Robert Humm & Co

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[Robert Humm & Co @RHummBooks]

I'll be turning the online sales off on Monday, 13 April. The old site will remain in place for a week or so after that, after which the new, non-commercial, site will replace it.

[Christopher Howse @BeardyHowse]

The chimneys of Hereford station from the footbridge.

[Robert Humm & Co @RHummBooks]

@Staplefordtrain @chris_railway @LiamsTransport1 You are right, I had never noticed. But they are just ordinary concrete bridges, only the girders carrying the road deck are steel.

[Paul @ovsbulleid]

@JoeBrownLondon Here’s the building before it was demolished.

📷 me 1978

[Stapleford Railway @Staplefordtrain]

Just a heads up
We are not able to run the railway for the June steam rally due to civil engineering works on the cutting to address waterlogged drains and the bank slip However this is securing the railway for future The rally is being planned without it so pls still join us

[La Vie du Rail @LaViedurail1]

Défi. Métrodoku : le sudoku des stations de métro parisien https://t.co/Gn5gqpl7ql

[Robert Humm & Co @RHummBooks]

Approaching Derby from the north on the A6 the handsome chain fence, alongside the increasingly high pavement, is a favourite landmark. The whole length has just been restored and the sun has put on an extra effort to show up the gleaming new paintwork.
#ironworkthursday

[Robert Humm & Co @RHummBooks]

@JoeBrownLondon Carlisle! As two impecunious kids we used this service as an economy to get our little R4 to Cumberland without an overnight stop. We loaded at Olympia, such fun. But the trip was dramatic, many windscreens, and some carriage windows broken by loose ballast in Watford tunnel.

[Joe Brown @JoeBrownLondon]

#OnThisDay 31 years ago 'Motorail' services ceased: they allowed at their peak 100k passengers and their cars per year to travel the UK by train, although the GWR Night Riviera carried cars 1999-2005, providing a brief return of sorts. Dave Hitchborne https://t.co/Zj6egpdYz6

[Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn]

I don’t think Stoke on Trent stn is depressing at all: at its entrance is an incredible moving piece of architecture which few people actually realise exists at all. The stone arch – through which all passengers pass - is a memorial to the 152 North Staffordshire Railway employees who died in the 1914-18 War.

The company & employees paid for it, and its installation - honouring those who stood and fell - was one of the final acts of the independent company before it was consumed by the LMS Railway in 1923. Six further men, identified since the end of WW1, have also now had their names added to the roll of honour.

[Richard Clinnick @Clinnick1]

Venezia Santa Lucia railway station.

[Robert Humm & Co @RHummBooks]

What a view! Note the road / rail bridge and the large Sta Lucia station at the end of it.
See how the road veers right to avoid the station - it looks as though the road bridge is an add-on, does anyone know when it was built?

[Richard Clinnick @Clinnick1]

Venice from my plane seat.

[Robert Humm & Co @RHummBooks]

@Clinnick1 That's a grand view Richard, packed with interest. R and I have been staring at it wistfully. It is 18 years and 8 months since we were there.

[Robert Humm & Co @RHummBooks]

The state of that lovely building! But here it is, just 2½ years later, looking magnificent. (29/10/23)

[HiPa @HiPa125]

East Midlands Railway InterCity 5B23 0640 Derby Etches Park T&RSMD > Sheffield #HST passes Francis Thompson’s 1840, Grade ll-listed, Wingfield Station: one of the world’s oldest station buildings & the sole survivor of twenty four built by the N.M.R.

Amber Valley #MML
13/05/21

[RAIL Magazine @RAIL]

Rebuilding Peak District line linking Manchester and Derby ‘answers transport need’
https://t.co/UCsf53Lk4g

[Margaret Jones @Benregis1]

Very sorry to hear that Travis & Emery are on the move. They've been such a part of life in Cecil Court for so long.

[Joe Brown @JoeBrownLondon]

#OnThisDay 39 years ago Stepney East station became 'Limehouse' in anticipation of the DLR's opening later that year. Beautifully evocative shot of a Class 302 EMU taking the tight curve on a winter's afternoon not long before the name change. Chris Firth https://t.co/8efLMz0920

[Stapleford Railway @Staplefordtrain]

Are you a countryside events organiser?

[Stapleford Railway @Staplefordtrain]

You can join us as a friend of the railway No previous experience or commitment to hrs required We can always find you a support role or work task [email protected]

[Robert Humm & Co @RHummBooks]

@Staplefordtrain Oooh, portable line! Would that be @Therebacktrain?

[Stapleford Railway @Staplefordtrain]

@RHummBooks First event is steam rally 13/14 th June
Locomotive fleet out to photograph but not operating but lots of other attractions and a portable line running
Plus August BH When the line will operate