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    Rail strikes - Not the current ones - mid 1950s

    OK must have been 1955 and my parents took an early summer holiday I seem to remember going by car. We lived in Leyton and the only bit I remember is the Blackwall tunnel. The return was by coach and remember Victoria coach station. I have memories of the standard gauge at New Romney and or...
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    Rail strikes - Not the current ones - mid 1950s

    I am just wondering if may parents would have taken a summer holiday that early in the summer. I suppose it might have been possible. I know we went to North Norfolk in 1958. We had a holiday in Folkstone which for some reason I thought was 1956 but nothing to confirm this. I am assuming the...
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    Rail strikes - Not the current ones - mid 1950s

    I am trying to find the dates of a British Railways strike in the summer of the mid 1950s. I am actually trying to collate where the family holidays were in which years and I know one year we went to a holiday in Dymchurch or Littlestone Kent and we had to go by coach. I thought the big rail...
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    Railway film locations

    Salisbury was the only place that I could think of but doubted it for two reasons. On the actual film there a standard 4 or 5 entering the tunnel at very high speed and the N15 exiting the tunnel again a very high speed. The tunnel is too close to Salisbury station I would have thought to be...
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    Railway film locations

    Talking pictures has shown the Scotland Yard episode The White Cliffs Mystery again which has a lot of railway shots but where is the tunnel and the through station. You can see it here https://railwaymoviedatabase.com/the-white-cliffs-mystery/ The author is equally mystified. A tunnel like that...
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    Lower quadrant signals

    Proper GW lower quadrants in todays film capture 16 https://www.reelstreets.com/films/man-in-the-moon/ Also two shots or GW engines and a Fairburn tank on a Marylebone train at Denham.
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    Harefield Road West Ruislip bridge bashes

    They may well do but if the lorry drivers will persist in driving according to their SATNAV no amount making a dedicated route will have any affect.
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    Harefield Road West Ruislip bridge bashes

    "There was a proposed Harefield Road tube station approximately on the site of (South) Harefield Halt," They must at one time have been planning some large housing estates as there is nothing there now. Might have been the underground's shortist lived station.
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    Closed lines you have travelled on.

    A few lines I can remember going on. Mundesley to North Walsham including DMU and steam through to Liverpool Street. Weymouth Harbour. Stratford to North Woolwich with steam. Still open but connecting to the Palace Gates line, Leyton Midland Road to Noel Park. I assume there was a change at...
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    Harefield Road West Ruislip bridge bashes

    This article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-63636260 on the BBC refers to Harefield Road in West Ruislip receiving 12 stikes but were is the bridge? The nearest Harefield Roads to West Ruislip are in Rickmansworth and Uxbridge and no where near any railways. Checking the...
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    Lower quadrant signals

    Isn't the Dudden Hill Line from Acton to Cricklewood semiphores?
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    Lower quadrant signals

    I just been watching the film Crow Hollow released in 1952 so early British Railways era. There is a shot of a woman catching a train at Gomshall and Shere station which on on the Guildford to Dorking line. Before seeing the train or the station name a lower quadrant signal is seen in the...
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    Union of South Africa

    I came ho me early in daylight and saw 60009 Union of South Africa minus tender at Watford Junc. There also looked like a low loader there. I saw on the internet that 60009 failed at Wolverton on the 22 Nov. A little surprised it couldn't be moved out at Bletchley. When was 60009 moved down to...

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