the photos. Just to confuse matters the SR had wagons ballast branded Ling and Tunny, but they were 4-plank and 5-plank wooden bodies IIRC. Edit. Beaten to it by Paul's superior knowledge whilst i was typing.