Recent content by ian1944

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Horace pushed the infra-draw method, with what success for the punter I don't know but no doubt a lot for him, along the lines of predicting the sex of your unborn child or your money back. Non-winners may have stopped funding him via what he would hold back from the stake, but the rest would...

OP - I still don't know what the device was called, every Google search I've tried fails or shows something else. Anyone have the official name?

Thanks for the confirmation that I'm not wholly losing it. I've a feeling that the half of the old Alnwick station which is now Barter Books may have one too.

As a regular user of Blackburn station in the 70s when catching a train to Bolton from its bay (I forget the platform number), there is a distinct recollection of some kind of wind-on forthcoming departure timetable for the whole station akin to a bus blind, which a porter would turn...

Lots of buses to Sefton Park, a classical municipal open space with a lake and a wonderful palm house. Too late for this year, but the Marie Curie Field of Hope in the SE corner has a magnificent display of daffodils.

Classical peacock blue and cream of Ashton u L corpy pre-Selnec, just perfection.

More disconcerting if two went and three returned.

The result of many a track rationalisation, in particulat at the east end of Newcastle. Those crossings were a work of art.

The CR and NBR had stations on either side of the A702 (respectively west and east), linked via a level crossing by a short track used solely for exchanging freight wagons and never used for passenger trains. Apparently a single stationmaster was in post at some time, though this seems unlikely...

Generally the last mile home, more specifically A6105/A6112 from Earlston to Grantshouse on a late summer evening with the sun behind.

Andy, please don't ever apologise for the length of your posts, as an ex-Arrodian I'm always interested in what you say.

My parents were members of a version before 1980, and on a mystery tour from Brooklands (long pre-metro) found themselves on the total mystery of the Middlewich line, eventually arriving in Euston. A baking hot day, so they didn't do much before the return.

As a resident of Great Harwood from 1973 to 1978 I never saw any trains through the town, but nevertheless appreciate the work done on the history of the loop line. I worked at the back of the Mullard factory in Little Harwood, where the line ran just the other side of the wire fence, and often...

What's the route from Crewe to Blackburn? ECML to Lostock Hall or somehow to Bolton?