david.hill64 Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 This page so far contains photos of Kestrel and Westerns: surely the two best looking BR diesels by far. (Dons tin hat and waits for flak!) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 This page so far contains photos of Kestrel and Westerns: surely the two best looking BR diesels by far. (Dons tin hat and waits for flak!) Oh David, surely you are forgetting..?. Crew change for 9015 Tulyar at Newcastle in July 1969 I have to say though, I think the 'Westerns' were the least bad looking of any class once the awful full yellow ends were applied. Compare with a blue D800 'Warship' or a 'Deltic' in particular. Give me small yellow panels any time. (Dons own tin hat and joins David in bunker...) Trevor (tongue in cheek!) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 D1047 Western Lord gets to grips with a train for the west at Par on 30th May 1974, watched by holidaymakers probably waiting for a train to Newquay. Trevor 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Scottish-Exile Posted October 20, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 20, 2017 40 086 on an SRPS Railtour "The Whistler Special" from Kilmarnock down over the Settle & Carlisle on 06/10/84. This is where the loco ran round for the return trip. Can anyone enlighten me as to the exact location? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Here`s looking at you kid. Any one we know. From the Deltic Devonian tour. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium drjcontroller Posted October 22, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 22, 2017 (edited) 13.jpg 40 086 on an SRPS Railtour "The Whistler Special" from Kilmarnock down over the Settle & Carlisle on 06/10/84. This is where the loco ran round for the return trip. Can anyone enlighten me as to the exact location?[/quote It's at Warcop, I was on it throughout. The tour was actually called the Border Raider and was organised by Douglas Blades and the Swindon DMU Preservation Society, though the headboard called it The Whistler Special. It started from Edinburgh hauled by 47117 and 40086 took over at Carlisle. Edited October 22, 2017 by drjcontroller 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 021(1192a) D1047 Par 30-5-74 (T Ermel).jpg D1047 Western Lord gets to grips with a train for the west at Par on 30th May 1974, watched by holidaymakers probably waiting for a train to Newquay. Trevor Wonderful ................... you can almost hear the growl !! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted October 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2017 Wonderful ................... you can almost hear the growl !! Always a good location for clag when they were opened up for the gradient out. Not very politically correct, but spectacular. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Scottish-Exile Posted October 23, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 23, 2017 It's at Warcop, I was on it throughout. The tour was actually called the Border Raider and was organised by Douglas Blades and the Swindon DMU Preservation Society, though the headboard called it The Whistler Special. It started from Edinburgh hauled by 47117 and 40086 took over at Carlisle. Thanks for that. I was just 1 month into my BR YTS scheme and did the trip with my Dad and other members of the Ayr Model Railway Group, hence why we boarded at Kilmarnock. It was my first and so far only trip over the S&C. I really must do something about that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) Conversation piece in Gateshead in 1982 near the site of Bensham station, with Alston Street awaiting demolition. No doubt they would have to speak up as a southbound HST accelerated past. Trevor Edited October 24, 2017 by Trev52A 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Makes you think that the last picture was the eighties when we all thought that everything was hip and modern ,take the HST out and it could be the fifties. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 The driver of 55012 Crepello takes a breather at York on 2nd June 1978, as two spotters discuss 'Deltics' in general (possibly). How many modellers would dare to weather a loco like this?, I wonder. Trevor 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Coryton Posted October 25, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2017 The driver of 55012 Crepello takes a breather at York on 2nd June 1978, as two spotters discuss 'Deltics' in general (possibly). (1279d) 55012 York 2-6-78 (Trevor Ermel) .jpg How many modellers would dare to weather a loco like this?, I wonder. Trevor I think someone must have had glue on their fingers when they put the body back on. It would be amusing to exhibit a layout full of things that looked wrong, with a stack of prototype photos under the baseboard to show to everyone who complaints about the lack of realism. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Scottish-Exile Posted October 25, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2017 The driver of 55012 Crepello takes a breather at York on 2nd June 1978, as two spotters discuss 'Deltics' in general (possibly). Just me?, or does anyone else study all these old platform shots from the 70's & 80's thinking that maybe, just maybe, they'll spot themselves! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 Just me?, or does anyone else study all these old platform shots from the 70's & 80's thinking that maybe, just maybe, they'll spot themselves! Hope you are not going to charge me a modelling fee. Trevor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Scottish-Exile Posted October 25, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2017 (edited) Hope you are not going to charge me a modelling fee. Trevor If I do spot any of me in my 70's style brown corduroy flared trousers, I'll be paying YOU to destroy the negatives ! Edited October 25, 2017 by Scottish-Exile 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 Some Beatles, yesterday... honest! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted October 25, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2017 Presumably no Ticket To Ride then.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 Just me?, or does anyone else study all these old platform shots from the 70's & 80's thinking that maybe, just maybe, they'll spot themselves! I do appear in "The Power of the AC Electrics" by Brian Morrison, standing on the platform at B'ham New Street............ 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 Passengers on platform 1, awaiting the next London train, don't seem to be particularly interested in what's arriving at the platform opposite. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 The driver of 55012 Crepello takes a breather at York on 2nd June 1978, as two spotters discuss 'Deltics' in general (possibly). (1279d) 55012 York 2-6-78 (Trevor Ermel) .jpg How many modellers would dare to weather a loco like this?, I wonder. Trevor Even the 'Double Arrow' looks a tad wonky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 Some Beatles, yesterday... honest! PM RS .jpg Nothing better than a Magnum photograph and no better photographer than David Hurn. http://www.beatlesarchive.net/the-beatles-by-david-hurn.html ...but that ain't non of the Acton stations. He should have remembered being here. P 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Just me?, or does anyone else study all these old platform shots from the 70's & 80's thinking that maybe, just maybe, they'll spot themselves! Increasingly, going by the rate people are uploading their old photos of what were once mundane scenes, it's statistically likely I'll find myself in a shot of Bham New Street on a Saturday in the mid 80s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal.n Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Videoing a Cumbrian Mountain Express up Wilpshire Bank, Langho. Passengers look out the window at the Eiger (the first of the middle two) from the Brienz-Rothorn Bahn 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Here's another one at York. Anyone recognise himself? Spotters indulge in a bit of nameplate-rubbing, with 55021 the target on 5th August 1980. Good job they seem to be using wallpaper - Argyll & Sutherland Highlander is one of the longer ones. Trevor 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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