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

[35A]

Don't correct them David, it will do us out of a job!

 

 

Absolutely! Apart from the wonderful, memory-jerking photographs, one of the fun things about looking at this thread every day is to see if we can contribute any useful additional information, identities etc. My 1970s/1980s notes have never seen so much reference to them - sadly I very rarely find occasions when we were both in the same area at the same time. 

[DaveF]

Photos from the Highland line north of Inverness today, I even managed to find some with trains.

 

We have been to these locations before, but these are different views.

 

 

Lairg Aug 73 C1318

 

 

Lairg view south Aug 73 C1331

 

 

The Mound view north Aug 74 J3885

 

 

Kinbrace Aug 73 C1327

 

 

Kinbrace Class 26 5339 Inverness to Wick and Thurso Aug 73 C1329

 

David

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. A great collection of photos of Scottish railways and scenery. Some good cloud formations to be seen too. In the last photo', the driver of the 26 appears to be hanging from his door. I wonder what that was all about?

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[brushman47544]

what on earth was the driver of that class 26 doing in C1329

[The Pilotman]

what on earth was the driver of that class 26 doing in C1329

Perhaps it was too warm in the cab.

[caradoc]

Perhaps it was too warm in the cab.

 

Or the Secondman had had baked beans for breakfast ?

[67A]

Perhaps he thought he was on Indian railways or more likely the train was stationary and he had an 'arrangement' to pick up some local produce, quite common occurrence in those parts.

[DaveF]

Trains in the landscape today with photos taken around Corby Glen on the ECML.

 

I doubt you will be able to work out the loco numbers.

 

 

Corby Glen Class 46 Kings X to Newcastle March 70 J2076

 

 

Corby Glen Class 55 9000 Edinburgh to Kings X Aug 70 J2192  9000 is more likely than 9004

 

 

Corby Glen Class 47 down Dec 71 J2793

 

 

Corby Glen Class 31 down parcels Dec 71 J2794

 

 

Corby Glen Class 47 up Dec 71 J2795

 

 

David

Edited April 2, 2017 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like those 'Train in the Landscape' ECML photo's at Corby Glenn. They show a view of the railway that many of us will have seen, but rarely photographed. Also they are good reference material for those of us who model railways, for they show how a railway goes through the landscape. And 9004 looks majestic at the head of an Edinburgh to Kings X express in J2192.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[corneliuslundie]

Really lovely photos of trains in the landscape and great references for modelling - as long as you have an aircraft hanger to build your layout in. They make me realise just how inadequate most of our models are in this respect. There was a model a scale three quarters of a mile long at Scalefour North today, but it was only a narrow slice or the landscape with no wonderful foreground ploughed fields.

And that second man. Looking for a dropped token perhaps? Or had they got rid of them by then.

Jonathan

[Davexoc]

Trains in the landscape today with photos taken around Corby Glen on the ECML.

 

I doubt you will be able to work out the loco numbers.

 

 

Corby Glen Class 46 Kings X to Newcastle March 70 J2076.jpg

Corby Glen Class 46 Kings X to Newcastle March 70 J2076

I know that place, just over 30 years later, but from the other side of the bridge in the same lane, GNER n/b DVT. Spent some time trying panning shots in very variable light conditions....

 

 

Dave

[35A]

 

I doubt you will be able to work out the loco numbers.

 

 

Corby Glen Class 55 9004 Edinburgh to Kings X Aug 70 J2192.jpg

Corby Glen Class 55 9004 Edinburgh to Kings X Aug 70 J2192

 

Hee hee. Want to bet? Another cracking set of pictures, by the way. We so often forget that a good photograph doesn't have to be a close-up, trains in the countryside look great.

 

I'm going to be a pain and challenge the identification on J2192. The nameplate is too short for 9004 - which had four alpha characters clear of the outer edges of the battery box vents, on each side. 4 was also in Doncaster Works from 3rd to 21st August 1970, lessening the likelihood.

 

I can't definitively identify it, as it doesn't magnify too well without losing definition. However, being in blue with a crest, it can't be 9013. It can't be 9016 as, at August 1970, that was the last Deltic running with a 'D' prefix in the number, which it carried into 1971. Looking at the wording layout of the nameplate in as high magnification as I can get, I would say the pattern fits ROYAL SCOTS GREY better (it looks like a three word name). The usual ID point, the footstep on the front, is somewhat in shadow but I think looks to have the squarer corners that 9000 has, rather than the slightly wider recess and rounded corners of the rest. So I think that its 9000.

 

Sorry, David! 

(ducks and runs for cover!!!)

[leopardml2341]

Hee hee. Want to bet? Another cracking set of pictures, by the way. We so often forget that a good photograph doesn't have to be a close-up, trains in the countryside look great.

 

I'm going to be a pain and challenge the identification on J2192. The nameplate is too short for 9004 - which had four alpha characters clear of the outer edges of the battery box vents, on each side. 4 was also in Doncaster Works from 3rd to 21st August 1970, lessening the likelihood.

 

I can't definitively identify it, as it doesn't magnify too well without losing definition. However, being in blue with a crest, it can't be 9013. It can't be 9016 as, at August 1970, that was the last Deltic running with a 'D' prefix in the number, which it carried into 1971. Looking at the wording layout of the nameplate in as high magnification as I can get, I would say the pattern fits ROYAL SCOTS GREY better (it looks like a three word name). The usual ID point, the footstep on the front, is somewhat in shadow but I think looks to have the squarer corners that 9000 has, rather than the slightly wider recess and rounded corners of the rest. So I think that its 9000.

 

Sorry, David! 

(ducks and runs for cover!!!)

Elementary my dear Watson

 

Some detective work there mister!

[DaveF]

Sunday's preserved railway batch, somewhat earlier than usual today.

 

It's a long time since the last visit to look at the Sittingbourne and Kemsley.  As usual the photos are from the 70s when I was living in Essex.

 

Even back then I used to dislike the journey through the Dartford Tunnel as there were so often hold ups and tailbacks.

 

 

emsley Down Bagnall Superb May 75 C2119

 

 

Kemsley Down Hunslet Victor and Ruston Hornsby Edward Lloyd 15th May 76 C2732

 

 

Kemsley Down Kerr Stuart Leader 15th May 76 C2734

 

 

Sittingbourne Bagnall Triumph 23rd April 77 C3311

 

 

Sittingbourne Bagnall Triumph May 77 J5706

 

 

Sittingbourne Bagnall Triumph Oct 79 C4850

 

 

David

[45125]

Hee hee. Want to bet? Another cracking set of pictures, by the way. We so often forget that a good photograph doesn't have to be a close-up, trains in the countryside look great.

 

I'm going to be a pain and challenge the identification on J2192. The nameplate is too short for 9004 - which had four alpha characters clear of the outer edges of the battery box vents, on each side. 4 was also in Doncaster Works from 3rd to 21st August 1970, lessening the likelihood.

 

I can't definitively identify it, as it doesn't magnify too well without losing definition. However, being in blue with a crest, it can't be 9013. It can't be 9016 as, at August 1970, that was the last Deltic running with a 'D' prefix in the number, which it carried into 1971. Looking at the wording layout of the nameplate in as high magnification as I can get, I would say the pattern fits ROYAL SCOTS GREY better (it looks like a three word name). The usual ID point, the footstep on the front, is somewhat in shadow but I think looks to have the squarer corners that 9000 has, rather than the slightly wider recess and rounded corners of the rest. So I think that its 9000.

 

Sorry, David! 

(ducks and runs for cover!!!)

 

The crest also looks like the French Imperial eagle.....

[DaveF]

Today's second batch were all taken in Yorkshire, mostly in the second half of the 1960s with one from the 1970s.

 

 

Ulleskelf K1 62046 down l e Sept 65 J350

On checking I found this day was the first time I used my new 35mm Yashica, loaded with Ilford FP3 as all my photos were black and white at this time.  I must have been standing alongside Dad when he took this shot.

 

 

Ulleskelf Class 40 York to Bristol April 66 J478  I don't really believe the headcode.

 

 

Richmond from castle July 66 J542

 

 

Ulleskelf Class 40 D396 down freight cars Sept 66 J642

 

 

Picton looking south Sept 73 C1399

I remember taking this photo, I was on the way to a friends wedding and was a bit early.

 

 

David

Edited April 2, 2017 by DaveF

[Fat Controller]

J462; are you sure this is an Up service; the load appears to be Fords of various types, with the second car being a Mk1 Cortina.

[melmerby]

J462; are you sure this is an Up service; the load appears to be Fords of various types, with the second car being a Mk1 Cortina.

Looks like a view south off the end of the platform, even that prominent tree appears to still be there on the left of the track!

 

Google view from overbridge:

https://goo.gl/maps/UTKNMk1SHwp

 

Keith

Edited April 2, 2017 by melmerby

[stovepipe]

Kinbrace Class 26 5339 Inverness to Wick and Thurso Aug 73 C1329

 

This matches the consist for the 10:50 2K09 service from Inverness, with the Wick portion, at the rear, back to front. I suggest the second man is about to dismount to secure the crossing seen in the previous shot - C1327 - which in itself shows a nice contrast between the old blue wooden station sign and the modern crossing paraphernalia.

[DaveF]

J462; are you sure this is an Up service; the load appears to be Fords of various types, with the second car being a Mk1 Cortina.

 

 

Looks like a view south off the end of the platform, even that prominent tree appears to still be there on the left of the track!

 

Google view from overbridge:

https://goo.gl/maps/UTKNMk1SHwp

 

Keith

 

Having just looked at the photo more carefully it is indeed a down train, caption duly amended.

 

By the way, I assume everyone knows the golden rule for captioning photos:

 

"Never actually look at the image, simply copy whatever the photographer wrote down in his notes".

 

In this case it's one of Dad's photos and he transposed up and down - which I have often done too.

 

David

Edited April 2, 2017 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. A great set of photos of the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Railway - a very interesting narrow gauge railway.

I like the Yorkshire photos. Ulleskelf is a good place to take photos, and those 40's look good, and in J642 of D369, it is well weathered, which I may well use as a basis for weathering one my models.

And to think there was once a station at Picton. It certainly looks so peaceful in that photo from September, 1973.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

A quick post before I go back into the garden to attack more weeds.

 

Settle and Carlisle today, mainly at Dent.

 

 

Dent LMS 8F 48641 with snowplough up goods May 66 J524

 

 

Dent BR Class 4 4-6-0 down goods May 66 J526

 

 

Dent LMS Class 5 4-6-0 down goods May 66 J527

 

 

Dent Britannia Class 70017 Arrow Glasgow to Leeds, through coaches to St Pancras Sat only July 66 J534

 

 

Dent Head EWS Class 60 66024 down empty coal 22nd April 03 C26255   

 

 

David

Edited April 5, 2017 by DaveF

[corneliuslundie]

The Like button is not enough.

I just love that last shot, and the containers in the first are interesting. I ought to know what they are but have forgotten.

Jonathan

[77philg]

The Like button is not enough.

I just love that last shot, and the containers in the first are interesting. I ought to know what they are but have forgotten.

Jonathan

Cement powder containers triang did a crude model in oo guage in the 1960s-70s

[Fat Controller]

Cement powder containers triang did a crude model in oo guage in the 1960s-70s

Otherwise known as 'L'-type containers, IIRC. Initially used for cement, they were soon superceded by Presflos, and were later mainly used to convey powdered lime or dolomite to steelworks. Amongst other places, they were loaded from the limestone quarry at Grassington and the dolomite quarries near Ferryhill and Walnut Tree Junction.