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Hi, Newton Abbot Museum has a brown sign which says "To Car Train" with a 'feathered' arrow. Was the car train service the same as the Motorail service?

Interesting rapportage between you all and some useful photographs which can help my description. The board on show in the Museum is cream with brown lettering and a brown edge. The reverse is white with unusual green lettering for University of somewhere... I'll look at it again tomorrow...

Thanks, Welshman, that's useful - it's difficult to conjure a picture for the kids without the details.

Hi, Newton Abbot Museum has two carriage roof destination boards. I am writing a description for them. Could someone tell me, please, where would they been kept -on the station platform or somewhere in the yard? Who would have been responsible for putting the boards on the carriage roof and...

Thanks Trog, useful, practical information to inform the younger visitors to the Museum and assure them of your mumble - "They don't know they are born"

Thank you, Ploughman, that's exactly right - but ours is wooden-handled. The catalogue has an array of other products which I recognise - evethough the modern version, so I can do some matching up. Good job, thanks

Hi, I am researching the proper names of some of the the p-way tools in the Great Western Railway Room at Newton Abbot Town Museum - we're re-vamping the text for the next season. Does anyone know of a catalogue that the GWR and BR(W) may have bought their tools from so I can get the right...

Thanks to all of you - good collaboration! I have now found he is Horace Alfred George Worth, son of a print compositor , born in Hammersmith, 19 May, 1898. Apprenticed as a clerk to GWR in 1913, rose through the ranks to Divisional Superintendent, Exeter Division, retired in 1950 and died 1975...

Thanks Romilly, but I can't square that suggestion with the signature in the image I have uploaded to this thread - it definitely looks like he has signed it with a name ending in 'th' . This guy is dealing with signal boxes, instructions, safety communications and rail movement, not locos as...

I am trying to decipher the signature of the Divisional Superintendent for the Newton Abbot area in Aug. 1945. It's on Additional Instructions for Aller Signal Box, Newton Abbot Station instruction. It looks like H A ---orth. Any knowledge, please?

The Collection has a photo - see album of an NBR Break 16 wagon and cable laying gang. We seek further information, please.

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