The story continues... A company called Lightcliffe, based in Halifax leased a site near Tunstall, to the north of Goldendale Ironworks, from which it obtained...
Following on from Neil F-L's entertaining talk in Sheffield last night about the Wirksworth revival project, I'm attaching the 1899 map of the incline between...
... Indeed, it will be interesting to see what thoughts people have. The thing I've never understood is why it was built (even planned) in the first place. ...
I've always wondered about the derivation of this name. Was looking at an old Ordnance Survey map today and noticed the word "Avenue" between two parallel...
... There's a mention of an Avenue at the end of this article: http://www.wingerworth.org.uk/around.htm But earlier in the article, a mention of Avenue...
To answer Nick's first question, the change of gradient from 1 in 30 to 1 in 5 was a little way north of the Cromford Road bridge, and is near to the M of...
The latter-day engine shed at Rowsley opened 80 years ago on 28th June 1926 and closed 40 years later, on 3rd October 1966. In 2006 it will have been closed...
Hi, Went for a walk around the old sheds, on Saturday morning and noticed that some work had started possibly in connection wirth a proposed open casting of...
Google book search is pretty darned amazing: http://www.books.google.co.uk/ They are systematically scanning books and making them available on the Web (with...
Hello All, Does anyone have a track plan for New Lount on the Derby - Ashby line? As it's just over in Leicestershire, it's not on the CD of 25in OS Derbyshire...
In a message dated 03/10/2006 09:26:11 GMT Standard Time, ptrkaz@... writes: Hello All, Does anyone have a track plan for New Lount on the Derby - Ashby...
... Sorry - nothing in Sprenger Snr's "Melbourne Military Railway". There's a very undetailed "general arrangement" map, which shows New Lount Colliery, Lount...
... This establishent is a useful resource for Midland Railway line 2 chain line plans... http://www.midlandrailwaystudycentre.org.uk Highly recommended to all...
... Ashby ... but ... to ... Thanks All for the responses thus far. As Stuart correctly noted, the colliery was only open between 1924 and 1968, so it's just...
One of the icons of rail travel is 30 today. Monday 4th October 1976 saw the start of 125mph scheduled passenger services on the Padd - Bristol/South Wales...
You can get 20% off the cost of food and drink at stations by registering for a free discount card.. http://www.bitecard.co.uk Better than a poke in the eye...
I've got access to all the 1:2500 OS Sheets. There seems to be incomplete coverage of the 3rd edition. Do you have a map reference for the place you want?...
... Hello Andrew, The period I'm particularly interested in is the 1950s and early 1960s; not sure what the revision dates are for the 3rd edition. The area of...
... qPQmlzwx4MuEp84GUv3iuWh0cNyoOUjJqKA4IpdFXEFPEajpqZDDXD3ZTi_pZ88wvj/New% 20Lount%20Colliery.pdf ... Super stuff; many thanks Andrew. You couldn't do the...
Hello All, For some time I've been trying to find where the top photo on p.29 in Sprenger Seniors' book on the Melbourne Military Railway was taken from. ...
... Leaping to the defence of the publishers, it is of course possible that the original print was reversed from the neg, but it's surprising that no-one on...
Unfortunately, I don't think it's all that unlikely that a scan could be reversed and not spotted in time! In the past I have seen other unnoticed errors in...
Hello All, Been looking at the MR Summer 1903 Timetable recently. With these old timetables it's sometimes difficult to work out where trains actually started...
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