What real life railway items do you own?

[H]

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. 

H.

[EtchedPixels]

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. 

H.

Probably a bus pass...

[Newportnobby]

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. 

H.

Probably a bus pass...

[H]

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.

[60163]

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 

[CAMBRIAN DRIVER DAVE]

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 

[1936ace]

 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

[bluedepot]

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

[hairygit]

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

[Newportnobby]

Nice find!
Hope your restoration goes well

[guest1128]

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

[Bad Raven]

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.

[OwL]

 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

[Jonathan Clapp]

dozens of brass uniform buttons collected over decades.
A few British ones

this one from Norway

and the rest  mostly northeastern US and Canada

a few western roads


lots more

[Newportnobby]

Hey Jonathan
Long time, no hear. Did you ever get that loco going??

All the best
NN