dutchman
Spon End |
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Sun 19th Feb 2012 3:20pm
Dozens more here: WarwickshireRailways.com
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Sun 19th Feb 2012 4:37pm
Excellent, I'm almost in heaven ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Mon 20th Feb 2012 9:54pm
Thanks Philip
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Tue 21st Feb 2012 7:51am
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Tue 21st Feb 2012 5:54pm
My take on it Philip was that the Jubilee was a racehorse while the Black Five was a workhorse. It was the latter which mostly hauled the stopping trains I travelled on between Coventry and Manchester.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Tue 21st Feb 2012 11:38pm
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Wed 22nd Feb 2012 5:32pm
On 17th Feb 2012 7:51pm, dutchman said:
This is the LNWR boundary post I mentioned at the top of Poplar Road by the cutting in Earlsdon, I had a job to find it as it's now totally covered in heavy ivy but managed to pull some of the ivy from around the top and received some strange looks from a couple of old ladies whilst doing so. It stands about 3 feet high and is hexagonal, although you can't see them in the photo it has LNWR cast around its base and down a couple of the fluted sides, sorry it could not be a better photo, but I might go back one day with my secateurs. On 17th Feb 2012 7:41pm, Catshed said:
It's a Railway Company Boundary Marker.
And that looks like Broomfield Park, pretty sure I've seen it. Okay thanks ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Wed 22nd Feb 2012 5:48pm
Thanks Catshed, I often use that footpath but had no idea up till now that was there!
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Wed 22nd Feb 2012 8:42pm
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Wed 21st Mar 2012 1:52pm
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Wed 21st Mar 2012 3:21pm
One of the main reasons traffic fell away from the Great Central Railway (GCR) was the advent of the motorways at that time, the GCR was the London extension to Marylebone and like you say was originally intended to go via a tunnel under the channel, they did actually start to build the tunnel but the general fear was that the French would invade us (sounds daft but that was around 1896).
The whole line and infrastructure was also built to the continental loading gauge so that foreign stock could travel on our lines, it was always destined to be a freight line and as it passed through rural areas the stations never made money from passenger services and then along came Beeching and seeing the lines loss in freight and passengers it was ironic that England's last main line was the first and only main line to close. It would of course work now the railways are moving a lot more freight than they did then, a lot of the infrastructure and navigation is still there and what's gone can be easily replaced, there was a group trying to get it re-opened years ago but I'm not sure what's happened to that idea.
The GCR (LNER) BR(E) line from Woodford Halse to Rugby was of personal interest to me in my early teens and became my first project to map and chart the line.
Here a photo of what was called a 'Windcutter' freight. After the long 1 in 176 climb from Braunston a pair of double heading 9F's Nos 92011 and 92032 head out of Catesby Tunnel with a class H freight train on May 20th 1964, the destination is Woodford Halse.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Wed 21st Mar 2012 4:00pm
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Wed 21st Mar 2012 4:41pm
So I believe, it was certainly a good line for the 9F's.
Those Franco-Crosti boilers were certainly odd looking, shame there's none preserved, here's one on the Dynomometer at Rugby Testing Station, another history project of mine ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Wed 21st Mar 2012 5:37pm
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Mon 26th Mar 2012 6:04pm
Some great pictures of Midland Region locos there Philip
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