JAMIE'S RANDOM UK RAILWAY PICTURES

[jamie92208]

Good afternoon from a slightly cloudy but warm corner of France.   A few more pictures. These are from late 77 and early 78.  The first is taken at the same time as the 87 and 47 that I posted last night. The allocation of 08613 at the time may give a clue but I don't have the necessary book over here.

 

Then the next few were taken on a trip round Doncaster works, probably in late January 78. First a very new looking Two very new looking 56's probably outside the paintshop.

Then an interesting lineup behind an 03. A 31, a Deltic and I think a 50.

Then a Deltic 55 001 no less.

Then a 24 that looks as if it doesn't have much longer in this world left.

Finally a 76 , is this the one that ended up at York.

Hope you like these.

 

 

Jamie

[The Pilotman]

First time I've ever seen a 50 and a 76 buffer to buffer; there can’t be many pictures of that combination.

[figworthy]

12 hours ago, doilum said:

" The Leeds, Castleford & Pontefract Junction Railway : The Ledston Branch." 

A good companion to " Castleford Colliery Railways".

 

On 21/05/2020 at 21:45, jamie92208 said:

It's title is , I think, The Leeds and Pontefract junction railway.  I bought a copy last time I was over as my daughter now lives on the old pit site at Allerton Bywater and walks our granddaughter along 'The Lines' as they are known. I'll have a look tomorrow and put the details on here.

 

Jamie

 

Thanks.

 

Adrian

[jamie92208]

Good evening again. It's April 78 and the first picture is the only one I've ever taken at Goole to my knowledge. A 31 heading towards Hull I think.

I think it's a portion working from Doncaster by the stock.  Then I had a surprise trip to London on my days off one week. A friend who was a lorry driver called one evening and asked if I fancied going to London with him in the lorry. Next day we set off and dropped a load of meat somewhere in the east end. We parked up in Smithfield and I remember going down into the basement car park and looking round at all the old railway connections with trains whizzing past on the widened lines.  Next day he dropped me outside St Pancras and I caught the train back to Leeds. The next two photos were taken at Peterborough probably taken out of the train window.

First a 56 pribablt on a fly ash empties from Fletton.

Then a 25 heads south with a freight.

About this time things started to change for me.  I first bought a new camera and Olympus OM1. I'd done an outward bound type course in the January and we slept in snowholes on top of Buckden Pike. My Yashica froze up and so I took out a bank loan for £200 and bought the OM1 along with a 28mm lens and a Hanimex zoom telephoto. I'd been sold on the Olympus after seeing one that a Mountain Leadership Instructor had and also the photos that Chris Bonnington took on Everest with one.  It never let me down and lasted for 30 years.  I do know that I took some slide films about this time but haven't found them yet.  If they turn up I'll have to wind the clock back.  The other big change is that I met and fell in love with a young lady who has now been my wife for 41 years. We got engaged in the July after having met in May. The next photos were taken a few days after we got engaged.  I had a day out to York. First there is an HST heading south.

Then a lovely Deltic heading north.

These were all taken just north of Holgate Bridge.  Next a class 40 headed south,

And finally and HST I'm not sure where this was taken but possibly somewhere north of York.

That's all for tonight folks.

 

Jamie

Edited May 24, 2020 by jamie92208

[Davexoc]

The 56 is probably on fly-ash, empties from Fletton (Peterborough) if heading north.

I always aspired to an OM1, but ended up with an OM20 after trading in my Zenit....

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

The first two are actually at Peterborough Jamie.

 

Mike.

[jamie92208]

3 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

The first two are actually at Peterborough Jamie.

 

Mike.

Thanks for that Mike, I'll edit it and now I can index it properly. 

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good evening from the Charente.   A few more pictures from 1979 this time.   I didn't take many as life was rather busy buying houses, selling a house and arranging a wedding, along with a little matter of work. The first three were taken in, I think, the February on a trip to meet family in Sunderland. Obviously a visit to Beamish was arranged.

It looks a bit different today but the tram is still there though not canned in reverse as I have obviously done.

Then a drive with my fiancées uncle that took in the Austin and Pickersgill yard that was still turning out SD14's.

Again the site is unrecognisable now and it's been a long time since a ship was launched on the Wear.

I did see a DMU on the coast line.   

There was then an intermission whilst we honeymooned in Canada and the US. I'll probably start another thread in due course North American trains.

Anyway the boss let me out one day and I headed down to Water Lane and the Holbeck Triangle, which in those days, July 1979, you could just walk into and right up to the tracks.  This is the sight that you could see.

A 47 powering out of Leeds,

Then it headed out towards Huddersfield so could have been a Trans Pennine

Though the stock looks a bit posh for a Trans Pennine.

This was then followed by a Class 40 on what I think is the Red Bank Newspaper empties.

That's all for tonight.

 

Jamie

 

[jamie92208]

Good evening again.  Some more from the archives.  The next few were the reason that I was standing in the triangle at Holbeck.  First the new order on the East Coast Main line appeared.

Then this started to emerge from the station.

It was my old friend 5305

Closely followed by a syncopated beat of Sir Nigel.

That seems to be about the only railway photos I took in this period but we went on a canal holiday with my brother in law and his wife on a narrow boat down the Oxford Canal.  We got as far as Upper Heyford and this woke us up that morning.

Yes an F-111 or Aardvark. Noisy things but good alarm clocks.

The holiday was quite amusing.  Both the girls were 3 months pregnant so obviously couldn't do the heavy work doing the locks so they spent much of the holiday steering the boat.  This nearly caused many other boaters to forget their steering.  I don't think, in those unenlightened days, that we saw another boat steered by a woman.

 

Anyway It's goodnight from me.

 

Jamie

 

[Ray M]

I love the one with the 47 on TP train, going away from you (near Armley gyratory).

It brings back the time i was on a No11 bus,  when a toddler with her mother, shouted out,

Look mummy there`s that castle, where my Daddy lives.

[jamie92208]

19 minutes ago, Ray M said:

I love the one with the 47 on TP train, going away from you (near Armley gyratory).

It brings back the time i was on a No11 bus,  when a toddler with her mother, shouted out,

Look mummy there`s that castle, where my Daddy lives.

Aren't kids brilliant. It was known as The Big House. We used to reckon that at least 95% of the occupants were there because they upset a woman.

 

Jamie

[Ray M]

And now its 80% full of M****ms

I only know that, because i know an officer who works there.

[Chris Turnbull]

15 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 

Yes an F-111 or Aardvark. Noisy things but good alarm clocks.

 

Yes, very noisy especially if you are stood near the runway.

 

Back in the 80s and early 90s I worked at RAF Lakenheath when F111s were stationed there.  One of my jobs was to remeasure the Southern Loop Taxiway which was being resurfaced including the two arm/disarm pads , one at the 24 end, the other at the 06 end (the runway is aligned on a 60 degree/240 degree axis).   We often had to dodge around the F111s but the worst bit was at each end next to the runway.  You had to put your figures in your ears when the planes were taking off but it still felt that your teeth rattled!  Of course nowadays we would be given ear defenders but not then.  We also had to measure up to the runway itself whilst it was in use so we contacted the base to see when would be convenient.  We were told that there would be a "flight window" between 12.00 and 12.30 p.m. so well before time we all turned up.  Was there a "flight window"?  Was there Hell!  One of us had to sit by the phone to the control tower and they would ring us when a plane was due to land at which point we had to scarper clear of the runway (this was before the days of mobiles).  There were also plenty of F111s taking off but we could see them coming down the taxiway.  What should have taken us half an hour took us all afternoon.

 

Chris Turnbull

Edited May 26, 2020 by Chris Turnbull

[jamie92208]

Good evening or Bon Soir mes amis.  Here are a few more.  We've moved on to April 1980.  Life was a bit busy with our firstborn due later that month but Monday 21st April I took my wife and sister in law to anti natal appointments in Dewsbury.  Obviously I was a useless spar part at such proceeding so went across the valley and parked up by the Trans Pennine Line just west of Batley Station. This is where the ex Great Northern Lines parallel the ex LNWR lines across a side valley then the GN dipped down to go under the LNW as they headed towards Dewsbury.  At that time the ex GN viaduct was still standing.  A 47 headed west.

And got closer, you can see the ex GN trackbed clearly.

And headed along above the Batley Variety Club which was in the valley behind it.

Then a very grubby 47 came along with an Eastbound you can see clearly where the GN went under the LNW. Further along the valley they changed over again with the GN in a tunnel.

And headed round the bend towards Morley and Leeds.

I'm afraid that's all for the time being folks until I get some more scanning done. But two days later our eldest was born at 03.10 in the morning.  He was 40 this year which is why I started  doing the scanning.

 

TTFN as they say.

 

Jamie

[Davexoc]

9 hours ago, Chris Turnbull said:

 

Yes, very noisy especially if you are stood near the runway.

 

 

Not as noisy as a B1-B though.

Around that time I remember seeing an F111 at an air show. This one was flown by the Australian Air Force, and as a party trick would do a fly past dumping fuel and lighting it with a quick flick of the afterburners, leaving a flaming trail in the sky behind it. Probably wouldn't be allowed these days.....

[Chris Turnbull]

10 hours ago, Davexoc said:

 

Not as noisy as a B1-B though.

 

 

That's true.  I had experience of those at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota.  Our son-in-law was stationed there some years ago and we would visit our grandchildren at least once a year.

 

Chris Turnbull

[beast66606]

Only just discovered this thread - great stuff and thanks for sharing.

[jamie92208]

Good evening from a rather warm corner of the Charente. I found a bit of time this afternoon and started scanning some of my earlier slides.  I still haven't found my earliest ones but this film dates from February/March 1978.  The first shows a 47 at Leeds on a/c Mk 2 stock with a 40 alongside it.

Then we move on to a Woodlesford Railfans trip to London. 2 of the dads came along and we took 12 lads with permits for Stratford, Cricklewood, Old Oak, Willesden and I think Stewarts Lane

Here's an 87 in the shed at Willesden.

Then on to Old Oak and a sight you can't see now.

Another of the turntable area. It's had to think that it's all gone now.  At least it will still be a working railway.

Then on to Paddington.

And finally Waterloo and a 33.

We had a multi part party ticket for all the rail journeys. We had chosen to go back to Leeds via Manchester and arrived at Euston to find that the only ticket left was for something like Stratford to West Hampstead.   Someone had obviously taken the wrong part of the ticket at some point.  Fortunately I had some of the letters with me and at the last minute they let us aboard.  We ran down the ramp and got on the last coach and a few seconds later it pulled out.  

 

Happy days.

 

Jamie

[roundhouse]

4 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

 

And finally Waterloo and a 33.

 

Just been running 33105 (albiet in OO with the later white widow surrounds) in the shed. Brings back many a happy memory at Waterloo, stations to Salisbury and Exeter

[sir douglas]

something for "prototype for everything" diesels sat around a turntable

[Davexoc]

Great shots of Old Oak Common, I am guessing that was a Sunday before 1400hrs?? The clocks on the running shed aren't reading the same time....

I recognise a Dolomite Sprint at the back of The Factory, which would mean old man Wiggin's shift were in, as I'm sure it hadn't been passed on to one of his boys at that time.

The 50s were fairly recent arrivals as they don't carry names yet, and thats alot of Gronks around the table.

Edited May 30, 2020 by Davexoc
typo correction

[Adam88]

May I ask what you use to scan your slides?  Your results look pretty good to me.  I have an old slide scanner which while very slow produced very good results but it only had a SCSI interface.  I have not been able to use it with either of my last two computers and SCSI interfaces are virtually non-existant nowadays, at least as far as laptops are concerned.

[great central]

The shot of the 87at Willesden is great, just the sort of thing to detail a model from. Looks like it recently had a bogie change and underframe overhaul, but got a few knocks specially round the door kick plates.

[jamie92208]

11 hours ago, Davexoc said:

Great shots of Old Oak Common, I am guessing that was a Sunday before 1400hrs?? The clocks on the running shed aren't reading the same time....

I recognise a Dolomite Sprint at the back of The Factory, which would mean old man Wiggin's shift were in, as I'm sure it hadn't been past on to one of his boys at that time.

The 50s were fairly recent arrivals as they don't carry names yet, and thats alot of Gronks around the table.

Thanks for that Dave.   I'm fairly certain that it was a Saturday as we needed a full train service to make things work.  There used to be an intinerary in the Ian Alan Locoshed book that showed how to get between the sheds.  From memory we used a combination of bus, tube and train.  I remember doing the escalators at Kings Cross.  I adult went first and counted the boys off, I counted them on at the top then went down last. Long before Brian Hanrahan's famous bit of commentary about Harriers.

8 hours ago, Adam88 said:

May I ask what you use to scan your slides?  Your results look pretty good to me.  I have an old slide scanner which while very slow produced very good results but it only had a SCSI interface.  I have not been able to use it with either of my last two computers and SCSI interfaces are virtually non-existant nowadays, at least as far as laptops are concerned.

Hi Adam.  It was a present to myself before we left the UK in 2018.  An Epson Perfection 800, but I'll check later. It is a flat bed scanner, with and A4 bed, that can do both film and prints and more importantly comes with a set of masks for slides, 35mm film, medium format film and one other that I can't remember at the moment (It's over in the shed) .  I bought extra masks for the 35mm film and slides so that once I've set up a scan it works away whilst I change over the slides/film in the other mask.   I am very impressed with it.  It's a USB connection to my laptop.  It does have various automatic options like colour correction and backlight correction but they can get confused.  I'm gradually learning what sort of photos to leave to automatic and which to correct manually.  It doesn't do too well if, for instance there is a bright sky or water feature on one side of the slide/negative.  Those I'm finding are better done manually in ACDsee.  It's trial and terror.

 

Thanks for the interest.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

I've just checked, it's an Epson Perfection V800 scanner

 

Jamie