billy_anorak59 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) ...and a view taken from ON the Aire & Calder - Class 56 trundling by (c.1985): Edited July 22, 2022 by billy_anorak59 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 10, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) A few more from 88/89. First of all a couple of slide scans First off one of Walter Luff's iconic Balloons from the 1930's at Blackpool. Some of these are still running in the heritage fleet and a few have been modified with extra width at the doorways so that they can serve the new platforms on the refurbished line. Then Bolton 66 which was restored by the late Derek Shepherd. Next one of the relatively recent batch of single deckers, which I think were built by East Lancs Coachbuilders. Next one that got missed on yesterdays post. A visit to Barrow Hill which was full of 58's. Martin and Paul would be 8 and 7 respectively. How time flies, They are now 40 and 38.n Next another visit to Crewe and here was an 87 with a brand new DVT Then three more came along at once I've not seen a 31 paired with a DVT very often. Then along came a 47 with a tube train. Possibly heading for scrap. Probably around April 89. More tomorrow all being well. Jamie Edited August 4, 2022 by jamie92208 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted July 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10, 2020 54 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: Next another visit to Crewe and here was an 87 with a brand new DVT Some lovely shots today, Jamie but that’s an 86 rather than an 87. Looks like it’s 86226 Royal Mail Midlands. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 10, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) On 10/07/2020 at 18:28, Western Aviator said: Some lovely shots today, Jamie but that’s an 86 rather than an 87. Looks like it’s 86226 Royal Mail Midlands. Thanks for that. You are dead right. Here's another shot where the name plate is just readable. It'll teach me to upload when I'm tired. The name plate is just readable on the original scan, Royal Mail and then some word beginning with M. Thanks Jamie Edited August 4, 2022 by jamie92208 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 12, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) Good afternoon from a warm and sunny Charente, A few more I think from late June to early July 1989, I think. A 91 pulls into Leeds taken from the car park that is now platform 0. Then 2 91's ready t head south, unusually at the south end of the train. Then a 91 pulls in as an HST is ready to depart from the old platform 5 and a West Yorks Metro Class 155 is in Platform 7. Then a night trip to Preston looking south. That's my download limit for today. Jamie Edited August 4, 2022 by jamie92208 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jamie92208 Posted July 14, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) Good morning on Bastille Day. Some more here from 1989, I think that they are from early July. To begin with I'm still at Preston. First of all a long forgotten sight, a TPO heading north. Then a sleeper train heading north. At one point I think there was one in the platform and another two waiting to get into the station from the south. A few days ago I posted some shots of the bridge over Geldard Road being rebuilt. As I mentioned the stub of the viaduct line was wired and used for stabling until the line out to Neville Hill was finally wired. I had completely forgotten that I'd taken this shot. A 91 just about above Globe Road. Next up a couple of shots taken in the Procor works at Horbury Junction (The former Charles Roberts Wagon Works). A friend from church was a plater there and they were building the bodies for the class 60's so he arranged a trip round one Saturday morning. My younger son Paul admiring what I think is to become 60002. Dave worked on other projects but had been called in to get dimples out of the cab fronts. I could never understand why these complete shells had to go by road from one rail connected works to another for completion. More tomorrow hopefully. Jamie Edited August 4, 2022 by jamie92208 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 16, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) 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. 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. And 90029 pulls in with a northbound. Then an interesting 47 31 combination coming in on a multi coloured train. 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 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. 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 Edited August 4, 2022 by jamie92208 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) The multicoloured train arriving in Leeds must be a stock move of some sort. In the second picture the IC liveried vehicles are both MK4 stock. Edited July 16, 2020 by great central Spelling 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 16, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, great central said: The multicoloured train arriving in Leeds must be a stock move of some sort. In the second picture the IC liveried vehicles are both MK4 stock. Thanks, I looked at it again later this morning and realised that the coaches were in the old platform 4 at Leeds which I knew as the Scarborough bay. Display vehickes were often parked there. It may well have been some early Mk4's for either publicity or possibly crew training with the Mk2 as a translator vehicle. They do look rather new. Jamie Edited July 16, 2020 by jamie92208 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 It looks like the top pic, is of 2 class 91s & not DVTs You can see the pantograph on the right hand 1. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 17, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) Thanks for that Ray, I'll amend it in due course. Anyway here are some more still from late 1989. The 91 was attached to the HST and off they set with a huge cloud of exhaust from the HST. The power car had probably been idling for quite a while so had some oil carried over. If I remember correctly they modified the control circuits so that the HST supplied power as well as ETH as if they were left at low power for the whole journey they had a lot of oil carry over into the exhaust and I think there was at least one fire. However the upshot was that the acceleration with a 91 and power car was phenomenal. As it passed i managed a shot of the buffers fitted to the HST. As far as I know they were never removed and at least one has ended up on the Network Management Train. Next we have a complete change of scenery and are in North Wales at the Snowdon Mountain Railway. It may well have been out of season. A suitably grimy shed yard. My late friend Tony Bond made some beautiful 7mm models of SMR stock, the railcar, at least one diesel and a couple of steam locos plus some coaches. We sent many hours trying to devise a potential layout to run them on and how to model the rack. The best idea was going to be a joint WHR/SMR station station north of Beddgellert and at the terminus of a proposed SMR extension down the south side of Snowdon. Then a total change of scenery and I think this it Toton, probably between Christmas and New Year at the end of 1989 I have moved on with my scanning and am now able to date a lot quite accurately as the slides are mainly of continental summer holidays and I've still got all my Platform 5 books with the dates that I saw the locos recorded. I just wish I could find a way to add metadata to batches of images so that I can at least get the date taken onto the image. Jamie Edited August 4, 2022 by jamie92208 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted July 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: I just wish I could find a way to add metadata to batches of images so that I can at least get the date taken onto the image. Google is your friend - quite a few available to add the date to the exif information on a photo.. I've used Adobe lightroom in the past, this also allows other information to be added to the exif. (but I haven't used it for a few years now so check first) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted July 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17, 2020 4 hours ago, jamie92208 said: I just wish I could find a way to add metadata to batches of images so that I can at least get the date taken onto the image. Jamie In addition to the advice offered by @beast66606 above you might want to consider using Photo Mechanic. Link to website Photo Mechanic I've used it for several years now and would throughly recommend it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam88 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 5 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Next we have a complete change of scenery and are in North Wales at the Snowdon Mountain Railway. It may well have been out of season. Well it does look dry and sunny. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 My first time on the Snowdon Mountain Railway was as a kid in summer 1973; Due to cloud cover the train only went as far as Clogwyn ! 33 years later, now with my own kids, I tried again and finally made it to the summit. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted July 17, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2020 12 hours ago, jamie92208 said: A suitably grimy shed yard. They seem to keep it a bit tidier these days. Taken last year when I took my better half for a walk up Snowdon during our 25th Anniversery break. We did consider a trip down on the train, but £27 single for a stand-by ticket, and several hours possible wait, we decided to walk it, as a beer and curry was calling back in Caernarfon. The view on a good day is amazing though, and there is actually a train in this view looking back down to the lake. Apologies to Jamie for hijacking the thread..... Dave 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 17, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Davexoc said: They seem to keep it a bit tidier these days. Taken last year when I took my better half for a walk up Snowdon during our 25th Anniversery break. We did consider a trip down on the train, but £27 single for a stand-by ticket, and several hours possible wait, we decided to walk it, as a beer and curry was calling back in Caernarfon. The view on a good day is amazing though, and there is actually a train in this view looking back down to the lake. Apologies to Jamie for hijacking the thread..... Dave Nice pictures Dave and no problem about the thread. It's nice to get feedback. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) Good afternoon from a sunny and very warm Charente. We are still round about the end of 1989 at Toton, I strongly suspect late December. All 3 kids were with me and after the last photo was taken they were allowed to sit in the cab of, I think a 60. What a nice gesture by a kind railwayman. A 56 and a 60. And more parked locos. It must have been a Sunday so this was probably New years Eve, 1 I think this is Shirebroook but can't be sure. The 3 brats posing in front of a line up of 56's. Thanks to Great Central and others I'm now pretty certain that this was Sunderland South Dock. I do remember going there once with My wife's uncle. I'm not sure where the next one is but Eastfield springs to mind. Must be a trip out in January. Thanks to Trev52A this has now been identified as Gateshead. And we are definitely into 1990 now with a Mk4 DVT heading round the triangle Holbeck towards London, taken from the entrance to Whitehall Goods Yard. More tomorrow, hopefully. Jamie Edited August 4, 2022 by jamie92208 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) @Jamie 92208 Hi Jamie Your fifth picture in the last batch is actually Gateshead. I have a similar view taken on 15th July 1990, featuring 47443, 47503 and 47549 (and a whole pile of wagon(?) wheels!) The buildings in the background are part of the infamous St. Cuthbert's Village, all since demolished apart from the tall tower block. Cheers Trevor Edited July 19, 2020 by Trev52A extra info 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19, 2020 Thanks for that Trev, I never even thought of Gateshead but recognise it now. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Trev52A said: @Jamie 92208 Hi Jamie Your fifth picture in the last batch is actually Gateshead. I have a similar view taken on 15th July 1990, featuring 47443, 47503 and 47549 (and a whole pile of wagon(?) wheels!) The buildings in the background are part of the infamous St. Cuthbert's Village, all since demolished apart from the tall tower block. Cheers Trevor Is the square brick building on the other side of the tracks a ventilation shaft for the Metro. I know it passes underneath somewhere around here. To the left of the building was the site of the former LNER Laundry; this dealt with linen for restaurant cars, and establishments such as railway-owned hotels and refreshment rooms. It used to have its own siding. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 19, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19, 2020 As Photo 5 has now been ID'd as Gateshead and it's only 2 frames away from Phot0 4, we might well have been visiting my wife's aunt and uncle in Sunderland. That would possibly place Photo 4 as Sunderland South Dock. Any thoughts anyone. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted July 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19, 2020 1 hour ago, jamie92208 said: As Photo 5 has now been ID'd as Gateshead and it's only 2 frames away from Phot0 4, we might well have been visiting my wife's aunt and uncle in Sunderland. That would possibly place Photo 4 as Sunderland South Dock. Any thoughts anyone. Jamie I must admit Sunderland South Dock sprang to mind when I saw the picture, before you wrote that. I did go there once, probably about 15 years before the date of your picture, and what sticks in my mind is that the locos (37s) in the shed each had a brake van attached. Something to do with the way they worked out LE to the pits I believe. I think Shirebrook shed was more an ER steel and glass type building. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, 31A said: I must admit Sunderland South Dock sprang to mind when I saw the picture, before you wrote that. I did go there once, probably about 15 years before the date of your picture, and what sticks in my mind is that the locos (37s) in the shed each had a brake van attached. Something to do with the way they worked out LE to the pits I believe. I think Shirebrook shed was more an ER steel and glass type building. You'd see the 37s with brake-van attached in similar fashion at Swansea East Depot; the van was almost always in front, presumably to reduce running round. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 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.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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