RMweb Premium iands Posted June 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 29, 2020 Can't help with the loco i.d., but enlarging the photo the signal plate looks like LJ 5. Couple this with the head code on the loco, I'm thinking one possibility it is somewhere on BAG2 (Birmingham and Gloucester) around Lansdown Junction - maybe the former Churchdown station which closed in 1964? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 On 21/06/2020 at 10:51, Rugd1022 said: Photos by David Blower : taken from the steps of Croft Sidings 'box, 1974 and 1975.... TOPS number over cabside BR logo, flush-welded gangway doors and dual-braked - the lead loco in the first picture can only be 25222! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold astropsidings Posted June 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) Fenny Compton 15-11-1980 92220 "Evening Star" on "The Zenith", Paddington-Chester train, 92220 worked Didcot-Saltley & 6000 Shrewsbury-Chester. Class 25 to assist an ailing class 47 on an up train at Fenny. Edit: I’ve added a sound recording made at the time, in pouring rain. 92220_&_Class_25_Fenny_15Nov80.mp3 Edited June 30, 2020 by astropsidings Sound recording 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Nuneaton, August '66.... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted July 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2020 Shocking: you can see the carrier film from the decals used for the numbers. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Southof1E top tmd Posted July 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 2, 2020 The Sunday Crewe-Cardiffs occasionally got a "kick out" and 25034 has produced here at Crewe for 1V11 1335 Crewe - Cardiff on June 24th 1984, small Sulzer music beckons for the Marches! NR 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold nigb55009 Posted July 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2020 Unknown loco unknown station, could be Leominster? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 18 hours ago, Southof1E top tmd said: The Sunday Crewe-Cardiffs occasionally got a "kick out" and 25034 has produced here at Crewe for 1V11 1335 Crewe - Cardiff on June 24th 1984, small Sulzer music beckons for the Marches! NR Exactly one week later 25034 was parked on Swindon Stabling Point. Haven't got around to scanning my photos yet. It was still there the following day. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 On 08/06/2020 at 22:34, johnd said: Penzance This photo was probably taken in January 1972 when D7502 was employed on crew-training runs using a motley collection of condemned vans between here and Truro - here's my pic of one of these at the Truro end having just run round and ready to head back west (essentially standing 'wrong line' at this point). Local crews would not have come across the Gresham & Craven Equalizing Vacuum Brake until then ('VB-EQ' on the data panel which on D7502 is at the wrong end........for anywhere other than Scotland anyway!) 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Halvarras Posted July 3, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 3, 2020 The first Class 25 to reach Cornwall was 5180 which arrived at St Blazey on a freight on Friday 30th July 1971. Living just outside Truro at the time I didn't get to hear about this until 2 weeks later so on Monday 16th August set off in search of it with my Instamatic camera, and managed to take this photo (shame about that junction box!) As well as 'EBBW JUNC' allocation stickers on all four corners it also still carried cast '55A' shed plates on the driver's cabsides from a previous life. AFAIK this is the earliest photo of a Class 25 in Cornwall. Shortly after this by chance I caught 5179 clearance-testing the newly remodelled Truro Yard which hadn't been officially reopened at that point, unfortunately I didn't make a note of the date but here's the filthy loco parked up at Laira on a dull 11th September 1971 (D7657 in Gsy livery was stabled at Exeter SP that same day). Ironically away to the left of this view an almost ex-works 6319 was abandoned on the scrap line! Interesting to note that, whereas 5180 has open boiler compartment grilles and covered bodyside steps, 5179 is the other way round...... 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post ColinK Posted September 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 Busy scanning my slides, Rock Ferry in 1979. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 May 1978 25269 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/50831079103/ 25131 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/50843634558/ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southof1E top tmd Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 (edited) 25037 heads past Dunstable Vauxhalls with the evening cement empties bound for Northfleet on April 9th 1986. The 25 would normally work just to Luton with a Southern 33 taking over there. An apalling busway now covers the track bed that at least 145 different 25s worked along over the years.. A photo from the late Tony Ewer (out of his lounge window!) nr Edited January 22, 2021 by Southof1E top tmd 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 31 minutes ago, Richard Croft said: The NYMR 25 visited midland road depot in Leeds by road Didnt see it on Saturday though. must be back on the move. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 On 31/03/2020 at 10:42, Bill Radford said: D5188 @ Mickleover early 1964 (I think) - as far as I know the only diesel to have visited the line before closure. Not quite the only one Bill. Here's a not very good photo of D7538 on the Friargate side of Mickleover Tunnel on a frosty 28 December 1965. On the last day of passenger trains east of Friargate, I saw a Brush Type 4 (Class 47) crossing Bennerley Viaduct on a holiday train heading for Derby. If you include DMUs, in 1963 there were two Sundays when the three morning trains from Derby to Crewe ran from Friargate. As a bonus, the train I went on also did the Potteries Loop line from Etruria to Kidsgrove 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Radford Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Nice one Bruce. I grew up in Mickleover at the top of the hill from the station and would cycle down to the bridge when I heard a train coming from Etwall. At two trains per hour (one each direction) it was slightly boring standing on the bridge! I saw the DMUs and have a (very poor) colour picture of one somewhere. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Photo by Phil Collimore : 25 093 on weekend work at Tyseley South Junction on 4th May 1980.... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) 25271 Wirksworth 1978 by David Hills Edited July 4, 2021 by montyburns56 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 25060 at Machynlleth 1983 by themightyhood 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) Photo by Signalman Bob Pitman : looking from Saltley Sidings Signalbox towards Saltley station in 1969 just before the transition from semaphores to colour lights with an unidentified 25 heading towards Washwood Heath.... Edited July 6, 2021 by Rugd1022 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 25301 Bamber Bridge 1979 by Martyn Hilbert 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 (edited) Photo by local man Bob Faulkner : D7500 and D5268 passing Northampton No.3 'box on 20th August 1965.... Edited July 14, 2021 by Rugd1022 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Another one from the lens of Bob Faulkner : D5224 on the Down Slow at Burton Latimer on the Midland Mainline, 28th December 1965.... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southof1E top tmd Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 25276 and 25181 reverse a ballast train on Leighton Buzzard's up slow platform on March 20th 1983 nr https://leightonlists.com/ 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 14 hours ago, Southof1E top tmd said: 25276 and 25181 reverse a ballast train on Leighton Buzzard's up slow platform on March 20th 1983 nr https://leightonlists.com/ Looks like the (very young) secondman is driving and I can see the top of a mash can in the centre window - happy days! I was a secondman at Stonebridge Park in March '83 and don't recognise him so it could be a Bletchley or Northampton man . Photo by Gordon Taylor : 7589 at Crewe in the early '70s.... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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