TheSignalEngineer

There was an attachment with a sketch of the proposed signalling back around Page 2

Which gives me a lead-in to this picture from 1987. The first 'Customers' of Centro from Moor Street to the rebuilt Snow Hill did it on foot as part of a charity walk, seen here under the Marks & Spencer store.

Getting back to the subject of the day. Two for the price of one at the Proof House end of New Street South Tunnels Edit Thinking about it I nearly got three, Snow Hill Tunnel is about 20 metres out of sight behind the wall to the right of the EMU

A couple of Sectional Appendix examples. Firstly a short tunnel, 57 metres long Secondly, a long bridge where the M6 runs on top of the Birmingham - Derby line at Bromford Bridge In this case the bridge is over the railway for about 240 metres but the whole structure is on stilts and the sides are open between the columns

My favourite imaginary layout which i would like to build was an extension of the West Cornwall from Truro Newham to Indian Queens to tap into the China Clay traffic and take it to a new deep water port on the River Fal. This joined a proposed line from the Bodmin and Wadebridge thus giving a direct link between north and West Cornwall.

There was a Conductor on Cross Country around the time of the invasion of Iraq whose standard reply to passenger complaints was "Don't you know there's a war on?"

A bridge covering more than two chains along the railway was regarded as a tunnel as far as rules are concerned. (About 40 metres at today's exchange rate.) Yes, there are exceptions and quirks. Wembley Central was classified as an underground station after the Kings Cross fire.

That's the bridge under the junction of Hill St and Navigation St. It's at the bottom left of Keith's picture in post #2665. The tunnels are a bit further on.

Who needs a cab backsheet? http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/misc_indust1478.htm

Any help here? https://chasewaterstuff.wordpress.com/ncb-west-midlands-division-area-2-locomotives/brereton-collieries-ltd/

I remember back at a Tyseley Open Day in 1968 Scotsman couldn't get out of the yard with about 8 on when working a trip to Leamington. Had to have a push from the depot 08.

Looks like the back end of the sewage works at Stockport.

I've got an archive box of uncatalogued photos, mainly S&T, taken around the big railway mainly between 1990 and 2004 so I may have a few things of interest.

There's an unusual co-acting signal on Platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly. Second one down on this page. http://www.railsigns.uk/photos/p_clsig2/p_clsig2.html Third picture also shows a more conventional one, while the bottom one is another rarer type. How about the horizontal colour lights at Birmingham New Street, replacements for the 'Daleks'. Bottom picture on this page. http://www.roscalen.com/signals/BirminghamNS/index.htm. We couldn't get an original and searchlight units were out of favour when we needed three new ones to make platforms 1,2 & 3 bi-directional so to fool the unsuspecting our mechanical draughtsman designed a frame to hold a conventional head and the other bits then went round to a local metal fabricator get them made up complete with front plates.

A few pictures from Saturday. Not many trains in sight, but the quality didn't need lots of running around to keep me interested. Black Lion Crossing Clarendon Cornwallis Yard Low Barings North Holderness Portchullin Sandon Goods Tackeroo Valleyfields

I've had a lot of problems with Humbrol paints in recent times. Colours that don't cover well, Matt paints drying shiny etc. I've taken to test painting on offcuts to make sure they are OK before I start the real thing. I recently found a box of various old Humbrol and Airfix tinlets, some unused, that we had mostly for aircraft kits when my son was about 10. Many of them still worked fine with a good stir, despite the fact he is turned 40 now.

To think how much flak we took in the BR/Railtrack changeover about not being able to plan a job in a proper way.

Must try out my new rucksack today. Slimline version with proper carrying handle on top.

Apologies if this one has been up before, but I thought this cycling related one I found on the web was also appropriate to us.

Looking forward to seeing your new effort. Hoping to be over around the start tomorrow morning. My grandsons have spotted an advert for the Romiley Methodists Exhibition and decided that I am taking them tomorrow afternoon. How could I refuse?

J18/19 not expected open before 00.30

Managed to find one with people working

This was Grantham

A steam shed how it should be, all murk and gloom in monochrome? Patricroft on a winter afternoon in 1961

And there's a 'Shed' in front of it.