RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted March 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2019 The insulators and trunking on the end of the building, presumably for the Booking Office phone, also match up by the look of it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted March 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2019 Having seen the other photos I’m back on board with Pangbourne. The main line platforms were removed in the mid 70s to allow the line speed to be raised to 125 for HSTs (I believe from 90) by slewing the lines towards the island platform building. It remained in place but with access only from the Reliefs side. Paul. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2019 7 hours ago, jonny777 said: You may well be right, Brian. I just thought the station signs under the awnings were blue, but that maybe my eyesight. The running in board doesn't look blue - and the more I stare at it the more regularly it shouts out "Pangbourne". It is definitely Pangbourne - and probably a 1950s photo as it still has gas lights on the platform and a GWR blue on white enamelled notice on the Up Relief platform, definitely taken no later than April/May 1964 as the telegraph poles are still present. The view is from adjacent to the west end of the (principal) building on the Up Relief side looking over the opposite Down Relief platform towards the village (in the background), the railings around the subway stairs over on the island platform are one giveaway for the locationbut the general arrangement and background is pure Pangbourne. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 20, 2019 Author Share Posted March 20, 2019 I found this image in a strip of negatives taken at Doncaster. The subject is 31285, but my attention was drawn to the livery of the coaches in the background. It is not one that I am familiar with, but then I live a long way from the ECML these days. Can someone enlighten me please? The info would help to date the image. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 (edited) Hull Trains - image scraped from Google not mine, this was around 2006 Edited March 20, 2019 by woodenhead 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted March 20, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2019 Agree with that, here is one at Doncaster in May 2007. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 20, 2019 Author Share Posted March 20, 2019 Thanks both, for the info. I will go for 2006-ish as the approximate date in that case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 28 minutes ago, jonny777 said: Thanks both, for the info. I will go for 2006-ish as the approximate date in that case. I would say nearer May 2007 - that gravel in Dave's pic looks very similar to your picture - how long would it stay that clean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 20, 2019 Author Share Posted March 20, 2019 Yes, thanks. I hadn't noticed that, but as you say the condition looks almost identical. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Can anyone shed any light on this? Date and location would be a great help. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Western Champion 1985 - going to say Swindon 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Thanks. I thought D1015 was stored undercover? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Actually, Swindon Works is probably spot on. Because on the same film this has turned up.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2019 I would say Swindon, this image is taken further from the mainline, but the pylons in the background seem similar, and is that grounded body the same one? This was 1980 so by 1985 and after 'that' announcement I am guessing the yard had been cleared of alot of those locos. The colour looks a bit off though, too brown and not not enough golden on my monitor. Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Thanks Dave. Yes I thought that about the Western livery. It might be the film, or my scanner but it looks similarly too brown on my monitor as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2019 2 hours ago, jonny777 said: Thanks Dave. Yes I thought that about the Western livery. It might be the film, or my scanner but it looks similarly too brown on my monitor as well. But the van in the background looks positively yellow 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 On my monitor, the van looks a rather browny yellow; at least compared with D1015's syp. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 (edited) Some brake vans, especially departmental ones, had weird colour schemes. Here's one with a yellow end, blue sides and a home-made wooden nameplate "Bertie" Edited March 23, 2019 by eastwestdivide Where did my text go! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2019 (edited) Definitely Swindon Works most likely 1985, probably during the visit of the annual Swindon Ambassador Railtour, where things were dragged about to give an appearance. D1015 had been freshly painted in time for our visit and not long before or after Old Oak Open Day. D1015 was Ochre Brown, if you look closely you’ll notice the other cab end had a wrap around yellow horizontal stripe that wrapped around the cab ends over the half yellow end... made it look very odd, no idea if it was authentic. here is the history, and pictures of the other end, http://www.westernchampion.co.uk/loco-d1015-history-pres.php Edited March 23, 2019 by adb968008 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 23, 2019 The yellow panel with wrap-round bar was one of the early experiments in warning panels, I think it was unique to the loco 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 Please help me with this. It is a purchased negative of a location that I can't say I have ever been to, which makes it a little worrying given how easy it appears to get close-up photos. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsoundmove Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 47532@Buxton MPD 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 Thanks for the ID. It does make me feel a little better because I actually have never been there. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 24, 2019 17 hours ago, keefer said: The yellow panel with wrap-round bar was one of the early experiments in warning panels, I think it was unique to the loco And never arrived in traffic in that form. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 (edited) EDIT: now solved - Elstree. Thanks to Clive Mortimore. Hope you don't mind me piggybacking on this thread, but it seems to be where the mystery location experts hang out... Over in my Pacer thread, I posted a photo of 141001 on a 4-track electrified main line: ... I've a suspicion it's between St Pancras and Bedford, but can't find my notes, or work out a potential candidate station. Ta. Edited April 28, 2019 by eastwestdivide solved Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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