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Railway stations and other facilities needed a ready supply of water, not only for water columns but cleaning activities and public toilets. How did this fit in with waste water and sewage disposal. For instance, a case in point: Chinley new station (1902) had its own water supply from a water...

I am still learning my way round the excellent Midland Railway Study Group site. And was pleased to find this photo. It is captioned: Midland Railway, Chinley, December 1906. Right to left: 6 wheel 15 ton goods brake No. 1624; 40 ton bogie trolley wagon No. 10018 followed by single bolsters and...

Please does anyone know details of the history of Barrow Hill roundhouse. I do have several questions: Is the old MR water tower part of the small original shed, or only installed when it was dramatically expanded? There is a masonry building close to the water tower in the same style. Was...

Please does anyone know the answer to this question. In 1927, the stationmaster of Burton on Trent, Harry I'Anson, was transfered to a post in Bristol. Having been in a senior stationmaster post for a large station, it seems likely that his role in Bristol was to look after the interests, staff...

Hi, please does anyone know of a photo of Kinnersley Station (Herefordshire). Even the Disused Stations site does not have one.

Please does anyone know about the construction of MR water tanks. I see the sides appear to be cast panels of about 4' x 3', bolted together and stayed from the inside. Were the bases of the same modular panels? They were presumably strengthened by lying on cross-members? And what were the...

In 1907, the Midland installed tanks and pipework to supply locomotive water to these three locations. They built a large header tank inside the triangular junction with the Midland Main line and the Sheffield line. Tanks were built at Chinley and Gowhole, Chapel's probably already existing with...

Thank you for advice on this forum in the past on details of this story. I have put a rough draft online and still have photos and maps to add. Any feedback is very welcome, thanks.

Please does anyone know: did the Midland Railway always paint their coaches Crimson Lake? Specifically, in the 1860s, when engines were still green? Thanks.

I was glad to find both of Frederic Williams' early books on railways as free ebooks on archive.org. They provide contemporanous accounts, sometimes quote from major players of the time who he would have known, and a serious of etchings of infrastructure and equipment. He does not appear to...

Please may I ask: are there now any other timber bridges still operational on the Cambrian Coast line, apart from the Barmouth Bridge? Since the road/rail bridge near Penrhyndeudraeth was rebuilt that was another one. I seem to remember a small one also near the coast. Thanks.

Dear engineering experts, please may I ask: I am wondering what the footings of a typical masonry viaduct would look like. Might they be a continuous loadbearing single slab beneath all the arches, particularly if the rock beneath was deemed to be dodgy? Thanks.

I may be misreading things, in this detailed account of the act for the Dore and Chinley to be submitted to parliament (fifth column in Derbyshire Times Dec 1883). It is interestingly worded as 'some or all' of the things outlined. The main one, 'railway 1' is the Dore and Chinley. The other one...

Long shot, but please does anyone know who was the stationmaster at Bugsworth Station when in opened, in what was to prove a dreadful year, as the line closed almost as soon it opened, with the stone viaduct breaking up, and a year later, a serious accident involving two crashes and two...

As a retired amateur local historian, I have been investigating a double crash/double runaway on the Midland Main LIne in Sept 1867 - you are welcome to have the writeup and use it in any way you wish. Briefly, a doubleheaded Liverpool to Birmingham cattle train ran into a stationary ballast...

I have been researching the story of a double crash and double runaway between Dove Holes and New Mills in September 1867. A runaway cattle train hit a Manchester to Buxton non-stop express at New Mills. Happily, this had been halted by a timely message to New Mills Goods box from Bugsworth box...

Hope a student of signalling history may have some ideas on this. Back in 1867, the MR had just opened the Buxton-New Mills route as their way into Manchester. By agreement with the M&SLR, they accessed Manchester from New Mills onwards was on M&SLR tracks. The signalboxes the MR installed on...

This photo was posted on Facebook recently - the Tutbury Jinny (or Jinnie, or Jenny) shuttle between Burton and Tutbury. But what is the loco? Thanks.

Just to mention that the Liverpool and Manchester Trust have been posting interesting, and in some cases newly discovered documentation on their Facebook page, some of it going right back to the very beginning. Best wishes Tony

Just sharing a couple of resources I found which you may not be aware of: 1) LNWR 22-page booklet of 1908 listing boat trains to Liverpool Riverside, as attached file 2) LMS 1939 entire summer timetable, as an archived book at https://archive.org/details/1939LMS/page/n1 Best wishes Tony