The broken link has now been repaired - thank you Richard! From: Cartographics, 49 Grange Road, Biddulph, Stoke on Trent ST8 7RY, UK. Out of print maps and...
A friend of mine has asked me the following question :- I am trying to locate some info. re a short canal in the Holcombe area of Somerset, a little way south...
Graham, I'm about to go out to as canal society committee meeting (appropriately!) so I haven't time to check on exactly where Holcombe is, but the canal your...
Graham, I've managed to squeeze another half-hour, so further notes follow, using an examination of the relevant I-inch OS map to back up thirty-year-old...
Whoops! I forgot in my hurry to attach the file and I've just deleted it unsaved. Back to Plan B: I'll do it again tonight. Regards, Tony J. ... From: Tony...
In railwaycanal@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Jervis" <tony.jervis@...> ... This website may be useful - it has a few photos and a Google map of the route as well as...
Graham, The book you need is 'Old Mendip' by Robin Atthill published by D & C as Tony J. says. My copy is 3rd printing of 2nd ed. 1971. When I lived in...
A Padfield
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Jul 17, 2008 3:41 pm
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There was an article on some of the structures of the Somerset and Dorset canal in a recent issue of Cornerstone; the quarterly magazine of SPAB. Given that...
Anne Willis
zen16073@...
Jul 17, 2008 4:52 pm
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An article of mine on the D&S canal appeared in the Summer 2007 issue of NarrowBoat magazine. This includes the exact alignment of the proposed main line and...
'Caggy' Stevens of Tipton was (unless you know better) the last commercial operator of a horse boat. From memory, I think he gave it up about 1979, but can...
Hi, I knew "Caggy" quite well and the date is correct as I remember. The horse drawn trip boats at Llangolen are still run with horses and there some other...
My friend, David Russell, and I are very grateful for all the information that members of this group have so readily and promptly provided. Thank you all. ...
There is a map produced showing all the arms and branches in the Stoke area. It can be obtained from the IWA shop I believe. It is one of a series of...
Map No. 5 (Canals of North Staffordshire) in my Historical Canal Maps series. See www.cartographics.co.uk/page3.htm Richard Dean From: Cartographics, 49...
Following "difficulties" with negotiating with the Festiniog Railway Company over future running powers over part of the soon to be completed Welsh Highland...
... This petition is a freelance affair. It has not been set up by or with the authority of WHR Ltd and does not represent the current situation between the...
To quote from WHR magazine (as quoted on internet). "One concern they do have is the lack of an operating and fares agreement with the FR for 2009 when the...
After a construction period (with one or two hiccups) of 135 years a narrow gauge track now exists between Caernarfon and Porthmadog. The two heads of steel on...
A work colleague regularly visits Kosova and I asked him to photograph any trains he happens to see. He produced a picture of a loco standing at Prestina...
I recently came across some inventories taken in 1834 of the equipment on board narrow canal boats that also used the River Severn. Can anyone suggest a better...
Hugh Conway-Jones
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Sep 1, 2008 3:12 pm
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... Out of semi-idle curiosity, how many miles is that? My narrow gauge interest is pimarily to those with a waterway connection so I have not followed this...
Hi Steve, Whilst not an expert in these matters, I would say that this loco is almost certainly not a class 20, modified or not. It looks much more like a...
The current edition of 'Rail' magazine (No 601 24 Sep - 7 Oct 2008) contains a four-page feature on Euston's Doric Arch. Architectural expert and broadcaster...
Has any research been carried out into recording the passing of trains in signal boxes? Which company first introduced the Train Register and by what date had...
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