firbeck 859 Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 It was GNR bridge number 4 and I can't remember where it came from, I recall breaking one in half and sticking it together with Araldite. When my brother and I removed it a few years ago it was intact, I must have found a replacement on the Pinxton branch. The sign resides at his house at Denby Station, he kept it as I already have No1 off the old viaduct that was outside of Kimberley I also have a GNR level crossing plate No1 from the first crossing north of the viaduct as well as a large logo GNR plate from a bridge formerly over the road from Ilkeston to Stanley, we sneaked through someones garden to get that!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Unlike you Pete. (LOL) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Unlike you Pete. (LOL) You were with me at the time, it was the same evening the brass work plates mysteriously fell off the Hunslett 0-6-0 saddle tank in the little shed at Mapperley Colliery sidings!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Oh yes that day. We did so many little operations. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
albert smith 803 Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Sorry folks , it's that time of year again:- "What is yellow & white and goes down a train track @ 100 miles an hour" "the drivers egg sandwich" Hang on Bilbroborn I may have a present for you I spotted these at the Thursford Show last week ( if you and Firbeck go to "visit" you'll need bolt cutters!) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Albert, I had to smile at your comment, 'if you and Firbeck go to "visit" you'll need bolt cutters!' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 What size? (LOL). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
albert smith 803 Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Fair size oh and I forgot, you'll need a step ladder too as they're 8ft. up the wall! I used to have one of those signal lamp vessels in the outside toilet during the winter with some 8" plant pots stacked over it, as good as a radiator! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 Don't worry, I've already got some, they'll be lit up on Xmas day in the dining room. The problem is the paraffin stinks the house out so I've taken out the burners and replaced them with tea lights, scented ones of course. I don't know what the LMS and GWR would have thought of that. You're right about the heat they generate, the old central heating thermostat was in the dining room, when we've lit up the lamps in the past they'd shut down the boiler and the rest of the house would be freezing. Our new heating system has the thermostat in the hall, hopefully this will make a difference, haven't tried it yet though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 I knew that already Pete. (LOL) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 You were with me at the time, it was the same evening the brass work plates mysteriously fell off the Hunslett 0-6-0 saddle tank in the little shed at Mapperley Colliery sidings!!! I've been trying to get the computer to work properly, I thought you might like this Bilbraborn, while we were raiding the little shed at Mapperley sidings, this came chugging up the bank from the Ilkeston direction, does anyone have any info as to the reason why the sidings were still used after the colliery was shut, the system clearly linked into the Stanton Ironworks complex, I must have took this circa 1966. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Some more stuff for you Bilbraborn, a few items from the Edwalton station find:- 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I can well remember all the visits to the Mapperley colliery complex. I also remember going up there one weekend and finding the engines standing out of steam. We borrowed a few artifacts. Edwalton was a dream. Like you say, pity we couldn't and given it the real 'Truzz and Fan' treatment. Never mind. It wasn't to be. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
albert smith 803 Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 On the Antique Roadshow recently a man showed part of his 242 piece collection of what to me are rather insignificant items of railwayana, namely the builders name plate usually fixed to the driving wheel splasher as in this photo Yes, that is me so it must have been the drivers turn to put the coal on! 1 plate in particular does stick in my mind though, fixed to a Midland Compound engine as scruffy as No.1000 in this "before & after" photo, coincidently I have a very good memory of 1000 as after the refit/repaint in the old Midland colours I was the first fireman to take charge, only 'light' engine back to Nottingham but I did it! The"particular"plate will have to wait till part 2 comes along, the 'best' trip I ever had! 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 Amazing! A railway photo on Nottstalgia with a real Nottstalgian on it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Albert, those Compounds were one of my granddads favourite locos to drive. I have pics somewhere of him doing exactly what you are doing on your photo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Saw something unusual yesterday at Loughborough on the goods line going north at ten past ten A class 73 electro-Diesel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Saw something unusual yesterday at Loughborough on the goods line going north at ten past ten A class 73 electro-Diesel Maybe it was one of the re-engined ones. The work was done at Brush, and according to this website two of them are/were due to be based at Derby: http://www.railmagazine.com/news/network/2014/09/rvel-unveils-re-engineered-ultra73-for-network-rail Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 Saw something unusual yesterday at Loughborough on the goods line going north at ten past ten A class 73 electro-Diesel Possibly the one Michael Portillo attempted to paint for tonight's programme, pity he spilled paint on his beloved Bradshaws, he should have worn a yellow jacket. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
siddha 825 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 I was out walking south of Melton Mowbray within sight of John O’Gaunt SP742091 the footpath passes under a viaduct which clearly carried a railway in a northerly direction. It was a lovely thing to see. Further along the walk it was interesting looking back at how the viaduct fitted into the landscape. Later on cutting back in an easterly direction from Lowesby the footpath took us through Springfield Farm SP734068 it was an amazing throwback to the 1960s because it was a railway station just you like used to see them after Dr. Beeching had done his stuff! It was a little gem! Any one know what line it was and was it the Lowesby Station? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ravintrainman 10 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 The line from Leicester Belgrave Road to the GN LNW joint through the vale of Belvoir. Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowesby_railway_station Last passenger use would have been summer extras to Skeggie and Mablethorpe, but quite slowly. I seem to recall reading somewhere that due to the condition of the track there was a speed limit of about 30mph for most of the line to Bottesford. Freight may have lasted a bit longer, I have a book somewhere with a mention in. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Here you are - take a look at this. I discovered it a couple of weeks ago and spent a pleasant couple of hour browsing. www.meltonmowbray.steamrailways.com Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Lowesby finally closed 8th October 1962. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
siddha 825 Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Thanks for the info it is really interesting. The station is clearly much appreciated by its current inhabitants. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 After many years of us only having bicycles as our only family means of transport, my old man bought himself a Raleigh Moped to get himself to and from work. This was a posh affair, was it a Raleigh RSW16, a two seater, I recall the registration number as being ATO 448 B. This greatly helped with our Sunday shed trips as we no longer had to sweat our way up to Annesley with me being barely able to reach the pedals of the tandem. One Sunday we set off for the Vale of Belvoir, the old man had clearly researched where he was going, big problem, he got low on two stroke. I remember we found a weird old garage in a remote village, he had to knock on the house door to get the proprietor to come out and fill up the tank, there was a bit of an argument as the bloke started to pour in the oil first, not the petrol, sacrosanct!! Eventually, we traced the route of the old GNR railway as you described, this was 1964, I recall the track still being in place over John of Gaunt viaduct but the star of the show was the station at Melton Mowbray, it was very ruinous, but intact with all it's timber GNR signs in place. It had a very smart waiting room, canopies, lacking in glass, and all the sidings and signal box, just left to rot away and be vandalised, the usual thing at that time. After that, Bilbraborn and myself went off to Leicester for the day, we caught the train from Vic, tried to get round the sheds without success, then walked up the road to the GNR terminus, Leicester Belgrave Road. What a place, a large city terminus, overall roof, just abandoned, a tramp was living in the ticket office so we never went in there, it was a very strange and haunting place to walk around, we were in awe of it all, we never came away with a single 'souvenir', not like us. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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