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A shot on my web site taken outdoors when the 1850's 2-2-2T was displayed at Braga:

Turkiye Seker Fabrikalari/Turhal Sugar Factory using an 0-6-0ST built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns (RSH 7310/1947)? Thank you for putting the record straight. There were actually very few British outline locomotives in Turkey. The one that you've defined was the only one at a sugar factory. There were a few *very few) solatary examples at coal mines and about half the fleet at a steel mill was British. Within the large postwar TCDD steam fleet only the twenty 8F's were of British outline.

It was an 8F, not a Black 5.

Much of the Dutch steam fleet had British origins, John. Here's a link to my collection of pre-war Dutch negatives on my web site …….. https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railway-overseas/Europe/Dutch-Railways/Holland-Nederland-1/ Mike M.

For what it's worth, I think the loco is one of the 15 Kitson built C5 class dating from 1896 - 1898. Readers of this thread might be interested in viewing my (very) small collection of pre-partition original negatives ......... https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railway-overseas/Asian-railways/Indian-railways-archive/Indian-pre1947/ My Dutch web galleries also feature plenty of British built locos .............. Pre-WW2 https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railway-overseas/Europe-Scandinavia/Dutch-Railways/Holland-Nederland-1/ Post-war https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railway-overseas/Europe-Scandinavia/Dutch-Railways/Holland-2-Nederland/

These images are all in the British heritage gallrt on my web site at https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railways-British-Isles/Heritage/Heritage-pre-1972-on-BR/ Rgds, Mike M.

I can't understand why it is that I seem to be the only one who waxes lyrical over small steam in a big landscape. I've always loved this shot of a southbound Stanier 5MT scuttling southwards at Salterwath Bridge over the River Lune just south of Tebay in August 1964. This view is still possible, but sadly only from a moving vehicle on the southbound M6. Stanier 8F class 2-8-0 no. 48111 at Ais Gill on May 28th, 1967. The car seems to be an Austin A40 hatchback Stanier 8F class 2-8-0 no. 48327 has assistance from an unidentified classmate in this impressive picture as the pair storm up Chequerbent incline. An unidentified Stanier Jubilee class 4-6-0 at Wigston South Junction on an unspecified date.

The angled lines that look like digital interference are actually rain of the stair rods variety.

The image from an original negative that I selected for my web site's "Picture of the Week" this week (2015/29) features ARGYLL on the C&MLR at Campbeltown: https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Picture-of-the-week/PotW-2015/i-3DD59dr/A The thumbnail images for this year's PotW's is: https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Picture-of-the-week/PotW-2015/ Mike M. https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/

Thanks for that, Paul. Appreciated. Mike

And another shot of the same loco but in Caledonian livery but does anyone recognise the station where it was taken?

Thank you, gentlemen. Yes, that is a footbridge in the background and so Connel Ferry it is. Mike M.

Now that we are back 'on topic' I wish to firstly express my gratitude to you all for the volume of visits to the Scottish section of my web site. The web site is finacially a dead loss and the self-gratification is derived from both the number of image 'hits' as well as the immense contributions of background data that are provided by the site's viewers. Secondly - and it wasn't my original intention - I wonder if this forum's members would be prepared to help me with identifying locations and/or dates for some of the many undeocumented negatives that I have here and haven't yet uploaded to the web. I'ev been restoring pre-nat and pre-group Scottish material recently and have a few with no supporting notes other than the engine numbers and sometimes a date which often turns out to from the realms of fiction. One such example is shown below. The engine numbers are 14622 & 14763 and the sleeve states that it was taken in 1936 can anyone here name the location please? Mike M.

Thank you, John. Appreciated. Mike M.

Ian, Thank you following this up but please don't concern yourself on my behalf considerate though that is. Original images (be they negatives or transparencies) are recycled on a considerable scale and that has been the case for decades but you seem to be unaware of that publicly accessible market. It isn't a secret brotherhood or anything of that kind. Perhaps we should be devoting more attention to the internet sellers of such material who have no interest in the subject matter, in transport or in us but buy the material from the same sources as I do for sums that most of us can't afford and then resell to heaven knows whom for huge profits and always claim that they are selling "with copyright" which is absolute rubbish. Even the main source doesn't mention the 'C' word in its sales blurb! There was a recent (only a fortnight ago) stream of postings on the SEmG e-group on this subject. The reason for that isn't being mentioned here because it doesn't pertain to Scotland but the only two postings which stood out were (paraphrased): If such a case ended up in court then m'lud would almost certainly dismiss it, award the costs to the plaintiff and consign him to seven days in jankers for wasting the court's time. If the letter of the law was applied right across the board then our beloved monthly archive magazines and all those erudite books we love so much would wither on the vine almost overnight. Your comment concerning the length of copyright is correct and the follow-up message is sadly ill-informed. The copyright on original material made prior to 1/1/1945 died a natural death on 31/1/1994 under the 50 year rule. The 70 year rule quoted in that same recent posting does not apply to pre-war images and the web link in that posting leads one to a very misleading guide. It isn't wrong but it's a long way from being helpful. Try this one instead: http://www.semgonline.com/copyright.html which was compiled with the able assistance of copyright lawyers. Lastly, it is no surprise that you have the same printed image attributed to different people. Some of my collection has beeen through at least four ownerships in its lifetime and there'll be at least one more after I become daisy food. Rgds, Mike M.