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

[cheesysmith]

A 303 all the way to Carlisle? Would love to have been on that, bouncing all the way. As to the MGR being empty, it could be carrying shale, some colleries had to dispose of it properly instead of just dumping it anywhere, and being heavier than the coal the HAA would not be full when loaded with it.

[Mark Saunders]

The only two movement of shale/stones in MGR's that I know of are:-

 

Gasgoigne Wood to Welbeck (Goose Hill)

 

and

 

Seaham to Seabanks

 

There were non in Northumberland.

[Fat Controller]

The empty MGR is most likely to be going to Butterwell or Widdrinton open-cast sites.

[caradoc]

1 hour ago, cheesysmith said:

A 303 all the way to Carlisle? Would love to have been on that, bouncing all the way.

 

It would certainly have been an interesting ride, but unfortunately the 303 was only going to Carstairs; There were for many years just a couple of EMU services to Carstairs, in the morning and evening peaks, this would have been one of those. Nowadays Scotrail provide some through trains between Glasgow and Edinburgh via Carstairs (in addition to all the other routes !)

 

[DaveF]

 

Ulgham Lane Crossing on the ECML in Northumberland for this afternoon.

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 43091 down 27th May 89 C11889.jpg

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 37071 Alcan empties Fort Wiliam to North Blyth 30th July 94 C19535.jpg

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 37194 up empty pipe wagons 22nd May 93 C18554.jpg

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 43039 Aberdeen to Kings X 22nd Feb 94 C19296.jpg

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 56108 down empties to Butterwell 3rd June 94 C19476.jpg

 

 

David

 

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I like the latest Ulgham Lane Crossing photo’s, all of which are of interest. In C18554, 37194, on an up empty pipe wagon train, on the 22nd May, 1993, appears to be accelerating if the small flurry of exhaust is anything to go by.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

 

I nearly forgot these this morning so my apologies to anyone who had their coffee early and wondered where the photos were.

 

They are from the Severn Valley from 1972 to 1980.

 

 

Arley 7812 Erlestoke Manor Bridgnorth to Bewdley Aug 80 J7238.jpg

 

 

Arley WD 600 Gordon Bewdley to Bridgnorth July 74 J3780.jpg

 

 

Bewdley 4MTT 80079 Aug 80 J7181.jpg

 

 

Bridgnorth Ruston 0-4-0DS and Fowler 17 Highflyer April 72 C886.jpg

 

 

Bridgnorth 4MT 43106 and 2MT 46521 and 3205 Aug 80 J7199.jpg

 

 

Bridgnorth Ivatt 2MT 46521 Bewdley to Bridgnorth July 75 J4504.jpg

 

 

David

[DaveF]

 

This afternoon's photos were taken at Edinburgh Waverley in August 1987, this time they are all Dad's images.

 

 

Edinburgh Waverley 47xxx Edinburgh to Manchester Victoria Aug 87 J9176.jpg

 

 

Edinburgh Waverley Class 107 and Dt Aug 87 J9177.jpg

 

 

Edinburgh Waverley 150255 down ecs Aug 87 J9179.jpg

 

 

Edinburgh Waverley 47654 ecs Aug 87 J9180.jpg

 

 

Edinburgh Waverley 101347 to North Berwick Aug 87 J9185.jpg

 

 

David

 

Edited September 13, 2020 by DaveF

[The Pilotman]

Some nice views of Edinburgh today, Dave. I shall be there in three weeks time but I won’t see anything as interesting, sadly. By the way, I don’t know which 47 that is in J9176 but it definitely isn’t 47484 which never wore large logo blue livery and was in GWR150 green at the time. It also carried rather long nameplates. And in J9180 you have the incongruous combination of the name “Finsbury Park” on an Eastfield-based locomotive! 

Edited September 14, 2020 by Western Aviator

[lmsforever]

Ah the good old days when you could walk round the shed at Bewdley and talk to the staff about thier work H&S  has a lot to answer for.

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I like the Severn Valley Railway photo’s which are so interesting. In J7181, at Bewdley, with 4MTT, 80079, in August, 1980, it’s interesting to see the coal being cut up to size with a coal hammer. That is not something you see much of in photo’s.

The Edinburgh photo’s, from August, 1987, are all of interest, and in the last photo’, of 101347, on a service to North Berwick, you can see a typical example of a unit with no destination blind, and some battering to the driver’s side of the cab.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[Waverley47708]

Waverley photos, always delighted to see then from the mid 80s.

 

The 107 in Strathclyde livery is using Plt 18 which tended to be for services to Fife, esp Cowdenbeath pre Fife Circle or outer circle as the Edinburgh Cowdenbeath Kirkcaldy Edinburgh trains became known.

 

My recollection is portion trains via Carstairs including Manchester Victoria tended to use the through platforms Plt 10 and 11 on Saturdays but I've seen photos of then using the middle terminus platforms 17 or 16 like this one before. 12, 13 and 18 being shorter than 14 to 17 and 14 being used almost exclusively for ScotRail Express with 47/7 and DBSOs.

 

Always thought it interesting that the colour light at the departure end of 14 used mostly by 47/7s when I went there1985 to 87 has the reference E477!

 

Finally I always thought the 101s suited the black window surrounds.  I first remember then on the then new Bathgate Link.

 

I will make no comment on the middle photo.

[DaveF]

 

Trains at Stocksfield on the Newcastle to Carlisle line today.

 

 

Stocksfield 43xxx diverted Kings X to Edinburgh 15th April 89 C11867.jpg

 

 

Stocksfield 143625 Newcastle to Carlisle 5th May 90 C14431.jpg

 

 

Stocksfield 153351 Hexham to Sunderland 5th Aug 95 C20353.jpg

 

 

 

Stocksfield 60085 Stanlow to Jarrow 5th Aug 95 C20354.jpg

 

 

Stocksfield 142015 Sunderland to Hexham 5th Aug 95 C20355.jpg

 

 

David

Edited September 15, 2020 by DaveF

[keefer]

Re: the cl.150/2 at Edinburgh - it was about this time that these became the replacement for cl.27 (or 47) and four mk1 or early MK2 coaches on the Edin-Dundee services

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I like the Stocksfield photo’s from the Newcastle to Carlisle line. All are interesting and, as before, you can see the lovely NER footbridge, clearly, in some of them. In C20354, that is an excellent three quarters view of 60085, on a Stanlow to Jarrow oil tanks train, on the 5th August, 1995.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[Waverley47708]

1 hour ago, keefer said:

Re: the cl.150/2 at Edinburgh - it was about this time that these became the replacement for cl.27 (or 47) and four mk1 or early MK2 coaches on the Edin-Dundee services

 

And it was about that time I stopped visiting Waverley on a Saturday!

 

How I missed the sound of a Sulzer ticking over in the middle road between 16 andc17 waiting to rake over the next Dundee service.

[35A]

Evening, David.

 

I was immediately suspicious of the caption on C11867 (beautiful shot, though it is). My first thought was "that must have been one of the last photographs of 43013 before it was buffer-fitted" (as it remains to this day). However, on researching the conversion dates, I discovered that 43013 was modified, with the skirt cowling partially removed and standard buffer/drawgear equipment fitted to the driving end, at Stratford DRS, in March 1988, so I'm afraid that C11867 can't be that power car in April 1989.

 

It's still a very lovely photograph, though!

 

[talisman56]

J4504 - not a prototypical combination of carriage liveries, but a good display of the progression of same through the years of Nationalised railways in Britain...

[corneliuslundie]

Je J4504: do you think the next one was a Gresley teak or a GWR carriage? (I know there probably wasn't one, but the SVR has some very nice examples of both, though I don't know if they did then. Do I also remember a GNR carriage?)

Jonathan

[DaveF]

6 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Je J4504: do you think the next one was a Gresley teak or a GWR carriage? (I know there probably wasn't one, but the SVR has some very nice examples of both, though I don't know if they did then. Do I also remember a GNR carriage?)

Jonathan

 

 

At the time I think it was a rake of Mk1s, though there was some ex LMS and GWR stock in use.

 

David

[DaveF]

 

 

Having just come home from the dentist, having had a filling replaced which fell out while I was eating a cheese sandwich last week, I can now post some photos.

 

 

Today's are best described as a Newcastle miscellany.

 

 

Newcastle High Level Bridge Class 105 Newcastle to South Shields Feb 80 J6775.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 31285 up l e June 89 J09922.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 21st Oct 89 C13799.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 43064 Edinburgh to Kings X 1st April 91 C15708.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 3 RES Class 47s 47767 nearest 10th May 95 C20133.jpg

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I’m glad you have got that filling replaced. And I like the miscellaneous Newcastle photo’s, which are all of interest. In the first one, of the High Level Bridge, the DMU on a Newcastle to South Shields service, in February, 1980, is a hybrid set. The leading car is the Cravens class 105 DTSL, then there’s the second car, a Metro Cammell class 101 DMBS. And it is both full and standing - a three car set would have been better.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

 

Some fairly recent photos today for a change.  They were taken from the Keep in Newcastle on 7th February 2013 and are not in any particular order.

 

It's a day I remember all too well.  The previous day I had been to my dentist to have a tooth removed, but it wouldn't come out, so on the 7th I had to go to the dental hospital in Newcastle to get it sorted out.  They looked at it in the morning but couldn't do the extraction until the afternoon, so I spent a while watching trains from the Keep to pass the time.

 

After that I changed to a different dentist, so yesterday's visit for a filling was much a more  pleasant experience.

 

 

Newcastle 142024 northbound 7th Feb 13.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 91105 down  7th Feb 13.jpg
 

 

Newcastle 142024 Middlesbrough to Newcastle 7th Feb 13.jpg

 

 

Newcastle Cross Country Class 221 down 2 7th Feb13.jpg

 

 

Newcastle East Coast 91105 down 7th Feb 13.jpg

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I like the Newcastle photo’s from the 7th February, 2013. They are all of interest, and in the third one down, with 142024, on a Middlesbrough to Newcastle service, you can see how much reduced the famous diamonds were after electrification and rationalisation. Just three double slips left.
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[corneliuslundie]

Interesting that from the high angle of your photos the East Coast trains have a definitely American feel about their livery.

And good info for weathering stock roofs.

Jonathan