JAMIE'S RANDOM UK RAILWAY PICTURES

[sir douglas]

the squat loco has a Hudswell look to it

[jamie92208]

4 hours ago, sir douglas said:

the squat loco has a Hudswell look to it

The photo was in the same batch as the one of the Ribblesdale one but had no further info. I have tried many times, but without success to get the Industrial Railway Societies list of the locos that worked those quarries but without success. Though the quarries were in the West Riding they are not included in the book the IRS published for West Yorkshire which conforms to to post 1974 boundaries.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good afternoon.   I' hope that I've managed to get the errant photo to display in the correct orientation.

 

At last.   The S & C main line at Helwith Bridge is on the lower right of the picture looking northwards towards Horton in Ribblesdale. The triangular junction can be seen that leads to the quarries.

Next one last one from the batch showing the Craven Line Company wagon being loaded at Stainforth.

Actually looking at it it is probably being unloaded of coal for the Hoffman kiln.  These wagons were loaded in both directions, lime out coal back. There is then a bit of a gap as we went across the pond for our silver wedding but this next batch were taken when we got back so probably date from early July 2004. I'm fairly sure that this was taken on a day trip to Tamworth with a Pendelino speeding south.

Then a 67 but I've no idea of the location.

And finally an 87 at Manchester Picadilly.

There should have been another but it rotated so that will have to wait till tomorrow.

 

 

Jamie

 

Edited August 7, 2022 by jamie92208

[ba14eagle]

The picture of the 67 seems to have a RN ships funnel in the background?

There is also third rail in evidence...

Edited October 8, 2020 by ba14eagle
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[jamie92208]

17 hours ago, ba14eagle said:

The picture of the 67 seems to have a RN ships funnel in the background?

There is also third rail in evidence...

I've had a look at it and the funnel does seem to be RN type.  Perhaps it's somewhere in the Southampton area.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good morning from the Charente.   First the final one from Manchester Piccadilly that refused point blank to load the right way round. (corrected on reloading in 2022)

We then move into 2005 with a trip to Scotland.  I will have a dig around and should be able to find a date. Keith and I had a trip to Glasgow on £10 tickets courtesy of his daughter who is a Train Manger on Cross Country.  I think from memory that we got upgraded to 1st class by one of her colleagues. Anyway the day turned out well as we finally saw 156 513 after many trips north.  We were both convinced that with 13 as the final digits it actually only existed in Brigadoon.

Then, I think to Hellensborough Central . I did like the maroon and cream livery.

Then Balloch.

Then Glasgow Central and a 314 in the old SPT colours.

Hopefully some more tomorrow.

 

Jamie

 

Edited August 7, 2022 by jamie92208

[Davey]

Hi Jamie,

 

I do think the tilt on the that Voyager at Manchester Piccadilly is rather excessive!

 

Davey

[jamie92208]

Another day, another dollar as they say.  It is early 2005, February 2nd to be precise and Keith and I were out track bashing in south eastern Manchester. It must because it's sunny here but the system has uploaded them all in the correct orientation.  We got a runabout ticket for some ridiculous price of, I think, £2.50. Our first destination was Buxton. With the rather sad looking depot in the background. No more 37's like there used to be.

In the other direction though the end screen wall still looks good.

Then Back to Piccadilly and out to Hadfield and the rather poignant site of the trackbed to Woodhead stretching into the distance. It was 24 years since I'd photographed the 76's at Torside.

Thanks to GC and Mike Edge I now know that this is at Hadfield as we waited  to leave. It was nice to be riding on Leeds built units, the 323's.

Back to Piccadilly again and out to Marple and a Pacer in what I think is Mereseyrail livery.

Then change at Romiley and out to Rose Hill Marple. We had a little time there so I was able to scrounge some coke from the coal merchant in the old goods yard.  The coke is now wagon loads on the layout.

Hopefully some more tomorrow.

 

Jamie

 

Edited August 7, 2022 by jamie92208

[great central]

Re picture 3 above, you can see the large over hanging colour light signal gantry still in place when looking up the trackbed towards Woodhead, 24 years after it last signalled a train.

I think number 4 is still at Hadfield (Royston Vasey) just looking the other way towards Manchester.

 

[Michael Edge]

Yes, number 4 is at Hadfield.

[jamie92208]

14 hours ago, great central said:

Re picture 3 above, you can see the large over hanging colour light signal gantry still in place when looking up the trackbed towards Woodhead, 24 years after it last signalled a train.

I think number 4 is still at Hadfield (Royston Vasey) just looking the other way towards Manchester.

 

 

9 hours ago, Michael Edge said:

Yes, number 4 is at Hadfield.

Thanks for those comments. I've edited the caption.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good afternoon from a sunny place.   First a visit to the Wirral Heritage tramway in Birkenhead. I had started work to restore the last surviving Leeds horse tram which had been built by G F Milnes in Birkenhead.  The team from the Leeds Transport Historical Society (LTHS) were invited to visit the Merseyside Transport Society at their premises in Taylor Street, Birkenhead and we were well looked after and given a lot of information about Milnes trams. We then had a ride down to Woodside ferry terminal in a Liverpool Tram 768.

It was raining and it slipped badly so they brought our one of their Hing King Built 4 wheelers which cope better in the wet though the internal clearances are a bit tight for most Europeans.

762 was then put away.

After our trip to Woodside we visited the two sites that Milnes used on Cleveland Street. The first tramway workshops in the UK. George Francis Train, who brought the technology over from the USA had his foreman set up the works.  he was called Starbuck and believe it or not came from Seattle. He retired to the States and his foreman, Milnes bought the business.

The 14th April 2005 Keith and I went out to do the Holyhead and Blaenau Festiniog branches. Here is a 153 at Blaenau.

And from the other direction with a Ffestiniog train on the right.

More tomorrow I hope.

 

Jamie

Edited August 7, 2022 by jamie92208

[brushman47544]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

 

 

what a wonderfully laxly worded sign. Don’t think I would wait 7 days while they carried out an MOT.

[keefer]

Was there such a thing as a 7-day MOT?

Bare minimum to get your banger road-legal for a quick sale?

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, keefer said:

Was there such a thing as a 7-day MOT?

Bare minimum to get your banger road-legal for a quick sale?

Remember this is Murkyside we're talking about.   Maybe they only expect the wheels to remain on the vehicle for 7 days.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good morning.  Time for a return to Festiniog for a trip on the railway. Unfortunately the first one has turned itself round. I'm not expert enough to ID the locos but this was waiting at Blaenau  to take us down to Porthmadog.

A stop for a loco inspection at I think Dduallt 

This gave me the chance to get up on the footbridge for a photo.

Down at the Harbour, the National Power liveried diesel was waiting to take us back up the line.

 

Whilst one of the smaller locos (George Englands' ?) was shunting in the station.

And on the climb backup to Balenau.

This was a day trip out with another friend to donate a night storage heater to the volunteers hostel.

It was my first trip on the line.

 

 

Jamie

Edited August 7, 2022 by jamie92208

[beast66606]

16 hours ago, brushman47544 said:

what a wonderfully laxly worded sign. Don’t think I would wait 7 days while they carried out an MOT.

 

In some of the places that abounded Cleveland Street and the area back in the good old days you didn't have to wait even 7 minutes, you just paid and were given the certificate - allegedly.

Spent many a happy hour in scrap yards down there in the early 1980s, often several cars high.

[LMS2968]

13 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Remember this is Murkyside we're talking about.   Maybe they only expect the wheels to remain on the vehicle for 7 days.

 

Jamie

Holyhead's in Merseyside? That will come as a shock to the Welsh Nationalists.

[sir douglas]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Good morning.  Time for a return to Festiniog for a trip on the railway. Unfortunately the first one has turned itself round. I'm not expert enough to ID the locos but this was waiting at Blaenau  to take us down to Porthmadog.

 

A stop for a loco inspection at I think Dduallt 

This gave me the chance to get up on the footbridge for a photo.

Down at the Harbour, the National Power liveried diesel was waiting to take us back up the line.

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Whilst one of the smaller locos (George Englands' ?) was shunting in the station.

And on the climb backup to Balenau.

This was a day trip out with another friend to donate a night storage heater to the volunteers hostel.

It was my first trip on the line.

 

 

Jamie

 

 

The Fairlie is "Merddin Emrys", 2nd and 3rd photos are at TanyBwlch. the diesel is "Vale of Ffestiniog", the England is of course "Prince" and the last photo is Vale at Ddualt going up the spiral

[jamie92208]

7 hours ago, LMS2968 said:

Holyhead's in Merseyside? That will come as a shock to the Welsh Nationalists.

I was always told that Liverpool was the capital of North Wales.

 

Jamie

[LMS2968]

No, Ireland!

[jamie92208]

Good afternoon. A few more from 2005.   First to Blackpool Pleasure Beach and their miniature railway. I think this is a Hudswell Clark Diesel Hydraulic.  The gauge is somewhere roundabout 20" but I'll have to look it up.

Then the statutory rotated picture, Another Diesel in the shape of, IIRC a 4-6-4 T

Now the right way round after the 2022 reload.

Then up to Fleetwood and a balloon tram waiting to head back south.  Allegedly the only location in the UK where the lighthouse keeper could ride to work by tram.

Comin home a quick stop at Wennington  where the signal box used to be a switched out block post between Settle Junction and Carnforth.   It was due to be demolished shortly after this photo was taken.

The Midland lever frame was still intact inside.

Then on my way home I stopped at Hellifield and this 66 was waiting in the Up Goods loop with I think a log train. A long time ago i used to watch locos being coaled in the background whilst changing trains to go to Leeds.

That's it for today.

 

Jamie

Edited August 7, 2022 by jamie92208

[sir douglas]

21 inch gauge, same as Scarborough North Bay

[jamie92208]

Good afternoon We are in about July 2005 and a rather grey day at Wakefield Westgate waiting for a rather special train.  First though a 150'2 headed in about to turn into Platform 2 heading for Leeds.

Then a GNER liveried NoL Eurostar headed south. 

Then after a short argument with a BTP Constable who thought a group of ageing spotters with cameras were a security risk, we were allowed to stay by the Inspector.  Sense was seen.  It didn't help that the PC had tried to teach me some law.  The reason for all this was the arrival of the Royal Train with Her Majesty on board. Coming off the link from Kirkgate to run into Platform 1.

I can't remember which loco was at which end but here is the other one at the rear.

I was able to get a close up of the various plaques.   I wonder if they have had new ones cast since the DB takeover.

I was also quite surprised how grubby the inter vehicle areas were.

Hopefully another few tomorrow.

 

Jamie

 

 

 

Edited August 7, 2022 by jamie92208

[Roman]

The image of 67027 is at Birkenhead North TMD. The funnel of the vessel which can be seen is that 

of a RFA, which over the years have been stored in the West Float. Currently RFA Fort Austin is moored there. Another RFA is nearer to the bridge at Duke St.

 

HTH

 

Andy