TheSignalEngineer

That was around my trainspotting heyday at Snow Hill. Every trip and transfer freight had an interesting mix of traffic. There's a couple of minerals at the front of this trip caught up during the Bulleid Invasion in April 1963 http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrbsh1180.htm. If you want to know what a typical local freight looked like in the West Midlands at that time the Warwickshire Railways site has lots.

I photographed a Curzon St - Worcester parcels consisting of a Rat with a single CCT at Barnt Green late 1982 / early 1983. Most of the ones after that seem to have been deparmentals.

I like that pannier shot at the bottom of the first post. The slope side mineral behind the loco looks in remarkably clean condition.

Some of the buildings on the North Warwickshire line were corrugated Iron, but there were also some corrugated asbestos shelters provided when the line was built in 1907.

There were two more similar ones in there.

When I worked on a coal wharf in the early 1960s the amount in wooden or steel wagons was usually about the same, around 10 tons, depending on the colliery (soft/hard/anthracite) and size (big lumps or stove nuts). When I did one particular bunker job for a disposal point about 1980 there were two loading streams as a good quality seam was found where the coal came out in big lumps. We were often invited to try our hand on the loaders when commissioning the panels and while I could get 30-32 tons of dust in a moving HAA wagon I couldn't manage more than about 15 tons of large coal in an HTV.

Yes, but at £1.75 each

When they were first built you could probably buy the wagon for less than that. In fact you could buy a 3-bed semi-detached house for not much more

Our Warwick friend actually. He seems to have small letters at the end of all titles, perhaps its a way of telling how long they have been on offer.

Well I don't suppose you saw many like that running around on the Furness Railway

I don't know if this offering from our friend in Cumbria has been up before. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BASSETT-LOWKE-0-LMS-4-6-0-FOWLER-ROYAL-SCOT-LOCO-TENDER-FOR-RENOVATION-/400611448260?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item5d464d95c4 The only part I need is the key, but I don't think I could get enough money back on relisting the rest to make it worthwhile.

Or had a visit from the 21A crew.

At Washwood Heath there was a Caller's hut on the hump where one of the shutters shouted out the road numbers that were chalked on. This was relayed to the box on the Tannoy system.

Probably be dead chuffed as he was apprenticed to one F W Webb.

Browsing in the local library this afternoon I noticed a picture at Low Moor MPD in 1966 IIRC. There was a rake of 16T wagons all marked SUBEX, which had Rivetted bodies with and without top door, welded bodies with and without top door, two Slope siders and one with part replating all in the space of about 50 yards.

Ormskirk has two passenger services but has two stop blocks back to back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ormskirk_railway_station_2009_a.JPG

I'd love to reproduce the scene in the top picture here at an exhibition. Just think of the comments you would get. http://www.hall-royd-junction.co.uk/Hall_Royd_Prototype/Northern_Rubber_special_banker.html

Over twenty years on I found that something I learned in the first week on the job stood me in good stead when confronted with a project affecting what would now be described as Heritage Signalling. By then managing a depot I was able to demonstrate to the staff the correct way of doing a job that had largely been forgotten using the method I had been taught by someone with nearly 50 years experience of it.

Have you seen the LMS film? If not it can be found on Youtube by searching Measured Shovel Packing

Professionally Weathered?

Perhaps that's what they are going to do with FS, 3 EE traction motors under the tender so you don't need the loco to be steam-able.

Why go to the trouble of showing two pictures of the box and none of the item? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OO-GAUGE32-879-Fairburn-Tank-Steam-Locomotive-No-42267-DCC-Ready-ITEM-IS-NEW-/380761683364?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item58a72a35a4 Still, with a username like that it could be appropriate.