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Happy New Year from another satisfied daily viewer, and looking forward to more photos in 2017

Another topic for me to follow! I, too have always been curious as to where exactly this would have been in Buxton. A few years ago, I looked at a deposited plan at Matlock record office. You could not take photos at that time, but I drew some notes on my own map. It seemed to be close to College Road/Green Lane, across where the Errwood Avenue estate is now, across Macclesfield Road and St Johns Road (on the Buxton side of the junction) then parallel to Bishops Lane into a tunnel near the CHP tunnel. As regards Monsal Dale, the bigger mystery is not what it would look like, but how it would be built

Hi - some pics of Grindleford on the RCTS mystery photo site Also some on ebay and some gems on flickr, including one with Derwent Valley Waterboard wagons I note from the 1955 map that there were extra sidings behind the signalbox for a tip but I don't know what of or where from. There are drawings of the tunnel portal, the bridge and the station buildings in Midland Railway Architecture by Anderson and Fox. Bole Hill quarry was the source of 1M tons of stone for Derwent and Howden reservoirs, shipped to Waterworks Sidings between Bamford and Hope - (also on the 1922 map.) For extra Modellers Licence you could imagine that the line was built as the 1866 LNWR Chapel-en-le-Frith to Sheffield railway - the plan at Matlock shows it just to the north of the farm and mill buildings shown on your map

CLC lives on - in the form of a notice "Cheshire Lines Railway Bridge" in the roadworks on the M60 clockwise - has anyone got a picture of it?

Seeing the Stirling Single in picture C2353 reminds me of the time I went to see it working on the GCR at Loughborough. I took my portable tape-recorder, and with its 8 foot driving wheels it set off - chuff, chuff, chuff and was gone!

Hooray, I'm in a photo on the BBC News website! Standing safely behind a barrier on the platform at York.

Hi IanN and ScRS Thanks for taking so much trouble with your replies - you clearly took my post in the spirit it was intended. You describe train movements which are too seldom seen on models. If you find a visitor impaled on an umbrella, it will be the person next to me who complained that all the shunting got in the way of trains running nose to tail at full speed. I too like to see trains running round, but I enjoy it so much more when they interact and represent running for a purpose. I have looked at pictures on flickr, and the modern station has no sense of place or location and could be anywhere. So good luck with your model, and I look forward to watching it

I also used to catch the train from Manchester around 1970 on Sunday evenings going back to Bristol uni. I found that changing at Derby, I had to stand to Birmingham, but changing at Chesterfield I only had to stand to Derby. So the Chesterfield photos seem very familiar!

OK, I admit that I am "trespassing", so feel free to ignore all of the following! I had never really heard of Larbert and had to look it up on the map. I would not have known that it had scissors crossovers, still less when they were removed, but now I want to know too. My next suggestion is to infer their presence from Sectional Appendix and Working Timetables. Or display the model in Larbert Town Hall and wait for someone to tell you that you can't run a 47 over the scissors, or that Clans were withdrawn before the scissors was removed. The scissors would be used for attaching/detaching pilot engines, parcels vans, restaurant cars, through coaches for London etc Do you regard this as additional operational interest? Or as an impediment to running lots of trains. When did you last see these movements on a model? How many models have the space to do it? So I say Go for it, and put them in and use them. You're modelling a period, not a Tuesday afternoon But which ever way you go, I look forward to seeing the layout because I enjoyed watching Alloa. ps You could always ask your track guru ( from a safe distance) to build the pointwork in such a way that it can easily be removed and replaced with plain track

There are some 1:1250 plans on www.old-maps.co.uk. They are marked out in 100 metre squares which is a useful guide for planning.

I've checked back, and it was on 4th Nov 2014, I tried to be the 100000th viewer and just missed it. Today I wanted to be the 500000th viewer and missed it again. But never mind - I still enjoy my daily instalment, and obviously a lot of other people do as well. So, thanks again Dave, and to the people who are able to add their expert knowledge in the discussions

Does Platform 1 at Leeds qualify for this topic? It still has its old canopy and supports, in contrast to the rest of the station

You can find the track layout on www.old-maps.co.uk. For information about the line, there is the Foxline book "Manchester to Hayfield". Also one about the Kinder reservoir which includes the railway from the station ( no actual connection)

Well, I was going to try to be the 100,000th viewer, but a rush over the weekend beat me to it! Just to say how much I enjoy my daily check on this topic, and to thank you for posting such a good quality and diverse record of railway history. An insiration to all to go and record today's railway scene, because it soon changes, and the Everday becomes Yesterday

For a period after closure, there was no change to the timetable. So the train went through the tunnel ( to the still-manned signalbox), sat there for the duration of a trip to Hayfield, and then returned to Manchester A semi-serious question - how long does a line have to be closed for the accumulated inflation-linked savings to be enough to pay to re-instate it??

OK, as I was first to jump in on your first post, I will be first to jump in again. Well done on getting something Done; which Works; and where you and your family can have Fun. It will operate equally well with Voyagers, Thomas's or any combination. It can be run single-handed, or with separate operators and a Fat Controller. You can develop your skills at track, electrics, scenery, repainting, kit building etc You can gradually introduce prototype moves such as slow trains connecting with fast trains, pick-up goods, loco changing. It may not last you for all time, but as and when you interests change, you will have a much firmer basis to decide what you want next. A potential couple of refinements at present I see only one link between the inner and outer tracks - I suggest a trailing crossover ( two left-hand points) either at the back, or one each side if there is room. and could the inner sidings start further to the right to give greater length

OK you have caught me out - I do not have a ready-drawn diagram! but look at a cut-down version of Plymouth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plymouth_track_diagram.png Have just four tracks with two in each direction, and just one crossover at each end Put your sidings in place of Park Sidings; put your loco depot to the right of these, Now you have a layout where one operator runs two clockwise trains alternately; one runs two anti-clock trains, and one runs the sidings and loco depot, swapping trains and locos with the main lines. It can run with steam locos, diesel locos or diesel multiple units as your tastes and interests change. Over time, you can develop it with a scenery, , signalling, even a branch line climbing to a high level section. The point is that it can be a long-term family project without too much work before anything can run

OK I will be first to jump in. Rule 1 applies - if this is really what you want, then fine. But there is a lot to go wrong. And when it is built and electrified, how complicated is it to operate? - there are too many locations of conflict between the three circuits. Start with a set of trucks or coaches in the sidings. A loco comes from the turntable and backs on. Then goes up the downhill and down the uphill ( have I got that correct?) as many times as you want. Then stop everything while it crosses to the clockwise track. runs round again, until you stop everything again to cross to the centre, again down the uphill and reverse into the siding. Nothing has gone anticlockwise. So repeat, but this time stop everything while you send another loco to couple on the other end of the train, and now it can go anti-clock. But stops everything again to regain the centre, and now is wrong way to back into the sidings. I assume you can walk round the layout, and that you can all reach across to the centre. I suggest start simply with a double track circuit. Add loops for the platforms, Add crossovers to swap from clockwise to anti-clock. Add a siding and a loco siding to the turntable. Then let the rest grow as you and your children develop your interests and skills. Many people have started with something too complex and abandoned it, disillusioned, and gone to something simpler. Cut out this stage!! Best of luck.

Just looked up Royal Albert Bridge in Pryer signal box diagrams vol 14. It shows the subsidiary arm as a "W". Also to help narrow down the dating "track layout into use 10-07-1961

A bit before your period, but here is an aerial view from 1920 http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw001161?search=bath&ref=1 Follow the "back to search" to see other views of Bath ( plus Matlock Bath and The British Bath Company!!)

Northern Rail site reports that trains are running again. Well Done to a whole lot of people!

and don't forget that Chinley Station North Junction was actually slightly further south than Chinley Station South Junnction!! ( the line curves round the hills so that northbound trains were heading south-west)

How about From Russia With Love where a foreign train leaves Istanbul and there is a continuity shot of a train in the night which is BR but with colours reversed - anyone know what it is? It arrives at "Zagreb" which has a Midland signalbox!

For a short period there was a regular train from Newton Abbot to Plymouth double-headed King + King. Modellers, remember that on the Western, the train engine kept the headlamps, so the pilot ran second