TheSignalEngineer

Up Home Signal at Four Oaks prior to Cross City Electrification Next up, an ex-LNER loco close to the Irish Sea, say within two miles.

Scottish 47 deprats Mitre Bridge heading for the SR, 1988 Next - A pre-grouping boundary marker.

RH&DR No.2 Northern Chief by Charles Eric Steele, on Flickr Next - an Irish 5' 3" gauge train

Next up will have a large loco hauling a single wagon

I really set myself up for that one Larry.

Tyseley Next - a pre-grouping signal

Has anybody got a shot of one coupled to and alongside a Hornby Gresley? I was wondering how they compare.

The photo was re-dated 16th December 1962. Fresh paint and no coal in the tender by the look of it, so 24th at Bolton would not seem unreasonable, especially if it had been tried out and was waiting to return south.

Tyseley 1971 Next one to show a level crossing

Unless it was out of traffic long enough to fix the boiler as another one wasn't available at the time. This thread is getting like the 'Albert Hall' saga.

Next - Inside the signal box

Another photo on the same photostream which is dated as 3 February 1963 shows a special to Crewe Works which according to Six Bells Junction actually ran on 10th February.

Wasn't there quite a bit of snow lying in February 1963?

Even found a Toad on the Woodhead Route, see at 6min 32 on the film linked here. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/121136-cab-ride-on-the-woodhead/?p=2659156

I remember them on test from new. The PWay came close to derailing one at Tattenhall Road before it even entered traffic. A quick bit of 'Between Trains' rail changing nearly went drastically wrong.

And the same tale told three times usually gets a laugh, even if it's not funny.

Judging by his replies to poor feedback he has a bit of a problem somewhere. I don't run the risk of being blocked because with attitudes like his I would avoid him in the first place.

One was used on the first train loaded on the new bunker at Silverdale which would be late 1971 or January 1972. From memory it was probably 401. I gave up recording numbers after steam finished.

Yes, but only about 60% (possibly 50% depending on which source you read) are operational..................plus ça change.

Given the availability of the 'Duffs' around 1965-6, 50 locos would mean an average of 37.5 available for traffic. IIRC there were about 12 diagrams which needed double headers when the WCML North accelerated timetable was first introduced taking up 24 locos or 32 at 75% availability. Add to that the number of WCML Parcels and Freightliner trains the 50s turned up on along with runs along the North Wales Coast and to Blackpool and even Barrow the number would have been quite realistic without a big increase in availability.

There are Carriage Working Notice on Robert Carroll's Yahoo Group "British Railways loco-hauled coaching stock since 1948" which have the formations in Winter 1949/50 and Summer 1951 shown.

Probably got the wrong sort of rivets somewhere as well.

I don't know the actual date of introduction of the two reds version but it was definitely in the 1996 standard relating to lineside signal aspects. https://www.rssb.co.uk/rgs/standards/GKRT0031%20Iss%201.pdf - see Part B section 5.5 on page 17

Anyone seen the guard? Waiting for the Right Away by Charles Eric Steele, on Flickr Torbay Express at Newton Abbot 1964

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