RMweb Gold russ p Posted July 15, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2017 Leather curtains.... sounds a bit like a 'tart's boudour' to me..! Especially an old one...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 18, 2017 Author Share Posted July 18, 2017 From the Lost Boys group on facebook, photos by Graeme Moyes... 50 008 and 50 022 at Exeter in May '82... Lancaster in the Summer of '83... 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Looks like someone's been using the cab side of that 81 for some sort of target practice. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 Old Oak man James Duke's photo of himself aboard D1013... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 Oxford Driver Tony Sawyer on board D1670 'Mammoth' in the '60s, photo by Ron Richards... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 A 'beast from the mystic east' draws a crowd at a very wet, cold looking Carlisle Citadel, 11th December 1965.... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 Rugby Midland... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubber Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 (edited) W.S.R 18/7/2017 finally....enjoying a ride on the railway.... Doug apologies for the sideways photos, can't seem to get them the right way up! D Edited July 22, 2017 by Chubber 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2017 Top WSR photo; 'oo d'yer fink yor lookin' at then?' Bottom WSR photo; those people are either really bored or really, i mean really enjoying it... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 23, 2017 Author Share Posted July 23, 2017 Photo by Kenneth Cockerill... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 23, 2017 Author Share Posted July 23, 2017 (edited) Reading, 8th August 1975.... little acorns, little acorns... I know it probably appears as though I'm bumping the thread for the hell of it, but I'm searching my files for other stuff and keep finding something to post in here! Edited July 23, 2017 by Rugd1022 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted July 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2017 That APT-E is in the old platform 7. Must have been a surprise for anyone expecting the stopper to Oxford... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 23, 2017 Author Share Posted July 23, 2017 Love blossoms at Peterborough... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted July 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2017 Love blossoms at Peterborough... Peterborough early 80s.jpg The last time she kissed him with a full set of teeth as by the time he got to Norwich the Cravens have vibrated a dozen out of his head! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2017 Reading, 8th August 1975.... little acorns, little acorns... APT-E Reading 8th August 1975.jpg I know it probably appears as though I'm bumping the thread for the hell of it, but I'm searching my files for other stuff and keep finding something to post in here! I saw this thing running through Swindon at around this time; made a hell of a racket and wasn't going all that fast. I had a recorder in school that looked a bit like it. Later the same week sitting in the sun at the Bristol end at Swindon waiting for our cushions home with a small group of traincrew, the prototype HST came through on the down main, running at a speed far higher than any of us had seen a train doing before,, somewhere in the mid 130s probably, raising an impressive cloud of dust, and generally stopping the conversation. One of the drivers broke the silence. 'They'll be there in time for tea', he said, sagely. And they probably were... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 24, 2017 Author Share Posted July 24, 2017 Photo by Kevin Tindle... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2017 Now it's got something to look sad-eyed about... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 25, 2017 Author Share Posted July 25, 2017 Happy faces at Newton Heath in the early '70s.... it looks like the glass is missing from the centre cab window... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Full respect to this chap who had been oiling round the inside motion of one of Stanier's finest. No pit. Blaenau Ffestiniog this afternoon. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 Victoria... Llandudno... Brum Snow Hill... Brum Snow Hill with D1008 in 1962... a classic Michael Mensing shot... Kings X, 1953... Tyseley... Waterloo, 1947... Edinburgh Waverley... 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Louch Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Wonderful set of B&W photos. The picture of the chap selling food and drinks certainly struck a chord! I can remember the wicker baskets with items for sale and the cardboard drinks cartons (of orange juice I think) being sold on platforms presumably during water stops or loco/crew changes - so evocative! Thanks for posting. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Manchester Victoria, April 1986 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Cardiff Central on 4th February 1977, D1013 'Western Ranger' just three weeks and one day away from the end of Hydraulics in BR service, I wonder what the Driver thought of the HSTs and 50s... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Like the Manchester Victoria pic can just imagine conversation ,last time this went wrong I pushed it back into the socket,but its not worked weve now got a broken one! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2017 Cardiff Central on 4th February 1977, D1013 'Western Ranger' just three weeks and one day away from the end of Hydraulics in BR service, I wonder what the Driver thought of the HSTs and 50s... D1013 Cardiff Central 4th February 1977.jpg If he was a Canton man (I don't recognise him but it's a long time ago) he wouldn't know much about 50s as they had no work at Canton then and Canton men wee not trained on them and didn't sign traction for them. He'd have simply regarded them as Warship replacements, another class Canton had little to do with and thought little of; we considered them underpowerd and unreliable, not up to the rigours of the real work that the South Wales depots did, and the West Country was welcome to them. His feelings about the Western would have been mixed, whatever depot he was from; they had their good points, the cabs were comfortable and the quietest I ever worked in, and they certainly looked the part, but were a pita to climb onto with that vicious overhang and wiggle into the cab of, especially for 'gentlemen of a certain carriage'. They were popular for being twin-engined, with a 'get you home whatever happens' vibe to them. He'd have been very proud of the HSTs, of which the cab was the most comfortable part of the train and was superbly laid out. These were, by a large margin, in 1977 the best trains in the world that you could ride on without paying any supplementary fare; 125mph, air conditioning, double glazing, air suspension, tinted windows, and soundproofed, and we were all rightly very proud of them. At around this time drivers passed out on them were issued with 'Inter City 125' aluminium badges which were in enormous demand from spotters, prices of £25 being quoted; not many drivers sold theirs which is an indication of how the felt about the matter. When they were first introduced, kiddies were given an enamel 'I've been on the 125' badge, and some of us had got hold of some of these to wear in order to take the more self-satisfied drivers down a peg or two. The original layout of the HST power cars, with the guard's compartment at the inner end, was awful, by the way, the least comfortable and noisiest place on the train! He may have been an Old Oak or Landore man, of course; if he was from OOC he'd have had an opinion about the 50s, probably that they were noisy beasts... It's a wet day; look how the water has dribbled off the ledge below the cab windows around the side of the cab at speed. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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