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

[Davexoc]

Princes Risborough to Oxford service withdrawn in 1963. Station might be Islip and train from Oxford.

I was thinking along those lines too, that being ex LMS (LNWR) terittory and there being an upper quadrant signal behind the train. Thame would have been lower quadrant being ex GWR. A search for Islip produces one image that does seem to confirm that.

 

Dave

[DaveF]

Great picture though it is, but I don't think the last one is Thame. The position of the bridge in relation to the platforms is wrong, the platforms weren't wooden and it had a train shed.

 

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View in the same direction, but taken form under the Thame - Tetsworth road bridge in the late 70s having legged it down there from school before first classes.....

 

Dave

 

 

I think the Standish Junction photos were taken about halfway between there and Stonehouse stations (closed and open), slightly nearer the latter. Both trains heading north so DMU Swindon to Gloucester (at least).

 

Princes Risborough to Oxford service withdrawn in 1963. Station might be Islip and train from Oxford.

 

 

I was thinking along those lines too, that being ex LMS (LNWR) terittory and there being an upper quadrant signal behind the train. Thame would have been lower quadrant being ex GWR. A search for Islip produces one image that does seem to confirm that.

 

Dave

 

 

Thanks for the comments about the location.

 

It's one of Dad's photos so all I had to go on was his notes - I've never been there, so it will be nice to know where it really is.

 

David

[BR(W)]

I was thinking along those lines too, that being ex LMS (LNWR) terittory and there being an upper quadrant signal behind the train. Thame would have been lower quadrant being ex GWR. A search for Islip produces one image that does seem to confirm that.

 

Dave

 

And aren't the station buildings of standard L.N.W.R. clapboard (modular) design? 

 

Cheers,

 

BR(W).

[The Stationmaster]

And aren't the station buildings of standard L.N.W.R. clapboard (modular) design? 

 

Cheers,

 

BR(W).

 

Agree - and with the other comments.  That picture is on the Bletchley -Oxford line, is very definitely not Thame (which had masonry built platforms apart from anything else and the topography is wrong).  Judging by other images on the 'net I too am reasonably sure that it is Islip.

[The Pilotman]

Looks like there is a trailing connection (to a siding or yard?) if you look beyond the one man and his dog. Does that help pin it down to Islip? I only know the place from when it was a single line but given the curvature and the shadows, I think it very unlikely that it's an Oxford-bound train.

[Western Glory]

Photo of Islip in 1951 looking in opposite direction here:

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/i/islip/

Note two lighter markings on platform and position of crossover, never mind the structures.

 

Islip station was demolished and rebuilt, then demolished and rebuilt again.

Edited April 9, 2017 by Western Glory

[DaveF]

It's about time we had some more photos from the Bluebell Railway.  Most were taken in winter, around Boxing Day in various years.

 

In those days there was always someone selling hot roasted chestnuts from a stall at Sheffield Park station on Boxing Day.

 

 

Sheffield Park SECR Class C 592 Dec 75 C2542

 

 

Sheffield Park USA 30064 Oct 76 C3075

 

 

Sheffield Park West Country 21C123 Blackmore Vale 26th Dec 76 C3137

 

 

Sheffield Park USA 30064 26th Dec 76 C3140

 

 

Sheffield Park SECR CLass P 323 Bluebell and SR U 1618 Sheffield Park to Horsted Keynes 26th Dec 78 C4231

 

 

Sheffield Park SECR CLass P 323 Bluebell and SR U 1618 Sheffield Park to Horsted Keynes and SECR 263 26th Dec 78 C4232

 

 

Edited as I couldn't spell Horsted.

David

Edited April 9, 2017 by DaveF

[DaveF]

Staying in the south for today's second set, a mixture of locations on the Southern.

 

The last photo at Eynsford is of poor quality, but it was the last photo I took there, a few days before I moved to Northumberland.  It was pouring with rain at the time.

 

 

Billingshurst 4COR 3150 Victoria to Bognor Regis Butlins Holiday Camp Express Sept 62 J021

 

 

Sole Street 4VEP 7861 Dover to Victoria April 75 C1970

 

 

BobbingClass 73 up parcels May 75 C2091

 

 

Swale 2HAP 6076 Sittingborne to Sheerness May 75 C2126

 

 

Eynsford Class 415 up July 80 C5080

Edited April 9, 2017 by DaveF

[DaveF]

Agree - and with the other comments.  That picture is on the Bletchley -Oxford line, is very definitely not Thame (which had masonry built platforms apart from anything else and the topography is wrong).  Judging by other images on the 'net I too am reasonably sure that it is Islip.

 

 

Looks like there is a trailing connection (to a siding or yard?) if you look beyond the one man and his dog. Does that help pin it down to Islip? I only know the place from when it was a single line but given the curvature and the shadows, I think it very unlikely that it's an Oxford-bound train.

 

 

Photo of Islip in 1951 looking in opposite direction here:

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/i/islip/

Note two lighter markings on platform and position of crossover, never mind the structures.

 

Islip station was been demolished and rebuilt, then demolished and rebuilt again.

 

 

Many thanks.  I've changed the caption to Islip.

 

I've no idea what Dad was doing there, it really doesn't fit in with the previous photo which he took at Ryde.

 

It fits better with the next one he took, at Helmdon, but then the one after that is at Loughborough.

 

David

[DY444]

 

Sole Street 4CEP 7861 Dover to Victoria April 75 C1970.jpg

Sole Street 4CEP 7861 Dover to Victoria April 75 C1970

 

That one's a VEP

[Pannier Tank]

The last one is a 108 which would have worked into Oxford from the Cambridge direction.  At one time there were fill-in turns which took them to Reading but I question whether they worked into Paddington at this time.

 

Chris

 

Don't remember Bletchley DMU's  running to Reading, however they used to do a return trip to Kingham in the early 60s

[chrisf]

Don't remember Bletchley DMU's  running to Reading, however they used to do a return trip to Kingham in the early 60s

 

Indeed.  12.14 pm Oxford to Kingham Saturdays only, arrive 12.55 pm, depart 1.10 pm, arrive Oxford 1.48 pm. stable until return to Bletchley dep 5.18 pm.

 

Chris 

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Bluebell Railway photo's. Blackmore Vale was looking most presentable at the time of that photo' despite having no nameplates fitted. And I love the Southern photo's. The first one of 4COR 3150 must surely be of historical value, for just look at the board/sticker on the connecting gangway about the Butlin's Holiday Camp Express. I don't recall seeing that before.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

Carlisle in 1987 this afternoon.

 

The first photo was taken while Heaton was short of dmus and was using Class 47s and Mk1 coaches on the Newcastle - Carlisle service.

 

 

Carlisle 47660 Newcastle to Carlisle 14th April 87 C8265

 

 

Carlisle 87021 Glasgow to Euston 14th April 87 C8288

 

 

Carlisle Class 108 54247 Carlisle to Barrow 21st April 87 C8347

 

 

arlisle 87027 Glasgow to Euston 1st Sept 87 C9092

 

 

Carlisle 85011 down l e 1st April 87 C9094

 

 

David

Edited April 17, 2017 by DaveF

[DaveF]

This thread has just hit 1,500,000 views.

 

Thanks to everyone who looks at the photos, I hope you are all still enjoying them.

 

David

[melmerby]

This thread has just hit 1,500,000 views.

 

Thanks to everyone who looks at the photos, I hope you are all still enjoying them.

 

David

You wouldn't be getting all those views if we weren't!  

 

Keith

[Phil Bullock]

Indeed.  12.14 pm Oxford to Kingham Saturdays only, arrive 12.55 pm, depart 1.10 pm, arrive Oxford 1.48 pm. stable until return to Bletchley dep 5.18 pm.

 

Chris 

 

Interesting working Chris! Shades of the original OWW connection at Yarnton Junction - facing from the Kingham direction on to the Bletchley line - from when the OWW did not want to fall in to the clutches of the nasty GW but rather to reach London via Bletchley to Euston . The through service didn't last long but the trackbed is still just about traceable at the OWW end where it deviated from the OWW line at Yarnton before Wolvercote Junction.

 

Phil

[seahorse]

One and a half million - it's not all me! But I do enjoy looking every day. Thanks for carrying on posting all the photos.

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I wish to congratulate you on achieving half a million views. I just had a gut feeling when you started this thread back in 2014, that it would prove to be most successful. My feelings have been well and truly borne out.

A great mix of photo's from Carlisle, and the 85 in the last photo' is looking most soggy in all that rain.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[67A]

Its nice to someone else gets Carlisle weather when they visit!  What livery is the 47' in Dave, it looks to be black but perhaps its just the weather! Always liked Carlisle as it was my first ever spotting jaunt out of dreary Glasgow way back when Kingmoor still meant the steam depot.

[DaveF]

Its nice to someone else gets Carlisle weather when they visit!  What livery is the 47' in Dave, it looks to be black but perhaps its just the weather! Always liked Carlisle as it was my first ever spotting jaunt out of dreary Glasgow way back when Kingmoor still meant the steam depot.

 

 

It's the standard rail blue, it just looks very dark - the weather was dull and I didn't have much success in trying to "improve" the scan.

 

David

Edited April 10, 2017 by DaveF

[newbryford]

I was trying to be tactful when I said it was hard to be sure ! (for a change)

 

I had to look at it twice to see it was a 66 to be sure, to be sure.

 

Hat, coat, etc.

 

Cheers,

Mick

[35A]

C8265 - I had forgotten that the loco-hauled diagrams off Heaton went on for quite so long in 1987. I remember that they were still running later in the summer/early autumn, diagrams tied in with the Middlesbrough services. I recall catching a Newcastle - Middlesbrough mid-afternoon service that worked back as far as Hexham, on one occasion.

 

Congratulations, David, on notching up another milestone!

[david.hill64]

This thread has just hit 1,500,000 views.

 

Thanks to everyone who looks at the photos, I hope you are all still enjoying them.

 

David

I just hope that there is enough material for the next 1500000!

[The Lurker]

I know you say the quality is poor but I like C5080 - the picture of Eynsford. The area has hardly changed in the intervening years. Archaeology fans can check out Lullingstone Roman Villa which is in the same lane as is crossed by the viaduct!