RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Stentor said: Phil, I think that’s a Mk2 Cortina not a Morris 1100 Countryman which makes it more likely to be in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). //Simon I bow to your greater car ID skills Simon! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted May 24, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: I bet that last one was popular along the country lanes! Mike. I think that anyone who lived near Cadeby in those days would be used to all sorts of slow moving steam driven vehicles on the road. I remember once travelling through several villages on Teddy's steam roller, Thistledown, en route to roll a drive at a house belonging to one of his friends. It was also quite common back then to tow a car behind a traction engine (o ra steam roller) on the way to and from rallies - often with a thresher or a living van as well. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Stentor said: Phil, I think that’s a Mk2 Cortina not a Morris 1100 Countryman which makes it more likely to be in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). //Simon It;s being towed, it must be an 1100! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 I can remember coming back from commentating at a Stock Car meeting at Mildenhall being in a long queue of traffic which was following a very nice traction engine.When I got to the front of the queue I started waving cars behind me past so I could keep following the traction engine. They then found a spot where they could pull in and let the cars past. I pulled in to the lay-by with them and got chatting. I said that I thought it was wonderful to see the traction engine in action and they told me that they were going to be at a show in Dagenham the following weekend and if I could get there (I lived in Basildon at the time so it was easy) they would have a surprise for me. The following Saturday I was at the show in Dagenham and the surprise was being allowed to steer the traction engine around the parade ground for about half an hour. My admiration for those who drive them went up a few hundred percent and I had a wonderful day with some very nice people. Sadly I lost their contact details and so never saw them again. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted May 24, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 24, 2020 This afternoon we visit another place beginning with "C", but this time it is a city not a village. So we must be at Carlisle on visits in 1990 and 1991. Carlisle 31418 Boadicea Carlisle to Leeds 30th May 90 C14532.jpg Carlisle 85101 up ecs 24th Oct 90 C15409.jpg Carlisle 37057 down freight 24th Oct 90 C15422.jpg Carlisle 47311 up Civil Link 24th Oct 90 C15429.jpg Carlisle 43152 diverted Kings X to Aberdeen 2nd March 91 C15641.jpg David 45 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 Found using Google: Published: 8th October 2015: "Kerr Stuart ‘Sirdar’ class 0-4-0T 1158/1917 Diana, once of the Kerry Tramway and the slate quarry operations at Oakeley and Pen-yr-Orsedd, and ex-Penrhyn slate quarry Hunslet 0-4-0ST Margaret (605/1894) both made their public debut in steam during Vale of Rheidol Railway’s September 26-27 Steam Festival Weekend. Privately owned Diana and VoR’s Margaret last steamed 65 years ago. Restoration of both was completed in the magnificent workshop facility developed at Vale of Rheidol Railway’s Aberystwyth terminus during the weeks leading up to the Festival Weekend – and both pulled their first-ever passenger train, appropriately double-heading, on the Saturday morning opening of the event." Jonathan 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Bet that was a long trip Kings x Via Carslile to Berdeen its normaly eight hours how long was that journey? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Should have said Aberdeen dodgy fingers!!!!!1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 3 hours ago, DaveF said: I think that anyone who lived near Cadeby in those days would be used to all sorts of slow moving steam driven vehicles on the road. I remember once travelling through several villages on Teddy's steam roller, Thistledown, en route to roll a drive at a house belonging to one of his friends. It was also quite common back then to tow a car behind a traction engine (o ra steam roller) on the way to and from rallies - often with a thresher or a living van as well. It's not that uncommon to see a small runabout-type car being towed behind some of the larger motor homes on the motorways today. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2020 Good evening, David. I like the latest Carlisle photo’s which are all of interest. In the first photo’, 31418, Boadicea, on a Carlisle to Leeds service, on the 30th May, 1990, the 31 is certainly in a rundown, well weathered looking condition, which is how many seemed to be by that time. Just so well captured in that photo’. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 C15409 - an eminently modellable PW train... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted May 25, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 25, 2020 A trip to London on 20th October 1993 for today's photos, all taken at Kings Cross. This was a Wednesday. I'd travelled from Newcastle the previous day and stayed in a hotel near The Barbican for an "important" work conference. I can still remember the opening speech by a senior civil servant, much of it was inaccurate. While I was in London I also fitted in quick visits to both Liverpool Street and St Pancras, most of those photos have appeared earlier in this thread. Kings Cross 90016 and Class 91 20th Oct 93 C19175.jpg Kings Cross 91027 etc 20th Oct 93 C19177.jpg Kings Cross Class 317s 20th Oct 93 C19180.jpg Kings Cross 317330 20th Oct 93 C19183.jpg Kings Cross 20th Oct 93 C19184.jpg David 37 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 25, 2020 Good evening, David. I like the photo’s of Kings Cross, from the 20th October, 1993. They are all both full of interest and nostalgia. Thank you for posting them. In C19177, you have a great line up of 91’s and a HST, with 91027, amongst the 91’s. A view which can no longer be seen. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted May 26, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2020 (edited) We move around 100 miles north of yesterday's photos, today's are on the ECML, once again at Swayfield on Stoke Bank. All of them date from the 1970s. I had intended to check the id of the train in the first image and the numbers of the Deltics but didn't have time. I have been standing on the pavement outside my house for some time as a mark of respect to someone nearby who died and whose funeral was this afternoon. Almost the whole street came out as the hearse and family cars went by with the traditional gentleman in top hat and tails leading the cortege on foot. Swayfield Cass 47 down May 74 J3689.jpg most likely 47421 Swayfield Class 55 55004 Kings X to Edinburgh June 77 J5718.jpg Swayfield Class 55 55003 Edinburgh to Kings X June 77 J5719.jpg Swayfield 254008 down May 78 J6129.jpg probably a test train or crew training as it has no catering cars. Swayfield Class 254 up Oct 79 J6649.jpg David Edited May 26, 2020 by DaveF 28 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 26, 2020 The Class 47 in J3689 could be 47421 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2020 Good afternoon, David. I like the Swayfield photo’s which all are of interest. In J6129, that down HST, 245008, in May, 1978, makes a quite a sight as it runs by at speed on what is, like you say either crew training or testing. The two Deltic photo’s are delightful, and thank you for posting them. I wish we could go back to those days. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 26, 2020 Thanks for the Kings Cross photos. I spent many years commuting into London on EMUs in NSE and then Thameslink livery Jonathan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2020 We haven't met, Dave, but why am I not at all surprised by your mark of respect for the deceased? The tenor of your writings and captions tell me a lot. 1 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 26, 2020 As well as J3689 recording 47421, MkII coaching stock and the semaphore distant, it also captures another moment in history. The "dropped" telegraph pole indicating the passing of "open wire" comms infrastructure and the move to cable technology for long distance transmission systems on the railways. 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2020 1 hour ago, iands said: As well as J3689 recording 47421, MkII coaching stock and the semaphore distant, it also captures another moment in history. The "dropped" telegraph pole indicating the passing of "open wire" comms infrastructure and the move to cable technology for long distance transmission systems on the railways. The ETD (Extension Trunk Dialling) network, enabling a dialled call from Penzance to Thurso entirely over BR lines, was a major contribution to modernising the railway. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 26, 2020 5 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: The ETD (Extension Trunk Dialling) network, enabling a dialled call from Penzance to Thurso entirely over BR lines, was a major contribution to modernising the railway. Indeed so, and the BR transmission network considerably helped with modernising the railway in other ways also, like supporting the TOPS network and other key systems. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted May 27, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 27, 2020 Plawsworth today, just south of Chester le Street on the ECML. Plawsworth 47591 Newcastle to Liverpool Oct 87 J9340.jpg Plawsworth 37209 down rail Oct 87 J9333.jpg Plawsworth 31456 up parcels 26th Oct 87 C9185.jpg Plawsworth Class 158 Liverpool to Newcastle 28th Oct 92 C18117.jpg Plawsworth HST down12th March 94 C19328.jpg David 36 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 13 minutes ago, DaveF said: C18117 Is that the Penshaw monument on the hill above the RH coach of the 158? 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 It's in a few of the photos around Plawsworth . You can see it for miles in any direction. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27, 2020 Good afternoon, David. I like the Plawsworth photo’s, which are all of interest, and show more of the ECML. In the last photo’, C19328, with a HST on a down express on the 12th March, 1994, you have a great example of a ‘train in the landscape’ photo’. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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