Unloading Sleepers and placing them in position at Mirfield Station, East Sunday.
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Unloading Sleepers and placing them in position at Mirfield Station, East Sunday.
Mirfield Station's new track being laid on a glorious spring day, Will it be ready for Tuesday morning? New platform & track.
The City of Nottingham was an enthusiastic publisher of "Official Handbooks" as this, dated by statistics to 1936, was the eighth issue. As usual the handbook conatins a wealth of information as to the city, its services, amenities and industries with a strong emphasis here on 'modernity' in the city the Council called "the Queen of The Midlands". Interestingly, aside from the large City Councils of Birmingham and Manchester, who issued annual handbooks, there seems to have been a Midlands rivalry between Coventry, Leicester and Nottingham in the 1930s as to the quality of production for the guides; Coventry and especialy Leicester issued some very smartly designed and produced books, the latter via the city's noted Colleges of Design and Printing. Nottingham's strayed down the more traditional Burrow's route but at the 'top end' of that company's output.
Taylor Bros. foundry was formed in 1896 at Sandiacre near Nottingham and grew to be a major manufacturer of railway iron and steel work along with associated products as seen here. The site is still in business, known at Progress Rail, and part of the international Caterpillar Group. The main illustration is of a "Nottingham" pattern illuminated traffic guard post - or bollard - along with a rustic style park bench.
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A chance combination of heat haze and a long lens turn this Forth Bridge Engineering Squad into an oil painting effect.
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Railway renewal works between Markinch and Lochmuir in Fife.
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Volvo L150E loads opencast coal onto first train headed by EWS Class 66 66138 at Earlseat Opencast mine whilst Railway Construction Engineers look on. Six scoops per waggon!
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Thos W Ward (Railway Engineers), F Hibberd 4WD (FH 3884/1958) shunting at Sandiacre - 02/01/1985.
Situated to the western side of the entrance (from the B5010 road) to the BR depot at Toton, the tracks on which the industrial shunter is operating have mostly been lifted, but the brick building on the left (carrying the Thos W Ward branding) remains intact but no-longer in Ward's ownership.
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© 2019 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparency; photographed by John Turner.
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A visit to the East Anglian Railway Museum.
The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury. Services on the Sudbury Branch Line are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia.
The museum has a wide collection of locomotives and rolling stock, some of which are fully restored, three are converted into Thomas, Percy and Toby replicas while others are undergoing repair and restoration. The Restoration Shed was built in 1983–4, before which most work had to take place in the Goods Shed or in the open. On event days, steam or diesel train rides are operated over a short demonstration track.
The museum also plays host to three popular annual events: the Winter Beer Festival held each February, the Cider Festival held each June, and the Summer Beer Festival held each September. During the festivals, additional late-evening trains on the Sudbury Branch Line allow festival-goers to return home by train subject to provision by the train operation companies. There are no moving exhibits during the festivals, although train carriages are usually open to sit in and drink, with one wagon doubling up as The Shunters Arms at the summer festival.
The museum was originally formed as the Stour Valley Railway Preservation Society on 24 September 1968. The SVRPS was established at Chappel & Wakes Colne Station in December 1969 after a lease was obtained from British Rail to use the vacant goods yard and railway buildings, including the station building. The first public steam day took place three months later.
The goods shed and station buildings were quickly restored; with a workshop being set up in the goods shed to enable maintenance and restoration work to be undertaken on the rolling stock.
The Stour Valley Railway Preservation Society was renamed to The East Anglian Railway Museum in 1986 to confirm its focus on representing railway history of the Eastern Counties rather than just operating trains. The museum gained charitable status in 1991 (Registered Charity No. 1001579) and became a Registered Museum in 1995.
Since 2005, the museum has had a greater emphasis on interpretation and display facilities, a large variety of events take place each year to raise funds to support the museum's activities.
Heritage Centre - exhibits inside of this building.
Railway Engineers
George Stephenson, John Braithwaite, Charles Vignoles and Peter Schuyler Bruff.
Notice the shoulder patch of the 16th Regiment of Engineers (Railway) from Detroit, Mi. This photo was taken in New York, May 1919
