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

[35A]

1 hour ago, keefer said:

J5045 is a cracking pic of the 47 hard at work - especially since it looks like you were struggling with the (lack of) light!

Wondering if the headcode has been wound incorrectly (or slipped round), as according to http://www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/wtt75-76.htm :

There's 1E05 (10.00 Edin-KX, The Flying Scotsman) or 1E07 (10.30 Edin-KX) but no 1E06.

Presumably this train was at Grantham in the early afternoon, with the winter light already fading.

 

 

Beat me to it. I was just going to flag that up. 1E05 was a Deltic turn. 1E07 was normally a class 47 turn, although on odd occasions I saw it with an ETS class 31 on the front! I don't recall there ever being a 1E06 in the 1970s (certainly not one that ran south of Doncaster) and a quick scan of my Excel spreadsheet for the period reveals no sightings of anything running as 1E06, BICBW.

[steve4rosegrove]

On 26/08/2019 at 18:35, jonny777 said:

 

 

It is really strange, because whenever I went there it gave me 'the creeps'. Did someone suffer a gruesome death there at any time? Or maybe built on a cemetery? 

Yes, much of it was built over a cemetery.  My best memories are from 1966 to '68 of course, but it was still the same familiar place when I travelled via there from Wigan on Friday evenings in 1972/3, and later on a visit in about 1990, though sad that Exchange had been flattened.

[DaveF]

 

Today's photos were taken just to the north of the site of Longhirst station on the ECML in Northumberland.

 

Longhirst is a few miles to the north of Morpeth.

 

It's still a good place to take photographs though there has been a lot of tree and shrub growth since these photos were taken over thirty years ago.

 

 

Longhirst Class 254 up 14th June 86 C7621 A "going away" shot.

 

 

Longhirst 56114 up coal from Butterwell 28th Nov 87 C9282.jpg

 

 

Longhirst 37507 Alcan Fort William to North Blyth alumina empties 12th Dec 87 C9290.jpg

 

 

Longhirst 47123 down freightliner 12th Dec 87 C9294.jpg

 

 

Longhirst 43048 up 7th May 88 C9450

 

 

David

 

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the ECML photo’s just to the north of Longhirst. They are fascinating and show how the railway was back then. The last one, with a HST with power car 43048 leading, on an up express, on the 7th May, 1988, is an exceptionally well composed shot and could have been used to publicise the HST’s at that time. 

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

I don't often comment David, but I think C 9450 is an exceptionally strong image of a HST in Executive livery. Really captures what they're about.

[DaveF]

 

Back to 1990 today mainly Class 150s on the ex LNWR line to Buxton from Manchester.

 

 

Dove Holes 150215 Buxton to Manchester 19th April 90 C14414.jpg

 

 

Dove Holes 150215 Buxton to Manchester 19th April 90 C14415.jpg

 

 

Chapel en le Frith 150213 Manchester Piccadilly to Buxton 24th Aug 90 C15306.jpg

 

 

Chapel en le Frith 150224 Manchester Piccadilly to Buxton 24th Aug 90 C15307.jpg

 

 

Chapel en le Frith MR line 24th Aug 90 C15309.jpg

 

 

David

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the LNWR line to Buxton photo’s, which capture the line perfectly. The first two photo’s at Dove Holes on the 19th April, 1990, with 150215, show the different way the livery was applied on the Network Northwest units, along with 150213 in C15306. 

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

 

Off to Scotland today where we spend about an hour watching trains at Larbert in April 1991 courtesy of our time machine.

 

 

Larbert 156477 5th April 91 C15735

 

 

Larbert 37408 up l e 5th April 91 C15736

 

 

Larbert 47212 up l e 5th April 91 C15737

 

 

Larbert 156499 and 158714 to Dunblane 5th April 91 C15738.jpg

 

 

Larbert 26032 down molasses tanks 5th April 91 C15743.jpg

 

 

David

 

[Fat Controller]

The ICI wagons at Larbert are carrying soda-ash for the local glassworks,IIRC.

[cheesysmith]

C15743, using HO stock with a 00 loco?

[seahorse]

C15309 Yesterday - now I know you have really been everywhere - you even have my house!

 

Still enjoying the thread

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Scottish photo’s at Larbert, on the 5th April, 1991. They are full of interest, and I particularly like C15736, with 37408, on an up light engine movement, which is such a delightful portrait of the locomotive.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

[DaveF]

 

Carlisle in 1989 and 1990 today.

 

 

Carlisle 27th Oct 89 C13810

 

 

Carlisle 86102 Euston to Glasgow 27th Oct 89 C13821.jpg

 

 

Carlisle 31449 Carlisle to Leeds 30th May 90 C14501.jpg

 

 

Carlisle 37035 down oil 30th May 90 C14506

 

 

Carlisle 86xxx?86421??and 86636 down coal 30th May 90 C14529.jpg

 

 

David

Edited August 31, 2019 by DaveF

[brushman47544]

C14529 It’s not 86629, which never existed, as 86429 was destroyed at Colwich in 1986. The leading loco is in InterCity livery so more likely to still be an 86/4. The crest above the nameplate should be the give away to someone. 

[cheesysmith]

Could it be a 87? The front window appears different.

[melmerby]

1 hour ago, cheesysmith said:

Could it be a 87? The front window appears different.

The electrickery on the roof looks different as well.

[melmerby]

86102 & 31449 are examples of weathering which is lesson for "professionals" on how to do it!

 

Nice selection as always Dave.

[lmsforever]

The pictures at Larbert are excellent  I saw a dvd that showed class 37,s  coming from Glasgow and running round before returning ,the trains used the up sidings north of the station it was sometime in the late seventies .

[brushman47544]

2 hours ago, cheesysmith said:

Could it be a 87? The front window appears different.

 

Don’t think so. I can’t find any crest large enough to match. 87012 RBS and 87025 City of Carlisle are closest but too small. 87012 had the INTERCITY (italics) logo by 1990 whereas if 87025 the BR double arrows should be visible behind the driver walking back.

 

The most likely is 86421 London School of Economics as the crest is the right size, but round whereas in the photo it looks square. 86421 should also have a visible double arrow though I cannot find a 1990 photo of the correct side to confirm whether it had been removed.

Edited August 31, 2019 by brushman47544

[brushman47544]

17 minutes ago, melmerby said:

The electrickery on the roof looks different as well.

 

I think that’s because it’s the other side of the loco.

[melmerby]

1 hour ago, brushman47544 said:

 

I think that’s because it’s the other side of the loco.

You are probably right.

I've had a look at loads of 86s & 87s on the web and a reversed 86 would look like that.

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the latest Carlisle photo’s which are all full of interest. As stated earlier on, in C13821, with 86102, on a Euston to Glasgow express, on the 27th October, 1989, the weathering on it is quite exceptional, and makes a great exercise in how an 86 should be weathered. Again, this also applies to 31449 in C14501. Just such excellent weathering examples.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[45125]

On 27/08/2019 at 17:41, Market65 said:

Hi, Dave. I like the photo’s of the ECML from the north of Grantham. All are of interest and full of nostalgia. I particularly like J5661, at Peascliffe Tunnel, with class 47, 47552, on a Bradford to Kings Cross express in April, 1977. It’s interesting to note that there are two Mk1 BG’s at the front of the formation.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

Nothing unusual about two BGs on a service at this time, the 0900 Hull KGX often had two BGs, quite often would be 81491 and 81492.

[DaveF]

 

A selection of photos from visits to the Foxfield Railway in the 1970s for this morning.

 

 

Cartwrights Crossing Bagnall Hawarden Platform Bagnall Hawarden 28th Sept 75 J4944.jpg

 

 

Dilhorne Hunslet Wimblebury 28th Sept 75 C2458.jpg

 

 

Dilhorne Bagnall Hawarden from LMS Scenery van July 76 C2908.jpg

 

 

Dilhorne top curve Bagnall Hawarden July 77 C2916.jpg

 

 

Dilhorne Bagnall Lewisham and Bagnall J T Daly May 78 J6111.jpg

 

 

Dilhorne Bagnall J T Daly and Bagnall Lewisham 29th May 78 C3869.jpg

 

 

David

[DaveF]

 

A few more photos at Newcastle this afternoon.

 

 

Newcastle 47451 Newcastle to Morpeth 21st March 88 C9514.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 43057 rear power car undergoing running repairs 17th Nov 90 C15495.jpg

 

 

Newcastle Class 143 11th June 91 C15905.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 37274 and Class 56 coal 11th June 91 C15923.jpg

 

 

Newcastle 08 888 22nd June 92 C16908.jpg

 

 

David