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Ashburys Carriage Works

Discuție în 'Heritage Rolling Stock' creată de daveannjon, 26 Iun 2025 la 11:46.

  1. daveannjon

    daveannjon Well-Known Member

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    Came across this fascinating history of Ashburys, perhaps most well known now for building coaches for the Metropolitan Railway, some of which fortunately survive.

    It's long, 52 pages, but worth a delve:

    https://diggreatermanchester.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/gmpr11_ashburys.pdf
     
    daveannjon, 26 Iun 2025 la 11:46
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    burnham-t, The Green Howards, Enterprise și încă o persoană apreciază asta.
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    Thompson1706 Part of the furniture

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    Very interesting read. I noticed a photo of a Beyer Peacock works plate dated 1885, which is identical to one that i have.
    I wonder what the one in the photo is off.

    Bob.
     
    Thompson1706, 26 Iun 2025 la 19:13
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    The Green Howards Nat Pres stalwart

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    Some twenty-odd years ago I found myself working in that exact area, in what was then called MANCAT* for about eight weeks or so and living in an apartment converted from the old MS&LR bonded warehouse. I was intrigued by rails embedded in the roads near the college, not on the main road. I wonder if the two were/are related?

    *MANchester College of Arts and Technology.
     
    The Green Howards, 26 Iun 2025 la 22:15
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