plantfit 7,582 Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 Seems to have cleared that one up then Merthyr Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,278 Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 Now I am even more confused! On that basis would a train going from Sheffield to Birmingham be on the up line? Yet a train going from Sheffield to Derby be on the down line even though it is the same line? No wonder we cannot get the trains to run on time if we don't know if they are going up or down! I guess its a bit like the Interstate highway system in the USA where the road is identified by the general compass direction it takes. It took me a while when travelling between Detroit and Port Huron which is north east of Detroit to work out that I had to take the I94 East Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 I did say 'generally speaking'! But in that example, the whole Sheffield to Birmingham line would count as one line, so anything heading towards Birmingham no matter where from would be an up train. In any case, it's based on the line rather than the train service, so whether a train is only going from Sheffield to Derby or whether it's going all the way to Birmingham it's still an up train I doubt it's anything at all like American highway systems. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 I know this is drifting from the topic, but it has been mentioned - American freeways are numbered evenly for East/West direction, and odd for North/South direction. What I like about them is that that the junctions are not numbered sequentially as they are in this country, but are numbered as the number of miles from the dedicated starting point. Why we don't do this I'd like to know. We add junctions and have to give them a suffix letter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,278 Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 Thanks guys, I understand now, amazing what we learn on this site. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 Re #454. Interstate 40 which goes from Barstow, California to Wilmington, N. Carolina, the mile markers start in the west, and go back to 1 at each State change. The mile marker to our home in Williams is 161, which means it is 161 miles from the California border. Here endeth the geography lesson. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 Thanks Katy. I'd never given that a lot of thought. I'm happy enough if I can find my car in a parking lot and find my way back home. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 Found this on Pinterest. Picture credit Michael Cox [Caption: Northbound coal train approaching the Great Central viaduct and Weekday Cross, heading north through Victoria Station, Nottingham, early 1960s.]. I am wondering why a coal train would be travelling northbound into Nottingham Victoria....can anyone help? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted February 20, 2017 Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 It could be from Gedling Colliery, which produced industrial fuel, and could have been heading for Lancashire, it would have to go this way after Mapperley tunnel was closed. I do know that East Midlands coal did go to Lancashire factories in the 1960's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted February 20, 2017 Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 I seem to remember that some of the coal from this area was sent to Garston Docks at Liverpool. Whether it was fuel for ships, or for export, I don't know. I'll have to do some investigating. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted February 20, 2017 Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 Coal to Garston Dock was House Coal for Northern Ireland and the Republic. The coal looks smaller ie Singles (1"x1/2") or Washed Smalls (1/2"x0) both produced at Gedling. Most of the wagons look to me like 21t hoppers. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,278 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 We have been looking for some artwork for one of the walls in our house and thought of something from Nottinghamshire. Whilst searching I came across this site which includes quite a few railway prints of Nottingham and surrounds http://www.theparnhamgallery.co.uk/html/steam_train_pictures.html 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Brilliant, just buy the ones that are relative to your original area, and of past memories....... No..... Get the lot. They're fantastic! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 For no particular reason.... something at the north end of Victoria Station. The road behind the top wall is Huntingdon Street, and the building which looks like a church is Huntingdon Street school. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 LNER 2554 Woolwinder as a class A1. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 One of the renowned TG Hepburn pictures I believe. I've got his photo album which is marvellous. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 3 hours ago, BulwellBrian said: LNER 2554 Woolwinder as a class A1. 11 minutes ago, FLY2 said: One of the renowned TG Hepburn pictures I believe. I'm sure you're both right. I'm not a railway specialist so I look at the background and the scenery first; the fact there's a train in the photo is a bit secondary ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Cooker shop, top floor of EMGAS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted March 13, 2018 Report Share Posted March 13, 2018 Blinking Hector 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 Ian, great photos and is the last one of the footbridge just past Ruddington station? We always knew this as Fifty Steps, and you can just see through the structure the dormer window of our first house on Churchill Drive. We left there in 1971 and the bridge looks definitely the worse for wear than I remembered it. Before the Wimpey estate was built, the area down to Fifty Steps was known as Western (Weston?) Fields. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Martyn 303 Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 Ian You have some great pictures 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willow wilson 894 Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 A junior boy’s memory. In the late 40s, one Saturday morning, this young lad and his brother would be squeezed into a taxi along with baby brother’s pram and all the luggage plus mam and dad and set off to the Victoria Station. Once there and through the sacred reverberation of the booking hall, the entrance to the trains opened onto to the metal footbridge over the platforms and lines, and there below us, a shock, a mesmerising panorama like nothing else, as far as you could see, a monstrous industrial underworld of clanking and shouting, hissing steam and wafting up to us, the tempting enticing sweet smell of locomotive smoke. A struggle down the steps with the cases and pram to the platform level and we were engulfed in its titanic busy-ness, a tannoy barking out indecipherable orders, smart adults walking quickly here and there, cigarettes being lit, unheard conversations drowned out by the noise, a wink from a passing porter, his laden trolley rumbling along on cast iron wheels towering above me; this was the centre of the universe, this was the mechanicals which operated the world. And there, the most important man in splendid uniform with white shirt and black tie, with mere whistle-blow ordered the lumbering trains about their business. Dad took me to the end of the platform to see the engine. As we approached there was a malevolence about its clicking, hissing and ticking, it seemed keen to be off somewhere, its huge body was so impatient that it was scorching hot if you got too close and if it had an eye I’m sure it looked sideways with disdain at this little mortal. And just to prove its superiority it let out a deafening shrieking hiss in a geyser of steam which, save for the roof, would have blown a hole in the sky. Mam’s waving us back to get on board. The noises subdue as we move into the carriage, dad stowing things in “our” commandeered compartment as doors thump shut. A sigh of relief from mam, and that station master signals the ok, there’s a contemptuous toot from Leviathon at the front and with a gentle jolt the “Master Cutler” is taking us on our holidays, eventual destination Broadstairs! 11 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 Beautifully written account, WW. I felt I was there.... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted June 3, 2018 Report Share Posted June 3, 2018 You bought tears to my eyes, WW, the sight and sounds we'll never experience again. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 13, 2018 Report Share Posted July 13, 2018 On 1/6/2016 at 9:20 PM, radfordred said: #404 Sherwood rise --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's Garner's Hill on the right the tunnel is the Thurland Street tunnel leading to the south end if Victoria station Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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