I'm popping over to the KWVR this Friday (half term running) and intend to look in on the VCT archive/back sales shop at Ingrow. If anyone wants me to check out any Backtracks (see above link to Pendragon publishing for a fantastic detailed index) or anything else for that matter, I'm happy to oblige.
As usual there will be a CAMRA award winning real ale buffet on train, but I will check the journals first LOL.
Incidentally that index looks a bit daunting at first, but reading the opening page (yes, I always dived into the Airfix kit and then read the instructions when I couldn't get a bit to fit!) the codes mean Volume number and page over the year, and an asterisk means means mainy a photo or photo feature...geddit!
Jim
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Well...that's generated a lot of interest! No matter. Apropos my comment on the Ranskill military set-up East of the ECML: see above, it appears that it was very much there...both goods and passenger (well workers trains).
I was looking on the LNER site researching D10 ex GC locos, another story, and mention was made of several reserved for the Langwith to Ranskill ROF (royal ordnance factory) for workers trains.
So onto
www.oldmaps.co.uk the 1948 version of the 6 inch map...search for Ranskill and lo...the fan of sidings, a triangle off the ECML, just South of Ranskill, and a branch to the two passenger platforms with central release road. Of course there should be no photographs anywhere other than military ones I guess, but I wonder if any exist around the dismantling. I will post further on the LNER site. By it's very nature it was short lived...probably 1940/1 to end of war. Indeed a piece of the map has been revived and the workers station has gone.
This really is a rich thread of an idea from Kernowfem.
Incidetally the D10s were the forerunner of the more successful D11s (Directors) with wonderful names like Purdon Viccars and Walter Burgh Gair. I assume these were indeed GC directors! They would be designed by John G Robinson...I finally found a delightful book of line drawings and photographs called 'the Harmonious Blacksmith' by AC Hancox...all a bit exotic I'm afraid. I only wanted a side elevation of an LNER J63 (designed by Robinson) but that's another story. So did our man Robinson ever have a locomotive named after himself?
Happy researching, Jim