A warm welcome to Six Bells Junction...
...the home of what is very likely the largest archive of railtour information anywhere on the planet!
Just surf to The Railtour Files in the side menu on the left and you can begin exploring over 12,000 pages of railtours dating back from the 1800's (yes, well over 150 years ago!) and right up to date. If you enjoy what you find then why not, if you have records of your own, check and forward me any new information as this will help the Website grow still further? There are guidelines for submitting info located a little further down this page.
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Updates News :
At the moment updating SBJ is basically a one-man operation so I've a large
backlog to deal with (currently approx. 1,300 e-mails). By all means do continue send in gen but please do not expect to see
it uploaded quickly...thank you in the mean time for your patience. In fact, the
volume of incoming information has now reached such a level (in excess of 50
e-mails per day on average) that I can no longer keep up with acknowledging
e-mails at the time of receipt. Please accept my apologies for this....but
please also do not chase me for confirmation I have received them if you have
heard nothing in a few days and have not seen the gen uploaded.
As Alan (who has very ably assisted me with updates in the past) is particularly busy away from the Internet at the moment, for the time being please send all tour gen to this e-mail. Please do NOT re-send any gen that you've sent to Alan (via the Yahoo! e-mail address) which has yet to be uploaded - in time Alan will clear that backlog.
PLEASE also take note of the comments in the section "Submitting Gen? Please read first...", especially if you are sending information for the first-time, or infrequently. By submitting gen to this Website it is assumed you have read and are complying with the comments contained in that section.
Important, please read if planning to send in gen/photographs:
Two requests;
1) No e-mails with very large attachments (files, photos etc) please without
first clearing it with me - with digital photos these days being often 5mb each
or more, it does not take many to exceed my ISP's mailbox limit and work
commitments sometimes mean I do not download e-mails every day.
2) Please do not forward photos that were taken trackside, or have the
appearance of having been taken from, 'inside the
boundary fence', even if that was from a legitimate location (e.g. footpath
crossing). Whilst enthusiasts and even the authorities took a liberal attitude
to this a few decades ago, we live in a far different world nowadays and I do
not want SBJ to be seen encouraging trespass or putting a
photographers safety at risk. Exceptions to this are
legitimate trackside photostops (remember them?!?) or photos from the 70's and
earlier.
Want to use information from this
Website elsewhere? Please read first...
Use of this
information
elsewhere
To those who follow the rules - you have my thanks, it is
much appreciated.
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Struggling to find a preserved railway or preservation
site? Try this listing
(with thanks to Ian Evans for supplying).
Please
e-mail me with any additions or corrections so this document can be kept
current.
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Contributor Links & credit
The owners of the following Website(s) in this section have very kindly contributed towards the running costs of this Website;
My personal thanks also goes to Dave Kirwin, Bill Leatherland, Brian Whitaker, John Debens & John Simmonds who have all chosen to make a contribution as a way of acknowledging the important source of reference that SBJ has become and enjoyment that can be derived when reading through the many pages of information and memories.
It currently costs me around £100/year to bring you Six Bells Junction which, up
to now, I have been paying out of my own pocket. The cost
is for the domain name (sixbellsjunction.co.uk) plus the provision of Webspace
and mail forwarding etc. Though I've never asked it before, donations towards
the running costs would always be gratefully received. I am willing in return to
consider allowing adverts (of a railway interest/nature only) to be placed for
an agreed period in this area of the homepage and/or in a prominent area at the
top of the links Page.
If you are interested then please
contact me for further
discussion, or simply make a donation via PayPal using the link below. Thanks in
advance for your kind support!
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Caption Contest
Caption Contest - some railway
scenes deserving of a witty comment or two.
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This Website is copyright (c) Gary
Thornton (webmaster@sixbellsjunction.co.uk).
All photographs and articles used on this site are my own work,
unless otherwise stated. Copyright on all photographs remains with the
photographer/collection owner.
The views expressed on these pages are mine only, unless
otherwise stated (comments and views expressed in reviews are that of the
reviewer unless otherwise stated).
Photographs and articles from this site may be copied for personal use ONLY, and not used on the web or elsewhere without permission.
Gary Thornton.

