Rugd1022 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 40 061 at Banbury in the late '70s, photo by Nev Sloper... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grid56104 Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Some of my not very large collection of class 40s. Max Fowler On the East Coast Mainline near Gransthouse heading north. Think the train was from Haverton Hill Different engine but same location as above and looks likely the same working but with a lighter load? Running along the recently opened Pemanshiel Tunnel diversion with empties presumably for gas pipes? 40 119 awaits its end at Swindon Works An unidentified loco runs through Cumbernauld with a Sunday diverted Glasgow Queen St to Aberdeen service Another undidentified 40 has just past Greenhill Lower Jcn and takes the Cumbernauld line with a Sunday diverted Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen St working. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted April 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 11, 2020 (edited) Nice photos. First and third one are 40002. Edited April 11, 2020 by stovepipe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 On 03/02/2020 at 11:04, Rugd1022 said: A few detail shots... This IS fascinating; those numbers are hand-painted, rather than transfers. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Photo by Fred Henley : D380 at Nuneaton on 4th July 1964.... 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted April 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 11, 2020 Lovely photo, and showing off the bogie lubrication details quite nicely too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Late 1970's cheap hand me down plastic camera 110 prints From Springs Branch. Wigan. Inc' 08 130, 40 082, 40 022. 40 019. 40 016 passing. Note piles of coal used for the old steam crane heaped up against the new shed. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 D343 at Crewe, 22nd December 1971, photo by Hugh Searle... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Doncaster 1977 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Markinch 1980 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 40106 Crewe 1970s 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 That must be 79 , it's been repainted. I preferred it when it looked properly decrepit, it used to turn up from time to time on the Dewsnap trips 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 38 minutes ago, woodenhead said: That must be 79 , it's been repainted. I preferred it when it looked properly decrepit, it used to turn up from time to time on the Dewsnap trips I once cycled from Didsbury to Dewsnap to have a look at the sidings, only to find out that they had been lifted a few years earlier. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 If you want to date this picture just look at that young man's trousers. 40183 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 1 minute ago, montyburns56 said: I once cycled from Didsbury to Dewsnap to have a look at the sidings, only to find out that they had been lifted a few years earlier. I never actually saw Dewsnap - and the only time I went past was in the 90s so long long gone. I was a terrible trainspotter - I didn't do Trafford Park when it was full of track, I didn't venture down to Hadfield by train - but would happily go to Crewe or York at 11 or 12. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 1 minute ago, montyburns56 said: If you want to date this picture just look at that young man's trousers. 40183 Thank goodness for that red bag - other than that, that skinny waif with the bucket haircut could be me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 6 minutes ago, woodenhead said: I never actually saw Dewsnap - and the only time I went past was in the 90s so long long gone. I was a terrible trainspotter - I didn't do Trafford Park when it was full of track, Ditto. In fact there are some many lines just in the Manchester area alone that I wished I'd visited, including those that have closed such as that to the Chaddington Coal Depot or Red Bank. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 46 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Ditto. In fact there are some many lines just in the Manchester area alone that I wished I'd visited, including those that have closed such as that to the Chaddington Coal Depot or Red Bank. Lol - standing on the end of the platform at Victoria every Saturday watching the ECS moves plus the Bradford BRCW 110s coming off the route and never thinking, "maybe I'll take a trip to Bradford, see Castleton, Halifax and Red Bank sidings." 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted May 16, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 16, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, montyburns56 said: If you want to date this picture just look at that young man's trousers. 40183 Or you could just click on the picture and the see the date the photographer took the original Flickr image. Edited May 16, 2020 by Western Aviator 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 4 hours ago, Western Aviator said: Or you could just click on the picture and the see the date the photographer took the original Flickr image. I was just suggesting an alternative method for the fashionistas of Rmweb. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim76 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 13 hours ago, woodenhead said: Lol - standing on the end of the platform at Victoria every Saturday watching the ECS moves plus the Bradford BRCW 110s coming off the route and never thinking, "maybe I'll take a trip to Bradford, see Castleton, Halifax and Red Bank sidings." North Manchester was like a different world to me. I’ve only been to Newton Heath once and there are still several towns in the north of Greater Manchester I’ve never even been to! Favourite spotting locations were typically Victoria, Piccadilly, Longsight, Stockport and Cheadle Hulme. Further afield the likes of Preston, Warrington, Crewe, Sheffield, Leeds and York together with Scotland and the south east on holidays. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 8 hours ago, Jim76 said: North Manchester was like a different world to me. I’ve only been to Newton Heath once and there are still several towns in the north of Greater Manchester I’ve never even been to! Favourite spotting locations were typically Victoria, Piccadilly, Longsight, Stockport and Cheadle Hulme. Further afield the likes of Preston, Warrington, Crewe, Sheffield, Leeds and York together with Scotland and the south east on holidays. Me and a mate went to Newton Heath once - on a bus - there was a route from where I lived there, we found the shed, didn't get around and then couldn't find the bus stop to get back. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapland Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 On 16/05/2020 at 13:50, woodenhead said: I never actually saw Dewsnap - and the only time I went past was in the 90s so long long gone. I was a terrible trainspotter - I didn't do Trafford Park when it was full of track, I didn't venture down to Hadfield by train - but would happily go to Crewe or York at 11 or 12. Me too, for some reason although Manchester based never went to Wigan or Warrington but would go to Crewe, York, Sheffield and Chesterfield. Glad I did Sheffield as I did get to Tinsley and see the hump and the 13's on two occasions. However, I wasn't allowed to do so on my own until 13. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 A rare?? shot of a Class 40 pulling MK1 Suburban coaches at KIngs Cross. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 40005 Northenden 1982 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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