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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.

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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.

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Next one of the relatively recent batch of single deckers, which I think were built by East Lancs Coachbuilders.

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Next one that got missed on yesterdays post.  A visit to Barrow Hill which was full of 58's.

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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

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Then three more came along at once

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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.

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Probably around April 89.  More tomorrow all being well.

 

Jamie

 

 

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54 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Next another visit to Crewe and here was an 87 with a brand new DVT

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Some lovely shots today, Jamie but that’s an 86 rather than an 87. Looks like it’s 86226 Royal Mail Midlands.

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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.

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The name plate is just readable on the original scan, Royal Mail and then some word beginning with M.

 

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Jamie

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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.

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Then 2 91's ready t head south, unusually at the south end of the train.

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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.

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Then a night trip to Preston looking south.

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That's my download limit for today.

 

Jamie

 

 

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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

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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

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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A suitably grimy shed yard.

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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

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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

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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)

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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. 

 

 

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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.

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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.

 

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12 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

A suitably grimy shed yard.

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Apologies to Jamie for hijacking the thread.....

 

Dave

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Apologies to Jamie for hijacking the thread.....

 

Dave

Nice pictures Dave and no problem about the thread. It's nice to get feedback.

 

Jamie

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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.

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What a nice gesture by a kind railwayman.

A 56 and a 60.

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And more parked locos.  It must have been a Sunday so this was probably New years Eve,

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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.

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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.  

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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.

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More tomorrow, hopefully.

 

Jamie

 

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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!)

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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

 

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1 hour ago, Trev52A said:

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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!)

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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