Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:27:18 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/ Modern Railwayana en-gb http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/images/logo.gif http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/ ben.webber@valentadiesels.co.uk http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=24 We are pleased to offer a collection of modern railwayana on behalf of a fellow collector. Check out the hardware sales pages to see if anything takes your fancy! With over 33000 views since the website was launched plenty of people view the for sale pages - if you have anything from modern traction to sell why not let us advertise it for you - get in touch via the contact page. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:27:18 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=23 A full report for the Sheffield Railwayana Auction will appear in the auction report area later but for now the results for the Thunderbird nameplate sales today were as follows: Prices are hammer prices and require 12% premium adding. Scott Tracy - £3300 Alan Tracy - £2900 John Tracy - £2200 Jeff Tracy - £2700 Kyrano - £2100 The Hood- £1900 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:33:50 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22 Following the demise of the web photo hosting site, fotopic, some months ago the Numberpanels website has been off line. It has now returned at the following URL: http://numberpanels.zenfolio.com/ Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:59:15 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21 Following a move to new offices in Derby, Porterbrook Leasing have put five class 87 nameplates on display in the reception area. The five nameplates are listed by the Railway Heritage Committee and have been restored in red to create a striking entrance to the offices. The photo below was taken through the window as the office was closed when I called by! Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:31:02 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=20 The following is from the Virgin Trains Press Office: Virgin Trains supported charity CLIC Sargent will benefit from the sale of 12 sets of ‘Thunderbird’-themed nameplates following its withdrawal of six Class 57 locomotives from service.. CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, is Virgin Trains’ supported charity. The partnership has raised more than £310,000 since 2009 and Virgin Trains is continuing to support CLIC Sargent until 2012. The nameplates will be sold at a specialist railwayana auction in Derby on 10 December 2011 by Sheffield Railwayana Auctions Limited. The locomotives involved are: 57301 Scott Tracy 57303 Alan Tracy 57305 John Tracy 57306 Jeff Tracy 57310 Kyrano 57312 The Hood Network Rail is looking to take over the six Class 57 locomotives for specialist seasonal duties south of the River Thames. The locomotives have previously been part of Virgin Trains’ 16-Stong Class 57/3 fleet, but are no longer required by the West Coast train operator. Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:35:20 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19 August is a always a quiet month for railwayana, no auctions, everyone on holiday, nothing to spend your money on? Well I have just the solution for you - another cracking ex-loco depot plaque, this time a Bescot Saddle as fitted to one of the class 31s from that depot. Don't miss out, you'll do well to find another in such nice ex-loco condition - check out the hardware sales page to see more! Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:06:08 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18 The hardware sales page has just been updated with another high quality and rare depot plaque. Motherwell plaques in this condition are like hens teeth so don't misss out - check out the hardware sales link in the left menu.****** SOLD ****** Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:33:32 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17 Some people who remember the original incarnation of the Modern Railwayana website will remember the forum. This had become a popular feature where people could chat, exchange views and offer for sales and wants, etc. Unfortunately for reasons I'll not go in to here it was shut down shortly before the old site took a break from cyber space before returning in the current forum. Lots of people have asked me if the forum was to return and the answer was always 'no', however, I'm pleased to report that a friend has decided to step up to the mark and create a new railwayana forum. Whilst it does not form part of this website and I am not responsible for the running of it I am more than happy to promote it and will put a permanent link for it on this site in due course. RAILWAYANA FORUM Click on the link above to go there, you will need to register to be able to read postings or post yourself. Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:32:32 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16 Following on from the cracking class 56 worksplate there is now available a splendid Thornaby kingfisher depot plaque. Hard to find in such wonderful condition. Click on the hardware sales link to see more details.* * * * * *NOW SOLD* * * * * * Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:46:05 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15 A couple of items have been added to the hardware sales page (link in left menu) including the best class 56 worksplate you could wish to find. NOW SOLD Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:32:48 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14 Another 3 months flown by and it's time for Quorn again on Sunday 5th June. If you haven't been before it really is worth going as anything can turn up for sale! Gates open at 0730. More details here Remember I am still searching for Brush worksplates dated 1989 and later so if anyone has any available - please get in touch and I would be happy to meet you at Quorn! Sun, 29 May 2011 09:45:12 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13 I was recently sent some great pictures taken at the auction held at the National Railway Museum in York during October 2006... Some great nameplates a few of which have been through auction again since. Thanks to 'Grid56006' for the pictures. Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:10:33 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12 Just a reminder that Sunday 6th March will see the first Quorn swapmeet of the year at the Great Central Railway station. Just £4 per head entry, gates open at 07.30 (please arrive after this time). This is an excellent event for buying, selling or just turning up and having a natter! Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:04:47 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11 With the end of another year fast approaching I found myself pondering today the items that we have seen through auction this year. This led me to try and compose a top ten of modern loco items seen around the auctions during the year. This is purely my opinion and based on nothing more than personal preference! I welcome other peoples lists which I'll post up on here if I receive any!I've stuck more strictly to the period since sectorisation in the mid 1980s. So here we go: 1.Nameplate - City of Derby ex APT 49003 and later HST power car 43107. 2.Nameplate - Robert A Riddles ex 86102 3.Nameplate - Thane of Fife ex 87033 4.Nameplate - Sans Pareil ex 86214 5.Nameplate - Robert The Bruce ex 87021 6.Nameplate - Phoenix ex 86219 7.Nameplate - Meteor ex 86216 8.Nameplate - Charles Francis Brush ex 60098 9.Worksplate - Brush Traction Locomotive 56107 Overhauled APR 1995 10.Worksplate - Brush Traction 1001/1992 ex 60099 City of Derby nameplate, my number 1 item of modern railwayana sold at auction this year. Top ten submitted by Deiniol 'Bob' Williams 1.Nameplate - Thane of Fife ex 87033 2.Nameplate - City of Lancaster ex 86205 3.Nameplate - Pride of Ferrybridge ex 59206 4.Nameplate - Derby Etches Park ex 43072 5.Nameplate - City of Edinburgh ex 43104 6.Nameplate - Oor Wullie ex 37275 7.Nameplate - Sheffield Star ex 43055 8.Nameplate - Charles Francis Brush ex 60098 9.Nameplate - Howard of Effingham ex 87015 10.Nameplate - British Steel Hunterston ex 37311 More entries welcome - can be anonymous if requested! Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:27:10 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10 Just added is a class 47 nameplate for sale at an extremely good price. Click here to view. Now SOLD Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:10:31 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9 The technical problem has now been sorted but it did require a lot of the content of the site to be removed. It will take a few days to get everything up and running properly and then it should be normal service resumed. Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:33:57 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8 The host server for the website has recently been changed and for some reason it is now not possible to update certain pages. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible! Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:15:25 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7 The last few weeks have seen a spate of namings of HST power cars. On the 10th March First Great Western named 43053 'University of Worcester' at Worcester station. Then on the 19th April 43025 became 'The Institution of Railway Operators 2000 - 2010 TEN YEARS PROMOTING OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE' followed 4 days later on the 23rd by 43056 gaining the title 'The Royal British Legion'. Also at Great Western, 43189 has regained the 'RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST' nameplates during an exam at Laira being released to traffic on the 6th May. These nameplates were removed during the re-engineering of the power car at Loughborough. Not to be left out, East Midlands Trains named 43076 at St.Pancras on the 13th May 'IN SUPPORT OF HELP for HEROES'. Sun, 16 May 2010 14:28:07 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6 It is said we are all a product of our generation, or something like that, and being a teenager in the early 90's I remember regular visits to Brush Traction at Loughborough to see the brand new class 60s coming off the production line. Often they were named and not numbered and the names always stuck in my head. Being from North Wales I was familiar with Moel Famau (I can see it from the garden), Crib Goch, Moel Siabod, etc but the Scottish ones especially had a magic about them. Just where are An Teallach, Quinag, Foinaven.... Anyway, the years passed and my interest wained until an impulse buy at a Great Central Auction at Stoneleigh changed everything. I'd bought one of those mountain nameplates that had been spotted from the field at Loughborough nearly 20 years ago. The flicker of interest had been re-ignited - then, one night, after a couple too many single malts I suggested to a friend and fellow collector that we should actually attempt to climb all the 60s! He (stupidly) agreed there and then without checking up on what we were getting in to and the rest as they say is history. We've now climbed four of them and will be doing the others as time permits but if anyone wants a chuckle at two mad men then please click the link for the picture pages here Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:42:43 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5 Just added is a list of Class 60 works numbers and original names. Click on the Class 60 link in the left menu! If anyone has any class 60 worksplates to dispose of then please get in touch. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:17:30 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4 Another feature has been added to the site. There is now a complete list of Class 37 works numbers matched to actual loco numbers (click the link in the left hand menu). It is intended to enhance this feature to cover lots of other classes in the coming weeks and months as time allows. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:34:35 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3 The first of the feature articles is now available using the links on the left, this is in PDF form so that it can be easily printed. The articles on this site are copyright but please feel free to print them for personal use if you wish. If anyone spots any errors or has any more useful information to add please get in touch using the contact link. There are now lots of items in the sales section, some modern and many not so modern! Offers are welcome on any of the items. . . Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:26:50 +0000 http://www.modern-railwayana.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1 Welcome to the new look Modern Railwayana website. The first sales items have been added in the sales section and we'll have the first of the feature articles uploaded shortly. Keep on checking back for updates! Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:29:00 +0000