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The Border Reiver

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  1. I am looking vary pensive as my photo is taken beside Class 47 D1579 at Darlington Bank Top Station, along with my faithful notebook visible in the blazer pocket. Those were the days when you could live on Lyons Gala Fruit Pies and ice cold milk from the machines on the station platforms and wore what your parents sent you out in! I didn't normally wear my school cap when out spotting but it was a wet day and I hated getting my hair wet.
  2. A slight twist on the thread title, we have 'Start of the Tugs'. Here are some photos I took ouside the Brush Works at Loughborough on a miserable wet day Sunday 27th July 1991. I was lucky in that all locos had their front numbers painted on as most did not have their side numbers.. 60073 with no number, no sector decals or 'Cairn Gorm' nameplates. On the right we have 60069 complete with number, coal sector decals and 'Humphry Davy' nameplates. Centre is 60011 'Calder Idris' probably in the works for rectification. On the left is 60075 with no number, sector decals or 'Liathach' nameplates. 60069 with no number but with coal sector decals and 'Humphry Davy' nameplates. 60074 with no number, sector decals or 'Braeriach' nameplates. On the right is 60076. 60072 with no number, sector decals or 'Cairn Toul' nameplates. On the right is 60068 'Charles Darwin'. 60068 with no number, sector decals but carrying its 'Charles Darwin' nameplates. On the right is 60071 and left 60072. 60071 with its number and coal sector decals but not carrying its 'Dorothy Garrod' nameplates. On the left is 60068.
  3. Checking out photos on the internet, it looks like it is 4141. https://www.flickr.com/photos/8755708@N07/6823915756/in/photostream/ Thanks all for your help...
  4. Thats what I initially thought.... but as there were no 61xx locos at Barry in1966, I then thought its a 5101 class loco of which ten listed in the posts above were at Barry in 1966 (4156, 4157, 4164 and 5182 being cut up before 1966). I will have to try and eliminate them one by one by looking at photos on the web
  5. I took this photo in Woodham's scrapyard, Barry in August 1966 and have been trying to identify which class and/or loco it is. I'm not very good at identifying GWR tank classes as many are similar to each other. I found an identical photo in the same position on the internet, but alas that also did not give the locos number.
  6. One instance when it travelled the WR was on 5 June 1965 when it was at the head of a Scottish Locomotive Preservation Fund special. The train had originated in Edinburgh and travelled via the ECML and the N&C to Carlisle behind A3 no 60052 Prince Palatine. The A3 had unfortunately failed at Carlisle and 60027 had been hurriedly commandeered to take over for the journey back to Edinburgh via the Waverley route. http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/singleimage.php?id=30944 Regards Howie
  7. Hi Bob, The only ones I remember seeing on the route are these 4 - not sure where their front plates were located though. 61007 Klipspringer 61221 Sir Alexander Erskine-Hill 61244 Strang Steel 61245 Murray of Elibank Regards Howie
  8. Thanks for confirming the photo of 30499 was taken at Cardiff. Now, can anyone confirm this pannier tank photo was taken at Landore? My record shows I was in west Wales as later that day I visited Barry scrapyard. The date was 18 August 1966. Also, has anyone any idea what the locos number is?
  9. Hi I have been cataloguing some of my early slides, some of which I don't know/remember the location where they were taken as I have misplaced my notes. Here is a photo of 30499 being towed through a station in June 1966, and as I found out later, on its way to Woodham's at Barry. Can anyone identify the station it is taken at?
  10. If you have bought the original negative then the copyright belongs to you....
  11. Yup... the photo is taken on the WR at Parkhouse, Parkhouse Halt is just the other side of the bridge. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=54.936425,-2.9603&hl=en&ll=54.936068,-2.958605&spn=0.007187,0.01899&sll=54.935032,-2.959228&sspn=0.014374,0.03798&t=h&z=16 Howie
  12. Which overbridge is this though? Don't ever recall seeing it before, and I don't believe the Steele Road caption: http://www.railpictorial.com/piwigo/picture.php?/3758/category/13 Your right.... Its about 40 miles south of Steel Road! The loco is about to pass under a bridge (now demolished) at Brisco. 3 miles south of Carlisle. I took dozens of photos around that location in the 1960s http://Google map location : https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.0769212,-3.0421186&z=9&output=classic&dg=opt Edit The building behind the bridge was Brisco station
  13. Looking through my negatives, I found this photo of 9F 92060 on a Consett bound train. I havn't got the date recorded but I think it was sometime in 1966. I'm also not too sure of the location; I have it marked down as Stanley. Perhaps some of you experts can enlighten me on that? It was in the transition stage from steam to diesel and we thought we better go and get some photos before steam ended. Having travelled from Carlisle as a pillion passenger on a Triumph, I can remember that the weather was not kind to us! We saw four 9Fs that day (one on ore empties heading from consett) and D5180 on a full ore train.
  14. Ref my phoro of the iron ore wagon on a passing Consett train. To complete the sequence here is the 9F at the head of the train and guards van at the rear. Both slides, being 50 years old, were heavily contaminated with mould/fungus which I have done my best to remove. BR Riddles Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 No. 92098 heads a Tyne Dock-Consett iron ore train past Tyne Dock shed circa 1964/5 A guards van on a Tyne Dock-Consett iron ore train passing Tyne Dock shed circa 1964/5
  15. Here are a couple of photos I took in 1965. A close up of the Westinghouse air pumps on 9F 92065 at Tyne Dock shed circa 1965 Iron ore wagon on a passing Consett train
  16. First passenger train over the sea wall this morning (2T03, 0534 Exeter St Davids to Paignton) was terminated at Newton Abbot "due to a problem with the brakes". Hopefully it was not caused by sea water or wet cement!!
  17. Here is a better crop of 70801 and 70804 from another photo...
  18. 70801 and 70804 at a very wet Westbury station this afternoon
  19. Took these photos at Westbury station yesterday while waiting for 70801 which never arrived!
  20. As I found out to my cost waiting on a freezing Westbury station this afternoon !! Howie
  21. Here are a few Class 47 photos I took in the mid 1960s with my old Ilford Sportsman camera A few days old, brand new Brush Type 4 D1525, later to be renumbered as Class 47/4 47422, stands in the shed yard at Gateshead on 23 June 1963. Withdrawn in August 1991 it was cut up by Booth-Roe Metals, Rotherham in June i993 A few months old, Brush Type 4 No. D1795, later to be renumbered as Class 47/3 47314, stands at Darlington Shed in April 1965. Withdrawn in February 2007 it was cut up by European Metal Rec Kinbry in April 2008 New Brush Type 4 No. D1518 at Gateshead shed 7 weeks after being built on 21st July 1963. Later to be renumbered as Class 47 47419. The loco was withdrawn on 11 February 1987 from Gateshead shed GD and cut up by V Berry Leicester in January 1990 A few weeks old, Brush Type 4 No. D1520 at Gateshead shed on a damp overcast day on 21st July 1963, a few weeks weeks after being built. Later to be renumbered as Class 47 47421. The loco was withdrawn on 27 September 1991, reinstated on March 1994 and finally withdrawn in May 1994 and cut up by by MRJ Phillips at Crewe works in March 1997 Edited to include details of photos
  22. Rumor has it that FGW has reserved 3 of Allelys rigs and will be roading power cars to Laira for maintenance - probably out of St Philips Marsh and down the M5/A38.
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