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Collectables => Metalware & Metalwork => Topic started by: Tigerchips on May 01, 2008, 11:51:08 PM

Title: Main line railway sign
Post by: Tigerchips on May 01, 2008, 11:51:08 PM

I wonder if this belongs to Tynemouth Railway Station.  :24:

I bought it from a second hand shop about 10 miles away.

It appears to me quite old. I have found other signs with the words 'main line' but they have all had the name of the station as well. So why this one hasn't got the name, i don't know.

Title: Re: Main line railway sign
Post by: Frank on November 20, 2008, 06:18:18 PM

It is almost certainly a sign from a signal box, so did not need to be cast to withstand weather. It would be used to identify the levers for points or signals.

Title: Re: Main line railway sign
Post by: Tigerchips on November 20, 2008, 07:43:11 PM

Thanks, er, does that still make it collectable?

Title: Re: Main line railway sign
Post by: Frank on November 20, 2008, 08:19:01 PM

I would have thought so. Best to ask on a Railwayana or Model railways forum. Probably not wildly valuable without a company name.

Title: Re: Main line railway sign
Post by: antiquerose123 on November 24, 2008, 05:53:27 PM

Well done TC..  :tgs: :kool:

Hey I heard someone somewhere found something very important while they were using their metal detaector.  I thought it might been TC? 

Was it you (lol), as it made the news.  Found any other detecting things lately.  Wonder IF SANTA would buy me one.....

....Oh Santa...

( We need some Xmas smileys again......) ;D ;)