Smallwonder Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Advent day 2. 47147 departs Millerhill at 1745 on 29 May 89. Headed for Thornton Junction? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2019 11 minutes ago, Smallwonder said: Advent day 2. 47147 departs Millerhill at 1745 on 29 May 89. Headed for Thornton Junction? Yes - heading for Thornton Yard.... CO2 tanks for Cameron Bridge, Tullis Russell PAA for Glanrothes plus general freight, mostly too far away to be sure. Thanks Phil H 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 47 707 Waverley. 29 May 89 08 881 Waverley. 15 June 89 47 631 Waverley. 15 June 89 at 1950 ready to take parcels South on ECML. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Particularly enjoying this era of Millerhill and Waverley photos, really invoking some memories. Spent a lot of time around Millerhill, Waverley and sometimes Craigentinny in that era. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 47 702 on the 2000 to Glasgow Q S on 15 June 89. 37 153 at Millerhill half an hour later. Hope to get scanner functioning tomorrow, although the photos are not great quality to begin with. The disappointments when I opened those envelopes from Boots... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Funnily enough my Dad once bought a Boots slide film, back in 1967. That was disappointing too. 22 years and no change then! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Advent day 5 - and the scanner now works. 12 Aug 89 Waverley: 47413 - first taking empty sleepers to EC then, in the last photo, heading the 1040 to Eastbourne. Gateshead coat of arms above data panel. 47002 - 0845 arrival from Dundee continuing as 0855 to Blackpool (running round first). 47114 - 0858 arrival from Dundee. Not long reallocated north of the border so still carrying its sparrows (cabside plaque and bodyside door stickers). 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) Behind today's advent door: Waverley 15 Aug 89 47701 - seen that day leaving with the 0900 departure to Glasgow QS, later returning with the 1000 from GQS and then pulling the 1100 to GQS. 37402 - on the 1118 to Taynuilt (Royal Scotsman). Perth 16 Aug 89 26035 - Propelled some sort of measuring train(?) into one of the bay platforms at 1323 before pulling it back south at 1332. 37184 - With a train of tankers off the Dundee line at 1348 heading south. Edited December 6, 2019 by Smallwonder Typos 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Still in Perth 16 Aug 89 47642 on the 1456 to GQS (from Inverness) 08762 engaged in some shunting Back to Waverley for some passengers, presumably with no idea how lucky they were, arriving from Dundee at 0904 on 21 Aug 89 hauled by my favourite, 47004 before it heads for EC with the empty stock. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 The ex-First Mk.2c Composite is an interesting catch on that first photo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Waverley 21 Aug 89 47562 on the 1040 to Brighton. Snowploughs in August. Tail-lamp ready to be attached once loco runs round. 47805 (formerly 47650) on the 0945 "Orcadian" which arrived from the West before heading onto the ECML for London. Niddrie South Junction 10 Sept 89 37403 tows 47210 from Millerhill towards the sub. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Loving these smallwonder, do keep them coming. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 (edited) Day 9 Waverley 16 Sept 89 47716 on GQS service. 47706 on GQS service (10am) 08755 - my notes reveal that the other side had a BR arrow plus Castle logo. Stabled with Motorail stock. My record states "4231 miles" which I presumably read through the window. Given it was built in 1961 could that be right? 47377 with a southbound Speedlink exiting Millerhill Yard on 17 Sept 89 at 1815. My cheap 35mm camera was not so effective when the sun was away... ... or, to be honest, when the sun was out either. 47018 enters Millerhill Yard on 18 Sept 89 at 1740 with a Speedlink service from the north. Hard to make out in the photo, but my note from a sighting the month before states "Black TI Rose [sticker] over [cabside] number". Edited December 9, 2019 by Smallwonder Typo 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted December 9, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2019 Your 2nd pic there is 47706 and it took me a couple of looks to figure out what was wrong - no nameplates! According to class47.co.uk, she lost the 'Strathclyde' name in April 1986 - I wonder why as it seems very early, the locos still had at least another 3 yrs on 'their' services? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flood Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 1 hour ago, keefer said: Your 2nd pic there is 47706 and it took me a couple of looks to figure out what was wrong - no nameplates! According to class47.co.uk, she lost the 'Strathclyde' name in April 1986 - I wonder why as it seems very early, the locos still had at least another 3 yrs on 'their' services? Because 37405 became Strathclyde Region instead. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 1 hour ago, keefer said: Your 2nd pic there is 47706 and it took me a couple of looks to figure out what was wrong - no nameplates! According to class47.co.uk, she lost the 'Strathclyde' name in April 1986 - I wonder why as it seems very early, the locos still had at least another 3 yrs on 'their' services? Yes, good spot thanks. I have corrected. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Waverley 30 Sept 89 08791 arrives to haul 08571 off to Haymarket. 08791 returned 40 minutes later. 47628 heads off to EC before returning with ECS to form the 1142 to Inverness which it then hauled. Aberdeen 15 Oct 89 37053 a long way from home. Did this suffer damage at both ends resulting in its centre headcode boxes (with airnorns still in the nose)? My record card tells me that I saw it less than a year earlier at Carstairs and at least one end still had split headcode boxes then. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted December 10, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Smallwonder said: Aberdeen 15 Oct 89 37053 a long way from home. Did this suffer damage at both ends resulting in its centre headcode boxes (with airnorns still in the nose)? My record card tells me that I saw it less than a year earlier at Carstairs and at least one end still had split headcode boxes then. Wasn’t 37053 one of the Class 37s given some sort of overhaul at Laira Depot, all of which received centre headcode panels like these? Edited December 10, 2019 by brushman47544 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Behind today's door: Inverness 16 October 89 37415 on shed before heading off to Milburn Street to collect a civil engineers train. 37417 on shed. 08754 behind - later moved off for some shunting, as its makers intended. 47461 with the 1445 to Waverley Perth 17 October 89 - a couple of poor quality shots 47640 on an Inverness to GQS service 37170 bringing a ballast train off the Dundee line before running round to head north. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 A poor lot today at the end of the film: 37113 at 1534 on 17 Oct 89 at Perth with a southbound Speedlink from Inverness (the 6B68 I have noted); having then been recently re-instated and acquired the Radio Highland name following the withdrawal of the original name bearer. 37057 joining the ECML from the Millerhill link with a Southbound Speedlink (6L97) at 1645 on 18 Oct 89. Millerhill 23 Oct 89. 26005 leaves northbound with a trip working at 1113, to return at 1153 (I think from EC): 26002 arrives from the north with empty MGR at 1125. Just spotted my shadow. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 (edited) I didn't get to Scotland very often, as it was a 600 mile round trip (minimum) for me. But I do have some photos. This is Grangemouth with 26024 and another class member (which might be 26026). 27207 at Queen Street in the early 1980s Edited December 12, 2019 by jonny777 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 (edited) Waverley 28 March 88 47526 at 9.30am 47706 47593 followed by consecutively numbered 47594 47546 looks as if it's about to head home to Inverness. 26038 Edited December 14, 2019 by Smallwonder Typo 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallwonder Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 3 April 88 A Sunday out to Bo'ness then Grangemouth shed (when when you could just wander about inside and outside the shed). 27005, then in preservation with the SRPS. J94 near Kinneil 37408 (ED), 37118 (ED) and 47197 (CD). At rest. 2.05pm. L to R: 37021 (ED), 37188 (ED), 37408 (ED), 37118 (ED) and 47197 (CD) L to R: 37118, 37408 and 26015. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sulzer27jd Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 A 1982 shot of 37027 at Perth John 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted December 15, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2019 I’m not sure if I’ve posted this before, hope you enjoy it. 11 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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