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 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 .....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 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



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.... 

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;

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!

I have a copy of the 1950 Rule Book Extractions, a gold painted TPWS aerial cover and a loco controller key.