RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2019 9 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said: I've just found 3 similar pictures on the Rail online photo site captioned as Hookagate In my (weak) defence, I didn't realise there were sidings on the other side of the line, which are pedantically in Redhill! Mike. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 This one is interesting. The demolition gangs have obviously been by, but the sleepers are all concrete but with holes to reduce weight/cost presumably. I am wondering if this might be part of the Nesscliffe/Maesbrook site, although as usual with high security facilities there is nothing marked on the OS maps of the era? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 48 minutes ago, jonny777 said: ........ As a bonus, I also scanned this grounded wagon body image late last night. Presumably it is ex-Shropshire & Montgomery Railway, from the lettering. .................. ..... but originally Midland Railway by the look of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dagrizz Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 3, 2019 Wikipedia shows this picture of Shoot Hill Halt on the S&MR Graham 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 Thanks very much Graham, although it would seem as though one of the photos might be reversed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 I'm not sure what this is, but it was on the same film. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 12 minutes ago, jonny777 said: Thanks very much Graham, although it would seem as though one of the photos might be reversed. Google street view would suggest the Wikipedia photo is reversed, the house is veru much modernised now https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.709034,-2.8619705,3a,75y,111.78h,78.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssU1mdqstUYnQ0S_hc0m_nw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 3 hours ago, jonny777 said: This one is interesting. The demolition gangs have obviously been by, but the sleepers are all concrete but with holes to reduce weight/cost presumably. I am wondering if this might be part of the Nesscliffe/Maesbrook site, although as usual with high security facilities there is nothing marked on the OS maps of the era? Might those sleepers be the same type as the ones in the foreground of the grounded SMR wagon? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 4 minutes ago, Edwin_m said: Might those sleepers be the same type as the ones in the foreground of the grounded SMR wagon? Yes, they will be Edwin, thanks; as I have now peeled a sticker from the slide mount to discover the words Horton Ln, which I take to be Horton Lane (a few miles down the S&M). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2019 55 minutes ago, jonny777 said: I'm not sure what this is, but it was on the same film. A pre war sentinel perhaps? https://www.rtmodels.co.uk/rt models pre war sentinel 1.jpg 7164/47184 did work on Clee Hill - and of course Sentinel are/were a Shrewsbury company.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 (edited) Thanks Phil. I have been scouring the old maps for a private light railway in that area. The only one I found so far is just east of Minsterley. Edited December 3, 2019 by jonny777 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 However, the Snailbeach system did not seem to have any Sentinels as far as I can see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatC Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, jonny777 said: I'm not sure what this is, but it was on the same film. Possibly the quarry at Criggion, which was connected the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway. They certainly used Sentinels (which were of course built locally). Edited December 3, 2019 by PatC 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2019 How about this one? Works no. 7026/1928, British Quarrying Co., Criggion, Montgomeryshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 3, 2019 S & M yes, but quite where I don't know as yet. Several of these vans ended up as huts and storage sheds Great photo, Cheers, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 On 17/11/2019 at 10:53, LMS2968 said: An oddity is that the train is running wrong road: in the Up direction on the Down. The entrance to Bold Colliery sidings was on the Down side and trailed into the Down just immediately of the station, so presumably it is about to use that way in. Except that there was a facing Up / Down crossover just ahead of the sidings connection, allowing direct entry from the Up. Don't know the answer to that one. I remember going to the Rainhll 150 celebration. My memory is that all the exhibits were stabled in the sidings at Bold power station (not far behind the photographer) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 2 minutes ago, 62613 said: I remember going to the Rainhll 150 celebration. My memory is that all the exhibits were stabled in the sidings at Bold power station (not far behind the photographer) Yes, they were, but there was direct access into the sidings from the Up, so ne need to work wrong road along the Down. Just seems strange that this is what's happening here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 7 hours ago, Phil Bullock said: How about this one? Works no. 7026/1928, British Quarrying Co., Criggion, Montgomeryshire Excellent Phil. This photo purports to show the abandoned trackbed at Criggion quarry. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2019 Nice photo! Wonder if that is the shed the loco is in on the other side of the hedge? Hornby did a wagon....https://www.hattons.co.uk/250921/hornby_r6805_three_plank_open_wagon_granomac_criggion_/stockdetail.aspx Also interesting military history in the area.....http://shropshirehistory.com/military/camps.htm 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 12 hours ago, Phil Bullock said: Nice photo! Wonder if that is the shed the loco is in on the other side of the hedge? Hornby did a wagon....https://www.hattons.co.uk/250921/hornby_r6805_three_plank_open_wagon_granomac_criggion_/stockdetail.aspx Also interesting military history in the area.....http://shropshirehistory.com/military/camps.htm Yes, you could be right. It is corrugated and the shed appears to be of the same tall and relatively thin dimensions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 Does anyone recognise this loco shed? I thought it might be Croes Newydd until I looked at photos there which show it to be a completely different roof design, and the locos aren't right either. I think the loco might be 45428, but not quite sure (although not knowing the date either does help a great deal as Black 5s wandered far and wide). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 On 01/11/2019 at 21:26, The Stationmaster said: That is exactly where it is and the steelwork visible in the background is the main power station building of Didcot PS (later Didcot A) under construction. The photograph would definitely appear to have been taken after May 1965 because Foxhall Jcn Signal Box and the semaphore signals have gone together with the running line connections to the sidings on the right of the view. Judging by the smoke and positions of people on the footplate it appears that the engine is setting back towards Didcot station - perhaps after turning. Possibly the day of the last 'Castles to Chester on the day the through Paddington - Birkenhead services finished?? The steel work in the back ground is the infamous boiler house that collapsed a few years ago. Its instantly recognisable. The caravan park is still there as well, although properly laid out these days. Looking at the temporary nature of the caravans, some are touring caravans, I think this site was for workers building the power station and possibly on the old MOD site. A lot of workers came from up country and eventually stayed in Didcot. There wasn't the labour force in Didcot or surrounding area to build the power station. Most local skilled labour were either at Cowley or the UKAEA at Harwell. A lot of electrical equipment for the GWML is in the area where the pway hut is to the top left of the photo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, jonny777 said: Does anyone recognise this loco shed? I thought it might be Croes Newydd until I looked at photos there which show it to be a completely different roof design, and the locos aren't right either. I think the loco might be 45428, but not quite sure (although not knowing the date either does help a great deal as Black 5s wandered far and wide). First thought was definately Carstairs, bit the roof is wrong. But I was not far away, it is Stirling, looking South. Jim Edited December 4, 2019 by luckymucklebackit 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 Thanks Jim, you have saved me a lot of heartache. As all the previous photos had bee centred on or near Shrewsbury and Wrexham, and the Black 5 was possibly a Farnley Junction loco, I would have had a very painful brain trying to look at all the likely English/Welsh loco sheds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 22 hours ago, jonny777 said: Excellent Phil. This photo purports to show the abandoned trackbed at Criggion quarry. It's still there - see Google Street view at 52.726987° -3.048066°, looking NE. driven past it many times going to Criggion Quarry, but never stopped to photograph it! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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