Recent content by Trackbedjolly

OK, thanks for the useful replies.

I was doing a newspaper search for Railway Inns and a result was an article dated 21st November 1829 reported in the London Evening Standard taken from the Plymouth Journal. In the article there is a reference to 'the Railway Inn on the Exeter-road' Was there any railway in Plymouth at that...

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As usual with railway history it all comes down to definitions; what is the definition of a fish-train? Were there not 'fish trains' coming from the ports of Fraserburgh and Peterhead in the 1860s onwards where the whole train was composed of fish waggons? As regards the Oxford Companion it is...

I have found a possible younger station master or Station Agent as they were called in the 1860s. A 'man' called James Salter was employed by the Deeside Railway Company as a Railway Agent's Assistant or Clerk. This information comes from the 1861 Census where his age is given as 13. In 1863 the...

It is not really possible to tell what the ballast condition is like from looking at the top surface. The need to replace or clean ballast is done by checking the condition below the sleepers. It is obvious that there is a drainage issue and may be some level of contamination of the ballast in...

Not sure I believe the freight tonnage figures. If 11.8 million tonnes annually is only 0.27% 'of the market' (whatever that means) suggests that 1,863,000,000 tonnes are moved in a year within Vietnam?! This implies that 100tonnes of freight are delivered to its destination every SECOND of...

What I don't understand about this Dalcross Station is why people are trying to call it an airport station. Is the reality not that it is associated with the nearby housing development and as that happens to be somewhere near Inverness Airport it is thereby perceived as an airport station?

Yes that's right on the approach to Aboyne from the east-an embankment was demolished. The road to Torphins B974 has taken over a section just north of the cutting close to Craigour; again this is a straightforward bridging and digging out the infilled cutting. No idea what it would cost...

Can't think of any of it 'under the A93' except the tunnel in Aboyne. The AWPR A90 goes under it in a cutting with no underbridge provided. The station sites at Torphins, Lumphanan and Banchory are where it is built over by housing. Great idea to relieve traffic on the North Deeside Road in...

Apparently the early steam locos and bridges were made of steel-I always thought locos were iron with wooden or iron bridges 'Darlington MP Peter Gibson said: '"Locomotion No.1 is an essential part of our town’s identity, cast in steel on the pillars that hold our railway bridges up...."'...

Not sure where you are but the situation in Scotland is a bit different. Embankments are not as sensitive to periods of drying; the problem is more one of water runoff at track level due to drains being overwhelmed leading to washout and track undercutting. Summer periods of very heavy rains can...

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The reason for undertaking a Ground Investigation is that the proposal is to have passenger trains running on a regular basis; the standards for running passenger trains is very much more onerous than for freight trains. It is important in a mining area that any ground stability issues are...

As I wrote they are used with TBMs Tunnel Boring Machines but they are very specialised items of plant. There could be a space alongside the NG line for excavation but yes there would be a need to move the track across probably more than once during the project lifetime. It needs to be a...