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Guest Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Romanes eunt domus http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39490537 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Romanes eunt domus http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39490537 Nah, they didn't write it 100 times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2017 This is not that whacky in the right context, but what is this sign doing on the side of a wooden passenger platform building on Hove Station. It must be almost a mile from the sea. I find it hard to believe that Hove station had a 'Fish Dock', but I am always open to a spot of historical education. The second photo shows the platform, but not the SV! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 it must be a dock as in like a cattle dock or horse dock a platform for that particular traffic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2017 (edited) it must be a dock as in like a cattle dock or horse dock a platform for that particular traffic That I understand, but it therefore implies that Hove had a large enough fishing industry to warrant having a dedicated platform for its railway traffic. As the coast there is without a harbour, until you get to Portslade, it would have needed a fair sized beach-launched fleet to create that sized demand for rail provision, I would have thought. In the nineteenth century Brighton had quite a large fleet, but this reduced in size throughout the first half of the 20th century. This was based around East Street, which is just to the west of what is now the Grand Pier, much closer to Brighton station. No mention is made in the Brighton & Hove history website of fishing at Hove. I must do some research! Edited April 6, 2017 by phil_sutters Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted April 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 6, 2017 (edited) Birmingham New Street had a Fish Dock in the old days. A long way from the sea. A Fish Dock is for smelly fish vans to keep them away from other parts of the station. It may be for despatching fish, or equally for receiving fish for local fish markets. See: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbns_br1822.htm Martin. Edited April 6, 2017 by martin_wynne Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2017 Birmingham New Street had a Fish Dock in the old days. A long way from the sea. A Fish Dock is for smelly fish vans to keep them away from other parts of the station. It may be for despatching fish, or equally for receiving fish for local fish markets. See: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbns_br1822.htm Martin. I can see that too, but in Hove's case there was probably enough fish caught locally, Brighton had a decent sized fleet into c20th. I will continue to see what I can find locally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted April 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2017 You might find that the fish dock was for storing of vans, ready to go to Brighton. It used to happen quite a lot, where surplus vans were stored, awaiting onward destinations, usually empty. Cattle wagons were stored this way, awaiting fatstock markets. ISTR reading about the Taff Vale storing theirs at Common Branch Junction, on the site of the old locomotive shed. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
£1.38 Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 What does SV mean on the sign? If it is stop valve, then the siding may have been where empty fish vans were washed out prior to their next assignment? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted April 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2017 (edited) Birmingham New Street had a Fish Dock in the old days. A long way from the sea. A Fish Dock is for smelly fish vans to keep them away from other parts of the station. It may be for despatching fish, or equally for receiving fish for local fish markets. See: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbns_br1822.htm Martin. Looking at late C19th maps, there was a siding running towards that part of the station. Indeed it looked as if it ran into a shed, so although it was close into the main station building it could have been used to store and clean fish vans, as has also been suggested, with the S.V. (stop valve) controlling the water. Don't our RMweb meanderings lead us into interesting aspects of railway practice? Edited April 6, 2017 by phil_sutters Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted April 7, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 7, 2017 It's the 'human' side of railway practice, that makes any situation believable. I can think of at least one exhibition layout, where locomotives were stabled on a spur. But, no seats! I can't imagine not seeing a seat where footplate staff congregate. Ian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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