User talk:Born Acorn

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Welcome for me as well. Your edits are of very good quality but I have the gravest doubts about Wrexham Shropshire and Marylebone Railway. Please provide some evidence. -- RHaworth 23:03, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah yes. Here it is BBC News. Originally the information was only in the Local newspaper but was featured on national (Welsh) news channels last night. Born Acorn 12:28, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Well done! -- RHaworth 21:08, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Hiya
Hi, As the other (known) person from Yale i just wanted to say hi before they block our IP. If so i guess we'll just have to use a different proxy server. Anyway see ya round the wikiverse. Pydos 15:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Pigeons
Don't you agree? orudge 20:04, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I do not. Born Acorn 10:10, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Keep on editing
Keep on editing. --RCT Locomotion Wikipedia 21:05, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Wrexham and Minera Branch
Hi Born Acorn

Although I hesitate to disagree with one living on the spot, you might like to see my comments on the talk page of the article. My first point is that this was actually a railway (the Wrexham and Minera Railway) and not a branch, although it did of course become such when the GWR took it over, I agree. The Ian Allen Pre-Grouping Atlas show the area to be a very complicated one, rail-wise, and am Ordnance Survey map (1947 issue) I have of the area makes that even clearer. The trackbeds are all visible on the modern maps (I used streetmap).

The records I have quoted make it clear that it wasn't just a single track, but one of two branches - the Minera line to the southwest (which became completely GWR-owned) and the joint line north towards Mold and its triangular junction at Coed Talon. The latter was only joint as far as Llanfynydd, as I say in my note. On the Minera branch, the stopping places were - Plas Power, Brymbo and Coed Poeth excepted which were a full stations - halts and were, in order from Wrexham:
 * Gatewen Halt
 * Pentre Broughton Halt
 * Plas Power
 * The Lodge Halt
 * Brymbo
 * ''here was the junction for the joint line, the stations on which were:
 * Ffrith
 * Llanfynydd
 * the Minerva branch:
 * Brymbo West Crossing Halt
 * Pentresaeson Halt
 * Coed Poeth
 * Vicarage Crossing Halt
 * Berwig Halt

I have a note that passenger traffic was withdrawn from Croesnewydd (?) to Berwig Halt on 1 January 1931.Much of what I say above is taken from,the fact that I have a large collection of Railway Magazine (1921- 1972). I obviously copied out a map of the W&MR in one of the articles, but omitted to give its origin!

I hope you can agree that the article doesn't quite follow the history I have outlined! Regards Peter Shearan 13:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, yes. You'll have to excuse me, I was a complete wikinoob at the time (only 7 months ago too!) and just thought it would be *cool* to add the information I knew as a stub. I ended up adding some random tidbits I found, and the article became more of a mess than anything else. It should be fully re-written with all the information in the article that I dug out of local history books I found lying around the house. Born Acorn 00:25, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

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I am a webmaster a ferry site. I was wondering if I could have permission to use your image File:Mvbarfleur.jpg in my site. Many thanks 2013harry 13:09, 8 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2013harry (talk • contribs)

Hi, yes this is absolutely fine! Born Acorn (talk) 20:39, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks 2013harry 09:46, 9 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2013harry (talk • contribs)

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