Dick Pemble was a loco driver based at Andover Junction. He was born on 12 July 1899 in Sheerness, Kent and died in 1976. He worked over the Midland & South Western Junction line between Andover Junction & Andoversford, and on to Cheltenham St James, and took many photographs of the line during its final years, often from the cab of one of his locos.
After his death, Stephen Duffell was permitted to make copies of these photographs, which are now presented in route order starting (...)
Archive | March 2022
Mar
30
2022
A Northbound Trip along the MSWJR
Mar
05
2022
Some mystery canal locations and craft
Thirty or so images of a variety of boats - narrow and wide - have been added to the Archive from the Rodney Weaver Collection. Most of these were not captioned on the slides and they have been removed from any geographical indexing. There is a fascinating variety, so if anyone who knows about inland boats would care to take a look through them, any comments or corrections would be very (...)
Mar
05
2022
Grand Union Canal images added
Some hundred or so images of the Grand Union Canal and its branches have been added to Archive from the Rodney Weaver Collection. Some of these are captioned on the slides, but often detail is lacking. If anyone who knows this canal would care to take a look through them, any comments or corrections would be very welcome and would be of benefit to other users. Or you may just (...)
Mar
05
2022
More Midland Railway Distance Diagrams 1875 - 1923
The full set of available Diagrams , digital copies of which were donated by Richard Dean, are now available on the Online Archive. In addition to the Midland's wholly owned lines, they also show Joint Lines including the Portpatrick & Wigtownshire, the Midland & Great Northern, and the Somerset and Dorset. Each Diagram, which is actually a map to scale, also shows (...)
Mar
04
2022
Online Archive Site Downtime
Upgrades for the Online Archive software (Zenphoto), and its customised plugins and themes, are released from time to time. After we have carried out our own testing, we will install the new versions on the first Sunday of each month. Accordingly, the Online Archive may be down on these days between 0700 and 1100, and instead a message will appear "ZENPHOTO Gallery is undergoing an upgrade. Please return later." We will try to give a week's notice when an upgrade is planned.