The Railwayana Page

 

 

Webnotes

20 June 2010

Auction commentary updated

 

SRA Derby results commentary added.

 

21 May 2010

Auction commentary updated

 

GCRA Stoneleigh results commentary added.

 

21 March 2010

Auction commentary updated

SRA Derby March results commentary added.

 

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Shift change on the Jixi coal railway system, Heilongjiang, China, March 2010

 

30 January 2010

Auction commentary updated

 

GCRA Stoneleigh results commentary added.

 

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Sormovo plate from a coach or wagon.

 

9 January 2010

Auction commentary updated

 

SRA Derby December results commentary added.

 

Oxenholme "Hawkseye".

 

19 October 2009

Auction commentary updated

 

SRA Derby and GCRA Stoneleigh commentary added.

 

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Thai backwater - the Maeklong Railway's Ban Laem บ้านแหลม terminus, September 2009.

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Wongwianyai วงเวียนใหญ่ station

 

Wongwianyai - Mahachai day return. This section of the Maeklong Railway starts in Bangkok and ends in Mahachai, with a ferry ride across a river to get to the next section at Ban Laem. Sadly the tickets are now computer issued paper format, but the Maeklong railway remains delightfully unspoilt.

 

1 August 2009

Auction commentary updated

SRA Derby and GCRA Stoneleigh commentary added.

 

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Princess Elizabeth at York on 4 July 2009.

 

2 May 2009

Auction commentary updated

 

GCRA Stoneleigh commentary here.

10 April 2009

Auction commentary updated

 

Sheffield commentary added here.

 

SY 2-8-2s at the big opencast mine at Jalainur, Inner Mongolia, March 2009.

 

24 January 2009

Auction commentary updated

 

GCRA Stoneleigh commentary here.

21 December 2008

Auction commentary updated

 

Sheffield commentary added here.

 

My attention has been drawn to a website for model gas turbine enthusiasts (I did not know you could scale these), and there are several images of what appears to be a very decent model of GT3.

 

 

29 November 2008

railwayana.net report added

 

Here.

 

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Woodburning days in Thailand.

 

2 November 2008

Auction commentary updated

 

Here.

 

I was in York briefly last month and popped into the NRM. What struck me was that there were few "glamour" locos there, most of them being on the mainline etc, stored elsewhere, with notable exceptions such as Mallard, and one is left with such stalwarts as Aerolite (representative of what?), Gladstone etc. I find the NRM's attitude of accepting prototypes bizarre, such as "Deltic", the APT and now the prototype HST. The locos that merit a place are surely the ones in everyday service. I can't see why the HST prototype commands a place round the turntable when the Class 52 is relegated to the tent out the back.

 

The display of nameplates is a bit haphazard and a number of them are shall we say, fairly ordinary, although there are of course some very good ones.

 

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3 August 2008

Auction commentary updated

 

Here.

 

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If someone says you look like the side of a tram, it could be a compliment. HK No 22 in a sadly short-lived livery.

 

5 July 2008

Commission bidders beware

This from the terms of a railwayana auction:

 

The Auctioneer has sole discretion (a) to refuse any bid, (b) to advance the bidding as he may decide, (c) to decide whether there has been a dispute as to the bidding and under condition 2 to resell the lot in question, (d) to withdraw or divide any lot or combine one lot with another or others, and (e) to exclude any person from the auction room.

 

18 May 2008

Auction commentary updated

 

Here

 

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Hong Kong Tram 120, May 2008. 120 is in a quasi-"original" condition, with wooden/rattan seats. The Tramway Company always keeps the advertising somewhat restrained on 120 compared with the all over version used on all the others and one can see the basic green livery.

28 January 2008

Stoneleigh commentary

 

Here

22 December 2007

Sheffield commentary

 

Here

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The ex-Kowloon Canton Railway Bagnall which has been shipped to the UK, here seen at the Victorias sugar mill in Negros in the Philippines, 1974.

8 December 2007

Pershore commentary

 

Here.

4 November 2007

Great Central, Stoneleigh commentary

 

Here.

 

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A Neale's ball token instrument in use in October 2007 at Khun Tan, the highest station in Thailand.

 

© Robin J Gibbons

20 June, 2010