RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted April 6, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2019 (edited) Out and about on the ECML in Northumberland this afternoon. I am hoping the rest of today goes better than yesterday - a few minutes after I posted yesterday's images my electricity went off until just before midnight. A nearby cable had broken and it had to be replaced. There is now a large hole in the ground just round the corner. Goswick HST down 27th Feb 87 C8251 Alnmouth Class 40 down freight Aug 81 J7566 anhydrous ammonia to Leith or Grangemouth - with thanks to those posters below who provided the information. Alnmouth Class 254 up Aug 82 J7672 Southside 37031 up empty car carriers 19.08 17th June 87 C8549.jpg Morpeth 37069 up l e April 82 C5653 David Edited April 6, 2019 by DaveF 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 J7566:- anhydrous ammonia from Haverton Hill to either Leith or Grangemouth. The barriers are an ex-Insulfish and an Ale Pallet with sides removed; the other end of the train will have similar wagons before the brake van. These vehicles were all vacuum braked; within a couple of years, hey'd have been replaced by air-braked stock. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Mossend Class 86 81 85 26 14th Aug 87 C8959 Interesting, several of us had the run of Mossend two days later (with permit). I believe some RTR model wagons have been based on photos taken that day. Mossend had an incredible variety of traffics in the 1980s as well as usually line up a variety of electric locos. just some of my photos there https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=mossend Worth commenting that this was 375 miles from home, if driven directly! Alnmouth Class 40 down freight Aug 81 J7566 The Haverton Hill to Grangemouth Ammonia tanks with barrier wagons of ex fish van and LNER style tube wagon with doors removed (possibly ex Ale) https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/iciammonia https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brbarrierrunner Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Fat Controller said: J7566:- anhydrous ammonia from Haverton Hill to either Leith or Grangemouth. The barriers are an ex-Insulfish and an Ale Pallet with sides removed; the other end of the train will have similar wagons before the brake van. These vehicles were all vacuum braked; within a couple of years, hey'd have been replaced by air-braked stock. Wasn't the code Insulfish only used for the GWR design, BR built 6 wheel fish vans? The Vac braked Ammonias lasted until 1984. As I understand it, because there weren't enough VB tank wagons (possibly still using unfitteds) a small batch of VB wagons were built in 1978 to work with the earlier wagons. The last new build VB wagons put into revenue use on BR. I was fortunate to catch a few at Radstock wagon works OOU in 1985. Paul Edited April 6, 2019 by hmrspaul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 1 minute ago, hmrspaul said: Wasn't the code Insulfish only used for the GWR design, BR built 6 wheel fish vans? Paul The six-wheel jobbies were 'INSUL-X-FISH'; oddly, most ended up on the Scottish Region. The four-wheelers were 'INSUL-FISH'; just checked in the relevant Larkin NPCCS book. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted April 6, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2019 Hi, Dave. I like the ECML photo’s which are full of interest and nostalgia. What a fine view in J7566, at Alnmouth, with a disc head code class 40, on a down freight, in August, 1981. Others more knowledgeable have clearly got the train fully identified. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted April 7, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 7, 2019 (edited) The Severn Valley Railway this morning with photos from visits between about 1975 and 1980. Bridgnorth LMS 3FT 47383 July 75 J4516 Bridgnorth Ivatt Class 4MT 43106 Oct 76 C3053 Arley Jubilee Class 5690 Leander Bewdley to Bridgnorth Aug 80 J7194.jpg Arley LMS Class 5 45110 Bewdley to Bridgnorth 11th April 77 C3298.jpg Bewdley 57xx 5764 Apr 75 J4221.jpg Bewdley 5MT 43106 Bridgnorth to Bewdley Aug 80 J7207.jpg David Edited April 7, 2019 by DaveF 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 C3053, for a few seconds I thought that might be me on the bridge (far right); but I don't think 'he' is wearing jeans, and I doubt I wore anything but jeans in those days. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted April 7, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 7, 2019 This afternoon the photos are from Kings Cross in the 1970s. I took the first photo shortly after I moved to Basildon in 1974, it was probably my first visit to London. That means it would have been taken on a Saturday. I remember I took this photo and then walked in a generally northerly direction and took a few more photos from various vantage points, I think they are all somewhere in this thread. The remaining photos today are Dad's. It is likely that they too were taken at weekends, sometimes when Mum had her union executive meetings on a Saturday Dad would travel to London with her and spend the day looking at trains and taking photos. Now and then we used to meet for a meal before they travelled back to Grantham which was the nearest mainline station to where they lived. Kings Cross Class 47 down Oct 74 C1806 Kings Cross Class 47s Jan 76 C2590 Kings X 312 715 Royston to Kings X July 79 J6550 Kings X 31407 down parcels July 79 J6553 Kings X 55015 York to Kings X July 79 J6554 David 44 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted April 7, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 7, 2019 Hi, Dave. I like the Severn Valley Railway photo’s which are full of interest and show how things have changed on that line over the succeeding years. I particularly like the last one, J7207, at Bewdley, with Ivatt class 5MT, 43106, on a Bridgnorth to Bewdley train, in August, 1980. Always good to see the sole surviving Flying Pig. The photo’s of Kings Cross show how electrification changed the appearance and atmosphere of it. They are a very good selection which I’ve enjoyed seeing. What a maze of masts and wires as Deltic 55015, arrives on a York to Kings Cross train in July, 1979, in that last photo’. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted April 7, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 7, 2019 C2590 shows the old footbridge at Kings Cross which is now at Ropley on the Mid Hants Railway. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted April 7, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 7, 2019 Thanks for the KX photos. Memories of some years of commuting. But no more Cravens units - dusty and rattly. Jonathan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted April 8, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) A slightly different set of photos today which need not be taken too seriously. Starting at Victoria - though leaving from the other side of the station - we visit Lewes around 1951 before reaching Brighton. At Brighton we have a look at some of the less usual attractions which have some sort of railway interest - and which might make a very different model. London Victoria Class 411 Victoria to Folkestone Harbour April 83 J7879.jpg Lewes station colour print from slide c1951 JVol3130.jpg At Brighton we have a photo looking down on the Childrens Pleasure Beach Railway. I'm not sure you could do this with streamline track but it might work as a minimum space model. Brighton Childrens Pleasure beach railway Sept 79 J6636.jpg Back in the 1950s you could have visited the Jigsaw train. I am the small boy in the first "coach". I've no idea who the other "passengers" were. Brighton Jig Saw train Aug 54 J1676 Lastly we have a couple of photos of Volk's electric Railway. Brighton Volks electric railway Sept 79 J6639 Brighton Volks electric railway Sept 79 J6640 David Edited April 8, 2019 by DaveF 36 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 The little loco units in J6636 (Sept'79) must have been a fairly standard design. I've photographed these disused ones in Rhyl (a good 25 minutes walk from the sea front though). I much prefer the Jigsaw Train! A firm cally Jelly Models do some incredibly tight radius tracks. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 J6639 - does the VR on the front of the Volks car stand for Virgin Rail? (as the driver is holding a (steering?) wheel, and ole Beardie said the driver of the Pendolino that crashed steered his train in a straight line). Stewart 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) 29 minutes ago, BernardTPM said: The little loco units in J6636 (Sept'79) must have been a fairly standard design. I've photographed these disused ones in Rhyl (a good 25 minutes walk from the sea front though). I much prefer the Jigsaw Train! A firm cally Jelly Models do some incredibly tight radius tracks. Eeeek, that centre loco looks like Charlie the Choo Choo from Stephen King's dark Tower series. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=charlie+the+choo+choo&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=hulgF2GTaXDvHM%3A%2CRGbIry1FwlBi3M%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSWt8Rk1KVJ7UHcJYrXm44WCW4sfw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib8pHygsHhAhUkSBUIHVMyB7QQ9QEwAXoECAcQBg#imgrc=hulgF2GTaXDvHM: Edited April 8, 2019 by JeffP It posted without my comment. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 8, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2019 The blue one seems to have an identity crisis! 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted April 8, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2019 Hi, Dave. I like today’s photo’s which start at Victoria and go via Lewes to Brighton. All are full interest and the Lewes photo’ is a real gem. It’s not very often you come across a photo’ from 1951 in colour. At Brighton, in J6636, of the Childrens Pleasure beach railway, in September, 1979, the curves are a bit sharp, and I’m not sure you’d be able to reproduce them in a model. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 8, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2019 2 hours ago, stewartingram said: J6639 - does the VR on the front of the Volks car stand for Virgin Rail? (as the driver is holding a (steering?) wheel, and ole Beardie said the driver of the Pendolino that crashed steered his train in a straight line). Stewart Swiss trains have steering wheels as well: It must be all those sharp bends 3 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted April 9, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 9, 2019 Around Radcliffe on Trent this afternoon with more photos of Grantham to Nottingham trains and the branch to Cotgrave colliery. Radcliffe on Trent Class 47 47172 Parkeston Quay to Manchester Jan 77 J5624.jpg Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Grantham to Nottingham Sept 77 J5823.jpg Radcliffe on Trent Class 120 Skegness to Nottingham Jan 79 J6387.jpg Radcliffe on Trent/Rectory Junction 25286 down parcels April 80 J6834.jpg Radcliffe on Trent 56070 empties to Cotgrave April 80 J6839.jpg David 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 19 hours ago, melmerby said: Swiss trains have steering wheels as well: It must be all those sharp bends Sorry to move OT, Dave, but worth telling. One of the things I've had to do is show visitors, usually father and son, around the footplate. 2968's reverser is a wheel, and if I had a pound for every dad who said, 'And that, son, is how you steer it!' . . . 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 On 30/03/2019 at 15:42, DaveF said: Woodburn Junction is halfway between Sheffield Victoria and Darnall for those unfamiliar with the area. Woodburn Junction Sheffield GCR Oct 76 J5462 and pretty much from the same viewpoint 31 years later 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted April 9, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2019 Hi, Dave. I .ike the Radcliffe on Trent photo’s which are full of interest. In particular J6387, of a class 120 DMU on a Skegness to Nottingham service in January, 1979, captures so perfectly just how cold and snowy it was in that grim winter. The leading cab has developed a distinctive pattern from the extremely cold conditions. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted April 9, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2019 Good to see the pictures of Radcliffe and Cotgrave. The trouble is that seeing pictures of the Cotgrave line reminds me just how old I am as I remember the line and colliery being built in 1960. A friend's father was a miner there and I find it difficult to believe that something like that, which I saw being built, and was lauded as the latest and best of it's type (the colliery), has now been gone for over 25 years. It seemed very futuristic and modern at the time. Your pictures, as always, stir the memories and thought processes, Thank you. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted April 10, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 10, 2019 (edited) Some more trains at Grantham today, from 1971 to 1981. I'm not quite sure exactly where in Grantham Dad stood to take the last one of today's photos, it was taken in the morning, probably between 11am and noon. I thought I knew Grantham well... Grantham Class 47 1513? down Sept 71 J2775 Grantham Plasser Theurier 07 and Class 114 Nottingham to Grantham Jan 77 J5620.jpg Grantham Class 55 down July 80 J7026 55011 Grantham up HST 253045 May 81 J7382 Grantham Class 254 down Flying Scotsman July 81 J7524 David Edited April 11, 2019 by DaveF 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now