A date for your diaries... The Old Dronfield Society is hosting an exhibition about Dronfield Station and the railway on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th June...
I have a wonderful 'past' picture of this Works taken in 1966 with a 'Peak' passing with a Manchester bound express, the Works on the left, the line bending...
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Jun 4, 2006 3:32 pm
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I have a photo of Midland Railway No 118 standing by Derby station with the clock tower in the background. There is an ex LTS tank engine just showing. I...
JohnH
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Jun 5, 2006 7:59 pm
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Hi John, ... Is it definitely 1965? I'm not sure when they were taken away from Derby, but I guess it was around that time. There were four preserved locos...
From another list. Not our area, of course, but might include some ... The site is titled "The East Midlands Oral History Archive", which naturally made me...
Only just seen it - it's in the June 2006 edition, which is no-doubt no longer available in the shops... An interesting "Plan of the Month" based on the...
A query being posted on behalf of John Hillmer, who is currently experiencing problems accessing the group with his new email address... Thanks, Howard ... ...
Good evening, I think that Torside was technically in Cheshire but hope that the group will be OK with this posting in the context of its contents. I wrote an...
... There's currently some discussion about it on the Woodhead Group - certainly valid here though... Howard. ... mail2web - Check your email from the web at ...
Hi for some great pics of WEsthouses and the surrounding branches have a look at: http://stevecooke.fotopic.net/ The Barrow Hill event was a good day and the...
From another group. Off-topic, but might be of interest... The cooling towers at Willington are to be blown up at 2300 (yes, 2300, to avoid sightseers closing...
An unusual subject for us, I know, but Ralph Rawlinson has pointed me towards an article in "The Railway Herald" about reopening proposals for the Cambrian...
... more...? ... photographs ... 'Collection' ... with ... memorabilia and ... Interesting indeed. The only thing I can think of that would directly connect...
... Could be. Something about the paragraph in question, though, suggested something a bit more historic. Two bodies are involved in the project - The ...
I have received the following message from a friend who went to see the cooling towers blown up at 2300 last night. Ralph We gave up just after midnight...
New Signalling Centre for Derby Network Rail has announced a major scheme to renew signalling through the East Midlands over the next six years. The project,...
Interesting stuff, Howard. I am pleasantly surprised that actually Network Rail know how old Narborough and Hinkley boxes are (Do I detect Mr. Allsop's...
The article was an edited version of a Network Rail press release - of which the last 2 paragraphs are missing - these mention the following next phases, one...
The attached extract of the Barrow Hill area, from the latest (2004) edition of the Baker Atlas, shows lines still open to Oxcroft and Bolsover. g = Seymour Jn...
Ralph, In your notes for MR SEYMOUR JN - ELMTON & CRESWELL (Clown Branch) (5½ miles) you write: Approaching Clowne it passed under the LD&ECR’s Beighton...
Hi Stuart I had seen it mentioned that no physical connection existed in various sources and had failed to notice that one was shown on the Midland map. It ...
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