HPMRS RAILDATE 12 Mar 05

News

RAILDATE: the weekly newsletter of the Hursley Park Model Railway Society: http://www.ibmhursleyclub.org.uk/ss/hpmrs/

NETWATCH

Paul Bartlett' fotopic wagon photographs update...

SMBP444 of 1902 in detail as internal user 041204 - 40 photographs. This had originally been built by Midland Rly C & W for New Jersey Pure Oil and registered by the Midland Railway. With Peter Fidczuk this venerable internal user tank was recorded in considerable detail on my 44th birthday. Tinsley TMD had a reputation for unfriendliness towards the gricer fraternity but on this day we were welcomed in, given a coffee and invited to have a look around the workshops, while we waited for the boss to give us the go ahead. Although many elderly features remained some modifications - such as the oil boxes had been fitted. It had received a general repair on February 1961 and from a letter allocated to Barton at end of 1966. http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c453208.html

BR Ferry Tube diag 1/449 - 24 photographs These rare tubes (just 20 built) were a nice design, combining some of the best of the LMS tube design, as extended by BR, and a full air brake brake rigging. In the engineers fleet they wandered far, including to the continent and received some unusual liveries. http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c451069.html

ESSO Bitumen tank wagons - 40 photographs These are batches of the earliest style of vacuum braked tank wagons built in 1959 and 1963 for carrying bitumen with end flame tubes and lagging. Some later rebuilt with air brake. http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c445430.html

I am not sure when these were rebuilt from Class A tank wagons as Bitumens and would welcome more information. Later rebuilt with air brake ESSO Bitumen tank wagons - rebuilds - 21 photographs http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c446906.html

Norsk Hydro Holdall German registered - 22 photographs used for various traffic including fertiliser from Immingham. Some detail photographs. http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c444399.html

Departmental 4-wheel wagons - unusual - 57 photographs A wide selection of some of the more unusual wagons built by BR for the engineers usually based on GWR and LMS wagons. Includes includes SLUDGE, HADDOCK, STARFISH, LING, TUNNY, MINNOW and WHITING. http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c438345.html

A series of photographs of the Bogie bolster Cs in BR use. This is the bogie bolster most suitable for modellers, they were numerous and BR Bogie Bolster C - Unfitted - 85 photographs http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c435491.html

BR Bogie Bolster C - as cement mixers - 14 photographs http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c434505.html

BR Bogie Bolster C - as cable drum carriers - 21 photographs http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c433782.html

BR Bogie Bolster C - vacuum brake - 62 photographs http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c432496.html

BR Ford Palvans - 43 photographs The progenitor of the air braked vans which were finished in Ford blue and later were used as barriers etc. http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c422358.html

and then some had longer lives as under runner with the body removed and rail put on the floor to provide weight. Ford Palvans as under runners etc. 10 photographs http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c422528.html

COV CD - VCA air brake vans, includes departmental use - 40 photographs The more unusual of the air braked vans introduced by BR in the early 1970s. http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c417441.html

Additions made to the following collections: Cowan Sheldon 6 1/2 and 10 ton hand cranes on BR - 1 addition http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c88721.html

LMS Haddock - Sleeper wagon - 2 additions http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c186971.html

I have also added some class 47 photographs to http://www.class47.com/c47_intro.php

John Tilly's signal box pictures:

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/Johntilly/Gallery/gallsignat2.lwp/odyframe.htm

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/Johntilly/Gallery/gallsigheritage2.lwp/odyframe.htm

The Standedge Tunnels comprise both rail (old and new) and canal tunnels:

http://www.standedge.co.uk

Another engineering feat... the Solway Viaduct:

http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/solwayviaduct.html

http://www.visitcumbria.com/car/bowness-on-solway.htm

Amazing what you can find on the Internet! The Mechanical Horse Club - wonderful!

http://www.mechanical-horse-club.co.uk/

Chiltern's Trains plan to reopen the Thame branch back to a proposed Parkway adjacent to the M40, near to Oxford:

http://www.bucksrailways.co.uk/oxford.htm

The Norfolk Orbital Railway which plans to provide a circular route, Norwich - Wymondham - Fakenham - Cromer - Norwich using the Mid Norfolk Railway between Wymondham and Dereham/North Elmham, a reopened line North Elmham - Fakenham - Melton Constable - Holt, and the North Norfolk Railway to Sheringham:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dcbill/

And finally... from Ralph Rawlinson...

At Mill Hill East: "Hello this is [xxx] speaking, I am the captain of your train, and we will be departing shortly, we will be cruising at an altitude of approximately zero feet, and our scheduled arrival time in Morden is 3.15pm. The temperature in Morden is approximately 15 degrees Celsius, and Morden is in the same time zone as Mill Hill East, so there's no need to adjust your watches."

IN THE NEWS

Beeching MkII? (McBeeching?) http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4230418

Plan for national rail capital: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/4325079.stm

Hatfield crash was "avoidable": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4325731.stm

Freight train derailed in Cornwall: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4333641.stm

Rail campaign to target election: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4325605.stm

Rail recruits given Navy training: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4328517.stm

Campaign against planned train cuts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4330591.stm

Storm-hit railway reopens: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/4321529.stm

One ticket for trains and buses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4328837.stm

Support for Telford steam expansion: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4332791.stm

Dean Forest Railway's summer plans: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4334571.stm

Legal threat to model railway club: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/4320137.stm

TV and Radio

Discovery's programmes are no longer included, but their daily schedules are here: http://tinyurl.com/3fczf
Mon Mar 14	2000-2100	Five 'Megastructures' The World's most powerful dam
Mon Mar 14	1430-1900	UK History 'What the Victorians Did for Us' Back-to-back episodes
Mon Mar 14	2000-2100	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Brunel's ship
Tue Mar 15	0800-0900	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Brunel's ship
Tue Mar 15	1400-1500	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Brunel's ship
Tue Mar 15	1930-2000	ITV West 'The Way we Were' The opening of the first Severn Bridge
Tue Mar 15	2000-2100	BBC2 'Fred Dibnah's made in Britain' Fred's last great journey
Tue Mar 15	2000-2100	Five 'Pevsner's Cities' Newcastle with Gavin Stamp
Tue Mar 15	2000-2100	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Brooklyn Bridge
Wed Mar 16	1100-1130	BBC Radio 4 'Mapping the Town' Carlisle
Wed Mar 16	0800-0900	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Brooklyn Bridge
Wed Mar 16	1400-1500	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Brooklyn Bridge
Wed Mar 16	2000-2100	BBC2 'What the Ancients Did for Us'
Wed Mar 16	2000-2100	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Bell Rock lighthouse
Thu Mar 17	0800-0900	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Bell Rock lighthouse
Thu Mar 17	1400-1500	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Bell Rock lighthouse
Thu Mar 17	2000-2030	BBC2 'Journeys to the Bottom of the Sea' The M1 submarine
Thu Mar 17	2000-2100	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Trans-USA railway
Fri Mar 18	0800-0900	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Trans-USA railway
Fri Mar 18	1400-1500	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' Trans-USA railway
Fri Mar 18	1930-2030	Channel 4 'Spitfire Ace' Four young pilots compete to fly a 'Spit'
Fri Mar 18	2000-2100	UK History 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' London's sewers
Fri Mar 18	2100-2150	BBC2 'Concorde: A Love Story - Timewatch'

Events

See Mainline Steam Tours page for up-to-date info on many of these tours, and others, often with timings.

For up-to-date information on many of the tours mentioned in RAILDATE (and others) often with timings, see the Steam Tours pages at: http://www.uksteam.info/index.shtml

All details are correct to the best of my knowledge. No responsibility is taken for inaccuracies or changes.

Fri Mar 11 - Sun Mar 13

Watercress Line Steam Gala.
Up to seven loco's in steam including 3440 (AKA 3717) 'City of Truro';
Unnumbered 'J94';
Jinty 47493; 34016 'Bodmin';
Black 5 'The Sherwood Forester';
Ivatt 2-6-2T 41312; Standard 5 73096.



		View Watercress Gala 2005

Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 13

Gauge 'O' Guild Exhibition
Kettering

Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 13

Basingstoke Model Railway Show
Aldworth Science College, Western Way, Basingstoke
Features HPMRS member, Derek Gillkerson's 'New Stanton Lees' layout

Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 13

1000-1700

Wyre Forest MRC Model Railway Exhibition
Wyre Forest Leisure Centre, Glades Arena, Kidderminster 1000-1700 both days http://wyreforestmrc.cjb.net

Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 13

Midland Railway, Butterley: Day Out with Thomas http://www.midlandrailwaycentre.co.uk

Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 13

1000-1700(Sat) 1000-1600(Sun)

St Neots MRC East Anglian Model Railway Exhibition
St Neots Community College (formerly Ernulf School) 1000-1700 (Sat), 1000-1600 (Sun)

Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 13

1000-1700(Sat) 1000-1600(Sun)

Scalefour North 2005
Wakefield College, Thornes Park, Wakefield 1000-1700 (Sat), 1000-1600 (Sun) http://www.scalefour.org.uk/

Sat Mar 12 - Sun Mar 13

Heywood MRG Model Railway Exhibition
Holy Cross College, Bury

Sat Mar 19

1400

Historical Model Railway Society
Annual General Meeting (1400) and Grand Opening of the HMRS
Museum and Study Centre, Butterley by the Lord Lieutenent of
Derbyshire, JK Bather (1115)

Sat Mar 19 - Sun Mar 20

1000-1800(Sat) 1000-1700(Sun)

The Epsom Show
North East Surrey College of Technology, Reigate Road, Ewell 1000-1800 (Sat), 1000-1700 (Sun) http://www.eemrc.org.uk

Sat Mar 19 - Sun Mar 20

1000-1800(Sat) 1000-1630(Sun)

Redruth MRC The West of England Model Railway Exhibition
Carn Brea Leisure Centre, nr Redruth, Cornwall 1000-1800 (Sat), 1000-1630 (Sun) http://quicksitebuilder.cnet.com/rmrc/

Sat Mar 19 - Sun Mar 20

0930-1800(Sat) 0930-1700(Sun)

East Midlands Model Railway Exhibition
Harvey Hadden Sports Centre, Billborough Park, Wigman Rd,
Billborough, Notts 0930-1800 (Sat), 0930-1700 (Sun) http://www.nbmrs.freeserve.co.uk

Sat Mar 19 - Sun Mar 20

1000-1800(Sat) 1000-1700(Sun)

Keighley MRC 30th Annual Model Railway Exhibition
Victoria Hall, Victoria Park, Keighley, BD21 3JN 1000-1800 (Sat), 1000-1700 (Sun)

Sun Mar 20

1000-1630

Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society Model Railway Exhibition
Ferneham Hall, Fareham
Meet Christopher Awdry of Thomas the Tank Engine fame 1000-1630

Sun Mar 20

Main Line Steam - Cathedrals Express
Canterbury & return (Black 5)
mailto:info@steamdreams.co.uk http://www.steamdreams.co.uk

Sun Mar 20

1830

Paddington Films presents British Transport Films
Duke of York Picture House, Preston Circus, Brighton
Compilation of local railway connected footage from the South
East Film & Video Archive: Down to Sussex (1964), The Way To
The Sea (1936), Train Time (1952), Terminus (1961)
Performance commences 1830
For more information, e-mail paddingtonfilms@aol.com http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/brighton

Sun Mar 20

London Country Bus Rally - Swanley and Wrotham http://freespace.virgin.net/ian.smith/buses/CBR/CBR01.htm

Mon Mar 21

1930

Gloucester Model Railway Club
Elmscroft Community Centre, Gloucester
APT-E slide lecture by Kit Spackman
Starts 1930

Mon Mar 21 - Fri Mar 25

Great Central Railway: Easter Running http://www.gcrailway.co.uk

Fri Mar 25

1100-1700

Pendon Museum: Madder Valley Railway in operation 1100-1700 http://www.pendonmuseum.com

Fri Mar 25 - Mon Mar 28

Swanage Railway: Easter Specials http://www.swanagerailway.co.uk

Fri Mar 25 - Mon Mar 28

Dean Forest Railway: Easter Bunny Hunt for children
Easter Sunday: special lunch on the Royal Forester
http://www.deanforestrailway.co.uk

Fri Mar 25 - Tue Mar 29

Gwili Railway: Day Out with Thomas http://www.gwili-railway.co.uk

Fri Mar 25 - Wed Mar 30

Churnet Valley Railway: Easter Steaming (except 29th March) 1940s dance on Saturday evening http://www.churnet-valley-railway.co.uk

Sat Mar 26

1430

Paddington Films presents British Transport Films
Exeter Picture House, 51 Bartholomew Street West, Exeter
Mail on Rail: What a Day (1960), Letter for Wales (1960),
Night Mail (1936), Newspaper Train (1942), Thirty Million
Letters (1963)
Performance commences 1430
For more information, e-mail paddingtonfilms@aol.com http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/exeter

Sat Mar 26 - Mon Mar 28

Great Central Railway: Classic Vehicle Rally http://www.gcrailway.co.uk

Sat Mar 26 - Mon Mar 28

1000-1700

43rd York Model Railway Show
The Knavesmire Stand, York Racecourse 1000-1700 each day
Reduced price and earlier entry if tickets bought in advance http://www.yorkshow.freeserve.co.uk

Cheers, Howard. editor@raildate.co.uk