RMweb Premium Gary H Posted March 26, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2017 A dog's eye view of 50013 Agincourt as she waits for the RA at Oxford with one of the hourly Paddington expresses, booked to stop only at Reading. No date sadly but it must have been around 1984ish. Just after taking this photo I was very surprised to see a pair of 20s approaching from the south on empty cartics. I legged it across to the down platform (in those days I could do such things without risking a heart attack) and managed to get a shot as they stopped for a couple of minutes at the north end of the down through road. I'll post said picture in the Class 20 thread when I've tidied it up a bit. 50013 at Oxford 2.jpg A particularly poignant photo for me that! At around that time, number 13 was my best mates fave 50. We spent a couple of years bashing the class around the western on Saturdays (usually out of Reading) after leaving school in 83. I think 85 was our last year though as he went away to join the army and was posted in Belize after some training. After just a few months though, he was killed in an accident in Belize. Seems like a whole lifetime in the past now though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted March 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2017 (edited) A particularly poignant photo for me that! At around that time, number 13 was my best mates fave 50. We spent a couple of years bashing the class around the western on Saturdays (usually out of Reading) after leaving school in 83. I think 85 was our last year though as he went away to join the army and was posted in Belize after some training. After just a few months though, he was killed in an accident in Belize. Seems like a whole lifetime in the past now though. Many thanks for posting that Gary. 1983 was about the time I started going out and about on the trains from Reading so our paths may have crossed somewhere. Agincourt was one of my favourite 50s too (something to do with the slightly exotic name, perhaps). I really wish I had a picture of her at Reading but, alas, I don't. But here is my only other reasonable shot of her, taken at Bristol at around the same time. I post it as a tribute to your friend from all those years ago. Edited March 27, 2017 by Western Aviator 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2017 I too did a fair bit of 50 bashing from Reading around the same time. Stopped doing it regularly when they were painted in NSE livery and went after NB locos instead. I always knew 50013 as a terrible performer and it was known by us as "ageing crate". This was when it was refurbished but still all-over BR blue. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Horse Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 I'm in the same era as you guys, lived in Oxford and had my first for haulage in 1982. I did a fair bit of bashing on the Reading corridor and probably bumped into you all, they were good times 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_anorak59 Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 (edited) Although I saw all the class at Crewe c1972-73 with D numbers, it wasn't until a few years later that I got a camera (of sorts). So here are the results from the old Instamatic...plumbing new photographic depths for even me... 50003 Temeraire Penzance August 1978 50049 Defiance Penzance August 1978 Possibly 50001 Dreadnought Penzance August 1978 Unidentified Penzance August 1978 50008 Thunderer Crewe 22 September 1979 Unidentified Doncaster Works 21 January 1979 (In my defence, the place was freezing, and foggy - I think I did well to get anything on film that day...) Edited June 29, 2022 by billy_anorak59 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted March 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2017 (edited) Although I saw all the class at Crewe c1972-73 with D numbers, it wasn't until a few years later that I got a camera (of sorts). So here are the results from the old Instamatic...plumbing new photographic depths for even me... 1-50003TemerairePenzanceAug1978-1ps.jpg 50003 Temeraire Penzance August 1978 2-50049DefiancePenzanceAug1978-1ps.jpg 50049 Defiance Penzance August 1978 3-Poss50001DreadnoughtPenzanceAug1978-2ps.jpg Possibly 50001 Dreadnought Penzance August 1978 4-u50PenzanceAug1978-3ps.jpg Unidentified Penzance August 1978 5-50037IllustriousCrewe220979ps.jpg 50037 Illustrious Crewe 22 September 1979 6-u50DoncasterWorks-DoncasterRover210179ps.jpg Unidentified Doncaster Works 21 January 1979 (In my defence, the place was freezing, and foggy - I think I did well to get anything on film that day...) Good stuff, Billy! The pics we take that maybe didn't seem that great at the time, are just as good as the technically better ones today in my view! Edited March 28, 2017 by Gary H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_anorak59 Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Good stuff, Billy! The pics we take that maybe didn't seem that great at the time, are just as good as the technically better ones today in my view! Thanks Gary - yes they have a certain charm regarding the faded colours and format, and that they record a certain place and time, which is priceless! I must admit though that I never fail to impress myself with my natural flair for composition that plonks everything to the left.... I never did manage to compensate for the fact that the instamatics' viewfinder was offset in relation to the lens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2017 (edited) 5-50037IllustriousCrewe220979ps.jpg 50037 Illustrious Crewe 22 September 1979 That's 50008 Thunderer at Crewe, not Illustrious. It worked in on the F&W Crewe Invader from Plymouth for a Crewe Works Open Day, hence so many spotters on the platforms. http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/70s/790922fw.htm Edited March 28, 2017 by brushman47544 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_anorak59 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) That's 50008 Thunderer at Crewe, not Illustrious. It worked in on the F&W Crewe Invader from Plymouth for a Crewe Works Open Day, hence so many spotters on the platforms. http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/70s/790922fw.htm Ooops, sorry Brushman - 50037 was what was written on the back of the pic - I guess my note taking was even worse than my camera skills. You're right, it was a works open day... Edited March 29, 2017 by billy_anorak59 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince minto Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 hi today in 1984,had a ride down to Swindon works and Reading 50046 Bristol 30-3-84,this was my HST to Swindon 50020 Reading 30-3-84 50022 Reading 30-3-84 50029 Reading 30-3-84 Cheers vince 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Fabulous photos Vince - just how I remember Reading in the mid-80s. I can almost hear the charismatic 16 cylinder EE music. Thanks for sharing the memories, David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Great pic of 046 at Bristol TM. Good old days of 'Real' trains. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 31, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2017 That Photo of 50022 looks like the afternoon 15.xx (?) Paddington - Oxford(?) stopper/semi fast that was diagrammed for a Class 50 and stock with Mk1s and a GUV leading. Sorry so vague but remember the working well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 I spent a huge amount of time spotting and bashing on the western especially the Reading station area 1982-1984. So I guess we must have all seen each other at somepoint. Little did we know that one day we would be talking on some fantastic futuristic instant communication machine yet to be invented! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince minto Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 That Photo of 50022 looks like the afternoon 15.xx (?) Paddington - Oxford(?) stopper/semi fast that was diagrammed for a Class 50 and stock with Mk1s and a GUV leading. Sorry so vague but remember the working well. hi fits in.came from Swindon,then went to the pub,so would have been chucked out at 3 cheers vince Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grampus Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Thought I had posted this one previously, but a quick scan back through the thread seems to say 'not', so here goes: 'Victorious' at a sunny Salisbury on an Exeter-bound service, sometime in mid '83/'84(ish...) Happy days! All the best, Paul 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 A few very amateur class 50 photos Leaving Paignton On mail at Penzance By the sea wall 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Two for the price of one! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 (edited) Springs Branch down fast 1973, should have used an higher shutter speed ! Edited August 8, 2017 by Thomas 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 432 up fast at Bamfurlong Junction, 13 April 1973 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 13ap83.jpg 432 up fast at Bamfurlong Junction, 13 April 1973 Like the 08-headed electrification train on the left with people standing on top 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 App3640.jpg Springs Branch down fast 1973, should have used an higher shutter speed ! 1S75 was the down "Royal Scot" if my memory serves me correctly. Great photographs! JIm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thomas Posted August 10, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2017 Taken on a Sunday in 1974 at Lostock Junction , the WCML closed between Preston and Wigan, trains diverted betweeh Preston And Lostock on the Bolton line and drawn back to Wigan by 47's. at Wigan Wallgate. Tom 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Taken on a Sunday in 1974 at Lostock Junction , the WCML closed between Preston and Wigan, trains diverted betweeh Preston And Lostock on the Bolton line and drawn back to Wigan by 47's. img493.jpg img232.jpg img459.jpg img457.jpg at Wigan Wallgate. Tom Wonderful pictures of the Class 50's on their original stamping grounds. They looked much better then, than they later did 'tarted' up by the Western Region. More pictures of The Class 50's please on the WCML. Davey Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveglitch Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Two for the price of one! 50pairseawall.jpg Nice shot. Any other details with this Chris? Looks like 50006 with 50009. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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