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

[JeffP]

22 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

It was indeed a hot summer's day when I took the photo at Fourdrain.

 

It should have been an idyllic setting but for me it was an unsettling place with a depressing feel to it.  I can't really express it in words but it's a feeling I've often in the vicinity of the battlefields of Northern France and Belgium, I've never had a good night's sleep when staying in those areas.

 

It was even worse some years before when staying in Cambrai.

 

David

You want unsettling?

Find a lonely tiny battlefield cemetery, and visit with moonlight.

Yep, still have bad dreams of it.

[St Enodoc]

5 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

Scan-121002-0086 D1535 Chaloners Whin Junction Class 47 D1535 down ex pass March 1967

A lovely little back yard scene there.

[jwealleans]

Isn't that where the bloke with the Wolseley 1500 lived?

[DaveF]

27 minutes ago, jwealleans said:

Isn't that where the bloke with the Wolseley 1500 lived?

 

Indeed it is.

 

David

[St Enodoc]

31 minutes ago, jwealleans said:

Isn't that where the bloke with the Wolseley 1500 lived?

 

3 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

Indeed it is.

 

David

Do tell.

[DaveF]

4 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

 

Do tell.

 

 

Some of my (and Dad's) photos show a Wolseley 1500 parked outside the garage, so presumably whoever lived there at the time owned it.

Incidentally one of Dad's photos taken from the Caloners Whin Bridge was published in the October Railway Magazine and has the car in the photo.

 

David

Edited November 3, 2021 by DaveF

[jwealleans]

ISTR that either on this or the thread of Dave's dad's photos it cropped up several times in fairly rapid succession, parked in different places, with the bonnet or boot up, in the garage...  it became a bit of a talking point.

[DaveF]

Photos taken along the River Tyne showing trains and railways in Newcastle.  Also ships.

 

 

Newcastle QE2 bridge and Metro18th Nov 95 C20638

 

 

Newcastle Metro  on Byker viaduct in distance July 86 J8630  Ship is the "Sedov" in the Tyne for the Tall Ships Race of 1986.

 

 

 

Newcastle King Edward Bridge HST down  18th Nov 95 C20649

 

 

Newcastle HST Newcastle to Cardiff  Nov 86 J8735

 

 

Newcastle HMS Jersey and HMS Lindisfarne and track in Quayside 18th Nov 89 C13867  Tyne Bridge and High Level bridges in distance.

 

 

David

Edited April 23, 2022 by DaveF

[russ p]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

Photos taken along the River Tyne showing trains and railways in Newcastle.  Also ships.

 

 

Newcastle QE2 bridge and Metro18th Nov 95 C20638

 

 

Newcastle Metro  on Byker viaduct in distance July 86 J8630  Ship is the "Sedov" in the Tyne for the Tall Ships Race of 1986.

 

 

 

Newcastle King Edward Bridge HST down  18th Nov 95 C20649

 

 

Newcastle HST Newcastle to Cardiff  Nov 86 J8735

 

 

Newcastle HMS Jersey and HMS Lindisfarne and track in Quayside 18th Nov 89 C13867  Tyne Bridge and High Level bridges in distance.

 

 

David

 

 

Great pictures David, when did the quayside lines stop been used. Was access to these from the NER quayside branch? 

[DaveF]

3 minutes ago, russ p said:

 

 

Great pictures David, when did the quayside lines stop been used. Was access to these from the NER quayside branch? 

 

 

Offhand I don't know, I'll try to find out, unless someone on here knows the answer - please!

 

It predates my living in the north east.

 

I think access was from the Quayside branch.

 

David

Edited November 3, 2021 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good afternoon, David. That is a delightful selection of photo’s of Newcastle, the bridges, trains and ships. Newcastle certainly would not be the same without all those remarkable bridges crossing the Tyne. In C20649, at the King Edward Bridge, with a down service worked by a HST, on the 18th November, 1995, you have captured a superb sight, with both the HST and bridge showing up so well against such a deep blue sky. 
I have a book, somewhere, which gives some details about the Quayside branch. I’ll have to try and find it, but I know it was the branch which gave access to the quayside. Hence it was electrified by the NER to try and make the working the branch easier.
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[Fat Controller]

14 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

 

Offhand I don't know, I'll try to find out, unless someone on here knows the answer - please!

 

It predates my living in the north east.

 

I think access was from the Quayside branch.

 

David

Access was from the Quayside branch; quite a lot of the track was in situ when we moved to the area in 1982; though it would soon be taken up as the area was gentrified. There was still a lot of industry, such as the Procter and Gamble factory by the 'Rose and Crown'. The latter was where the 'Technicals' from Tyne Tees drank; 'creatives' and 'Artistes' used the Egypt Cottage, which had linking cables to Studio 5.

 

[eastwestdivide]

On 01/11/2021 at 15:42, DaveF said:

J1030

Why does that remind me of one of the opening scenes in M Hulot’s Holiday?

[billy_anorak59]

21 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

22 hours ago, jwealleans said:

Isn't that where the bloke with the Wolseley 1500 lived?

 

21 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

Indeed it is.

 

David

Do tell.

 

Just for completeness, here's a link back to some of Dave's pictures in question (2017):

 

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/85326-dave-fs-photos-ongoing-more-added-each-day/page/481/&tab=comments#comment-2973235

[DaveF]

Back to the black and white days of the early 1950s today with some photos on the Midland Railway between Nottingham and Loughborough.

 

 

Nottingham Wilford Road signal box and goods yard 47277 shunting c1951 JBWP177

 

 

Normanton on Soar Fowler 2-6-4T 42339 down pass c1952 JVol1005 42339

 

 

Loughborough Brush Works Sprite c1954 JVol1370

A footnote: Around the end of the war Mum was working at Brush as a steam turbine designer, looking at metal fatigue in ships' turbines.  She had gained her maths degree during the war.

 

Loughborough Midland Garratt 47989 up freight c1955 JBWImageU06

 

 

Loughborough Midland Ivatt 4MT 43045 down pass  1955  JMImageA04

 

 

David

 

 

Edited April 23, 2022 by DaveF

[corneliuslundie]

Like is not enough for today's selection.

Jonathan

[eastwestdivide]

49 minutes ago, DaveF said:

JBWP177

Is that a rare shot of the Hand of God gently shoving something that isn't picking up the 12V in the track?

[BernardTPM]

Pointing out the ICI wagon?

[Oldddudders]

2 hours ago, DaveF said:

Around the end of the war Mum was working at Brush as a steam turbine designer, looking at metal fatigue in ships' turbines.  She had gained her maths degree during the war.

Your Mum has long featured in this glorious thread, occasionally as part of a picture, but also someone who genuinely enjoyed trains. She really is a remarkable lady, and this adds yet another dimension to our knowledge of her capabilities. Long may she continue to enjoy life. 

[DaveF]

54 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Your Mum has long featured in this glorious thread, occasionally as part of a picture, but also someone who genuinely enjoyed trains. She really is a remarkable lady, and this adds yet another dimension to our knowledge of her capabilities. Long may she continue to enjoy life. 

 

"Around the end of the war Mum was working at Brush as a steam turbine designer, looking at metal fatigue in ships' turbines.  She had gained her maths degree during the war."

As an addendum to this she was telling me at tea time today that she wished she could have remained in engineering - she changed to teaching as women were not able to progress as men were demobbed and given their jobs back after the war.  She enjoyed teaching, being deputy head of a comprehensive school,  involved in her union at a high level and being on the governing council of an examination board.

 

She wishes she was younger so that she could be a wind turbine designer - at 97 she can still explain the maths behind the shape of a turbine blade and where the stresses occur!  A few years ago I took her to an event at the local wind turbine testing station at the Port and I lost her.  When I tracked her down she was in a complicated conversation with two engineers who design wind turbines discussing the mathematics of blade design.

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s an excellent selection of photo’s of the Midland Railway between Nottingham and Loughborough from the early 1950’s. Although it’s a bit scratched, JBWImageU06, at Loughborough Midland, with a Garratt number 47989, on an up freight in c1955, shows how big they were, and it is not everyday you see photo’s of Garratts. I won’t say much about the Hand of God in the first photo’ - but I’ll be doing a bit of that on my model railway later on this evening.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[65179]

7 hours ago, DaveF said:

Back to the black and white days of the early 1950s today with some photos on the Midland Railway between Nottingham and Loughborough.

 

 

Nottingham Wilford Road signal box and goods yard 47277 shunting c1951 JBWP177

 

I'm hoping @Compound2632 will be along shortly to tell us whether the wagon above the Jocko's dome in JBWP177 is a MR survivor! Fascinating photos as always David.

 

Simon

[Compound2632]

10 minutes ago, 65179 said:

I'm hoping @Compound2632 will be along shortly to tell us whether the wagon above the Jocko's dome in JBWP177 is a MR survivor!

 

Ha! So it is. Steel end stanchions makes it D663A, 3,500 of which were built 1921-23 (so some straight to first LMS livery). The early BR "livery" seen there might best be described as "variegated"! 

 

I have a feeling the three-plank wagon behind, in front of the ICI wagon, is another ex-Midland survivor, a late D305 or possibly D818. By the early fifties both these wagons would be around thirty years old; which seems to have been about the book lifetime of a wagon back in Midland days.

[DaveF]

Today's photos come from the Newcastle to Carlisle line.

 

 

Stocksfield 43105 diverted Kings X to Edinburgh 15th April 89 C11860

 

 

Riding Mill 143604 Carlisle to Newcastle May 90 J10879

 

 

Hexham 143615 Hexham to Sunderland July 90 J11039  Trains starting at Hexham and heading east use the down platform as seen here.

 

 

Fourstones Class 156 Newcastle to Stranraer "Galloway Enterprise"  Aug 92 J13308

 

 

Melkridge 156456 Carlisle to Newcastle 31st May 95 C20217  The rapid coal loader is just behind me.

 

 

David

 

Edited April 23, 2022 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s an excellent selection of photo’s of the Newcastle to Carlisle line. In J11039, at Hexham, with 143615, on a Hexham to Sunderland service, in July, 1990, the Pacer is nicely framed by the lovely NER footbridge.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.