If it was heading for Bury St Edmunds, presumably the ECS had come from the Eastern Region, hence the teak stock. I assume the loco was laid on...
Thanks for the replies - your particular setup obviously needs the way you have designed it. Hope to look in one of these days when it's finished.
Were there any other Midland Railway (MR) boxes with internal stairs, or is this something you've had to do at Rowsley specifically to cater for...
"Egyptian" was a reference to a family of similar style fonts typified by matching width verticals and horizontals and most usually slab serifs -...
Another reason for having a separate company holding the original shares or a similar arrangement is that the original act(s) of Parliament...
Another possible reason the 'Double Wire' system did not catch on in the UK was the restriction the Board of Trade placed on the distance that...
Burgerbern - glad to have been of help; hope you are recovering OK. Re the "....something akin to burnt-on coke)" - this would have been aged...
Martin - the round indicators in a signal box repeating back the position of a semaphore signal seem to often be referred to as 'repeaters' by...
Sorry - only just seen this thread. The indicators are usually used for repeating colour light signal or point settings in a signal box. Here's a...
My copy is OK. Do you have pages 115-122 missing as well?
Screwfix do a "Sash axle pulley" - see...
I think it far more likely the lever would have been altered at Reading Signal works and not worked on in the box itself. The photos shown so far...
Green was used for distant signal levers by most railway companies until the 1920s. Following discussions within the Institution of Railway Signal...
On display in the box on the 7th of July there was a set of 3 diagrams showing how the track was being reorganised and how eventually the stub of...
Visiting PR box on July 7th for their Open Day it was clear that there was still a lot of trackwork to be done to get the new (renewed?) platform...
The railway and museum were set up as a trust some years ago, and will be continuing, I understand. You can only access Open Days as part of a...
Would it be (or have been) in Whatley Quarry, which is close to Mells?
Coo! Seeing your thread title I though for a moment the Essex-based Museum of Power (www.museumofpower.org.uk) had suffered a disaster!
Other sources include "The LMS Pacifics" by J W P Rowledge and "A History of the LMS 2. The Record-Breaking Thirties" by O S Nock.
There are examples at Ribblehead station and in "The Works" at the National Railway in York - the latter are particularly numerous and some very...
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