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3 hours ago, Ramrig said:
First photograph: I wonder what the person with glasses and wearing the duffle coat was planning on hitting with that lump hammer in his hand.
That's wheeltappers's mate, four eyes Frank, he's the one ready to straighten the tension lock couplings after a hard shunt.
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Just an update view from Cock Lane 11th Feb 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENx6FXThX0w
Edit:
The above link I have shared only to this thread so there is no embedded picture this time.
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5 hours ago, DaveF said:
The Pitsea photo some of you particularly liked was a lucky shot, I'd dropped my car off at the garage near Southend East and rode on the train to PItsea where I was meeting a friend who was giving me a lift to work. I had a few minutes to spare and had my camera with me so quickly took the photo while I was walking about.
Next come 4 photos from the Newcastle to Carlisle line and one which is near London.
Denton School crossing view east Aug 73 C1371
David
It must have taken a few bags of post fix to secure that. Never seen such a high gate post as that before.
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On 01/01/2024 at 14:44, ess1uk said:
It’s all very quiet here with only a passing mention in the local transport plan
From the Peterborough Telegraph website yesterday.
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21 hours ago, DaveF said:
There should have been 5 photos in the post above but the software must have had too much to drink at lunchtime.
It would only allow me to put two photos in the post, when I tried to upload the rest they wouldn't, when I made one into a much larger file it did upload but then the sysytem wouldn't allow me to edit the post.
I have managed to upload the photo below then it won't upload any more. Andy Y does know about the problem, I suspect that at this time of year it may take a little while for it to be sorted out, so this may be the last post for now.
Edmondthorpe and Wymondham view west July74 J3804
David
Every rail enthusiasts must have, the ubiquitous duffle bag, with strings that cut through your shoulders should it contain more than a Combined Volume and a Lyon's pie.😀
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1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:
I am planning to model a railtour rake for the MSC, there are plenty of different options:
Mostly steel highs:
Mostly brakevans:
Old passenger coach:
What an interesting set of photos which leads to more of the Manchester Ship Canal Railways.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/50559291@N03/albums/72157717287093953/
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1 hour ago, DaveF said:
Nottingham Midland in black and white comes next. Once again Dad was using his track permit.
Nottingham Midland 2P 40417 down pass c1948 JVol2170
David
A rather ornate lamp on the side of the building and another one just showing on the opposite side.
I wonder what those two contraptions are on the platform?
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8 hours ago, mullie said:
The photos without trains are just as interesting, few photographers capture infrastructure the way you do.
Best wishes
Martyn
Agree with that Matryn. Infrastructure can be very interesting and a lot of Davids photos show this very well such as the latest Swayfield batch. I always like the train in the landscape views rather than those three-quarter shots of just locos that almost everyone takes.
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1 hour ago, DaveF said:A batch of photos at Skipton. One or two may have been posted more recently, if so my apologies, for some reason my records are a bit vague about this batch.
Edit. It has just occurred to me that I could have searched this thread to see what was posted when. It's a bit late now but I will try to remember in future when I have doubts about a photo. Meanwhile enjoy them even if you have seen any before.
David
50 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:Frankly, David, since most of your photos are simply irreproducible, if the occasional 'duplicate' slips through, no-one here will die in a ditch. Don't waste too much time on this!
Like Ian said David, no-one is going to be bothered about duplicates. This thread is no different to thumbing through your favourite photo book time after time.😀
We all know it is quite a commitment to post something every day and we really appreciate the effort you put into this.
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1 hour ago, DaveF said:
An assortment from the eastern side of the country. Somewhat late as I had to go out this morning.
Huntingdon Class 47 up ex pass June 75 C2065 This is one of very few of my photos of which I have no idea of why I was there or even exactly where I was.
David
St. Peters Road Huntingdon.
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38 minutes ago, DaveF said:
I am sure you will have noticed that sometimes I post a batch of photos which have nothing to do with each other yet at other times post a batch all from one place or in the order of ajourney on the line. Looking at the photos I shall be reposting on here in the next few months there are a lot of singletons and pairs so quite often I will post a simple batch of photos with nothing in common - in fact as I go through the present batch of photos it will happen more often.
I mention it so that you will know there is a reason.
For today I am finishing with a batch of five photos, the first four are all related, the fifth is not.
Seaton girder bridge across B672 LNWR Rugby to Peterborough line May 69 J1663
Seaton LNWR May 69 J1666
Seaton LNWR Uppingham branch bay on left May 69 J1667
Seaton LNWR May 69 J1668
David
Also featuring the Harringworth Viaduct in the background of photos 1 and 4 in the lovely Welland Valley.
So sad to see the destruction at Seaton.
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1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said:
S*d the ballast - look at the point switch rails.
Its just a new gizmo for reducing the back to back measurements of your wheel sets.🙄
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4 hours ago, Stuart A said:
I was in the right place at the right time on Saturday night at Kings Cross
Nice video of 91101 arriving. I captured the very same train a little while earlier moving slowly at Werrington Junction.
The clip is in the video below at 27:00 minutes in.
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12 hours ago, DaveF said:
Something a bit different this morning. Three photos taken earlier this month at Damdykes, just south of Cramlington and two of the NBR Rothbury branch from Scotsgap Junction.
One shows the Fontburn viaduct, the other is captioned to try to explain it.
BSC_8242 Wards Hill 22nd Sept 23 This is taken looking north from the very minor road between Embleton Terrace (The Lee) to the east and nowhere in particular to the west but eventually you get to Forestburn Gate. To the left of centre is a farm, further left and further away is a second farm. In front of the second farm but behind the first farm is a long curving hedge. To the right of the first farm in the centre the hedge become broken up but leads to a line of trees to the right. This is near enough the trackbed of the branch.
There is a second line in the photo, if you look at the nearest trees then in the field beyond them left centre of the photo there is a darker coloured line in the grass running left to right. Again this is roughly the trackbed of a branch line which went to a pit just out of shot to the right on this side of the trees.
Behind me there was a quarry which had a short stretch of line to carry stone from the working face, it was not connected to the Rothbury branch.
Almost wherever you go in Northumberland there are remains of railways and pits etc.
If you type "Forestburn Gate Morpeth" or "Wards Hill Quarry Northumberland" into Google Earth you can bring up an aerial view which shows it clearly.
David
I find Google Maps aerial views are great way to follow old trackbeds. There are still many scars left on the landscape by railways that closed nearly a hundred years ago.
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7 hours ago, DaveF said:
Some photos from around the Southern, some are better than others.
Bobbing 423 7880 up May 75 C2090 going away
Bobbing Class 423 7861 Victoria to Ramsgate Sat 23rd April 77 C3306
David
Those above photos two years apart shows how quick nature soon reclaims the land. It would never happen like that in steam days with a few leaky ashpans to control the growth.
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51 minutes ago, DaveF said:
Now today's final set on the LNWR.
Welford and Kilworth station LNWR Rugby to Peterborough line May 69 J1691
David
His & Hers bath tubs conveniently hung ready for placing on the platform and to be filled with the slacker pipe of the last passing train before taking a skinny dip under the stars.😁
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4 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:
Petrol pumps have different colour fillers for diesel & petrol (and they won't plug into all-electric cars)
It still doesn't stop you putting petrol in a diesel.😢
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49 minutes ago, DaveF said:
I often think people perceived danger differently then. All the adults had lived through at least one war so they were perhaps more aware of risk and a bit less inclined to worry about things that might injure them as opposed to things that could kill them without them being able to do anything about it. The children in the photos were being brought up by those people, they were often allowed a lot of freedom, but as I well remember, life became unpleasant if one did something really dangerous as a child and a parent found out!
As examples of freedom given to children - when I was about 9 I was allowed to sail a dinghy by myself, at the same age I regularly brought the cows in for milking on a friends farm and used milking machines. Around the same time I used to visit the local signalbox. I used to walk or cycle to school which was over a mile away outside the village, the road had a narrow pavement to walk on. When I was about 12 I learnt to steer and once proficient at that to drive a traction engine I don't think many children have that freedom now. It is interesting to see the ages at which various people say it is safe to let a child walk to school by themself nowadays.
When I was 14 I went to France by myself for the first time, Dad made sure I caught the ferry at Newhaven. I met some family friends in Paris and travelled with them to Albi, near Toulouse where they lived. Coming home I did the journey by myself from Albi to Newhaven via Dieppe.
I had a friend at grammar school whose parents were living in Hong Kong, he stayed with hios grandparents in term time. They took him to Heathrow at the end of term and he flew to Hong Kong by himself - though there must have been some arrangement with the airline.
The other thing is that most of the people going to events then were interested in railways and many had been visiting sheds etc officially or otherwise and had probably soaked up a lot of the ways in which railway personnel behaved.
Over the years I have seen some of the more dangerous behaviour at preserved railways and can understand why things are so different now - I once saw people running along carriage roofs and have even seen people standing on the track to take a photo of an approaching train.
David
Being from the same era as you I can relate to all those examples you quoted and I also find as I get older that more and more things often trigger the memory of those childhood moments. Children today miss so much in their early years not having the freedom we had which is quite sad really. Living in the countryside it was a three mile bike ride to school from the age of 10. Now living in the quiet suburbs my neighbour takes her kids of 10 and 12 to school and home again by car, 951 yards away! Constantly looking at their mobile phones I doubt they would be able to find their way home again if they had to.🙄
Whilst I'm here, many thanks for your photos every day, they really are interesting and appreciated. Not an easy task to keep doing that.
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2 hours ago, DaveF said:
Middleton Railway Middleton Railway Claytons Works LMS brake van Sept 65 J370
David
Care free and enjoyable times exploring and learning for the kids before health and safety and the lawyers got involved.
The occasional grazed knee and a splinter in your finger wasn't going to kill you.
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1 hour ago, melmerby said:
It looks like new passenger stock with barrier wagons.......
Correct.
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3 hours ago, 31A said:
I thought of Lenwade too, but is it not going the wrong way for that?
They have probably come from Dow-Mac at Tallington and heading towards Ely.
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2 hours ago, Metr0Land said:
ooops (hopefully we haven't had this one before?)
I have it on good authority from Thomas that Devious Diesel pushed BoCo in the pit for being too smelly.😁
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5 hours ago, DaveF said:
Today starts at Bridgnorth on the Severn Valley Railway over 50 years ago in 1970 and 1971.
Back then you could go just about anywhere on site as long as you kept off the running line. I also think the shed was out of bounds.
David
""Back then you could go just about anywhere on site as long as you kept off the running line.""
Back in the days when everyone was responsible for their actions and used that now rare commodity called common sense.
But then again there where some who took on very risky jobs without any safety gear who should have known better, as demonstarted by the chap stringing wires on the telegraph pole
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18 minutes ago, russ p said:
Excellent pictures again David
I didn't realise the connection from Peterborough East to what is now the nene Valley lasted so late. I doesn't look like its used very much in the picture
It was still open for iron ore trains from the Nassington Quarry which closed in February 1971.
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Jim’s “out and about with GBRf” thread
in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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Just be careful you don't end up at that white building with the blue sign.🤕