RMweb Gold DaveF Posted February 19, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2016 J6526 Cracking motorail rake... BFK...then look at all those FKs , plus RBR I'm guessing car flats on the back? Phil His notes say so but he didn't take a going away photo. As I was in Essex at the time I wasn't there so I don't have a photo either. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted February 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 19, 2016 (edited) J6526 Cracking motorail rake...BFK...then look at all those FKs , plus RBRI'm guessing car flats on the back?Phil Wasn't it something like a 1st class compartment per car? Edited February 19, 2016 by keefer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Strathwood Posted February 20, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 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 am told they were for storage of relief supplies of both sugar and flour during the war if this has not been mentioned elsewhere, although these days they could have been made into clubrooms for a model railway club perhaps. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 20, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2016 Some photos from the London Tilbury and Southend today. As usual the weather conditions varied. Just the usual Class 302s going about their everyday business. Hadleigh Marsh Class 302 up pass 4 May 1980 C5045 Laindon firemen extinguishing fire July 76 C2831 Leigh on Sea 302 265 up Oct 74 C1814 West Horndon 302 249 up Oct 74 C1805 West Horndon Class 302 Fenchurch St to Shoeburyness Feb 76 C2635 West Horndon Class 302 Shoeburyness to Fenchurch St Feb 76 C2634 David 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted February 20, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2016 You see Essex is beautiful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 20, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2016 Hi, Dave. Lovely photos of the LT&SR today. Photos of the railway which few, if any, people took when the trains were going about their everyday work with no specials being run. And the countryside in the last two photo's is quite eery in the mistiness. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 21, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2016 First ones for today with another visit to the Talyllyn Railway in August 1969. Tywyn Wharf Aug 69 J1929 Tywyn Wharf Hunslet 0-4-0ST Rough Pup in museum Aug 69 J1847 Tywyn Wharf No 2 Dolgoch 31st Aug 69 C068 Tywyn Wharf No6 Douglas 31st Aug 69 C050 Tywyn Pendre No 3 Sir Haydn Aug 69 J1944 Dolgoch No 3 Sir Haydn 31st Aug 69 C055 David 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 You see Essex is beautiful. Clive, Couldn’t resist:http://southendnewsnetwork.com/news/dartford-tunnel-closed-due-to-thousands-of-kent-residents-trying-to-enter-essex-illegally/ Best, Pete. (sorry, David. Will not happen again). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Clive, Couldn’t resist:http://southendnewsnetwork.com/news/dartford-tunnel-closed-due-to-thousands-of-kent-residents-trying-to-enter-essex-illegally/ Best, Pete. (sorry, David. Will not happen again). Truth is often stranger than fiction! When I was (instrumental) teaching in Brentwood during the early 90s parents would pay to bus their children in from outlying places such as Havering because the schools were seen as better. One school had 18 coaches pulling in at the beginning and end of the day full of children and at least one of the schools was around 50% outside catchment . They solved it by closing one of the four Brentwood secondary schools so there were fewer places! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted February 21, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2016 By the way, I know the topic title appears to have the wrong date on it. Doubtless it will sort itself out in time. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 21, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2016 (edited) A mixed bag this evening. We start at High Dyke on the ECML and then travel along the branch, then moving to the ex British Steel lines at Market Overton. High Dyke shunting wagons, from cab of D2381 June 74 J3764 Burton Lane crossing Class 31 D5672 up light engine March 70 J2075 Burton Lane crossing crossing GER 6 wheel mess van, D2381, carne, lifting BSC track from Easton sidings (ex BSC) Aug 74 J4028 Colsterworth No 2 quarry Ransomes and Rapier 5360 stripping shovel July 69 J1774 Market Overton Peckett 0-4-0St banking ballast train Sept 73 J3401 Market Overton 4472 Flying Scotsman with BR staff for the High Dyke section of the trip Oct 73 J3472 David Edited February 21, 2016 by DaveF 46 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 21, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2016 Hi, Dave. Excellent photo's of the Talyllyn Railway which have really caught the essence of it back in 1969. The photo's that follow are a great selection, and J2075 of D5672 at Burton Lane LC is a wonderful example of weathering which I may have a go on my Hornby class 31! With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2016 You see Essex is beautiful. Which page are you looking at? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 22, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2016 (edited) Another look at Pilmoor on the ECML today, with photos taken over a period of just over 20 years. When Mum and Dad lived in Harrogate in the mid to late 60s (I was in the sixth form then) it was a favourite place to visit on a Saturday afternoon, in those days there weren't many other photographers about unless there was a special train expected. The three later photos were taken when either Dad or I happened to be in the area, usually while heading north or south on the A1 and wanted to have a break. Pilmoor Class 47 D1500 down July 66 J554 from a half frame slide Pilmoor Class 47 D1988 down goods April 68 J1291 Pilmoor Class 47 up freightliner July 70 C233 Pilmoor Class 47 down ex pass Aug 75 C2210 Pilmoor Class 56 56116 up coal Sept 87 J9266 David Edited February 22, 2016 by DaveF 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2016 Hi, Dave. Once more some really lovely photos of Pilmoor. Please keep them coming, for I love that 'racing section' of the ECML. I particularly like the first one in which I see the fifth coach is a Thompson SK. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2016 Excellent again Dave, in the first picture there is a 25 I can't work out whether it's on the UP slow or the remains of the Sunbeck branch, thought I thought it was disconnected by 66 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted February 22, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2016 You see Essex is beautiful. Which page are you looking at? Mike. Hi Mike Very nice to see you and have a chat yesterday. No I will not rise to the bait. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted February 22, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2016 Excellent again Dave, in the first picture there is a 25 I can't work out whether it's on the UP slow or the remains of the Sunbeck branch, thought I thought it was disconnected by 66 I've had a look at the scan as I wasn't sure, I am just about certain it is on the up slow. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 23, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2016 This morning I went out to take some photos of St Mary's Island lighthouse, to the north of Whitley Bay. On the way back home I stopped tom take a few photos of a stretch of railway which never opened, as the track was removed and sent to France during World War 1. The line would have run from a junction with the NER Avenue branch, from just north of Monkseaton to a terminus named Collywell Bay, actually situated in Seaton Sluice. The photos show the embankment north of Whitley Bay golf course to Old Hartley, where the line would have crossed the road from Old Hartley to Earsdon by an overbridge before reaching the terminus. The last photo is St Mary's lighthouse. Old railway embankment at Old Hartley Old Hartley field and old railway embankment Old Hartley and railway embankment St Marys lighthouse from the rocks David 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 23, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2016 It must be "Infrastructure Day" today. The main photos for today were taken at Morpeth around 1985. At the time I was building an n gauge layout based on Morpeth and took a large number of photos around the station. Many of the structures in the photos have either been removed or been changed significantly since then. Morpeth station 003 Architect was Benjamin Green Morpeth goods shed 012 Morpeth 013 Old Blyth and Tyne station building in the rear right. Morpeth 025 Up platform with wooden ticket office building Morpeth 029 station building again Morpeth 033 Morpeth 057 Looking east from the down platform at the junction to the Blyth and Tyne and goods yard. The siding parallel with the main line was used for stabling dmus from Newcastle betwen services. It was removed when the line was electrified, since then dmus have been stabled between services in the loops on the other side of the level crossing. David 37 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted February 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2016 Those photos of Morpeth were taken over 30 years ago, yet even that was too late for the Deltics... How time flies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcanman Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Great to see local pics again Dave. I also drove past St Mary's lighthouse and the Old Hartley embankment today. As you mentioned, the Collywell Bay branch track was removed at the beginning of WW1. However, it was soon re-instated with temporary rails to allow a rail mounted anti-ship cannon to be transported nearer to the coast. The temporary rails were removed at the end of WW1. Despite the passage of time, Morpeth isn't too much different today. Mal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2016 Hi, Dave. The Collywell Bay branch is a fascinating story. I am sure it would make an interesting model. Morpeth is another of those well known places on the ECML, and you did take some great photos of it back in 1985. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 24, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2016 (edited) Some photos of the Midland Main line today around Kegworth and Ratcliife on Soar which, as most of you know are between Nottingham and Loughborough. Kegworth 253027 Sheffield to St Pancras via Derby Aug 83 C6151 Kegworth Class 45 up ex pass in floodtime 21st Feb 77 C3215 The floods got much worse later in the week. Kegworth train from gypsum quarry and Class 45 down ex pass a very dull day Dec 69 C187 Ratcliffe on Soar Class 44 D1 down freight Sept 67 J1134 Ratcliffe on Soar Class 45 36 down St Pancras to Sheffield March 71 J2537 David Edited February 25, 2016 by DaveF 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 24, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2016 (edited) Hi, Dave. Some really interesting photo's of the Midland Main Line. I see the steam heating boiler of class 45 number 36 is working well in the final photo. With warmest regards, Rob. Edited February 24, 2016 by Market65 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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