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Author Topic: SandTEngineers Spot the Railway Location Photograph Quiz  (Read 28842 times)
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« Reply #120 on: January 06, 2018, 17:25:46 »


Is that a young ET waiting to "cab" 1450?

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« Reply #121 on: January 06, 2018, 18:18:55 »


Is that a young ET waiting to "cab" 1450?

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« Reply #122 on: January 07, 2018, 21:35:52 »


Marlow?

(From lamps and building)

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Photograph taken on 15 July 1973.  This was the centenary celebration day for the Marlow branch.  Looking towards the buffer stops at the 'new' Marlow station.  This Marlow station was built on the site of the old goods yard and the old station site to the East (behind the trees) was converted into sidings for the adjacent wood mill.  The train consisted of two GWR (Great Western Railway) Auto-coaches and 14XX class tank locomotive No.1450.  It was running a shuttle service between Marlow and Bourne End stations.  It was a very wet day......

You can see some further photographs of the event here http://www.mdrs.org.uk/wycmaidmarlow.htm#1960s
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« Reply #123 on: January 07, 2018, 21:37:29 »

No.20 (and the last for now - I need to do some more scanning Tongue )

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« Reply #124 on: January 07, 2018, 21:52:21 »

That's not even a station!  Shocked Roll Eyes Grin

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« Reply #125 on: January 07, 2018, 21:59:38 »

No.20 (and the last for now - I need to do some more scanning Tongue )

Something about that looks so familiar - but it could just be that it's a location I've seen in a book somewhere.

Have really enjoyed the series ... thank you and look forward to seeing more after a break!
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« Reply #126 on: January 07, 2018, 22:02:53 »

Norton Junction near Worcester?
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« Reply #127 on: January 07, 2018, 22:21:42 »

Hawkeridge Junction?
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« Reply #128 on: January 07, 2018, 22:35:45 »

Agreed, throughly enjoyed these photos - even if it has reinforced my long held theory that I was born 10-15 years too late!
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« Reply #129 on: January 07, 2018, 22:46:12 »

Hawkeridge Junction?

Yes - just got that too. Is the East Loop (going off to the right) the newest bit of track in these pictures?
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« Reply #130 on: January 07, 2018, 23:24:22 »

Agreed, throughly enjoyed these photos - even if it has reinforced my long held theory that I was born 10-15 years too late!

Yes: following this topic, I somehow wish I had been there, when that infrastructure was there - and still being used.  Roll Eyes

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« Reply #131 on: January 08, 2018, 08:07:47 »

Something about that looks so familiar - but it could just be that it's a location I've seen in a book somewhere.

Hawkeridge Junction?

I really should have got that shouldn't I?    Travel through there pretty darned frequently.

The loop only dates back to 1942 - a wartime connection; railway infrastructure for the war in the (TransWilts) area also included a magnificent array of sidings at Lacock and a curve that changes Thingley junction into a triangle.

The Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads service that ran for three years earlier in this decade was scheduled over the curve as an experimental service, but didn't generate a great deal of extra traffic and was withdrawn just prior to it reaching an age at which it would have ceased to be experimental, and a formal closure procedure would have been needed to withdraw it at a future date.  The daily through train in the opposite direction runs via Westbury platforms where it reversed - the early hour of the service putting many people off.   Incidentally, it is the only passenger carrying service of the day that run though Bath Spa station without stopping.

The curve is still used for engineering diversions, which are frequent enough for it to be an easily collectable line for people who look to travel on such.
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« Reply #132 on: January 08, 2018, 18:14:46 »

Hawkeridge Junction?
No.20 - Correct
Photograph taken in 1970.  Hawkeridge Junction looking towards Trowbridge (Westbury station to rear).  Hawkeridge signalbox opened on 14 July 1942 with, as Grahame has quoted above, the East Loop to Heywood Road Junction off to the right.  To the left after the overbridge a War Department Cold Store was constructed during WW2 and a new loop and sidings were installed as part of the work and opened in November 1943.  You can see another two examples of the 1942 type bracket signal installed as part of that work, first discussed as part of the Westbury North photograph above (although by the time of the photograph the left hand signal had its bracket changed to a standard WR type).  Hawkeridge signalbox closed on 11 May 1984 and the area was subsequently controlled by Westbury panel.

Thats all for now, folks and as the old song goes "......be back soon".
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« Reply #133 on: January 09, 2018, 16:34:36 »

Just a quick addition.  A copy of the 1943 Hawkeridge signalling layout can be downloaded from the Signalling Record Society site here: https://www.s-r-s.org.uk/html/gwb/S393-2h.pdf
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« Reply #134 on: January 09, 2018, 18:35:48 »

Just a quick addition.  A copy of the 1943 Hawkeridge signalling layout can be downloaded from the Signalling Record Society site here: https://www.s-r-s.org.uk/html/gwb/S393-2h.pdf
Thanks for that. A nicely complex layout with several facing routes, approach locking and a Warning Arrangement into Westbury. I bet it was an interesting and enjoyable 'box to work. On a technical note - and rather too technical for the group so please PM me the answer if you have one - how was disk 27 approach locked?

Many thanks for these photographs, and the diagram. I have greatly enjoyed them.
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