I've just joined this list after an enjoyable ride on the line on Bank Holiday Monday. (Membership application for CRS will be in the post this Monday). ...
There is currently a photograph of Maespoeth Junction, dated May 1940, up for auction on e-bay. It was taken in the immediate vacinity of the points (turnout?)...
Steve - I concur that the photographer must have been part-way up the signal post to manage that angle. I think the signals probably went during the WW2 scrap...
Richard/Steve I have a copy of the same photograph. Mine is a modern print. On the back it says 20/5/40 Copyright G Harrop. So it could be the last fling of...
Hi Kelvin, welcome to Corris-Discuss and to the Society. The brief for No.7 was to make her similar in appearance to No.4, but not an exact replica;...
...someone with the e-mail address Paullad2007@... ? Or recognise who it might be ? He has applied to join this group but not provided any info on his...
unknown to me RSa ... From: rgcorris To: corris-discuss@... Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:30 PM Subject: [corris-discuss] Does anyone...
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I am not sure whether it is a trick of perspective due to the angle of the photo, but the site of the Upper Corris turnout looks to have been at least one...
Richard Thanks for your comprehensive reply, compatabilty with the Talylynn is very sensible. I do note that you have had to surmise the function of the ...
... A quick search turns up two paullad2007's: "Hi am a collector of Archangel Models 16mm narrow gauge (sm32) models and wonder if anyone has any literature...
Kelvin - for some reason the modelmakers do not bother to advise us when they put a new Corris model on the market - odd really, as we would happily put a note...
Thanks Ian. He has now provided further information on his railway interests and been admitted to the group. Richard ... models ... dispose ... looking...
Richard, I have posted a couple of photographs taken of Maespoeth Junction in the vacinity of the turnout to the Upper Corris Tramway, taken from the south. ...
I am fairly sure the one showing the signal post was taken on the same date in May 1940 as the one recently on e-bay - probably immediately before the...
Hi wud just like to say hello to everyone and thankyou for being allowed to join, keep meaning to visit the line but as i live in manchester and dont drive, i...
That signal had a timber post didn't it? There are two scenarios - either the post was pulled out of the ground during the recovery process and the hole...
After the railway closed that section of the trackbed was dug up in the 1950s to install a water main, and as I mentioned, we have done a lot of earthmoving in...
Hi Richard, the signal in the photograph appears to be upper quadrant - I am very surprised at that. Was this true for all the signalling on the Corris do you ...
New photos on www.corris.co.uk show the erection of the steelwork for Phase 2 (the southern end) at the weekend (anyone who was present like to post a brief...
I was there for the Saturday, as the photos show, and we managed to raise quite a respectable crew for a short notice callout. The photos on the main site...
Steve, there was an article on the signalling in the Journal a few years back, by Mark "MRFS" Stevenson of the Talyllyn. I don't have my copy in London so...
Thanks, Richard, I would be very interested in reading the article - if anyone out there knows which edition of corris-pondent has it in I'd appreciate...
Not the Corris-Pondent, Steve, the annual Journal - currently in abeyance due to lack of contributions, but copies of back-issues are on sale in the Museum. ...
Hi Steve, Try the CRS Journal 2000 pp16 - 23 'Corris Railway Signalling' PART 1 Corris & Maespoeth by 'Mark Stevenson' (I have enquired about the PART 2, but...
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Hi No worries! But bring your anorak this time-maybe chilly! Nigel Nigel Bird (Railway Bookdealer) www.nigelbirdbooks.co.uk OVER 4000 books listed. email...
Public Transport To Corris is surprisingly easy Manchester-Shrewsbury-Machynlleth by train. Bus Mach-Corris (or a really pleasant walk-I have done it one way...
