RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted February 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2021 On 22/02/2021 at 16:33, jamie92208 said: The next day, the 11th I went up to meet Mike, better know on here as The Stationmaster and we had a pleasant hour trainspotting at IIRC Tilehurst where this Voyager came through. Yes, that’s Tilehurst. I’ve spent more time waiting for trains standing on that exact spot than I care to remember. Thanks for all the images and stories that went with them. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted February 24, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) 22 hours ago, sir douglas said: i had a look at Milner lane in 2017, both rails still there but one hidden under the muck Thanks for correcting the name of Milner Lane Sam. I've updated the post. Jamie Edited February 24, 2021 by jamie92208 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 03060 Posted February 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2021 I believe that there are still rails down (sidings and pointwork) on the site of one of the Rothwell pits served by the E&WYUR which were still accessible a couple of years ago and seen on one of 'Adventure Me's' You Tube offerings about walking the remnants of the lines. I used these as a basis for several walks last summer but was beaten by the last couple of lockdowns before I had chance to view these sidings for myself, maybe this year. Rothwell is the opposite side of Leeds to me and although I do drive past it every time I go to work in Wakefield I've kept my daily walks strictly local in respect of the guidelines. Thanks for the great tour of the country via your photographs Jamie, I've enjoyed seeing them. Regards, Ian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted February 24, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) On 24/02/2021 at 15:16, 03060 said: I believe that there are still rails down (sidings and pointwork) on the site of one of the Rothwell pits served by the E&WYUR which were still accessible a couple of years ago and seen on one of 'Adventure Me's' You Tube offerings about walking the remnants of the lines. I used these as a basis for several walks last summer but was beaten by the last couple of lockdowns before I had chance to view these sidings for myself, maybe this year. Rothwell is the opposite side of Leeds to me and although I do drive past it every time I go to work in Wakefield I've kept my daily walks strictly local in respect of the guidelines. Thanks for the great tour of the country via your photographs Jamie, I've enjoyed seeing them. Regards, Ian. I think I've seen those pictures on Facebook. If they are those ones as far as I know they are the narrow gauge material handling tracks round the old pit shafts. Jamie Edited November 22, 2021 by jamie92208 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted February 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26, 2021 As threatened I've started a new thread with European content. It's in the Continental and Overseas section on the French Railways sub thread, called..... JAMIE'S RANDOM FRENCH RAILWAY PICTURES. Jamie 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jamie92208 Posted November 22, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2021 (edited) Good afternoon from the Charente where it's cold. However I made a chance discovery the other day when doing some tidying in the shed. When I scanned my other slides last year I knew that there were some missing ones. By chance I found the missing case last week with some 200 slides in it dating from 1970 to early 1978. Some of them have not kept as well as I would like but I've played with the oldest ones in a photoshop equivalent this afternoon and the first 6 are here. As I go through them I'll post them on this thread. We start on 22nd November 1970 with my last school Transport Society outing which was to Crewe Works. I seem to remember that the works were open most Sundays if you applied for a permit. The first one is by the entrance to Crewe diesel depot. This D400, as we called them was moving off. I was quite taken by the irony of the steam loco outline on the warning sign. 50 years later it is still in use. Then it was on to the works. This was inside one of the shops., 47's and a 40 I think. And another with an electric. This ED was outside on the load bank if my forgettery has the correct information in file. Hopefully I'll be able to post some more over the coming days. Jamie Edited April 7, 2022 by jamie92208 22 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Like finding treasure. When my father died and we cleared his house, I harboured thoughts of finding the 36 exposure slide film I took on my first ever SADRES railway visit: Crewe, 6th March 1966. Brits, Jubes and the Duke. It went missing before being processed. Sadly, it didnt turn up. To this day I believe my dad chucked it as useless rather than paying for processing. He never approved of train spotting. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted November 22, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, JeffP said: Like finding treasure. When my father died and we cleared his house, I harboured thoughts of finding the 36 exposure slide film I took on my first ever SADRES railway visit: Crewe, 6th March 1966. Brits, Jubes and the Duke. It went missing before being processed. Sadly, it didnt turn up. To this day I believe my dad chucked it as useless rather than paying for processing. He never approved of train spotting. Somewhere are my 35mm b&w negs of the 15 guinea special at Blea Moor. If they ever turn up I'll scan them. The photos above were taken with my Ilford Sportsman that I eventually left on a train before I got my first SLR in 1974. Finding this box was treasure indeed as there are some nice ones of my mum and dad, sadly no longer with us. Jamie Edited November 22, 2021 by jamie92208 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 (edited) I’d recommend having an extended play with your graphics editor before doing too many more. Looks to me from that sample above that you may be able to get some better results than what you got so far. Maybe! I’m always surprised by how much I can rescue things. Edited November 22, 2021 by eastwestdivide Rescue 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted November 22, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2021 4 minutes ago, eastwestdivide said: I’d recommend having an extended play with your graphics editor before doing too many more. Looks to me from that sample above that you may be able to get some better results than what you got so far. Maybe! I’m always surprised by how much I can rescue things. Thse were the worst ones on IIRC, Perutz colour film. It was my first ever colour slide film and I din't have a light meter so had to guess the exposure. Considering what I started with they've come up better than I hoped. However It looks as if further work could produce results. It's not really my area of expertise. Thanks for the comments. I was wary about posting them. Jamie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 I did a VERY quick play (all auto adjustments) on the 1st pic using photoshop as an experiment. 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted November 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2021 (edited) Time for a few more raves from the grave. To start with the last one from Crewe on 22/11/70 We now move on to 1971 and I was having what would now be called a gap year in London, working for BP at Sunbury on Thames. These are I think from July. One evening i went up to town and this was the interior of St Pancras. It looks a little different now. By the July I was living in a bedsit at Hounslow West on Standard Road and often used to pedal up to Heathrow on an evening. Hear an East African Airways VC10 is on the stand whilst a BOAC one taxis past. At this time my brother was flying VC10's for BOAC as a rather new 1st officer. Not sure what these are, possibly a Viscount or britannia on the right. One Saturday afternoon I went down to Shepperton and two different styles of 4 Sub were present. Then on to Weybridge and this came through. I think it's a 4 TC/4Rep set. Jamie Edited April 7, 2022 by jamie92208 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted November 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2021 40 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: Not sure what these are, possibly a Viscount or britannia on the right. On the right is an Ilyushin Il-18 and behind its wing is a Boeing 727. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted November 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2021 The EMU on the right at Shepperton is a 2-HAL. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jamie92208 Posted November 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2021 (edited) We are still in Weybridge in July 1971. The approaching train looks more like a 4 VEP than a REP. Then a 33 came along with a parcels. Followed by a VEP in all over rail blue. And a 2 car set. I think that this was one of the ex North Tyneside units but can't remember the designation. I probably caught that back to Ashford. That's it for the London area. I moved back to Yorkshire in early September. I travelled up on the Thames Clyde to Settle with all my worldly goods in the Guards van. My brother was allowed to drive onto the platform at St Pancras for us to load the stuff from his car. My parents met me at Settle along with a porter and a platform barrow. Thus a move was performed very easily. This was the view across the Ribble valley from just above our house. 2 miles of the Settle and Carlisle Line. Jamie Edited April 7, 2022 by jamie92208 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jamie92208 Posted November 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) Good evening. A few more from 50 years ago. I was out for a walk one afternoon, probably in September 71 and saw this 40 heading north from Settle, between the viaduct and Barrel Sykes Farm. It's about at the point where the Settle accident happened when the Britannia lost it's slidebars. I remember that morning well as we walked to chapel not far to the right of where the picture was taken. And half way to Langcliffe another class 40. A bit further up just north of Langcliffe looking towards Stainforth quarry. Then a visit to the Ratty and River Esk at Dalegarth. October 71 I started at Nottingham Uni and took this one at Midland Station with the GC bridge in the background. At that time the GC was still in use to access Ruddington. It would have been nice to see the bridge carrying modern trams. I think that I was waiting for a DMU special to Toton depot for an open day. These Peaks were lined up outside the depot. The DMU ran right into the shed from memory. A not very good shot of the interior of the cab of what I think was a Peak. More to come another day. Jamie Edited April 7, 2022 by jamie92208 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted November 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2021 A proper Peak!! Only ever saw one once.. at Peterborough on a Fly Ash train.. Baz 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted November 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) On 26/11/2021 at 16:59, jamie92208 said: And a 2 car set. I think that this was one of the ex North Tyneside units but can't remember the designation. These were still called 2EPB but I don't think this unit is one of them - the luggage vans were larger than standard and they got a smaller indicator blind Actually, on zooming in on the pic, it's an SR/Bulleid-design unit - the Tyneside units were BR-design Edited November 27, 2021 by keefer 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted November 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2021 54 minutes ago, Barry O said: A proper Peak!! Only ever saw one once.. at Peterborough on a Fly Ash train.. Baz From my missprnt youth i went to Toton a couple of times and on a Sunday, all ten 44's were usually parked in a line oposite the depot between the up yard and the main line. Trent junction on a Wednesday afternoon was another of my haunts, when we were meant to be doing sports. A bike ride out to Trent was my exercise. The 44's on loose coupled coal trains coming off the flyover to head soth, usually with a brake tender in front of them. Jamie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted November 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 28, 2021 (edited) Good evening from a rather cold Charente. Some more from the Toton open day. A crane was giving a lifting demo. I think it was still steam powered in 1971. That 20 went up and down all day like a proverbial pair of drawers on a lady of the night. Here it is. There was certainly steam at the back of the shed with a portable track. And this was the view inside the depot. Next we move on to what I am fairly sure was Birkenhead North. I went on a day out and they let me wander round the shed. Third rail and all. I always had a fascination for the Merseyside electrics, here are some more on shed. Jamie Edited April 7, 2022 by jamie92208 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted November 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 28, 2021 That 20 is 8142, which is still with us so clearly survived its ordeal 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted November 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 28, 2021 (edited) The second Birkenhead pic is interesting as it shows the original cl.503 front end - later on they gained a door in the centre of the front end and hence had air pipes on either side of the door. Not sure when it happened but was due to the requirement to have an end door for evacuation in the tunnel sections. Edited November 28, 2021 by keefer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted November 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 28, 2021 1 hour ago, keefer said: The second Birkenhead pic is interesting as it shows the original cl.503 front end - later on they gained a door in the centre of the front end and hence had air pipes on either side of the door. Not sure when it happened but was due to the requirement to have an end door for evacuation in the tunnel sections. I'm fairly sure the pictue was taken in 71 but not what date. My slide labelling wasn't very organised then. Jamie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 The upper one is one of the Southport units which had buffers and screw couplings rather than buckeyes. The cab windows were also a slightly different shape: square with rounded corners whereas the outer edges of the Merseyside units sloped with the profile and the corners were angles. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted November 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 28, 2021 1 hour ago, keefer said: The second Birkenhead pic is interesting as it shows the original cl.503 front end - later on they gained a door in the centre of the front end and hence had air pipes on either side of the door. Not sure when it happened but was due to the requirement to have an end door for evacuation in the tunnel sections. It was a requirement for the loop which opened in 1977, so they were converted prior to then. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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