Caledonian Railway Association Forum

The updated lists is now available on the website here.

As we move forward into 2021 and our new trading relationships with the EU this snip from the 1913 WTT reminds us that there is little new in the challenges of international trade...

Happy New Year!

Gympie,

Details of how to access the photo archive are available in this post - in short e-mail me directly via [email protected] and we can arrange your access.

Sinclair

Allan, The site links to a Shapeways shop where he sells 3-d prints. No personal experience with either Shapeways or this seller. This Pullman seems to be available in a range of scales including 4mm - see https://www.shapeways.com/product/F5LMVDE2B/o-76-cr-lms-pullman-observation-coach? £78 to orde...

Note that the latest version of the list is also available to members of the Association through the Forum here as a Sticky Post at the top of the Association Resources section.

Sinclair

Can we please desist from the type of comments which are appearing in this thread. I think we can all agree that we have all sorts of technical abilities and knowledge amongst the membership of the forum across a wide range of topics. This is its strength and people have been very generous in sharin...

The Forum software has now been updated and the Forum should now be working more or less properly once more. Please note that as part of the upgrade and to fix the issues we were experiencing with users being logged out all user "remember me" log-ins were cleared so you will be asked to log-in again...

Yes - Slateford. And yes - has been on the Forum before here.

Great that we have tracked down a higher resolution copy of the image.

14351 is I think passing Slateford Maltings on the Edinburgh-Carstairs mainline with the carriage sidings/yard in front. Signals are for the Junction towards Murrayfield and the North of Edinburgh past the Caledonian Brewery. The Maltings are still there - converted to flats now but still recognizab...

Lindsay, A quick skim of our photo catalogue and some of my own images provide lots of precendents for you to choose from - but no guidance as to which is right for Barnton... Starting with a local example, here's Currie with wooden supports on a brick base - 1960's. Like most of the pictures of wat...

Here you go Steve - PDF version of payment instructions attached.
Sinclair

Allan, I think this is at Dalry Road but looking North across the main line towards the back of the buildings in Dundee Street - train heading West toward Merchiston Station- or more accurately South West at this point so could explain the shadows. The distinctive West End Locomotive Works is obscur...

Steve,

No problem to add an extract from the drawing.

Sinclair

Another new product launched at the Perth Show is a set of two CRA CDs containing all the Locomotive and Wagon drawings previously sold by the Association.

Full details - including how to order - available on the website here.

Sinclair

And by popular demand it's been reduced to £13!

Thanks for pointing that out Jim - webpage updated now.

Sinclair

The latest title to be published by the Caledonian Railway Association and Lightmoor Press tells the story of a railway built to the highest engineering standards, comprising two lines with seven passenger stations, none of which was ever opened. Full details including how to order this latest book ...

Mike,

No mention in the description and the accompanying sketch doesn't show any form of cross on the tarpaulin. Lettering appears to be white - as it definitely is in the colour illustration on the dust jacket of the book which is attached. No diagonal stripe visible in that image either.

Sinclair

In Edward Paget-Tomlinson's history of Wordie & Co "The Railway Carriers" he describes them as a "hap or cover" saying "the hap or cover was heavily treated with linseed oil, giving it a brownish sheen like an oilskin" (pp81). This is in his description of a single-shafted horse lorry in LMS days. S...

A separate index has now been prepared covering all the newsletters and Journals on the disc and will be included in future discs. For those who have already purchased the disc the index is now available for download from the website here . The archive disc can be ordered from the website here - whe...

Thnaks for the feedback Tom. You're right that we haven't promoted the TTL archive on the forum so if you don't mind I'll use your thread to do so! The disk contains all True Lines up to Number 120 plus the earlier journals. It has been produced by scanning originals and is fully searchable using an...

Ian also mentioned a Daily Telelgraph aricle in an earlier post. After a bit of prompting from him this is also now attached in full in the pdf below.

The full paper can be viewed online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-arc ... -1915.html

The full article including photographs is now attached in pdf format.

Sinclair

I've recently come across this photo again - published in the Railway Magazine of January 1935 along with an article covering the Balerno Branch. A slightly higher resolution version is shown below - however being from a printed magazine it's still not that clear. It is credited to J J Cunningham an...

The attached article from the Railway Magazine in January 1935 also makes some mention of services to "Ravelrig Junction" and notes that it is not a public passenger station.

Dave,

By happy co-incidence I'm working on the Photo Archive of the 2-4-0 locomotives at the moment. I've had a quick look through all 171 images and, rather unhelpfully, none feature a tender weatherboard. We have 24 images of Class 98 locomotives but none of CR467.

Sinclair