Signalling Record Society

Some Items in Forward

Forward is the Journal of the Great Central Railway Society. Follow this link to visit their web site.

Issue	Items
2009 March	High Marnham (LDECR; update by Chris Booth). ‘The use of the Telegraph on the GCR’ by Peter Wortley (article first appeared in Forward 146.). b&w photos of Checker House crossing (GCR) and Dawes Lane (GCR; Scunthorpe) boxes.
Issue	Items
2008 December	‘Wath Yard and the “Daisies”’ by Ron Fareham (GCR; article on the yard with b&w photos and plan; “Daisies” were the shunting locomotives employed there).
2008 September	‘LD&EC line resurrection’ by Chris Booth (b&w photo of Ollerton Colliery box). ‘How did the Great Central cope before Wath?’ by Reg Instone (SRS Chairman describes how the company organised its huge coal traffic before the coming of Wath marshalling yard in 1906). ‘The Penistone Railway Accident’ (GCR&LYRJt; 30/3/1889; taken from The Engineer of 5/4/1889). ‘A Station Master's memories of Finmere (GCR; Pt3)’ by Gerald Summerfield.
Issue	Items
2007 September	short resume by Edgar Fay of the career of GCR and LMSR Signal Engineer Arthur Frank Bound.