Caledonian Railway Association Forum

Thank you John.

I may have solved this myself. I now believe this is Caldwell Station. (Later renamed 'Uplawmoor.') On the G&SWR main line.

Hi. its the daftie again with another stupid question. Can anybody identify this building? The original caption said 'Sandilands' but it most certainly isn't Sandiland. I'm not even sure its a Caley station and I don't know where the photo came from.[attachment=0]Sandilands Station 03.PNG

Thank you John. I wonder if maybe its based on a Lancaster and Carlisle station. It seems to stir memories of Penrith. But some aspects of it suggest it may be a figment of my imagination.

Agreed! This is truly grim. All that can be said about it is that its not as grim as some 'facilities' found elsewhere! The disaster that is Gourock. The absolute mess made of Greenock Central. The joke that is the rebuilt Queen Street. I have got to the point of not expecting any better! They might...

Now, heres a thing. While looking for something else, i found an old partly completed drawing that i started many years ago. The drawing is of a station building and is to around 1:152 scale. I seem to recall that it was being done from a photograph in a book. I THINK its a Caley station but a searc...

PS I wondered why they were versions of the same loco until the penny dropped that 17566 and 57566 were the LMS and BR numbers for 828.

I didn't order any but when they arrived I fancied one of the BR locos so I ordered 57566 and was duly impressed. so impressed that I also purchased the LMS version 17566. I am tempted to buy another. Probably the manky BR version. The Caley blue version looks amazing but isn't really my era. DSC047...

A correction to the above. The article was by the late Richard Chown and the drawing by Tony Sparks. It concerned the construction of a 7mm model of the said cabin for the Tannochside layout which appeared at Model Rail Scotland that year. Drawings were 4mm scale.

A drawing plus photographs of Polmadie signal cabin appeared in a march edition of the railway Modeller in the early 70's. If I recall the authors of the article were our Hon President George Russell and Crear McCartney

That looks like a standard LMS 'lightweight Hut' used for many purposes. Most were used by the agricultural foodstuffs Merchant 'Silcocks'. They dated from the 1930's, were made of sheet asbestos on a wooden frame and came in various sizes. Detail drawings ar in 'A pictorial record of LMS architectu...

P.S. By the way, to be fair, I think the notion of the trackside 'Coal Staithes' pre-dates Cyril Freezer as they appear on model railway track plans from the 20's

Jane J.

The only thing remotely equating to 'Coal staiths' I have ever found in photographs or in the flesh were temporary pens made from various things, including bagged coal. Several photos of Pinxton Mineral yard seem to show what looks like old oil drums being used to form pens Presumably they were fill...

This is a bit of a hot tomale. I posted a photo of my wee WIP layout 'Bonkle' on the interweb and put a set of coal 'Staithes' at the front for no other ereason than to justify a couple of mineral waggons lying there. I got my ears fried! The general consensus was that the 'Coal staithes' were a bit...

Regarding the 'edited' number'34' on the loco, There is a bit of film showing the first of Mr Bulleid's powerful but ugly Q1 class,33001 departing Baynards Station on the Guildford and Horsham direct. The number had been 'selectively cleaned' to show the original number 'C1' Old company loyalties di...

Model a location that never existed and then wait until somebody comes up and tells you that when the were kids they used to stand on that very platform...

Hello John
Sorry for taking so long to respond. I'll see what I can do. I am on their Facebook page and the photos were published on there.
Jane.

On the 1897 OS map of Central Greenock, the access to the Caledonian Railway's Dellingburn yard is shown as being a tunnel under Regent street. I had always assumed that Dellingburn Yard would be worked by horses, but in the App to WT for May 1915, there are instructions for working Locomotives acro...

Something wich may be of interest. The 'Inverclyde Heritage' web page recently posted a series of photos which seem to show the overall roof being dismantled Presumably after the bombing raids of May 1941

A little poking about on the interweb last evening produced some interesting results. 'Railway Parcels Recieving offices' appear to be more common than first thought. The Midland Railway would seem to have had a few, some of them in shops which were obviously acting as agents. Including a shoe shop ...

In my large collection of photograpic albums of towns and villages all over the UK, I have seen several examples of 'Parcel Recieving offices.' How common they were I can't say but they seem to have been always in large urban areas. Obviously in rural areas the station would be the 'parcel recieving...

With reference to the discussion today regarding the overall roof at Greenock Central. I found this pic in Britain from the air. Unfortunately the image was reversed but I have switched it. It clearly shows at bottom right, the overall roof on greenock central station. Greenock From the air Central ...

Here are the photos of the mystery coach on the Royal Scotsman. The first at Ardlui. (Not Rannoch) July 1988 the sceond at Crianlarich. Sepember 1988.

Jane

This coach was indeed used on one of the 'luxury' trains in the 80's I recall seeing it at Kyle and also, I think at Rannoch in mid 1988. I have a photo graph of that day somewhere. I also remember being passed at Crianlarich by one of the Luxury trains in September that year. I recall that 37422 wa...

I don't think the photo at the top is Georgetown and I think the 'shells' on the left are actually shell cases. The houses in the left background don't correspond with anything at Georgetown and its most unlikely that filled shells would be stacked either so close to housing or on what seems to be a...