Dave F more photos added 21 June from 1947 to 1955ish

[Oldddudders]

Trivial, but in the Tangmere shot the little bit of EMU on the left is a 2-HAL unit, built in 1938-9 for the Maidstone East and Gillingham electrifications.

[beast66606]

Burton Salmon is where my son and I sometimes go photographing coal trains hauled by 66s

 

We stand on the loading bank, arrowed, which is still there - the rest of the station has been flattened sadly.

 

The train is heading for Monk Fryston but first it will cross over Hillam Gates level crossing which is a few hundred yards in front of it.

 

[Rob F]

This afternoon's photos once again involve Nottingham, Grantham and Cambridge. As always Dad was taking advantage of his track pass.

 

Wilford Bridge River Trent GC V2 ex pass Manchester to Marylebone c1951 JVol3110.jpg

Wilford Bridge River Trent GC V2 ex pass Manchester to Marylebone c1951 JVol3110

 

David

Fantastic photos again but I suspect this is a down train rather than an up. If it was going to London it would be on the goods lines and I think we should be able to see Nottingham South Goods signal box.

 

Rob

Edited April 24, 2013 by Rob F

[SHMD]

Fantastic photos and a very big thankyou for sharing them with us.

This thread is an absolute must to view/read.

 

Kev.

[DaveF]

Fantastic photos again but I suspect this is a down train rather than an up. If it was going to London it would be on the goods lines and I think we should be able to see Nottingham South Goods signal box.

 

Rob

 

Thanks rob,

 

You could well be right.  I honestly can't remember the location despite travelling over the bridge daily on the way to and from school in the late 50s!

 

I'll alter the caption.

 

Edit.  I've just found a trackplan/map of the location, I understand it much better now.    They are available at: 

 

http://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/map/planIndex.php

 

David

Edited April 24, 2013 by DaveF

[Peter Kazmierczak]

David,

Rob is spot-on about the train referred to as being a Down one rather than one heading towards London. The mainlines were on the eastern side of the bridge with the goods on the western side.

 

Excellent selection of shots as usual.

[darren01]

Hi

These are some of the best photo i have seen covering the steam era,they capture the atmosphere and the look so well.

I love the shot of the westcountry and the young train spotter, amazing shot,I only wish i could have seen steam working like that young lad is looking at ,for just one day.

Thank you to your Dad for taking the shots and you for putting them up here for all of use to see.

Keep them coming.

All the best

Darren01

[DaveF]

This afternoon's photos are all on the Southern, taken around 1952.  I've done them in rather a rush as I've been at work all day which is very unusual as normally I work from home, part time, only going to my office about once every couple of months.  So my apologies for any mistakes which are more careless than usual!

 

London Victoria Battle of Britain 34074 46 Squadron le c1952 JVol3122

 

London Victoria Victoria to Dover boat train leaving c1952 JVol3123

 

Brighton C2X 32451 le c1952 JVol3124

 

Brighton E4 32519 shunting loco coal c1952 JVol3125

 

Shoreham by Sea inside motion of C2X c1952 JVol3126

 

Shoreham by Sea 2BIL Littlehampton to Brighton pass c1952 JVol3127

 

Shoreham by Sea M7 30049 push pull Horsham to Brighton c1952 JVol3128

 

Shoreham by Sea cab of C2X JVol3129

 

David

Edited April 29, 2013 by DaveF

[DaveF]

This evenings batch are really a mixture.  Now and then I find a few album pages with a number of unrelated shots, tonight's selection is from such a page.

 

Lewes station colour print from slide c1951 JVol3130

 

London Victoria West Country 34101 Hartland Victoria to Dover c1952 JVol3131

 

Nottingham Ordnance depot by Lenton Junction  0-4-0DM c1950 JVol3152 -Chilwell

 

 

Scarborough cliff railway c1951 JVol3153

 

Loughborough Brush Works Co-Co diesel for Ceylon c1950 JVol3154

Taken from a train on the Great Central line.

 

Skegness terminus of miniature railway c1952 JVol3156

 

Kingston on Soar Peckett Lady Angela on gypsum railway c1952 JVol3157

This loco was built in 1926 for the gypsum mines, it is now preserved and can be seen on the South Devon Railway.  It is named after the second Lady Belper, the family owned the land round the gypsum quarry.

 

Brighton D3 32393 le c1950 JVol3158

 

Edited to correct and amend captions (and spelling).

 

David

Edited April 26, 2013 by DaveF

[Rob F]

This evenings batch are really a mixture.  Now and then I find a few album pages with a number of unrelated shots, tonight's selection is from such a page.

 

Nottingham Ordnance depot 0-4-0DM c1950 JVol3152.jpg

Nottingham Ordnance depot 0-4-0DM c1950 JVol3152 -Chilwell?

I'm not at all sure about this one as I have another similar print of Dad's with a note on the back saying it is an Industrial shunter near Lenton Junction.  Does any one know for sure?

The Royal Ordnance factory in Nottingham was next to Lenton Junction. It is now the NG2 Business park.

 

 

ROB

[DaveF]

The Royal Ordnance factory in Nottingham was next to Lenton Junction. It is now the NG2 Business park.

 

 

ROB

 

Rob, Many thanks, it makes more sense now - I suspect he made the two prints I have of the location at different times and as they were for his own use only made a brief note on one of them.

 

David

[JeffP]

I've not commented before, but I'm being fully entertained by these photos.

 

The quality f the prints just doesn't seem to matter: it's the subjects. Great to see photos that aren't just a succession of large express classes at the usual places.

[Oldddudders]

That last picture of D3 32393, formerly named "Woodside", may be a little earlier. Bradley records it as withdrawn 9/51.  

[DaveF]

That last picture of D3 32393, formerly named "Woodside", may be a little earlier. Bradley records it as withdrawn 9/51.  

 

 

Many thanks Ian, I know that from just after I was born until about 1953/4 we to Brighton at least once a year so it could well be 1950ish.  I was going by its juxtaposition in the album to the other photos some of which had a date pencilled on them - that one, of course, didn't.

 

David

[The Lurker]

I like the picture of the C2X inside motion - you don't see too many of that kind of picture.

[DaveF]

A few more for this afternoon, mainly in Nottingham and also visiting Brighton, Rugby and Cambridge.

 

Brighton SR K2 32342  c1950 JVol3159

 

Cambridge South Battle of Britain 34059 Sir Archibald Sinclair ex pass Norwich to Liverpool Street test runs May 1949 JVol3160.

A record of a short trial of a Bulleid Pacific on the Great Eastern

 

Rugby GC bridge V2 down ex pass Swansea to York c1951 JVol3162

 

Nottingham Victoria station pw gang c1951 JVol3163

 

Nottingham Victoria 2P ecs c1951 JVol3164

 

Nottingham Victoria O4 up goods B17 in bay c1951 JVol3165

 

Nottingham Victoria B1 ex pass Manchester to Marylebone c1951 JVol3166

 

Nottingham Victoria 2P Northampton to Nottingham c1951JVol3167

 

Edited as I can't spell Bulleid.

David

Edited April 26, 2013 by DaveF

[jwealleans]

JVol 3165 - 5 plank open and a wartime mineral conversion to open, both in mineral traffic again?  Pretty sure the lettering on the front of the ex-mineral says 'not to be used for mineral traffic'.

 

Both have replacement planks from thinner material as well, giving that recessed look.  Don't see that modelled, but then again it would be a to do.unless you're scratchbuilding.

[pH]

IMHO this last batch is the best so far, and there has been some real competition! A light Pacific at Cambridge, and 2Ps at Nottingham Victoria!

[Rob F]

IMHO this last batch is the best so far, and there has been some real competition! A light Pacific at Cambridge, and 2Ps at Nottingham Victoria!

The 2P will have come up the GN/LNW Joint line via Melton North. These services were diverted to Victoria from London Road Low Level in 1944.

 

ROB

[DaveF]

Some more for the evening.  Not very good quality images this time but I hope they will be of interest.  Grantham and Nottingham are visited.

 

Grantham Barrowby Road Junction A1 up pullman c1950 JVol3168

 

Grantham North A1 down ex pass c1950 JVol3169

 

Nottingham Victoria D2 le c1950 JVol3171

 

Grantham North A4 down Northumbrian c1950 JVol3172

 

Grantham North B12 down ex pass c1950 JVol3173

 

Grantham Barrowby Road Junction V2 up ex pass c1951 JVol3175

 

Grantham Barrowby Road Junction A1 down ex pass c1950 JVol3176

 

Nottingham Victoria J? down pass Grantham to Derby Friargate c1950 JVol3177

 

David

Edited April 27, 2013 by DaveF

[pH]

The 2P will have come up the GN/LNW Joint line via Melton North. These services were diverted to Victoria from London Road Low Level in 1944.

 

ROB

 

Yes, I presumed that's how it would have got there - though I did have to check the closure date for London Road Low Level. What I meant was that I had never before seen any pictures of GN/LNW Joint line trains with LMS/ex-LMS engines in Victoria.

[rd84]

Despite spending 3 years at Loughborough Uni, I never could work out where the Charnwood Forest Line ran through Thorpe Acre. I never realised it was so close to the Ashby Road.

 

Hi Paul,

 

A lot of the trackbed still exists there to this day and is now a footpath and cyclepath that goes to the boundary of Garendon Park to the west of Thorpe Acre. Sadly the road bridge is gone though a waterpipe/bridge that went over the railway next to the road bridge is still present

 

If you go to Google Earth satellite view you can see the track and waterpipe/bridge - you can also get a reasonable view in Streetview at..............

 

52.769086°  -1.239268°

 

Its changed quite a bit since the days of the railway though !

 

Cheers

Paul

[cary hill]

Hi Paul,

 

A lot of the trackbed still exists there to this day and is now a footpath and cyclepath that goes to the boundary of Garendon Park to the west of Thorpe Acre. Sadly the road bridge is gone though a waterpipe/bridge that went over the railway next to the road bridge is still present

 

If you go to Google Earth satellite view you can see the track and waterpipe/bridge - you can also get a reasonable view in Streetview at..............

 

52.769086°  -1.239268°

 

Its changed quite a bit since the days of the railway though !

 

Cheers

Paul

 

This page/sitehttp://spacewarp.co.uk/bluebell/bluebell01.htm has some pictures of the surviving railway structures on the way out from Loughborough, although they are interspersed amongst some more inane snaps

[Rob F]

Yes, I presumed that's how it would have got there - though I did have to check the closure date for London Road Low Level. What I meant was that I had never before seen any pictures of GN/LNW Joint line trains with LMS/ex-LMS engines in Victoria.

No, me neither!!

 

Rob

[DaveF]

All but one of this afternoon's batch are in and around Nottingham.  Sorting out the exact locations from Dad's notes has been quite an "interesting" task involving a number of maps and books, I hope they are now right.  One took me ages to recognise, eventually I realised I used to pass almost by it most days when I lived in Nottinhgham.  I used to think I had a good memory.

 

Annesley A5 down pass c1950 JVol3179

 

Grantham North A1 unnamed down ex pass c1950 JVol3182

 

Nottingham Victoria down pass loco not identified c1951JVol3183

 

Nottingham Victoria B1 61376 up pass c1952 JVol3184

 

Gedling 07 WD up coal c1949 JVol3185

 

Basford West Junction GNR looking east towards Leen Vally Junc Line on left went to Bagthorpe junction straight on to Leen Vally Junc note man with scythe c1950 JVol3186

 

Near Awsworth Occupation arch on MR Kimberley branch closed 1916 on right Awsworth or Giltbrook or forty arches viaduct on GNR Pinxton branch c1950 JVol3187

 

Moorbridge Junction on GNR line between Bestwood Colliery sta and Bulwell Forest O4 up coal c1952 JVol3189

 

David