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Hi All

After a very interesting and seriously helpful chat to DSY011 in a shop in Bristol last Saturday afternoon about getting back into railway modelling, I decided to register here today. My apologies for not crediting DSY011 with a referral, but I forgot his username until after I registered and had a peek!

I have a life long history of an interest in railways, but '57 - '68 were my most active period when I lived in Leicester. Steam on view right up until '68 and within easy striking distance of the ECML & WCML and of course with the LMS, GCR and GNR lines in Leicester itself. The 'Ivanhoe' Leicester to Burton line was at the top of my road and the GCR Shed & yard was in walking distance.

I'm not going to rush into it, but I will be constructing a 00 guage layout in my loft over the coming year. It will more than likely be DCC and definitely based upon Era 5. I look forward to being able to ask for your advice and help in the Forum.

All the best

Max

Hi Max, welcome along to RF from all the staff here.. excellent bit of luck bumping into an RF moderator... you'll regret not asking for his autograph ;)
We certainly cater for railway modellers here :)
cheers,
Andy

Hello Max and welcome to the forum, good luck with your layout and all the best.

Hello Max!
Small world - I was born and brought up a few hundred yards away from the old Great Northern Station (Belgrave Rd). I now live on the other side of Leicester and the Leicester - Burton line is a couple of hundred yards away.

:D

Hello Max as you can see I live in Loughborough The Midland Main Line runs at the back of my house(50yards)

Hello Max and welcome to the Railway Forum. It was good to be able to talk to you and I'm pleased to hear you have made the first two choices in you future model, '00' and 'DCC'. Hope to see you in the shop again.

Thanks John! :)

The world is even smaller than you thought! My Grandma lived in Bardolph Street and my Dad worked at the Shell & BP Depot in Catherine Street which was served by the GNR line. My parents lived in Ashleigh Road when I was born (the Burton Line embankment was at the bottom of the garden) and then I lived in Wyngate Drive until I was sixteen (with the Burton Line at the top of the road, as you probably know) and left Leicester for Devon .

Max

Thanks Syd, you'll see me in the shop again for sure and thanks again for your time and interest and steering me here.

Max

Thanks Bubblewrap, I remember playing a few gigs with a band at the Saracens Head (long gone now probably!) in Loughborough and going to 'The Brush' to see 47's being built!

Max

Thanks for the welcome Guys! :)

Max

Welcome to the forum mate :)

Welcome to the Forum Max.

Look forward to your posts.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Thanks for the welcome, David & John! :)

Max

Hello Max and welcome to the forum.

Hi Max welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy it here.
regards

Cheers guys! Thanks for the welcome!

Max

Hi 15A, your profile name might become a new BBFC film certificate in a few years. I couldn;t resist that ;) , anyway welcome to the forum!

And there was me thinking that the significance of '15A' would be readily apparent on this Forum! ;)

Thanks for the welcome! :)

Max

Only to us oldies, Max :)
Welcome to the forum.

Just to enlighten the younger members of the Forum "15A" was the Shed Code for Wellingbrough in steam days. Later the code was transfered to Leicester (East), by 1966.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

My recollections don't quite tie in with the data available on the internet! :eek:

Which I hasten to add doesn't make me right! As I recall my first Ian Allen Steam book was late '50's and Leicester London Road was already 15A then. Leicester Great Central was 15C, again as I recall and none of the internet information agrees with me on that! But there again it could have been 15E! :confused:

I have both Steam & Diesel books somewhere, I'll try and dig them out to confirm .... or not!!

At my age, it's easy to be confused! :D

One good thing, this has reminded of many a happy hour spent on 'Birdcage Walk' with my binoculars surveying the yard & shed. All those Jubilee's and Peaks D1 - D10 passing through on the mainline! Although I wasn't so keen on Diesels back then.

Max

The dates I posted are from British Railways Steam Loco Allocations 1948-1968 by Jim Grindlay. He gives 15A as Welingborough in 1948; 1952; 1955; 1959 & 1963, then Leicester (Midland) in 1966. (East is wrong!)

I have a copy of the abc Locoshed Book for 1957 which lists Wellingborough as 15A.

I only trust Internet information if I can back it up from other sources!

According to Grindley Coalville became 15E around 1966. I can't find any record of 15E before then!

Who would be keen on Diesels when you have Jubillees!

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Thanks John, please don't think I was doubting your sources! My own recollections are far more suspect as i thought I'd indicated! :)

I can't find a Shed book, but I did find my first Diesel abc, (got to find the Steam one!) it was dated 1958 at which time I was 5! I just don't remember Leicester Midland being anything other than 15A. In 1966 I was 13 and would have thought I'd have remembered a change taking place at that time. May be not! I had certainly 'bunked' around the shed at Leicester many times prior to '66! Times were different then, you could disappear from dawn to dusk without anyone having to worry where you were! Perhaps just as well that my mother didn't know. :D

Max

No problems Max. It is just that there is a fair amount of bad info around and it is getting worse! I always try to go back to source material when available which is why I often quote my sources.

I also don't have a problem with being wrong! Too old for that!

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Saracens Head still there but now known as The Gallery a "younger" persons pub?Best pub in Loughborough for real ale is The Swan in the Rushes(formally The Charnwood)http://www.loughboroughcamra.org.uk/pub_awards.htm
The only pub doing regular "gigs" is The Dog (The Greyhound)Nottingham Road.
The Brush is still there but not as large as it was.
Lots of locos & HST power units repaired there.
I worked at Brush (Transformers) 1971-95.(Redundant)

Here is a list of 15 area shed codes

* 15A Wellingborough

* 15B Kettering
* 15C Leicester (Midland)
* 15D Bedford; Coalville, 1958
* 15E Leicester (Central), 1958
* 15F Market Harborough, 1958
o Seaton, 1958
PS Bedford shed is still standing.

Hello and welcome to the forum Max