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jonny777

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  1. Please don't worry about the thread wandering O/T at times. I enjoy all the tangential facts and info that the thread drift brings. Thanks also for the Coryton info. It would be one of the last places I would have guessed but I failed to allow for the trees obscuring the nearby housing. I'm hoping that someone can enlighten me about this station also. To me it looks Lancashire, but that kind of guess usually results in me being hundreds of miles out.
  2. The location of this photo has completely stumped me.
  3. Wow! Thanks everyone. It looks like quite a rare shot, in that case.
  4. Now I have a working laptop again, scanning can be resumed. Fortunately for readers of this thread, this means that unknown locations are appearing once more. I cannot guess where this might be.....
  5. I doubt it. I feel your pain. I ordered an item on 12th, had a despatch email from the shop and an expecting your parcel email from Hermes both on the 17th. The shop say it has been shipped, but Hermes say they haven't received it in their system yet. So someone is wrong and there is not a lot I can do. Probably it accidentally fell into the cab of the van driver rather than the back, and then accidentally fell into his house when he took a fancy to it. (Sorry, the cynicism comes from having a relative working in a parcels centre in previous years and relaying the truth about what goes on in those places). I have contacted the shop by their internal website message system and await a reply. Fortunately, it is a January birthday present so not urgent; but I wonder if I will ever see anything delivered?
  6. Have you ever wished you could run a crazy liveried locomotive on a 1950s steam layout without being subjected to judgmental finger wagging? You might try one of these specials -
  7. Hijack away - this thread was never meant to be just my queries. Excellent photo, by the way.
  8. This is an interesting photo. 92238 at Evercreech Junction on June 12th 1965. The loco was working a Warwickshire RS tour from Birmingham Snow Hill to Bournemouth and Eastleigh Works. Allegedly the 9F was not in good fettle Amazingly, a b/w negative of this scene has recently sold for £6 on Ebay.
  9. Try this website - https://www.bloodandcustard.com/#MultipleUnits You will need to scroll down for the relevant EMU sections, and I don't think they have finished the 4-VEPs yet; but there is a wealth of detail on most classes within the site.
  10. A little camera shake, sadly; but this is 35012 'United States Lines' arriving at Penrith on the Solway Ranger rail tour of June 13th 1964. The RCTS tour ran from Leeds and featured travel along a number of branch lines in Cumbria (or Cumberland as it was probably called at that time) by a variety of locomotives and a DMU before 35012 returned to Leeds with the train.
  11. I wonder why the junction was named Bo Peep? Was it because of a nearby hostelry?
  12. Excellent, thankyou. And the trackbed of the Brampton branch in the background. Edited to add - it is most likely to be 43121 on 26th March 1967. 'Scottish Rambler No6'.
  13. Here is another which has me stumped. It looks idyllic, and the station is on a sharp curve after the viaduct.I can't quite guarantee the locomotive but it looks like 'flying pig' which may point to a railtour of branch lines of superior scenic quality. I thought it might be the Langholm branch, but there is nothing which matches the exact set up. The Silloth branch is too flat. The Melrose branch doesn't fit either, and neither does the line through Greenlaw and Duns.
  14. One of my favourites is this recording - https://www.mediafire.com/file/zjsjr595rm117t7/v2_leaving_grantham.mp4/file Guaranteed to strike horror into the hearts of every GWR enthusiast.
  15. They seem to have attracted a decent crowd. The occasion must have been well advertised.
  16. Thanks for that info. I did spend some time trying to decide, but concluded the running plate was too low for a Black 5; but as you can tell, I'm no expert.
  17. How did some small diesel shunters travel to/from works visits? Many were attached to loose coupled freight trains, but others must have moved like this example on the S&C behind a Black 5 (thanks to LMS2968 for the correction). I have zoomed in on the detail, but am still not entirely sure which class of shunter that is.
  18. Thanks all. Yes, I had no idea the platforms were originally opposite. I must read more history of the route.
  19. There is no station nameboard on my photo. I checked for that on the original before I posted it. If I knew where it was, from a station nameboard on an image, I would not waste everyone's time.
  20. Here is another one on the northern WCML, I suspect. I am not familiar with many locations there. I have been through them at 100mph but was probably not concentrating on the views out of the carriage window.
  21. This is a grainy photo of a black 5 in 1967, but although I feel I should recognise the location, my brain refuses crank into action. Any ideas folks?
  22. Have you bought a 'Hall' on Ebay, described as "suitable for spares", but wish to plonk it on your layout with some ex-LNER coaching stock? Well, you could get away with it if you model Lutterworth in 1961. 6902 'Butlers Hall' was involved in an accident on the GC and the loco was dumped at the station until its appointment with the scrap man.
  23. Yes, although I didn't do that personally; a work colleague did and cut the film into 38-40 transparency lengths in the darkroom and wound it on to old 35mm spools that we reused many times. I'm not sure where we sent them for processing but I bought a large box of Gepe mounts every so often, and cut the transparencies to fit. It worked out much cheaper than Agfa or Kodak film/processing.
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