RMweb Gold ruggedpeak Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, SED Freightman said: Do you happen to have a date for the Reading MGR photos ? I remember sending a load of rejected coal from Hither Green (ex Ridham, originally ex Thamesport) to Didcot Power Station and wonder if these could possibly have been the empties off that working. Sadly not, I never took notes or records. It will probably have been early/mid 1980's. They look empty and with two 33's on the front that suggests it originated in the SR somewhere. and as WA said MGR trains were not common at Reading. So looks like a very possible candidate, although doesn't explain the odd movements? Edited September 12, 2020 by ruggedpeak 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 (edited) I’d tentatively suggest later 80s, as the 33/2 has its number on the front, which I don’t remember seeing when I was spotting in 33/2 land until the start of 1986. 1982 was the intro date for the HDAs visible in the photo. Edit: only a short rake too? 17 wagons? Edit2: I meant that I never saw a number on the front like that and I left the area in early 86. Edited September 12, 2020 by eastwestdivide 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SED Freightman Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 On 12/09/2020 at 20:39, eastwestdivide said: I’d tentatively suggest later 80s, as the 33/2 has its number on the front, which I don’t remember seeing when I was spotting in 33/2 land until the start of 1986. 1982 was the intro date for the HDAs visible in the photo. Edit: only a short rake too? 17 wagons? Edit2: I meant that I never saw a number on the front like that and I left the area in early 86. Having had a dig through my notes, the train I was thinking of was loaded at Thamesport on 30/11/1992. After problems with slow discharge due to the coal sticking in the wagons, UK Paper asked for the remaining loaded MGR's to be removed as they were in the way, so not a full train. The wagons were moved to Hither Green for storage until British Coal sold the remaining load to Didcot PS. A special using SR locos took the wagons to Didcot, probably the only time a HG crew worked into the power station, albeit with a conductor from Reading. If by chance the photos show this working (December 1992?), I suppose the locos may have been removed at Reading to run light to Theale for cement empties. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ruggedpeak Posted September 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2020 (edited) 45 minutes ago, SED Freightman said: Having had a dig through my notes, the train I was thinking of was loaded at Thamesport on 30/11/1992. After problems with slow discharge due to the coal sticking in the wagons, UK Paper asked for the remaining loaded MGR's to be removed as they were in the way, so not a full train. The wagons were moved to Hither Green for storage until British Coal sold the remaining load to Didcot PS. A special using SR locos took the wagons to Didcot, probably the only time a HG crew worked into the power station, albeit with a conductor from Reading. If by chance the photos show this working (December 1992?), I suppose the locos may have been removed at Reading to run light to Theale for cement empties. Sadly I was definitely not trainspotting at Reading in 1992, having moved to the other end of the country and had given up on trains at that point! So it wasn't that one. The mystery continues................. The photos are definitely pre-1988, and probably some years before that. Edited September 14, 2020 by ruggedpeak 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.C.M Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 It's been a while since I caught up on this thread. Talk of ploughs a few pages back was interesting. I would appear the Western where happy to use the class 33s on all sorts of turns and not just the ones they where diagrammed then complain about the centre ploughs. When I worked as a shunter at EH Depot we did a turn in the ground frame. One night shift I had set the road for a light engine when the sky lit up. It was a plough fitted class 37 and one of the ploughs had hit the juice rail. I reported this to the Foreman as was the instruction. The fitters would either remove raise them remember of course if they had been on a loco for some time this might be hard to do. Cheers Peter. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 1982 33020 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/50498751687/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 33 117 at Eastleigh Depot on 31st March 1990 Mark 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 33 207 at Ashford (Kent) on 20th April 1990 33 103 at Ashford (Kent) on 20th April 1990 Mark 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 D6529 and D6521 on PW duties at Bickley - September 24th 1961. No notes on image, but possibly a Norman Preedy shot. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 33 029 at Stewarts Lane Depot on 2nd June 1990 Mark 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 33 038 at Stratford Depot on 2nd June 1990 Mark 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 D6562 and D6515 await departure with an Exeter to Waterloo service in 1970. Photographer unknown, my collection. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Photographer unknown : 33 105 at Clapham Junction.... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted August 15, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 15, 2021 33002 Spa valley railway 06-08-21 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 5 hours ago, jbqfc said: 33002 Spa valley railway 06-08-21 Great photos. I saw it down at Buckfastleigh a few weeks ago and it looked superb. Always had a bit of a soft spot for 33002 as it was one of the last 33/0s I had in BR service 30 years (ouch) ago. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Yeovil Junction, 1962.... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Photo by John Goodale : Reading, November 1986.... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) 33116 at Stockport on 1st March 1994 after visiting the Peak District. 33035 at Gravesend on 20th May 1994 Mark Edited October 5, 2021 by mpb56125 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted October 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 6, 2021 On 03/08/2021 at 19:26, jonny777 said: D6562 and D6515 await departure with an Exeter to Waterloo service in 1970. Photographer unknown, my collection. Being double-headed and not headcode 62, is it more likely to be the Brighton? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 33s on the Spa Valley line beer festival - Saturday 2nd October 2021. A bit of a wet day (inside and out) . . . : 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 35 minutes ago, brushman47544 said: Being double-headed and not headcode 62, is it more likely to be the Brighton? According to https://sremg.org.uk/headcodes/eheadcodes/eheadcodes01.html the Brighton/Exeter was G2 in 1971. Fairly unusual for an SR train of that period to have a wrong headcode. Dunno. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanfit Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Basingstoke Stabling Point June 1983 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Anyone got any good sound files of 33s that they could post? I find the sounds are, if anything, more nostalgia-inducing than the sights. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 In the 1970s I was a semi-regular traveller on the Reading - Redhill line as far as Blackwater. Of course the 3R 'Tadpole' units were the usual fare but some services were worked by Class 33s on short Mark1 formations and I was fortunate to get such haulage from time to time. Here are what appear to be the only three photos I took of Class 33s on this line, all in March/April 1977, probably because I never put much effort into figuring out when they'd turn up so it was a game of chance! 33049 approaching North Camp with a parcels train on 5/3/77..... (I didn't usually venture in this direction but I visited a model shop here on this day and purchased a blue Wrenn Class 08 shunter - 30 years ago I detailed this up but used a new unpainted body I'd picked up for a quid. I still have it. By pure coincidence the original body has just been awoken from its 3-decade slumber and is sitting within reach on my work bench in the process of resurrection on a decent Lima chassis, as the wasp stripes I applied in 1977 are too good to pass up!) 33021 passing Earley on 1/4/77 (no joking, it really is 33021....) heading for Reading (I'm a poet and I don't know it!) And 33025 passing under the A30 and about to call at Blackwater station, Reading-bound on 19/4/77 (hey, that was my birthday.......nope, not sayin'!).... And while I'm here, I found this view of 33043 at Reading on a rather dull 22/1/77 (that's my excuse, although I think this image still needs a tidy-up) , I believe it was a special but the inclusion of Mark 1 Pullman E314E was eye-catching - I think it was the only time I ever saw such a thing..... 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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