User talk:Pencefn/Archive06Q3

The Archive of my Talk Page during July, August and September 2006. Archive Index

Partick station image caption
I can understand your willingness to reveal the caption on the picture - but you have to admit the frame within the frame looks a tad ugly - and you can pick it up by hovering over the picture one way or another. Just my point of view - better expressing it here than blindly reverting. Erath 20:58, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the only way to save the caption is to insert a "caption" field into the template infobox, which is an idea used before, for example Template:Infobox Bridge. Of course, that means every version of the template will need such a caption. Erath 21:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I like it. Top drawer work! Erath 22:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:Ffestiniog Railway
Please see my reply to your query on Noel's talk page. Best, Gwernol 12:17, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Please see my response and proposal at same place NoelWalley 13:16, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

:Category:Welsh Highland Railway
Stewart, glad you enjoyed the new category. I think it works well - feel free to add other articles to it as appropriate. I'm jeaslous that you got to spend the weekend working on the railway. Sadly I'm too far away to visit Wales that often. I did manage to make some improvements to various railway-related articles over the weekend though. Best, Gwernol 12:15, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Cae Ednyfed etc
Stewart, thanks for sorting out Minffordd station, I couldn't get the page this morning. I had forgotten that they were not fully formatted (I was a bit new when I tackled Minffordd). Cae Ednyfed was not as far as I can tell a horse passing station but just overnight stabling. Do you have any info on this? About Rhiw Goch, I suspect we ought to do something, a link to the Heritage Group (I am a member) is not sufficient!

I am also a member of the WHRS and the WH Heritage Group but not the WHR(Porth) even though Bill Brown (their first chairman) and I were good friends and members together of the FR (Lancs & Cheshire) Group and also FR (North Staffs) Group (Bill Brown lived in Stoke) which group Adrian Shooter, Tony Harrison, Mike Bentley and I formed may years ago. I was one of the builders of that box at Rhiw Goch (and several other similar structures)! One needs to remember the importance in the scheme of FR/WHR events of Bill Brown (founder of original WHRS and first Chairman of the WH64 Co.). Until his untimely death he was also, at the same time, Chairman of the FR Lancs and Cheshire Group. Back in 1956, Bill Brown had given some money to enable the completion of Taliesin's overhaul that year. He named his house after that engine. Dear Bill and his wife 'Mac' could not accept its rename Earl of Merioneth.

Thanks Stewart for your contribution on current operations. Would you be willing to add a paragraph on the work of the Porthmadog Control Office? (forgot to sign, I see!) NoelWalley 15:30, 16 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hello Stewart, Thanks for your reply. Oh Yes, I hope they are making a good job of the box at Rhiw Goch - its taking long enough! We were expected to deliver in three months (1974), and it had to be something that could be paid for out of petty cash! We did the T-y-B fencing (1970 - most of it now replaced by P & G), the original T-y-B loos (1971) behind the goods shed, the original loos at Dduallt (1973) and the Dduallt signal box (1977). I rather think we are so far the only folk on the railway to have built a signal box that has been used as such and we did two!


 * Yes I remember Terry Turner and his ‘Taktfahrplan’ etc and it had to be, we were running far too many trains, four sets, 15 trips per day in the 1980 summer. Do consider doing a control room paragraph or section - so vital to the operation. NoelWalley 15:30, 16 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Jolly Good and many thanks NoelWalley 10:08, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Paisley Gilmour Street crash
Hi Pencefn, Thanks for your note. You are right, I should have read Hall more carefully. I've reinserted the foot note because Hall (1999) shows photographs of signal P31, with a conflicting train movement, and the relevant track schematic in Paisley Power signalbox.

Interesting I heard the sound of the crash, because I was staying in Greenlaw Drive at the time, but I didn't find out what it was until I went down to the station on the Tuesday morning to get the Gourock train, to work. As the accident report states, the line was reopened in about two days. Pyrotec 20:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Disused Railway Stations
Great work adding the closed stations on the Carnarvonshire Railway. Could you also add the stations to the list on the page: List of closed railway stations in Britain. Thanks

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dav24873 (talk • contribs).

Template:Glasgow stations
Your welcome. Simply south 16:52, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

APTIS/PORTIS
Hi.

Pencefn - "silken pen" ?

You've done some Good work, on your searches.

I put some journal references into the Inverclyde Line talk page. I know I don't have paper copies, but might be able to access them electronic from the University library system, when term starts next month; but I wont know until then.

A PORTIS / APTIS, ARC, Open stations set of articles on wikipedia would be great. I'm willing to contribute, but it will be slow time for me; and I know that nothing will get done by me in October, other than a quick look at e-access for the relevant journals. Pyrotec 15:10, 24 September 2006 (UTC)