Popular Post montyburns56 Posted December 1, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2019 Haig Pit, Whitehaven Undated 1972 1970 'William Locomotive Shed', Whitehaven 1971 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2019 Another shot of the AB steam loco converted to diesel hydraulic. Still retains cylinders, smokebox and longer crankpins on rear axle. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Please keep them coming. This has been my favourite thread for a long time. Almost suffering withdrawal symptoms if I don't get a a new daily fix. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 6 hours ago, doilum said: Please keep them coming. This has been my favourite thread for a long time. Almost suffering withdrawal symptoms if I don't get a a new daily fix. Thanks, although I'm relying on other people naming potential sites to add to the list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 2, 2019 Peckfield Colliery 1972 1971 These are all from 1968, but they are too good not to post. This one is interesting as it features what must have been brand new HAA hoppers 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 Hams Hall Power Station 1980 1978 1974 1971 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 Shilbottle Colliery 1973 1975 1979 1976 1978 1972 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 More wonderfully atmospheric photo's I love the Peckfield colliery pics, the one with the footbridge has given me an idea for my layout! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 (edited) On 02/12/2019 at 20:21, sb67 said: More wonderfully atmospheric photo's I love the Peckfield colliery pics, the one with the footbridge has given me an idea for my layout! On 02/12/2019 at 18:54, montyburns56 said: Peckfield Colliery 1972 1971 These are all from 1968, but they are too good not to post. This one is interesting as it features what must have been brand new HAA hoppers Excellent. I have seen most of the Peckfield photos before, but not all in colour. As I don't have an example of a Hawthorne Leslie Frank has been on my "to build" list for some time now and I am slowly warming to the idea of a pair of HAA. Students of colliery rolling stock will notice the number of detail differences in just a handful of examples of the tippler wagons. Edited December 4, 2019 by doilum Missing loco type 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 28 minutes ago, sb67 said: More wonderfully atmospheric photo's I love the Peckfield colliery pics, the one with the footbridge has given me an idea for my layout! It inspired my fiddle yard entrance on Houghton Street. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 That's what I had i mind. Do you have a layout thread? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 24 minutes ago, sb67 said: That's what I had i mind. Do you have a layout thread? 'Fraid not. Perhaps next time it comes off the mezzanine I could do a photo essay. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2019 Not strictly appropriate as this was 1981, but it's a good story anyway. Peckett 0-6-0ST Henbury came out of retirement in 1981 to haul coal trains from Ashton Meadows to Whapping Wharf while the Western Fuel Co.'s Hudswell Clarke diesel was under repair. Thanks to Paul and John Stanford for this photo (please do not reproduce elsewhere) I did a blog post about this event, including film shot by Bob Edwardes, here: https://bristolharbourrailway.co.uk/2014/11/27/tbt-henbury-makes-history-coal-trains-in-1981/ 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 Thanks Corbs, I've managed to find another picture of the event on Flickr as well as a picture of the dieseasal that replaced it. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 Whittle Colliery 1971 Undated 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 British Sugar, Ipswich 1973 1971 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: Whittle Colliery 1971 Undated Was the baby blue a colliery colour, or was there a nearby coking plant? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 20 hours ago, doilum said: Was the baby blue a colliery colour, or was there a nearby coking plant? Why would a nearby coking plant affect the colour??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 5 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Why would a nearby coking plant affect the colour??? This was the colour used at several smokeless fuel plants in Yorkshire and, I suspect elsewhere. To quote the late Ron Rockett describing Coal Products #6 "the name was as imaginative as the light blue livery was useful". Where colliery and coke ovens were on the same site I suppose it made identification easier. Te pale blue might have encouraged frequent washing of corrosive dust. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 21 hours ago, doilum said: Was the baby blue a colliery colour, or was there a nearby coking plant? I'm sure it's just that the colour has faded from a darker blue. I've seen photos of NCB engines in Northumberland and they are a dark blue. There is a photo of 33 in a book that I have and it's worn but not in such a state as in the photo here and is already faded but not as bad and certainly isn't as rusty. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 6, 2019 Author Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) A few more at Acton Lane Power Station Open Day 1979 Open Day 1981 "In this picture, BIRKENHEAD's fire is dropped, bringing to an end the commercial use of steam engines on railways in London" 1979 1971 1974 Edited December 6, 2019 by montyburns56 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted December 6, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2019 I long live in hope for some phots of the Hartshead Power Station locos - one a little industrial and the other an even smaller fireless loco. What a great thread! Kev. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 15 hours ago, SHMD said: What a great thread! Kev. Got agree wholeheartedly with that, I am getting so much inspiration here 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 A few of mine for now, taken at Bickershaw Leigh. No.7 is seen shunting empty MGR'S on the exchange sidings at Bolton House Rd. 21-Jan''83. And in 1982 loco's Respite and Gwyneth are seen at the Bickershaw Colliery, Plank Ln. end scrapped and stored. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 On 06/12/2019 at 19:28, SHMD said: I long live in hope for some phots of the Hartshead Power Station locos - one a little industrial and the other an even smaller fireless loco. What a great thread! Kev. Thanks Kev. Unfortunately I could only find pictures of the Hartshead locos when they were being moved to Embsay in 1977. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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