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Photographs of Plates, signs and notices
Plates, signs and notices: Sign on Widmerpool overbridge. The line is now the Alstom test track.
Nottingham and Melton Line Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 1931 |
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Plates, signs and notices: Platform 1 sign at Dalmarnock describing length of tunnel to Bridgeton.
Glasgow Central Railway Colin Harkins [//] Ref: 13723 |
Plates, signs and notices: Bilingual sign at Tonfanau.
Aberystwyth and Welch Coast Railway Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 13945 |
Plates, signs and notices: Sign at Whitegates, south of Kirkintilloch Basin.
Monkland and Kirkintolloch Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 13974 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from the former Balgreen Halt station, closed January 1968.
British Railways David Panton [//] Ref: 16523 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from Charing Cross (Glasgow).
British Railways David Panton [//] Ref: 20160 |
Plates, signs and notices: Platform lighting, Kings Cross, 1980s.
British Rail John Furnevel [//] Ref: 20177 |
Plates, signs and notices: Old waterslide transfers (eight and a half inches wide) for attachment to the inside of flat-plate gas lamps on station platforms.
Misc David Panton [//] Ref: 20678 |
Plates, signs and notices: BR North Eastern Region timetable - Winter 1963/4.
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 20694 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from Portobello station, closed in September 1964.
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 21146 |
Plates, signs and notices: BR Scottish Region timetables covering Winter 1960/61 and Winter 1964/5.
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 21172 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from Coupar Angus, closed September 1967.
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 21206 |
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Plates, signs and notices: Map showing parts of Bonnington, Trinity and Warriston in unusual 1:12,500 scale, produced for ARP during WWII. The only remaining section of the myriad of lines that once criss-crossed this area can be seen towards the bottom right of the map where the Powderhall Destructor stands alongside Powderhall station. This is currently (2009) the large refuse collection and disposal depot for Edinburgh and Leith, which is rail served daily by the Binliner via the link from the ECML at Piershill Junction.
- David Panton [//] Ref: 23914 |
Plates, signs and notices: A South Elmsall totem in the fetching North Eastern Region Tangerine with black edged lettering.
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 23924 |
Plates, signs and notices: Balmossie (the ^Halt^ was dropped in 1983) opened in 1962. It was
presumably not thought worth ordering proper totems, though someone went to some trouble to get the shape of these wooden substitutes just right. Very little trouble, however, was taken to get the rest of it right. Even the British Rail image signs which replaced them were wooden, though as I remember some effort was made to reproduce the Helvetica typeface.
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 26393 |
Plates, signs and notices: A relic of the characterful manual departure board at Glasgow Central station, in use there until 1985. These panels showed departure times. They had to be taken down to change, so splitting the panels into one for hours and one for minutes was more practical than manhandling the whole lot just to change the minutes. To witness the operation in action [see image 17775].
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 26400 |
Plates, signs and notices: I^ve had a small number of these paper labels for many years but I
don^t know what they were for. They^re too robust to be waterslide
transfers [see image 20678] and I^d expect parcel labels to be gummed, which these aren^t. They vary between 8 and 10 inches long. Anyway, there^s a glaring typo (which it wouldn^t have been called then) in one of these.
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 26404 |
Plates, signs and notices: Golf Street (the Halt was dropped in 1983) opened in 1948, so unlike nearby Balmossie [see image 26393] there was no real excuse for not providing proper enamel totems; unless it was just too small to warrant the minimum order?
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 26423 |
Plates, signs and notices: Parcels and Left Luggage sign in Scottish Region blue.
BR David Panton [//] Ref: 26442 |
Plates, signs and notices: The Springbok plaque on Union of South Africa.
LNER John Gray [10/04/07] Ref: 14470 |
Plates, signs and notices: A very early act, dating from May 1811, obtained by the Berwick and Kelso Railway Company. Sadly the company was dissolved prior to any of the planned railway being built, as a result of various disagreements amongst directors regarding issues such as land purchase and the cost of the proposed bridge over the Tweed. A similar line was eventually opened by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway in 1849 with a route along the south bank of the river, thus avoiding the need for a bridge. [Note the references to the County of Durham referring to what were then exclaves of that county located within Northumberland.]
Berwick and Kelso Railway Ian Dinmore [31/05/1811] Ref: 24827 |
Plates, signs and notices: Notice issued by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway dated 1 November 1836.
Edinburgh Leith and Newhaven Railway Ian Dinmore [01/11/1836] Ref: 22820 |
Plates, signs and notices: Report by the directors of the Paisley & Renfrew Railway Co to the AGM of 1842. Note particularly the comment re working the line by horse in place of steam power!
Paisley and Renfrew Railway Ian Dinmore [09/06/1842] Ref: 22893 |
Plates, signs and notices: Fares chart issued by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway in April 1846.
Glasgow Paisley and Greenock Railway Ian Dinmore [//1846] Ref: 24292 |
Plates, Signs and Notices: Scottish Midland Junction Railway waybill of 15 August 1846 concerning the shipment of 4 tons 17 cwt of coal from Dundee to Coupar Angus via Newtyle.
Scottish Midland Junction Railway Ian Dinmore [15/08/1846] Ref: 22571 |
Plates, signs and notices: Receipt for share call on behalf of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, 15 April 1856.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Ian Dinmore [15/04/1856] Ref: 22714 |
Plates, signs and notices: A rather tenuous prospectus issued in the 1850s on behalf of the proposed Alford Valley Railway. As it transpired, the line, which opened in 1859, was built from Kintore to Alford, with stations at Kenmay, Monymusk, Tillyfourie and Whitehouse. The route was eventually closed to passengers in 1950 and to all traffic in 1966. The town is now home to the Alford Valley narrow gauge railway.
Alford Valley Railway Ian Dinmore [//1859] Ref: 23019 |
Plates, signs and notices: Invitation to the proprietors of the Formartine and Buchan Railway to attend an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company, held at the Royal Hotel, Union Street, Aberdeen, on 7 June 1866.
Formartine and Buchan Railway Ian Dinmore [07/06/1866] Ref: 23842 |
Plates, signs and notices: Notice of a General Meeting of the Peebles Railway Company, to be held on 29 March 1867 in the County Hall, Peebles.
Peebles Railway Ian Dinmore [29/03/1867] Ref: 24388 |
Plates, signs and notices: An 1869 poster announcing a fares reduction between Glasgow (Bridge Street) and Ibrox/Govan. The station at Govan stood at the terminus of a branch of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint line and there was never any such company as the Glasgow & Govan Railway. Perhaps someone in marketing department thought, for the purposes of the poster, it sounded more user-friendly! The G&P station at Govan finally closed to passengers in May 1921.
Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Ian Dinmore [29/07/1869] Ref: 22496 |
Plates, signs and notices: Ancient Glasgow Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway note from Barrhead to Lochwinnoch dated August 17 1881.
Glasgow Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway Colin Miller [17/08/1881] Ref: 26103 |
Plates, signs and notices: Extract from a letter of 1881 from the Montrose and Bervie Railway to the North British Railway regarding the handling of mail, which reads:
Brotherton: 28 Sept 1881:
Mailbags:
My dear sir,
I have yours of yesterday. We do carry Her Majestys Mails ^in a sense^ but receive remuneration and undertake obligation only on the same footing as though they were ordinary parcels.
Montrose and Bervie Railway Ian Dinmore [28/09/1881] Ref: 24418 |
Plates, signs and notices: It wasnae us...! G&SW denial note from Greenock Harbour to Lochwinnoch dated 16 December 1881.
GSWR Colin Miller [16/12/1881] Ref: 26083 |
Plates, signs and notices: Extract from the prospectus of the Kirkcaldy and District Railway, issued in 1889. Note the interesting teaser in red regarding potential volumes of coal traffic.
Kirkcaldy and District Railway Ian Dinmore [//1889] Ref: 22871 |
Plates, signs and notices: A North British Railway Head Office Circular dated 4 August 1894 regarding the opening of the West Highland line.
North British Railway Ian Dinmore [04/08/1894] Ref: 22393 |
Plates, signs and notices: Back to basics! North British Railway GM Circular issued in April 1899 regarding the Port Carlisle branch,
North British Railway Ian Dinmore [29/04/1899] Ref: 22515 |
Plates, signs and notices: Snooker Tam of the Cathcart Railway. Cover of R W Campbells book about the adventures of the station boy at the imaginary Kirkbride station.
Cathcart District Railway David Panton [//1919] Ref: 19626 |
Plates, signs and notices: Newspaper cutting from 1922 concerning revolutionary changes on the LNER....
LNER Bruce McCartney [//1922] Ref: 22239 |
Plates, signs and notices: Station Mistress - part 2. Newspaper cutting from 1928.
Various Bruce McCartney [//1928] Ref: 22247 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER Scottish Area Timetable covering passenger services commencing 6 October 1947.
LNER David Panton [06/10/1947] Ref: 20289 |
Plates, signs and notices: Part of the last LNER timetable 6 October 1947 showing the North Berwick and (last) Haddington branch tables.
LNER David Panton [06/10/1947] Ref: 23825 |
Plates, signs and notices: Part of the last LNER timetable of 06 Oct 1947. Glasgow to Aberfoyle line.
LNER David Panton [06/10/1947] Ref: 23034 |
Plates, signs and notices: Last LNER timetable - 6 October 1947. Jedburgh, Selkirk and Langholm branches.
LNER David Panton [06/10/1947] Ref: 23247 |
Plates, signs and notices: Part of last LNER timetable, dated 6 October 1947, covering services on the Border Counties and Wansbeck Valley lines.
LNER David Panton [06/10/1947] Ref: 23909 |
Plates, signs and notices: Notice alongside a boarded crossing, probably at Sunnywood Halt, on the Holcombe Brook branch stating in no uncertain terms:
L&Y RAILWAY COMPANY.
PERSONS using this crossing are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN
to touch the RAILS provided for supplying ELECTRIC CURRENT
to the trains and anyone TRESPASSING in this manner does so ENTIRELY AT OWN RISK. I presume there were a few of these signs along the length of the branch, and perhaps the Manchester to Bury line too, and wonder if any have survived.
Bury and Tottington District Railway W A Camwell Collection [Courtesy Mark Bartlett] [26/07/1953] Ref: 21656 |
Plates, signs and notices: Detail from route diagram, BR ScR WTT Section F, 20 September 1954 to 12 June 1955. [Note Dullater for Dullatur.]
BR David Panton [20/09/1954] Ref: 23017 |
Plates, signs and notices: BR Scottish Region Working Timetable Section B, 17 September 1956 to 16 June 1957. Lockerbie to Dumfries line - in its entirety.
BR David Panton [17/09/1956] Ref: 23059 |
Plates, signs and notices: They do say that the longer the menu the worse the food, and this is
only half the menu at the Royal Station Hotel, Hull, on 7 April 1959 - not a period noted for the quality of its dining out experience. The menu compiler^s French ran out at Potage Oxtail (2/-, or 10p) ...and can Ouefs a l^Ecossaise really be Scotch Eggs?
Royal Station Hotel Hull David Panton [07/04/1959] Ref: 25454 |
Plates, signs and notices: Back in the days of railway hotels, Philip Larkin, who lived in Hull,
wrote a poem called Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel. Seven years earlier a guest had been so impressed by his visit that he kept the Grill Room menu and recorded the date, 7 April 1959, on the front cover. This was, alas, a Tuesday, so it was less likely that All the salesmen had gone back to Leeds leaving shoeless corridors.
Royal Station Hotel Hull David Panton [07/04/1959] Ref: 25455 |
Plates, signs and notices: Extract 2 from BR Scottish Region timetable, Winter 1960/61, showing Glasgow network diagrams.
BR David Panton [//1960] Ref: 20920 |
Plates, signs and notices: Excerpt from BR Scottish Region timetable, Winter 1960-61, featuring Edinburgh and Glasgow network diagrams.
BR David Panton [//1960] Ref: 20902 |
Plates, signs and notices: The bottom right-hand corner of the BR Scottish Region network map for 1960-61 showing the diagram of lines in Edinburgh - when such a thing was still needed. I am intrigued by the placing of the regional boundary on the map - correctly placed on the border at Gretna Junction, but why is Longtown, Cumberland, apparently part of Scottish Region? It had maroon London Midland Region signage. Maybe it was a cartographer^s error?
BR David Panton [//1960] Ref: 26310 |
Plates, signs and notices: A detail from the Scottish Region map for 1960-61 showing the railways of the North East. Today^s uquivalent is a little simpler, with a line coming up the coast to Aberdeen, then heading inland towards Inverness. Following the closure to passengers of the Dufftown line, through trains took the direct route between Keith and Elgin which was clearly seen as a mere branch line hitherto.
BR David Panton [//1960] Ref: 26351 |
Plates, signs and notices: 1961/62 fares table covering main Anglo-Scottish destinations and services. As was fashionable in BR at the time the main unit of currency is the shilling.
BR Colin Miller [//1961] Ref: 21185 |
Plates, signs and notices: BR Edinburgh Suburban Circle pocket timetable, winter 1961-62. 1
British Railways David Panton [//1961] Ref: 21844 |
Plates, signs and notices: Edinburgh Suburban Circle pocket timetable, 11 September 1961 to 16 June 1962.
BR David Panton [11/09/1961] Ref: 23882 |
Plates, signs and notices: Pocket timetable for Joppa, Portobello and Edinburgh covering the Summer of 1962. (Closed 1964).
BR David Panton [//1962] Ref: 19392 |
Plates, signs and notices: Cover of a BR 1961/62 East Kilbride - Glasgow timetable.
BR Gus Carnegie [//1962] Ref: 21121 |
Plates, signs and notices: BR poster produced in 1962 advertising cheap day tickets from stations in Fife. Acording to the notes on the rear it was issued by the distrct commercial manager Dundee (West) station.
BR Colin Miller [//1962] Ref: 21229 |
Plates, signs and notices: Summer 1962 timetable for The Car-Sleeper Limited. [Railscot note: Europes first car carrying service was introduced between Perth and London (Holloway) in 1955. A daytime Anglo-Scottish Car Carrier (image 21127) and an overnight Car-Sleeper Limited eventually became part of the BR Motorail network launched in the mid 1960s. By then destinations had increased and a London Motorail terminus was built over the former bays at the north end of Kensington Olympia station (image 4643 & 5129). Motorail was eventually abandoned due to decline in demand following growth in the popularity of foreign package holidays, although FGW continued to carry cars as part of its Night Riviera sleeper service until 2005.]
BR Colin Miller [//1962] Ref: 21265 |
Plates, signs and notices: Good morning campers! Summer Saturday through services from Edinburgh^s Princes Street station to Heads of Ayr in 1962, aimed primarily at holidaymakers destined for Butlin^s Holiday Camp. (The station at Heads of Ayr closed in September 1968 and the site of the former Butlin^s Camp is now the Craig Tara Holiday Park.)
BR Colin Miller [//1962] Ref: 25147 |
Plates, signs and notices: A section of the Glasgow suburban map from the BR (Scottish Region) timetable for the period 18 June to 9 September 1962, showing suburban destinations served from Central and Queen Street stations.
BR Colin Miller [18/06/1962] Ref: 23429 |
Plates, signs and notices: Section of the Glasgow suburban map from the BR (Scottish Region) timetable for the period 18 June to 9 September 1962 showing suburban destinations served from St Enoch and Buchanan Street stations.
BR Colin Miller [18/06/1962] Ref: 23442 |
Plates, signs and notices: Extract from a pocket timetable valid 18 June to 8 September 1962
showing a summary of services between Waverley, Portobello and Joppa.
Even allowing for the fact that some services are SX (dagger) or SO
(asterisk) the service to Portobello is impressive, with up to eight
trains an hour, though with little discernable pattern!
BR David Panton [18/06/1962] Ref: 25832 |
Plates, signs and notices: The back of a pocket timetable valid from 18 Jun 1962. 1s 4d return,
valid all day, for the three-and-a-half miles from Waverley to Joppa. 1s 4d equals 7p. There^s no meaningful way of arriving at today^s equivalent of past prices, whatever you are led to believe. Cheap though it seems most people still preferred the bus and the station closed in 1964 as did Portobello. Note the income-dependent season ticket rates for 16 to 18 year olds. It would be unthinkable today, and hard to police then; what if you suddenly got a better-paid job, or left education?
BR David Panton [18/06/1962] Ref: 26019 |
Plates, signs and notices: Sparse service. Extract from the 1964 London Midland timetable showing services on the short Barnoldswick branch apparently being run down as a prelude to full closure. One train out, which presumably had worked down the branch ECS, one train back later that morning on Saturdays, which would leave ECS, and a return evening working Mondays to Fridays. This sad state of affairs continued for another year before the line closed in September 1965.
Leeds and Bradford Railway Mark Bartlett [//1964] Ref: 24667 |
Plates, signs and notices: Beeching^s hidden policy? Many 1960s railwaymen said their lines were deliberately run down to prove the case for closure and Leek to Uttoxeter must have been one of them. By 1964 Leek was a branch terminus rather than a junction and the 1964 timetable extract shows the meagre service AND also the ludicrous situation where both the morning and evening trains crossed at Kingsley but ran ECS in the other direction. The operating costs in relation to passenger usage would have been very high and sure enough the line closed soon after although part of it is now preserved.
North Staffordshire Railway Mark Bartlett [//1964] Ref: 24778 |
Plates, signs and notices: Closure notice, Inveresk, East Fortune and East Linton, 4 May 1964.
BRB David Panton [04/05/1964] Ref: 19344 |
Plates, Signs and Notices: Withdrawal notice, Abbeyhill - Musselburgh, 7 September 1964.
BRB David Panton [07/09/1964] Ref: 19262 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from passenger station at Fraserburgh, closed October 1965.
Formartine and Buchan Railway John Williamson [03/10/1965] Ref: 20572 |
Plates, signs and notices: The destination board from the departure gallery at St. Enoch for Johnstone (obviously) which slatted into the racks on the windows and would have been last used on 26 June 1966. Bought for (I think) two and sixpence at a sale by BR - all the good names had gone by the time I got there (no offence Graham!)
BR Colin Miller [26/06/1966] Ref: 23600 |
Plates, signs and notices: Timetable subject to alteration - and how! On 5th December 1966 most of the services in this timetable ceased and many of the lines involved closed completely. The Accrington services ran via Helmshore to Stubbins Junction, and beyond Bury to Manchester via Clifton Junction. Services from Bacup that did not terminate at Bury Bolton St continued to Manchester via Heywood and Moston so, with the electric line, Bury had three through routes to Manchester. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the timetable is that, until the day of closure, Bacup enjoyed a twice hourly service to Bury on weekdays increasing to every 15 minutes on Saturdays. Once the line had been cut back to Rawtenstall there was a single DMU stabled at Bury shuttling to Rawtenstall and back a mere 12 times a day Monday to Saturday and of course that service ceased w.e.f. 5th June 1972.
East Lancashire Railway Mark Bartlett [05/12/1966] Ref: 21549 |
Plates, signs and notices: Part of Table 15 showing Edinburgh-Glasgow services, and the Grangemouth branch, from the Scottish Region timetable commencing 6 March 1967
BR James Young [06/03/1967] Ref: 24169 |
Plates, signs and notices: Copy of a letter from BR Scottish Region dated 16 February 1968, authorising a brake van journey on the last freight to Kelso. [See image 6955]
BR Bruce McCartney [16/02/1968] Ref: 24272 |
Plates, signs and notices: Overall the stock may have been more interesting in the early 1970s but in terms of moving people about (not unimportant) railways were surely at their nadir. Here there are only 6 trains a day between Kilmarnock and Glasgow during the week. Only 2 of them called at Stewarton and Dunlop and they were pick up only; the opposite applied in the evening so it was impossible to travel by train between those towns and Kilmarnock! The timetables then covered a whole year, in this case 4 May 1970 to 2 May 1971.
BR David Panton [04/05/1970] Ref: 22787 |
Plates, signs and notices: Anyone in 1970 fancying a summer daytrip to North Berwick during the
week,or anyone from there wanting to go Christmas shopping in
Edinburgh, would have had to have been pretty determined if they chose to travel by rail. No weekday trains at all between breakfast and teatime. Presumably the station was locked up for most of the day. One would think BR were trying to make the branch as uneconomic as possible as a reason for closing it. BR Scottish Region timetable 4 May 1970 to 2 May 1971.
BR David Panton [05/05/1970] Ref: 22912 |
Plates, signs and notices: Plate from the control desk of a Class 35 Hymek diesel hydraulic. Sound advice if coupled to a North British Class 22 (Max speed 75mph)!
BR Mark Bartlett [//1972] Ref: 23250 |
Plates, signs and notices: The last British Rail service from Rawtenstall left at 9.05pm on Saturday 3rd June 1972 to the usual explosive detonator send off. Driver Harry Lofthouse was at the controls of the four-car DMU that had been put on for the last day trippers. Except for the first train from Bury I travelled on every service on that last day and was grateful to the ticket inspector at Bury Bolton Street who saved the closure notice for me while I was riding on the last train. Living near Rawtenstall at the time I then of course had to get the bus back home.
East Lancashire Railway Mark Bartlett [03/06/1972] Ref: 21984 |
Plates, signs and notices: A GNSR axlebox cover - part of a set that remained at the Longmorn distillery after BR closed the line from Elgin in the 1960s. The Distillery retained a rail system to transport materials around the site until late 1979, when the track, locomotives and wagons were gifted to the Strathspey Railway.
Great North of Scotland Railway Peter Todd [//1979] Ref: 22487 |
Plates, signs and notices: Gradient board of pitch pine with cast metal letters/numerals, located approximately 92 Yds east of platform end of the former Bowling Station, on south side of track. Caledonian Railway Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire line.
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Alistair MacKenzie [17/10/1979] Ref: 13540 |
Plates, signs and notices: Wagon plate bearing legend B953451 - 20T - Darlington - 1957 - Lot No 3012 from wagon at Arnott Youngs, Dalmuir for breaking up. No body but appeared to be two platform end brake van.
Darlington Works Alistair MacKenzie [01/11/1979] Ref: 13547 |
Plates, signs and notices: Track feature ID plate.
Track ID Alistair MacKenzie [23/11/1979] Ref: 13573 |
Plates, signs and notices: Track feature ID plate, re-painted.
- Alistair MacKenzie [23/11/1979] Ref: 15192 |
Plates, signs and notices: Track feature ID Plate
Track ID Alistair MacKenzie [01/12/1979] Ref: 13562 |
Plates, signs and notices: Track feature ID plates. 3A from Glenifer/Stanely Rd Bridge over line to Coats Ferguslie Mill. A from Paisley/Renfrew line next to Paisley Sewage works.
- Alistair MacKenzie [01/12/1979] Ref: 13648 |
Plates, signs and notices: Mileage plates. Top left Caledonian Ry 1-4 mile. Top right reconstruction of NBR 1-2 mile. Bottom right Caledonian Ry 3-4 mile.
Alistair MacKenzie [01/12/1979] Ref: 14010 |
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Plates, signs and notices: RUSKIN PLACE metal plate with letters cast in, approx 1200 x 300 mm. Located approx 1/3rd way thro tunnel from Botanic Gdns Station to Kelvinbridge Station. Purpose to indicate location below street on surface. Similar sign 2/3rd way thro tunnel legend Hamilton Park Avenue. Verrrry heavy sign.
Glasgow Central Railway Alistair MacKenzie [01/12/1979] Ref: 15580 |
Plates, signs and notices: Up or Down ? Track ID/mileage plate on W side of main track but on a higher level at Carmyle sidings just N of bridge over Clyde. Numerals 26 BUT fixed to post upside down as 97.
Glasgow Central Railway Alistair MacKenzie [06/12/1979] Ref: 15713 |
Plates, signs and notices: The End. BR maintenance ends sign located on CR Garnkirk extension at Germiston High Jn just before it passes under Garngad/Royston Rd.- was this a premonition? NB NBR also had a branch into Provan Gas Wks which the CR served.
British Rail Alistair MacKenzie [10/12/1979] Ref: 14659 |
Plates, signs and notices: This 10 and similar plates were in the Balgray tunnel northwards from former Kelvinside Station, Great Western Road, Glasgow. They were a distance of 1 chain (1 chain = 20.1168 meters) apart, showing the distance through the tunnel to assist rail staff. Other signs seen were 7, 14, 17 and 21.
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Alistair MacKenzie [12/12/1979] Ref: 13565 |
Plates, signs and notices: Plates, 1 chain (1 chain = 20.1168 meters) apart, 21 in Balgray tunnel north and 16 in tunnel south to Crow Road from the former Kelvinside Station (Lux/Stazione Restaurant on Great Western Road). I suspect they are plates to show distance to aid train and maintenance staff.
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Alistair MacKenzie [12/12/1979] Ref: 13654 |
Plates, signs and notices: This 17 plate was in the Tamshill tunnel northwards from former Maryhill [Barracks] Station to Possil Station, Glasgow. They were a distance of 1 chain apart, showing the distance through the tunnel to assist rail staff. Other signs seen were 7, 14 and 21.
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Alistair MacKenzie [12/12/1979] Ref: 19786 |
Plates, signs and notices: Wagon plates from Arnott Young, breakers, Dalmuir with B928106 from 42T bogie timber stake wagon at whisky bond/timber yard siding Castlegreen Street, Dumbarton.
- Alistair MacKenzie [14/01/1980] Ref: 14220 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER No Trespass sign located at south end of west platform of Barnhill Station - NBR City of Glasgow Union Line. FRUIT sign from standard van on builders site in Torrance.
LNER Alistair MacKenzie [15/01/1980] Ref: 14013 |
Plates, signs and notices: British Transport Commission trespass warning sign. Rectangular metal sign (probably black background with white lettering and border) located at the site of Abercorn Station, Paisley on the Paisley & Renfrew line. Bearing the legend - British Transport Commission - WARNING - Is hereby given to persons not to trespass upon the Railway - Penalty not exceeding 40s.
British Transport Commission Alistair MacKenzie [15/01/1980] Ref: 15706 |
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Plates, signs and notices: Track ID / mileage plates. Top left and right Caledonian Railway mileposts. Middle right Caledonian Railway 1-2 mile.
Alistair MacKenzie [30/01/1980] Ref: 14227 |
Plates, signs and notices: Wagon plate from Chas. Roberts wagon at Arnott Young, Dalmuir for breaking.
Chas Roberts Alistair MacKenzie [01/02/1980] Ref: 13499 |
Plates, signs and notices: Caledonian Railways track ID sign, now believed to be milepost sign.
Caledonian Railway Alistair MacKenzie [01/02/1980] Ref: 13511 |
Plates, signs and notices: GWR 10T wagon plate no. 30823.
Great Western Railway Alistair MacKenzie [01/02/1980] Ref: 13542 |
Plates, signs and notices: LMS 21T wagon plate from Darlington wagon 726398 at Arnott Young, Dalmuir for breaking.
LMSR Alistair MacKenzie [01/02/1980] Ref: 13559 |
Plates, signs and notices: Wagon plate B560675 Pickering 16T 1956 Lot No 2917 from wagon at Arnott Young breakers.
Pickering Alistair MacKenzie [01/02/1980] Ref: 15195 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER 17T Darlington wagon plate 229088 1938, from wagon at Arnott Young breakers, re-painted.
LNER Alistair MacKenzie [01/02/1980] Ref: 15196 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER 21T wagon plate from Darlington wagon 302419 at Arnott Young, Dalmuir for breaking.
LNER Alistair MacKenzie [08/02/1980] Ref: 13505 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER 20T Wagon plate from 1942 Darlington wagon no. 251315.
LNER Alistair MacKenzie [08/02/1980] Ref: 13679 |
Plates, signs and notices: NO TRESPASS sign located on south side of track at Yoker opposite Lady Anne Street. NB - LNER sign though this was named as an LMSR line. It seems to have been an LMSR-LNER joint branch accessing the docks area.
LNER Alistair MacKenzie [08/02/1980] Ref: 15712 |
Plates, signs and notices: Metal enamelled sign, red and white quartered, legend Warning - Limited clearance. On road bridge carrying New Bridge Street over disused Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Alistair MacKenzie [08/02/1980] Ref: 15754 |
Plates, signs and notices: Eastern Railway condemned wagon plate 1948 21T no. 307527, at Arnott Young, breakers Dalmuir.
Eastern Alistair MacKenzie [27/02/1980] Ref: 13571 |
Plates, signs and notices: 1/4 MP sign Triangular metal plate with bolt projections top and bottom and low relief numerals 1/4 of black figures on white. Found on timber post lying at foot of embankment of GD&H line at jct with Castlegreen sidings.
Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Alistair MacKenzie [06/03/1980] Ref: 15760 |
Plates, signs and notices: Wagon plate in sidings at Yoker bearing the legend BHam C&WCo - 1958 - B550333 - Lot No 2907, on steel bodied mineral wagon.
Birmingham Carriage & Wagon Co Alistair MacKenzie [18/05/1980] Ref: 15761 |
Plates, signs and notices: This is a freight wagon label found in the debris of then (August 1980) disused and vandalized Rayne station in Essex. It refers to a consignment of seed potatoes transported from Leysmill (for Friockheim) on the former Arbroath to Forfar line to a farmer in Rayne. Despatched on 22 November 1961, the sacks of potatoes travelled via Berwick and Whitemoor before arriving at Rayne at 10 a.m. a mere 3 days later. Rayne was closed to goods on December 7th 1964 (regular passenger traffic had ceased in 1952).
BR Mark Dufton [03/08/1980] Ref: 25427 |
Plates, signs and notices: Midland Railway condemned wagon plate from 13T no. 480177. at Arnott Young breakers Dalmuir.
Midlands Alistair MacKenzie [28/08/1980] Ref: 13567 |
Plates, signs and notices: 3/4 MP sign Sign (re-painted) located at edge of track east of Mount Vernon Station on Caledonian Railways Rutherglen & Coatbridge Line.
CR Rutherglen & Coatbridge Alistair MacKenzie [17/1/1980] Ref: 15191 |
Plates, signs and notices: Reconstruction of timber post with cast metal numerals screw fixed to same, legend 1/2 of black on white post. Located approx 1/2 mile SE of Bridge of Weir Station on LMSR Johnstone to Gourock Line.
Bridge of Weir Railway Alistair MacKenzie [24/1/1980] Ref: 15758 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER 21T wagon plate from Darlington wagon 260600 at Arnott Young, Dalmuir for breaking.
LNER Alistair MacKenzie [01/10/1980] Ref: 13515 |
Plates, signs and notices: LMS 21T wagon plate from Darlington wagon 726544 at Arnott Young, Dalmuir for breaking.
LMSR Alistair MacKenzie [01/10/1980] Ref: 13516 |
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Plates, signs and notices: Metal plate on timber cross-beam of buffer inside Beardmore Shipbuilders between Beardmore St and Aggammemnon St, Dalmuir inscribed Supplied by Thos W Ward, Albion Works, Sheffield.
Thos W Ward Alistair MacKenzie [15/10/1980] Ref: 13557 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER Darlington wagon plates of 1938 and 1948.
LNER Alistair MacKenzie [01/11/1980] Ref: 14235 |
Plates, signs and notices: Wagon plate in sidings at Yoker bearing the legend - Central Wgn - 1958 - B592898 - Lot No 2042, on steel bodied mineral wagon.
Central Wagon Co Alistair MacKenzie [01/11/1980] Ref: 15752 |
Plates, Signs and Notices: Withdrawal notice at Kilmacolm in November 1982.
BRB Ian Dinmore [/01/1983] Ref: 17288 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER trespass warning notice still standing at North Queensferry in August 1984.
LNER David Panton [/08/1984] Ref: 19038 |
Plates, signs and notices: Enamel station nameboard at Hamilton Central - March 1985.
Hamilton Branch David Panton [/03/1985] Ref: 17869 |
Plates, signs and notices: One of the sales stands at the Perth Railfair held in April 1985 showing miscellaneous railway memorabilia for sale, including old station nameboards....and a possible comment on the prices?
Miscellaneous David Panton [/04/1985] Ref: 16856 |
Plates, signs and notices: See anything you fancy? Miscellaneous items for sale at the Perth Railfair in April 1985.
Miscellaneous David Panton [/04/1985] Ref: 16878 |
Plates, signs and notices: Photograph taken at South Gyle opening day on 9 May 1985. It is inconceivable that a notice like this would be handwritten today. The list of stations is a bit shorter than it would be now: no Dalgety Bay or Dunfermline QM. Cardenden and Lochgelly dont get a code. In these pre Fife Circle (and Glenrothes with Thornton) days they had a peak hours only service. The machine produced insubstantial tickets rather like the bus tickets of the time. I dont remember it lasting long, but the supports remain, as did, until today (27 June 2008) a small notice showing the station codes which was attached to that lamppost. The lamppost has just been replaced. The notice must have puzzled many of the hordes of commuters who passed it every day, years after the ticket machine had gone.
Forth Bridge Connecting Lines David Panton [09/05/1985] Ref: 19616 |
Plates, signs and notices: Roadside sign in Carnoustie photographed in August 1985, nearly 21 years after the introduction of the new image.
BR David Panton [11/08/1985] Ref: 20947 |
Plates, signs and notices: ScotRail Scottie transfer - March 1986
ScotRail David Panton [01/03/1986] Ref: 19518 |
Plates, signs and notices: Heres one to sort out the anoraks from the obsessives. When ScotRail was invented by BR in the mid 1980s and started branding its station nameboards, the first station I saw get the treatment was Linlithgow and the ScotRail part was bright red not blue. I never saw the red anywhere else and the Linlithgow ones were eventually replaced by the blue version as seen here. The red was presumably a failed trial...does anyone have a photograph of the red version?
Edinburgh Leith and Newhaven Railway David Panton [/08/1986] Ref: 18694 |
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Plates, signs and notices: This sign once graced the west end of the Milngavie bound platform at Bearsden.
Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway Ewan Crawford [//1987] Ref: 7781 |
Plates, signs and notices: The station nameboard at Wicklow in July 1993 - its Irish name means church of the toothless one.
CIE David Panton [11/07/1993] Ref: 20666 |
Plates, signs and notices: Roadsign referring to Dunfermline Lower station erected more than 20 years after the suffix was dropped.
Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway David Panton [/06/1997] Ref: 17460 |
Plates, signs and notices: Station nameboard at Crossmyloof in July 1998. Strathclyde Red (clearly orange) in all its glory.
Glasgow Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway David Panton [/07/1998] Ref: 17296 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totems together in retirement at Boat of Garten in May 1999.
BR David Panton [/05/1999] Ref: 21971 |
Plates, signs and notices: Nameplate on locomotive 37416 in 2004.
British Railways John Furnevel [//2004] Ref: 2275 |
Plates, signs and notices: ScotRail notice at Drem announcing the imminent arrival of Loco Hauled services on the North Berwick line. C. Sept. 2004
ScotRail James Young [/09/2004] Ref: 23720 |
Plates, signs and notices: Signs at the end of the platform at Dalmeny Station in April 2005.
Forth Bridge Railway John Furnevel [/04/2005] Ref: 3649 |
Plates, signs and notices: Commemorative plaque to a funny man on the wall of the ticket hall at Mornington Crescent tube station in 2005. Why Mornington Crescent?...I^m sorry, I haven^t a clue!
London Underground John Furnevel [/07/2005] Ref: 5171 |
Plates, signs and notices: Plaque at Appleby station in 2006. Ahhh those names from the distant past...Settle and Carlisle..British Steel.....Railtrack...!
Misc John Furnevel [/05/2006] Ref: 9483 |
Plates, signs and notices: Cromdale station nameboard. This station has been well restored by its owner and is one of the highlights of the Speyside Way. A five star attraction. You must seek the owners permission before looking round. 03/08/06.
Strathspey Railway John Gray [03/08/2006] Ref: 10157 |
Plates, signs and notices: Closure notice displayed just inside the main entrance of the surgery now occupying the former station building at Ballachulish.
Ballachulish Branch Alasdair Mulhern [15/06/2007] Ref: 17023 |
Plates, signs and notices: The station nameboard on Platform 1 at Aviemore, July 2007.
Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Graham Morgan [06/07/2007] Ref: 15902 |
Plates, signs and notices: Old plate on a bridge near Port of Menteith, 11 October 2007.
Robert Melvin John Furnevel [11/10/2007] Ref: 16923 |
Plates, signs and notices: Possible shades of the Auld Alliance? Actually a medieval French dukedom, turned country park, meets an old Lanarkshire mining village, turned up-market Hamilton suberb. The platform nameboard at Chatelherault, [p.Shat-lerOH] photographed on 8 March 2008.
Mid Lanark Lines David Panton [08/03/2008] Ref: 18290 |
Plates, signs and notices: Commemorative plaque on display at Dalgety Bay station on 27 March 2008. Over the ten years since the station opened the car park has been increased in size, platforms lengthened, CCTV put in, ticket issuing machines installed, waiting areas improved.... not bad for a station BR didnt seem to want!
Aberdour Line Bill Roberton [27/03/2008] Ref: 18483 |
Plates, signs and notices: The plaque fixed to the wall of the current Darwen station marking the cutting of the first sod of the Blackburn to Bolton railway on 27 September 1845 and the opening of the Blackburn to Sough section on 03 August 1847. The remaining part from Sough to Bolton opening on 12 June 1848. Sough was the location of an accident in 1857 when a loco boiler exploded. There is some information about it here: http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/36/Shannon.htm
110 years later and this time in the tunnel there was another accident when a DMU caught fire inside the tunnel. Further details are contained here:
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/lookingback/1753124.tunnel_drama_as_people_flee_blazing_train/
Bolton Blackburn Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway John McIntyre [17/05/2008] Ref: 25424 |
Plates, signs and notices: New station signage at north entrance to Mount Florida station in August 2008. This is part of the agreement (including the new Saltire livery) announced by the Scottish government in April, that the First Scotrail franchise was to be extended to 2014. If you look closely the First Scotrail and SPT logos have gone... it now has the Saltire with the wording ScotRail, Scotlands Railway.
Cathcart District Railway Colin Harkins [23/08/2008] Ref: 20385 |
Plates, signs and notices: Part of the decor in the Station Bar, Bridgnorth, on 3 September 2008.
Miscellaneous Bruce McCartney [03/09/2008] Ref: 20556 |
Plates, signs and notices: Wall of the Station Bar, Bridgnorth, 3 September 2008.
Miscellaneous Bruce McCartney [03/09/2008] Ref: 20564 |
Plates, signs and notices: Opened in September 1994 as Prestwick International Airport the station nameboards nowadays show Glasgow Prestwick Airport, although no reference to an official change of name can be traced (so far) through the usual sources. This is coincidentally the only Scottish station operated by a local authority (South Ayrshire). Photographed on 12 November 2008.
Glasgow Paisley Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway David Panton [12/11/2008] Ref: 21551 |
Plates, signs and notices: Commemorative plaque on the side of Barclay 0-6-0ST 2139 of 1942, now preserved on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway.
Peter Todd [06/12/2008] Ref: 21695 |
Plates, signs and notices: Plaque commemorating the opening of the Queen of the South viaduct, Dumfries, as a footpath/cycleway in July 2008.
Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway Brian Smith [27/02/2009] Ref: 23282 |
Plates, signs and notices: Old marker in Railway Avenue, Duns, now part of a housing estate built on the line of the railway just before it reached Duns Station.
Berwickshire Railway Ian Whittaker [27/02/2009] Ref: 23007 |
Plates, signs and notices: A sole non-standard sign stands defiantly at Ardrossan Harbour on 1 April 2009 - the second line should be left-justified.
SPT David Panton [01/04/2009] Ref: 23167 |
Plates, signs and notices: Excerpt from the First ScotRail timetable supplementary leaflet issued in May 2009, giving information on planned timetable changes/enhancements.
FSR David Panton [01/05/2009] Ref: 9284 |
Plates, signs and notices: The Railway Heritage Award plaque near the Argyle Street entrance of Glasgow Central. This was awarded in 1999 for work on the Hielanman^s Umbrella in Argyle Street
Glasgow Central Station Graham Morgan [01/05/2009] Ref: 23513 |
Plates, signs and notices: Still there On the High Street 44 years on from the 1965 image change. Photographed at North Berwick on 4 May 2009.
BR David Panton [04/05/2009] Ref: 23581 |
Plates, signs and notices: Summer 2009 timetable information from First Insight newsletter issued May 2009.
First ScotRail David Panton [12/05/2009] Ref: 13543 |
Plates, signs and notices: Network Rail standard Health & Safety information board erected at the Kennedy Drive access point in Coatdyke. May 2009.
Network Rail John Steven [20/05/2009] Ref: 23786 |
Plates, signs and notices: Recommended escape route, Addiewell, 21 May 2009.
- David Panton [21/05/2009] Ref: 23813 |
Plates, signs and notices: Platform sign at Helensburgh Upper on 2 June 2009. [The Gaelic version omits the ^Upper^.]
West Highland Railway David Panton [02/06/2009] Ref: 24051 |
Plates, signs and notices: ScotRail logo, photographed at East Kilbride on 10 June 2009.
East Kilbride Line John Steven [10/06/2009] Ref: 24069 |
Plates, signs and notices: An exception to the general rule - Dunbar - June 2009
North British Railway David Panton [18/06/2009] Ref: 24208 |
Plates, signs and notices: Recent works on the former Thameslink platforms at Moorgate have revealed a 1981 Metropolitan line timetable poster, seen here in July 2009.
Metropolitan Railway Michael Gibb [20/07/2009] Ref: 24663 |
Plates, signs and notices: One of three Pendolino City of Lancaster plates originally cast, this was presented to Lancaster City Council by Virgin Trains on 16th July 2004 and is displayed on the main staircase at Lancaster Town Hall. The other two plates are of course on Pendolino No. 390035 itself.
Lancaster City Council Mark Bartlett [07/08/2009] Ref: 24939 |
Plates, signs and notices: The end is nigh. With just over two weeks to go before the Oldham Loop closes as a heavy rail line for conversion to tram operation as part of Manchester Metrolink network. The last trains will run on 3 October 2009.
Oldham Loop John McIntyre [/09/2009] Ref: 25431 |
Plates, signs and notices: Tonight^s the night! Last train to Oldham and other stations on ^The Loop^, 3 October 2009.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway John McIntyre [03/10/2009] Ref: 25630 |
Plates, signs and notices: One of the picture panels carried by Class 320s since delivery in 1989. Henry Bell^s Comet of 1812 was not the world^s first paddle steam vessel but is reckoned to be the first commercial one in Europe. It was built in Port Glasgow and operated on the Clyde. In order to show the paddles the artist has opted to depict the vessel clear of the water, with the part that would normally be below the waterline coloured red. However, together with the background, this does give it the slightly disturbing (or bad trip) appearance of hovering above the water.
First ScotRail David Panton [28/10/2009] Ref: 26218 |
Plates, signs and notices: Class 320s were delivered in 1989 carrying a selection of what were
updated versions of the carriage print, on removable panels, with the
themes of Glasgow^s buildings and Clyde Coast locations. In this example the railway itself is the subject, with a depiction of Wemyss Bay^s most famous building with a class 318, then fairly new, waiting at Platform. (While 318s might have been seen on the line at that time, the much older 303s were the usual fare.)
First ScotRail David Panton [28/10/2009] Ref: 26098 |
Plates, signs and notices: First ScotRail Insight - November 2009. Extract 1.
First ScotRail David Panton [06/11/2009] Ref: 9424 |
Plates, signs and notices: Some of the old railway signs on display at Statfold Barn Engineering, Tamworth, in November 2009.
Statfold Barn Railway Peter Todd [14/11/2009] Ref: 26339 |
Plates, signs and notices: This Scottish Region ^Gentlemen^ sign is placed on a gable of my house pour epater les voisins. It is an odd one because the colour is not quite right: heading towards powder blue compared with the usual, stronger Caledonian blue. It also doesn^t use the mandatory Gill Sans lettering: the G is all wrong though the other letters are superficially similar to Gill Sans. I can only assume it was not made by the usual manufacturer and that they were given (or took) a little licence. Unlike abberant postage stamps this doesn^t seem to make it much more valuable - either that or I got a real bargain!
BR David Panton [15/11/2009] Ref: 26376 |