Locomotive portraits

[iands]

Digging through a long forgotten (ahem) filling system, I've come across a handful of photos from the early 1970s (either '71 or '72). Apologies for the quality, at the time I only had a Boots Beirette Camera (model 11 I believe) that cost me about £8 - 4 weeks worth of pocket money spent in one go! So compared to the quality of just about every other photo on this thread, they are pretty poor. However, they still represent a record of things past, even if I wasn't (and never will be) a budding David Bailey.

 

Although I don't have the dates, I do have all the loco numbers.

 

The first three are at Riccall South on the former ECML between Selby and York before this section of line was closed and diverted for the development of the Selby Coalfield, ironically itself now closed.

 

This is 275 heading towards York on the Down Main.

 

Likewise, this is 5652.

 

And this is 1779 heading south with a freightliner service.

 

The next few were taken on a trip around Lincolnshire. Other than I recall it was a Sunday sometime in either '71 or '72, the date escapes me, but again I have all the loco numbers.

 

First up is 1782 at Melton Ross heading in a westerly direction.

 

Next a couple taken at Lincoln MPD. D4061 accompanying 50048 that appears to have lost (heavily) a fight with something.

 

And 56048 (50048s mate) that seems to have been a donor of spare parts.

 

Next up is Immingham shed, and on display (rather fuzzily) are 1868, 1561, 1866, 1876, 1768, 1864, 1529 and 1706.

 

And finally, probably the best photo in quality terms (although it is still pretty poor) are 1556, 278, 4051, 4062, 4059, 4050, 4053 and 12121.

 

Hope they are of some interest and perhaps provide some memories of how things once were.

 

Regards, Ian.

 

 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

For some reason, I can't find this in the RCTS series on Locomotives of the LNER..........

 

[chaz]

For some reason, I can't find this in the RCTS series on Locomotives of the LNER..........

 

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Try volume 99 - "Ghastly Monstrosities".

[bingley hall]

Bendigo, Victoria - 18 April 2018

 

[Peppercorn]

Class 218 just pulling away from Ploen (sorry, German speakers, I don't know how to produce the Umlaut) a couple of weeks ago with an evening train. I didn't realise until I looked at the photo that the leading vehicle was an electric loco.

[Torn-on-the-platform]

Here are a couple of 2018 photos of a couple of foreign steam locomotives that have proved very useful to UK preservation scene:

 

TKH Hotspur at the Churnet Valley Railway in April:

 

NSR 'Norwegian' at KESR, also in April:

[rockershovel]

For some reason, I can't find this in the RCTS series on Locomotives of the LNER..........

 

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In classic motorcycle terms that would be a NAIT - Not Appearing In Tragatsch..

[Andrew s]

45 041 Midland Railway Centre, August 2017.

[Peppercorn]

86243 at, I think, Lancaster. Date unknown, but I think I went there in the autumn of '83. Photo is pretty ropey unfotunately

[Rugd1022]

'Western Lancer' on the south outgoing road at Old Oak in early '74...

 

 

 

[Peppercorn]

I was a bit too close to this locomotive so have ended up with an image whose perspective is somewhat distorted. Nene Valley a couple of days ago. As for 'Tornado', this is the best I could get - barely a portrait, more like the hope of a portrait taken fro inside the workshop

[Peppercorn]

"Set me free -I am not a number..."

[bingley hall]

Taken almost 41 years ago. In September 1977, A4 'Union of South Africa' waits to back down onto its excursion train in Perth......Scotland that is

Still in use today and like the majority of the preserved steam locos in the UK, it has spent more time in preservation than it did in its active life.

 

[pH]

5101 class 2-6-2T #4144 at Didcot on September 28:

 

[pH]

Given that this is not a kettle, a diseasel or a sparky, does everyone like it - or dislike it?

 

 

At Didcot on September 28. Incidentally, this seemed to be the only complete loco not regularly kept under cover. (There were partial locos in the open around the workshop building and a couple like 4144 above out in front of the loco shed.)

Edited October 16, 2018 by pH

[chaz]

Given that this is not a kettle, a diseasel or a sparky, does everyone like it - or dislike it?

 

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At Didcot on September 28. Incidentally, this seemed to be the only complete loco not regularly kept under cover. (There were partial locos in the open around the workshop building and a couple like 4144 above out in front of the loco shed.)

 

 

Ugly devil, but interestingly different. I was told that it left a strong scent of fuel (paraffin?) at any place it passed through.

 

Chaz

[bike2steam]

Given that this is not a kettle, a diseasel or a sparky, does everyone like it - or dislike it?

 

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At Didcot on September 28. Incidentally, this seemed to be the only complete loco not regularly kept under cover. (There were partial locos in the open around the workshop building and a couple like 4144 above out in front of the loco shed.)

 

Wouldn't say I like it, but it does have a place in railway history possibly as a static exhibit.

[EddieB]

At Didcot on September 28. Incidentally, this seemed to be the only complete loco not regularly kept under cover. (There were partial locos in the open around the workshop building and a couple like 4144 above out in front of the loco shed.)

It's essentially an empty bodyshell - hardly a complete locomotive.

 

Ugly devil, but interestingly different. I was told that it left a strong scent of fuel (paraffin?) at any place it passed through.

 

Chaz

Not for nothing irreverently nicknamed "Kerosene Castle"?

 

Actually, it represents a historic and globally important cul-de-sac in locomotive development.  Built in Switzerland, spent many years stored/displayed in Austria before returning back to the UK.  A fascinating locomotive (or what remains of it).

[NCB]

At the time, before anybody looked at the practicalities, gas turbines were thought to be the future. Can remember the fuss being made about the Rover Jet 1:

[Poor Old Bruce]

Ivatt 2MT 2-6-T taken at Oxenhope on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway on Thursday 1st November 2018.

[The Pilotman]

 

34027 Taw Valley stands on the down passenger loop between Newbury Racecourse and Newbury. The train was Past Time Rail's "The Devon Venturer" from Victoria to Exeter which ran out via the Berks and Hants and back via the LSWR route on August 1st 1998. The blue plastic bags at the front of the train were an unofficial stop marker to make sure the loco was in the correct place for the water stop (the tanker lorry was waiting next to a suitable gap in the lineside trees).

[bingley hall]

Former Manchester - Sheffield line 1500v DC electric loco 26020 preserved at the National Railway Museum in York - December 1988.

 

[bingley hall]

On 12 September 1978 on the former Deli Railway in North Sumatra, 75-year old 0-4-4T no.27 was photographed at Tanjungbalai. Built by Hohenzollern in 1903, it is in steam having just brought in a freight off the 4km branch from the port area at Teluk Nibung.

 

[Peppercorn]

Class 466 No. 466001 at Queenborough, Isle of Sheppey, just arrived from Sheerness on 1st Dec 2018

[Peppercorn]

On 12 September 1978 on the former Deli Railway in North Sumatra, 75-year old 0-4-4T no.27 was photographed at Tanjungbalai. Built by Hohenzollern in 1903, it is in steam having just brought in a freight off the 4km branch from the port area at Teluk Nibung.

 

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Is that Allen straight link valve gear?