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16 minutes ago, great central said:

Definitely not Shirebrook in the 4th photo. Shirebrook was only a two road shed, which, incidentally, still stands today although reclad in steel sheeting and used as part of a storage facility

It's quite a narrow site on top of an embankment..

Thanks for that. It's Sunderland South Dock then.  I'll correct it.

 

Thanks again.

 

Jamie

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On 16/07/2020 at 07:57, jamie92208 said:

Morning all, it's quiet and cloudy here so a good time to add a few more pictures. However I've now got scanning up to 1995 and have a few oddities that have turned up.   One of them is this slide of some Mk4 DVT's at Leeds.

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The mount is Kodak and says September 83 14.   Obviously that is several years before the DVT's were built and Leeds was wired.  I need to investigate further. Any clues as to the year would be welcome. The next batch are all on film The next couple I'm fairly sure at at Manchester Piccadilly. Here a 90 about to head south.

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And 90029 pulls in with a northbound.

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Then an interesting 47 31 combination coming in on a multi coloured train.

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Then we are back to Leeds with my younger son watching the train arrival, again the multi coloured train. Not sure what this wold have been with the mixture of Mk 2 and Mk3 stock. It could even have been a stock move to Neville Hill

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Finally definitely at Leeds with the quite rare sight of a 91, blunt end first about to couple onto one of the modified HST power cars with buffers for the hybrid workings before the Mk 4 sets arrived.

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More tomorrow.

I will hopefully be sorting out some other odds and sods of negative strips today.  On the family ones I'm reduced to working out what coloured anoraks the kids were wearing to try and get the photos into their correct order in a couple of cases.  One day I'll discover the missing box of slides from 1970 with green Class 40's on the S& C and D400's at Crewe.   might even find my never printed negatives of Oliver Cromwell at Blea Moor in August 68.

 

Jamie

 

 

Hi Jamie,  the mk2 must be a barrier coach as mk4 gangways will only couple to other mk4s 

Love this thread thanks for sharing 

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12 minutes ago, russ p said:

 

 

Hi Jamie,  the mk2 must be a barrier coach as mk4 gangways will only couple to other mk4s 

Love this thread thanks for sharing 

Thanks for that Russ. Those were my thoughts and it's one of the earlier Mk2's before aircon so that would make sense.

 

Jamie

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1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Thanks for that. It's Sunderland South Dock then.  I'll correct it.

 

Thanks again.

 

Jamie

 

Just to confirm - here's the building on the left of your picture, several decades earlier.

 

Q6 0-8-0 63371 at Sunderland shed 14 August 1965:

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10 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Thanks for that Russ. Those were my thoughts and it's one of the earlier Mk2's before aircon so that would make sense.

 

Jamie

Zooming in, beyond the two Mk4s is a Mk1... ECS on delivery from repair?

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On 09/07/2020 at 13:50, TheSignalEngineer said:

I rode on the Class 151 a couple of times btween Derby and Matlock. It was running as a three car then. 

IIRC there was some issue with the transmission being suspect as the gear changes were very rough. They only lasted in service for about four or five years before lurking on in store around Derby and Crewe for about 15 years before eventually being scrapped.

 

They were stored at Llandudno Junction for a few years.

Then moved to Derby and later Crewe, pending re-use, which never happened.

Scrapped in 2004

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10 minutes ago, Western Aviator said:

If the destination blind is anything to go by, that 156 is heading to Liverpool but I’ve no idea where it is. 

My guess would be somewhere in the Leeds area but no location springs to mind.

 

Jamie

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33 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

My guess would be somewhere in the Leeds area but no location springs to mind.

 

Jamie

 

Ducketts Crossing between New Pudsey and Laisterdyke, adjacent to what was Pheonix Park Golf Course. (Leeds to Bradford Interchange line.)

 

I spent many an afternoon as a kid sliding down the embankment there ....but probably shouldn't say that on here !

 

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Ian.

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Thanks very much for that Ian.  I suspected that I must have been near a crossing and thought it was somewhere  in that area, but have absolutely  no memory of it.

 

Jamie

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5 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

A quiet but warm afternoon so time to put a few more photos up. Still in early 1990 at Doncaster and a shot inside the repair shop, was this The Crimpsall.  I wonder how many of these locos still exist. 

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Well accident prone 47522 certainly isn't. There is a photo of it on class47.co.uk that shows its No.2 end cab cut off for replacing again 20-05-90. It did last the next 10 years but in RES livery....

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The vehicle behind the Class 90 is a nuclear flask wagon, used to bring spent fuel rods from power stations in France and Germany to Windscale as part of the THORP project. The traffic went by train ferry, and stopped when the Channel Tunnel opened to wagon-load freight in 1995.

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Good evening, it's warm and dark here.   However the Tardis is still moving on slowly I've just scanned my negatives from 1996 so have plenty of material to keep going. The first is at Beamish with a shot of the station I can't remember the name but think it began with an R. I've just noticed the Sheffield Tram in the background.

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Then a trip to Ravenglass and my favourite loco River Irt with Martin and Paul in the cab. I spent many happy hours in that shed lighting up and engine cleaning. I wore clogs that I bought in Whitehaven, very comfortable and didn't mind the dirt, oil and cinders.

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Then another trip to Holgate Bridge at York with a Metro 158 heading south. This is probably May 1991.

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And then an HST in the Inter City Livery.

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Finally up to my home town, the border city, Carlisle with a 156 heading in. probably from Newcastle We've now moved on to early 1992.

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And Finally 1 31 and 47 parked against the west wall.

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More to come.

 

Jamie

 

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29 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Good evening, it's warm and dark here.   However the Tardis is still moving on slowly I've just scanned my negatives from 1996 so have plenty of material to keep going. The first is at Beamish with a shot of the station I can't remember the name but think it began with an R. I've just noticed the Sheffield Tram in the background.

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Then a trip to Ravenglass and my favourite loco River Irt with Martin and Paul in the cab. I spent many happy hours in that shed lighting up and engine cleaning. I wore clogs that I bought in Whitehaven, very comfortable and didn't mind the dirt, oil and cinders.

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Then another trip to Holgate Bridge at York with a Metro 158 heading south. This is probably May 1991.

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And then an HST in the Inter City Livery.

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Finally up to my home town, the border city, Carlisle with a 156 heading in. probably from Newcastle We've now moved on to early 1992.

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And Finally 1 31 and 47 parked against the west wall.

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More to come.

 

Jamie

 

 

The units approaching Carlisle are a pair of 153s, known to us as dogboxes, you can see the yellow end on the second one. Also the number on the front is legible.

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1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Good evening, it's warm and dark here.   However the Tardis is still moving on slowly I've just scanned my negatives from 1996 so have plenty of material to keep going. The first is at Beamish with a shot of the station I can't remember the name but think it began with an R. I've just noticed the Sheffield Tram in the background.

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Is it Rowland's Gill?

 

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1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

 

 

And Finally 1 31 and 47 parked against the west wall.

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More to come.

 

Jamie

 

 

Not quite parked up - they are arriving from the south - still moving over the pointwork at the south end of platform 1

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Good evening and a few more for you. It's Spring 1992 and we took the caravan to Romney Marsh. This was just down the road from the site, either Dr Syn or Winston Churchill.

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Of course construction of the Channel Tunnel was in full swing so here are some of the smaller locos helping the construction.

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And a broader view of the Cheriton terminal with the exhibition centre in the background.

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Another shot of the RHDR, not sure which loco it is.

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And finally New Romney station.

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More to come.

 

Jamie

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Good moaning, just, from a rather warm Charente.   A good evening's trainspotting was had last night and our new pool is finally starting to fill up without any apparent leaks so I've time to post some more photos. The Tardis has been reversed I I realised that I'd missed some slides that I took in 1991. First off the ferries of the time soon to have severe competition. This batch were all taken late July/early August 1991.

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Then we visited the exhibition centre at Cheriton and the 1880's tunnelling machine that had been recued from it's chalky grave by TML.

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Then the one from, I believe, the 1920's attempt that was entombed in the cliffs above Folkestone.

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Finally

Finally one of the 1980's ones that had bored from Folkestone to Cheriton.

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I seem to remember that when it's twin was being lifted out it got dropped and the 500 ton machine caused a measurable earthquake in the area.  Then to Leeds and a 307 coming in from Doncaster.  I seem to remember that West Yorks got some other ex Eastern region units until the 333's came along when the Aire Valley scheme went live but the order for extra 323's had been scuppered by privatisation.

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Finally a visit to Crew Electric depot and a line up of early series electrics probably due for scrap.

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More to come.

 

Jamie

 

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On 28/07/2020 at 22:10, jamie92208 said:

Good evening and a few more for you. It's Spring 1992 and we took the caravan to Romney Marsh. This was just down the road from the site, either Dr Syn or Winston Churhill.

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Of course construction of the Channel Tunnel was in full swing so here are some of the smaller locos helping the construction.

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And a broader view of the Cheriton terminal with the exhibition centre in the background.

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Another shot of the RHDR, not sure which loco it is.

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And finally New Romney station.

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More to come.

 

Jamie

 

My local railways!! During the building of the tunnel I was living in Japan but every year when I returned on holiday I would go upto the hills overlooking Cheriton and take similar pictures to what Jamie has taken.

 

Keith

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