RMweb Premium newbryford Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2020 4 minutes ago, ColinK said: How busy was it at the lineside? Pretty quiet at Settle station. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60021 Pen-y-Ghent Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 2 hours ago, ColinK said: How busy was it at the lineside? 2 hours ago, newbryford said: Pretty quiet at Settle station. Also at Blea Moor & Ribblehead viaduct around lunchtime. Loads and loads of walkers tackling Whernside but I noticed only a handful of railway watchers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2020 Thanks, looks like it will be safe to go out. My Dad is keen for us to go for a ride on it too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted July 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) Ribblehead was lovely today, got quite a suntan. Probably 300 or so hikers, bikers and pub dwellers out and about, but given the size of the space, your always lonely. The Newbiggen freight failed near Settle this morning, put a 2 hour delay on all services, 2nd LSL run was an hour down, and back to time On the third run tonight. Well worth the 350 mile, each way, trek from South London. Edited May 16, 2021 by adb968008 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted July 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 24, 2020 Nice pics, but I would have to photoshop that van out under the viaduct...... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted July 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2020 On 24/07/2020 at 22:34, Davexoc said: Nice pics, but I would have to photoshop that van out under the viaduct...... I would probably photoshop the 47 out....................... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted July 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 26, 2020 6 hours ago, newbryford said: I would probably photoshop the 47 out....................... Sounds like Fighting talk in a 47 photo thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted July 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2020 47593 - again.... Just noticed it has the nearer style radiator grilles. Brush marks - OK! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Photos by Adrian Blay : 47 324 at Barnt Green and Redditch on 11th June 1982.... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Photo by Malcolm Clements : Leeds City, 1973.... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 4 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Photo by Malcolm Clements : Leeds City, 1973.... 1973? Can't you read? 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted July 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) The first 'Scarborough Spa Express' of the 2020 summer season on 30th July 2020 led for the diesel portion by West Coast Railway Company's 47245 'V.E. 75th Anniversary', sans the headboard that's usually carried, checked momentarily on the approach to Heaton Lodge East Junction by a late running TransPennine Express... ...but soon away... Hopefully the weather will be better in Scarborough than the overcast and damp conditions along the Calder Valley this morning. Timings here for anyone wanting to see the outward and return workings; 1Z24 06.10 Carnforth to Scarborough (12.34) 1Z27 16.41 Scarborough to Carnforth (23.08) Edited July 30, 2020 by 4630 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithlington smithe Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 9 minutes ago, 4630 said: Hopefully the weather will be better in Scarborough than the overcast and damp conditions along the Calder Valley this morning. Managed to catch it going through Rosegrove this morning,good to finally see it running again,but like you say it was damp dark and miserable,will probably be able to see the return journey tonight but again will be a bit dark. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted July 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2020 6 minutes ago, smithlington smithe said: Managed to catch it going through Rosegrove this morning,good to finally see it running again,but like you say it was damp dark and miserable,will probably be able to see the return journey tonight but again will be a bit dark. It's forecast to be sunny this evening so, unless other things get in the way, I'll probably go out for it. Just need to decide where! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 47 564 at Kilmarnock on 13th March 1982, photo by Glenn Jones.... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) Here's a few of mine from the late 80's and early 90's. Please forgive the sometimes lousy composition (into the sun, shutter pressed too late, dodgy focus etc) as I was only a teenager with my first SLR manual focus, manual wind-on camera. A few of these images have appeared in other threads previously. To start things off, here are some Class 47s in my then home city of Edinburgh: On the afternoon of 28 January, 1989 Inverness-allocated Class 47/4 47644 "The Permanent Way Institution" has just arrived on Platform 10 with a working from Carstairs and the WCML. To the left of 47, the track is fenced off and lifted, for relaying and rationalisation associated with the ECML electrification. A few minutes later 47644 runs around the stock the long way round, via platforms 1 and 19 and I have a half decent photo with the low winter sun in the right direction. The next photo has definitely appeared before on the Scottish Region 1980s thread back in 2013. Class 47/4 no. 47466 is pictured stabled in the former platform 5 at the East end of Waverley Station, Edinburgh, some time in 1991, during the twilight of its career. The locomotive was pretty run down, with peeling paintwork and accident damage above the buffer beam, and was restricted to 40 mph for empty coaching stock moves between Edinburgh Waverley and Craigentinny depot. New in May 1964 as D1590, 47466 was officially withdrawn in December 1991. After periods of storage at Holbeck, Leeds, and Crewe works, the locomotive was cut up at Crewe in March 1997, by MRJ Phillips. Eastfield based, snowplough-fitted Class 47/4 47641 “Fife Region” waits on platform 20 at Waverley with the Northbound “Clansman” in May 1991, having taken over from an AC electric locomotive during the early days of electric working of WCML trains via Carstairs to Edinburgh. Unusually for 1991, it still has a pantograph-style windscreen wiper on the second man's side (as built). Also during 1991, Eastfield-based, Millerhill outbased Class 26 and 47 locomotives were used for the early evening 17.03 Edinburgh-Edinburgh via Dunfermline, Cardenden and Kirkcaldy Fife Circle commuter train with cascaded ex-NSE Mk2a stock. Here is Class 47/3 no. 47328 from the FAME trainload construction pool departing from platform 19 in May or June, 1991. The Mk2a BFK begins the loco was 17089, still in full NSE livery with early light blue and red stripe. Hope these are of interest. Tom. Edited August 4, 2020 by tiger edited to complete captions having been interrupted by a software update. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 (edited) Five more Class 47's today starting off with some 47/7's. 47707 "Holyrood" waits time at Glasgow Queen Street with a Sunday afternoon push/pull to Edinburgh on 8 March, 1987. I had travelled Glasgow with my Dad for the Model Rail Scotland exhibition which was held at the SECC for the first time that year. The coaching stock was one of the Aberdeen Mk 2d sets instead of the usual Mk 3a's. This shot was taken on a 110 format instamatic camera - hence the grainy, lousy image quality! I've posted this image before back in 2013 in the Scottish Region Photos 1980s thread - so I hope nobody minds a re-post! In that thread, "Flood" identified this 47/7 as 47703 "St Mungo", show here on 21 August 1989 in Princes St Gardens, moments from arriving into Edinburgh Waverley. The rusty tracks on the left are leading to Haymarket South Tunnel which was closed for works associated with the Edinburgh-Carstairs 25 kV electrification. I previously guessed that the train is an Aberdeen-Edinburgh working, as the formation is a Mk 2 push-pull set (47/7, Mk 2d TSO, 2z TSO, 2d TSO(T), 2e FO, 2f DBSO) - however as evidenced by the picture of 47707 above, these sets sometimes found their way onto Edinburgh-Glasgow workings too. The next two images are back to the dodgy 110 format instamatic camera. One time celebrity Class 47/4 Generator 47406, formerly named "Rail Riders", stands at Leeds City in July 1988. I think the attached blue/grey Mk 1 is actually one of the NNX/NNV Courier Vans converted from a Mk 1 BSK. Fast forward 18 months to 17 February, 1990, and I have caught up with 47406 again, this time at Sheffield Midland. The weather looked bleak, and so was the future for 47406. Time was running out for this 1980s trainspotter favourite and former East Coast stalwart, which was withdrawn in August 1990 and cut up by MRJ Phillips at Frodingham MPD, in December 1995. Info from www.class47.co.uk. Independence Day, 1991. 4 July sees Tinsley's Class 47/4 no. 47423 unofficially named "Sceptre" running light through Doncaster's platform 4. www.class47.co.uk shows 47423 as being reallocated to Old Oak Common the same month, July 1991, to the NWRA Network SouthEast pool. It remained in standard BR blue livery until withdrawal in May the following year. Following withdrawal 47423 remained at Old Oak Common where it was eventually cut up by MRJ Phillips in April, 1997. Once again I hope these are of interest. Tom. Edited October 6, 2020 by tiger 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Photo by Richard Glenister : Reading in 1987, a stop that 47 536 must have made numerous times.... I remember having it on Padd - Brum jobs between '83 and '85.... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Photographer unknown : Waterloo Dock, Liverpool, June '66.... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted August 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 5, 2020 "Is this your vehicle Sir?" 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 47172 Parkstone Quay 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted August 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 10, 2020 (edited) 47712 on the second northbound Staycation service today. It took a few moments to get into clag mode. And a couple of hours later DIT at the rear of 1Z46. I note that there have been social media comments regarding the authenticity of this and 37521's livery - for example , yellow ploughs and that 37521 is the incorrect form of body style to be painted green. For those detractors - be thankful they're still out there earning their keep and not turned into razor blades Edited August 10, 2020 by newbryford 5 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted August 14, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 14, 2020 ETS for The Devonian Explorer on Wednesday was this... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithlington smithe Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 (edited) Edited August 16, 2020 by smithlington smithe 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 08221 Posted August 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2020 Hows this for a prototype for everything - 47826, 47237 and 47802 passing Rugeley on 5M43 1019 Southall Wcr to Carnforth earlier today - 18/8/20. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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