Recent content by paulb1973

The next challenge is to find pictures of electric locomotives (I assume EMU movements on this line were rare to probably none at all) on this particular line. I'm having trouble finding any images of electric movements on the Rugby - Rugby DED - Clifton Mill and return line (through the golf...

'Coventry East' would be 5 mins walk from home for me - is there sufficient land for that to be built? I presume the name Binley & Willenhall (or Willenhall & Binley) is not going to be used.

In broadly the same area - wasn't there a wired 'siding' close to Proof House Junction (but on a lower level for the RM depot). Possibly de-electrified around 1990. 1708289995 I have a Crewe related book somewhere at home; that shows a picture of that line (I think it closed circa 1984) so the...

Some sidings in the Nuneaton area. The Rugby to Clifton Mill (and return single-line loop across the viaduct) line has been mentioned - but I assume the old DED has been de-wired, in the main, too. It seems there has been some thinning of the 'wirescape' in the Blisworth area. Has a short...

I did the Air Fete many times but only once by rail; staying with relatives in London - walk to Wanstead tube, Underground from there to Kings Cross/St Pancras, train to from KX to Ely, then a connecting bus to RAF Mildenhall itself. And the reverse of the above to get back. It was a long, hot...

I'm off to the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford over several days in July - driving there admittedly. I assume Swindon (or Kemble?!) is the nearest station.

Mention was made of Rugby on page 2 - was there not a 'run round' line (if not an avoiding line) here between 1964 and circa 1970. Part of the Rugby to Market Harborough line, two running lines between Rugby and Clifton Mill, in an up-side-down heart shape, existed. Electrified in both...

Suppose Nuneaton's platforms 6 & 7 fit the bill - they are on the site of sidings/goods lines.

Possibly tit-for-tat after Stagecoach launched a Coventry city centre to University of Warwick service to compete with NXC's 12X fast service to that Uni. There have been rumours that the National Express 11 (Coventry - Leamington Spa via Kenilworth) may be extended even further into Stagecoach...

There is this (well) hidden 'gem' in Coventry coming in from Rugby, built as part of the London to Birmingham railway in 1838: :The seven-arched Sowe Viaduct

Was there not an electrified road within the Springs Branch depot from around 1974 - it seems to have been removed some time after.

In the Crewe area - it is really Shropshire Goods Junction, or it is known locally as 'Salop' Goods Junction ?!

Seems Rugby was Rugby Midland previously - but was nearby Nuneaton ever officially Nuneaton Trent Valley?

That cross-platform portal does look a bit like the structures used at Coventry, Birmingham International etc. Sort of a lightweight lattice - which are quite common along the southern stretches of the WCML. There are plenty of similar heavier types too.

That sounds like Quinton Rd Sidings (on the Leamington line) rather than Coventry Yard (Nuneaton line).