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Aberdeen: Aberdeen station - mural 2. February 2010.
Courtesy First ScotRail [20/02/2010] Ref: 5311 |
Aberdeen: Aberdeen station - mural 1. February 2010.
Courtesy First ScotRail [20/02/2010] Ref: 8795 |
Aberdeen: Aberdeen station - mural 3. February 2010.
Courtesy First ScotRail [20/02/2010] Ref: 13743 |
Plates, signs and notices: Sign on Widmerpool overbridge. The line is now the Alstom test track.
Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 1931 |
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Plates, signs and notices: Platform 1 sign at Dalmarnock describing length of tunnel to Bridgeton.
Colin Harkins [//] Ref: 13723 |
Plates, signs and notices: Bilingual sign at Tonfanau.
Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 13945 |
Plates, signs and notices: Sign at Whitegates, south of Kirkintilloch Basin.
Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 13974 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from the former Balgreen Halt station, closed January 1968.
David Panton [//] Ref: 16523 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from Charing Cross (Glasgow).
David Panton [//] Ref: 20160 |
Plates, signs and notices: Platform lighting, Kings Cross, 1980s.
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.
David Panton [//] Ref: 20678 |
Plates, signs and notices: BR North Eastern Region timetable - Winter 1963/4.
David Panton [//] Ref: 20694 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from Portobello station, closed in September 1964.
David Panton [//] Ref: 21146 |
Plates, signs and notices: BR Scottish Region timetables covering Winter 1960/61 and Winter 1964/5.
David Panton [//] Ref: 21172 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from Coupar Angus, closed September 1967.
David Panton [//] Ref: 21206 |
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Plates, signs and notices: There were two stations at Manuel, located between Polmont and Linlithgow. A high level station (closed to passengers in 1967) stood on the E&G main line, with a low level station (closed as long ago as 1933) located on the Monkland line. Both stations were situated on the north side of what became the village of Whitecross, built in the 1930s to house employees of the enormous Manuel brickworks (now abandoned) that stood alongside and to the west of the village.
David Panton [//] Ref: 27190 |
Plates, signs and notices: Total cost - thirty bob (including delivery to Hawick by BR van).
Bruce McCartney [//] Ref: 27609 |
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.
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.
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].
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.
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?
David Panton [//] Ref: 26423 |
Plates, signs and notices: Parcels and Left Luggage sign in Scottish Region blue.
David Panton [//] Ref: 26442 |
Plates, signs and notices: When British Railways was formed in 1948 it said it wouldn't rush out and change all the signs. That started about two 2 years later and never quite finished before the 1965 image change. For North Eastern Region a vibrant tangerine was chosen to demarcate the different blues of Scottish and Eastern regions. It is said that pink was suggested and ruled out. Having used software on this picture to see how in would look in pink this is perhaps just as well, though it was rather striking! As with all these Ladies Waiting Room signs the grammatically necessary apostrophe after 'Ladies' has been rationalised out.
David Panton [//] Ref: 26459 |
Plates, signs and notices: The words ..OR ELSE! seem to have been omitted from this aggressive looking old BR label.
Colin Miller [//] Ref: 26583 |
Plates, signs and notices: Wartime LMS form 51748, containing information regarding sleeper accommodation on the ______ sleeper to _______ from the station master at ________ dated ________.
Colin Miller [//] Ref: 27397 |
Plates, signs and notices: The Springbok plaque on Union of South Africa.
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, but with a route along the south bank of the river, thus avoiding the need for a bridge. [Railscot note: The County of Durham refers to what were then 'exclaves' of that county located within Northumberland.]
Ian Dinmore [31/05/1811] Ref: 24827 |
Plates, signs and notices: Notice issued by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway dated 1 November 1836.
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!
Ian Dinmore [09/06/1842] Ref: 22893 |
Plates, signs and notices: Fares chart issued by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway in April 1846.
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.
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.
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.
Ian Dinmore [//1859] Ref: 23019 |
Plates, signs and notices: Share certificate issued by The Leslie Railway in 1863. This particular certificate is made out to John Fergus and his partner Andrew Wylie who owned the Prinlaws flax mill at Leslie (a building demolished in the 1960s). The branch lost its passenger service in 1932 but continued to serve the various mills (latterly paper) along the Leven Valley until 1967. [See image 23083]
Ian Dinmore [//1863] Ref: 27054 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
Ian Dinmore [29/04/1899] Ref: 22515 |
Plates, signs and notices: Extract from a 1915 LNWR timetable showing services on the then independent Knott End Railway (formerly the Garstang and Knott End Railway), which connected with LNWR services at Garstang and Catterall station. Branch services operated on a one engine in steam basis. Nateby was a request stop for all services and the halts at Cockerham Cross and Cogie Hill are referred to as 'on request on Thursdays' (Garstang Market) and 'Saturdays only'. After the Grouping the LMS introduced a railmotor with extra services and opened some new halts at Garstang Road and Carr Lane but passenger services ceased altogether in 1930. With thanks to Tony Roberts.
Mark Bartlett [//1915] Ref: 29967 |
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.
David Panton [//1919] Ref: 19626 |
Plates, signs and notices: Newspaper cutting from 1922 concerning revolutionary changes on the LNER....
Bruce McCartney [//1922] Ref: 22239 |
Plates, signs and notices: Station Mistress - part 2. Newspaper cutting from 1928.
Bruce McCartney [//1928] Ref: 22247 |
Plates, signs and notices: List of Edinburgh's tram routes from the official transport map for
1937. Note the colour-coded lights carried in hours of darkness.
Filling in the gaps, three more routes, 22, 26 and 28 joined the system before it started winding down in 1950 for closure in 1956. A single route is all that is envisaged in the current tramway construction project.
David Panton [//1937] Ref: 26504 |
Plates, signs and notices: Detail from the City of Edinburgh Transport Map, 1937, showing
Leith. Tram routes are shown in red and it's clear there must have been an almost endless parade of 'cars' on The Walk, though perhaps like buses today they all seemed to vanish when you wanted to catch one. Most tram services were replaced by buses carrying the same number and you can still catch a 7, 10, 11, 12, 16 or 25 into town today.
David Panton [/05/1937] Ref: 26545 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER maintenance certificate presented to T Smail in 1947.
Bruce McCartney [//1947] Ref: 27089 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER Scottish Area Timetable covering passenger services commencing 6 October 1947.
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.
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.
David Panton [06/10/1947] Ref: 23034 |
Plates, signs and notices: Last LNER timetable - 6 October 1947. Jedburgh, Selkirk and Langholm branches.
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.
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.
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.]
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.
David Panton [17/09/1956] Ref: 23059 |
Plates, signs and notices: Harry Beck's iconic Underground map was first published in 1933, and
he spent the rest of his life almost obsessively revising it (or
tinkering with it), not just because of changes in the network. Some of these revisions were even published. This one was current in 1957. Whereas originally the southern end of the Northern Line was a left-pointing diagonal, as it is today, here it is vertical. Also the bottle shape of the Circle Line was temporarily abandoned for a rectangle.
David Panton [//1957] Ref: 29932 |
Plates, signs and notices: Part of a page from the BR ScR Working Timetable Section B, 17 June to 15 September 1957, showing some of the early morning departures from Edinburgh Princes Street.
David Panton [17/06/1957] Ref: 29960 |
Plates, signs and notices: Extract from Murray's Diary for August 1958 – covering all the Paisley stations except Hawkhead.
Colin Miller [/08/1958] Ref: 27037 |
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?
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.
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.
David Panton [//1960] Ref: 20920 |
Plates, signs and notices: Excerpt from BR Scottish Region timetable, Winter 1960-61, featuring Edinburgh and Glasgow network diagrams.
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?
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.
David Panton [//1960] Ref: 26351 |
Plates, signs and notices: In 1960 London Underground decided its maps needed a new look so
hired designer Harold Hutchison to replace Harry Beck. These maps were not popular, especially (and understandably) with Beck. The sharp angles are jarring, and that unnecessary business where the Metropolitan crosses the Central Line is just amateurish. Note the absence of the Victoria Line (then in planning) and the Jubilee (even further into the future). Hutchinson's maps lasted only a few years. The next designer, Paul Garbutt, was more faithfull to Beck.
David Panton [//1960] Ref: 29931 |
Plates, signs and notices: Pocket timetable for the Paisley area covering the period from 12 September 1960 to 11 June 1961. The extract includes the 'uncomplicated regular interval service' from Abercorn.... no wonder people used the bus!
Colin Miller [12/09/1960] Ref: 30175 |
Plates, signs and notices: Anyone for coffee at Callander ...or mince at Maud? Page 239 of the British Railways ‘Passenger Services Scotland’ timetable for 12th September 1960 to 11th June 1961 shows how extensive the railway refreshment room network once was.
David Spaven [12/09/1960] Ref: 28248 |
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.
Colin Miller [//1961] Ref: 21185 |
Plates, signs and notices: BR Edinburgh Suburban Circle pocket timetable, winter 1961-62. 1
David Panton [//1961] Ref: 21844 |
Plates, signs and notices: Accompanying advert from Murray's Diary of April 1961 for the Starlight Specials popular in the 1950s and early 60s. The last of the specials operated in 1962 [see image 19303].
Colin Miller [/04/1961] Ref: 27077 |
Plates, signs and notices: Section from Murray's ABC Timetable for Glasgow and the West of Scotland from April 1961.
Colin Miller [03/04/1961] Ref: 27001 |
Plates, signs and notices: Cover of Murray's ABC Timetable for Glasgow and the West of Scotland covering the period 3rd - 30th April 1961, price 8d.
Colin Miller [03/04/1961] Ref: 27002 |
Plates, signs and notices: Edinburgh Suburban Circle pocket timetable, 11 September 1961 to 16 June 1962.
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).
David Panton [//1962] Ref: 19392 |
Plates, signs and notices: Cover of a BR 1961/62 East Kilbride - Glasgow timetable.
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.
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.]
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.)
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.
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.
Colin Miller [18/06/1962] Ref: 23442 |
Plates, signs and notices: You search in vain for an asterisk and footnote saying, Subject to the Co-Bos not breaking down... Sc R Condor outline timetable and pricing, 18th June 1962.
Colin Miller [18/06/1962] Ref: 27232 |
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!
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?
David Panton [18/06/1962] Ref: 26019 |
Plates, signs and notices: From 'The Reshaping of British Railways' (Beeching Report - 1963) showing BR proposed withdrawal of passenger services. Black lines indicate 'all passenger services to be withdrawn', hatched red lines 'all stopping passenger services to be withdrawn'. Despite some dreadful closures, Scotland saw several survivors, including Kyle, the Far North, Shotts, Glasgow-Barrhead-Kilmarnock and Ayr-Stranraer. Note that not even Beeching proposed closure of St Andrews, Leven, Alloa, Grangemouth and Cowdenbeath-Kinross-Perth!
David Spaven [//1963] Ref: 27795 |
Plates, signs and notices: Those were the days - through trains from Newcastleton to London ...and a 4-course dinner for 78p! Page 56 of the British Railways ‘Passenger Services Scotland’ timetable for 9th September 1963 to 14th June 1964.
David Spaven [09/09/1963] Ref: 28316 |
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.
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.
Mark Bartlett [//1964] Ref: 24778 |
Plates, signs and notices: Closure notice, Inveresk, East Fortune and East Linton, 4 May 1964.
David Panton [04/05/1964] Ref: 19344 |
Plates, Signs and Notices: Withdrawal notice, Abbeyhill - Musselburgh, 7 September 1964.
David Panton [07/09/1964] Ref: 19262 |
Plates, signs and notices: The Windermere winter timetable of 1964 shows a meagre seven departures (nine down trains) with some very long gaps between services. Sunday was even worse with the two trains shown only operating for two weeks and then it was a Ribble bus or nothing. In 2010 the branch enjoys an hourly service on weekdays (seventeen trains in total)and on Sundays there are fourteen departures.
Mark Bartlett [07/09/1964] Ref: 27662 |
Plates, signs and notices: Part of the BR ScR timetable from 7 Sep 1964 to 13 Jun 1965 covering the South Clyde 'Blue Trains'.
David Panton [07/09/1964] Ref: 30117 |
Plates, signs and notices: Freedom of Britain's rails from £1.79 a day. Advertisement in the BR Scottish Region passenger timetable 7 September 1964 to 5 June 1965. But would you want to go back?
David Panton [07/09/1964] Ref: 30517 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totem from passenger station at Fraserburgh, closed October 1965.
John Williamson [03/10/1965] Ref: 20572 |
Plates, signs and notices: Nibs! [see image 27108]
Colin Miller [//1966] Ref: 27107 |
Plates, signs and notices: 1966 letters from the BR Scottish Region Stores Controller confirming the sale of ‘collectors items’. The Princes Street Signal Box Diagram is now on display in the Scottish Railway Museum at Bo’ness (if you look carefully), while the Crew Junction Signal Box nameboard is in David Spaven’s safe keeping. Nice to know that at least some of the post-Beeching memorabilia ‘saved for the nation’ was actually paid for!
David Spaven [//1966] Ref: 27825 |
Plates, signs and notices: Closure notice concerning passenger services on the Stirling - Dunfermline route dated 30 May 1966. Withdrawal eventually took place in October 1968.
Jim Peebles [30/05/1966] Ref: 30036 |
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!)
Colin Miller [26/06/1966] Ref: 23600 |
Plates, signs and notices: Alterations to BR train services in the west of Scotland with effect from 27 June 1966 ....and the reason for them.
Colin Miller [27/06/1966] Ref: 27100 |
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.
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
James Young [06/03/1967] Ref: 24169 |
Plates, signs and notices: After the abberation of the Hutchison map [see image 29931] Paul
Garbutt was given the job as designer and the map took on the familiar form which is essentially the same today. This edition is probably from 1968. The northern half of the Victoria line is open, and there are expected dates for opening to Victoria itself. As for the final section, Pimlico is missing: presumably it was an afterthought. No Jubilee line yet: it was to pinch the Stanmore branch of the Bakerloo, which also lost the line beyond Harrow & Wealdstone to BR.
David Panton [//1968] Ref: 29951 |
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]
Bruce McCartney [16/02/1968] Ref: 24272 |
Plates, signs and notices: Names to conjour with... BR withdrawal notice - effective 6 May 1968.
Bill Jamieson [06/05/1968] Ref: 29808 |
Plates, signs and notices: The British Rail / Caledonian Steam Packet Co 1969 summer season poster advertising the sailings on Loch Lomond by PS Maid of the Loch from Balloch Pier. Trains continued to run to Balloch Pier station for another 17 years, with closure taking place on 29 September 1986. [See image 16428]
John McIntyre [//1969] Ref: 29183 |
Plates, signs and notices: To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Caledonian Steam Packet Company on 1 June 1969, The Clyde River Steamer Club chartered a steamer the day before. On board it was possible to purchase a special envelope which had been produced to commemorate the anniversary and post it on board the boat so that it received a commemorative frank. The envelope and its contents are shown.
John McIntyre [01/06/1969] Ref: 28535 |
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.
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.
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)!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alistair MacKenzie [01/11/1979] Ref: 13547 |
Plates, signs and notices: Track feature ID plate.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alistair MacKenzie [01/02/1980] Ref: 13499 |
Plates, signs and notices: Caledonian Railways track ID sign, now believed to be milepost sign.
Alistair MacKenzie [01/02/1980] Ref: 13511 |
Plates, signs and notices: GWR 10T wagon plate no. 30823.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alistair MacKenzie [08/02/1980] Ref: 13505 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER 20T Wagon plate from 1942 Darlington wagon no. 251315.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alistair MacKenzie [06/03/1980] Ref: 15760 |
Plates, signs and notices: The Easter school holiday of 1980, and paid for out of my Saturday job I've freedom of the Scottish rails for £3.40 a day. Whether I worked on that Saturday I can't remember.
David Panton [29/03/1980] Ref: 26575 |
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alistair MacKenzie [15/10/1980] Ref: 13557 |
Plates, signs and notices: LNER Darlington wagon plates of 1938 and 1948.
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.
Alistair MacKenzie [01/11/1980] Ref: 15752 |
Plates, Signs and Notices: Withdrawal notice at Kilmacolm in November 1982.
Ian Dinmore [/01/1983] Ref: 17288 |
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?
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.
David Panton [/04/1985] Ref: 16878 |
Plates, signs and notices: ScotRail Scottie transfer - March 1986
David Panton [01/03/1986] Ref: 19518 |
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Plates, signs and notices: This sign once graced the west end of the Milngavie bound platform at Bearsden.
Ewan Crawford [//1987] Ref: 7781 |
Plates, signs and notices: Back in November 1996 a display in the window of a solicitors' office in Bruntsfield commemorates the 40th anniversary of Edinburgh's last tram (or last moving tram, we'd have to say in July 2010) with some memorabilia. The 28 was indeed the last tram to run and half the population of Edinburgh alive in 1956 claim to have been on it. I'm sure the colour code of blue over green is authentic - unfortunately my list (image 26504) only goes up to 27 as the part-day 28 was a fairly late addition! The short and not very significant Stanley Road had in fact not been the terminus for many years; though the name continued to be used an extension was built down Craighall Road to Newhaven. [See image 26567 for convenience].
David Panton [/11/1996] Ref: 29754 |
Plates, signs and notices: Roadsign referring to Dunfermline Lower station erected more than 20 years after the suffix was dropped.
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.
David Panton [/07/1998] Ref: 17296 |
Plates, signs and notices: Totems together in retirement at Boat of Garten in May 1999.
David Panton [/05/1999] Ref: 21971 |
Plates, signs and notices: Nameplate on locomotive 37416 in 2004.
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
James Young [/09/2004] Ref: 23720 |
Plates, signs and notices: Signs at the end of the platform at Dalmeny Station in April 2005.
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!
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...!
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.
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.
Alasdair Mulhern [15/06/2007] Ref: 17023 |
Plates, signs and notices: The station nameboard on Platform 1 at Aviemore, July 2007.
Graham Morgan [06/07/2007] Ref: 15902 |
Plates, signs and notices: Old plate on a bridge near Port of Menteith, 11 October 2007.
John Furnevel [11/10/2007] Ref: 16923 |
Plates, signs and notices: Still in its protective wrapping - the new Alloa station sign stands at the entrance from the ring road on 28 February 2008.
John Furnevel [28/02/2008] Ref: 18150 |
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!
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. 110 years later and this time in the tunnel there was another accident when a DMU caught fire inside the tunnel.
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.
Colin Harkins [23/08/2008] Ref: 20385 |
Plates, signs and notices: Part of the decor in the Station Bar, Bridgnorth, on 3 September 2008.
Bruce McCartney [03/09/2008] Ref: 20556 |
Plates, signs and notices: Wall of the Station Bar, Bridgnorth, 3 September 2008.
Bruce McCartney [03/09/2008] Ref: 20564 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
David Panton [04/05/2009] Ref: 23581 |
Plates, signs and notices: Summer 2009 timetable information from First Insight newsletter issued May 2009.
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.
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: ScotRail logo, photographed at East Kilbride on 10 June 2009.
John Steven [10/06/2009] Ref: 24069 |
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.
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.
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.
John McIntyre [/09/2009] Ref: 25431 |
Plates, signs and notices: Bridge sign at Laytown, County Meath, September 2009.
John Steven [02/09/2009] Ref: 26542 |
Plates, signs and notices: Tonight's the night! Last train to Oldham and other stations on 'The Loop', 3 October 2009.
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.
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.)
David Panton [28/10/2009] Ref: 26098 |
Plates, signs and notices: Just one or two pressies for John, it's his birthday you know... First ScotRail Insight - November 2009. Extract 1.
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.
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!
David Panton [15/11/2009] Ref: 26376 |
Plates, signs and notices: New East Coast branding on power car 91108, photographed on 23 November 2009.
Bill Roberton [23/11/2009] Ref: 26475 |
Plates, signs and notices: Network Rail sign warning PW staff that the Avon Gorge is a SSSI and they must proceed only with proper authority. December 2009.
Peter Todd [03/12/2009] Ref: 26634 |
Plates, signs and notices: The Kilmarnock Edition nameplate presentation on 4 December 2009 - see news story.
Courtesy First ScotRail [04/12/2009] Ref: 9476 |
Plates, signs and notices: FirstInsight, January 2010. Airdrie-Bathgate item.
[/01/2010] Ref: 5108 |
Plates, signs and notices: FirstInsight, January 2010. North Berwick Item
[/01/2010] Ref: 5230 |
Plates, signs and notices: The Clutha Works got a big entry for its order book at the time of
the North Clyde Lines electrification as all footbridges were replaced to allow higher clearance. These bridges still abound; this plate was photographed at Coatdyke on 17 March 2010.
David Panton [17/03/2010] Ref: 28404 |
Plates, signs and notices: Old wooden destination boards from the Glasgow District Subway stored in the warehouse section of the National Railway Museum in March 2010. Note the board for the former Govan Cross, the name having been changed to plain Govan in 1980.
John Furnevel [25/03/2010] Ref: 28375 |
Plates, signs and notices: 64A St Margarets shed plate last carried by 42128 [see image 28341]. The layout of the lettering is unusual.
Bill Roberton [05/04/2010] Ref: 28372 |
Plates, signs and notices: A plate on a footbridge at Pitlochry station in May 2010. H D & W was a major engineering company building ships, engines, a variety of heavy machinery and structural ironwork - such as the roof of Waverley Station (source: 'Paisley, a History' by Sylvia Clark). [See image 15547]
Colin Miller [19/05/2010] Ref: 29155 |
Plates, signs and notices: Photographed in the back garden of a house in the Scottish Borders in June 2010.
Bruce McCartney [/06/2010] Ref: 29672 |
Plates, signs and notices: The BR double arrow was apparently the most recognised logo in
Britain. Because of the strong association with BR it must have come as a surprise to many, as it did me, that it would survive into
privatisation as the generic symbol for the network. This little
collection, photographed outside Kelvindale station on 17 June, seems to be a celebration of the double arrow, showing four ways of saying the same thing.
David Panton [17/06/2010] Ref: 29702 |
Plates, signs and notices: A puzzling warning notice in a toilet cubicle of a Class 170 on 19 June 2010. As to what the danger might be I'll have to leave to your imagination.
David Panton [19/06/2010] Ref: 29679 |
Plates, signs and notices: Commemorative electrification plaque alongside platform 4 at Edinburgh Waverley in July 2010.
Andrew Wilson [26/07/2010] Ref: 30057 |
Scottish Borders Council: From the east end of the Caledonian station at Peebles a freight exchange line ran along the south bank of the Tweed before crossing the river on a hogsback girder bridge at Priorsford to link with the NB system to the north. This ground frame board from the former station is on display at the SBC exhibition currently running at the Tweeddale Museum and gallery, just off Peebles High Street.
John Furnevel [21/05/2010] Ref: 29075 |