User:Tudorminstrel

Tudor Minstrel was a thoroughbred race horse foaled in 1944. With well known parentage it became Britain's top 2-year old colt in 1946 and won the 2000 Guineas, with Sir Gordon Richards as jockey as a 3-year old. It failed to win The Derby it was said due to the extra distance involved but that still made it good enough to be one of the horses chosen to have its name confered on a steam locomotive. The L.N.E.R. 4-6-2 Class A2, designed by A.H. Peppercorn, were given names of race horses, like the Gresley A3 class before them and No. 528 was allocated "Tudor Minstrel". It was not, however, outshopped from Doncaster Plant until British Railways days and carried the number 60528.

A bit more of me...... Born and bred in the former West Riding of Yorkshire in a coal mining and steel producing community, joining the staff of a Sheffield steelmakers and engineers after leaving school. Having been made redundant three times as the Sheffield steel industry disappeared beneath my feet I kept working and I am now a well-established freelance tour manager working in many countries in Europe.

I have been interested in railways from my early teens and I have developed a strong historical base and a small collection of items relating to the subject which I have made available to locally based authors over the years.

Creator of
These are articles I have profoundly modified, edited from embryonic stub status or simply created a new entry:

Local Industrial interest:
 * Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company
 * Birley Collieries
 * Brookhouse Colliery
 * Denaby Main Colliery Village
 * Edgar Allen and Company
 * Elsecar Ironworks
 * Firth Brown Steels
 * Jessop Saville & Company
 * Kilnhurst Colliery
 * Kiveton Park Colliery
 * Maltby Main Colliery
 * Markham & Co.
 * Milton Ironworks
 * New Stubbin Colliery
 * Newton, Chambers & Company
 * North Staveley Colliery
 * Orgreave Colliery
 * Park Gate Iron and Steel Company
 * Rother Vale Collieries
 * Rotherham Main Colliery
 * Shireoaks Colliery
 * Staveley Coal and Iron Company
 * Steel, Peech and Tozer
 * Thurcroft Colliery
 * Tinsley Park Collieries
 * United Steel Companies
 * Waleswood Colliery

British Railway Interest:
 * Anston railway station
 * Attercliffe Station
 * Barnby Dun railway station
 * Barnsley Court House railway station
 * Bentley Crossing Halt
 * Birdwell & Hoyland Common railway station
 * Bramwith (WR&G) station
 * Bramwith railway station
 * Bridgehouses railway station
 * Broughton Lane Station
 * Catcliffe Station
 * Deepcar Station
 * Denaby and Conisbrough railway station
 * Denaby railway halt
 * Dinnington and Laughton railway station
 * Dovecliffe railway station
 * Dunford Bridge station
 * Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway station
 * Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway
 * Ecclesfield East railway station
 * Edlington Halt
 * Finningley railway station
 * Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe Halt
 * Great Central and Midland Joint Railway
 * Great Houghton Halt
 * Grimethorpe Halt
 * Grimsby (Corporation Bridge) electric railway station
 * Hampole railway station
 * Harlington Halt
 * Hazelhead station
 * Hickleton and Thurnscoe Halt
 * High Royds railway station
 * The Hull & South Yorkshire Extension Railway
 * Immingham Dock electric railway station
 * Immingham Town electric railway station
 * John Brown's Private Railway
 * Kilnhurst Central railway station
 * Kiveton Bridge railway station
 * Maud's Bridge halt
 * Mexborough (Ferry Boat) Halt
 * Moorhouse and South Elmsall Halt
 * Neepsend Station
 * Nunnery engine shed
 * Orgreave Colliery platform
 * Orgreave Paddy Mail accident
 * Paddy Mails
 * Parkgate & Aldwarke railway station
 * Parkgate and Rawmarsh railway station
 * Pickburn and Brodsworth railway station
 * Rotherham Road railway station
 * Rotherham Westgate Station
 * The South Yorkshire Junction Railway
 * Sprotborough (H&B) railway halt
 * Sprotborough (SYR) railway station
 * Staincross and Mapplewell railway station
 * Stairfoot railway station
 * Stocksbridge platform
 * Stocksbridge Railway
 * Swinton Central railway station
 * Swinton Town railway station
 * Thrybergh Tins
 * Tickhill & Wadworth railway station
 * Tinsley engine shed
 * Tinsley Station
 * Treeton railway station
 * Waleswood railway station
 * Wath engine shed
 * Westwood railway station
 * Woodhouse Mill railway station
 * Wortley railway station

Irish Railway Interest: Steam: Diesel:
 * BNCR Class A1
 * CLR Class DN2
 * DNGR Locomotives
 * GSWRI Class J30
 * MGWR Class D16
 * MGWR Class J5
 * NCC Class U2
 * NCC Class Y
 * SLNCR Lough Class
 * SSR Class DN4
 * SSR Class DN5
 * TCR Class K5
 * TCR Class L6
 * TDR Class KN1
 * TDR Class KN2
 * TDR Class PN2
 * GNRI AEC Class
 * UTA 70 Class
 * NIR 80 Class
 * UTA AEC
 * UTA MED
 * UTA MPD

Swiss Railway Interest
 * Chemin de fer Aigle-Ollon-Monthey
 * Chemin de fer Aigle-Ollon-Monthey-Champéry
 * Chemin de fer Bex-Villars-Bretaye
 * Chemin de fer Bière-Apples-Morges
 * Chemin de fer du Jura (English)
 * Chemin de fer Monthey-Champéry-Morgins
 * Chemin de fer de Montreux-Glion-Rochers-de-Naye
 * Chemin de fer Montreux-Glion
 * Chemin de fer funiculaire Territet-Glion
 * Métro Lausanne-Ouchy
 * Chemin de fer Nyon-St-Cergue-Morez
 * Rhône Express Regional
 * Schynige Platte Bahn
 * Transports publics Fribourgeois
 * Transports Publics du Chablais

Canal Interest:
 * Greasbrough Canal

Road Transport:
 * Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company

Contributor to:
These are articles to which I have substantially contributed:
 * Aldwarke Junction
 * Berner Oberland Bahn
 * Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn
 * Conisbrough railway station
 * Grange Lane Station
 * Mexborough railway station
 * Montreux-Oberland Bernois-Bahn
 * Neepsend engine shed
 * Penistone rail crash
 * Rawmarsh
 * Rotherham Central railway station
 * Samuel Fox and Company
 * Sheffield Canal
 * Sheffield District Railway
 * Silverwood Colliery
 * Swinton (South Yorkshire) railway station
 * Treeton Colliery
 * West Tinsley Station
 * Woodhouse railway station