I was looking at some of the things I own yesterday, when I thought to myself "I wonder what the others on the forum have?" :)
So, what railway items and memorabilia have you got? ??? Photo's would be good. :camera:
I have 6 wooden sleepers which form the upper tier of my sloping back garden :-\
A small EWS railways TMD direction sign that i picked up at the Great Central Railway's Swap Meet. (£5.50). Nothing special, but means much to me.
Photo to follow soon............ :)
A few years ago I obtained a Main Line 'rolling wheels' transfer at an Old Oak Common open day. Sadly the damp got to it, and this little bit of railway history was so badly damaged that the bin was the only realistic destination for it. :(
Somewhere I also have a 1906 ex-GWR rail chair...a useful - albeit rather heavy - door stop.
Three real life items here, one A glass off the Eurostar train, two a Menu of the same train and third a 2010 Medallion from Queensland Railways 145 Years of Service, nothing exciting though.
At home in Bradford we have a railway bench from Layburn station, various lever clips from various signalboxes and I have an overhead warning plaque stuck up on my wall. Also, becuase my dad has had a fair bit to do with driving lorries for the Ffestiniog we have had various interesting things parked outside on the drive including Palmerston and Moelwyn. We have also had various smaller 2' gauge things on the trailer outside. the latest was a WW1 10hp Baguley and in the past a Greenbat electric loco, a Lister Autotruck, a WHR slate wagon and a couple of V skips.
Beat that!
As far as BR goes, just an old (steam era) BRITISH RAILWAYS sign and a (1990s) LADIES toilets sign.
I don't know if it counts, but I have a few London Underground signs and maps. Charing Cross and Elephant & Castle station fresco name signs. Northern line and Circle line maps form over the doors of tube trains.
They used to all decorate my home before I moved in with my wife. They don't match her decor, apparently. They are now confined to my den where my layout is.
I have a whole bunch of NASA space stuff too, but that's a different and far more geeky forum...
I have a couple of "pandrol" rail clips, but strangely have not seen them since we last moved house. :-\
:Class414:
I have an LNER steam loco head lamp along with a tail lamp and 3 aspect signal hand lamp all in working order
Oh I also have a LMS station lamp from Gringelford station
We also used to have a signalbox block bell in use as a doorbell, but it never worked properly.
When studying in north eastern Germany I had my entire flat stuck with original signs (e.g. semaphore parts) which just had to be rescued from scrapping. This was due a major overhaul of many routes in Rostock Region at that time. However, when moving back west I had to clear out the largest items.
I'm now well concentring on destination plates and maps which are placed in my home throughout, well accepted by my girlfriend, since the only "tiled" wall in the kitchen is made of destination plates. I have a favourite destination on that 1967 original station timetable from my hometown Gelsenkirchen: a direct link from Cologne via Yugoslavia and Athenes to Istanbul, including a through carriage to Teheran, a four day travel.
Finally, I got an amount of DB Netz / Deutsche Bahn Network Rail maps showing the network suitable for goods traffic. Those are quite large (approx. 1x1,5m) and could be ordered free in the late ninetees, so if anyone interested I'd give away two or three of them for a small p&p donation.
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Matthias
Well, I used to own an LMS coffee cup but it got broken whilst moving a few years ago. :(
I also had a pair of 'Southern' enameled signs. But I've no idea where they disappeared to! :o
I do however own a pen keyring from the area that these: :Class414: ran on:
(http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab257/Kilnevan/The%20Workbench/penkeyring.jpg)
I also have a topographical railway item, a map in other words, from the late 1950's of the British Railways network:
(http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab257/Kilnevan/The%20Workbench/railmap1.jpg)
It has the Scottish network on the reverse:
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Thats the total of my collection! :smiley-laughing:
Got quite a few odds and ends, some courtesy of the wonderful Collectors Corner near Euston in BR days. Favourites are a sliding engine-room window from a Class 55 and a BR Corporate era sign for Alexandra Palace. More recently, I was lucky enough to be able to purchase a GNER cast coach crest when the franchise went to NX.
i use to have a piston out of an HST. Which i picked up at crewe works openday.
I have got hold of a book called British Railway Track, Design, Construction and Maintenance and wow its blowing my head away, its full of formula for creating switches, curves etc, I got hold of it when the wifes father passed away many years back, anything to do with rail track and its in there, this book is dated 1947 and the first edition was 1943.
Being a member of the http://www.c58lg.co.uk/ I suppose I tiny% own a class 58? :)
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Just the wagon I'm afraid, I don't think I could cope with a Hawthorn Leslie!
It's an Appleby Frodingham original diagram hopper wagon for anyone interested :)
Paul
An EWS directional sign that I bought at a swapmeet:
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:Class37:
BR cast double arrows and a cast depot plaque, a replica plaque off a 56006 bought at midland railway centre, a plastic panel out of a class 92 cab and Brush traction plate out of same loco, GEC Traction plaque off an EMU i believe, an old BR coat.
Stuart
Various booklets and manuals from BR days and earlier I picked up cheap including a southern railway driving manual for motormen and a wonderful LMS safety booklet. At one point I had a complete service manual for a peak but that went to some folks who look after a real one.
4 x water colours from Mk1 coaches. They used to be mounted above the seats and below the luggage racks if I remember correctly. The water colours were glued to the back of a glass sheet, and I have recently had them framed.
I have an Amtrak Lake Shore Limited train ticket. Does that count?
My house number is a brass 79 number plate from an old railway loco or carriage, it was here when we moved. The previous owner ran a rail travel business and was a bit of a rail buff. On the dining room wall he had a loco nameplate, "The Lady Macbeth", but took it with him.
(He also owns a London Routemaster bus which he gets out once in a while).
Rod
I was an Apprentice at Bristol Bath Road and I've still got all my apprentice log books, tons of HST technical books and a photo with me and every other member of bath road staff, stood in front of 47816 'Bristol Bath Road' at it's naming ceremony just before the depot closed. :'(
Lots of good memorys there - like the time i shorted out a HST power car battery (110v) with a ratchet :o They called me DC after that, but they wouldn't tell me why.... :smiley-laughing:
I have four railway lamps (two large, two small). Three are LMS and one is a BR lamp. All but the BR lamp, which was given to me along with a wagon plate, I bought from antique shops.
Hey all
I have the following:
1) Class 101 (i think) builders plate acquired at a train fair
2) Small English Electric plate that wouls be mounted on the side of a power unit
3) A slightly bent red station wall mounted arrows of indecision recused from a skip outside wilmslow station when one of the staff ripped it off and through in the skip!
4) One of the hardboard Intercity/virgin cross country route maps from the inside of a mk2/3 acquired at a fair for a fiver
5) An 80's BR Tie
6) 60's BR waistcoat, trousers and jacket
I think thats it, although i would love a rear oil taillamp or headlamp at somepoint!
Bye for now
Mike
I have an ashtray from an Intercity 125.
It is right next to my keyboard and gets used everyday.
I have a collection of Railway Wagon plates mostly from the early BR era but I do have an LNER plate from 1937
I HAD two very nice old brass candle lamps until FiL smashed the glass chimneys by leaning a plank against them. :(
Quote from: 1whitemoor on April 26, 2011, 11:44:39 AM
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Just the wagon I'm afraid, I don't think I could cope with a Hawthorn Leslie!
It's an Appleby Frodingham original diagram hopper wagon for anyone interested :)
Paul
That's pretty impressive!
I just have a WR tail lamp, a wagon plate, look out armlet and some replica items.
A piece of the stone pediment from the long since [in about 1970] demolished tank house at Garsdale. Framed and bequeathed in my will ;-((
Ditto a drawer handle from the NER Hawes weighbridge office rescued from the scrap heap when it was being gutted [aka refurbished] in about 2000.
In memoriam, Brian
On holiday in Cornwall, many moons ago, I was walking along an old track bed and found a fishplate nut. Kept it for years, but has now vanished - probably lost in a house move.
My list is pretty endless......When you work on the railway you find alsorts of bits and bobs laying around ;D Im quite a keen collector of Signal I.D. plates. Rugby has not long gone through a re-mod, and when most of the old signals where being cut down i made sure i was around to save some of the I.D. plates. Its all history at the end of the day and they make great decoration in the loft :smiley-laughing:.....I also have 4 6' Semaphore arms (2 Home & 2 Distant) A cast TC Diamond, Cast round top from a LMS round post signal. All these later signal items came from my local branch line in the midlands with permision when the line was being resignalled. Plus quite a few other bits and bobs...
Its all railway history at the end of the day and im just glad to of been there to preserve them rather than just laying in bed knowing what was going on and just letting them go to the scrap heap to be melted down :'(
Cheers all, Anthony
A rather unusual thing to collect - a house brick imprinted with L.N.W.R.Co.Ltd.
Cheers
Howard
Quote from: Howard on November 03, 2011, 11:23:07 AM
A rather unusual thing to collect - a house brick imprinted with L.N.W.R.Co.Ltd.
Cheers
Howard
Hi Howard, and welcome to the forum :wave: That's an unusual relic you have. Do you have any plan for it (like part of a garden wall etc??)
I have a nice Great Western chair (holds the rail to the sleeper), it is dated 1908.
It's amazing that on the current railway you still see chairs with pre-nationalised markings. We have them on Barton Hill.
This builder plate is from Southern Pacific Railroad GP9 3666, later rebuilt and renumbered 3820
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(http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/gp09_photos/3666_sp-gp9-bob_dengler.jpg)
went to scrap in the 1980's.
It's the only builder plate Ive ever owned. Im not collecting them, but the price was right.
I am sooo jealous right now.... :smiley-laughing:
Just me a retired BR relic.
Never really considered collecting real railway items but 'accidentally' via ebay picked up the following!
X3 WW1 North Eastern Railway armbands
North Eastern Railway 'On War Service' WW1 enamel badge
1913 North Eastern Railway Rule Book
1922 North Eastern Railway book of 'code to be used in telegrams upon railway companies' business'
Also have a pre-WW1 (think it's 1913) North Eastern Railway book on handling goods
A few images of the above items;
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I have a few French railway locomotive numberplates. I used to have more but they took up too much space. I also have a number of drivers manuals including for an X3800 'Picasso' conning tower cab railcar. They all came from the SNCF equivalent of Collectors Corner which used to be at Villeneuve St Georges depot in Paris. At the time of one visit we could have purchased a complete bar area taken out of a Trans Europ Express coach, but it wouldn't fit in the car!
I have a Great North Of Scotland Railway enamelled trackside warning sign warning trespassers to keep of the track, which, considering it's age isn't in too bad a condition.
Plus a couple of books dating from the 1940's. The first details the history of the G N o S R and another proposing future uses for the network up here in north east Scotland. A plan scuppered by you know who in the 1960's! :(
:NGaugersRule:
I have a copy of the 1950 Rule Book Extractions, a gold painted TPWS aerial cover and a loco controller key.
As a life long tax payer I probably own a complete train now judging from the amount of subsidies the government still gives the railways. In addition from all the fares paid for train journeys made I must quality for something. :D
H.
Quote from: H on January 22, 2012, 08:40:31 AM
As a life long tax payer I probably own a complete train now judging from the amount of subsidies the government still gives the railways. In addition from all the fares paid for train journeys made I must quality for something. :D
H.
Probably a
bus pass...
Quote from: EtchedPixels on January 22, 2012, 09:27:47 PM
Quote from: H on January 22, 2012, 08:40:31 AM
As a life long tax payer I probably own a complete train now judging from the amount of subsidies the government still gives the railways. In addition from all the fares paid for train journeys made I must quality for something. :D
H.
Probably a bus pass...
:smiley-laughing:
Quote from: EtchedPixels on January 22, 2012, 09:27:47 PM
Probably a bus pass...
Unfortunately not, although if you live in London you get a Freedom pass that allows free travel on buses, trains, trams, tubes and the Docklands light railway. That is worth having.
H.
Sadly, nothing but a rusted rail spike left in a pile of old ballast beside a siding that I took home with me!
As a child I was handed down my late great-grandfather's keys to a long since demolished depot belonging to the Illinois Central railroad, but sadly these were lost many years ago :(
I did have a arriva class 158 but I had to give it up to another driver
Sat in the messroom now waiting for another one lol :smiley-laughing:
Hi I have acquired over the years a working complete banner signal, two ticket stamp machines(make great door stops), a stack of signal phones/timber relay boxes, old 1926 electric train car marker lights, a stack of original builders plates incl the SMR 10class by Beyer Peacock, handbook and blueprints of the sydney underground(its about 8mtr long) and a few other odds and ends
i've got lots of those destination posters they used to stick in the windows of hst coaches.... i've got a gwr tea spoon... i've also got a bus stop if that kind of counts as transport related... got a few destination blinds from buses as well....
anyway i don't collect railwayana as it costs a fortune for any name or makers plates etc etc...
tim
I have just been given a seat from Moretonhampstead station, which was closed in 1958 and is now a haulage yard. I work next door for a small coach company, and having a wander round this morning, saw it on the other side the the chain link fence between our yards, under about 3 feet of weeds and grass. I went next door and asked about it, and the owner said "help yourself!" The wooden planking is rotting badly, but the iron ends (with the GWR roundel cast in them) seem very solid, so I now have to decide whether to clean it gently by hand, or risk getting it gently blasted before repainting it, replacing the wood, and using it as a garden seat :thumbsup:
Nice find! :thumbsup:
Hope your restoration goes well :)
I personally don't own anything from a real railway, but my sister's house is on the site of the old Standon station of the Buntingford branch in Hertfordshire. It seems her house is where they used to store the coal, because she says if she digs deep enough in the garden, she comes across small pieces of coal and coal dust!
Chris
Quote from: Geoff on April 25, 2011, 06:07:39 PM
I have got hold of a book called British Railway Track, Design, Construction and Maintenance and wow its blowing my head away, its full of formula for creating switches, curves etc, I got hold of it when the wifes father passed away many years back, anything to do with rail track and its in there, this book is dated 1947 and the first edition was 1943.
I have a copy of that!
Also, a small section of an abandoned Midland 10T wagon side, and a 1927 era track spike from the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway.
Good job this isn't a bus listing as I'd start in 1906 and go through to 1938 inc 12 complete vehicles, I'd run out of life listing it all.
I own a rail chair that my father salvaged from Vic berry's rail scrap yard before they closed in the early 90's. I now use it as a door stop, I have painted it up to preserve it from rust
dozens of brass uniform buttons collected over decades.
A few British ones
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this one from Norway
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and the rest mostly northeastern US and Canada
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a few western roads
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lots more (http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Jonathan_Clapp/RR%20buttons/)
Hey Jonathan :wave:
Long time, no hear. Did you ever get that loco going??
All the best
NN
Quote from: newportnobby on March 10, 2012, 02:48:24 PM
Hey Jonathan :wave:
Long time, no hear. Did you ever get that loco going??
All the best
NN
Hiya NN, sure did
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she runs just fine, though we must admit, being 1970's technology, somewhat limited compared to more modern models.
The green Lima in front is still waiting for a plan to be formed. I dont have the heart to strip off the New Haven paint job until I have a mechanism for it.
I'll add another button to keep us on topic,
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The BRBL is today the MBTA "Blue Line" which is shown in my avatar.
Let's see;
Bardic,
BR1 key (Used for volunteer turns),
Carriage key (2 off, used for volunteer turns).
Guard's bag (Used for my Signalman's turns),
Various old and current rule books.
Various hi-vis clothing depending on what I'm doing as a volunteer.
BR (Eastern) whistle (Used for volunteer turns),
BR tail lamp,
Signalman's oil lamp,
LNER telegraph pole insulator,
Adlake lamp casing,
Old wooden sleeper in the garden,
Some old chairs (for rails), painted up, also in the garden.
Guard's training notes for various Kent routes.
Uniform for when I'm on duty as a volunteer.
Various bits of Network Rail uniform - most with the logo covered with different logos.
Never realised I had so much ;)
I don't have much at all but picked up a "Rail Spike" a while nicking a small bag of grey ballast beside the track while on holidays last week, needed the ballast for scenery on my new layout.
various lamps, manufacturers plate, some replica (EM1) some real (GM)...
Many documents and uniform items saved from my career from the little black enamel badge I got when i passed to drive 92's to the letter of thank's i got for my part in the Royal Train duty I covered for Princess Diana's funeral.
One of my faves is a full size replica Royal Scot headboard in the dark green tartan pattern i got from a guy in Warrington. Work of art!!
All time favourite is still the big enamel trainload coal badge i got when i worked out of Stoke on Trent depot in the late 1980's/early 90's. Very happy day's!
While walking beside a railway line the other day I got my first piece of real railway stuff a "rail spike", oh well its a start ;D :thumbsup:
I have three steel letter punches spelling G W R!
From the Swindon Railworks, given by an old ex-carriage /coach builder.
;D
And a Gintrap that was used in the roadway outside the sheds for catching rats!
:o
A fishplate from the Woodburn - Bellingham line in Northumberland that I dug up from the trackbed last year. It must have lain there for over 50 years!
Just a senior railcard, me..... ;D
I picked up a couple of rail "ties" whilst visiting the "million gilder" line with my dutch brother-in-law last summer
I picked up these ceremonial plates from EWS: Limited edition fine bone china:
No Greek Parties at my house from now on! :smiley-laughing:
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I only have the one thing I own, Scale drawing of Reddish Depot that was drawn around 1960
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/64/thumb_1118.jpg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1118)
as you can see they planned to add a further 7 sidings between the GCR and the depot buildings.
looking closely at the depot puts the size of it into perspective with the 76 and the Drewry Railcar added for comparison.......
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/64/thumb_1119.jpg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1119)
I'd love to build this one day especially after buying this........
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221004654356#ht_500wt_1287 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221004654356#ht_500wt_1287)
I'd like to know a bit more about the kit though because their was no instructions.
LMS 3 aspect parafin lamp (I wish rubbing it would transport me instantly to the LMS era, on demand) and LMS fitters' conical oil can (smells fantastic when I pull out the bung and stick my nose in it, and the next best thing to being there) :smiley-laughing:
I've got some more artefacts but they are printed and I have stored them flat so carefully that I can't remember what they are!
When I win the lottery jackpot, I'll commission the Stanier 4-6-4 8P streamliner - his design that never got built because the war intervened. Running number 6258 is next and the unused name (due granting of city status only in 1977) has to be "City of Derby" for the obvious reason! I'm sure it would surpass Duchess of Abercorn's record 3333HP output and reclaim for LMSR that certain other record 'borrowed' by LNER for their flying duck ;)
Until then, I'll stick to my 'legal high' of smelling my oil can! ;D I made a conscious decision not to volunteer to help on a preserved railway, otherwise I know it would have taken over my life completely: it's the equivalent of the 'big H'!
Map of the LMS, large size, not sure of sizes exactly.
Am currently looking for a lamp meself, so if anyone knows where to pick one up drop me a PM please. looked at my local scrap yard and they have some lamps but whether they are railway or not im very unsure :-\
You are all making me envious I can only boast two guards whistles one and LNER and a Great Central Railway
Colin
Quote from: Matthew-peter on June 24, 2012, 08:13:13 PM
Map of the LMS, large size, not sure of sizes exactly.
Am currently looking for a lamp meself, so if anyone knows where to pick one up drop me a PM please. looked at my local scrap yard and they have some lamps but whether they are railway or not im very unsure :-\
The 2nd hand/Collectors shops at Didcot Railway Centre have various railway lamps, up to £70 or so each (although they've got cheaper ones if you don't mind fixing broken bits)
Thanks for that, I will try get in touch with them, Im willing to fix them up but if I can buy a non broken one than I may well go for the higher price. Again thanks for the info :)
I've got a few bits of Railwayana:
Distant signal arm
GWR Tail Lamp
Several Railway Ties (Intercity, Midland Mainline, Northern Spirit etc)
Plus a few other odds and sods
Ollie
I have a 1920's LNER railchair, some pandrol clips plus a fishplate to join F/B to Bullhead rail.
Found the fishplate on a footpath along a main road, bit of a slog getting it home!
Restored the chair with black paint and lettering picked out in white.
I used to own a station nameplate of the "hot dog " style from a closed
station, later reopened at great cost a hundred yards from the original.
The sign seemed to go astray a few years ago when I moved.
Perhaps there is a removal man out there who is a railfan.
I did have most of the lever frame Signal labels from Blockley Box In Gloucester, sold a few on and the rest reside in a box in the loft somewhere. I've also got the "Down" Block Instrument and Head Shunt Frame Lever from ex Ashwell Box in Herts.
Got a sleeper in the garden and a GWR toilet sign - think its genuine.
Quote from: buckle247 on September 28, 2012, 03:47:57 PM
Got a sleeper in the garden
There's one in mine but I keep kicking him out :laugh3:
six railway sleepers stopping the patio sliding down the garden
I've got a Slindon wagon plate with my exact birth date on it - from a pipe wagon, I think, plus some Great Western Railway buttons and badges and a lot of tickets from the Culm Valley branch line, (I live near one of the former station sites). I've also got a whole bagful of GWR luggage labels, wagon labels, fare underpayment forms and the suchlike. Not a lot at all!