Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Teesside photo’s which have much of interest in them and show how things were at the time the photo’s were taken. Things are today undergoing quite a change.

The first photo’, at Middlesbrough, with 142535, on an up service, on the 5th December, 1992, will soon be history with the demise of the 142’s. Also the unit number was changed back to 142035 later on after the photo’ was taken. 

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

3 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Re the last two photos yesterday, is it my eyes deceiving me or has light reflected from the scenery given an orange-yellow cast to the sides of the train?

Beautiful photos.

Jonathan

 

 

It's simply that the film had changed colour and I didn't manage to remove all the colour cast in Photoshop.

 

David

[DaveF]

 

The photos for today start at Darlington and head north to Chester le Street.

 

 

Darlington Class 305 and 302 ADB97764 977640 977639 DM&EE training outbase east 12th May 90 C14454.jpg

 

 

Sunderland Bridge GNER Class 91 down XP 3rd May 97_C21830.jpg

 

 

Durham Class 253 SW to NE 24th May 87 C8587

 

 

Chester le Street 158805 Liverpool to Newcastle 27th Oct 92 C18084.jpg

 

 

Chester le Street 56121 down coal 27th Oct 92 C18086.jpg

 

 

David

 

 

Edited April 16, 2022 by DaveF

[russ p]

I remember doing my electrified lines training in that EMU, great pictures 

[43110andyb]

Many thanks for posting and great to see the electrification training unit again! I started the railway 30 years ago today 11/09/89 and did my training on that very unit in Darlington station as pictured in 1990.

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Darlington to Chester le Street photo's which are all full of interest. In C18084, at Chester le Street, with class 158, 158805, on a  Liverpool to Newcastle express service on the 27th Octotber, 1992, you have a great portrait shot of the unit, one of the original three car sets, which is looking still quite new and shiny.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[dvdlcs]

C21830 - unlike earlier coaches, I don't recall seeing many pictures of Mk4 rakes with mixed liveries, although it obviously happened at least once.

[DaveF]

19 minutes ago, dvdlcs said:

C21830 - unlike earlier coaches, I don't recall seeing many pictures of Mk4 rakes with mixed liveries, although it obviously happened at least once.

 

I have a number of photos of mixed livery Mk4 rakes in the earliest days of GNER, though it didn't last for very long.   More common to start with was a GNER liveried Class 91 on an Intercity livereied set of coaches.

 

It also often happend with HST ses, both GNER and Virgin for a time.

 

As and when I use them other mixed rake photos will appear in this thread.

 

David

[DaveF]

 

A few more photos of Glasgow Central in 1991 and 1992 this afternoon.

 

 

Glasgow Central 303012 2nd March 91 C15628.jpg

 

 

Glasgow Central 303012 and 303020 2nd March 91 C15629.jpg

 

 

Glasgow Central 156503 and 156514 2nd March 91 C15638.jpg

 

 

Glasgow Central 90018 29th Feb 92 C16708.jpg

 

 

Glasgow Central 91027 to Newcastle 29th Feb 92 C16720.jpg

 

 

David

 

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Glasgow Central photo’s which all full of interest and capture the essence of the station perfectly. In particular, C16708 is a fine portrait shot of 90018, on the 29th February, 1992. That livery suited them so well in addition to the Inter City livery.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

[russ p]

When you look back to this time the liveries were so much better than the swirly awful ones of today, they actually matched the vehicle they were applied to rather than just putting lines all over them into matching any of the lines on bodywork 

[DaveF]

 

Photos taken at three locations on the Newcastle to Carlisle line for today.

 

 

Wylam Class 101 Newcastle to Hexham Aug 84 J8171.jpg

 

 

Wylam N15 777 Sir Lamiel SLOA Hartlepool to Carlisle Aug 84 J8173.jpg

 

 

Wylam Class 143 Newcastle to Hexham 28th Oct 88 C11594.jpg

 

Brampton 56128 westbound coal 22nd Oct 91 C16595.jpg

 

 

Wetheral view west 22nd Oct 91 C16596.jpg  Taken from the public footpath across the viaduct.

 

 

David

[DY444]

On 09/09/2019 at 15:26, DaveF said:

Today we visit Scotland again, this time on the West Coat Main Line around Abington.

 

 

Abington Class 87 up freight 24th April 92 C16819

 

David

 

 

That's a 90 in mainline livery rather than an 87

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Newcastle to Carlisle photo’s which are fascinating and capture ambiance of the line so perfectly. I particularly like C16595, at Brampton, with class 56, 56128, on a westbound coal train on the 22nd October, 1991. It’s a beautifully composed shot with the bridge framing the 56 perfectly.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

 

Another selection of photos from the 80s and 90s taken at Ulgham Lane Crossing on the ECML in Northumberland.

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing Class 101 and 116 Berwick to Newcastle 29th Dec 87 C9311.jpg

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing Class 37 empty alumina Fort William to North Blyth 29th Dec 89 C13899.jpg      37051

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing Class 43 down 20th June 91 C15955.jpg

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing Class 90 up Glasgow C to Kings X at rear 18th July 92 C16983.jpg

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing Class 47 down special 28th Nov 92 C18135.jpg

 

David

Edited September 15, 2019 by DaveF

[keefer]

C9311 - that'll be a cl.116 rather than 119. It has a high-density (suburban) door layout and I don't think the 119s ever got to Scotland/NE England.

An interesting formation anyway, by the late '80s the ScR was using anything they had that still worked, testament to the fitters who maintained them.

[brushman47544]

C18135 the train isn’t listed on Six Bells Junction but another train with the central and lower right headboards, hauled by 86247, is listed for 12/12/92 running WCML between Northampton and Edinburgh. Wonder what this one was...

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the photo’s of the ECML taken at Ulgham Lane Crossing from the late 80’s and early 90’s, which are full of interest. In C13899, of a class 37 on an empty alumina working from Fort William to North Blyth on the 29th December, 1989, on greatly enlarging the photo’ it is possible to just make out the locomotive number. 37051 is what I make it.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

 

[DaveF]

15 hours ago, brushman47544 said:

C18135 the train isn’t listed on Six Bells Junction but another train with the central and lower right headboards, hauled by 86247, is listed for 12/12/92 running WCML between Northampton and Edinburgh. Wonder what this one was...

 

 

I've had a look at the original scan, two of the headboards read "Rail" and "The Capitals Express".

 

David

[DaveF]

 

The Severn Valley Railway today with a few photos taken between 1977 and 1980.

 

One of the Arley photos shows a group of photographers beyond the "Passengers are not allowed beyond this point" notice.  They had been given permission to be there.

 

In 1980 visitors were still allowed to walk around the yard at Bridgnorth when engines were in steam (and often moving).

 

 

Bridgnorth 5764  8th Sept 79 C4827.jpg

 

 

Bridgnorth 4MT 43106 and 2MT 46521 and 3205 Aug 80 J7197.jpg

 

 

Arley GWR 4566 Bewdley to Bridgnorth 11th April 77 C3294.jpg

 

 

Arley Jubilee Class 5690 Leander Bewdley to Bridgnorth Aug 80 J7193.jpg

 

 

Bewdley 5764 and Class 116 special Bridgnorth to Kidderminster Aug 80 J7206.jpg

 

 

Bewdley 4930 Hagley Hall Aug 80 J7211.jpg

 

 

David

[lmsforever]

It was good when you could wander round the shed interesting to get up close to locos and talk to the people working on them ,but health and safety is the great god now.

[caradoc]

C9311; I wonder what a Scotrail DMU was doing any further south on the ECML than Drem ?! It must have been a good set to have got that far; One of its sisters, 101321 (known, not affectionately, as Dusty Bin) was notorious, so much so that the Queen St Controller spent all their time trying to send it to Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh Controller would promptly send it back !

[DaveF]

2 hours ago, lmsforever said:

It was good when you could wander round the shed interesting to get up close to locos and talk to the people working on them ,but health and safety is the great god now.

 

 

I agree it was nice to walk round the sheds, even in the early 80s most of the visitors who would do that were probably enthusiasts who at least knew locos were heavy and could move.  However, many of them didn't think to look and listen while they were getting into position when taking their photos.  Nowadays many visitors don't realise that locos may need to move and that drivers have a very restricted view.

 

In the mid 1960s, when I was I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time at Cadeby where Teddy Boston had his railway and traction engines.  Even back then it was hard to get people to stay out of the way of Pixie, and even harder with traction engines.  When I started to drive them I soon learnt how little a driver can see right in front of him and spent a lot of time shouting at people to get out of the way.  Driving a traction engine at a Traction Engine Rally can be quite frightening when you see the antics of the general public.

 

At Sewstern and Market Overton in the early 70s it could be hard to make sure that people were kept out of danger, even a lot of enthusiasts get very engaged in what they are looking at and don't have much awareness of what is going on around them.  One of the nearest misses I saw was when a lorry driver was watching his lorry being loaded with sleepers and he simply wasn't watching what the crane driver was doing.  A few loud shouts and he ducked under some concrete sleepers which were being loaded just in time.

 

2 hours ago, caradoc said:

C9311; I wonder what a Scotrail DMU was doing any further south on the ECML than Drem ?! It must have been a good set to have got that far; One of its sisters, 101321 (known, not affectionately, as Dusty Bin) was notorious, so much so that the Queen St Controller spent all their time trying to send it to Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh Controller would promptly send it back !

 

At the time Heaton were very short of dmus - the new Pacers had a terrible reliability record.  They substituted a number of diagrams with Class 31 and Class 47 hauled 3 coach Mk1 sets, they also borrowed anything they could get hold of from other areas.  It made photography very enjoyable for a few months as you never knew what might turn up.

[Steamysandy]

2 hours ago, caradoc said:

C9311; I wonder what a Scotrail DMU was doing any further south on the ECML than Drem ?! It must have been a good set to have got that far; One of its sisters, 101321 (known, not affectionately, as Dusty Bin) was notorious, so much so that the Queen St Controller spent all their time trying to send it to Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh Controller would promptly send it back !

A number of DMUs were switched around over the years and Haymarket for a time had some ex Chester 108s so looking at this 101,it's coupled to a Suburban (117?) ,coach.

My favourite from about the same time was an ex Haymarket Gloucester RC &W  class 100 power car on a Manningtree to Harwich local!

[DaveF]

 

Some photos on the Tyne and Wear Metro for this afternoon.

 

They start on the south bank of the River Tyne, head to Tynemouth and then back towards Newcastle.

 

All the photos were taken from areas accessible to the public.

 

 

Gateshead Metro on QE2 bridge Aug 82 J7679

 

 

Backworth Junction Metro 4057 to St James  18th Feb 91 C15595.jpg

 

 

Monkseaton 4045 and 4056 Pelaw to St James 4th Jan 92 C16669.jpg

 

 

Tynemouth Metro 4079 St James to Pelaw 24th April 93 C18593.jpg

 

 

 

Howden viaduct Metro St James to Pelaw14th Nov 92 C18170.jpg  There has recently been a tread on RMWeb about the Mk1 coach which can just be seen behind the bus shelter.

 

 

David