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Midland Red
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Sat 3rd Jan 2015 9:14pm
Chasewater? ![]() |
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Not Local
Bedworth |
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Sat 3rd Jan 2015 9:30pm
Hi MR, yes it is the Chasewater Railway, off the A5 by Brownhills. A good day out, particularly on one of their gala days when there will be up to four steam locomotives and a number of diesel locomotives in use.
As a bonus there is a good cafe, you can walk by the lake, feed the ducks, have an ice cream (not in January) or play in the playground. Some of these activities are better suited to my grandchildren who love the place.
The real attraction is shown below - not exactly a Coventry connection, but similar engines would have been hard at work on the Foleshill Railway or later at Courtaulds right up to the early 60's I think.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Tue 6th Jan 2015 9:02pm
Hi all
I saw this loco several times working specials that journeyed along the Foleshill line. They were the UKs first 2000HP diesel, very efficient compared to the steamers, but even a Stanier black five would outperform them.
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Midland Red
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Tue 6th Jan 2015 9:16pm
Preserved, and still running on the East Lancashire Railway ![]() |
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Ron
Back home in Coventry |
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Thu 8th Jan 2015 1:03pm
Whilst Deltics have made a number of runs on the main line through Coventry (and indeed ran frequently on Saturdays for Virgin Trains to and from Ramsgate a few years back), only once has one ever appeared on the Coventry to Nuneaton line. On Saturday 2nd June 2012, one was operating a charter train which ran into a series of operating difficulties which caused it to terminate at Didcot close to midnight, a few hours later than planned. Consequently it couldn't return to Crewe that evening as 'booked'. Engineering work on the Sunday delayed it further. The end result was that the empty stock returned to Crewe via 'the Spires' around 1610 on the VERY wet afternoon of Sunday 3rd June 2012. It is seen here about to pass under Lockhurst Lane bridge.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks Thread starter
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Thu 8th Jan 2015 1:07pm
Hi & thank you Ron & Midland Red, ![]() ![]() |
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Mike H
London Ontario, Canada |
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Thu 8th Jan 2015 2:06pm
40145 starting up from cold and having a ball.. It's getting cloudy |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Thu 8th Jan 2015 3:12pm
On 6th Jan 2015 9:02pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
The "Green Goddesses" which worked the Coventry lines were invariably of the disc headcode type.
Oddly though their smaller Type 3 cousins usually had split headcode boxes.
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Not Local
Bedworth |
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Thu 8th Jan 2015 4:00pm
Ron - thanks for the information about the Keresley Colliery diesels. I certainly remember them from 1973/75 time when I lived in Meadow Rd and had a clear view across what were then allotments to the line down to Three Spires Junction. On Sunday mornings the crews seemed to delight in playing tunes on the horns, probably because there were no 'gaffers' about. Regards. Roger |
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Midland Red
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Sat 10th Jan 2015 8:26am
On 8th Jan 2015 2:06pm, Mike H said:
40145 starting up from cold and having a ball.. It's getting cloudy
Here is 40145 in Warwickshire in 2006 ![]() |
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Midland Red
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Thu 15th Jan 2015 9:38am
More poor reporting from Trinity Mirror ![]() ![]() |
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morgana
the secret garden |
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Wed 4th Mar 2015 6:31pm
News just said no new renovation now to Coventry train station the bus station they have run out of money. ![]() |
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flapdoodle
Coventry |
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Wed 4th Mar 2015 6:34pm
That's not true. They were hoping to raise £31 million for a station masterplan, but so far have only managed 2/3 of that. This means that parts of the masterplan will no be going ahead yet. The parts not going ahead are a new bus interchange and car parking plus downsized facilities in the new station entrance off Warwick Road.
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Ron
Back home in Coventry |
449 of 1074
Thu 5th Mar 2015 1:06pm
Daimler Halt was opened in 1917. Situated immediately on the Radford Road side of the Sandy Lane road bridge, it was roughly a quarter of a mile from the Daimler works itself. Access to the platforms were via two sets of steps, one each side of the bridge. The steps were constructed of wood, as was the rest of the station. Closure came along with all the stations on the Coventry to Nuneaton line effective from 18th January 1965.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Thu 5th Mar 2015 2:26pm
Hi Ron, I remember that footbridge well as I used to walk to work that way sometimes in the 60'as a short cut from the Radford Road to the EMEB offices that were once part of the Daimler Factory. I did not go that way if it was icy because as you say it was quite a curve. We later moved to the buildings that were now on what is called Electric Wharf. The land that the blocks of flats are now built on were our car park.
Here is a snap from Britain from above 1934 and I think if I have it correct Daimler Halt is at the bottom of the picture. There is a curve from it toward the corner if Widdrington Road, could this have been the route of the line? I don't recall a line but the line on the picture follows throught on to what is now the industrial estate.
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