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

[DaveF]

 

Carlisle in 1990 today.  I think the photos were taken on day trips specifically to take photos at the station.

 

 

Carlisle 85109 30th May 90 C14537.jpg

 

 

Carlisle 2 Class 108s Barrow to Carlisle 24th Oct 90 C15415.jpg

 

 

Carlisle 86231 Glasgow to Plymouth 24th Oct 90 C15428.jpg

 

 

Carlisle 37037 and 37519 down empty steel 24th Oct 90 C15438.jpg

 

 

Carlisle 08912 shunting 24th Oct 90 C15440.jpg

 

 

David

 

 

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Carlisle photo’s from 1990, which, as always, are full of interest. I particularly like the first photo’ of 85109, on the 30th May, 1990. It’s a very well composed shot and it shows the locomotive off very well indeed.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

[corneliuslundie]

Surely someone will tell us the identity of the second loco in the first photo!!!

Jonathan

PS Very nice photos once again.

[DaveF]

43 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said:

Surely someone will tell us the identity of the second loco in the first photo!!!

Jonathan

PS Very nice photos once again.

 

 

I've no idea why, but I didn't take a photo of it.

 

David

[corneliuslundie]

That was to give the spotters a challenge!

J

[MarshLane]

2 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Surely someone will tell us the identity of the second loco in the first photo!!!

Jonathan

PS Very nice photos once again.

 

I'll start us off with it being a Class 86 as there are three cab windows visible on the front end, and the Intercity Mainline livery makes it an 86/2 (or possibly 86/4) 

 

Rich

[DaveF]

 

The Bluebell Railway in the second half of the 1970's for this morning.

 

The December 1978 photos were taken just after Christmas, possibly on Boxing Day.

 

 

Sheffield Park pass to Horsted Keynes USA 30064 Oct 76 C3076.jpg

 

 

Sheffield Park Class U 1618 Dec 78 J6359

 

 

Sheffield Park P Class 323 and Class H 263 Dec 78 J6361.jpg

 

 

Sheffield Park LBSCR E4 473 Class P 27 Class P 1178 Dec 78 J6368.jpg

 

 

Sheffield Park GWR Dukedog 3217 Dec 78 J6367.jpg

 

 

Bluebell Halt U Class 1618 and P Class 323 Dec 78 J6372.jpg

 

 

David

[DaveF]

 

This afternoon we once more set out from Darlington and head north towards Newcastle.

 

 

Darlington 45105 down XC 26th Feb 87 C8231.jpg

 

 

Ferryhill Class 37 up l e 1st Dec 90 C15498

 

 

Sunderland Bridge down XP Kings X to Inverness Highland Chieftain 30th May 95_C20209.jpg

 

 

Low Fell 45103 down ecs 28th June 88 C9552

 

 

Bensham up HST 5th Aug 86 C7881

 

 

David

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Bluebell Railway photo’s which are full of interest, and I particularly like J6361, at Sheffield Park, with P, 323, and H, 263. What a splendid sight those two engines make in that photo’.

 

The ECML photo’s from Darlington are delightful, and show a now long gone era from those BR days. 

 What an interesting ECS movement in C9552, with 45103 and two Mkll’s and a brake van, at Low Fell, on the 28th June, 1988. It’s very easy to model such a nice and compact formation.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

 

 

Back to Radcliffe on Trent on the Nottingham to Grantham line this afternoon.

 

The first photo shows a Class 150.  I have very few photos of the "second generation" dmus on the route as they didn't appear until after I had stopped visiting the East Midlands on a regular basis.

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent 150130 Grantham to Derby 10th April 90 C14277.jpg

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent Class 105 Nottingham to Grantham June 79 J6486.jpg  The slide was sharp but the film had a bend in it so one bit didn't scan well.

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 E50046 Nottingham to Grantham Sept 80 J7248.jpg

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent Class 111 Derby to Grantham 9th June 89 C11977.jpg

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent 47150 Manchester to Parkeston Quay June 79 J6496.jpg

 

 

David

 

 

 

 

Edited August 19, 2019 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Radcliffe on Trent photo’s which, as always, are full of interest. In C11977, with a Metro Cammell DMU on a Derby to Grantham service on the 9th June, 1989, the unit is actually a class 111. This particular set can be indentified by the lower middle cab window which was like that because of the now removed four character headcode box. The class 111’s also came without those headcode boxes, but were always fitted out with Rolls Royce engines.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[iands]

J6486. Looks like someone couldn't wait to get off - a door on the first carriage of the unit is already open, with only half the train in the platform!

[DaveF]

2 minutes ago, iands said:

J6486. Looks like someone couldn't wait to get off - a door on the first carriage of the unit is already open, with only half the train in the platform!

 

 

That was quite common all over the country when just about all stock had slam doors.  I have to admit I sometimes used to do it on the LTSR Class 302s.

 

I suppose people saw it as the railway equivalent of jumping off the rear platform of a bus before it had stopped.

 

David

[iands]

2 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

 

That was quite common all over the country when just about all stock had slam doors.  I have to admit I sometimes used to do it on the LTSR Class 302s.

 

I suppose people saw it as the railway equivalent of jumping off the rear platform of a bus before it had stopped.

 

David

Yes indeed Dave, I used to open the door it myself with slam-door stock, I just don't recall doing 'that soon' before the whole train was at least in the platform (maybe I'm not as adventurous as some other folk?)

[melmerby]

14 hours ago, iands said:

J6486. Looks like someone couldn't wait to get off - a door on the first carriage of the unit is already open, with only half the train in the platform!

Quite dangerous on busy stations.

I was waiting for a train on a very busy New Street Station platform when as the train came in someone threw the door wide open knocking me flying whilst the train was still moving. They immediately closed the door and vanished inside the train.

I ended up on the floor badly bruised.

[DaveF]

 

 

Another visit to the Midland line between Nottingham and Loughborough for today.

 

 

Beeston 43111 St Pancras to Nottingham 9th April 90 C14274.jpg

 

 

Trent 150102 Grantham to Derby 9th April 90 C14258.jpg

 

 

Kegworth Class 47 up l e July 83 J8026

 

 

Kegworth 150120 to Nottingham 10th June 89 C12023.jpg

 

 

Loughborough 20095 and ano p w train 10th June 89 C12008.jpg

 

 

David

[The Johnster]

6 hours ago, melmerby said:

Quite dangerous on busy stations.

I was waiting for a train on a very busy New Street Station platform when as the train came in someone threw the door wide open knocking me flying whilst the train was still moving. They immediately closed the door and vanished inside the train.

I ended up on the floor badly bruised.

The Railway put up posters to try to discourage people from doing this, to little avail.  It was very dangerous and injuries and worse occurred, not only by knocking people over such as happened to you at New Street, but occasionally from people falling out of trains and being trapped under the door or doors being knocked violently shut by barrows and such.  New Street has nightmarishly narrow and often crowded platforms.  Occasionally someone would try to revive the early Victorian practice of locking the doors, which would result in the Armagh tragedy and the Versailles fire being invoked; they'd have taken too long to unlock anyway.  

 

Automatic sliding doors were a huge improvement.  They have trained the travelling public not to open the slam doors on heritage railways until the train has stopped.

[Clive Mortimore]

20 hours ago, iands said:

J6486. Looks like someone couldn't wait to get off - a door on the first carriage of the unit is already open, with only half the train in the platform!

So what is wrong in jumping off a train that is still going to fast and doing head over heals down the platform as you desperately try not to damage your new Genesis LP...........I was still the first through the barrier.

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the photo’s from between Nottingham and Loughborough. They are full of interest, and I particularly like the last photo’, C12008, at Loughborough, with a double headed permanent way train., on the 10th June, 1989. The two class 20’s make a fine sight, with 20095 leading. 

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

[lmsforever]

I used to watch peak timr trains arrive at Sth Benfleet and before the carriage entered the platform he doors were opened this was common at all termini.

[Mark Saunders]

5 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Automatic sliding doors were a huge improvement.  They have trained the travelling public not to open the slam doors on heritage railways until the train has stopped.

 

The younger generation have lost the ability to open slam doors or more often close them again!

 

The dwell time on HST's at many stations has been getting longer over the past few years as slam doors have became less common.

 

Mark Saunders 

[The Johnster]

When Sprinters were introduced on the South Wales Valleys services, there was chaos until the regulars learned where to stand on the platforms to be handy for the doors.  The concept had been proven since 1928 on London Underground, and before nationalisation on the Wirral and Mersey, but it took a little while to become accepted in South Wales in the 80s...

[cheesysmith]

Love the photo of the 20s on the p-way train. Just look at that grampus in the third photo, a prototype to run any kit, no matter how badly built it is.

[Chris116]

7 hours ago, The Johnster said:

.......... Automatic sliding doors were a huge improvement.  They have trained the travelling public not to open the slam doors on heritage railways until the train has stopped.

As a guard on a heritage railway I regret that while we try to stop passengers from opening doors we are not always successful sadly. 

[The Johnster]

It's much less of a problem than it was, thankfully, though.