next Monday 6 October 2008 at 8.00pm For a requested £2 donation on the door, all welcome to: "TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT" - slideshow - Howard Turner From Canal...
For Howard primarily, who offered to keep a record of errors and omissions in publications. So here are a couple to add to what has been noted previously: John...
Following the success of "Rowsley Railway Miscellany" two years ago, the Rowsley Association has now published a sequel with the imaginative title "Rowsley...
If you wondered what this was, I found it uncompleted in my drafts box from a couple of years ago. Instead of deleting / amending it, I inadvertently clicked...
Shirebrook depot has also had all of it's tracks cleared, don;t know what the uses for the shed building are ... From: Howard Sprenger <hsprenger@...>...
In the same area can anyone confirm that all traces of Shirebrook North (formerly Langwith Junction) have been swept away? Ralph ... Peter Witts, another...
Last time I was in that area, the remains of one platform could be seen, I have since heard that a housing development is planned, or even started. Some lines...
Thanks Chris. Ralph ... Last time I was in that area, the remains of one platform could be seen, I have since heard that a housing development is planned, or...
Prompted by Glynn's recent post, I have trawled through the discussion group messages and gathered together as many published errors as I can find. The ...
I'm in the process of writing a brief article about the how the bridge which took the former A619 over the MR at Tapton, Chesterfield, got its nickname (due to...
I was talking to a chap in the pub at the weekend, he said that the short tunnel on Dore South Curve had been opened out into a cutting as part of the larger...
Thanks for posting the link to the report in the Matlock Mercury Howard but nowhere does it state that the railway alignment will be used. Can anyone provide a...
... Can anyone suggest a suitable alternative route if it isn't going to run directly alongside the A6? Haddon Tunnels might prove a problem but otherwise the...
To ease overcrowding into Sheffield the Yorkshire and South Humberside RUS (Rail Utilisation Study) has suggested three extra peak trains on the Hope Valley...
... Having walked it a few times up to the Castle Inn, that is what made me query the chap's story - not least because I'd seen no other mention of it. Nick...
Spoke to the signaller at Totely tunnel and he didn;t know of any work to open out the tunnel. Said there had been plenty of work on it and they were relining...
Thanks Alex. No doubt Nigel will be relieved that he won't have to delete this 91yd tunnel from his Tunnels Database after all! This pic by Andrew Naylor is...
The following item spotted in Branch Line News may be of interest Ralph Many stopping trains from the Barnsley Swinton routes are reversing at Meadowhall and...
The current edition of Rail magazine carries a report that a plan is being developed for a 615-acre rail and road terminal near the Toyota car plant at...
From the Midland Railway Society list: Does any one know what is going on at Alfreton. The former Alfreton Gunpowder siding head shunt, which leads off from...
 Hi  went and photographed the line, it is only the long siding from Blackwell South Junction to the buffer stop that has been renewed. The line into the...
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