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Model of double-hulled muscular powered paddle and sailing ship

1787

Daily Herald Photograph; Westclox Clock Factory

1950-01-16
signalling and telegraph department; electrification; different signalling and control systems; telegraph office messenger; telegraph & electrical installation squad, Carlisle, Stranraer; telephone switchboard; duties, wages; telegraph lineman, Edinburgh; key token; Leclanche cells; intermediate block signal maintenance; Second World War; block controls installation; loyalites between CR and GSWR; Quintinshill incident; WCML electrification; single line working; pole route maintenance; Cairn Valley signalling system; area reorganisation; equipment; interlocking signals; resignalling, Dumfires, 1956; royal train duties, 1946-54; domestic life; seasonal jobs; tablet working equipment; maintenance; experience; different signalling systems; naming signal boxes; safety improvements; nationalisation; water troughs; track circuits; training, electrical signalling; tablet failure; maintenance and installation experience; motor operated points; weather problems; cables; automatic half-barrier installation; level crossing; electrification; WCML; staffing; Sykes signalling; long section working; block circuit; electrification; work study; maintenance; anecdotes; rules; anecdotes; redundancy; d.o.b. 1912-12, railway work 1927-1977, Scotland. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Veevers, James Wannop

2001-01-10
Map, railway, 'Dumfrieshire', c. 1840, coloured, 1 inch to 1 mile, publisher/printer Johnston & Weir, paper-backed linen, in slip case.

Map, railway, 'Dumfrieshire'

1840
"Dumfrieshire" 1987 print from 1985 negative

Dumfrieshire

1985 (1987)
Test materials for Progressive Matrices (1938) and the associated Mill Hill Vocabulary Scale, by J.C. Raven, published by H.K. Lewis, 1938-1950, The Crichton Royal, Dumfries, Scotland

Test materials for Progressive Matrices (1938) and the associated Mill Hill Vocabulary Scale

1938-1950
Clock, skeleton, pin wheel movement

Skeleton clock

1840-1860
Leaflet, Station Hotel, Dumfries.

Station Hotel