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

[michaelp]

Hi Mal, there was a science teacher there who had something to do with a model railway club at Newlands his name was Jim Scott

[Alcanman]

2 minutes ago, michaelp said:

Hi Mal, there was a science teacher there who had something to do with a model railway club at Newlands his name was Jim Scott

Yeah. That's him. He ran the school railway club, took us to sheds at Leeds, York, Manchester and Edinburgh. All steam back then in the sixties.

[St Enodoc]

44 minutes ago, Fat Controller said:

I only visited Cambois as a tourist

Seriously?

[michaelp]

14 minutes ago, Alcanman said:

Yeah. That's him. He ran the school railway club, took us to sheds at Leeds, York, Manchester and Edinburgh. All steam back then in the sixties.

I probably had the same teachers as you when I was there.

[DaveF]

 

Glasgow Central in 1991 and 1992 for this afternoon - as usual taken on visits to Glasgow Exhibition.

 

 

Glasgow Central 303011 and 156439 2nd March 91 C15618.jpg

 

 

Glasgow Central 303004 to Newton 2nd March 91 C15620.jpg

 

 

Glasgow Central 303020 2nd March 91 C15622.jpg

 

 

Glasgow Central 86101 and 156439 2nd March 91 C15640.jpg

 

 

Glasgow Central 90006 parcels 29th Feb 92 C16719.jpg

 

 

David

[Fat Controller]

4 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Seriously?

Inspired by The Dead Kennedy's ...

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Glasgow Central photo’s. All are of interest and there are two photo’s of 156439, the first one, and C15640. Both are on the same day, but must be different times, with the unit having worked a service in between the photo’s.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[Davexoc]

Glasgow Central 86101 and 156439 2nd March 91 C15640.jpg

 

Amazingly there is a remote chance that you could catch those subjects at that location over 28 and a half years later at the same location, both still being extant...

[St Enodoc]

6 hours ago, Fat Controller said:

Inspired by The Dead Kennedy's ...

Thanks Brian. They weren't my cup of tea, so I had to look it up!

[DaveF]

 

Back to the 1970 this morning with a compilation of photos from a numbers of visits to the Sittingbourne and Kemsley.

 

As most of you know the line was originally built to serve the paper mills.

 

 

Sittingbourne Bagnall Alpha Oct 79 C4848

 

 

Sittingbourne Bagnall Triumph running round Oct 76 C3023.jpg

 

 

Kemsley Down Hunslet Victor May 75 C2105

 

 

Kemsley Down Kerr Stuart Leader May 75 C2106.jpg

 

 

Kemsley Down Bagnall Superb 15th May 76 C2733

 

 

Kemsley Down Bagnall Superb Kemsley Down to Sittingbourne Oct 76 C3024.jpg

 

 

David

[DaveF]

 

This afternoon's photos are of the Tyne and Wear Metro.

 

Those who know the area will know exactly where they were taken.  For everyone else - you should come and visit.

 

 

Howdon Metro 4071 Pelaw to St James 28th Dec 89 C13881.jpg

 

 

Howdon viaduct Mk 1 coach at Bogie Chain pub 14th Nov 92 C18171.jpg

 

 

Monkseaton Metro 4039 Haymarket to Tynemouth April 82 J7634.jpg

 

 

Kingston Park 4089 South Shields to Bankfoot Feb 89 J9799.jpg

 

 

Kingston Park LC Metro Bankfoot to South Shields Feb 89 J9798.jpg

 

 

David

 

 

[lmsforever]

Thanks for the Metro pics I did indeed visit for fourteen year on the trot staying at Lucker in lovely Northumberland until a certain important person decided that she wanted to go elsewhere .

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Railway photo’s which show how varied the locomotives and stock was back in the 1970’s. I particularly like C2105, at Kemsley Down with Hunslet, Victor, in May, 1975, which is a most tiny locomotive, and would make up into a lovely model.

 

The Tyne and Wear Metro photo’s are all fascinating, and show how good it was, back then, at going about transporting passengers without fuss or fanfare. In the last photo’, at Kingston Park level crossing, with a Metro train from Bankfoot to South Shields, in February, 1989, you can see clearly the overhang at the front. It seems a bit more than most conventional bogie DMU’s and EMU’s.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

 

[DaveF]

 

Oxenholme and Shap this afternoon.

 

 

Oxenholme 87028 down 10th Aug 87 C8906

 

 

Shap 86405 down 29th March 94 C19341.jpg

 

 

Shap 90129 down freightliner 29th March 94 C19343.jpg

 

 

Shap Class 90 down freightliner 29th March 94 C19363.jpg

 

 

Shap Class 43 up 29th March 94 C19364

 

 

David

[keefer]

C19343 looks like a rather nice garden layout!

C19364 is a cracking shot of a XC HST (Only one TF and what looks like a TRSB). Does anyone know what service this would likely be? Presumably heading for the deepest South-West, arriving several hours after departure.

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Oxenholme and Shap photo’s which are full of interest and show how scenic that part of the WCML is. In the first photo’, at Oxenholme, with 87028, in blue, and the first Mklll in Intercity livery, on a down service, on the 10th August, 1987, you can see a nice dusting of brake dust on the 87. It’s most useful for weathering the Hornby model.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[Davexoc]

1 hour ago, keefer said:

C19343 looks like a rather nice garden layout!

C19364 is a cracking shot of a XC HST (Only one TF and what looks like a TRSB). Does anyone know what service this would likely be? Presumably heading for the deepest South-West, arriving several hours after departure.

Would it be destined for the south coast, Poole perhaps?

I'm not sure if it is T or N gauge though.....

[keefer]

I know there were trains from Dundee or Aberdeen to Poole or Penzance, but i wasn't sure where they 'crossed over' to the WCML. Might be after Edinburgh, heading via Greenhill/Mossend etc.?

[DavidMcKenzie]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for all the brilliant photos. I always look forward to your posts. So much interest and a lot of your photos bring back some lovely early childhood memoires of the early 90s. An extra big thank you for C19343. I have been searching for a roof shot of 90129 in the mid 90s for detailing a model, couldn't have asked for better than your shot.  

All the best

Dave

[SP Steve]

18 hours ago, keefer said:

C19364 is a cracking shot of a XC HST (Only one TF and what looks like a TRSB). Does anyone know what service this would likely be? Presumably heading for the deepest South-West, arriving several hours after departure.

 

Checking the date shows it to be running on a Tuesday and looking at the position of the sun I'm guessing it was taken around late morning to mid-day. The following XC services were listed in the national timetable (as far as I can recall all three were HSTs):

 

07:10 Edinburgh - Bournemouth (via Glasgow Central) "The Wessex Scot"    Departed Carlisle 09:45

08:50 Edinburgh - Penzance (via Glasgow Central) "The Cornish Scot"            Departed Carlisle 11:28

09:00 Aberdeen - Plymouth "The Devon Scot"                                                      Departed Carlisle 13:05

 

I'm guessing the middle of the three fits the bill.

[DaveF]

 

A trip back in time to 11th April 1990 at Harrogate for this afternoon.

 

 

Harrogate 11th April 90 C14306

 

 

Harrogate 141112 Leeds to Knaresborough 11th April 90 C14309.jpg

 

 

Harrogate 144008 Leeds to Knaresborough 11th April 90 C14312.jpg

 

 

Harrogate 141101 Leeds to York 11th April 90 C14314.jpg

 

 

Harrogate 141112 Leeds to Knaresborough 11th April 90 C14317.jpg

 

 

David

Edited October 29, 2019 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Harrogate photo’s from the 11th April, 1990. All are very interesting and it’s always interesting to compare the widths of the class 141’s against the later class 144’s etc.,   I particularly like the surviving semaphore signals, as at that date, in C14309, with 141112 on a Leeds to Knaresborough service. Of course, the 141 is now history too.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[iands]

Hi Dave, 

Love the Harrogate photos. Would you (or your Dad) have taken a photo of Harrogate South SB at any time, which would have been further to the right of C14306? I haven't seen many photos of this SB (in fact I could count them on one finger). I remember back in the mid 1970s as a trainee with one of the York S&T Electrical Installation gangs spending a few happy weeks there rewiring the signalling circuits in the SB.

[Luke Piewalker]

The 141s always had that extra mystique (in as far as pacers had 'mystique') because they were so geographically localised. The front end has that sort of 'prototype' look.

[DaveF]

1 hour ago, iands said:

Hi Dave, 

Love the Harrogate photos. Would you (or your Dad) have taken a photo of Harrogate South SB at any time, which would have been further to the right of C14306? I haven't seen many photos of this SB (in fact I could count them on one finger). I remember back in the mid 1970s as a trainee with one of the York S&T Electrical Installation gangs spending a few happy weeks there rewiring the signalling circuits in the SB.

 

Sorry Ian, 

 

It's one (of several) buildings at Harrogate we never photographed. 

 

In some photos the box is behind the train!

 

David