DMU Photography - Away from the Three-Quarter View

[lapford34102]

5 minutes ago, mullie said:

Is that Weymouth?

Yes.

 

Stu

[mullie]

Looks like it was taken from the top of the council offices showing the curve round onto the quay and then onto the station on the quay. I've never seen a photo of a DMU on this stretch of line before. Was this common? Line was long closed by the time we moved here in 2004.

 

That scene is incredibly different now with many of the buildings replaced. There is regular talk of getting rid of the rails. If they do lift them it will be a very sad day and remove a lot of the character from this part of town.

 

Great photo

 

Martyn

[lapford34102]

7 minutes ago, mullie said:

Looks like it was taken from the top of the council offices

From the flats behind.

A couple more.

 

 

The one above has been posted before but it's an interesting formation. If you modelled it you'd probably get some odd looks but a great use for a couple of Lima 117 DMBS and old Triang Metro Cammell centre car.

 

Stu

 

[lapford34102]

10 hours ago, mullie said:

I've never seen a photo of a DMU on this stretch of line before. Was this common?

Sorry Mullie, didn't answer your question. The Bristol service only ran in 83 + 84 and went via the Town station so a bit convoluted. Great idea but probably too late. Have a personal connection with the Tram, and in the case of DMMU's my late father took the test unit down in March 83. There's a pic on here somewhere. Remember him saying the biggest problem was all the inspectors etc in the cab making a nuisance of themselves.

Stu

[4630]

A pair of TransPennine Express class 185s exit the east portal of Standedge Tunnel at Marsden on 26th August 2020 with 1P69, 09.36 Manchester Airport to Redcar Central.

[smithlington smithe]

2 hours ago, 4630 said:

A pair of TransPennine Express class 185s exit the east portal of Standedge Tunnel at Marsden on 26th August 2020 with 1P69, 09.36 Manchester Airport to Redcar Central.

This scene looks familiar,I’m sure i have seen this on a Last of the Summer Wine episode 

[4630]

10 minutes ago, smithlington smithe said:

This scene looks familiar,I’m sure i have seen this on a Last of the Summer Wine episode 

Quite possibly.  Marsden crops up reasonably often in TV and film productions and Holmfirth (I know you probably know S S but for anyone who doesn’t) which is where LOTSW was mostly filmed, is only a short distance away across the hills to the east.

 

The position I’ve used in my photo is one of the regulars that you see from around this location.  The other is from the A62 (which is out of shot to the top left).  Alternatively, down by the footpath by the canal basin, which you can just see, either looking towards the Standedge  tunnel portal, or east where the track curves towards Marsden station.

[Davexoc]

Similar shot to the last of Bishopsteignton, but nearer twilight with a similar exposure time, so it seems lighter than it was....

 

[montyburns56]

DMU in the slumscape?

 

Wolseley Street 1982

 

 

 

 

[Market65]

Oh goodness! That photo’ is outstanding in many ways! The DMU makes it’s way along the embankment past broken old slums, two old style electric lights and a telegraph pole.  And a scrapyard  too. Just so grim and  full of grit in a way that you don’t see anymore. A true bygone age which would make a truly great model.

 

Rob.

[Davey]

What a wonderfully evocative photograph of the DMU at Wolseley Street in 1982, and all the better for being in black & white.

 

Forgive my ignorance, but where exactly is Wolseley Street? It looks very reminiscent of the Winson Green are of Birmingham.

 

Davey

[The Pilotman]

46 minutes ago, Davey said:

Forgive my ignorance, but where exactly is Wolseley Street? It looks very reminiscent of the Winson Green are of Birmingham.

 

Davey

Click on the image; all the details are there on Flickr. 

[Trev52A]

Here's a similar sort of shot taken in South Shields in 1979, of a train to Newcastle approaching High Shields station.

 

And yes, I think they do work better in b&w!

 

Trevor

[Davey]

Thanks Western Aviator.

 

Davey

[Davexoc]

4 hours ago, Trev52A said:

And yes, I think they do work better in b&w!

 

You wouldn't get the impact of that wallpaper in B&W

 

Anyway, here's a pic that needs to be in colour, a pair of 802s heading towards Newton Abbot...

 

 

[montyburns56]

DMU's in the snowscape

 

Bordesley Station 1985

 

 

[4630]

Not a class that features that often - a Grand Central class 180 takes the Down L&Y at Thornhill LNW Junction on 1st September 2020 working 1A67, 14.50 Bradford Interchange to London Kings Cross...

 

 

... and will soon pass the overgrown remnants of Healey Mills Yard before reaching its next booked stop at Wakefield Kirkgate.

 

[ruggedpeak]

Almost fresh from the SD card, shots of a Class 755's running between Cambridge and Newmarket on 05/09/2020. These are taken from Devil's Ditch, an ancient earthwork that the line runs through on the Cambs/Suffolk border. This is 2W17 1247 Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds. I think it is 755337, definitely a 755/3

 

 

And the 4 car version 755/4 755424 on the 2W14 1257 Bury St Edmunds to Cambridge at the same location:

 

 

For a few more pics of the 755's:

 

 

Edited September 6, 2020 by ruggedpeak

[Owd Bob]

142 065 leaves and nears Crows Nest Junc' from Hindley station on the Wigan to Man' Vic' at 11.10am. 7-09-20. 

[Railfreight1998]

With a few tones from the driver, 158704 accelerates off Glenury Viaduct on the return shuttle to Aberdeen from Stonehaven. 7/9/20

 

 

 

[ruggedpeak]

The S&C early 1980's

 

 

[Railfreight1998]

10 hours ago, Eddie R v2.0 said:

Ah, 158704..... one of my most jinxed units. Had all sorts of things go wrong with it including the drivers side wiper arm flying off at 75mph in the pouring rain! 

I'm assuming nothing had had fallen off so far in the journey as the driver seemed to be in a very happy mood!

[Northmoor]

8 hours ago, ruggedpeak said:

The S&C early 1980's

 

Now you definitely can't read the number on that one......

Just imagine, but for Michael Portillo's decision, that would probably be a cycleway now (and every weekend of WCML engineering works, the M6 would be full of coaches....).

[4630]

Still showing the remnants of the much more extensive track layout that existed at this location, a Northern Rail class 150 departs Halifax on 23rd February 2015 and heads towards Beacon Hill tunnel with a service from Manchester Victoria to Leeds.

[Northmoor]

2 hours ago, 4630 said:

Still showing the remnants of the much more extensive track layout that existed at this location, a Northern Rail class 150 departs Halifax on 23rd February 2015 and heads towards Beacon Hill tunnel with a service from Manchester Victoria to Leeds.

Presumably they were the coal drops on the right?

 

A couple of years ago I was on the platform end visible at the top of the picture and wondering just how the view from the hill above the tunnel would look.  I will definitely return one day to take a similar shot to yours, I'd be very pleased with that one.