TheSignalEngineer

There's a maroon Porthole CK lurking in the background of one of my shots taken at Tyseley in late 1969. Looks in pretty good nick. Interestingly the same set of photos has a Rail blue Fruit D, three pre-nationalisation horseboxes and a BR one in view.

It was one of the first sets to run into Snow Hill when it re-opened from the south end.

I regularly rode on a London-based Class 117 or 118 out of Moor St in the late 1970s - early 1980s. It arrived in the morning on a stopper from Reading and as a fill-in did the 16.55 to Shirley, returned ECS to Moor St then another run to Shirley before heading back to the London area in the evening. Even had a Class 123 turn up on a couple of occasions.

My Dad cut out smoking to help me pay for my Dublo 'City of Liverpool' when it was announced. i've still got it and it still runs. Thanks Dad. Back to the topic, I will see if there is any progress on the 116 at the time the 117 comes out before I decide on buying one for a conversion.

Watering the Crab. Heywood, 12th August 2015. Photo C E Steele

Having lived in Crewe at that time, you cannot be serious. (Although there were some good times to be had with the students from the teacher training college, but those stories wouldn't get through the filter on here)

Quite common on Hope Valley, also 1416 Oxford Rd to Lime St today was Pacer/Sprinter combo.

Found the original document. Sorry if the quality is a bit low, as the limit for attachments won't take a better resolution. WBS_Searchlight.pdf

http://www.warwickshirerailways.comhas a couple of pictures of them on Down iron ore trains at Leamington and Hatton Bank c1948/9. Too dirty to see if there was ever any branding but one carrying 77xxx series WD number

Will be following developments with interest as I first visited the camp area about 25 years ago and later rode down the track on an old touring bike.

Parcels trains were also used for a variety of positioning moves for passenger stock, particularly if there were unbalanced workings. Some also included a passenger vehicle to act as a 'staff taxi' outside normal passenger train hours. In 1938 the West London to Shrewsbury working picked empty up milk tanks at Banbury for Dorrington. The Up working was used to recover two Slip Coaches from Banbury and Reading for return to Paddington.

Or perhaps they will be looking to see how much angst and hand-wringing there is on here before they commit further.

Can't supply photos, but a quick look at the GWR Carriage Working Notices from 1938-9 on Robert Carroll's BR Loco-Hauled Coaching Stock Yahoo group shows that there were not many purely parcels trains, most trafiic was attached to passenger workings. It turns up a lot of interesting workings such as:- 2.25pm Perishables Penzance to Crewe which conveyed an LMS brake from Penzance to Carlisle, A GW Brake from Penzance to Leeds and picked up a GW Brake from Yeovil Town to Manchester Exchange attached at Taunton. 1.25am Crewe - Cardiff conveyed a Siphon G from Manchester Exchange to Neyland. 1.35am Crewe - Cardiff Mails conveyed LMS Fish Trucks from Aberdeen to Bristol. 5.20pm Westbury to York conveyed LNE Brake Vans from Trowbridge to Glasgow and Westbury to Edinburgh. Other references include a GW Siphon C from Manchester to Calne, a GW Siphon H from Neyland to Sheffield and another Siphon from Helston to Sheffield

My daughter lived just by there when she was a student. One day a burglar was leaving the house opposite with a video player. The local dealer in mind altering substances raced up, trapped him and called the local constable. He kept the street relatively crime-free as he didn't want any outside plod to get drawn in.

You could still pick up an original set for quite a reasonable price and do a few improvements.

Looks like I will be finishing the upgrades on my old ones. I'm not going to replace 5 at that price.

Another offering from Mr Burdett (Invader1009) on Flickr. Yesterday's Dee Marsh - Margam empties headed by 60024 Tugging through Gobowen by Stephen Burdett, on Flickr

Or the smell of wood sleepered track and non-retention toilet stock on a hot afternoon.

Nice historical shot Dave. The bracket to the left carried the platform starters for the other island platform.

Hellifield has a normal leg on the platform side and a short leg on the bank side above the retaining wall.

As Mike says, the platform to the right, which now has the two straight posts. There used to be another road starting in front of the box which led into the next island platform. Mike may also be right about the Pratt truss gantry. There are very few semaphore gantries about now, another being at Hellifield, but that is a straight girder. Llandudno is a shadow of its former self. The roof used to extend along that big brick wall. There was a goods yard behind platform 1 and about 10 sidings opposite the box which fed the gas works branch. Beyond the box there were about 10 carriage sidings on the Down side, at the south end of which there was a turntable and some basic facilities for locos arriving during peak traffic. Edit for typos

Llandudno has changed a bit since this, taken about 10 feet west of your third shot, but the gantry and box are still there. Don't think you could get round the lamp posts to park there any longer.

The posting on Flickr gives a few more details, it was actually running T&T with a 70. Stephen retired some years ago and spends most of his time these days travelling around by train. His photostream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/invader1009 is always worth a look for modern stuff. He posts every few days.

Sorry for hijacking Jim, but one of 60002 from my old friend Stephen taken a couple of days ago. Tugging through Bradford on Avon by Invader1009, on Flickr

I remember doing some wiring alterations at Saltley Junction in the days of two gasworks site and nose to tail coal trains on the Camp Hill goods lines. There were fourteen bells on the shelf there, all with different tones