Recent content by Mrs Humm

Thanks for taking an interest anyway! It's an astonishing view, if you compare it to what is there today.

Thanks again for your effort, we are greatly indebted to you. When I posted the photo on Twitter I mentioned that the station wasn't Pinxton, to save people wasting time on it. Instead everyone reckoned that it must nevertheless be local to Pinxton so for Railforums I didn't mention it. But one...

Thank you, that brackets the dates very closely.

Anything is better than the news. The mechanics of the distribution of coal must have been complex, I've no idea how it actually worked and I'm interested to see how far from home the Pinxton wagon had travelled. As to the wagons, Robert thought the same as you, but added that it couldn't be...

Thank you. Now we know it was Merton I should think that only the Leicestershire and Kent collieries were closer than Pinxton. I should think that much of the coal went to the paper factory north of the station (although it seems to also to have used water power from the R Wandle). Yes, it's...

Here is #whatstation 318, a photo which has defeated the keenest railway brains on Twitter. The very brightest of them, however, suggested I should do much better posting it here. We have no clues other than the details in the picture. We also have no information about the photographer...