The Saffron Walden was the most expensive in the sale by quite a margin, the next highest being Llanymynech (£3100) and Nethy Bridge (£3000). At...
Railwayana prices at auction, particularly totems, are very variable, but the market is still strong for good quality items and rarities. At the...
I'm afraid that I can't help much! The occupier of the property had failed to get planning permission to keep it there, in fact I believe that the...
It's another downside of the "modern" railway. Before privatisation you could contact the local BR manager and, if the item was redundant, he...
Someone had better get a ladder out, it's the railwayana of the future;). As a friend in the railwayana world often says, "It's still out there!"
One of the more modern items of railwayana at Mangapps Railway Museum. Formerly at Clapham Junction Station.
80078 was hoped to be finished by Christmas, but it didn't quite happen:(. However, when I visited it's owner's workshop last Monday the final...
Probably. The last cattle traffic on BR was about 1974/75, Irish stores being transported from west coast ports to be fattened on summer grazing....
Carrying racing pigeons was once big business for the railways. As @gwilialan says, individual pigeon fanciers dispatched their birds by rail on...
While posting on this thread, I should mention that we at Mangapps have recently disposed of some surplus vans, all of which have found a new home...
Underground '59 stock driving motor car #1030 emerged from one of the Mangapps museum buildings this morning and left for Leavesden Studios,...
The condition of the loco also makes a difference; an engine that has run a few thousand miles will get round a much tighter radius curve than one...
From an RFO, located in Essex.
During a recent tidy-up, we found a quantity (a large pallet-load) of timber from a dismantled Gresley coach, including pieces of internal...
I'm told that this is exactly what has recently happened in Scotland. The power stations have closed and without their demand for fine coal, coal...
First bar of Handel's "Dead March" from "Saul" (or so I was told!)
As a railway manager, it's one of my pet hates. Along with leaving electric lights and heaters switched on unnecessarily and for the same reason!:mad:
When we started, nearly 30 years ago, we used Welsh steam coal, it was clean burning, but had a high shale content and was relatively expensive....
Now that's a real railway:)!
No, you havn't confused me! I was talking about the bit that the hexagon screws on to. The fact that this is marked YM3, as is the equivalent part...
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