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From: Howard Sprenger [howard_sprenger@uk.ibm.com] Sent: 23 January 2006 14:11 To: richardgwalker@btinternet.com Subject: RAILDATE Round Up
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Hi Richard - I think we're due for another round-up! Over to you...! :-)
Cheers, Howard.
More things culled from RAILDATE up to 20/01/06, plus anything else that's come my way.
A website devoted to two locomotives owned by the Great Western Society and kept at Didcot: http://www.baldric.plus.com
Cotswold Steam preservation, dedicated to the restoration of GWR 2-8-0 No 2807: http://www.GWR2807.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm
A site devoted to Webb's LNWR Coal Tank No 1054: http://www.coaltank.co.uk/index.html
Pictures of the recent damage to "Green Arrow" rumoured to have been due to the shearing of one of the bolts holding the big-end bearing together: http://rileysontour.fotopic.net/c671113.html
(The main site is also worth a look: http://rileysontour.fotopic.net/ )
Photos showing the disassembled damaged parts: http://www.lner.info/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13
Some nice photos of SR steam locos can be found at: http://southernsteam.photos.gb.com/
Rail Blue website - classic traction from the 1970s and 1980s: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/graham.turner37/pages/
End of the Line - withdrawn and stored locomotives in the UK: http://www.wnxx.com/
There is now a discussion group for those interested in Cravens DMUs: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CravensDMU
and one for Park Royal Class 103 DMUs: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ParkRoyal103/
Class 37s - English Electric type 3 (C#693534) - 7 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c693534.html
http://www.ontrackplant.com/index.php
http://www.btinternet.com/~second_engineering/fishkinds_and_tops.htm
http://www.loram.com/railgrinding2.html
http://www.jarvisplant.com/uk_htm_files/uk_machines_for_railways.htm
http://www.balfourbeatty.com/bbeatty/businesses/rail/plant/
http://www.gamblegroup.co.uk/rail/railhome.asp
Mark 1 coaches (C#693000) - 12 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c693000.html
Some "arty" photographs of slam-door stock: http://www.maxinebeuret.com/pages/page13.html
Pictures from the Sussex Slammer railtour on 19th November: http://www.southernelectric.org.uk/news/susslam01.html
Paul Bartlett's fotopic updates...
PO mineral - 8 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c699028.html
BR Standard van all plywood sides - 73 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c694164.html
BR Pallet shock vans - 13 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c692054.html
BR (GWR design) shocvan - 11 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c691066.html
BR Standard Shock vans - 70 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c686509.html
BR Gunpowder vans CXV - 42 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c631611.html
Gunpowder vans, pre-nationalisation 1970s-90s - 37 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c634655.html
BR Twin Bolsters, Lowfit & Conflat conversion - 51 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c626690.html
ICI hydrogen cyanide tanks - 12 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c673501.html
Tiphook rail bogie box, international registered - 7 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c669650.html
BSSC bogie Iron ore tippler PTA JTA Immingham - 28 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c626124.html
GWR Brake vans - 66 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c624417.html
SR Railway wagons - general - 1 photograph: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c77779.html
SR Brake vans" - 94 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c789920.html
BR Weltrol WBB Diag 2/735 - 4 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c782838.html
ASW Black Adder scrap wagons POA - 35 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c777680.html
LMS Tube wagons - 26 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c775508.html
GWR Open C and GW/BR Tube diag 1/446 - 14 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c774614.html
BR Tube wagons - BR design diag 1/448 - 121 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c770302.html
BR Tube wagons - LMS design - 17 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c760115.html
BR Tube wagons - LNER design - 58 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c759148.html
BR Weltrol EJC - 45 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c751041.html
On track plant, large cranes etc after 1980 - 4 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c750298.html
DR82201 = DB901202 YXW Viaduct inspection unit - 17 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c749297.html
BR Vanwides - vacuum brake - 59 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c732904.html
BP exSMBP Bitumen tanks BPO61660 -691 - 32 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c727372.html
LMS 3 plank medium open - 89 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c725403.html
BR Meat vans - 11 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c716425.html
Transfesa Spanish 4 wheel fruit vans of 1984 - 10 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c714632.html
On track plant, large cranes etc upto 1980 - 79 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c712394.html
BBA , BXA and BWA steel carriers - 120 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c703706.html
Gunpowder vans - pre-nationalisation 1970s-90s - 3 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c634655.html
SR Railway wagons - general - 3 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/show_collection.php?id=77779
BR Gane A - 1 photograph: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c373918.html
BR - GWR design covered van 1/205 - 10 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c828694.html
BR SR design van 1/202 - 18 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c828064.html
LMS design BR built vans - 29 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c827089.html
Minilink and Maxilink container - 8 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c825324.html
A new 4mm Cambrian kit for these. Note: http://gallery6801.fotopicnet/p504895.html is of the first GWR wagon of this type.
The BR ones have small differences - note the pin down brakes and roller bearing of later lots... BR Loriot, GWR design 2/900 and 2/902 - 39 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c823085.html
BR Shark ballast plough brake van - 115 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c821676.html
BR & LMS Oyster Ballast plough brake van ZUP - 25 photographs: http://my.fotopic.net/collection/00820141/
China Clay - ferry registered - 21 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c814284.html
GWR passenger brakes and other NPCCS - 9 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c812565.html
LMS & BR Sole Ballast wagons - 62 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c809885.html
BR Seacow - Stingray ballast hopper - 35 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c807584.html
LNER Brake vans; GER, NER - 41 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c806886.html
BR Standard Palvan - diag. 1/211 - 35 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c805581.html
BR period Inspection Saloons - mixed origins - 1 photograph: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c36110.html
LMS 3 plank medium open - 1 photograph: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c725403.html
LMS Haddock - Sleeper wagon - 1 photograph: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c186971.html
GWR Taunton Concrete sleeper wagons - 1 photograph: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c187817.html
GWR and BR Mermaid ballast wagon - 1 photograph: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c361376.html
GWR / WR Siphon Gs - 2 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c384727.html
Wessex Wagons - limited edition private owner wagons: http://www.wessexwagons.co.uk/
Diagrams for various companies including First North Western, First Great Western and Southern DMUs and EMUs together with Station Working Books are available at: http://www.prar.fsnet.co.uk/diagrams.html
A list of line closures for UK and Ireland: http://www.closedlines.free-online.co.uk/index.htm
A great site if you're interested in disused stations: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/sites.shtml
Don Winter has put details of his various train trips on the Web at: http://home.earthlink.net/~donwinter/id1.html
The InterCity Railway Society: http://www.icrs.org.uk/
http://www.sbrobinson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Alderney.html
http://www.bidefordrail.co.uk/
Chris Dadson's pictures taken on a recent visit to the Bluebell Railway: http://gallery74781.fotopic.net/c656671_10.html
Also 7 pictures of the LCDR and LSWR coach bodies delivered recently to Horsted Keynes from Devon: http://gallery74781.fotopic.net/c357350_20.html
And 2 pictures of Merchant Navy locomotive 35005 "Canadian Pacific" at Sheffield Park shed: http://gallery74781.fotopic.net/c335746_18.html
Pete Lawson has updated his website with pictures of the closed route between Bristol and Bath: http://www.bristol-rail.co.uk/whatsnew.php
Mark Sutton has put some excellent pictures of Crewe open day (October 2005) on the web: http://marksutton.fotopic.net/c686993.html
You can subscribe to the Dean Forest Express newsletter at: http://www.deanforestrailway.co.uk/maillist.html
When in Devon, the B&B at Brentor station has been recommended: http://www.brentorstation.co.uk/about.htm
Tony Griffin found a selection of pictures of the recent Ecclesbourne Valley Diesel Gala: http://alexgroverail.fotopic.net/c829415.html
An interesting site based around the Channel 4 programme "The Worst Jobs in History". The Victorian section includes a piece about the lot of a Great Western Railway loco cleaner: http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/W/worstjobs/victorian.html
Humberside from the air: http://tlfe.org.uk/air/
Kent ----
The area between Dartford and Gravesend will be very heavily re-developed over the next few years. Details of transport proposals are here: http://www.go-fastrack.co.uk
The Underground History website has moved: http://underground-history.co.uk/
A 360-degree view of St Pancras: http://www.vrlondon.com/vr/london/stns1.shtml
and Victoria: http://www.vrlondon.com/vr/london/stns2.shtml
Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides: http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/
The Britain's Lost Railways discussion group recently threw up a host of sites with information on London's lost tube schemes. There is material on Wood Lane underground station here: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/woodlane.html
A Google search on the Northern Heights line from Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace resulted in: http://pages.britishlibrary.net/overground/heights/ http://www.urban75.org/london/alexandra.html http://www.urban75.org/london/alexandra1.html http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/northern.html http://underground-history.co.uk/northernh.php http://underground-history.co.uk/northernh2.php http://underground-history.co.uk/northernh3.php http://www.loveplums.co.uk/Tube/Northern_Heights_2.html http://www.zymurgy.org/exrailway.html
Finally, there is a portal to London's railways (LT, BR, heritage) at: http://www.londonrailways.net/links.htm
Pictures of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Steam Gala held last July: http://gallery74781.fotopic.net/c603089_56.html
Chris Dadson's pictures taken on a recent visit to the Mid-Hants Railway: http://gallery74781.fotopic.net/c720288.html
The project which began over three years ago to catalogue the National Railway Museum library's collection of books and serials, has now finished! All 15,000 books and 800 serial titles are now fully searchable on the library's catalogue. http://libcat0.york.ac.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=find-k&local_base=nrm However, if go to the website, you'll discover that the library is closing for refurbishment in January until further notice!
Alex Seal has been trying to work out the station working of Newton Abbot. The only source of information is the book "Operation Torbay". The results so far can be seen here: http://www.alextrack.co.uk/model_railways/newton_abbot/station_working.shtml
Mark Annand came across two excellent sites about the North Cornwall Railway: http://www.northcornwallrailway.co.uk/ http://www.tintagelweb.co.uk/Railway.htm
A fotopic gallery with EPBs and 501s: http://everythingbutthegoyle.fotopic.net/c231305.html
Aidan Croft has set a North Staffordshire Railway blog. It will periodically be updated with news of any events of any sort relating to the NSR that he happens to come across: http://nsrly.blogspot.com
http://aplaws-web1.newham.gov.uk/content/Leisure/north_woolwich_station.jsp
David Elliott advises that the Penrhyn Railway Society will be launched at the North Wales Steam and Country Show at the Legends Park Showground near Corwen on 17th & 18th September. Until now the Society has operated as a limited membership trust. http://penrhynrailway.amutek.co.uk/
Contact amail address is: admin@penrhynrailway.co.uk
Aerial photos of Portsmouth, including a view of Portsmouth and Southsea High Level: http://ww2.portsmouth-college.ac.uk/portsmouth/From-the-Guildhall
http://www.ribblesteam.org.uk/
Duncan Langtree's pictures of the 2005 Autumn Gala at the Severn Valley Railway: http://www.dlangtree.fotopic.net/
Mark Sutton has uploaded photos from the Severn Valley Railway Diesel Gala: http://marksutton.fotopic.net/c727505.html
A new emailing list has been created specifically for Sheffield and the surrounding area. There will be some overlap as North Derbyshire (and North Nottinghamshire) is considered to be a vital part of the Sheffield railway scene, so the Chesterfield area plus Hope Valley lines are valid areas of discussion: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/sheffieldrailways
John Wills' Southern Railway website: http://www.southernrailway.net
Southern Railway Email Group: http://www.semg.org.uk/
A comprehensive report (9 pages with 44 pictures) of the Southern Belle Railtour on 17th October is on the Southern Electric Group website: http://www.southernelectric.org.uk/features/sbelle01.html
The Bulleid Double Deck Society: http://members.tripod.com/~dart75/bdds.htm
The Suburban Electric Railway Association: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~traffic/
Photographs of stations and lines in Warwickshire: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/
Roger Bailey has uploaded some photos of the West Somerset Railway Autumn Gala, held between 29th September and 2nd October: http://thebaileygallery.fotopic.net/c717223.html
The West Somerset Express, the unofficial online newsletter of the West Somerset Railway, is available at: http://trainsferriesbuses.co.uk/westsomersetexpress.htm
An incredible site that contains a huge amount of information about the world's railways is here: http://www.rinbad.free-online.co.uk/index.htm
It is based on an earlier site that is no longer updated, and according to the blurb, should have been removed back in July. Readers are invited to download what they want while thes site is still there (it isn't clear if everything has been moved over to the new site). The original site is here: http://www.rinbad.demon.co.uk/
Gert (John) van der Pijl's Trains of Europe (and a bit more besides): http://www.trainsofeurope.nl
Les Cheminots dans la Résistance (Railwaymen in Résistance) is a new exhibition to be opened in Paris on 28th November (to 16t April) at the Memorial du Marechel Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Liberation de Paris Musee Jean Moulin (23 allée de la 2e DB, Jardin Atlantique, 75015 Paris). Written by professional historians, it sheds a new light on railway economic, technology and social history in occupied France from the point of view of railwaymen, their engagement and action in Résistance and the history of French Railway Company during WWII. http://www.v2asp.paris.fr/musees/memorial/accueil/acc_p1.htm http://www.trains-fr.org/ahicf/manifestations.htm
A one-day conference will be held on Saturday 3rd December: Les Cheminots dans la Résistance, une histoire en évolution (Railwaymen in Résistance, an ongoing History). Information is on the AHICF website. Registration: AHICF, conference organizer: ahicf@club-internet.fr (until 28th November).
AHICF - Association pour l'histoire des chemins de fer en France (French Railway Historical Society) 9, rue du Château-Landon, F-75010 PARIS
A clip of a French DMU: http://videorail.free.fr/X2879%2BX2870.wmv
Skopje and Gevgelija mixed (C#618614) - 32 photographs: http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c618614.html
Barry Emmott's latest Majorca Railways newsletter is now available. http://mysite.freeserve.com/MajorcaRailways/newsletter.htm
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As Nick Wheat says... only in america... cars fitted with train horns: http://web.umr.edu/~taknnc/trainhorn.wmv (6MB) http://media.hornblasters.com/vid-main/ver3a1000k.wmv (6MB)
David Moore has pointed me to a good site for US railroad photographs: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/
A source of signalbox diagrams for East Anglia: http://www.signal-box-diagrams.co.uk/
Hayling Seaside Railway: http://www.easthaylinglightrailway.co.uk
Stansted Park Light Railway, Rowlands Castle, Hants: http://www.stanstedlightrailway.com/
Nick Wheat recently explored a little-known industrial railway line in the Peak District - the incline to Bole Hill Quarry near Grindleford station. He has put some maps and pictures on the following website: http://www.wheaty.co.uk/bolehill
Merlin's photographs: http://merlinsphotos.fotopic.net/
Nick Wheat has found some interesting 1970s photos: http://richardarmstrong.fotopic.net/c731661.html
Interesting pictures of the Southern can be found here: http://www.buttsjunction.co.uk
Clive Standen has added an album named "Exeter-Ilfracombe", and added pictures to various collections including: "Isle of Wight", "Ashford Steam Centre 1974 + Misc.Pictures" and "DEMU": http://clivestanden.fotopic.net
Stephen Parker's "Trains and Transport Since the '70s" (apostrophe correction by the RAILDATE Apostrophe Correction Co. Ltd.): http://trains.and.transport.fotopic.net/c102515.html
Mike Morant has uploaded a new rail archive for the festive season: http://gallery62603.fotopic.net/c792438.html
Some excellent pictures of lost railways at Clifford Occomore's site: http://www.Cliffspictures.RailwayRemains.photoshare.co.nz
Railway images by Alan Chambers: http://alan-lewis-chambers.fotopic.net/
Dewi Williams' Railway, Trains and Trams Page: http://dewi.ca/trains/index.html
Christian Wolmar's website: http://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/
Helena Wojtczak's Railway Women website: http://www.railwaywomen.co.uk/
Andrew Grantham has some railway stuff on his site: http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/
This interesting site tells the stories of railwaymen awarded the George Cross in the line of duty: http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/railwaymen.htm
"Laddie", the Wimbledon station dog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hometruths/20050801_wimbledon_dog.shtml
Passenger train services over unusual lines: http://www.psul4all.free-online.co.uk/intro.htm
England's trams and light railways: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4514370.stm
Quite a monster railway site: http://www.trackbed.com
Photographic surveys of railway stations: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/interests/rail/stations.html
"Rail Manager" is an excellent source of rail industry news that you can download from their website: http://www.keepingtrack.co.uk/ktpubs/railmanager/railmanager_index.htm
ASLEF's "Locomotive Journal": http://www.aslef.org.uk/C2B/document_tree/ViewACategory.asp?CategoryID=19
Maps ----
Some interesting stuff here, including several pages devoted to the Railway Clearing House junction diagrams: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cj.tolley/cjt-385h.htm
The National Library of Scotland will supply copies of old OS maps, and is allegedly the holder of the biggest set of railway plans in the country: http://www.nls.uk/ The recommendation is to use the email link to enquire about what you need rather than use the online search - this is not yet complete.
Historical Model Railway Society News: http://www.hmrs.org.uk
Live steam locomotives in H0 scale (1:87) including some British outline locomotives: http://www.hielscher-dampfmodelle.de/produkte_e/echtdampf_e.html
Richard Spratt's model railway website: http://hometown.aol.co.uk/randfspratt/index.htm
Dingham auto-couplings: http://www.dingham.demon.co.uk/index.htm
Park Trains and Models, Southampton: http://www.parktrains.co.uk
Brick, tile and other textures that modellers might find useful: http://amazingtextures.com/textures/index.php
The November 2005 (and final) edition of Model Railways On-Line magazine is now available at: http://mrol.gppsoftware.com The MROL website will remain online for the time being but will probably close down towards the end of the year. Some of the services available on the website, for example, the large database of model railway related information, can already be accessed through the website of the British Railway Modellers of Australia at: http://www.brma.asn.au
Cornwall Railway Modellers' Website: http://quicksitebuilder.cnet.com/rmrc/cornwallrailwaymodelerswebsite/
For many years there was a superb 0 gauge model railway at the museum in Derby. A new layout has now been created at the town's Industrial Museum and is run periodically by local enthusiasts. Running days are posted on the Internet (although the layout can be viewed at any time that the museum is open): http://www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/MuseumsGalleries/Model+Railway.htm
Cambrian Models: http://www.cambrianmodels.co.uk/index.html
St John's (Mickleover) Model Railway Group: http://www.mmrg.org.uk/
New Modelex website: http://www.modelex.org.uk/
A free piece of software that will (allegedly) prepare drawings from images. Apparently it allows you to open a drawing (bmp, gif, jpeg), set a scale from a known distance and then scale dimensions from the drawing. It is available for download from here: http://rail3d.richsoftcomputing.co.uk/drawingruler.php
Lots of useful gen at the British Railway Modellers of North America, including a comprehensive list of model railway drawings: http://home.ca.inter.net/~brmna/locolner.htm
Rod Blakeman had a little steam running a couple of weeks ago at a friends in Lymington, you can see some video clips at: http://homepages.tesco.net/davidfleetwood/sdfrgallery.htm The Mogul and Yellow C16 are Rod's.
Trainz has a free library at http://www.auran.com
Paul Gausden has been steadily building up a set of SR/SECR and KESR models for simulators over the past few years: http://www31.brinkster.com/decapod for Microsoft Train Simulator and Trainz models
http://www.highworth.freeuk.com/mstsother.htm for a few SR Microsoft Train Simulator models.
Kuju Software's site for their forthcoming Train Simulator (a successor to Microsoft Train Simulator)features the Somerset and Dorset as its primary UK rail route: http://www.railsimulator.com/
And the Black Five is here: http://www.railsimulator.com/black_five.htm
My thanks to Barry Emmott for this link to the Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society: http://www.glias.org.uk/index.htm
If you're into corrugated iron, this is the site for you... http://www.corrugated-iron-club.info/index.html
A site dedicated to manhole covers and the like: http://users.rcn.com/fgardino/England.htm
The Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust: http://www.h-g-canal.org.uk/
Congratulations to the Friends of Cromford Canal who, on 29th October, brought a horse-drawn boat to the canal for the first time in 30 years. http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk/
The history of streecars: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blstreetcars.htm
San Francisco streetcars: http://www.sfmuni.com/cms/mms/aboutmun/histcars.htm
El Paso streetcars: http://www.trainweb.org/elpasocars/
New Orleans streetcars: http://www.atneworleans.com/body/streetcars.htm
Subways, trams etc in Japan: http://www.subways.net/japan/
Cincinatti streetcars, interurbans and railroads: http://homepage.mac.com/jjakucyk/Transit1/
Bus company fleet lists that are constantly updated with new arrivals: http://www.woolybus.net/
Details of all known existing examples of Bristol Lodekka, LH and VR buses - still at work or after disposal can be found here: http://www.bvres.freeserve.co.uk/index.html
For 40 years Alan Watkins has been taking photographs of the back ends of buses: http://backendofabus.fotopic.net/
There are plans for a tram museum in Guernsey: http://www.busstation.net/guernseytram/index.htm
If a bus has apeared on screen (TV, film, etc) chances are its 15 minutes of fame will be logged here: http://www.busstation.net/screen/screen.htm
An entire history of every one of the Routemasters that joined the fleet of Northern General Transport in Gateshead in the mid 1960s (51 of them to be precise, all purchased new with one exception which came second- hand from London Transport: http://www.northernroutemaster.co.uk/
For information on mainly London Routemasters, look at: http://www.routemaster.org.uk/
Road transport models made to 1:87 scale: http://www.1-87vehicles.org/
A quirky look at Blackpool tram models: http://www.blackpool-in-the-box.freeserve.co.uk/
Derby Bus Station in live action on the Web! There's actually a serious point to it - the local council are threatening demolition. This is part of the campaign to save this unique Art Deco bus station: http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/videonation/
Volvo's worldwide range: http://www.volvo.com/group/global/en-gb
A website devoted entirely to bus stops - it's true! http://www.topofthestops.co.uk/
Two sites with some very nice photos of Maltese buses: http://geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/8926/html/malta.html http://www.jsh1949.co.uk/jsh1949/MALTA%20BUS%20HOME%20PAGE.htm
Buses of the 1990s: http://britishbus.fotopic.net/
Mike Morant has added his road transport archive to Fotopic and would appreciate any additional information for his captions: http://gallery62603.fotopic.net/c768883.html
On Friday 9th December, the most famous bus in the world, the Routemaster, took its final journey through the streets of London: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/features/bus-night.shtml
How's your Polish? http://www.polskieautobusy.com.pl/
Nick and Jane Wheat recently took a trip to the USA to witness the last public display of the Tomcat. The US Navy's last two active F-14 Tomcat squadrons are on their final deployment headed to the Persian Gulf onboard aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. The F/A-18 Super Hornets will replace the Tomcats when they return in mid-2006 and will only require about one-fourth the maintenance time of their predecessors. Pilots will need about four months to retrain for the new Super Hornets: http://nickwheat5306.photobook.org.uk/ps20552715.html.
Nick's photos were a few snaps of the general day. Superb quality photos of the display flying are at... http://www.alert5.com/gallery/Oceana-Naval-Air-Station-VA?page=1 http://www.jaffapix.com/oceanasat.html http://www.jaffapix.com/oceanasun.html http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/nasoceana/050916/archives.cfm (video clips)
Spectacular aircraft and space shuttle pictures found by Nick Wheat... http://www.militaryforums.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8332 http://www.ktb.net/%7ebillmeco/sts114A.html
Nick Wheat recommends these previews available on the Web - particularly the one for Episode 3: http://discoverywings.co.uk/_listings/highlight1.shtml
Larry Schwartz has found an excellent piece of video on the net. He says, "It has been a long time since I've piloted an aircraft and this almost brought tears to my eyes. If you are a pilot, note how the DC-3 is 'greased in' - really smooth landing." http://www.users.uswest.net/~choice220721678/Aerial_Movie.htm (Needs Quicktime.)
The Spotters Guide to East Midlands Airport: http://www.emairport.co.uk
Trent Valley Aviation Society - monthly meets near East Midlands Airport: http://www.goodweather.flyer.co.uk/HTML_FILES/TVAS.htm
The East Midlands Aviation Group is a Yahoo Group dedicated to East Midlands and Birmingham International Airport 'spotting' and general information: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/E-Mag
The Midlands Spotters Group is a list dedicated to general civil aircraft 'spotting': http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Midlands_Spotters
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