F-UnitMad Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 21 hours ago, 43110andyb said: I fell out of love with/during privatisation. I must admit I don't know how anyone manages to keep up with the modern privatised railscene, let alone model it with any accuracy. Then again, as I know so little about it, they could model it INaccurately and I'd be none the wiser... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 As we talking about non rail blue liveries. I think this was the last picture I ever took as I lost interest. The unusual sight of a 47/7 at Bristol Temple Meads. Fresh in its NSE garb. As you can see it is attracting a fair bit of attention. Can anyone date it 1990 1991? 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Wikipedia has the 155 to 153 conversions as 1991-92, so no later than that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forest2807 Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 On 17/04/2021 at 20:23, BernardTPM said: They never did the cab ends with that pattern of yellow and black again, save for the all Executive dark grey City of Glasgow (87 006) at the same time.That one had a large white double arrow on the side. Didn’t 87018 end up in the same livery as 012? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Oh! You're right, seems it did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 Night time 33s 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted May 3, 2021 Author Share Posted May 3, 2021 Stratford Early 1980s. A 37 with skirts. County of Hertfordshire, my favourite class 47. Does anybody know why the Mk 1 has that grey lower band? 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Probably the mk1 is a condemed coach ready for scrapping. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 The colour split doesn't match blue/grey so it could be an exhibition coach or something like that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 30 minutes ago, SouthernBlue80s said: Does anybody know why the Mk 1 has that grey lower band? Tantalising glimpse of something similar at Stratford in 1985 here: https://www.departmentals.com/photo/975469 next to a breakdown train coach. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SouthernBlue80s Posted May 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2021 Severn Tunnel Junction Early 1980s rail blue grime. 20 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted May 19, 2021 Author Share Posted May 19, 2021 Bescot Seeing as I am currently down the road from Bescot. Here are few more from the 80s. 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted May 24, 2021 Author Share Posted May 24, 2021 Euston 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 I used to enjoy going to Euston when I was younger, it had a different feel about it, quieter and cleaner than my local Liverpool St and I could see trains going to far flung places such as Glasgow and Inverness! Happy days! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 2 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said: Euston When it came to Sparkies I could never decide if the 86/2 or the 87 was my favourite. The 87s looked a bit more modern (which, of course, they were!!) with just two windscreens and no redundant headcode box, but the 86s had a slightly 'cleaner' look to their cab front without jumper cables, and with the plated-over 'box as in the photo. Of course back in the day I had both the Lima 87 and the Hornby 86, and couldn't decide a favourite between those, either!!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted May 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2021 always thought the 86s had a nice, down-to-earth unfussiness about them - just getting on with keeping the WCML expresses running without much fuss but still with a bit of 'character'. The 87s, even though newer and better-specced, just always struck me as a bit bland - maybe just the effect of the relatively plain front end. That said, once Executive/InterCity livery came in, they looked better and i could appreciate them for what they were - top line electric power that did what was wanted of them from the start, without all of the cl.86 shenanigans. The thing is, there could've been more 87s and the 83/84s could've disappeared. Late '60s/early '70s the cl.83 & 84s were falling down all over the place and were being stored en masse as there wasn't the traffic to keep them viable. Then, when the whole WCML electrification scheme gathered pace, it was realised that BR would need more electric locos after all. However, due to budget constraints, only 35 new locos were authorised (the 87s) so BR had to then turn to the stored 83/84s (repair them/fit air brakes etc) to take over a lot of Secondary traffic so the 86/87s could be concentrated on the crack WCML trains. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted May 25, 2021 Author Share Posted May 25, 2021 Thanks for that info Keefer. I quite like the 86 pic as it shows all the bits of the every day railway. Brutes, post bags, someone in period uniform, rake of Mk 1s and so on. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted May 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2021 Indeed, a lot of pics may just be taken as a quick snap of a train/loco but contain a lot of peripheral detail which is interesting in itself. The details, which are often missed, that give a pic its place in time and as you say an everyday scene we never thought twice about at the time but is now so interesting. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 (edited) FP 1982. Always loved this place also, very friendly staff. Edited June 5, 2021 by SouthernBlue80s 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 97406 Posted June 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2021 On 19/04/2021 at 09:49, SouthernBlue80s said: However, despite being a rail blue man, I agree the late 80s early 90s provided a great variety of liveries and makes for a very good era to model. But also for me they represent the culling of classes and the slow creep towards privatisation and my gradual decline in interest The 80s is my main modeling period. Plenty of blue, and interesting diesel/electric classes, but with a few spangly liveries thrown in for good measure, 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 St Pancras Gloomy early 80s London, It certainly had atmosphere. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 God how I miss the sights sounds and smells of the London stations! Seeing these pictures takes me right back to walking along the concourses or coming up the stairs from the tube and the anticipation of what you'll see. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted June 10, 2021 Author Share Posted June 10, 2021 3 hours ago, sb67 said: God how I miss the sights sounds and smells of the London stations! Seeing these pictures takes me right back to walking along the concourses or coming up the stairs from the tube and the anticipation of what you'll see. It was grubby, depressing sometimes and there was more real poverty and pollution about... BUT the sights the sounds and the smells were fantastic. All those big blue, British built beasts, the smell of hot oil. Bustling or quietly atmospheric station concourses on sunny or even misty days with newspapers parcels and brutes. Staff that had worked for the railway man and boy, some grumpy some friendly, no CCTV relatively free to roam if you used your common sense and a bit of streetwise nouce. The anticipation of what one might see. The magic of the time for us is partly down to us being younger and partly down to life then being simpler, freer and more stimulating. Although life in many ways has improved, for example, the quality of food, it is more complicated, you are less free and much of it is largely sanitised. 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted June 13, 2021 Author Share Posted June 13, 2021 Railfrieght grey at Bath Road 56053 and 47290 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 6 minutes ago, SouthernBlue80s said: Railfrieght grey at Bath Road 56053 and 47290 Looks like a couple of VCAs in use on Enparts traffic there. The regular movements were a VCA between Bath Road and BREL Swindon, also less often between Bath Road and Crewe Works/Derby Works. cheers 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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