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RAILDATE ROUNDABOUT

More things culled from RAILDATE up to 14/04/00, plus anything else that's come my way.

British Loco Data Site

It runs to just over 6400 pages and includes loco number history for the entire diesel and electric fleet as well as allocation history from about 1981 to the present day. In addition disposal details are provide for about 85% of the fleet:

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigelemery/loco_history/lh_index.htm

Preserved Steam Locomotive Database

http://members.xoom.com/dmwoods/

Flying Scotsman Official Website

http://www.flyingscotsman.com/

The Evolution of Compound Locomotives

http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r043.html

Class 17

Want to drive the unique Clayton Class 17 diesel?

mailto:Graham.Petts@btinternet.com

for details.

Class 24 and 25 (BR/Sulzer Type 2)

http://hometown.aol.com/sulzertwo

Class 40

Roaring Forties Website now has another half hour of thrash!

http://www.d-m-hall.demon.co.uk

Class 50

The Fifty Fund Website has been updated again!

http://www.fiftyfund.org.uk

Class 55

World of Deltic:

http://members3.clubphoto.com/duncan227984/

I've managed to encode a bit of real video and up load it to my web site. It's of the now long past railtour "The Deltic Deliverance" back in Nov '96:

http://www.rail-net.co.uk/photo-archive/index.htm

Those were the days - 55019 pulled into King's Cross at 12:00 on Sunday with no less than 14 Mk1s on the Newcastle - London foot-ex!

http://www.saturn-mig.co.uk/deltic.html

Diesel Audio

A couple more updates including new photos of D5054 (Class 24) and D1501 (Class 47) and 1 new/1 archive recording of D5054:

http://listen.to/br-diesel

Bluebell Railway

http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/bluenews.html

Fairbourne Railway

http://www.fairbourne-railway.co.uk

There are also a few pictures at:

http://www.geocities.com/colin33/index.html

Gloucester/Warwickshire Railway

Diesel gala:

http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~jcj1000/stuff/

Llangollen Railway

http://www.joyces.demon.co.uk/llangollen/index.html

Railcar Group:

http://www.zyworld.com/LlangollenRailcars/Home.htm

Photographs of Cambrian Weekend now at:

http://www.paddington83.freeserve.co.uk

North Norfolk Railway

http://www.nnrailway.co.uk

North York Moors Railway

http://www.nymr.demon.co.uk

South Tynedale Railway

http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/lane/jy40/NG-Tracksonline.htm

Welsh Highland Railway

http://www.herbert53.freeserve.co.uk

West Somerset Railway

Gala photographs:

http://www.paddington83.freeserve.co.uk

Birmingham Railway Museum

http://www.vintagetrains.co.uk/brm.htm

Bristol Severn Beach Line

http://www.bahnhof.se/~davidgr/severn/

Buxton

http://www.dweb.u-net.com/news/peak/

Carnforth Station

http://travel.to/carnforth

http://welcome.to/focs

Cumbria/North Lancashire

Bookstore, downloads, new CD containing 80 model buildings for only Ł10:

http://www.modelrail.ic24.net

Darlington Railway Centre and Museum

http://www.drcm.org.uk

Derbyshire Railways Photowebsite

http://hometown.aol.com/sulzertwo/homepage/ds.html

Doncaster - Hallcross Tower Museum

Doncaster's "secret" railway museum is known these days as the Hallcross Tower Museum because it's in the clock tower of Hallcross School, formerly the Doncaster Grammar School. The museum was started back in the 1950s when there was an active railway society at the Grammar School, and a busy model railway layout in the clock tower. The model railway has now gone and all the wall space, and indeed floor space, is taken up by 12 inch to the foot scale railwayana.

The range is vast. Cream of the crop are locomotive nameplates from an astonishing assortment of engines, humble shunters to mighty Kings. Then there are builders plates, wagon number plates, signal plates, Stop Look And Listen plates. And there are block bells and indicators, signal box diagrams, station totems, station lamps with names stencilled on, an array of mounted carriage side coats of arms. There are bits of signals with a variety of finials on display, no end of rail chairs from different companies at different dates, a selection of luggage rack mountings, compartment photographs and posters, gas light fittings, the funny louvre things that went over the drop light in carriages to admit air (all different, from different companies), bits of novelty point rodding, bits of bridge rail. Paperwork and printed books go back to the 1850s. Local events like the 1887 Hexthorpe crash are covered with contemporary editions of the "Illustrated London News" (which managed not only illustrations of the aftermath, but also of the terrifying two minutes beforehand as one train bore down on the other - you'd think the illustrator would have done something more practical than drawing it, really, like waving a red petticoat at the driver or something...).

If you are trying to restore an item of rolling stock, this is a great place to check out for original items from which you can make patterns or replicas. The people at Ingrow on the KWVLR have used it to help with their carriage restoration work.

The museum is very difficult to get to as it involves climbing up a steep spiral staircase and then treading gingerly over a mass of railway ironmongery while dodging overhanging nameplates and oil lamps, and it cannot take more than about 6 people at a time - there just isn't room. But it is open to the public in fits and starts, generally on alternate Thursday evenings, or by special arrangement with the curator, Tony Peart. He can be contacted on +44 (0) 1302 349050 and welcomes enquiries from gricers and collectors of railwayana.

East Anglia

BJC & Mr T's East Anglia Rail Pages:

http://members.tripod.co.uk/avocet89

Esholt Junction Crash

http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/gallery/esholt_jct.html

Granville Train Disaster

http://www.emu321.com/train.html

Hawes Junction Accident

http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/accidents/hawes.htm

LMS History

http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r031.html

Three Joint Railways (S&D, M&GN, CLC)

http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r038.html

London

Over 200 transport plans for London:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7069/tpftla.html

BBC Manchester Web-camera

http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/northwesttonight/webcamman.shtml

includes Oxford Road station in its field of view: a train standing in Platform 3 or 4 should be visible in the angle of view as it stands today, if rather small - try it at 15.48 to see if you can spot a Class 37!

North Staffordshire Railway Study Group

http://www.lnw1.demon.co.uk/nsrsg.htm

North Wales Coast

There are so many things going on it's a major job fitting them in and keeping track. We've included a couple of pictures of the photo-spot situation outside Holyhead now some bridges have been demolished, all the info fit to print about Steam special, Loco naming, Rugby trains, the Colwyn Bay steam loco, Irish Ferry connections etc. and of course loads of great pictures of Class 37/4 locos!

http://www.page27.co.uk/nwales/

Nottingham and Melton Railway

http://www.nottm-melton-railway.co.uk/

Scottish Railways and Steamers Website

http://www.medinf.gla.ac.uk/ewan/Rail/frames/railfr.htm

Scottish Rover Bashing

http://www.railrover.fsnet.co.uk

Settle and Carlisle Railway

A new mailing list has been set up for "England's most spectacular Main Line" at:

settlecarlisle@eGroups.com

BBC Southampton Web-camera

http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/southtoday/webcam.shtml

The Wirral

http://www.merseyjcn.freeuk.com

Connex

http://www.connex.co.uk

Railtrack LNE

Get answers to submitted question on the work Railtrack LNE are carrying out:

http://www.inform-rail.co.uk

Locomotive Club of Great Britain

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/svs/lcgb.htm

UK Heritage Railway

e-mailing list webpage with links to lists of various railway mailing lists:

http://ukhrail.uel.ac.uk

Heritage Railway Magazine

Sell your unwanted books, videos, railwayana, spare parts or other merchandise free of charge!

Heritage Railway magazine, which now has the biggest paid-for classified section in its field, is now offering FREE advertisements for private sales of items costing Ł100 and less.

Full details and the necessary coupon are contained in the new March edition and also on the website which also features late-breaking news and updates.

http://www.heritagerailway.co.uk

Nene Valley Railway Books

http://www.nenevalley-railwaybooks.co.uk

Second-hand Books

W.J.RODNEY-RAWKINS

Steam Railway & Military History Books 17 Brooke Place Norwich NR1 3EX

http://www.rodneyw.freeserve.co.uk/

Bookfinder Website

http://www.bookfinder.com

Railway Maps

Will this ever replace Mr Beck's masterpiece?

http://www.quickmap.com/page5.htm

Railway Videos

http://www.rails.fsbusiness.co.uk

Railtour Review Site

http://website.lineone.net/~gary.thornton/reviews.html

Hursley Park Model Railway Society

http://www.ibmhursleyclub.org.uk/Sub_Sections/Model_Railway/hpmrs.html

The Scalefour Society

http://www.scalefour.org

Fonts for Modelmakers

This exchange appeared recently on the Historical Model Railway Society mailing list.

I'm new to the HMRS, so I'm afraid I'm about to ask some questions which you have all probably heard before. I'm interested in whether anyone has investigated producing fonts from railway companies in computer form. In the States many people produce custom 'decals' using a particular inkjet printer called the ALPS (this is popular because it can print in white) and blank transfer sheets. This can be very beneficial for producing transfers for PO wagons, and for wagon numbers. It has severe limitations in producing multi-coloured transfers, and I would intend to use it mostly for

1. Scales where fewer transfers are available, e.g 2mm. 2. Specialised transfers, examples as above

In the States there is a site which contains such fonts:

http://www.railfonts.com

but these are on a commercial basis. I would much prefer to see such things available in the public domain.

Reply:

See: http://www.cctrans.freeserve.co.uk/

Model Railway Site

http://www.users.bigpond.com/rennison/amrol

Triang, Triang-Hornby and Hornby Railways

http://www.ttgva.com/train/

Bachmann Railways

http://www.bachmann.co.uk/

The Signal Box

Best prices for Hornby track:

http://www.thesignalbox.com

Southampton Model Centre

http://www.southamptonmodelcentre.com/page3.html

Rails of Sheffield

Good for used Hornby. They have quite a good selection and a great website:

http://www.railssheffield.co.uk/

Hornby in Cardiff

http://www.geocities.com/hornbyincardiff/homepage.html

Die-cast Models

http://www.collectiques.net/shop/directory/Corgi_Classics/Ranges/British_Ra ilways/

or the more general...

http://www.collectiques.net/shop/directory/Corgi_Classics/

Internet Search Engine

Based on building a worldwide railway:

http://www.therail.com/cgi/station

Railway Technology Website

http://www.railway-technology.com

Link Rail UK

...has moved to:

http://www.link-rail.com/uk

The Thrash Page

http://www.6lda28b.freeserve.co.uk/thrash/

and:

http://members.xoom.com/MGO148/gen.html

Rail Enthusiast Website

Contains a comprehensive photolog of (almost) every loco in Britain working since 1994, Depot Directory, Locomotive Diagrams, Diagram Downloads, Rail Mailing Lists and a whole load more:

http://www.railnet.org.uk

http://www.railnet.free-online.co.uk