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Adrian
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Sat 22nd Sep 2012 12:57pm
Hi Philip, I didn't know the Ordnance loop was owned by Courtaulds. Thanks for that info ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sat 22nd Sep 2012 4:34pm
On 22nd Sep 2012 12:57pm, Adrian said:
Hi Philip, I didn't know the Ordnance loop was owned by Courtaulds. Thanks for that info
Hi Adrian,
The Foleshill Railway was an independent railway company, until becoming a subsidiary of the Ctlds Group. I am not sure about dates though.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 7th Oct 2012 4:03pm
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Catshed
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Tue 20th Nov 2012 10:04am
I noticed as I walked along that footpath by the cutting in Earlsdon how quiet one of those Pendolino EMU's are, you could just hear a bit of wind noise and a whistle of the Thyristors in the power control (if they still use Thyristors). I would prefer to see a BR Standard 2-10-0 9F accelerating with a full load of coal wagons but then that's me (and most likely some of you), but does annoy me when someone buys a house next to a railway and then complains about the 'Noise'. ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Sat 8th Dec 2012 4:46pm
The last time I saw Castle class 5051 'Earl Bathurst' was at Banbury, on a 'down' special, it was about 1981 when I took this and sorry it's not in Coventry ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Sat 8th Dec 2012 5:47pm
I say to folk from the Steam era that 'MY' era was the last of the big diesels like the Deltics, I used to go down to KX the see the last of them, I don't need to list the classes as you will know them all but it was a shame for me to see them disappear although some are being resurrected for departmental use, and a Deltic was used to haul freight for a company only last year, I think it was from a preservation society, not what they were made for but would have been nice to see and hear that unusual Napier engine sound. I'm unsure of the type of diesels that used to run through Coventry station as I was a Rugby 'gricer' ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Sat 8th Dec 2012 7:24pm
On 8th Dec 2012 5:47pm, Catshed said:
I'm unsure of the type of diesels that used to run through Coventry station as I was a Rugby 'gricer'
They were almost exclusively English Electric Type 4 1Co-Co1 in passenger days, before being replaced by electrics. Coventry didn't really have a 'diesel era', having gone straight from steam to electric. The EE Type 4s then replaced steam and other diesel types on the coal run between Nuneaton and Rugby. ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 9th Dec 2012 4:33pm
Hi all, ![]() ![]() |
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Sun 9th Dec 2012 5:18pm
Were they the ones that 'sort of' remotely controlled the locomotive if running in the opposite direction ? There was also 'Slip Coaches' wasn't there that used to uncouple a coach at a station without stopping.
BTW the layout is looking good Philip ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Sun 9th Dec 2012 5:29pm
A two-coach push-pull train regularly worked the Nuneaton-Leamington run until 1959, usually hauled by an Ivatt 2MT. During peak hours it was often doubled-up to four coaches.
Sadly there is no Stanier driving coach available in RTR model form at present.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 9th Dec 2012 5:37pm
Hi Dutchman ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 9th Dec 2012 5:43pm
Hi Catshed ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Sun 9th Dec 2012 6:38pm
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 9th Dec 2012 7:22pm
Hi again ![]() |
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Fri 14th Dec 2012 10:30am
This site might be of interest to Philip as we were talking about bridges and construction,it is an interactive OS map of the Great Central Railway showing its construction around 1885-1887.
I was fortunate to be lent the large negatives of most of these about 1979 by the owner (then) of Catesby House where the tunnel went underneath their stable block, and printed my own set those days but you now see the images pop up all over the place now.
This is now a common image but was one I developed from the original plate negative. The house in the top right corner is Catesby House where I borrowed the negatives from a Mr and Mrs Darby, whose permission I used to ask for so I could walk on that section of railway line they owned.
I believe the photos are called the Newton Collection these days.
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