Archive Number 115 (September 2022) Meaford A & B Power Station No. 2 Muriel with Driver Stan, former fireman at Stoke Motive Power Depot

Lightmoor  Press, Lydney

Editorial. Ian Pope, 1

Alastair Weir and Stuart Rankin. Irvine's Harbour and its cranes. 2-29.
On page 11 there is a table based on a driver's notebook for the period 10 August 1925 to 2 February 1926 on locomotivve No. 609 wnen alllocated to Troon Harbour shed which included duties of Irvine pilot. Pages 12-13 are an exttract from the General Appendix to the LMS Working Timetable which include instructions for the Irvine Harbour brranch which include instructions to whistle and crossing gates to light and instructions for individual sidings
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A table based on one on page 15 is  shown below. It is speculated that the Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) may have had locomotives which visited the Harbour. Spelter was used to manufacture objects normally made from bronze, but as it made  from zinc alloy it is cheaper.
Andrew Walker & Co.
After 1916 Imperial Chemical Industries. General Chemicals Division. Works closed 1953

In the landscape... Millgate (Skimpings). 18-19.
Valley of River Spodden or Whitworth Valley which leads  from Rochdale to Bacup via Facit and Millgate. The LYR Bacup branch opened in 1881 and had steep gradients and sharp curvature. A zig-zag branch served Facit nd Moss Quarries.  Millgate and Facit Cotton Spinning, Manufacturiing and Mining was formed in 1860 and renamed Millgate Spinning Ltd. in December 1919. Delph Cottages and Holly Farm are also visible in this superb photograph. There is also an Ordnance Survey Map of 1910

Euan Corrie. Waterways to Manchester. — 2 The Bridgewater Navigations — Part 2. Worsley to Manchester. 20-9
This section of the canal was engineered to follow the 82-foot contour. An abrupt turn is made at Worsley as a result of James Brindley being introduced to Frances [sic] Francis Egerton  Third Duke of Bridgewater. On page 25 the caption mentions the  Worsley Cruising Club which grew  from a loose association of boatowners founded in 1958  to an organisation incorporated in 1973 which took over the canal basin for moorings and built a club house there. On page 27 there is mention of the last commercial traffic on the Bridgewater Canal namely grain to the Kelloggs factory on Barton Dock Estate where E.J. Abbott had in 1947 had several barges built to work traffic on the Bridgewater and Manchester Ship Canals. Their motor boat Iris Abbott and dumb boat Sarah Abbott captured much of the traffiic and aggravated the Bridgewater crews who lost their tonnage bonuses. In 1950 the Bridgewater Department ordered similar, but slightly larger vessels from Pimblott's of Northwich and later from Yarwoods
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Malcolm Bobbitt. In the showroom... Early motoring accessories. 30-9.
Early motor cars were devoid of even the most basic safety items, such as lighting. Autocarists, as early motorists were termed. were plied with garments to wear and vital accessories. Many were exhibited att the Stanley Cycle Show held at London's Agricultural Hall.  Illustratiions [all from contemporary advertisements]:

Allan C. Baker and Mike G. Fell. Meaford A & B Power Stations and their locomotives. Part 3. The locomotives. 40-63.
These were originally steam from  W.G. Bagnall of Stafford and were 0-4-0STs. These were supplemented by powerful 0-6-0 side tank engines supplied by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd in 1950 to the design of Vincent Gordon Pask, Chief Engineer. A well equipped engine shed was provided with water treatment nd coal storage. This was expanded when the B Power Station was built. From early 1970 Andrew Barclay diesel hydraulic locomotives displaced steam. Andrew Barclay fitters came for routine servicing, but heavy servicing could be performed within the power stations' own workshops. Locomotive crews consisted of drivers and shunters, most of whom were formerly with British Railways
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The Institute. [book reviews]. 64

Waterways Journal No. 24

The Red Earth revisited. Brian D. Cubbon, Peter R. Sandbach and Colin P. Woolard. Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society. 274pp.
Haematite iron ore mining in the Furness peninsular and Millom: includes transport by railway