SouthernBlue80s Posted July 31, 2021 Author Share Posted July 31, 2021 19 hours ago, Davexoc said: Could have been the 70s with that class 31 c/w buffer beam cowlings and bodyside bands, a black breakdown crane and Mk1 SLC and Motorail flats in the background. At a guess that one was taken in 1982. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted August 1, 2021 Author Share Posted August 1, 2021 Random Black and White Processed and printed by myself, a bit of trial and error, I seem to remember. Generator at Bounds Green 33 at Swansea 45134 at Temple Meads 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted August 3, 2021 Author Share Posted August 3, 2021 Some Mug Shots 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 Tinsley 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 Temple Meads 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 London Early 1980s FP OC Clapham Junction 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted August 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 20, 2021 11 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said: OC Trying to identify that 47. I don't think it is 500, because the Royal blanking plate is missing, and although the silver rimmed buffer beam cowling was an embelishment on 47/4 OC namers, the exposed aluminium windscreen surrounds are proving difficult to find elsewhere...... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave47549 Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 (edited) . Edited October 4, 2021 by Dave47549 Removed pointless guff 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 A couple of every day shots of rats at Milton Keynes. On a blisteringly hot summers day in the 1980s. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted September 10, 2021 Author Share Posted September 10, 2021 56s At Severn Tunnel Juct and Hither Green 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted September 14, 2021 Author Share Posted September 14, 2021 various 47s. I have almost run out of photos to post up. Temple Meads Stratford Tinsley 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 On 21/08/2021 at 01:56, Dave47549 said: '511 - done sometime around April '82 ? I'd agree on 511 yes - I have a very grainy Kodak Instamatic shot of it taken in the gloom of platform 1 at Padd on 4th December 1982 with the polished window frames 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted September 16, 2021 Author Share Posted September 16, 2021 The last five Well I hope a few of you found the pictures a good trip down memory lane. Here are the final five random pictures. All the best Steve New Street Severn Tunnel Junction St Blazey Westbury area Reading 17 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted September 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2021 4 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said: The last five Reading Thanks for posting Steve. Some great memories. This last one is a real teaser. What happened to 47441? Was it on a passenger train and failed, giving those on board 56 haulage? Or LEs?... You cut the image off perfectly.....not! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted September 16, 2021 Author Share Posted September 16, 2021 21 minutes ago, brushman47544 said: Thanks for posting Steve. Some great memories. This last one is a real teaser. What happened to 47441? Was it on a passenger train and failed, giving those on board 56 haulage? Or LEs?... You cut the image off perfectly.....not! Unfortunately nothing that dramatic. Just both stabled next to each other. I was on a 47 hauled service once in the area and it failed. Was wondering what was going to appear to rescue us...they hooked a class 37 up to front, which was pretty unusual. I have numbers in my notes somewhere 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2021 Thanks for all the pics Steve, exactly my era. If I'd had money for film/printing at the time I reckon I'd have a similar collection (mainly ScR though I do have some pics from York/Scarborough taken while on holiday) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted September 16, 2021 Author Share Posted September 16, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, keefer said: Thanks for all the pics Steve, exactly my era. If I'd had money for film/printing at the time I reckon I'd have a similar collection (mainly ScR though I do have some pics from York/Scarborough taken while on holiday) Thanks Keefer Yes back in the 70s and 80s, especially when we were young money was tight. You had 24 attempts to get a picture. Perhaps stretched over a couple of trips squinting through a Zorki viewfinder or equivalent. I wish I had had more money to go north more often or do a railtour. But not having much was the norm in the 70s 80s for many of us. I made the most of it I suppose. I was young and looking back wished I had pictured more of the every day. But when your 20 something the every day is boring and you don't realise how quickly it will disappear...and you are loco obsessed. Edited September 16, 2021 by SouthernBlue80s Spelling 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
43110andyb Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Thanks for posting and for the memories! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Thoroughly enjoyed this thread Steve, it's evoked a few memories for me. I've loved all the photo's, thanks for sharing. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 12 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said: ..... looking back wished I had pictured more of the every day. I recall at B'ham New St one day, a 47 & 50 sitting perfectly side by side at adjacent platforms, and commenting to another spotter (who I didn't know) that I wished I had a camera. "Why?" was his reply "nothing special about them." It was one of those times when you only think of a good reply two days later, but that was my point - there was nothing remarkable about them at the time, but one day, there would be.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ba14eagle Posted September 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 17, 2021 HST is on the Up Westbury avoiding line, taken from the bridge that carries a footpath and the Westbury to Warminster line, over the avoider - the area is known as Penleigh. Unfortunately, the footpath (which used to run from near the entrance to the new sidings in the down yard to Penleigh) was cut off by EWS a few years ago. A new housing estate is now in build to the left of the HST - I wonder how long it will take for residents to start complaining about the round the clock noise from the yard? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 9 hours ago, ba14eagle said: HST is on the Up Westbury avoiding line, taken from the bridge that carries a footpath and the Westbury to Warminster line, over the avoider - the area is known as Penleigh. Unfortunately, the footpath (which used to run from near the entrance to the new sidings in the down yard to Penleigh) was cut off by EWS a few years ago. A new housing estate is now in build to the left of the HST - I wonder how long it will take for residents to start complaining about the round the clock noise from the yard? Funny you should mention the new build cookie cutter housing...as when I posted that picture, I thought to myself I wonder what that view looks like nowadays if it had been built on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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