Rivercider Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 On 05/10/2020 at 12:50, stovepipe said: Lovely photo - don't suppose you have a date by any chance? I used to work with Mike at the end of my railway career, so I asked the question when it was taken? He has had a look, but the best he can come up with is 1968 probably around May. cheers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 (edited) 27s on the Kyle line were rare, this is a beauty shared from Facebook with permission from photographer Alan Conway. 26 034 running round at Kyle of Lochalsh on 9th September 1980 having arrived with 27 109 on the first train of the day from Dingwall. Note that the track beyond the release crossover only allows one loco at a time. Edited March 6, 2021 by luckymucklebackit 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) 26 035 at Inverness, 26 June 1984... Preserved D5386, Kelling Heath, NNR, 15 June 1997.... 26 007, Quorn, GCR, 6 June 2015.. D5343, Rothley, GCR, 9 September 2017.. Edited March 7, 2021 by Johann Marsbar 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45125 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 On 14/05/2020 at 11:12, luckymucklebackit said: Couldn't help thinking how wrong that looked yet couldn't put my finger on why, then I realised it is simply that the yellow end goes slightly higher than normal, amazing how a small detail difference can affect perception! Jim Three BRCW type 2s where actually painted like the preserved 5343 is, 5304 and 5324 had the yellow up and over the gutter the other one 5343 had it up to the gutter. Al Taylor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted March 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2021 On 06/03/2021 at 14:53, Rivercider said: I used to work with Mike at the end of my railway career, so I asked the question when it was taken? He has had a look, but the best he can come up with is 1968 probably around May. cheers Thanks for asking. I do think that is a tad early though - as an original LMR machine D5394 wasn't moved up to Eastfield until July 68 and I suspect the D prefix might well have lingered a while longer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60021 Pen-y-Ghent Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 On 06/03/2021 at 21:01, luckymucklebackit said: 27s on the Kyle line were rare, this is a beauty shared from Facebook with permission from photographer Alan Conway. 26 034 running round at Kyle of Lochalsh on 9th September 1980 having arrived with 27 109 on the first train of the day from Dingwall. Note that the track beyond the release crossover only allows one loco at a time. If only one loco can fit in the release track, what's the 26 doing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted April 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2021 15 minutes ago, 60021 Pen-y-Ghent said: If only one loco can fit in the release track, what's the 26 doing? Might the 27 have failed and the 26 is going to drag it out? Then again, is the 26 actually moving, the gull in the 4ft doesn't seem to think so? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted April 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2021 My guess is that the 26 has been into the neck, and then drawn back up the loop enough to allow the 27 past it. The driver has then moved the 27 into the neck, is about to swing the points and then run onto the 26. Whether its a good idea to couple up on the reverse curve of the crossover I don't know.. My guess is that they will be coupled and multi'd up and then driven to the front of the train... Andy G 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Photo by Bob Faulkner : D5374 on Wellingborough Shed on 7th August 1966.... 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Was this white stripe variant a one off? 27056 on 1118 Edinburgh Dundee 1984 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2021 On 27's yes, an Eastfield special for Royal Train duty, applied November 1983, removed September 1984. Current issue of Traction magazine mentions it with a photo the day after its Royal Train duty, white wall tyres, silver buffers, etc. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 20 hours ago, John M Upton said: On 27's yes, an Eastfield special for Royal Train duty, applied November 1983, removed September 1984. Current issue of Traction magazine mentions it with a photo the day after its Royal Train duty, white wall tyres, silver buffers, etc. Ah yes, as shown on this Flickr pic.... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 (edited) 27211 Ardler 1981 Edited June 30, 2021 by montyburns56 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted July 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10, 2021 26007 looking smart in Railfreight colours, on its last day at a very wet Bodmin & Wenford Railway, 2nd Nov 2019. Is the the furthest west a class 26 has worked (in England)? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Halvarras Posted July 14, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2021 (edited) To my shame I only ever made one trip to Scotland, the weekend of 6-8th May 1977, but at least I copped just about everything in sight! A pair of us set off from Swindon for London on Friday evening and travelled up the WCML overnight from Euston to arrive bleary-eyed at Inverness early Saturday morning 7/5/77. Where's the sun? Oh yes, it's Scotland....... 26014/43/35 at rest..... 26018 poking its head out to see what the weather's doing (well OK, it's not actually raining)..... 26033 still snoozing..... 26022 awaiting developments..... 26035 still with exposed tablet catcher recesses (I don't recall seeing any others like this)..... A withdrawn 26020 was there somewhere. Later in the day we found ourselves at Aberdeen about to sample some Class 26 thrash behind 26046 + 26012 - by now it was actually raining (a bit)..... .......followed by some Class 27 haulage from Perth courtesy of 27040 [if somebody had told me I'd photograph this loco on Swindon Stabling Point 7 years later I'd have thought them stark staring bonkers!]..... Having stayed overnight in Edinburgh, the next day (8/5/77) we just had to sample the Edinburgh - Glasgow push-pull powered by these two, snapped at Glasgow Queen Street..... .....and saw 26001 and 27031/26011 from the train - oooh look, the sun's coming out (too late)...... .....before heading off down the ECML behind 55016. It was only some time later that I realised that without trying we'd managed to travel behind one of each sub-class of 'McRat', which was some kind of result I guess. That's yer lot, hope they were worth posting ! Edited July 16, 2021 by Neil Phillips 26 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Photo by Tony Schumacher : Aberdeen Ferryhill c.1970 / 71.... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 26007 Leith Docks, Edinburgh 1981 by Martyn Hilbert 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Photo by the late and much missed Norman E Preedy : Glasgow Central, 11th September 1971.... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted July 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2021 Photo by the late and much missed Norman E Preedy : Glasgow Central, 11th September 1971.... Pretty sure that Queen Street, rather than Central is the venue. Regards Ian 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 On 21/07/2021 at 19:38, montyburns56 said: 26007 Leith Docks, Edinburgh 1981 by Martyn Hilbert The loads they used to hang on those early air-braked 26s! They must have been running on diesel with added Weetabix! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 6 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Photo by the late and much missed Norman E Preedy : Glasgow Central, 11th September 1971.... I discovered that a green Class 27 had gained double arrow logos during a slide show in the early 1980s but the presenter couldn't identify it, which was a tad frustrating for a livery nutter such as myself. I reckon some 20 years must have passed by then one day I was thumbing through some long-stored early 1970s 'Railway Magazines' and there it was - 5406! The answer had been in my loft all along!I 5389 looks particularly grubby considering it had still been blue with small yellow panels a year or so earlier. On that same day I was wandering around Laira depot....... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidlandRed Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 On 29/04/2021 at 11:48, Rugd1022 said: Photo by Bob Faulkner : D5374 on Wellingborough Shed on 7th August 1966.... A photo which shows just how filthy the examples used generally on freight on the Midland Lines got - you’d be forgiven for thinking there are no white window surrounds on the right hand example - D5374 looks like it’s yellow warning panel has been cleaned. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidlandRed Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 27 minutes ago, Neil Phillips said: I discovered that a green Class 27 had gained double arrow logos during a slide show in the early 1980s but the presenter couldn't identify it, which was a tad frustrating for a livery nutter such as myself. I reckon some 20 years must have passed by then one day I was thumbing through some long-stored early 1970s 'Railway Magazines' and there it was - 5406! The answer had been in my loft all along!I 5389 looks particularly grubby considering it had still been blue with small yellow panels a year or so earlier. On that same day I was wandering around Laira depot....... I suspect 5389’s paint may be suffering (WR hydraulic style) from a combination of being nearly 5 yrs old and reasonably regular trips since being in Scotland through the carriage washing plant (possibly after no such attention on the LMR) - thus having patches of primer or bleached paint showing through the blue. I would imagine it originally had that ‘eggshell’ finish used at the start of the blue repaint era, which looked shabby quite quickly - it must have looked pretty tatty, especially in colour. . Great Scottish trip 26/27 photos btw. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, MidlandRed said: I suspect 5389’s paint may be suffering (WR hydraulic style) from a combination of being nearly 5 yrs old and reasonably regular trips since being in Scotland through the carriage washing plant (possibly after no such attention on the LMR) - thus having patches of primer or bleached paint showing through the blue. I would imagine it originally had that ‘eggshell’ finish used at the start of the blue repaint era, which looked shabby quite quickly - it must have looked pretty tatty, especially in colour. . Great Scottish trip 26/27 photos btw. That's the odd thing - if 5389 had simply had full yellow ends applied then yes, I'd have expected its nearly 5-year-old blue paintwork and sooty roof to look just like this. But then it would have been displaying a double arrow logo where the number is, plus a bodyside number. If both had been painted out surely this would have been visible as darker blue patches. The spaced-out numbers were typical ScR (St Rollox?) at the time so it looks like a full repaint into Bfye around 12 months earlier has weathered particularly badly on this one. Maybe the date's wrong but how much longer did 5406 last in green? It's a bit of a mystery TBH! Glad you liked the photos, I know some of the skies look a bit green but these were scanned negatives, not slides (a mistake in retrospect) which spent some years stored in occasionally extreme temperatures in the loft (alongside those old RMs!) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 16 hours ago, Ian Smeeton said: Pretty sure that Queen Street, rather than Central is the venue. Regards Ian You're right of course Ian, not sure why I typed Central! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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