Our next Bridge card takes us to Bridge 1 of the GNR Palmerstone Branch and may interest wagon modellers.. The burning question is, where is Palmerstone? The...
I'm pleased to report that not only has Owen allowed me to include his sketch of the Breadsall signal box diagram in our Photos section, but he has joined the...
... Apologies to Ralph for my extreme tardiness in getting the map into our photos section. No excuses - the email simply fell off the bottom of my Inbox...
I have gone through my modest collection of plans, photos and documents which relate to Breadsall and haven't spotted so much as a hint of the single line, so...
Nick, the Railway Clearing House Handbook of stations for 1904 has a "Palmerston Siding for Pinxton Collieries, GN at Pinxton Wharf" The 1956 Handbook has an...
Nick and group, A bit more digging reveals there is a Palmerston Junction SW of Pinxton GN station with SB. If one looks at www.old-maps.co.uk puts Pinxton in...
Henshaw to the rescue... The main part of the enclosed map shows Palmerston Junction at the top-right. Bridge number 1 can be seen where the Erewash meanders...
I hope you will all forgive this slightly off topic message, but in light of a few of the recent threads, I thought It might be of interest. Mention has been...
Staying slightly off-topic (although I think this is very relevant) ... produced ... <snip> ... Seconded. I bought a copy of this a year or so ago - it is...
... D'oh - ignore - answered my own question... I've managed to get it to open with Acrobat V6.0 rather than the V4.0 that it defaults to. Now I can click on...
Howard and group. I must be thick but I can't relate this plan to the Old-map site or the most interesting Derbyshire CC CDRom extract you've attached to this...
Hi Paul, ... most ... The plan I attached (and sorry - it was much bigger than I realised!) is almost completely upside down compared with the OS extract. On...
Although this is a GNR branch the attached extract from the Midland System Maps may give a more general idea of its location. Ralph ... No virus found in this...
... Thanks for the replies thus far received... Investigation of the GNR Derbyshire District Report on Brides, Tunnels, Viaducts, etc reveals.... Palmerstone...
... Canal) ... All appear on the Henshaw plan that I circulated. (Although with derby.org being "down" for over 24 hours, I realise my and Nick's emails might...
I shall delete the unintended thread, including Ralph's follow up, but so as not to lose the information he provided, Ralph's links were: The Ordnance Survey...
Hi Howard et al When I wanted to reproduce a map in the North Staffordshire Railway Study Group Journal I wrote to the OS to obtain permission. The basic rules...
... Thanks David - I seem to remember reading something like this before - the main point is that you do have to get permission (which, for these old maps, ...
... Well, the OS website states... When is a map out of copyright? Ordnance Survey mapping is protected by Crown copyright by virtue of the 1988 Copyright,...
Hi all, I hope this does not intrude but I thought group members might be interested in the details I have of a railtour covering GNR lines in Derbyshire and ...
A group of Railway Ramblers walked the Ticknall Tramway in 1991 and again on Boxing day Sunday 26 December 2004. The comments provided by the walk leader of...
... Thanks Ralph. I have a book called "The Ticknall Tramway" by Geoffrey Holt. This has several maps, but I've just put one in our photos section for now, as...
... I assume that this is G.O. Holt, who lived at Kings Newton. If so, he has been dead for sometime - probably from about the time that the book was ...
Thanks for the info Howard. Future news about the replacement would be appreciated. Ralph ... From: "Howard Sprenger" <hsprenger@...> To: "Derbyshire...
... Speaking of matters LNW.... 1) The Steeple Grange Light Railway are to apply for permission to extend from the former Killers Branch off the C&HPR to the...
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