RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2019 Merry Christmas, Dave. I hope you are having a great time today. I like the K.& W.V.R. photo’s which are so colourful from those early days, and what a great sight, at Oxenhope, that Ivatt 2MTT tank engine, 41241, makes as it gets on its way in April, 1971 - C540. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Dave, I rarely comment on these pages but I am a daily visitor. I suspect I am not alone in this, but this collection of pictures is amazing and serves as a source of inspiration, confirmation and is a reminder of a misspent youth (and adulthood) when things seemed simpler. I shudder to imagine the hours that it has taken to accumulate this collection not to mention the effort to curate, scan and upload these historical gems. So I want to thank you and the others like you for this service to our community, for someone who cannot easily access books or visit sites to collect information, this type of resource is invaluable. Merry Christmas, TexChem 2 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted December 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2019 Hi Dave. Merry Christmas and thank you for all the pleasure that you have given us with your photos over the past year. All the best Adrian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stentor Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Merry Christmas David and a Happy and Healthy New Year. You and your Father’s photographs are a fascinating window into our past and a wonderful present to us all. Thank you. // Simon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 25, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 25, 2019 (edited) Thanks to you all for the very kind comments about the photos. Hopefully the thread will continue for some time to come. As it is now quiet here I can post today's second batch of photos. I always hope for a White Christmas but once again it hasn't snowed here (though it looks as though there is a bit of snow on the Cheviot). So I thought we'd have some snowy photos instead from Northumberland, arranged in order from south to north. In the fifth photo, at Ulgham Lane crossing, the snow is quite deep. It's one of Dad's photos but I also have some taken that day, we had travelled there in my car. Nowadays I think I'd stay at home rather than brave that snow. Morpeth 55017 Kings X to Aberdeen Dec 81 J7622.jpg Morpeth 43159 up and 143001 Alnmouth to Newcastle 19th Feb 86 C7321.jpg Longhirst Class 254 up Sat 1 March 86 C7340 Ulgham Lane crossing 47851 Dorset Scot Aberdeen to Poole 19th Feb 91 C15601.jpg Ulgham Lane Crossing Class 254 down Dec 85 J8481.jpg Buston Barns 43058 up 16th Feb 91 C15581 David Edited December 26, 2019 by DaveF 45 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 18 minutes ago, DaveF said: Thanks to you all for the very kind comments about the photos. Hopefully the thread will continue for some time to come. As it is now quiet here I can post today's second batch of photos. I always hope for a White Christmas but once again it hasn't snowed here (though it looks as though there is a bit of snow on the Cheviot). So I thought we'd have some snowy photos instead from Northumberland, arranged in order from south to north. In the fifth photo, at Ulgham Lane crossing, the snow is quite deep. It's one of Dad's photos but I also have some taken that day, we had travelled there in my car. Nowadays I think I'd stay at home rather than brave that snow. Morpeth 55010 Kings X to Aberdeen Dec 81 J7622.jpg Morpeth 43159 up and 143001 Alnmouth to Newcastle 19th Feb 86 C7321.jpg Longhirst Class 254 up Sat 1 March 86 C7340 Ulgham Lane crossing 47851 Dorset Scot Aberdeen to Poole 19th Feb 91 C15601.jpg Ulgham Lane Crossing Class 254 down Dec 85 J8481.jpg Buston Barns 43058 up 16th Feb 91 C15581 David HI Dave, I'm not one to comment much on these photos; their quality speaks for them. All i can say, looking at those last two, is that your mother is, or was a very hardy and tolerant lady! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 25, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 25, 2019 5 minutes ago, 62613 said: HI Dave, I'm not one to comment much on these photos; their quality speaks for them. All i can say, looking at those last two, is that your mother is, or was a very hardy and tolerant lady! Mum almost always went out with Dad when he was taking railway photos, since Dad died she has often gone out with me. In the last couple of years her arthritis has severely limited her mobility though she still enjoys going out in the car, these days she takes photos from inside the car - perhaps to be expected now she is 95. She also used to do a lot of sailing. She has always liked trains (and anything mechanical) - at the end of the war after gaining her degreee in Maths and Zoology she worked for a time designing steam turbines. She has a collection of her own railway photos, as well as many natural history and landscape photos taken while Dad took train photos. David 8 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2019 She sounds like a smashing and interesting lady, Dave. Long may she prosper! 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2019 Hi, Dave. I love the Northumberland photo’s. How cold all that snow makes me feel. The first photo’, at Morpeth, with 55010 on a Kings Cross to Aberdeen express, in the snowy December, of 1981, which was the last time we had a proper white Christmas, both the Deltic and carriages are looking a bit dusty from brake dust and the elements. Just days left for the remaining Deltics too, with all services then becoming HST’s..... With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 As others have said Dave, thanks for the continued daily postings, this is still a go to thread for me every day, your various flicker sites are also a fantastic resource and sometimes just a nice place to while away some time. Martyn 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted December 26, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2019 Brrrrr………. Merry Christmas Dave! Kev. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted December 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2019 Hi Dave and merry Christmas. J7622 is 55017. The nameplate is too short and the font is wrong for 55010. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2019 1 hour ago, brushman47544 said: Hi Dave and merry Christmas. J7622 is 55017. The nameplate is too short and the font is wrong for 55010. Thanks Andrew. When I wrote the caption I had a feeling it was wrong. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2019 (edited) Some photos on the Newcastle to Carlisle line this afternoon. Wylam 143008 Carlisle to Newcastle Oct 88 J9708.jpg Stocksfield Class 101 Hexham to Sunderland Oct 88 J9694.jpg Riding Mill A4 4468 Mallard Carlisle to York July 88 J9578.jpg Haltwhistle 156502 Newcastle to Glasgow C 26th Feb 94 C19309.jpg Low Row 153314 eastbound ecs 22nd Oct 91 C16594.jpg David Edited December 26, 2019 by DaveF 45 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted December 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2019 Hi Dave, As others have said, many thanks for the continued daily postings which remain a fantastic historical reference. Looking at J9708 (Wylam), just to the right (as viewed from the camera) of the leading cab I notice two "detonator placers". Reminds me of my time as a Trainee with one of the York S&T Mechanical Installation gangs in around 1974/5 installing a number of det placers on all lines at Selby approaching the Swing Bridge - happy days. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2019 (edited) Low Row level crossing. The old signal box has gone: https://goo.gl/maps/EY7eETLMJUBJu2Te7 But replaced by an even bigger one: https://goo.gl/maps/F5H3XCJM8nYnV3Ji7 Anyone know why such a big one? Edited December 26, 2019 by melmerby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 26, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2019 Hi, Dave. I like the Newcastle to Carlisle photo’s which are all of interest. In J9694, at Stocksfield, with a class 101 DMU, on a Hexham to Sunderland service in October, 1988, your father has got the train beautifully framed by the delightful old NER footbridge. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Brit70053 Posted December 27, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2019 J9578, what a superb Shot Dave, surely one of the best I've seen of Mallard during its outings celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Speed record. The spectators add to the photograph, which is more often not the case. Many thanks for your continued posting from your marvellous collection. Hope you've had a wonderful Christmas and wishing you, your family and all your followers a Happy ,Healthy and Prosperous New Year. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 27, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 27, 2019 Manchester Victoria on 18th March 1989 today. Manchester Victoria Class 504 to Bury 18th March 89 C11683.jpg Manchester Victoria 142064 ecs 18th March 89 C11691.jpg Manchester Victoria Class 156 18th March 89 C11697.jpg Manchester Victoria Class 504 Manchester to Bury 18th March 89 C11708.jpg Manchester Victoria LYR tile map 18th March 89 C11710.jpg David 44 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
seahorse Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Manchester Victoria - the L&Y wall map is about the oldest thing in the set - and just about the only thing you could see now!! Thanks again for all the photos kind regards Peter 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2019 Hi, Dave. I like the Manchester Victoria photo’s from the 18th, March, 1989. All are full of interest and much has changed since that date. In C11691, with 142064, on an ECS movement, that is a sight which has become quite infrequent with so many of the 142’s now having been withdrawn from service. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2019 On 26/12/2019 at 16:23, melmerby said: Low Row level crossing. The old signal box has gone: https://goo.gl/maps/EY7eETLMJUBJu2Te7 But replaced by an even bigger one: https://goo.gl/maps/F5H3XCJM8nYnV3Ji7 Anyone know why such a big one? Fitted with a panel, and they are very heavy combined with making a more pleasant working environment for the Bobbies 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 27, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2019 6 hours ago, seahorse said: Manchester Victoria - the L&Y wall map is about the oldest thing in the set - and just about the only thing you could see now!! Thanks again for all the photos kind regards Peter DB 999503 has been sold into preservation so can still be seen. (Where?) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted December 27, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2019 A quick google search shows that it went to the Great Central. However the last entry on the "Departmentals" site I landed up in was in 2009 so a lot could have happened since then! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 28, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2019 On the Midland today, at Long Eaton, Toton and Trent. Toton view north 31st May 86 C7617 Toton 25051 down freight July 83 J8020 Long Eaton Station Road Crossing 58002 down l e July 83 J8016.jpg Trent Class 58 up coal Dec 89 J10565 Trent 150226 to Derby 9th April 90 C14261.jpg David 42 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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