RANGERS Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 A trip north of the border has forced a pause in posting - so here we go again with some more gratuitous images! Back on the vintage sparkies Its February 1978 and most of the 71s are dumped at Hither Green....heres 71004 71004 Hither Green resized.jpg An experimental night time shot from New St - the camera was perched on a BRUTE as I remember. 83006 poses long enough for a timed exposure... 83006 resized.jpg And back at Litchfield 85027 rattles and roars through on a van train 85027 Litchfield resized.jpg So now off to Scotland again - the lighting at Ayr was good for our visit to the depot, heres 27027 27027 Ayr resized.jpg Over at Perth 40066 has charge of an Edinburgh train. The square corners to the centre headcode boxes tell you this is one of the Scottish retro conversions from a disc headcode loco. 40066 Perth Resized.jpg And over at Haymarket 40142 is on shed. Always liked the split boxers. 40142 Haymarket resized.jpg So back down to the Midlands to Barrow Hill for a pair of 20s - 20133 and 20022 20133 20022 Barrow Hill resized.jpg Hang on - that's a green 20, must be one of the last survivors in that livery. Then to Toton Open Day - two young spotters seem amazed as the gathered hordes play the "Lets see how many we can get in a Peak Cab" game with 44008. Looks rather tarted up! 44008 Toton resized.jpg And finally we are over at Crewe for a 25 on a Llandudno - Nottingham with a confirmed Rat basher at the front droplight. CL 25 Crewe resized.jpg That's all for today folks - more to come but as is SWMBOs birthday tomorrow probably wont be for a few more days Enjoy Phil I was at Toton for that open day. 44008 was painted up specially for it and I could have been in the cab on that shot! I still have a penny which she ran over, there's probably thousands of them around it seemed like everyone there that day had one. It was quite a day, DMU trip from the disused platform of the east side of Nottingham station to Toton and then a day among what seemed like hundreds of blue diesels. There were at least three green 20s at Toton that day, 147 and 157 I think were two of them but I'm not certain, there were probably more than three even. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 11, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2013 Excellent gen on Toton Open Day - do you have the date please Ranger, My record keeping was crummy Cheers Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltic17 Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Fantastic photos.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Next some more vintage sparkies 74007 resized.jpg 74007 at Eastleigh Phil A rare shot indeed - ISTR that the EDL conversions were rarely out of works long enough to be photographed their reliability was so poor... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Excellent gen on Toton Open Day - do you have the date please Ranger, My record keeping was crummy Cheers Phil I can't be certain of the date but I'm pretty sure it was in June, possibly early July (school hadn't broken up for Summer hols) and it was a Saturday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 14, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2013 I too was on the Western Requiem with 1010. Sorry I've posted this before, but can you have too many pictures of Westerns? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 (edited) No Phil, you most certainly can not...! Western Consort drifts into Padd, one engine running, steam heat boiler on but within a year or so of this pic her paintwork would be in a terrible state... Edited September 14, 2013 by Rugd1022 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 14, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2013 (edited) I too was on the Western Requiem with 1010. Sorry I've posted this before, but can you have too many pictures of Westerns? Indeed you cant - was a great day out! There have been quite a few shots of the tour at Treherbert and Merthyr published - but my favourite has to be Mike Pope's shot published on p79 in Heydey of the Hydraulics by HD - piling on the power at Quaker's Yard complete with fitter leaning out of the engine room window, the thought of the Maybach roar still makes my spine tingle... Happy days! There are a few more Wizzo shots in my collection but as I didn't get a decent camera until August 76 you can understand they will be somewhat limited. Phil Edited September 14, 2013 by Phil Bullock 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 21, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2013 (edited) Off for a while now in pursuit of salar and trutta .....so heres some more to keep you going. A rather nice before and after shot at Derby works for starters Heres 76003 and another class member at Rotherwood sidings Then up to Newcastle Central where Gateshead's 03111 is on pilot duties Theres something of an aggregation of Class 27s at Glasgow Queen Street Over at Ayr 25078 rests on the depot. A nice subject for a weathering project there! Heres another 40 on stone hoppers at Guide Bridge. Cant have too much of a good thing! At Ludlow racecourse a 37 has charge of a northbound PW working And a bit further north at Onnibury heres a 25/2 on a southbound passenger - proper trains then! Finally back to Eastleigh for another Big ED - 74010 runs light through the station. Enjoy! Phil Edited to correct wagon types in class 40 pic - Many thanks to Torr Giffard for correction Edited September 28, 2013 by Phil Bullock 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McGomez Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 (edited) I can't be certain of the date but I'm pretty sure it was in June, possibly early July (school hadn't broken up for Summer hols) and it was a Saturday. This may be of help. Forgot to mention. Great photos. Edited September 21, 2013 by McGomez 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 21, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2013 Fantastic ! many thanks for that Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 23, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2013 if the cl.25 in the pic after this one was a nice weathering project, how about a mint out-of-the-box 27? presumably had recently seen some royal duties cracking pics phil 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium drjcontroller Posted September 23, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2013 if the cl.25 in the pic after this one was a nice weathering project, how about a mint out-of-the-box 27? presumably had recently seen some royal duties cracking pics phil Didn't locos off overhaul/repair at Glasgow Works have a trial run on one of the Queen St - Dundee services, suspect this is what we are looking at. Douglas 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 23, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2013 hi douglas, true enough - but what made me think royal duties were the (presumably) white tyres and silver buffers so, ok, maybe not straight out of the box, just v. clean and tarted up a bit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium drjcontroller Posted September 23, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2013 hi douglas, true enough - but what made me think royal duties were the (presumably) white tyres and silver buffers so, ok, maybe not straight out of the box, just v. clean and tarted up a bit Yes Keefer, could well be, I hadn't spotted the white tyres or the silvered buffers. Douglas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 23, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2013 it actually reminded me of a 1977 pic i've seen of 27010 in similar nick, but that had sliding cab lights and yellow ploughs, so it's not that one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted September 24, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 24, 2013 Didn't locos off overhaul/repair at Glasgow Works have a trial run on one of the Queen St - Dundee services, suspect this is what we are looking at. Douglas They did, but then you'd expect the ex-works loco to be leading not tucked inside... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 They did, but then you'd expect the ex-works loco to be leading not tucked inside... Unless it had failed, of course.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 27, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 27, 2013 38 trout and 13 grayling later.... Thanks for adding the additional discussion folks We probably should have investigated more at the time but were on a tight schedule - my good chum John Howles and I were camping at Kirkcaldie for the week and trying to cover as much as possible. Phil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 27, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 27, 2013 small world phil, i'm in kirkcaldy! you don't have any pics from the east coast by any chance? i love all the '70s/80s blue-era threads on RMWeb, not just 'cos it's my era, but also 'cos folks' own pics often show it was anything but bland and boring (despite what many of us remember) there's always detail and interest to be had from any photos - even fuzzy snaps on an instamatic or quickly grabbed shots in the meantime each is a record in time that's useful to someone somewhere - and quite often be the only shot to prove something even happened! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Phil, Your 40 at Guide Bridge pic shows air braked Steetley/Peakstone stone hoppers possibly on a Peak Forest to Hope St, Salford working....not covhops. Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strathyre Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 (edited) The clean and dirty 27s will probably be the 1044 Queen St-Dundee which was often used to test run an engine just out of the workshops at St Rollox, and that clean one looks to fit that bill. One thing is however unusual in that the test (clean) engine was normally in front, the other engine being provided in case the test engine failed, which happened a lot. Paul Edited September 28, 2013 by Strathyre Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Reid Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Maybe the reliability off the Test House at St.Rollox had gone up a bit Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 28, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2013 (edited) small world phil, i'm in kirkcaldy! you don't have any pics from the east coast by any chance? i love all the '70s/80s blue-era threads on RMWeb, not just 'cos it's my era, but also 'cos folks' own pics often show it was anything but bland and boring (despite what many of us remember) there's always detail and interest to be had from any photos - even fuzzy snaps on an instamatic or quickly grabbed shots in the meantime each is a record in time that's useful to someone somewhere - and quite often be the only shot to prove something even happened! Ah - will try and work some in to the next batch! Agree with comments re the photos - really enjoy looking at others but mine are not a patch on the best - for those go to Brush Veteran's photo stream on flikr Phil Edited September 28, 2013 by Phil Bullock Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 28, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2013 Phil, Your 40 at Guide Bridge pic shows air braked Steetley/Peakstone stone hoppers possibly on a Peak Forest to Hope St, Salford working....not covhops. Dave You know, I had been looking at that and wondering - I thought I could see white brake wheels on the solebars! Will amend the post - thanks for pointing that out Dave Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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