For those who decide to dig a little deeper Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:19:34 +0000 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:19:34 +0000 Platform1mrc.com http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?forums/research-archival-materials.123/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:37:01 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/training-video.6981/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/training-video.6981/ invalid@example.com (Ron) Ron Interesting to learn of all the signalling, speed restrictions and general lineside stuff.
]]> 1 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:43:01 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/dereham-norfolk.6961/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/dereham-norfolk.6961/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth Dereham (East Dereham) Station, Norfolk

An article in the magazine Railway Bylines, in the September 2002 edition written by Orson Carter prompted a look at the railway system in Dereham Norfolk. [1]

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/05/31/derehameast-dereham-station-norfolk/]]> Fri, 23 May 2025 17:50:48 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/kings-cross-and-st-pancras-railway-stations.6950/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/kings-cross-and-st-pancras-railway-stations.6950/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth King’s Cross and St. Pancras Railway Stations: Renaissance 1990 to 2025

In June 1990, The Railway Magazine issued a supplement entitled ‘King’s Cross Renaissance: The History, Development and Future of Two Great Stations’ by P. W. B. Semmens MA, CChem, FRSC, MBCS, MCIT.

Semmens introduces the supplement by highlighting first the 1846 ‘Royal Commission on Railway Termini Within or in the Immediate Vicinity of the Metropolis’ which recommended that “surface railways...

King's Cross and St. Pancras Railway Stations. ...]]> Tue, 13 May 2025 19:27:35 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/san-sebastian-spain-and-niagara-falls.6945/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/san-sebastian-spain-and-niagara-falls.6945/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth San Sebastian’s Urban Tramway, Funicular and Aerocar, and the ‘Spanish Aerocar’ at Niagara Falls.

A variety of different forms of transportation in and around San Sebastian in Spain and an interesting link with Niagara Falls!

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/03/2...car-and-the-spanish-aerocar-at-niagara-falls/]]> Thu, 01 May 2025 19:30:14 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-mother-of-all-inventions.6932/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-mother-of-all-inventions.6932/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth
History does not make it easy to take out one example from a steady continuum of change. ... There have been tracks or plateways since Roman times. You might say that these could be brought within the term railway and therefore the Romans invented the railway.

Except there were railways of a sort, at least as far back at 600 BCE, possibly going back even further, maybe as far back as 1000...

The Mother of All Inventions?]]> 7 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:45:46 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/weathering-help.6901/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/weathering-help.6901/ invalid@example.com (Ron) Ron ]]> Wed, 23 Aug 2023 21:15:12 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/a-highland-journey-1957.6445/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/a-highland-journey-1957.6445/ invalid@example.com (paul_l) paul_l


Paul]]> 1 Mon, 16 May 2022 03:49:50 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/pennsylvanian-railway-film-the-16mm-railroad-movies-of-john-m-prophet-iii.6030/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/pennsylvanian-railway-film-the-16mm-railroad-movies-of-john-m-prophet-iii.6030/ invalid@example.com (Gary) Gary
Filmed from late 1936 onward, John M. Prophet has caught some stunning footage from both track side and from on the trains. I expected a fair amount of jerky footage from riding the trains, but John knew what he was doing. As you could imagine, the film sequences are not that long, due to the film camera technologies of the 1930's, but you will...

Pennsylvanian Railway Film : The 16mm Railroad Movies of John M. Prophet III]]> Mon, 30 Aug 2021 08:00:04 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/vintage-railway-film-colour-from-the-60s.5662/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/vintage-railway-film-colour-from-the-60s.5662/ invalid@example.com (paul_l) paul_l
Vintage railway film - Second report on modernisation - 1961



Vintage railway film - Under the wires - 1965



Vintage railway film - Freight and a city - 1966



Vintage railway film - Forward to First Principles - 1966



Paul]]> 1 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:40:47 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/br-signaling.5505/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/br-signaling.5505/ invalid@example.com (paul_l) paul_l An area of modelling I am severly lacking in knowledge of. You mean they actually move



I have to admit I have bought a couple of books on semaphore and colour light signaling for modellers, and don't be silly of course I've not read them yet

Paul]]> 2 Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:53:56 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/info-sought-on-the-oxford-to-princes-risborough-line.5145/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/info-sought-on-the-oxford-to-princes-risborough-line.5145/ invalid@example.com (Tallpaul70) Tallpaul70
I have the R A Cooke section 27 plans, the Middleton Press book and the Richard Lingard Book, plus all the GWJs. o what I am after is the more obscure magazine articles and personal memories?

Any help will be much appreciated
Many thanks

Paul]]> 1 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:42:56 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-signal-engineers.4958/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-signal-engineers.4958/ invalid@example.com (Kimbo) Kimbo ]]> Sun, 19 Apr 2020 11:53:57 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/neil-parkhouse-british-railway-history-in-colour.4802/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/neil-parkhouse-british-railway-history-in-colour.4802/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/04/1...l-parkhouse-british-railway-history-in-colour]]> 2 Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:31:52 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/colette-hooper-railways-of-the-great-war-with-michael-portillo.4756/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/colette-hooper-railways-of-the-great-war-with-michael-portillo.4756/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth Recently I picked up a new copy of this book for less than would have been the price of a railway magazine at the newsagent. I have been enjoying reading it. ..........

This is a short review. .......

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/03/30/railways-of-the-great-war-book-review ]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:20:29 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/western-region-1960-2-fishy-operating-questions.4751/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/western-region-1960-2-fishy-operating-questions.4751/ invalid@example.com (Tallpaul70) Tallpaul70 This all relates to the WR out of Paddington in 1960/2:-

First Topic
There was around 0740 a train that left Reading hauled by a 57xx taking fish vans along the line to stations between Reading and Slough.
The Fish was a class C, so I am assuming it had a Passenger Brake Van rather than a...

Western Region 1960/2 Fishy Operating Questions]]> 1 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:15:44 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/british-railways-in-1948.4530/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/british-railways-in-1948.4530/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth I have recently purchased the six copies of The Railway Magazine which were issued in 1948. The first of these coincides with the formation of British Railways, and the January/February 1948 issue of the magazine highlights for the readers a little of the history of railways in Britain which led up to that momentous occasion. The linked article below builds on the article in The Railway Magazine....

British Railways in 1948]]> 2 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:52:17 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/unusual-locomotives-and-railcars.4594/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/unusual-locomotives-and-railcars.4594/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth
Across the British railway network, and particularly on some of the light railways which sprang to life after the Light Railways Act 1896, there were a number of unusual locomotives and railcars.

This article focusses on two locomotives - Gazelle and Old Chainey.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/01/02/unusual-small-locomotives-and-railcars-part-1]]> 5 Sun, 13 Oct 2019 08:00:48 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/signals-in-the-maidenhead-area-c1992.4430/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/signals-in-the-maidenhead-area-c1992.4430/ invalid@example.com (Tallpaul70) Tallpaul70 Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of the signaling diagram for the Maidenhead area c1992?

I Know that by then there was no Maidenhead box and control would have been from either Slough or Reading Power Boxs (not sure which?).

Many thanks
Paul]]> 5 Sun, 05 May 2019 21:49:24 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-sheffield-ashton-under-lyne-and-manchester-railway.4143/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-sheffield-ashton-under-lyne-and-manchester-railway.4143/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth
This is a very short reflection on how the struggles of this smaller company ultimately left the Great Central Railway with its own financial struggles!

It may not be without controversy.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/05/04/the-sheffield-ashton-under-lyne-and-manchester-railway-4]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:34:14 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/sheds-around-britain.3944/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/sheds-around-britain.3944/ invalid@example.com (Ron) Ron Worth a look..

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