JAMIE'S RANDOM UK RAILWAY PICTURES

[jamie92208]

Good evening all.   The Woodhead photos seem to have been well received so I've selected a couple more that I didn't use yesterday as well as some of Wath and Tinsley.

The first shows the coal train coming up to Dunford Bridge from Penistone

A freight emerging into the daylight in Longendale.

A 37 near the stabling point at Wath

Then  on to Tinsley and a general view of the servicing point.

I the went down to Tinsley

 

From the bridge you could see the trains travelling over the hump.

And from the north side of the bridge a view of the depot.

If you look carefully you can see examples of classes 76 and 13. 

Hopefully some more tomorrow.

 

Jamie

Edited August 1, 2022 by jamie92208

[doilum]

On 01/05/2020 at 22:00, sir douglas said:

the little circle on the smokebox door is a patch over of were a vent slot was and is only on locos used in the Porta experiments

https://www.martynbane.co.uk/modernsteam/ldp/austerity/portaausterity.htm

 

it perhaps could be Hunslet 2414

https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/hunslet-works-no-2414-70066-s112-spitfire-revenge-0-6-0st/

 

ive got no idea though for the Hudswell behind

HE 2414 was S112 the 50550 class loco.

The only diesels listed by the IRS at Ackton Hall were three Hunslets.

HE 7062 (1971) 7279 (1972) 7540 (1976).

This appears much older. There was history of other collieries, in particular Prince of Wales, sending surplus / dead locos down the line for resurrection or scrapping. I cannot however find a likely candidate.

[sb67]

Great photo's and memories Jaimie, thanks for posting 

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

Your last Wath picture is actually Tinsley.

 

Mike.

[jamie92208]

8 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Your last Wath picture is actually Tinsley.

 

Mike.

Thanks Mike i'll alter it.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good evening all from what has been quite a warm afternoon, 28 when I went out at one point.   Anyway tonight we travel up to Whitehaven.  I used to spend my main holidays volunteering on Laal Ratty.  The accommodation was fairly basic in an old LNS suburban brake 3rd with bunks in the compartments and the loco shed sink across the tracks for washing.   As a result on my days off I used to head up to my Cousin's house at Whitehaven for a good shower and usually a nice meal.   Visible from their house was the incline that led up from Corkicle to Haigh Colliery and the Marchon works, now the site of the proposed new coal mine.  The Colliery output came done the incline. I went over one day to take some photos of the incline in operation.  This would probably be June 1974.  I'd also noticed a brickworks on the north side of the incline with it's quarry to the south.  On walking up the footpath this is what I saw.

The tubs of clay were being hauled by an overhead rope through a tunnel under the Marchon incline, rather unique I thought with two rope worked systems of different gauges and methods crossing each other.

They tubs were attached to the rope by an peg with a gripper at the top which the rope went through. corners were a little awkward.

This framework was needed. I then set up the incline and found this machine at the top.

It had brought loads from the colliery.

Talking to the men working I was kindly allowed into the control cabin which gave a superb view down the incline.

That's all I can upload tonight so a couple more of this area tomorrow then on to pastures new.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good evening again with a few more random photos.  I'll start with a final one from the Marchon incline.

The next one is I think at Hensall with a northbound freight on the ECML. This was before the Selby diversion.

 As I mentioned I volunteered at the Ratty. Here's one of me actually doing some work.

The poles had come from Shap and we had to cut them to length and then just put 1 crossbar back on. Funnily enough my car got stolen shortly afterwards and was then recovered together with my tools.  At Crown court, the defence barrister, who, as it happened I had been at school with,  tried to trip me up as to how an earth I could identify the socket set.   I told him to look at the 1 1/8" socket and it would be full of rust. It was and the rust was from the crossbar bolts.  Here's the work train.

We had a lot of fun on a weekend up there. Measuring the poles to 12' for cutting was easy, 2 policemen tall.

Then on to Lancaster, which I now know rather well.

The 86 was heading north.

Then a DMU  bound for Barrow.

And finally back to the Leeds area and Methley Junction.

With a Peak on a sountbound working.   Still three lines south from the Junction. We have now moved into early 1975.

And that's all for tonight folks.   Hopefully more tomorrow.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Carrying on in early 75.  Another one from Methley Junction.  A busy place, the DMU is taking the Castleford line, the line to the right is the direct line to Cutsyke, now being made into a footpath.  Saville Colliery in the background

 

Then we move on to Burton Salmon with a southbound 37 coming down from York.

Heading towards Ferrybridge.   The next two were later in the year, probably about Easter time. I was staying with some friends at Sheffield so here is a Trans Pennine Unit at Dore.

We then went to Barrow Hill

It looks a bit different today, but then was a busy working diesel depot.

Next a visit to Knottingley, dominated in those days by 47/3's

 

Then finally back to Settle where I was heading off for a trip over the S & C.

 

The Thames Clyde pulling in.  In those days they could only get half the train into the platform so it had to 'pull up' to let the passengers off the rear half of the train.  Also the porter had two sets of steps to help passengers down.

 

Hopefully more tomorrow.

 

Jamie

[roundhouse]

What a shame that they did away with the platforms at Dore on the mainline only for a better service to be introduced that could have now served Dore. I do remember travelling through them to Sheffield to travel on the line to Clayton West via Pennistone in the last days of those routes before the platforms at Dore were removed.

[jamie92208]

45 minutes ago, roundhouse said:

What a shame that they did away with the platforms at Dore on the mainline only for a better service to be introduced that could have now served Dore. I do remember travelling through them to Sheffield to travel on the line to Clayton West via Pennistone in the last days of those routes before the platforms at Dore were removed.

I agree, but at least the double junction is finally being put back in to speed things up. Somewhere I've got some Clayton West Photos so they will feature in due course.

 

Jamie

[vulcan product fan]

12 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Carrying on in early 75.  Another one from Methley Junction.  A busy place, the DMU is taking the Castleford line, the line to the right is the direct line to Cutsyke, now being made into a footpath.  Saville Colliery in the background

 

Then we move on to Burton Salmon with a southbound 37 coming down from York.

Heading towards Ferrybridge.   The next two were later in the year, probably about Easter time. I was staying with some friends at Sheffield so here is a Trans Pennine Unit at Dore.

We then went to Barrow Hill

It looks a bit different today, but then was a busy working diesel depot.

Next a visit to Knottingley, dominated in those days by 47/3's

 

Then finally back to Settle where I was heading off for a trip over the S & C.

 

The Thames Clyde pulling in.  In those days they could only get half the train into the platform so it had to 'pull up' to let the passengers off the rear half of the train.  Also the porter had two sets of steps to help passengers down.

 

Hopefully more tomorrow.

 

Jamie

great pictures sir ,nice to see my local depot Barrow hill and here is a recent photo from a near position as the first one of yours still with EE type 1s whistling away.

[jamie92208]

Thanks, I've quite s few more Barrow Hill ones to come in due course. I think there's another in the batch for tonight.

 

Glad that people are liking the photos. It's brought back some great memories for me.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Back again with another instalment.  till mid 1975.  On my return trip on the S & C this 25 was shunting the loading siding at Ribblehead.  The actual quarry has been closed a long time but the siding was installed to enable Ingleton Granite ballast to be brought up from the quarry near White Scar Caves.   Funnily enough the quarry used to be rail connected via a line that ran through the car park at White Scar, then along the base of Ingleborough before going down a rope worked incline to the east end of Ingleton near the colliery. The load limit was 10 tons and 3 plank wagons were used.  I've no idea what loco worked the upper section from the incline to the quarry.

The down platform was demolished to allow the siding to be built.  This had to be rebuilt a few years later. Next it's another trip to Knottingley.

First an 08 shunting a rake of MGR's.

Then a 47/3 heading past.

The area behind has now changed beyond recognition with the construction of the new A1/M62 junction.

Now back to Ravenglass and an attempt at a moody shot of Irt when she had just come off shed.

Then she set off with a train.

Finally a trip to just north of Grantham with a 47 heading north.   I've no memory of why I was down there.

 

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good evening from a rather damp Charente Maritime.  Lockdown for us is eased as from Monday, I might even be able to go and watch a few trains, 20 miles away.   Anyway, here's the lasts batch, still from 1975, probably Mid June.

We've gone back to Ravenglass where I spent my main summer holiday.  First off the first photo of Northern Rock as a rolling loco, being built in the old workshops in the station area.

Behind it and pushing is the rebuilt passenger Tractor renamed Perkins. Here's a better one of it.

The story behind the name is interesting.   The old engine on the Tractor was on it's last legs. Then a yacht was wrecked in the harbour and Doug Feraira, the General Manager bought the wreck for the Perkins Diesel engine that was in it.   The engine was rescued using the JCB and fettled up and installed in the tractor.  The bow of the boat was also used to create a waiting shelter at Miteside where the GM and one of the drivers, Peter Van Zeller lived. They wanted to re-create a previous boat shelter that had been there so the bow section was taken up, rather precariously on a flat truck and then manhandled into position. This not very good photo records the day we took it up.

Perkins then put Rock back in the shed and went to it's new new home in the disease shed.

Funnily enough, I had helped dig the foundations for the shed on the first working weekend I eve spent at Ravenglass as a 17 yr old.

After that we come to a steam Special that arrived to deposit many passengers before heading on to Sellafield

There was no triangle at Sellafield then so Mayflower and green Arrow then came back light engine

en route to the Eskmeals gun range sidings just south of Ravenglass.  They were turned on a triangle within the range, apparently with armed Military Police on the footplate.

Then they came back towards Sellafield

And finally came south with their train where they met another green engine.

I had seen Green Arrow when it was in Hellifield Shed in the 60's and here it was parked alongside my favourite ratty loco, Irt, specially posed on the engineers headshunt for the photo..  

 

Hopefully more to come tomorrow.

 

Jamie

[Chris Turnbull]

10 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

The bow of the boat was also used to create a waiting shelter at Miteside where the GM and one of the drivers, Peter Van Zeller lived.

 

And here is Peter Van Zeller a few years later in May 2007.

 

 

Chris Turnbull

[jamie92208]

3 hours ago, Chris Turnbull said:

 

And here is Peter Van Zeller a few years later in May 2007.

 

 

Chris Turnbull

Nice photo.  Esk was always Van Zoom's loco. I hope that somevof these older photos of Laal Ratty are of interest. Until I did the scans, I'd no idea that I'd got a very early photo of Northern Rock.

 

Jamie

Edited May 9, 2020 by jamie92208

[Chris Turnbull]

Very enjoyable, Jamie.  I particularly like the commentary which gives some background to many of the photos.

 

Chris Turnbull

[jamie92208]

It's a nice sunny evening here and I've got chance to put some more picture up.  It's still June 75 and we are still at the Ratty.  The steam special departed.

Then it was back to Guarding again, this time with Mite.  Here taking water at Fisherground tank.

This was part of a drive to economise on the water bill and the old wagon body served well.  Nowadays there is a loop at Fisherground and a pipe takes water to the loop. 

It wasn't all hard work but why I decided to stand in a dustbin I have no idea of now. I certainly wouldn't fit into those jeans, sizes have shrunk. Next I'm back guarding for George and we arranged a special stop at Fisherground to recreate a famous photo of Muriel, which became Irt, taking water at the same place.

Then back to West Yorkshire after a very enjoyable 2 weeks at Ravenglass.  I had a day out to see the Aire valley coal traffic and here's a shot of the unloading shed at Eggborough.

The obligatory 47 in charge.   Finally back to Leeds and the northbound Thames Clyde was reversing and changing locos.  Here's the replacement coming up from Holbeck with the correct headcode for the Light engine movement,

Whether or not the phrase light engine, applies to a Peak I don't know. And here it is departing for Glasgow.   This was my train home to Settle if I didn't drive up. 

I once moved back home from a bedsit in London via the Thames Clyde, my brother had all my worldly goods in his car and I followed him up from Hounslow on my pushbike.  At St Pancras they allowed him to drive onto the platform and everything was loaded into the guards van,  roughly where the John Betjamin  statute is today.  After two reversals my parents met me at Settle along with the porter and a barrow.  Dead easy.

 

Jamie

 

Edited August 1, 2022 by jamie92208

[jamie92208]

Good evening from a rather damp Charente Maritime.  Tonight it's late 1975 and the NRM had recently opened in York.  Obviously I had to go and as you went in this fabulous machine was right there. 

I've always had a soft spot for Bulleid locos, having spent two Sundays working on Clan Line at Longmoor in 1968.

It's amazing to think that BR allowed it to be towed up the ECML as it is today along with several other exhibits.

As a confirmed Midland fan I had to take a shot of this beauty.

It was back on the rails not long after. I had moved to Woodlesford about this time and a neighbour owned this lovely thing. Namely White Rose. 

Derek Rayner is still a friend and at that time was working on the HST development team. My house was one of that terrace of 4 white cottages in the background. My bedroom window is just visible to the right of the fly wheel. 

My next trip out was to London and this was what the platform ends looked like at Kings Cross.

Lovely locos, my favourite diesels.  Then a quick walk up to Euston.

87008 pulling in.   Followed soon after by another

All good to see.  Then back over to The Cross and another Deltic arriving.

And another. In those days the loco yard at the station was still in use.

I'll leave you with the sound of those Napier's in your ears.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good evening all, it's been wet all day but we have painted the walls in the kitchen so I am allowed a bit of time on here.  More photos from 1976 tonight, probably around April/May time. I couldn't resist this, a bit of Midland Magnificence from York.  The Midland Diner that David Jenkinson managed to get out on the main line along with other historic stock.  I do have a pair f 12 wheeled diners on Green Ayre.  The aforementioned DJ awarded me the Rolling Stock shield at Wakefield show one year for them. No bias involved but it upset the LNER fans who normally won that trophy.

 

Then on to Castleford. Derek Rayner had tipped me off that the first production HST, 253001 would be doing a Derby to Newcastle and return test run one morning so off I pedalled. Here it is coming through.

The station looks a little different nowadays.  And here's the rear power car.

Then it was a cross country service heading for York I think.

Then a southbound working at Altofts junction

I always did like the Peaks.  And finally back to Ravenglass with Trevor Stockton hading up the valley on newly built Northern Rock.

That's it for tonight folks.

 

[jamie92208]

Good evening again.   I've been out today and actually saw some real railway vehicles, albeit Corail coaches being scrapped but it's a start.  Tonight The Tardis is still in 1976.  Some friends took me to Dinting railway centre and we had a ride on a tank engine that was giving rides.

Here is another view of it.

Then finally a view of the viaduct, I think it's actually called Mottram but aren't sure.

Unfortunately that's the end of my scanned negatives so far so there will be a hiatus until I can find time to start scanning again.  

 

Jamie

Edited August 1, 2022 by jamie92208

[doilum]

On 10/05/2020 at 21:33, jamie92208 said:

Good evening from a rather damp Charente Maritime.  Tonight it's late 1975 and the NRM had recently opened in York.  Obviously I had to go and as you went in this fabulous machine was right there. 

I've always had a soft spot for Bulleid locos, having spent two Sundays working on Clan Line at Longmoor in 1968.

It's amazing to think that BR allowed it to be towed up the ECML as it is today along with several other exhibits.

As a confirmed Midland fan I had to take a shot of this beauty.

It was back on the rails not long after. I had moved to Woodlesford about this time and a neighbour owned this lovely thing. Namely White Rose. 

Derek Rayner is still a friend and at that time was working on the HST development team. My house was one of that terrace of 4 white cottages in the background. My bedroom window is just visible to the right of the fly wheel. 

My next trip out was to London and this was what the platform ends looked like at Kings Cross.

Lovely locos, my favourite diesels.  Then a quick walk up to Euston.

87008 pulling in.   Followed soon after by another

All good to see.  Then back over to The Cross and another Deltic arriving.

And another. In those days the loco yard at the station was still in use.

I'll leave you with the sound of those Napier's in your ears.

 

Jamie

On 01/05/2020 at 19:58, jamie92208 said:

 

A few more tonight. Continuing at Ravenglass. First off is Rver Irt just coming off shed, I'd probably lit it up and as a special treat was often allowed to drive the first loco off the shed when I'd finished polishing it.

 

Then a shot of the station with two trains in the platforms. River Mite on the left and River Esk on the right.

Finally a shot taken from the top of the ruined crushing plant at Murthwaite, I was allowed to explore it with a view to possibly making a model of it. River Esk doing the honours.

Then a shot taken at Ackton Hall Colliery, Featherstone, probably late June 75.  I've no details of the Locos I was on a Police driving course and was in lodgings just down the road.

Finally, hav.ng passed the course, what do you do when you're bored and it's a sunny morning.  Answer park up under the M62 at Ardsley and take this photo of the Leeds Executive heading south out of the panda car window.

 

More tomorrow

 

 

Jamie

The austerity is probably S143 a Bagnall build from 1944. It had been at Ackton Hall just over ten years and was scrapped on site in 1976. As boy racers we kept a good eye out for the cars from Crofton. Always immaculately clean, four up and no chance of being let off with a bollocking!

[doilum]

Please keep them coming. Great to have colour photographs of the Castleford area that haven't appeared in the local books before.

On the most recent post the "austerity" looks rather like a Peckett, only mentioned for the benefit of of future students using this resource when we are long gone!

[jamie92208]

7 hours ago, doilum said:

Please keep them coming. Great to have colour photographs of the Castleford area that haven't appeared in the local books before.

On the most recent post the "austerity" looks rather like a Peckett, only mentioned for the benefit of of future students using this resource when we are long gone!

Thanks very much for the kind comments. As soon as I get chance I'll try and scan up to 1978. Thanks for the info about the loco. If I can get a positive ID I will of course correct the caption.  

 

Jamie

[brushman47544]

On 10/05/2020 at 21:33, jamie92208 said:

87008 pulling in.   Followed soon after by another

 

Enlarging, it’s looks like 87009.

 

Some superb memories, keep them coming!