RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2020 8 hours ago, 35A said: Newcastle 20903 weekilling train and Class 143 ecs 29th June 89 C12095.jpg Really? Ooops! I had checked the caption, honest. Now corrected. David 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2020 The EX GNR Grantham to Nottingham line again today with photos taken around Radcliffe on Trent. Note that the last one is a very distant view of a train Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Grantham to Nottingham Oct 76 J5454.jpg Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Nottingham to Grantham July 79 J6530.jpg Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Grantham to Nottingham Dec 79 J6707.jpg Rectory Junction rebuilding bridge over River Trent April 80 J6828.jpg The final stage. Rectory Junction from Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Grantham to Nottingham Jan 79 J6373.jpg The train is the tiny thing just below the pylon in the centre of the photo, but it does show the embankment and the viaduct over the River Trent, which was in flood at the time. David David 41 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted December 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2020 J6530 - a very rare pic of a shiny white/blue liveried DMU. It must've just left the works the day before Another example showing that everything is unweathered at some point! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 And a door open on the 2nd carriage of the said Shiny DMU, which isn't fully in the station, so presumably still moving. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leander Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 1 hour ago, andytrains said: And a door open on the 2nd carriage of the said Shiny DMU, which isn't fully in the station, so presumably still moving. Not at all uncommon back in the day. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2020 Good evening, David. I like the ex GNR Grantham to Nottingham line around Radcliffe on Trent photo’s. All are of interest, and in J6828, at Rectory Junction, the rebuilding of the bridge, over the River Trent was looking very good indeed, in April, 1980. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 2, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 2, 2020 This afternoon's photos are along the ECML heading north between Darlington and Newcastle. Croxdale Class 43 Aberdeen to Kings X 30th May 95 C20204.jpg Deerness Valley Junction Reilly Mill view north 22nd April 89 C12088.jpg Plawsworth Class 47 up parcels 28th Oct 92 C18115.jpg Tyne Yard Class 56 up empties 10th Aug 95 C20437.jpg Low Fell 47424 Liverpool to Newcastle 28th June 88 C09556.jpg David 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRail Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 (edited) Great photos again have to love the symmetry of the roadway and the track in photo Deerness Valley Junction Reilly Mill view north 22nd April 89 C12088.jpg Edited December 2, 2020 by LongRail 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 03060 Posted December 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2020 C18115 - I don't recognise the last parcel coach, is it a BSK with several blanked out windows or a bullion van (of which I have a vague recollection of ?) .....any ideas anybody, please ?? Regards, Ian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 15 minutes ago, 03060 said: C18115 - I don't recognise the last parcel coach, is it a BSK with several blanked out windows or a bullion van (of which I have a vague recollection of ?) .....any ideas anybody, please ?? Regards, Ian. I'd suggest it was one of the Courier Van conversions; from what I remember of seeing the Bullion Vans at TCFD, there wasn't any evidence of blanked out windows. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2020 Good evening, David. I like the ECML photo’s going north from between Darlington and Newcastle. All are of interest, and in the last one at Low Fell, with large logo 47424, on a train from Liverpool to Newcastle, on the 28th June, 1988, you can see how smart the TransPennine livery was on the carriages. Indeed it was basically the ScotRail livery but with the TransPennine branding. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Used to see a bullion train pass northwards through Tring in the seventies and eighties 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 3, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 3, 2020 (edited) Ulgham Lane, north of Morpeth on the ECML in Northumberland for this afternoon. Ulgham Lane crossing 56127 up coal Aug 85 J8422.jpg Ulgham Lane crossing Class 101 Newcastle to Alnmouth Aug 85 J8430.jpg Ulgham Lane crossing HST up Jan 86 J8512.jpg Really a bit nearer to Longhirst than the level crossing - the road turns right when it gets to the railway, the level crossing is a few hundred yards further north. UlghamLane crossing 91024 up 28th Aug 92 C17963.jpg UlghamLane crossing 90018 down special RAIL The Capital Limited 6th Nov 93 C19226.jpg David Edited December 3, 2020 by DaveF 38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2020 Good afternoon, David. I like the latest Ulgham Lane crossing photo’s all of which are of interest. In J8512, with a HST on an up express in January, 1986, it’s interesting to see what was one of the ER’s reclassified TRUK’s to TRFK. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Isn't C17963 s down train, not up? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 3, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2020 41 minutes ago, JeffP said: Isn't C17963 s down train, not up? No, it really is up as it is going away from me (you can see the red lights on the loco) heading south on the nearest track. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted December 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 3, 2020 2 hours ago, Market65 said: Good afternoon, David. I like the latest Ulgham Lane crossing photo’s all of which are of interest. In J8512, with a HST on an up express in January, 1986, it’s interesting to see what was one of the ER’s reclassified TRUK’s to TRFK. With warmest regards, Rob. I was going to suggest that that leading TRFK (if that was still the correct designation) was the coach that could be hired for meetings etc. and be added to a standard HST formation, although I can’t remember when it was used in that way. I don’t remember ever seeing a standard restaurant in that position rather than the normal place between 1st and Std class. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2020 Good evening, brushman47544, that was my first thought too, as the one off TLUK, but I thought I had better check it out just to be on the safe side. So, having found a photo’, on Flickr, which is copyrighted, and I cannot post it on here, it is shown in Executive livery in the summer of 1984, therefore the Mklll in David’s photo’ could not be the Executive saloon. Then I found out the information about the remaining ER TRUK’s being reclassified TRFK. So it just had to be one of those two. It’s most interesting going into carriage history like that, and is time well spent. Best regards, Rob. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted December 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 3, 2020 I think this came up before - is it not some kind of Pullman service which had a TRFK for those passengers and a TRFB for the rest of the train? The TLUK had 'InterCity Executive Saloon' branding whereas this coach has the normal 'Restaurant 125' 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 4, 2020 3 hours ago, keefer said: I think this came up before - is it not some kind of Pullman service which had a TRFK for those passengers and a TRFB for the rest of the train? The TLUK had 'InterCity Executive Saloon' branding whereas this coach has the normal 'Restaurant 125' I put in a WASP suggestion (before it became OWL) to name the TLUK "George Mortimer Pullman" but it fell on deaf ears. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted December 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 4, 2020 This thread has the other pic that was discussed, I don't think it was solved definitively then but I do recall a suggestion (in another thread?) that it was a Pullman working. PC-TRFK-TF-TRFB-4TS-TGS-PC 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 4, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 4, 2020 Photos taken at Stocksfield today, on the Newcastle to Carlisle line. Stocksfield 143018 Sunderland to Hexham April 89 J09880.jpg Stocksfield 43100 diverted Aberdeen to Kings X May 90 J10867.jpg Stocksfield 143613 Carlisle to Newcastle 5th May 90 C14429.jpg Stocksfield 142025 Hexham to Newcastle 21st Feb 95 C19997.jpg Stocksfield 60080 Jarrow to Stanlow 5th Aug 95 C20356.jpg David 36 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2020 Good evening, David. I like the Stocksfield, on the Newcastle to Carlisle line, photo’s. All are of interest, and in C19997, of ‘Skipper’, 142025, on a Hexham to Newcastle service, on the 21st February, 1995, it is noticeable how weathered the cab end is. Hopefully it would have been cleaned at the end of that day. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) Along the Blyth and Tyne today, starting at South Newsham and heading north to Bedlington Station. South Newsham Class 100 General Managers saloon up April 84 J8115.jpg South Newsham Class 56 up empty coal in siding Feb 89 J9755.jpg The Class 56 is in the siding which has now gone. South Newsham Class 37 tracklaying train June 80 J6976.jpg Bebside Class 101 charter The Chevy Chase Newcastle to Blyth and Tyne etc April 86 J8542.jpg Bedlington station 56117 empty coal to Butterwell 18th July 92 C16979.jpg David Edited December 5, 2020 by DaveF 40 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 5, 2020 Good evening, David. I like the Blyth and Tyne photo’s, going north towards Bedlington, all of which are of interest. In J6976, at South Newsham, with a class 37 on a tracklaying train, in June, 1980, you can see how many of the sleeper ends of the old track panels have been cut to length. I can only guess that that was because those track panels were part of some point work with longer than standard length sleepers. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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