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So what - if any - of the items sold here might you have been tempted to buy?

I can;t afford the cabside numbers or name plates, but I might have been tempted by this for £240

BR(E) FF Enamel Railway Sign WAITING ROOM


I couldn't afford it but this is lovely

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I'd love to own a GWR becn too....

July 2020 Railwayana Auction Results

G.W.Railwayana Auctions auction Catalogue July 2020: The leading UK based Railwayana auctioneers, Find the following railway items in this catalogue: Steam locomotive items, including nameplates, worksplates, Station totem signs, key tokens, Railway Posters.
www.gwra.co.uk www.gwra.co.uk
 
I'ld love some of that memorabilia ...

But can't really afford the really good stuff - there are some nice copies about as well as some dire fakes !
What annoys me is people "passing off" fakes, if it is a copy, say so ...
 
Bit of news

A railway station has welcomed its first passengers for 54 years amid plans to reopen the line to commuters.

The South Western Railway (SWR) service called at Marchwood, Hampshire, part of the Waterside line which closed to regular passengers in 1966.

Rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris, who was on board, said the line had a "very strong case" to be revived.

Hampshire County Council is due to complete a business case for the project by November.
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The minister, Mr Heaton-Harris, said: "We've just proved that a train can run down it. It's got an existing track - very strong case - that makes it actually much cheaper to deliver."

The Three Rivers Rail Partnership, which has led efforts to revive the line, said necessary upgrades could cost £45m, including new level crossings and signals and a new terminus station at Fawley.

The six-mile (10km) branch line originally opened on the edge of the New Forest in 1925.

It was last used by Fawley oil refinery in 2017 and carries occasional freight to and from Marchwood Military Port.
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www.bbc.co.uk

Marchwood station welcomes first passengers for 54 years

A train calls at Marchwood to promote the possible revival of a branch line.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
mx wcfc said:
Anyone want to buy a train?

www.southwesternrailway.com

After more than 80 years of service Island Lines trains ready to retire

www.southwesternrailway.com www.southwesternrailway.com
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They must get right pissed off with always getting castoffs. Their 'new' trains date from the 70s and 80s! (*albeit refurbished)

The British Rail Class 484 is a class of electric multiple unit which is to be built by rolling stock manufacturer Vivarail for the Island Line on the Isle of Wight. The units will be converted from London Underground D78 Stock, originally manufactured in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Metro-Cammell.

en.wikipedia.org

British Rail Class 484 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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i was intending to go to the IoW some time this year, i've not been since they modernised it (with the 1938 underground trains) - it was still the 1920s version then...
 
Good work campaigners!

A delightful country station dating from the golden decade of railway building and used in the filming of Dad’s Army has received a reprieve from imminent demolition.

A High Court order issued today quashed the decision by Breckland District Council to allow the demolition of the 1845 station building at Brandon on the Cambridge to Norwich line. This follows judicial review proceedings launched by SAVE Britain’s Heritage seeking the quashing of the Council’s decision.

The Council had issued a lawful development certificate which said that Greater Anglia could construct a new car park under the railway permitted development rights. The Council accepted that they had failed to apply the legal test for what was railway land and overlooked SAVE’s representations.

In its response to the legal challenge the Council consented to the quashing of the certificate. Greater Anglia did not resist the Court order.

SAVE will now work with the Suffolk Building Preservation Trust on new plans for repairing this historic station and bringing it back to use. A listing application has also been submitted to Historic England - supported by SAVE - and we are expecting a recommendation imminently.
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Brandon Station (Credit: Breckland Society)



 
agricola said:
Great news, though its kind of mad that a station dating from 1845 wasn't already listed.
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Network Rail are on a continuous rampage of demolishing historic signalboxes and various other stuff :(

As far as I understand it, they have virtually no protection unless listed, due to buildings on "railway land" having a special status under planning rules.

Just recently both of the ones at Newhaven

rail-record.co.uk

Updated: Newhaven Signal Boxes to be Demolished This Month - Rail Record

Newhaven Signal Boxes Demolished Newhaven Harbour signal box was demolished in March 2020. Newhaven Town signal box is scheduled for demolition Saturd
rail-record.co.uk rail-record.co.uk
 
A lot of heritage railways are doing ‘train of light’ events now, it’s a good earner, alongside Santa specials (which normally run earlier in the day). Ok as long as trackside vegetation is trimmed back enough so it doesn’t catch the lights and pull them off, I know of some lines (including NR ones) where branches literally brush along the side of the carriages!
 
editor said:
Wen Gregory Peck and Sofia Loren came to Crumlin!



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the destruction of Crumlin (and other large viaducts such as Belah) just seems like monumental cultural vandalism now. Incredible structures.

I guess one day we might look back and say the same about landmark cooling towers at power stations, they’ll all be gone soon yet dominated the landscape even more than railway structures.
 
Some of us are already saying that about various early modern reinforced concrete structures and buildings.
 
teuchter said:
Some of us are already saying that about various early modern reinforced concrete structures and buildings.
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Some in railway terms already listed - Bham New Street Signal Box , Coventry station , post war waiting shelter at Stonebridge Park.
 
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