WVR331 and WVR332 are the latest in the railway’s own series of cards.
For the visit of Flying Scotsman the following were also avaliable:
Produced by Star postcards: FLSCCLASS032
and by Writtle KWVR 17B to 17E
Author Archives: Rod Ash
Bishop’s Castle railway museum
The Bishop’s castle Railway and Transport Museum have a set of eleven postcards available. The cards are not numbered but are illustrated below:
Full details of the museum can be found on their website www.bcrailway.co.uk
South Devon Railway new issues
A recent visit ti Buckfastleigh station shop saw the following postcatds produced by Writtle of Bridgnorth on sale:
SDR 15A 3205
SDR 15B 5786 night scene
SDR15D 6412
SDR15E MULTIVIEW
SDR15F 5786 reflected by the Dart
SDR15P Buckfastleigh station
SDR15Q Staverton station
SDR 15S Routemaster bus
SDR 17A Totnes Riverside station
SDR17B 1369
Summerlee transport Museum, Coatbridge
This is a very impressive transport and industrial heritage museum just outside Glasgow. EMUs running through Coatbridge pass either side of the large estate occupied by this museum. There are vintage trams running from one end of the site to the other and several completely different exhibits to view. There’s a reconstructed coal mine, a street with all the houses in different decades and some fascinating engineering items. The star railway exhibit is a locally built Garratt loco outside in the rain a long way from it’s working life home in South Africa. This museum has been open for many years and has produced postcards in the past with railway content. Currently, the only postcard available is one of the Garratt. Entry is free and the facilities are very good.
Heatherslaw Light Railway
An interesting 15″ gauge line that is promoted as the most northerly narrow gauge railway in England. I discovered that it is a useful break of journey when travelling the A1 from Newcastle to Edinburgh. Whilst the station building could be termed a “wooden shed” there is also a model railway, and other activities including a stone built restaurant. Just one postcard available from the station that shows a scene en route. Well worth a visit if you are in the area or travelling through.
KWVR extend postcard series
Cards with references WVR329 and WVR330 are now available from the retail stands at stations along the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
WVR329 features 43924 at Damens crossing whilst WVR330 is a winter scene with 41241 at Oxenhope.
Postal Museum Railway Sleeper Sponsorship
As part of a sponsorship package, the Postal Museum in London are offering a set of postcards featuring images of the line.
Click here for more details:
Sweetman British Railways Photos Postcards Sales List
To develop some interest in members publishing sales lists I’m starting the ball rolling with this listing of postcards from the Sweetman British Railways Photos series. To keep things simple the cards are £2.50 each and are in good unwritten and unposted condition. If the only example I have has an imperfection such as writing on the back then the price is reduced to £2.00. Please e-mail your orders to r.ash@tinyworld.co.uk
I will confirm that the cards you want are still available. UK postage is 80p per order. Payment can be made by cheque or through Paypal.
Details will be supplied with the order confirmation.
To see the list of available cards please click on this link:
Sweetman sales listing 26 Dec 2015 pdf
Thanks Rod
Listing of 1950’s Sweetman British Railways Photo Postcards
This is the first of our incomplete listings. The information so far has been formed from an amalgamation of my own list and one maintained by Tony Harden. I’m sure that some more postcards exist in this series beyond the ones we have identified here. If you have any postcards not listed then please send the details to us for version 2. Scan and e-mail the images to us via the Contact us link in this website.
The listing is based of 6 different varieties of printing:
1) Sepia brown front (all other types have black photograhic photographic fronts)
2) Sweetman “Sunshine” back
3) Sweetman “Domino Series” back
4) as 3) but additional “WITH GREETINGS” below POSTCARD and photo with border on front
5) as 4) but picture without white border
6) Anon – no printers name
please click on this link to access pdf listing
Sweetman check listing Dec 2015 pdf
Known postcards are blocked in green.
The get some interest in member’s sales lists I’ve also prepared a sales list for this series in the sales section.
Tiverton Museum, Devon
This post has gained priority because it was requested by a member. The request was for a list of all postcards featuring GWR 1442 which is preserved in the Tiverton Museum in Devon. The attached listing shows five postcards but made from only three different images. When Dr Beeching closed Tiverton station in the 1960’s one of the tank engines that worked the lines from Exeter. Bampton and Tiverton Junction was mounted beside the road close to the site of the station. When the new town museum was built the loco was relocated to it’s own inside gallery where it can be visited today. The museum is only about 100 meters from the alignment of the old line to Exeter which is now a road. When I visited the museum in 2014 it was selling the Unichrome postcard.
The full listing can be seen by clicking on this link:
If you are aware of any further postcards of 1442 we’d be delighted to hear from you.
The museum only has the one loco but has a wide variety of other social history exhibits and is well worth a visit.