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WMRU June 2014 Cover
West Midlands Rail User Issue 8 JUNE 2014 £2 www.campaignforrail.org.uk ON OTHER PAGES: 10. Rail continues to grow ON OTHER PASGES: 2. Comment 11. Metro developments 3.BirminghamCurzon 12.Whypaymore? 4. Cross City South grows 13. Bushbury Junction 6. CfR’s Annual Meeting 14. Snippets 7. TripleTriumphforStourbridgeGroup 15. Thenextstationis…..Stone 8. TheFutureisWestMidlandsRail 16. TrackliftedtoCauldonLowe The voice of Campaign for Rail in the West Midlands COMMENT Imagine buying a vacuum cleaner and taking it back next day because it didn’t work. ‘Were you trying to use late afternoon? It’s not valid at that time. We didn’t tell you when we sold you it.’ Instead of vacuum cleaner, read ‘off peak rail ticket’. Twice recently I have bought rail tickets from booking clerks who have only asked if I am travelling after 09.30. In both cases, I later discovered they were not valid for my afternoon return journey. The problem is with Cross Country. It has decided some afternoon trains are ‘peak’ but it doesn’t identify them in its timetables and Cross Country unhelpfully only tells us, ‘off peak times vary by route’. As the i newspaper said about rail tickets re- cently, ‘Peak time is now more difficult to define in a sentence than the Higgs boson.’ Equally useless from Cross Country is, ‘Break of journey is generally permitted unless prohibited for the journey you are making.’ Each ticket says, ‘Route: Any permitted’ and ‘Validity: See restrictions.’ But where? A CfR member tried to buy a ticket to Kidderminster which involved going south via Bromsgrove to Droitwich Spa and then doubling back. -
Station Or Halt Name Line Date Closed Station
Our Station Station or Halt Name Line Date Closed Station remains Date Visited number (Aberdeen) Holburn Street Deeside Railway (GNoSR) 1937 (Aberdeen) Hutcheon Street Denburn Valley Line (GNoSR) 1937 Abbey and West Dereham GER 1930 Abbey Foregate (Shrewsbury) S&WTN 1912 Abbey Junction NBR, CAL 1921 Abbey of Deer Platform London and North Eastern Railway 1970 Abbey Town NBR 1964 Abbeydore GWR 1941 Abbeyhill (Edinburgh) NBR 1964 Abbots Ripton GNR 1958 Abbots Wood Junction MR 1855 Abbotsbury GWR 1952 Abbotsford Ferry NBR 1931 Abbotsham Road BWH!&AR 1917 Aber (LNWR) Chester and Holyhead Railway 1960 Aberaman TVR 1964 Aberangell Mawddwy Railway/Cambrian Railways 1931 Aberavon (Seaside) Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway 1962 Aberavon Town Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway 1962 Aberayron GWR 1951 Aberbargoed B&MJR 1962 Aberbeeg GWR 1962 Aberbran N&B 1962 Abercairny Caledonian 1951 Abercamlais Neath and Brecon Railway 1962 Abercanaid GWR/Rhymney Jt 1951 Abercarn GWR 1962 Aberchalder HR/NBR 1933 Abercrave N&B 1932 Abercwmboi Halt TVR 1956 Abercynon North British Rail 2008 Aberdare Low Level TVR 1964 Aberdeen Ferryhill Aberdeen Railway 1864 Aberdeen Guild Street Aberdeen Railway 1867 Aberdeen Kittybrewster (3 stations of this name, on GNoSR2 lines; all closed) 1968 Aberdeen Waterloo GNoSR 1867 Aberderfyn Halt GWR 1915 Aberdylais Halt GWR 1964 Aberedw Cambrian Railways 1962 Aberfan Cambrian Railways/Rhymney Railway Jt 1951 Aberfeldy Highland Railway 1965 Aberford Aberford Railway 1924 Aberfoyle NBR 1951 Abergavenny Brecon Road Merthyr, Tredegar and -
(Public Pack)Agenda Document for Planning Applications Committee
Public Document Pack Simon W. Baker B.Ed MBA MISPAL Chief Executive PLANNING APPLICATIONS COMMITTEE Thursday, 12 April 2018, 2.00 pm The Council Chamber, Moorlands House, Leek Contact Officer: Pat Trafford. 01538 395551 - [email protected] SITE VISITS: A coach for Committee Members will leave Moorlands House at 10.00 a.m. prompt on the day of the meeting. Appropriate footwear is recommended. Speaking at Committee: Under the Council's Constitution, applicants (or their agent) and objectors/supporters are eligible to speak at this Committee for 3 minutes each. The maximum number of speakers on any item is six (three speakers for and three speakers against) plus any Ward Councillors. All speakers, including Ward Councillors, should register by ringing Committee Services on the above number between 10.00 a.m. Monday and 4.00 p.m. Wednesday on the week of the meeting. Also please note that speakers need to re-register if an application has been previously withdrawn from an agenda. Registered speakers should report to the Council Chamber no later than 15 minutes before the start of the meeting. An information leaflet relating to these procedures is available from the main Council Offices, on the Council’s website and will be available at the meeting. Speakers are advised to read the leaflet prior to the meeting. Note: In the event of a delayed return by the Committee, following the site visits, the start time for the Committee may be postponed. Also the order of business on the agenda may change at the discretion of the Chair. -
The Mining Industry in North Staffordshire, a Personal Perspective
The Mining Industry in North Staffordshire A Personal Perspective by Jim Worgan The Mining Industry in North Staffordshire A Personal Perspective by Jim Worgan Silverdale Colliery closed on the 31st December 1998, thus bringing to an end over 800 years of coal and ironstone mining in North Staffordshire. At its height the industry employed over 30,000 men and women and output reached 7 million tons of coal and 2½ million tons of ironstone per annum. Today many buildings and monuments dot the skyline, the most significant being:- a) Chatterley Whitfield Colliery which closed in 1977 and then opened as the first ever underground Mining Museum in Great Britain in 1979. Shortly before it closed in August 1993 the site became scheduled as an Ancient Monument comprising 34 buildings dating from 1883 to the 1960s, most of which are scheduled or listed. It is the most complete coal mine in Great Britain and possibly Western Europe. Most of the site, which amongst others contains the headgears (metal structures and pulley wheels) of the Hesketh, Platt, Institute and Winstanley shafts, is derelict although two or three buildings have been restored. These are now in use for commercial purposes and by the Chatterley Whitfield Friends (a Charity Organisation) who are doing everything they can “to keep the site alive”. They have a large archive of photographs, documents, plans/maps and artefacts and their Heritage Centre on site is normally open to the public by appointment. b) Foxfield Colliery at Godley Brook (Dilhorne) in the Cheadle Coalfield where most of the former colliery site survives. -
Caldon Canal: Hazlehurst Aqueduct to Norton Green Branch & Baddeley
Caldon Canal: Hazlehurst Aqueduct to Norton Green Branch & Baddeley Green RCHS West Midlands & North West Groups Joint Walking Event: Thursday 25th October 2018 The Caldon Canal: Dates & Other Statistics Opened: 1778 (Etruria to Froghall; 17 miles, 17 locks) Branches: Norton Green (1778; c400 yds.) Leek (1801; 3 miles) Uttoxeter (1811; 17 miles) Foxley (1820; extended 1850; c800 yds.) Endon Basin (1917; c200yds.) Reservoirs: Knypersley (1783 & 1827; 41m ft3) Stanley (1786; 22m ft3) Rudyard (1799; 122m ft3) Tunnels: Froghall Tunnel (1785; 76yds) Leek Tunnel (1801; 130yds) Hazlehurst Junction. (Source: http://beefur.blogspot.co.uk). Summit Level: 484ft above sea level 76ft above T&M summit level History: The Early Years (1778-1801) The Caldon Canal (or, more correctly, the Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal) opened in December 1778, running from a junction with the summit level of the T&M main line (opened 1775) at Etruria top lock to Froghall (Old Wharf) where it served the quarries at Caldon Low. The distance from Etruria to Froghall by canal is 17 miles (in a straight west-east line it is less than 10 miles) and required 17 locks. Its summit level (reached at Stockton Brook) is 484ft above sea level and 76ft above the summit level of the T&M Canal. It was extended to a new wharf in 1785. There had been proposals in the early 1770s to build a canal from the T&M summit level to Leek, including one using tub-boats and inclined planes, but no Acts were obtained. The Act for the Caldon Canal was obtained in 1776 following contracts being arranged with the owners of the quarries in the Caldon Low area (to the east of Froghall). -
Index of Journals up to Issue 41
North Staffordshire Railway Study Group, Journal Index. Compiled by Howard Sprenger and David Woolliscroft. A Volume I. Abergele & Pensarn station 20:6 Issue No. 0 September 1995 Pages 0:1-0:4 Aberystwyth 18:22, 20:6 Issue No. 1 February 1996 Pages 1:1-1:16 Accidents: Issue No. 2 June 1996 Pages 2:1-2:16 Burton Branch, 1861 39:15 Issue No. 3 January 1997 Pages 3:1-3:20 Chartley (Stafford & Uttoxeter Railway), Issue No. 3s April 1997 Pages 3s:1-3s:4 30th March 1892 4:14, 5:7 Issue No. 4 July 1997 Pages 4:1-4:24 Congleton, 17th Jan, 1899 15:7 Issue No. 5 August 1998 Pages 5:1-5:24 Derby Road crossing, 1882 39:4-5, 39:7 Issue No. 6 February 1999 Pages 6:1-6:16 Harecastle, 25th January 1872 1:6 Issue No. 7 March 2001 Pages 7:1-7:16 Hixon disaster, 6th January, 1968 29:17 Issue No. 8 April 2001 Pages 8:1-8:16 Lawton Junction 1873 14:18, 14:20, 24:3, 24:12-18, Issue No. 9 October 2001 Pages 9:1-9:16 24:20 25:28 Issue No. 10 April 2002 Pages 10:1-10:16 Macclesfield 1873 31:3-14 Issue No. 11 October 2002 Pages 11:1-11:16 NSR 1:5 Issue No. 12 April 2003 Pages 12:1-12:20 Tunnelling 34:7 Uttoxeter, 11th October 1890 2:3, 3:19 Volume II. Uttoxeter, 27th July 1892 3:8-3:9 Issue No. 13 October 2003 Pages 13:1-13:20 Accountants, NSR.