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Standing side-by-side in the north - Brighouse on 1st February 2022.

 

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2 hours ago, Cowley 47521 said:

A couple of photos that I’ve just found looking through the phone.

 

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A pair of 159s in the snow at Exeter:

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I just thought "Wow that's a huge pile of snow they've cleared there!" The I remembered there was an aggregates stockpile... :rolleyes:

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9 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said:

I just thought "Wow that's a huge pile of snow they've cleared there!" The I remembered there was an aggregates stockpile... :rolleyes:

if Devon ever had that much snow ……….

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4 hours ago, Trev52A said:

DMU departing from South Bank station, Middlesbrough on its way to Saltburn on 5th June 1976

 

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Trevor

 

 

Impressive signal gantry. Is that a colour light distant under for the semaphore above it?

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In the spirit of thread here’s a couple more that I’ve found on the phone tonight. I’ve gone monochrome with a couple of these just because it gives a little more atmosphere.


Bodmin General a few years ago at a soggy gala:

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An unusual visitor to Exeter these days and even in the old days it would have been in a different platform and livery!

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Minehead a few years ago. Invoking the feeling of a summer Saturday at the seaside:

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Argh. Two of them are three quarter views!
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On 03/02/2022 at 21:29, Ramblin Rich said:

I just thought "Wow that's a huge pile of snow they've cleared there!" The I remembered there was an aggregates stockpile... :rolleyes:

 

Reminds me of a polaroid snap of my late father in the 1970s, standing beside his company car in front of a similar pile.  The difference is that was a 15' pile of snow that been ploughed there to clear the office car park, as he was working north of the Artic circle!

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1 hour ago, Vanfit said:

I am sure someone will know where it is.

My thoughts are that the 1st & 3rd pictures are of Nantgarw Colliery/Coking Works, which closed in early 1987.

 

This is just to the east of the Taff River north of Taffs Well - the main Cardiff - Pontypridd line runs on the opposite bank of the river, to the west. Photos 1 & 3 are looking south.

 

In earlier days the works had a series of tall chimneys which would have been in the centre of photo 3.

 

Photo 2 is so generic that it could be anywhere in the valleys, although there is an area south of Nantgarw that looks something like this.

 

Here is a 1984 picture from Peter Brabham on Flickr taken from the mountain to the south giving a grand view over the works and the nearby Treforest Trading Estate - the line to the works can be seen on the bottom right. The ex-TVR line to Pontypridd is on the left - it's a 4-track formation which gives you an idea of just how busy it was in its heyday. In those days, my father worked as an engineer responsible for the services (mainly water & steam) to the many factories on the trading estate.

 

Nantgarw colliery & coke works 1984

 

The coking works is long gone now.

 

Yours, Mike.

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A few shots I've taken over the past year that I think fit the criteria:

 

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150275 'The Yorkshire Regiment' paired with 150272 on 2L03 LDS - SHF, in Wombwell Woods, 11/04/2021

 

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155341 at York, 20/05/2021

 

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158903 at York, 20/05/2021

 

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155342 on 2R25 YRK - BDT, 31/05/2021

 

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185103 / 133 at Scarborough, 06/06/2021

 

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150274 crossing Penistone Viaduct, 04/07/2021

 

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55824, formerly of 144001, sat on a trailer outside Huddersfield Station. It would be craned into position for the "Platform 1" charity overnight. 10/07/2021

 

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150215 working 2B54 SHF - HUD.  I was stood on a footpath that runs above Rockingham Tunnel, between Elsecar and Wombwell, 14/07/2021

 

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180107 passes Eggborough Power Station on 1N93 KGX - SUN, 24/07/2021

 

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185117 departs Doncaster, working 1B92 MAN - CLE, 02/08/2021

 

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150238 leads classmate 150216 into Par, with a service from Newquay, 21/08/2021

 

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The KWVR's Class 101, formed of M51189 and Sc51803, arrives into Haworth, working the 14.55 Keighley - Oxenhope. Ebor Mills is in the background, 06/10/2021

 

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158782 departs Brough under a murmuration of starlings, working 2R92 BDT - YRK, 06/11/2021

 

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802305, carrying a unique Hull Trains 21st Anniversary livery, departs Selby, working 1H07 KGX - HUL, 11/11/2021

 

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158848 is dwarfed by York Station's trainshed, waiting to depart for Heaton T&R.S.M.D on 5A60, 17/11/2021

 

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195014 passing Copmanthorpe on 2T11 LDS - YRK, 04/12/2021

 

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158903 passing Copmanthorpe on 2R91 YRK - BDT, 04/12/2021

 

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155344 passing Copmanthorpe on 2R10 BDT - YRK, 04/12/2021

 

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155346 avoids the shadows created by York Station, having worked 2R98 from Hull, 09/02/2022

 

Cheers, 

Jack

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