Hi everybodyI’m building a OO gauge model of Fenny Compton and Clifford Sidings over here in Belgium.Quite a strange idea but so be it…In view of this I plan to transform a RTR Beatie Well Tank into SMJR N° 5 the 2-4-0T and use some etchings for the…Continue
Started by Jack Freuville. Last reply by Simon Dunkley Mar 17.
I took my grandson to the National Railway Museum on Dec. 30th and noticed two bench seats, of the type found on station platforms until traditional stations were replaced with bus-shelters. Both bear the title " STRATFORD " - I'll try and upload…Continue
Started by Paul Atherton. Last reply by Simon Dunkley Feb 22.
I hear there has been more building at the station site in Towcester.Anyone know what they've dug up?…Continue
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Started by Andy Thompson. Last reply by Nigel Nov 7, 2024.
Broom History Group will be holding an event at Broom Village Hall 2-4pm on 9th November 2024 including a film on the railway and Broom Junction.…Continue
Started by Simon Stevens Oct 25, 2024.
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The Industrial Railway Society was founded in 1949 as the Birmingham Locomotive Club - Industrial Locomotive Information Section. The Society is the leading organization in the United Kingdom devoted to the study of all aspects, and all gauges, of privately owned industrial railways and locomotives, both at home and overseas. Collieries, opencast coal pits, steel works, gas works, peat bogs, Ministry of Defence depots, engineering works, docks, electric power stations, etc., are all covered by the Society. Also details of various railway preservation groups and their locomotives, etc.Thanks for their help with this section. |
(Northamptonshire Ironstone Co Ltd until 1928)
The Quarries were situated to the north of the village of Byield.
The quarries had a standard guage railway system which ran south to
a connection with the Stratford Upon Avon & Midland Junction
Railway/LMS about half a mile west of Byfield station. Production
started in 1915 but ran only until 1925, to be started once more in
1928, running up until final closure on the 12 th of February,
1965. Upon closure all the equipment was dismantled and the
workings systematically erased from the landscape, so much so as it
is hard to find any evidence as I type (December 2008)
Legend:
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‘Sir Berkeley’ is, of course, preserved by the Vintage Carriage Trust, and currently (2017) operating on the wonderful Middleton Railway.
This line and the quarry closed when I was 2 days old, and came home from “The Barratt”. I am told it was snowing, so we also know about the weather that day!
Simon (“born in the Barratt”) Dunkley
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