Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

[Chris Turnbull]

Some interesting stuff on the Leek and Manifold here:

 

 

Chris Turnbull

[Market65]

LHi, Dave. I like the latest Blyth and Tyne photo’s. They are full of interest, and the last photo’ is particularly good of a class 37, at Lynemouth, in August, 1980.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[russ p]

Great photographs David

I'd forgotten what an impressive structure Sleekburn viaduct is.

Not many steel viaducts left now and the way traffic is disappearing up there you wonder how long that one will last

[DaveF]

Northumberland for a third day, this time mainly in and around Blyth.

 

The photos are mainly infrastructure/civil engineering.

 

 

Blyth site of 1841 waggonway Barrington to Point Pleasant Jan 81 C5271  This is the site of the jetty used to load the first screw driven steam collier, SS Bedlington which could carry 40 loaded chaldron waggons to North Shieldswshere the coal was transferred to sea going steamers.

 

 

Blyth South Side Town staithes June 80 C5065  The staithes were cut down and used for moorings.

 

 

Blyth PS Waverley and dredger Cresswell May 82 C5662

 

 

Blyth 19th April 85 C6950  Unloading a tank wagon to be used as oil storage to service ships.

 

 

Blyth Bates 56127 export coal 8th April 91 C15774

 

 

Boghouses embankment of Plessey waggonway of 1699 April 81 C5332  The waggonway ran from Plessey Pit to Blyth harbour.

 

 

David

Edited July 14, 2018 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the photos from around Blyth which are all full of interest. In C6950, at Blyth, on the 19th April, 1985, with a tank wagon being unloaded so it can be used as storage of oil, to service ships, I just hope all went well, and that there were no accidents.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[Blackthorn]

Should have done, jonny, but he was actually called Cooking Fat in a sort of spoonerist attempt at humour; perhaps the attacks were revenge for this outrage.

That made me laugh so much, it reminded me of a birthday card I got a few years ago.....

[DaveF]

Leaving Northumberland we head west to Cumbria, visiting Carlisle in the Spring and late summer of 1987 for today's photos. 

 

For a change the sun came out one one of the visits.

 

 

Carlisle Class 108 54245 and 53962 Carlisle to Barrow 14th April 1987 C8268

 

 

Carlisle 87024 Euston to Glasgow 21st April 87 C8350

 

 

Carlisle 87003 Euston to Stranaer 21st April 87 C8358

 

 

Carlisle 87021 Glasgow to Euston 1st Sept 87 C9097

 

 

Carlisle 87005 Euston to Inverness The Clansman 1st Sept 87 C9102

 

 

Edited to correct my spelling.

David

Edited July 13, 2018 by DaveF

[keefer]

always liked that version of InterCity livery, with the half-black ends - very smart and purposeful

Edited July 13, 2018 by keefer

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the photo’s of Carlisle. A collection which are, of course, so historical. I particularly like C9097, of 87021, on a Glsagow to Euston service on the 1st September, 1987. A splendid view of Robert The Bruce.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[russ p]

always liked that version of InterCity livery, with the half-black ends - very smart and purposeful

Designed in the days when designers actually knew what a train was!

[DaveF]

Wales today, with a few photos taken along the Cambrian Coast line.

 

No trains, but the photos may provide information for modellers.

 

 

Barmouth railway bridge by quay 26th July 01 C25442

 

 

Barmouth viaduct 26th July 01 C25443

 

 

Harlech view north 26th July 01 C25445

 

 

Minfordd view up 25th July 02 C26004

 

 

Minfordd view down 25th July 02 C26005

 

 

David

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Cambrian Coast Line photo's, which are full of interest, and the scenery is as outstanding as ever. In the last one at Minfordd, apart from the sharply curved platform, you can see a van, which might be an ex LNER example. If not, I'm not sure which company it might be from.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

I can't remember when I last posted any photos of the Nene Valley Railway, so I'll start today with a few from visits in the late 70s and early 80s.

 

I always used to enjoy seeing their locos and stock from mainland Europe in action.

 

 

Orton Mere Swedish 1178 running round Aug 77 C3527

 

 

Wansford DB 2-6-2T 064 305 Aug 77 C3528

 

 

Wansford Nene Valley Nord 230D116 Wansford to Orton Mere April 78 C3797

 

 

Wansford BR Class 5 73050 June 82 C5683

 

 

Orton Mere BR Class 5 73050 June 83 C6283

 

 

David

[dvdlcs]

The pictures of Minfordd were interesting to see.

 

My first thought when I saw the up view was "was it always like that or is this a double line that was singled and the platform moved?" but looking at the picture can see that the platform previously extended beyond the bridge so presumably was always a single line.

 

Both views show that originally there was more railway land on the other side of the line, now fenced off.

 

I was intrigued by the van in the down view, particularly as it looks like it isn't a grounded body but could be on an underframe and therefore possibly on (isolated) rails.

[sir douglas]

i believe minffordd was always like that

[73c]

The coach in C3527 look's like part of an emu drivers cab/brake.

[Dan Griffin]

I can't remember when I last posted any photos of the Nene Valley Railway, so I'll start today with a few from visits in the late 70s and early 80s.

 

I always used to enjoy seeing their locos and stock from mainland Europe in action.

 

 

Wansford DB 2-6-2T 064 305 Aug 77 C3528.jpg

Wansford DB 2-6-2T 064 305 Aug 77 C3528

 

 

 

 

David

 

This German tank last steamed in 1986 (the year I was born!), and has been stored at Wansford ever since. It is undercover in their running shed and does sometimes draws visitors who come to see this particular loco due to its role in one the darkest parts of the past.

 

it has been confirmed that this German tank used to  haul train loads of Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz during the second world war.

 

Here is my picture of it in 2016 stored but looking in not too bad shape.

[Dan Griffin]

The coach in C3527 look's like part of an emu drivers cab/brake.

yes it is, in the very early years on the NVR they used to have the 4COR unit as hauled stock. along with, I think, a car from the birghton belle Pullman train.

 

http://www.railwayherald.co.uk/imagingcentre/view/501567/PL

 

http://www.railwayherald.co.uk/imagingcentre/view/460549/IS429910011531663435

Edited July 15, 2018 by Dan Griffin

[DaveF]

ECML again for this afternoon.

 

 

Swayfield Class 55 9011 down Kings X to Edinburgh May 72 C938

 

 

Swayfield Class 47 down ex pass Sept 70 C366

 

 

Corby Glen Class 55 up May 74 J3690  55021

 

 

Grantham Oct 73 C1423

 

 

Dry Doddington CLass 55 9007 Pinza down ex pass April71 C572

 

 

David

Edited July 19, 2018 by DaveF

[russ p]

Love the atmospheric shot of Grantham David.

I notice in your ECML pictures it seemed quite a common occurrence to have brake coaches the wrong way round

[corneliuslundie]

Red sky at night - photographers' delight1

Jonathan

Or was it in the morning and this a dire warning?

[DaveF]

Red sky at night - photographers' delight1

Jonathan

Or was it in the morning and this a dire warning?

 

 

It was evening, taken from the bridge where the old A1 into Grantham crossed the railway.

 

David

[Enterprisingwestern]

Love the atmospheric shot of Grantham David.

I notice in your ECML pictures it seemed quite a common occurrence to have brake coaches the wrong way round

 

On an end to end railway, depending upon which end they were marshalled, brake coaches would be the wrong way round dependent on the end of the consist they were put.

 

Mike.

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. The Nene Valley Railway photo’s are fantastic, and British stock on that line has always been quite unusual, if you see what I mean. A delightful line for all the preserved stock from continental countries. What a grim history for that tank engine, 64305.

 

The ECML photo’s are as great as ever, and I love the Deltic hauled expresses. Then that remarkable pink sky in C1423, a painting could be produced from that.

Surely those brake coaches would be as easy to marshall the right way round as the wrong way, or is there something I’m missing?

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[Davexoc]

I notice in your ECML pictures it seemed quite a common occurrence to have brake coaches the wrong way round

Just checked through some of my pics and it was common on the WCML in the 70s-80s too, whereas WR commuter brakes seemed to crop up somewhere towards the middle.

 

Dave