http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/ The history of railways and canals Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:54:36 GMT Ian Dinmore http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1215 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1215 I found an open fire burning in the waiting room at Newport Essex station in 1990, I was so amazed I took a picture of it ________________________________ Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:45:35 GMT Ian Dinmore http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1214 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1214 Istarted working at Barnstaple Junction in 1979 and the station still had gas lighting which was working - Eric Prouse the signalman accidentally smashed the Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:39:34 GMT Martin Snow http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1213 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1213 Two items from Sussex County Magazine 1954 1) Natural Gas at Crowborough Owing to the increased gas costs caused by higher coal prices, the Gas Council decided Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:49:51 GMT Nigel Callaghan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1212 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1212 Hello Anne, Thanks for your input to the thread. Settle (North Yorks) had coal fires until at least 2008, I think (maybe) the Elf and Safety people put pay to Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:41:48 GMT Anne Willis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1211 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1211 _____ Nigel Callaghan . ... charming ... The last coal fire in a waiting room that I can remember was Falmer in the autumn of 1968; Brighton side. Anne Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:31:35 GMT Nigel Callaghan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1210 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1210 For a good many years beginning in London, Brighton & South Coast days the station at Heathfield was lighted by 'natural gas', this was discontinued about Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:05:55 GMT Chris Deuchar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1209 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1209 ... It certainly wasn't the last in the country but may have been (one of) the last in the East Midlands. My former home station of Burton Joyce on the Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:01:49 GMT Tony Jervis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1208 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1208 True. I remember being told in the 1970s that in one small office in Bournemouth Central station gas lighting was retained because the L&SWR had taken out a Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:32:31 GMT PETER TATLOW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1207 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1207 A point to remember is that the railway companies often entered into long term contracts with the gas companies for supply at preferential rates and therefore Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:02:22 GMT Tony Jervis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1206 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1206 Gas-lit stations. A quick but by no means comprehensive search in "Branch Line News" has revealed the following. Sandy station's Down platform was still Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:26:01 GMT MATTHEW SEARLE http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1205 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1205 I have been asked when the last gaslit carriages were withdrawn from BR. There is an easy answer to this: the latter part of 1962, from the Culm Valley branch. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:32:26 GMT MATTHEW SEARLE http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1204 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1204 Martin Barnes has asked me to forward the following to the list. As I used to live close by the site, I should have thought of it too! Matthew From: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:21:04 GMT Peter Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1203 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1203 Extract from notes about the life & works of William Cubitt Folkestone to Dover Instead of taking a roundabout route through the Alkham Valley between Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:18:55 GMT Peter Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1202 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1202 Extract from notes about the life & works of William Cubitt Folkestone to Dover Instead of taking a roundabout route through the Alkham Valley between Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:01:23 GMT Mike Clarke http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1201 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railwaycanal/message/1201 I have deposited a virtually complete set of A&CN accounts from c1890 to 1947 at the Yorkshire Waterway Museum. It should be possible to identify some details