Unknown location - help please

[Guest Jack Benson]

Somewhere in the South, 30823 with a Lowfit and its three Isettas from Brighton Works but WHERE and WHEN?

 

Thank you

 

30823 on goods

[Blandford1969]

Hi Jack,

 

823 got its late crest when in works from 16/9 - 17/10/59 and got AWS which this shows between 8/12 - 23/12/1961

 

It was withdrawn on 29th November 1964

 

It looks like spring blossom on some of the bushes visible so probably around April to May of 1961 / 62 or 63

 

It was allocated to Salisbury between 27/06/1951 and 28/12/1963, when it then moved to Feltham for its last year. 

 

To me it has more the look of further west so my gut feel based on that is it was taken in the spring of 1961 or 62. 

 

Is there a story behind the picture?

 

 

[Wickham Green too]

I'd question that 'from Brighton Works' as the sun's pretty high in the sky and somewhere behind the photographer - so it looks like the train's heading south-east-ish.

[Guest Jack Benson]

12 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

I'd question that 'from Brighton Works' as the sun's pretty high in the sky and somewhere behind the photographer - so it looks like the train's heading south-east-ish.

 As the Isettas were built at Brighton Works, then the comment is fact.

Isetta and Brighton Works

 

 

[Oldddudders]

A stone arch bridge? On a non-electrified line heading SE? I agree with Blandford - this is much further west. I did wonder about M&SWJ? 

[TJ52]

I may be out of my depth here. Pryor's Southern Signals has a list of headcodes at the back. It suggests that Bournemouth and Dorchester for goods would be one.

 

Terry

[RFS]

It's a Salisbury engine and the head code would indicate it's on the West of England main line, probably somewhere between Salisbury and Exeter. 

 

EDIT: At this time these 3-wheeled vehicles (Isettas?) were being manufactured at a plant adjacent to Broad Clyst station, and there are some photos of some of these on Lowfit wagons in "Yeovil to Exeter" by Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith. A large number were manufactured in 1964 so it would therefore suggest the train is on its way to Salisbury from Broad Clyst.  

Edited May 8, 2020 by RFS

[Guest Jack Benson]

2 hours ago, RFS said:

It's a Salisbury engine and the head code would indicate it's on the West of England main line, probably somewhere between Salisbury and Exeter. 

 

EDIT: At this time these 3-wheeled vehicles (Isettas?) were being manufactured at a plant adjacent to Broad Clyst station, and there are some photos of some of these on Lowfit wagons in "Yeovil to Exeter" by Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith. A large number were manufactured in 1964 so it would therefore suggest the train is on its way to Salisbury from Broad Clyst.  

Hi,

 

Unfortunately not, the Broad Clyst factory produced AC Invalid cars as part of a DSS contract. These three wheel single seat death traps were scrapped en masse due to safety concerns. Dave Smith produced an excellent series of articles on his blog about scratchbuilding the cars Click here

 

AC of Thames Ditton should be better remembered for the AC Cobra that combined a lacklustre British .car with. Caroll Shelby Ford V8 motor.

 

The link to the Isetta production at Brighton Works was posted within the fourth post in this thread.

 

cheers

[Wickham Green too]

Perhaps those are rejects going back to Brighton, then .......... the train looks to be heading roughly south east and it ain't paddling across to France !

[Guest Jack Benson]

On 07/05/2020 at 19:14, Blandford1969 said:

Hi Jack,

 

823 got its late crest when in works from 16/9 - 17/10/59 and got AWS which this shows between 8/12 - 23/12/1961

 

It was withdrawn on 29th November 1964

 

It looks like spring blossom on some of the bushes visible so probably around April to May of 1961 / 62 or 63

 

It was allocated to Salisbury between 27/06/1951 and 28/12/1963, when it then moved to Feltham for its last year. 

 

To me it has more the look of further west so my gut feel based on that is it was taken in the spring of 1961 or 62. 

 

Is there a story behind the picture?

 

 

Duncan,

 

It has been provisionally identified as May ‘61 near Milborne Wick about 3 miles east of where I am sitting. In return, I need to find images of 30847 in use on the SW Mainline.

 

Cheers

 

 

[Blandford1969]

Sorry cant help, all of my views are on shed