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

[westerhamstation]

Happy Birthday David, and thanks for for your daily posts. All the best Adrian.

[The Border Reiver]

Happy Birthday Dave. Thanks for all the photos...

[beast66606]

Happy Birthday @DaveF - and thanks for sharing your photos.

[caradoc]

Happy Birthday from me too David, and thanks again for the photos. 

 

[62613]

Me as well. Any chance of more of your dad's?

 

[Market65]

Good evening, David, and I wish you a very Happy Birthday. I hope you have been having a great day.

Today’s photo’s are excellent, as always, and those in the bonus photo’s are a delightful selection, of former Great Western, Mill Lane level crossing on the line to Market Overton and at Harlaxton Quarries. In C337, at Harlaxton Quarries, with a special working, "The Lincolnshire Ore - Harlaxton Steam Farewell", Austerity, 0-6-0ST, Gunby, in September, 1970, makes a fine sight in the rear three quarter photo’. 
The Lincolnshire photo’s are of historic interest, and the first one at Louth, with a C12, on a passenger train, on a Louth to Grimsby service, circa 1952, shows a former GNR Gresley carriage leading, and then a non corridor twin art.  The photo’s from Skegness of the Big Dipper and miniature railway are typical of the seaside resort, and as stated, would make delightful models.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[keefer]

2 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Happy Birthday Dave - you've caught me up, but only until November. 72 is the new 40, believe it! 

Indeed, think of all the classic rockers like Clapton, the Who, the Stones - who were all dismissed as old farts before they were 40 and they're still going, well into their 70s (and nearly 80s!).

Happy birthday Dave and remember age isn't a number, it's a state of mind.

[Davey]

No it's not. 74 is the new 40.

 

Davey

[SHMD]

Happy birthday Daveand not just a big thank you for your photos.

Also, a big BIG thanks for your massive contribution "to the record" of how Britain's railways evolved over time.

Along with your mother and father, I don't think there can be any other family that has recorded so much over so long.

 

Thanks - just doesn't "cut it"!

Enjoy a glass of something from me. I owe you.

 

 

Kev.

 

[russ p]

Happy birthday David 

As others have said thank you for sharing your excellent pictures over the years with us .

Been some absolute stunners and I even appear in a couple 

Have a good day mate

[corneliuslundie]

Yes, probably a twin-art on that service as the quad and quin arts were more suburban beasts, though I believe that they were sometimes pressed into use for excursions etc. 

And from me too, happy birthday and many thanks for all the work you put into the thread.

Jonathan

[DaveF]

3 hours ago, 62613 said:

Me as well. Any chance of more of your dad's?

 

 

 

Any colour ones with a J in the file number are Dad's.

 

As for the black and white photos most of them have been in my black and white thread, see the link in my  signature.  I am perfectly happy to add them to this thread if RMWebbers would like to see them again.

 

David

[Chris116]

A very happy birthday @DaveF and many thanks for your and your father's photos which make this thread one of the first places I check whenever I am in RMweb. 

[jwealleans]

18 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Great to see a photo of a quad art

 

Not a quad - looks like a D210 twin to me.   Quad Arts didn't have lavs and the leading vehicle has two.   The one ahead of it is an ex-GN vehicle, probably a 58 footer.   I might be able to identify it once I get home to the diagram book.

 

Nice ex-GC compo in the next picture as well.

Edited August 5, 2021 by jwealleans

[Andrew P]

A very belated Happy Birthday David, I hope you had a good day.

[Brit70053]

And belated Birthday Greetings from me too Dave, really appreciate your posting photos each day, such an interesting range of locations, subjects and vintages in your collection..

 

        Regards,

 

                         John

 

                       

[DaveF]

 

First, thank you all very much for the good wishes for my birthday.

 

I had a very enjoyable day, some nice salmon for lunch and various things I'd asked for and ordered all came, including a couple of Swiss cab ride DVDs.

 

As for the old black and white photos I'll use some of them from time to time for now.

 

Now for today's photos, four of which are from GER lines in 1974 and 1977 along with a couple of photos of a portable miniature railway at Hullbridge traction engine rally back in 1977.

 

Those of you know Chelmsford can work out where the railway is in the first photo, it may not be obvious at first sight,  then you can think where I was standing.

 

 

Chelmsford distant view of railway July 74 C1657

 

 

Boreham Class 37 up parcels April 77 C1957

 

 

Manningtree  S15 841 Greene King and 31125 charter to Dinting and return Oct 77 C3560

 

 

Ipswich  S15 841 Greene King l e off charter to Dinting and return C3565  Greene King had failed between Manninngtree and Ipswich.   Class 37 on down pass  Oct 77

 

 

 

Hullbridge Traction Engine Rally 5 5 inch? gauge 2167 May 77 C3346

 

 

Hullbridge Traction Engine Rally 5.5 inch? gauge B1, GWR 4-6-0 and 0-6-0T May 77 C3345

 

 

David

Edited April 21, 2022 by DaveF

[keefer]

C1957 there was a thread recently about whether cl.37s worked Parcels trains - that's a cracking example of one that did.

And a good example of why you shouldn't worry too much if your model coaches seem to have slightly different shades of blue

Edited August 5, 2021 by keefer

[corneliuslundie]

I was thinking that was a great example of weathering, every one different and a few where calling them blue might be construed as contravening the Trades Descriptions Act!

Great photos again. Many thanks.

Jonathan

[beast66606]

27 minutes ago, DaveF said:

Those of you know Chelmsford can work out where the railway is in the first photo, it may not be obvious at first sight,  then you can think where I was standing.

 

 

Chelmsford distant view of railway July 74 C1657

 

 

https://goo.gl/maps/JsfRgEiGv3BT6VQD8

[Market65]

Good afternoon, David. That’s a most impressive set of GE photo’s. In C3560, at Manningtree, S15, 841, Greene King, with 31125, on a charter to Dinting and return, in October, 1977,  was certainly putting on a great display of smoke and steam before the failure happened. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[russ p]

Great  pictures David,  when you look at 841 it's hard to believe now that mainline certified steam locos of the era were allowed to run without AWS , the only thing that seems to have is an electrification flash on its smoke deflectors 

[St Enodoc]

10 hours ago, DaveF said:

Hullbridge Traction Engine Rally 5.5 inch? gauge B1, GWR 4-6-0 and 0-6-0T May 77 C3345

That's a very nice model of an unusual prototype - Hunslet 0-6-0T L31, built for the District Line in 1931.

[DaveF]

 

More photos taken at Carlisle for this afternoon.

 

 

Carlisle 47531 Carlisle to Glasgow C via Dumfries April 87 J8865

 

 

Carlisle 86402 Cardiff to Glasgow C April 87 J8871

 

 

Carlisle 82131 up 24th Oct 90 C15417

 

 

Carlisle 86412 and 86610 down freightliner 24th Oct 90 C15418

 

 

 

Carlisle 31255 and 156513   and 2 Class 47s  25th Oct 95 C20602

 

 

David

 

 

 

Edited April 21, 2022 by DaveF

[Bedlington North]

I still love the variety in traction and trains you used to get at Carlisle...Looking at pics like David's is the closest we will get to those days sadly!