Southof1E top tmd Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Time for a wee chat at Inverness after 66738 and 73971 had arrived with 1S25 Caledonian Sleeper from Euston on June 30th 2021 NR https://leightonlists.com/ 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 14, 2021 Author Share Posted July 14, 2021 I'm not sure if I've already posted this one, I don't think I have but here it is anyway, a real gem taken at Temple Meads in the '70s from Paul 'Ballymoss'.... And a corker c/o railway author and retired Freightliner Control staff member Roger Geach : the Worcester Loco Society on a pilgrimage to Finsbury Park Depot in 1967.... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 Never found Brutes comfortable, but sometimes needs must, but I would always seek out a nice post office red trolley. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jcarta Posted July 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 14, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: I'm not sure if I've already posted this one, I don't think I have but here it is anyway, a real gem taken at Temple Meads in the '70s from Paul 'Ballymoss'.... I wonder which one owned the Bristol Rovers holdall ?????? Edited July 14, 2021 by jcarta 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 18, 2021 Author Share Posted July 18, 2021 Photo by Sheila Burnett : Stewarts Lane Shed in the '50s with a very proud looking line up of staff.... seems strange looking at this as functioning loco depot, I was shunting one of our stone trains in here the other day.... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: Photo by Sheila Burnett : Stewarts Lane Shed in the '50s with a very proud looking line up of staff.... seems strange looking at this as functioning loco depot, I was shunting one of our stone trains in here the other day.... I wonder what the occasion was? The loco is very well turned out; white painted vacuum bag, smokebox smartened up and even burnished tyres. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted July 18, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 18, 2021 Driver under instruction. Bastille Day, and the TRANSVAP afternoon train has just run round at Bonnetable. The guy with his back to us is a mover and shaker who has done much work on the two steam locos, including the new boiler for 1917 Bagnall 0-4-0 Alice. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 (edited) On 18/07/2021 at 18:24, Bon Accord said: I wonder what the occasion was? The loco is very well turned out; white painted vacuum bag, smokebox smartened up and even burnished tyres. The same shot without the staff is found in Steam in the Blood by Richard Hardy, Shedmaster of Stewarts Lane, the loco prepared for a working for the Emperor of Abyssinia, Haili Selassie Edited July 22, 2021 by Pandora 1 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rugd1022 Posted July 23, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 23, 2021 Good old Waterloo through the years.... 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 24, 2021 Author Share Posted July 24, 2021 Liverpool Lime Street.... Waterloo, January 1937.... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 24, 2021 Author Share Posted July 24, 2021 Photo by Michael Painter : Devizes, Wiltshire.... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted July 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2021 On 22/07/2021 at 16:23, Pandora said: The same shot without the staff is found in Steam in the Blood by Richard Hardy, Shedmaster of Stewarts Lane, the loco prepared for a working for the Emperor of Abyssinia, Haili Selassie 14.10.1954. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: Liverpool Lime Street.... Waterloo, January 1937.... Is that Maggie Thatcher third from left? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rugd1022 Posted August 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2021 Photo by Craig Dunn : 'KOYLI' at Whitby in August 1981.... Bits 'n' bobs.... 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Not Jeremy Posted August 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 5, 2021 My uncle Norman, he is why I am so "interested" in railways(!) Fireman out of Gillingham before his National Service, always a source of great stories and jokes, much missed. Simon 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted August 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 5, 2021 some from the Bluebell railway 31-07-21 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) The picture of Mallard always amuses me these days. Around the time of the 75th anniversary, the Gresley Observer investigated the identity of the guard. Tommy Bray, Joe Duddington and Sam Jenkins (remembered eventually) were well known, but not the guard. They did eventually identify him and tracked down his (grand?) daughter. She said that he was a goods guard and had been asked to work that train as the booked guard didn't turn up. So he'd gone from a career up to that point of trundling along at no more than 40 mph and sitting in lie bys for hours to the fastest train on earth. They speculated that that was why he looked a bit green around the gills. Edited August 5, 2021 by jwealleans 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted August 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Photo by Craig Dunn : 'KOYLI' at Whitby in August 1981.... What an evocative image! I wonder if the driver was being interviewed or perhaps the cassette recorder would be used to tape the sound of the Deltic. And nice to see comedian Harry Hill (when he still had hair) on the right, binoculars round his neck, tabs and matches in his pocket. Any ideas what that is sticking out of the permed gentleman’s back pocket? Edited August 5, 2021 by Western Aviator 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 5, 2021 Author Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 hour ago, jwealleans said: The picture of Mallard always amuses me these days. Around the time of the 75th anniversary, the Gresley Observer investigated the identity of the guard. Tommy Bray, Joe Duddington and Sam (apologies to him, I forget his name) were well known, but not the guard. They did eventually identify him and tracked down his (grand?) daughter. She said that he was a goods guard and had been asked to work that train as the booked guard didn't turn up. So he'd gone from a career up to that point of trundling along at no more thna 40 mph and sitting in lie bys for hours to the fastest train on earth. They speculated that that was why he looked a bit green around the gills. A similar thing happened to my Dad when he was a nipper, well sort of - his father was a guard at Rugby and occasionally took him in to work with him, on at least three or four occasions he deposited my Dad onto the footplate of a Duchess or Jubilee hauled northbound express with a friendly Rugby crew who took him down the Trent Valley and back again, hiding him in the tender as they passed through the stations en route. On arrival home my Nan looked at him and thought he looked decidedly green around the gills and somewhat worse for wear, also berating my Grandad for taking him to work in the first place. Dad only told me about his little adventures a short time before he died and talked about in such a casual manner, as if it was just a normal day out for a five or six year old lad! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 39 minutes ago, Western Aviator said: Any ideas what that is sticking out of the permed gentleman’s back pocket? I'd take a guess that it's an afro comb 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted August 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Western Aviator said: Any ideas what that is sticking out of the permed gentleman’s back pocket? Might be an afro comb, to keep the perm in shape. Definitely looks like they're interviewing the driver, maybe about the end of the Deltics Edit: 101 beat me to it, my reply seemed to take ages to go through Edited August 5, 2021 by keefer 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Bits 'n' bobs.... Patricroft men Brian Hickey and Jim Carter, the brilliant photographer, right, a long way from home on the Southern on 34090. Edited August 5, 2021 by LMS2968 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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40052 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Western Aviator said: What an evocative image! I wonder if the driver was being interviewed or perhaps the cassette recorder would be used to tape the sound of the Deltic. And nice to see comedian Harry Hill (when he still had hair) on the right, binoculars round his neck, tabs and matches in his pocket. Any ideas what that is sticking out of the permed gentleman’s back pocket? Alan 'Pansy' Potter - Gateshead driver, must have been conducting the Thornaby men on the traction as Gateshaed men didn't sign Whitby. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 5, 2021 Author Share Posted August 5, 2021 Some nice 'stock' images..... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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