TheSignalEngineer

Don't think Fog Working was very common after the advent of orange overalls. If it was the hut ought to be semi derelict

From Paul Bartlett's pictures I would guess that they were used on ex-LNER lines and offer Red over White Rectangles as Kings Cross DCE.

Accident report http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_CotonHill1965.pdf

At the risk of wandering into a completely different topic area, lines carrying heavyweight steel traffic and modern tank wagons were kept in pretty good order. A lot of them were upgraded to 22 1/2 ton or 25 ton axle loads in the late 1960s and 1970s. Looking back about 6 months I posted some stuff from 1982 starting here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/57246-black-country-blues-rolling-stock-workbench/?p=748725 showing the line from Kingswinford Junction South to Wednesbury. There are no weeds on the running lines or well used sidings. Incidentally a DE2 is lurking in the background on a couple of the shots at Round Oak. Based on these shots and more posted by others I would go for minimal vegetation on the main lines and odd weeds between the sidings. Some of the stuff used for ballast or deposited as industrial fallout was pretty toxic, even to weeds. Depending on the season, at times there would be a lot of willow herb on the banks. I can't remember when the ragwort plague took hold but that seems to have become much worse in recent years.

This bit at Hednesford in 1982 takes some beating, not helped by a broken sewer at the top of the bank. The 47 is heading an MGR train to Rugeley B on the Down Main. The dark thing to the right of it is the top of a stop block in the sidings. IIRC at this time there were still Class 1 drags across the Chase for engineering works between Wolverhampton and Stafford.

Steve, they were all laid with pristine ballast at first even if using recut rails. Dereliction like that takes at least a couple of seasons of neglect to get going then several years to achieve perfection.

Perhaps a buffer stop like the one at Banbury St shunt neck. The track is long since gone but the block still remains, (co-ordinates 52o 28' 53" N ; 1o 52' 42" W) probably because it was encased in about 25m3 of concrete, It is to the right of the picture here http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbhm_sa2320b.htm. My Grandfather told me it was provided when the driver of a light engine misread the 3 arm tall siding signal, thinking he was going main line when the road was set for the neck. He nearly ended up in the bar of the Viaduct pub which used to stand just down below on Lawlet St. Going slightly O/T, that's a rather nice chimney at Wright's Ropes. Unusual and not too high, about 2 signals higher than the embankment. Could find a place in my own project for that. .

It looked good in the pictures earlier in the thread, but when I saw it on Saturday it looked absolutely fantastic in the BCB setting

So there may still be time for Spam79 to work the Warwickshire Railway Society Crankex, probably the only recorded instance of a Spam doing Pleck to Tipton via Princes End.

Just visible here

I see it won't take first and second radius curves. Is that how the paint got chipped?

Had visions of that rouge '20' ending up like this.

From what I heard this morning it was the first time that the team had seen the layout all together. I think the backscene went up a few minutes before the doors opened. Driver training and shunting pole practice were ongoing when I left.

Thanks for a great day lads, you really made the 'Supporters Club' welcome. Backscene and lighting looked really good. Managed to get a few shots through the crowds. All photographs copyright C E Steele

The cabin gets a try-out at Doncaster today. Photo C E Steele

Just getting ready to set off and it's snowing on The Dark Peak.

Ticket ready, train plan sorted, Charlie's Cabin to be packed tonight. Just hope the weather holds now. Will be nice to see progress in the flesh tomorrow.

A nearby model supplier had several of these in the shop a while ago

And a Hand of God reversal in the siding between two of the pictures

At least part of the description was honest - "Please see my other auctions for more OO gauge electric tat."

We've gone out on the district.

Shrewsbury - Wellington, had a mix of GWR and LMS signalling at alternate boxes at Wellington.

On a railway theme, this one is at the Midland Railway centre at Swanwick http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1635133

Oleo Resin is the old fashioned stuff used in paints, it grows on trees - or in them to be more correct, and has been used for hundreds of years. Synthetic or Alkyd resins are used for the same purposes in many oil-based paints nowadays. Chlorinated Rubber paints more likely to be used for specialist purposes as they are somewhat more resistant to acid and alkali but not solvent attack than other paints but are not so hard wearing, and do not retain gloss or colour so well, especially outdoors. They are often used in swimming pools.

Fergie wants to know why he didn't get any added time after the window shut for everyone else.