Recent content by Andy873

Thanks for trying! What I can say is wherever or whatever Cheetham is / was, we can't just say because a line being lifted is in one BR region, that the contractor doing the lift has to be in the same BR region. Example, the company who removed one railway bridge in Padiham (LM region) was...

That's a superb find! What a great thing to do, donate it to a food bank, anyone there would probably have realised it was worth some money, sell it, and that's quite a lot of food for the food bank.

Think it was temporary. The letters from the CCE Manchester start off in 1964 with Oxford Street, crossed out and Fennel St typed instead. When we get to Feb 1966, the CCE department is now operating from the tower block of Manchester Piccadilly station.

Thanks for taking the time to search for this, don't think it's this company, but still appreciated! Yes, that might raise a few eyebrows. With hindsight it does sound like a place not a person. This to me sounds very plausible. Going back to the L&Y days, Hunt Bank was the place all tenders...

The following I'm hoping should be of interest to many of you. Once more, to cover myself the following details come from file AN155/185 held by the National Archives, Kew and contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government License v3.0 If you are not familiar with it...

@stuving, That some work you've put in there searching the newspapers, tells us quite a few things of how it was run etc. Thanks! Yes, me too going off the menu. Somethings on the menu would I suspect be seasonal such as lamb which could be swapped for say beef later, and probably the same goes...

Yes, it does to me, the menu starts with starters, the mains etc then under a new section denoted by some "******" we have the coffee and bread rolls, so it probably did go on to say things like tea, bread, possibly snacks and other drinks. What's just dawned on me is the fact the menu doesn't...

In this note to someone he does say all this is very confidential at the present time. Perhaps he didn't want his secretary reading it? maybe. Something I've had quite a few times (minus the peas). It seems there are recipes available online, apparently beef kidney is the best one for the...

You can imagine my surprise when, reading through eighty eight documents relating to the closure of the branch line I came across a menu from 1963. This had puzzled me since April when I received the documents. Firstly, the menu is typed out in Landscape and the next document (hand written) is...

One strange document I have from the closure files is a menu from the Euston Dining club, Cardington Street, London. It's included in the file because there is a hand written note to someone on the back of it regarding some aspects of the loop line closure. The note by the way was from Jan 1966...

That's a very good point and one I hadn't realised. Me too, and that's why I mentioned it in my opening post. The CEGB don't mention MGR which given the size of this new power station I find strange. That does sound right to me, all power stations need some sort of a good reliable water source...

Yes, of course it is, my mistake!

A headshunt then not a merry-go-round system of delivery. Yes it does indeed, when you look at Ratcliffe-on-Soar you see just how big Padiham C was going to be. Apart from what others have said here about wagon capacity, I can only say it doesn't look like a typo, any that are in these...

I have some more details that some of you might find interesting about Padiham power station C which was proposed but never built, plus some questions of course. To cover myself the following details come from file AN155/185 held by the National Archives, Kew and contains public sector...

Sorry for the late reply to this. I see what you're both saying here, perhaps if you've got the right skills for negotiating purchases then I'm sure you would be ok dealing with tenders for the sale of something.