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2 hours ago, caradoc said:

Were there not at one time Euston/Preston sleeping cars, detached from a Down train and attached the following night to an Up train ? 

 

 

2 hours ago, 31A said:

 

There were.  I caught one from Preston to Euston once; I joined the sleeping car (I think there was only one) in a bay platform then quite a lot later it was attached to an up Anglo Scottish sleeper.  Would have been mid 1980s sometime.

 

 

Thanks very much for this information.

 

So after 49 years I know why the sleeping cars were there.

 

David

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14 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Are those being backed on to a Northbound train?, if so they may have a tale to tell.

 

Mike.

 

13 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

The sleepers were in the siding at the end of the platfrom all the time I was there, I've never found out why they were there.

 

David

 

12 hours ago, caradoc said:

Were there not at one time Euston/Preston sleeping cars, detached from a Down train and attached the following night to an Up train ? 

 

 

12 hours ago, 31A said:

 

There were.  I caught one from Preston to Euston once; I joined the sleeping car (I think there was only one) in a bay platform then quite a lot later it was attached to an up Anglo Scottish sleeper.  Would have been mid 1980s sometime.

 

 

The reason this photo piqued my interest is due to the fact that it is reckoned in some quarters that the precursor to this move was the actual last steam hauled passenger train in the UK, the final move happening in the early hours of August 5th 1968, when a black 5 was used as steam heat loco for the sleepers and shunted them on to the rear of the train.

More information is available on the 50th anniversary of the end of steam thread.

 

Mike.

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13 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

The sleepers were in the siding at the end of the platfrom all the time I was there, I've never found out why they were there.

 

David

They were stabled in that siding during the day. What Caradoc asks is essentially correct.

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17 hours ago, 31A said:

 

There were.  I caught one from Preston to Euston once; I joined the sleeping car (I think there was only one) in a bay platform then quite a lot later it was attached to an up Anglo Scottish sleeper.  Would have been mid 1980s sometime.

 

 

I trust you got out of bed to see what loco was making the shunt Steve ?!!

 

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9 minutes ago, DaveF said:

The one of the Metro crossing the A19 was taken from the passenger seat of the car by Dad.

 

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 Complete with Ford Escort MKII, Austin Maestro, VW Scirocco MKI & what looks a Vauxhall Viva.....

 

Probably everything in this picture has been reduced to razor blades 

 

Jim

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1 hour ago, jcarta said:

 Complete with Ford Escort MKII, Austin Maestro, VW Scirocco MKI & what looks a Vauxhall Viva.....

 

Probably everything in this picture has been reduced to razor blades 

 

Jim

The Escort might be a rally car - there's lots of 'em so a good shell, 2 door is valuable

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20 minutes ago, steve4rosegrove said:

The Escort might be a rally car - there's lots of 'em so a good shell, 2 door is valuable

The last time this changed hands according to the V5 was on 4th Nov 1985. This one had a 1298cc engine. 

 

Lets hope it went on to have another life, especially racing around Kielder Forest ......

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Looking closer at your picture the VW Scirocco isn't a MKI as these had twin round headlamps and this one has oblong ones so this could be a MK2 which was introduced in the UK around 1982. 

 

Although it looks like a VW Scirocco the shape also puts it into a Nissan Cherry profile..

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Good evening, David. I like the photo’s from beyween Newcastle and Hartlepool. All are of interest, and in C19337, taken at East Boldon, with 158773, on a Sunderland to Metro Centre service, on the 26th March, 1994, I’m left wondering why a 158 should have been put on such a service. I’ve had a look on the web and found other 158’s on that service at that time.  Surely though they were designed and built for Inter City type services, not shorter more local services. Unless this is yet another example of Pacers, with various issues, having to have replacement trains again.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

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1 hour ago, Market65 said:

Good evening, David. I like the photo’s from beyween Newcastle and Hartlepool. All are of interest, and in C19337, taken at East Boldon, with 158773, on a Sunderland to Metro Centre service, on the 26th March, 1994, I’m left wondering why a 158 should have been put on such a service. I’ve had a look on the web and found other 158’s on that service at that time.  Surely though they were designed and built for Inter City type services, not shorter more local services. Unless this is yet another example of Pacers, with various issues, having to have replacement trains again.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

158773 is now an EMR unit having transferred into the erstwhile Central Trains franchise when the 185s came into service with TPE.

158s are used turn and turn about with 156s and 153s. 

It was among the last couple of refurbished units being painted plain white with orange doors, if memory serves, rather than full Stagecoach EMT livery. It's now in an interim EMR livery but should eventually be leaving when all the 170s are in service.

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On 17/11/2020 at 15:19, DaveF said:

Murton coal loader at mine 10th May 92 C16835.jpg  

 

This is the rapid loader at Hawthorne Shaft.  (Hawthorne Combined Mine & Coking Plant to give it its NCB title). Opened about 1959 it became the centralised drawing shaft for Murton, South Hetton, Eppleton and Elmore Collieries.

 

Murton Colliery, along with the others lost their entire surface SG rail networks with the opening of Hawthorne shaft. Murtons shafts & mine surface were about 2 km North East of your photograph.  What Murton did gain from the opening of Hawthorne was the almost constant stench of the cokeworks, it being upwind of the prevailing breeze!

 

Railway photographers virtually always referred to Hawthorn shaft as South Hetton as that is where the original NCB Loco Sheds were located for internal rail network.

 

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Good evening, David. I like the Buston Barns photo’s which are all of interest. In the last photo’, of 37184, 37232, and 37071 on a down light engine movement, on the 16th June, 1990, you have captured a good view of them on a hot and sunny day. And they all have number two end leading. I don’t think there will be many 37’s coupled together these days like that.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

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Good evening, David. I like the ECML photo’s from Chevington and Widdrington North. All are of interest, and the first photo’ is a most impressive view of the iconic HST, at Widdrington North, on a down express, in August, 1980.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

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1 minute ago, Chris116 said:

I note that J6131 is a 2+6 HST while J7820 is 2+8. I suspect the 2+6 was a short form due to faults somewhere although others may be able to explain better. Great photos as always.

 

Chris,

 

I've just had a look at my photo notes, I saw the formation several times that day so I think it was shuttling back and forth between Grantham and Peterborough on some sort of test runs.

 

David

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