RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 14, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2016 A few more photos from the Kent and East Sussex Railway for today's first batch. They date from 1975 and 1976, as usual although it was dry there wasn't any sunshine. Tenterden GWR railcar 20 Tenterden to Rolvenden Aug 75 C2385 Tenterden LBSCR Terrier 3 Bodiam Rolvenden to Tenterden Aug 75 C2388 Rolvenden NSB 19 running round GWR railcar No 20 15th May 76 C2723 The railcar had broken down so was being steam hauled. Rolvenden Terrier 10 Sutton 15th May 76 C2724 Rolvenden SRr U class 1618 15th May 76 C2728 Tenterden Bank Hunslet 23 Rolvenden to Tenterden Town 19th June 76 C2798 David 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
balders Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Great atmosphere in the Peak shot! Lovely mix of stock as well. LMS P3 in there next to a blue and white MK1 if I'm not mistaken.Top work once again Dave cheers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 14, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2016 Some rather different photos for this Sunday afternoon, the trains are less "usual". I've often thought that the "jigsaw" train would be an entertaining model! It is a young me in the right hand "coach". I think Volks Electric Railway at Brighton just about counts as a "real" railway" as it does carry passengers from one place to another. Lewes Oct 50 J001 I think this is Dad's first railway colour slide, it is certainly the first in his catalogue. Newhaven diesel shunter April 64 J099 Newhaven SNCF MV Dieppe March 64 J1467 Brighton Jig Saw train Aug 54 J1677 (catalogued out of sequence) Brighton Volks electric railway car sheds Banjo Groyne April 64 J097 Brighton Volks electric railway Banjo Groyne Sept 79 J6638 David 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 I was at Tenterden last year and looking at the photos it has changed greatly with houses alongside the line as it leaves the station and of course the shed opposite the platform.An interesting line to ride on and brilliant countryside with interesting trains must be a good line to work on . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 C2385- does anyone know what those 'Nissen' huts were originally used for? J099 - is that one of the SR-built diesel shunters? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) J6638 shows a snapshot of this spot which the same shot in 2016 would reveal only a few changes to the transport, very little change to the location itself. As well as the tramway cars, which have been a constant through the ages, the car looks like a Fiat 124, a real Italian job before production moved to Russia and Poland with Lada and Polski Fiat. The open topper looks like one of the later PD2s delivered to Brighton and Hove with front entrance Weymann Orion bodies, converted to open top in about 1975. The two coaches are a Ford R1114 Plaxton Supreme 111 belonging to Shearings, although you're just as likely to find a Shearlings coach parked in the same spot today, it'll be a very different machine to this. The other coach is a Bedford YRQ Plaxton Elite 11, the colours look familiar but I cant place the owner. Edited February 14, 2016 by RANGERS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 14, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2016 Hi, Dave. A good selection of photo's of the lovely Kent and East Sussex Railway, and such a wide variety of motive power to be seen. The second set of photo's are fascinating. It is great to see the very first colour photo' that your Dad took at Lewes. And the photo's of the Volks Electric Railway bring back happy holiday memories. I hope that you might some more of it. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted February 14, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2016 Hi, Dave. A good selection of photo's of the lovely Kent and East Sussex Railway, and such a wide variety of motive power to be seen. The second set of photo's are fascinating. It is great to see the very first colour photo' that your Dad took at Lewes. And the photo's of the Volks Electric Railway bring back happy holiday memories. I hope that you might some more of it. With warmest regards, Rob. I think there are some more of the Volks Electric Railway when I get to them. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 J099 - is that one of the SR-built diesel shunters? Afraid not, its a standard 08, or possibly 09. The shape of the cab roof along with the fact its fitted with exhauster cabinets gives it away. Paul J. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 C2385- does anyone know what those 'Nissen' huts were originally used for? I don't know what they were for,but they were there in 1960... Something to do with market garden perhaps? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 That chimney stack in J099 looks a bit OTT for a wooden hut. Prototype for everything department! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 15, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) Something of a mixed bag from the east of England today. To be honest they are a few photos which had somehow ended up in the wrong folder and so missed being uploaded earlier. Barnetby Class 31s 31210 31207 oil 30th May 91 C15860 Diss Class 47 1537 Norwich to Liverpool St Aug 72 C1107 New Bedford River Aug 72 C1036 Outwell Wisbech and Upwell trackbed Oct 72 C1162 Skillington Junction Class 31 up iron ore Aug 71 J2757 Sutton on Sea closed Dec 70 J2486 I think I uploaded a different photo of the same view some time ago. David Edited February 15, 2016 by DaveF 42 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 15, 2016 How different Sutton on sea would have looked had the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East coast had their plans come to fruition. Think along the lines of another Immingham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I don't know what they were for,but they were there in 1960... Tenterden 1960.jpg Something to do with market garden perhaps? I was wondering if they'd been part of the network of decoy installations that had been established around Kent prior to the Normandy Landings, to convince the Germans that the invasion was going to be launched from there. There were similar huts, laid out as a rail-served supply depot, somewhere around Marden or Staplehurst- at that site, there were even timetabled daily freights, picking up and setting down empty wagons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 How nice to see a photo of the Wisbech and Upwell tramway, even if it is only the trackbed! I only once saw a train on the branch and that was in the early '60s. Every year we would go the see my paternal grandmother in Middlesbrough and sometimes my father would go via Wisbech and the A1101. I was always fascinated by this railway track that we kept crossing and then one year we struck gold! You can still see evidence of the trackbed today if you know where to look. Chris Turnbull Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 15, 2016 Hi, Dave. A lovely selection of photo's from the East of England. The Wisbech and Upwell tramway photo' is remarkable in that the trackbed was there for so long. And it is always good to see photo's of Skillington Junction. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 C2385- does anyone know what those 'Nissen' huts were originally used for? They were built during WW2 by the Ministry of Supply - not sure what exactly for though. Always love this thread, awesome pictures Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 16, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2016 Now for today's photos - a bit later than usual as I was busy earlier on. A visit to the Great Eastern again with some Liverpool Street photos taken on the way to a meeting in London in 1993 about a government initiative applying only to England at which a senior civil servant upset everyone from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne by welcoming everyone from south of Hadrians Wall. He thought Hadrians Wall formed the border with Scotland. Southerners! Then other photos were taken in the 1970s. Liverpool Street 317305 08.50 Wed 20th Oct 93 C19120 Liverpool Street Wed 20th Oct 93 C19124 Liverpool Street concourse Wed 20th Oct 93 C19126 Harold Wood Class 47 down ex pass 13th June 76 C2787 It always surprises me that trees can move to get in front of locos just as I take the picture. Shenfield 309602 Clacton to Liverpool St Nov 75 C2529 Shenfield 47155 hauling dead emu, up ecs Jan 79 C4276 David 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 16, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2016 Hi, Dave. A good selection of GE photos tonight. How Liverpool Street Station has changed since steam days! And the least said about politicians the better! With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Agree about the photos hows your mum coming along well I hope. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted February 17, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 17, 2016 Agree about the photos hows your mum coming along well I hope. Thanks for asking She's back in her flat recovering, she has just cut her carers visits from four times a day to twice a day. She now uses a small trolley rather than the Zimmer for walking around. David 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
35A Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Good news, David. Luckily I was able to live-in for my mother for a short while, which meant that she only needed Hospitals At Home help to wash & dress in the morning and the reverse in the evening, until she was able to get herself into bed after a few weeks, when we cut the evening visit out. Moving on from the frame is the slowest progression. She'll probably be very quickly on to two crutches, then one, then to a stick (getting rid of that tends to take rather longer - I think that it's a confidence thing more than anything). My mother's neighbour is currently badgering her every couple of days to go out for a short walk with her, so things begin to return to normal as the confidence returns. Best wishes to your mother for continued improvement and a return to full health as soon as possible. Once the warm weather returns it will no doubt act as encouragement for both of them! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 17, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 17, 2016 Some photos from ex LNWR lines today. Polesworth ex LMS 8F 48074 up goods Nov 63 J083 Boughton Crossing LNWR Northampton to Market Harborough line Oct 70 J2412 Brinklow Class 86 up Jan 71 J2496 Brinklow Class 86 up Jan 71 J2499 Northampton Bridge Street Crossing tamper LNWR Northampton to Peterborough line Oct 70 J2398 David 36 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 17, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 17, 2016 Hi, Dave. Excellent photo's from LNWR lines. I like Boughton LC. Four big gates and and a classic signalbox which would make a lovely model. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 I have been falling behind on this thread, and have only just caught up with J001. What a marvellous colour shot that is, and it is great to see that despite it being over 65 years old the slide has not deteriorated so far. Priceless is the only word that comes to mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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