I was responsible for the 8th edition of British Canals - named Hadfields British Canals in honour of the late Charles Hadfield - and am now beginning work on...
Joseph Please email me any text on the Dorset & Somerset Canal and I will check it for you. Regards Derrick Hunt ... From: "Joseph B" <water.47@...> ...
Derrick Hunt
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Nov 8, 2005 10:19 pm
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I had to visit this place on business recently - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=west+hallam,+england&ll=52.967096,-1.360073&spn=0.023572,0.082191&t=h&hl=en or ...
Hi Brian I forwarded your message re West Hallam Storage Depot - Ilkeston to the Derbyshire Railways Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/derbyshirerailways/ ...
Charles Hadfield in Waterways to Stratford cites an anonymous publication ‘River Avon: orders in council, His majesty’s commission, and certificate of the...
I t occurs to me that this item might have been published within another work relating to the town or river. I wonder if it picking the brains of a local...
Geoffrey Oxley
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Nov 22, 2005 10:27 am
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Hi Peter .... I don't know if it's possible to access the British Library catalogues on line, but have you tried them, either in London or in Wetherby ? Or...
Could it be a Parliamentary publication which were sometimes reprinted with different dates, such as Acts printed some years after they were passed. You could...
Mike Clarke
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Nov 23, 2005 9:40 pm
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Thank you to several people for their suggestions. This is clearly a very scarce publication. It was probably printed by James Bennet, the Tewkesbury ...
A member of another Yahoo group has posted a photo of (what he claims is) a station but he doesn't know its name or location. I have placed a copy in the...
Further to my request for help in identifying the station I posted in the Photos section. With a little help from Gordon Biddle's book 'Railway Heritage of...
Re Warkworth station I have received the following additional information from a fellow member of the Railway Ramblers www.railwayramblers.org.uk I can tell...
Management notices: Some time ago we had a spammer and I changed the rules so I had to approve all members. Unfortunately I don't check for pending members ...
Thanks for that Steve. For anyone worried about general internet security Get Safe Online will help you protect yourself against internet threats. The site is...
just followed the guidelines given and found that i needed to opt out. strange that as i had opted out some months ago. i did not (to my knowledge) undo my opt...
... Advice from another list: 'There's a real problem with ntl at the moment. They've just 'upgraded' to a new spam filter and it's been stopping repeat...
Can anyone please guide me as to where I can find out about the early history of the Gloucester & Dean Forest Railway Company's goods yard beside the...
Hugh Conway-Jones
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Dec 13, 2005 11:38 am
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The publishers of ARCHIVE ar located in that area, see:- http://www.lightmoor.co.uk/archive.htm They may have something or know a man that does. Excellent...
The original proposal in 1860 for a locally-promoted line from Market Drayton to the outside world was to Madeley on the Crewe-Stafford line. This was soon...
Just south of the elegant Cefn Viaduct over the River Dee, a private branch, the line of which can still be clearly seen, went north-east down to Penybont...
The February 1863 Bradshaw shows three up and three down trains calling at Madeley on weekdays. There was also one train in each direction on Sundays. Nantwich...
Might I suggest that you look at the early large scale OS map on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ . This should clarify the layout of the railway. Peter King ... ...
Pen y Bont Brickworks. Near Cefn Mawr. Line originally 2' 8" tramroad "from earliest times" according to IRS handbook - it is quoted that J.C.Edwards (who...
Nottingham Industrial Heritage Association present: A talk next Thursday (26 January): Nottingham Trams - the future, by Steve Barber 7.45pm Central Library ...
I wonder whether anyone can help me. I've agreed to write the minibiographies of William and Joseph Cubitt for Volume 2 of the ICE's Biographical Dictionary...
Some of you may be interested to know that The Waterways Trust are staging an official launch of 'the new Virtual Waterways website'...
Matthew Searle
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Jan 23, 2006 12:40 pm
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David Hodgkins in The Second Railway King (biog of Watkin, 2002) has his tender for the enlargement of Coventry Station accepted, c1846/7. No reference to JC...
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