Hi Mitch Not sure if it is of use to you but I could supply copies of original documents from the area, I have items from the following railway companies in...
... Thank you Ian for your kind offer. I will have a look at the libaray and let you know. Please bear with me I am slightly behind with writing up my notes...
A very handy facility for obtaining the day of the week for a given date, which (unlike others on-line) also includes principal public holidays, is ...
Anne, Sorry for this late reply. It might be worth contacting our Bristol member Alan Richardson, whose address is inside the front cover of the R&CHS Journal....
Grahame Boyes
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Jan 1, 2009 5:16 pm
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I am researching Box Boats (ie those carrying goods in boxes or containers) for a future article in NarrowBoat magazine. I am already including Bridgewater,...
Thanks, Chris Yes, the Milton boats are obvious ones - so recent that one forgets them! They must have been the last container traffic on narrowboats - unless...
... Box boats that i know of are, The Manchester bolton and Bury both narrow and "bastard" 12/13ft beam. BCN saw container use at Hollybank basin, the late F&P...
See Plate 9 in The Stroudwater Canal by Michael Handford. Another Hugh ... From: Hugh Potter To: railwaycanal@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009...
Hugh Conway-Jones
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Jan 5, 2009 1:31 pm
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Hughs You have just beaten me to it, having just retreived the same from temporary storage! That in the book is obvioulsy re-drawn; you might well find an...
Rather belatedly -- I foolishly allowed the R&CHS to tempt me away on holiday twice last year and have never since, therefore, succeeded in catching up with...
Trowbridge Museum has an exhibition until February 28th on 'How the Railway change Trowbridge; celebrating 160 years of the railway.' The museum is in The...
Anne Willis
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Jan 7, 2009 8:13 pm
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The Lilleshall Branch of the Donnington Wood (or Marquis of Stafford's) Canal was originally (c1770) connected to the main line by a tunnel & shaft system...
'Plymley' ... The chapter on canals written by Thomas Telford and published in Joseph Plymley's 'Agriculture of Shropshire' discusses the arrangements at the ...
Following a discussion on the Britain's Lost Railways group regarding an appropriate place to post images and discuss historic and lost waterways, a new group...
Are the former Metropolitan Widened Lines now owned by TfL or Network Rail. If the latter, when were they transferred? Grahame Boyes [Non-text portions of this...
Grahame Boyes
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Jan 20, 2009 6:03 pm
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The "Quail/TrackMaps" diagrams show them as part of BR from at least 1990 and as Network Rail in 2005. A regional, latterly zone, boundary is shown just south...
Further details I have found a note (Branch Line News, No 301, 7 July 1976) that, with the withdrawal of trains to Moorgate from the GN lines, "The Widened...
Hi Graham According to the latest Keeping Track Official map(the industry used version of Dec 2008); the Moorgate to Farringdon widened lines and the widened...
Hello, I am currently reading Charles Hadfield's 'The Canals of the East Midlands' and he talks about share dividends paid out as '10s per cent in 1865' and...
My reading would be 10s or 2s 11d per hundred pounds, and a quick check of the dictionary confirms that this is a usage. Harry Shipley ... From: "Richard...
You should note that share dividends were usually based on the original price of the shares, often 100 pounds, and not on the actual current price. Mike Clarke...
Mike Clarke
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Jan 22, 2009 4:46 pm
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And it's even worse than that, as some canal companies made calls of more than £100 although that was the nominal amount of the shares. The Stroudwater, for...
Is it possible to attach a photograph to query for circulation to the railwaycanal group? Grahame Boyes [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Grahame Boyes
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Jan 22, 2009 11:39 pm
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... From: "Grahame Boyes" <g.boyes1@...> To: <railwaycanal@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:39 PM Subject: [railwaycanal]...
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