Just to say that I have changed my email address. I am continuing to resarch British Canal history; the MS for British Canals is with the publisher. Regards ...
A correspondent from Gosport has asked if the engineer &/or contractor for building Haslar Bridge, Hampshire can be identified. They speculate that it might...
Matthew Searle
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Feb 13, 2007 1:53 pm
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Matthew It is before the Institution of Civil Engineers was founded, but have you tried their librarian Mike Chrimes? Regards Peter Tatlow ... From: "Matthew...
Peter Tatlow
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Feb 13, 2007 2:28 pm
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A little known or publicised 85-arch viaduct has for many years remained almost covert and certainly a rival to the Midland's renowned Harringworth Viaduct (it...
Hi Ralph, I have forwarded your email to our chairman who will circulate your question in the hope we can find the answer for you. Regards, Fred Ralph...
A photograph and reference, describing it as Scotter Road viaduct and 'some 1020 yds long', appears on p. 31 of George Dow's "Great Central" vol. 2. You will...
Matthew Searle
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Feb 21, 2007 9:12 am
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Ralph, Volume 70 of the Publications of the Lincoln Record Society, entitled "Letters and Papers concerning the establishment of the Trent, Ancholme and...
The Minutes of the Cromford Canal Co (1789-1852) are held at Kew with a microfiche at Matlock, and these have been transcribed by members of the Friends of the...
Hugh, Have you looked at the virtualarchive for BW papers held at Wakefield Record Office? I know they have some Cromford material, though minutes are a bit...
Mike Clarke
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Mar 5, 2007 4:54 pm
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Another little snippet has surfaced about Netherfield. Regards, Tony Jervis. Branch Line News No 322 of 25 May 1977 reported: Nottingham area: Vandals are...
Sources show the extension of the GN's passenger service to Burton as reaching Egginton on 1 April and Burton itself on 1 July 1878 (the route was already in...
... My prime reason for being in this group is my canal interest, but I could not help but follow this thread because the signal box is the only one on the...
... Gosh I remember that - and the bits of rope used to tie the gates back together! Chris D -- HNBOC Webmaster webmaster@... http://www.hnboc.org.uk ...
Can I urge you to sign the on-line petition to No.10 against the 7% budget cut threatened against the British Library - see http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/library/...
Took a series of photos on Saturday of the Bishop's Castle Railway in Shropshire. Gallery accessible from my home page - go to Other Galleries. Gerry Cork ...
My apologies for not changing the subject title on my last message. Gerry Cork Tarring, Worthing, West Sussex, UK ... www.luxury-yacht.co.uk Galleries added -...
Group members may be interested in this little snippet of history, and I would be interested in any further information anyone has. Arthur-Richard Dillon, of...
Google turned up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Richard_Dillon (fuller than its French equivalent - not that I set too much store by any Wikipedia...)...
Does anyone know if and how the thirty-year embargo on records in the National Archives would have applied to railway records in the 1950s? This would have...
The BTHR did apply a 30-year closure rule to railway company minute books. Access would not normally be provided until 30 clear calendar years after the last...
Grahame Boyes
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Mar 15, 2007 6:17 pm
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I think, from memory, that the closure period for Public Records in the 1950s was 50 years, and that it was reduced to 30 in Harold Wilson's time. However if...
Geoffrey Oxley
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Mar 16, 2007 10:08 am
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Sonia Rolt has just set me a challenge . . . She is trying to track down a Telford designed/built 'Junction House' on the Shroppie that was demolished by BW...
Thanks to both for the information. In the particular case that I am looking at, a publication from 1956 mentions a proposed station in 1928 but does not...
Looking through BW's Shropshire Union Cruising Guide of 1967, it does comment on buildings at two junctions, though whether either had anything to do with...
The former house at Hurleston Junction is the most likely candidate. Richard Dean From: Cartographics, 49 Grange Road, Biddulph, Stoke on Trent ST8 7RY, UK....
When Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire passenger trains reached Barnsley from Penistone on 5 Dec 1855 they terminated at Summer Lane. Dow (Great Central Vol....
A number of regular contributors of articles to The Railway Magazine pre-1920 wrote under pseudonyms. "Voyageur" was Cecil J. Allen, I believe, but can anyone...
Matthew Searle
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Mar 26, 2007 6:03 pm
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This is neither a railway nor a canal query but I'm sure a contributor to this group will know the answer. When Telford's Menai Bridge was completed in 1826,...
http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/civil/menai.shtml quotes " With a central span of 580 feet, the Menai bridge was the longest clear span...
Yes, according to The Guinness Book of Structures (1976). The previous record-holder, ever since 1420, was a suspension footbridge over the Brahmaputra at...
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