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

[tiger]

11 hours ago, 35A said:

 

Tom,

 

I checked my Spring 1990 P5 Coaching Stock book and it gives 40511 as the TRFK in HT35. Perhaps it was misprinted in the Combined Volume and listed in the amendments, which you (perhaps) corrected it from?

 

Could be! At the time it seemed like a great idea to keep my "Combined Volumes" right up to date with changes in depot allocations, livery, set formations and withdrawals etc - but now I wish I had an unadulterated one without all of my editing.

 

Thanks very much for checking.

[DaveF]

Between Darlington and Newcastle for this afternoon's batch of photos.

 

 

Croxdale Class 91 Glasgow C to Kings X 30th May 95 C20212.jpg

 

 

Croxdale   High Burnigill Farm Class 91 down 16th Oct 93 C19110.jpg

 

 

Plawsworth 43041 up 21st Feb 91 C15606.jpg

 

 

Stone Bridge Deerness Valley Junction Class 91 up 16th Oct 93 C19105.jpg

 

 

Low Fell 47435 Newcastle to Liverpool Aug 87 J9190.jpg

 

 

David

Edited February 15, 2021 by DaveF

[HillsideDepot]

5 hours ago, tiger said:

Could be! At the time it seemed like a great idea to keep my "Combined Volumes" right up to date with changes in depot allocations, livery, set formations and withdrawals etc - but now I wish I had an unadulterated one without all of my editing.

 

Thanks very much for checking.

 

Platform 5 do have back-issues available of many of their pocket books and combines. Not every year for each version but possibly worth a look https://www.platform5.com/Catalogue/Platform-5-Back-Numbers Click on the publication you want and then you'll get a drop down of the years still in stock.

[Bedlington North]

Not a quibble, more a query David...

 

In your pic ref C19110 you list the location as Croxdale. My OCD location finder is twitching slightly. I'd say this is the overbridge at High Burnigill Farm rather than Croxdale. Would that be right?

Granted it is near Croxdale but not quite in it.

 

 

[The Pilotman]

J9190: 47435 will have its work cut out dragging that lot over the Pennines.

[DaveF]

37 minutes ago, Bedlington North said:

Not a quibble, more a query David...

 

In your pic ref C19110 you list the location as Croxdale. My OCD location finder is twitching slightly. I'd say this is the overbridge at High Burnigill Farm rather than Croxdale. Would that be right?

Granted it is near Croxdale but not quite in it.

 

 

 

You are correct.

 

I caption photos taken there as Croxdale as most people from the south (i.e. south of Darlington!) wouldn't have a clue where it was.

 

One thing I learnt early on about putting photos on the web is that a lot of people don't have decent maps and many will not use Google Earth either.

 

David

[SHMD]

1 minute ago, Western Aviator said:

J9190: 47435 will have its work cut out dragging that lot over the Pennines.

 

Agree. It is nearly twice as long as the usual Newcastle-Liverpool service which was normally made up of Loco, BG, 1st and 5 TSOs.

 

(But towards the end, anything could have happened!)

 

 

Kev.

[Bedlington North]

57 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

You are correct.

 

I caption photos taken there as Croxdale as most people from the south (i.e. south of Darlington!) wouldn't have a clue where it was.

 

One thing I learnt early on about putting photos on the web is that a lot of people don't have decent maps and many will not use Google Earth either.

 

David

 

Got it, thanks! My OCD can relax!

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I like the photo’s from between Darlington and Newcastle. All are of interest, and in the first photo’, at Croxdale, with a class 91, on a Glasgow Central to Kings Cross service on the 30th May, 1995, you have a delightful scene in which the train is passing through. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

More photos at Newcastle for today.

 

 

Newcastle 43100 up Tees Tyne Pullman 10th May 88 C9519.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 43059 Kings X to Edinburgh 28th May 88 C9497.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 56116 up coal 17th Feb 89 C11663.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 47301 down freight 1st June 89 C11957.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 37379 down cement 22nd June 92 C16914.jpg

 

 

David

 

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I like the latest Newcastle photo’s all of which are of interest. In C11663, with 56116, on an up coal train, on the 17th February, 1989, you have a great three quarter portrait shot of the 56, and you can see how the numbers 116 have been spaced out to equal the width of the horn box. You can also see how the trackwork was being altered for the rationalisation and electrification of Newcastle station. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

 

Five more photos taken along the Newcastle to Carlisle line for today, taken in a variety of lighting conditions.

 

If I happened to have spare time I often went out on quite bad weather to take a few photos. I always found it relaxing and a good way of forgetting the trials and tribulations of work.

 

 

Hexham 4771 Green Arrow Darlington to Hexham DarlingtonBank Top 100 anniversary 5th July 87 C8619.jpg

 

 

Fourstones Class 143 Carlisle to Middlesbrough June 87 J8967.jpg

 

 

Haltwhistle Class 156 Newcastle to Carlisle 12th April 95 C20087.jpg

 

 

Denton School level crossing 143625 Carlisle to Newcastle Oct 91 J12889.jpg

 

 

Brampton 56128 down coal Oct 91 J12892.jpg  That's me on the right of the photo.

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I like the latest Newcastle to Carlisle photo’s, all of which are of interest. In J12889, at Denton School level crossing, with 143625, on a Carlisle to Newcastle service, in October, 1991, you have a view of the railway which is now of historic interest, and is a good example of what was ‘the everyday railway’. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

Rather a mixed bag today, in Great Eastern territory.

 

The 2 old black and white photos may have been in my black and white thread, but I can't remember.

 

 

Bethnal Green Junction B1 Yarmouth to Liverpool St c1948 JVol3093.jpg

 

 

Bethnal Green Junction   left B1 Yarmouth to Liverpool St   right B17 Liverpool St to Kings Lynn c1948 JVol3091.jpg

 

 

Harling Road The Railway Inn Sept 73 C1396.jpg

 

 

Shotley view to Parkeston Quay MV Sea Freightliner and MV St George May 75 J4342.jpg

 

 

Shotley view to Parkeston Quay June 75 J4381.jpg

 

 

Wroxton Vitriol Works crossing Two Mile Bottom Class 40 258 Newcastle to Norwich Oct 72 C1160.jpg

 

 

David

Edited February 18, 2021 by DaveF

[jwealleans]

That second B&W has certainly been in your other thread and a couple more besides.  A magnificent collection of stock approaching the camera from the GE, GC and NE repectively.

[62613]

7 minutes ago, jwealleans said:

That second B&W has certainly been in your other thread and a couple more besides.  A magnificent collection of stock approaching the camera from the GE, GC and NE repectively.

Is the NE coach one of those built in the early 20s by the LNER for the GE section? Michael Harris mentioned in Gresley's Coaches some being built as a stopgap because of their shorter wheelbasehelped solve some signalling problems.

 

[jwealleans]

8 minutes ago, 62613 said:

Is the NE coach one of those built in the early 20s by the LNER for the GE section?

 

No, they had rounded windows and panels and something of a Doncaster look to them.  That is a clerestory from the 1890 - 1905 sort of period.   There was  a large scale cascading of those vehicles in the 1930s to eliminate 6 wheel stock from the GE area.  The NE Area received a large batch of new stock at that time.

[corneliuslundie]

In the second photo (a great shot) the signal appears to be multiple aspect rather than searchlight. My memory of that area in the mid 1970s when I commuted to Liverpool Street was that most were searchlights.

Jonathan

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I like the Great Eastern photo’s which are all of interest. The first two, as mentioned, are fascinating, and I always find it interesting to see just what could be found in coaching stock formations prior to the introduction of Mk1 standard stock, and the big clear out of old carriages by BR in the sixties. 
The last photo’, at Wroxton Vitriol Works crossing, at Two Mile Bottom, with a class 40, number 258, on a Newcastle to Norwich service, in October, 1972, is a fairly typical train for that era, complete with two BG’s.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[Tankerman]

5 hours ago, DaveF said:

Rather a mixed bag today, in Great Eastern territory.

 

The 2 old black and white photos may have been in my black and white thread, but I can't remember.

 

 

Bethnal Green Junction B1 Yarmouth to Liverpool St c1948 JVol3093.jpg

 

 

Bethnal Green Junction   left B1 Yarmouth to Liverpool St   right B17 Liverpool St to Kings Lynn c1948 JVol3091.jpg

 

 

Harling Road The Railway Inn Sept 73 C1396.jpg

 

 

Shotley view to Parkeston Quay MV Sea Freightliner and MV St George May 75 J4342.jpg

 

 

Shotley view to Parkeston Quay June 75 J4381.jpg

 

 

Wroxton Vitriol Works crossing Two Mile Bottom Class 40 258 Newcastle to Norwich Oct 72 C1160.jpg

 

 

David

The second photo n this set is not just of interest to the railway enthusiast. The vessel on the right is a C1-M-AV1 cargo ship, just over 200 of these were built in the USA between 1943 and 1945. They were quite rare in European waters, the only one I ever saw was the Egyptos of Hellenic Lines, who made their ownership easy to identify by painting their name on the ships hull, and this ship has their name on the hull. When this photo was taken she was already thirty years old and I believe that she and her two sister ships lasted until 1981.

[DaveF]

 

Some photos taken at Blyth today, almost all of you know it is on the Northumberland coast.

 

The first one is another view of redundant 100T oil tankers being craned into place to act as oil storage for ships (they have long since been replaced by a new facility further up the harbour).

 

The next three show parts of the line from Newsham to Bates Pit.  When they were taken the pit had been closed for some years, the line was refurbished to carry coal for export  using the orignal coal elevators.

 

The last one is just what is now a nice grassed open space at the site of Crofton Mill Pit.  An old colliery tub commemorates the pit.  The rail connection was behind the photographer, long since lifted but much of the trackbed still exists.

 

 

Blyth 19th April 85 C6954.jpg

 

 

Blyth Bates branch April 91 J11879.jpg

 

 

Blyth Bates branch 56127 coal to Bates loader April 91 J11874.jpg

 

 

Blyth Bates branch Newsham Road lc April 91 J11882.jpg

 

 

Blyth colliery tub at site of Crofton pit Dec 86 J8737.jpg

 

 

David

Edited February 19, 2021 by DaveF

[Alcanman]

Great photos, Dave.

 

All of which, are in 'my neck of the woods'. 

 

Bit of a coincidence, but, today, I found a photo which I'd taken on the Bates branch back in 1967 and also a one at Crofton Mill.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[beast66606]

On 18/02/2021 at 15:20, DaveF said:

Harling Road The Railway Inn Sept 73 C1396.jpg

 

Still stands but no longer a pub.

[SouthernBlue80s]

I have said it before....on a page way way back.

 

Thank you Dave for your immense contribution.

Many on here appreciate it.

 

Best wishes

Steve

 

 

Edited February 19, 2021 by SouthernBlue80s

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I like the Blyth photo’s all of which are of interest. In J11874, on the Bates branch, with 56127, on a coal train to Bates loader, in April, 1991, there is someone looking out of the rear cab door. I wonder what that was all about.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.