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

[DaveF]

Mainly more mundane trains today on the Newcastle to Carlisle line at Stocksfield.

 

 

Stocksfield Class 101 Sunderland to Hexham 28th Oct 88 C11589

 

 

Stocksfield 43111 Aberdeen to Kings X diverted via Carlisle April 89 J09878

 

 

Stocksfield 143013 Carlisle to Newcastle 15th April 89 C11866

 

 

Stocksfield 143607 Sunderland to Hexham March 91 J11792

 

 

Stocksfield 156451 Sunderland to Hexham Jan 93 J13669

 

 

David

 

Edited April 6, 2022 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a delightful selection of photo’s of Stocksfield, on the Newcastle to Carlisle line. In J09878, with 43111, leading a HST from Aberdeen to Kings Cross, diverted via Carlisle, in April, 1989, you can see just how good the Swallow livery suited the HST’s. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

 

More from Newcastle today.

 

 

Newcastle 143005 Hexham to Newcastle Aug 86 J8667  Just arrived from Hexham

 

 

 

Newcastle 31st Oct 89 C13758  The new platfform is on the left.

 

 

Newcastle 43158 Kings X to Edinburgh Aug 89 J10092  Taken during rebuilding work for electrification.

 

 

Newcastle 47488 ecs June 89 J09919

 

 

Newcastle Central 156454  22nd Feb 94 C19300

 

 

David

Edited April 6, 2022 by DaveF

[brushman47544]

Hello David.  J09919 is not 47406, which was never in large logo livery. The locos also has a high ETH plug, whereas 47406s was on the buffer beam as with the other generators. Same name though, it looks to me like 47488 which inherited the Rail Riders name after 47406 was withdrawn.

[russ p]

Excellent pictures David 

I signed Newcastle in 89 before it was resignalled . Happy Times thanks for sharing 

[Oldddudders]

I like seeing pics of Newcastle in the rebuilding etc phase before electrification. In 1990 I joined BR Projects, where my boss was Don Heath, who had been Project Director, ECML Electrification, as well as being BR's Director, Projects. He had had some tough times with the Local Authority's man in Newcastle in negotiating changes to the station in respect of Listed Status. Their chap was mustard, though, and on one Monday rang Don to say the electrification mast put up over the weekend was in the wrong place - and he was quite right! 

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a delightful selection of photo’s of Newcastle Central. In the already mentioned photo’, J09919, with 47488, on an empty coaching stock movement, in June, 1989, there are two heads to be seen hanging out of two door droplights in the first carriage. They must have been guards or others meant to be onboard whilst the ECS movement was being undertaken. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

3 minutes ago, Market65 said:

Good evening, David. That’s a delightful selection of photo’s of Newcastle Central. In the already mentioned photo’, J09919, with 47488, on an empty coaching stock movement, in June, 1989, there are two heads to be seen hanging out of two door droplights in the first carriage. They must have been guards or others meant to be onboard whilst the ECS movement was being undertaken. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

 

It could simply be an ecs which has gone round the circle out over the KingEdward Bridge and back over the High Level Bridge with a couple of unofficial passengers - it did happen from time to time.  It appears to be a three coach train so it my be a Newcastle to Carlisle working instead of a dmu, so it may have been sent round to free up a platform during the rebuilding.

[DaveF]

It's quite windy here with storm Malik (understatement), another batch of trees and fences have been brought down and more houses have roof damage - fortunately not the ones repaired after Storm Arwen.

 

Some more photos at Morpeth for this afternoon, hopefully some are a little bit different.

 

 

Morpeth Class 101 Morpeth to Newcastle leaving Morpeth, diverted via Blyth and Tyne 20th June 84 C6569

 

 

Morpeth Class 37 down freight July 87 J9009  Train entering down loop to be passed by a passenger working.

 

 

Morpeth Class 37 engineers train 22nd April 92 C16788  Goods yard in the foreground, train is in the Blyth and Tyne loops.

 

 

Morpeth Class 5 44767 Santa special Newcastle circular entering station from the Blyth and Tyne 17th Dec 94 C19894

 

 

Morpeth Class 5 44767 Santa special Newcastle circular 17th Dec 94 C19899  Leaving station to travel along the ECML back to Newcastle.

 

 

David

Edited April 6, 2022 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s an excellent set of photo’s of Morpeth. In C16788, with a class 37 on an engineers train, on the 22nd April, 1992, you have caught such a delightful scene, of the goods yard in the foreground with dodgy trackwork, clutter and a general air of neglect. It would make a truly excellent model, especially if you could get a train to run over the very uneven trackwork.
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

Photos from visits to the South Tynedale at Alston today.  If you go there now you will notice some big changes since these photos were taken.

 

 

Alston 6th March 93 C18479

 

 

Alston Henschel 6 Thomas Edmonndson 2nd April 88 C9372

 

 

Alston Henschel No 6 Thomas Edmondson 14th April 90 C14341

 

 

Gilderdale Henschel No 6 Thomas Edmondson 14th April 90 C14331

 

 

Gilderdale Hunslet The Peril 24th March 89 C11716

 

 

Harbut Lodge Henshel 6 Thomas Edmondson to Gilderdale 2nd April 88 C9382

 

 

David

 

 

 

 

Edited April 6, 2022 by DaveF

[DaveF]

 

Back to around 1954 now with a look at St Pancras in black and white.

 

 

 

St Pancras 2P and Jubilee up ex pass c1954 JVol2150

 

 

London St Pancras Compound c1954 JVol2147

 

 

St Pancras Fowler Class 3 2-6-2T 40036 ecs c1954 JVol2144

 

 

St Pancras Jubilee down ex pass BR Class 4 2-6-4T and Fairburn  42686 pass St Albans to St Pancras c1954 JVol2142

 

 

St Pancras Jubilee down Thames Clyde Express c1954 JVol2143

 

 

David

Edited April 6, 2022 by DaveF

[steve4rosegrove]

16 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

Back to around 1954 now with a look at St Pancras in black and white.

 

 

 

St Pancras 2P and Jubilee up ex pass c1954 JVol2150

 

 

London St Pancras Compound c1954 JVol2147

 

 

St Pancras Fowler Class 3 2-6-2T 40036 ecs c1954 JVol2144

 

 

St Pancras Jubilee down ex pass BR Class 4 2-6-4T and Fairbairn  42686 pass St Albans to St Pancras c1954 JVol2142

 

 

St Pancras Jubilee down Thames Clyde Express c1954 JVol2143

 

 

David

Errrr, pedantry time, but it was Faiburn.....great photos though

[eastwestdivide]

23 minutes ago, steve4rosegrove said:

Errrr, pedantry time, but it was Faiburn.....great photos though

Muphry's Law strikes again!

[Leander]

53 minutes ago, steve4rosegrove said:

Errrr, pedantry time, but it was Faiburn.....great photos though

I've always known him as Fairburn.

[DaveF]

1 hour ago, steve4rosegrove said:

Errrr, pedantry time, but it was Faiburn.....great photos though

 

39 minutes ago, eastwestdivide said:

Muphry's Law strikes again!

 

8 minutes ago, Leander said:

I've always known him as Fairburn.

 

 

I used to know he was Charles E Fairburn - but I haven't written (or typed) his name for some years.  I can't think of a good reason why I got it wrong.

[Chris116]

14 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

 

 

 

I used to know he was Charles E Fairburn - but I haven't written (or typed) his name for some years.  I can't think of a good reason why I got it wrong.

Maybe your keyboard moved the keys around as you were typing!

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a fantastic set of photo’s of the South Tynedale line at Alston. Indeed, I was looking, yesterday, at an old advert for the line asking people to contribute funds for it so a signal could be changed from stop to go, with a photo’ of one of the lines ex NER lower quadrant signals.

Anyway, that first photo’, from the 6th March, 1993, captures perfectly, the station buildings at Alston. And it’s great that that signal was changed from stop to go. 
The St. Pancras photo’s are full of period atmosphere from 1954, and thank you for posting them. In JVol2147, with a Compound, you can see the once so common sight of a steam engine, at the bufferstops, on a long  train of non corridor carriages. Even the preserved lines cannot recapture that sight, but your excellent photo’s can.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

Today it's the 28th July 1992 and we are in Switzerland, heading west on the Furka Oberalp Bahn (now the MGB) eventually arriving at Andermatt.

 

There is a bit of cheating, this particular journey was done in my car.

 

 

Sedrun FO X4966 28th July 92 C17078

 

 

Sedrun FO HGe4/4ii Glacier Express Zermatt to St Moritz 28th July 92 C17077

 

 

Oberalppasshohe 28th July 92 C17088

 

 

Oberalppass FO HGe4/4 36 eastbound 28th July 92 C17111  A distant view along the lake.

 

 

Andermatt FO HGe4/4ii 106 Glacier Express Zermatt to St Moritz 28th July 92 C17104

 

 

David

Edited April 6, 2022 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a fantastic set of photo’s from Switzerland on the 28th July, 1992. They show just how enchanting the Country is, and what a lovely railway the Furka Oberalp Bahn is. Andermatt is a lovely place to finish in. In the first photo’ at Sedrun, with FO, X4966, you have such an excellent example of a road - rail truck. I think more use should be made of such vehicles, especially here in the UK. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[corneliuslundie]

No worries about you using your car. if you had been travelling by train you couldn't have got some of those photos.

Jonathan

[DaveF]

 

A few more photos taken at Milford Junction on 29th May 1996 for today.

 

The usual mix of locos...

 

 

Milford Junction 59203 down empty coal 29th May 96 C20920

 

 

Milford Junction Class 142 up 29th May 96 C20921

 

 

Milford Junction 09014 l e 29th May 96 C20928

 

 

Milford Junction 59205 down empties 29th May 96 C20962

 

 

Milford Junction 56111 up coal 29th May 96 C20972a

 

 

David

Edited April 2, 2022 by DaveF

[SHMD]

3 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

A few more photos taken at Milford Junction on 29th May 1996 for today.

 

The usual mix of locos...

 

 

Milford Junction 59203 down empty coal 29th May 96 C20920

 

 

Milford Junction Class 142 up 29th May 96 C20921

 

 

Milford Junction 09014 l e 29th May 96 C20928

 

 

Milford Junction 59205 down empties 29th May 96 C20962

 

 

Milford Junction 56111 up coal 29th May 96 C20972a

 

 

David

 

Hi David,

 

What Camera and film/digital equipment/media did you use for these shots?

I was just wondering about the degradation is quality.

(No offence meant, just curious for such "late" subjects.)

 

 

Thanks,

Kev.

 

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a great set of photo’s from Milford Junction as it was on the 29th May, 1996. In C20962, 59205, on a down train of empties, looks impressive, especially with the wagons in the same livery. Hopefully the Dapol 4mm model will be equally good when it is eventually released. The last photo’ of 56111 on an up coal train looks as good as ever in the great Loadhaul livery. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

On 01/02/2022 at 18:52, SHMD said:

 

Hi David,

 

What Camera and film/digital equipment/media did you use for these shots?

I was just wondering about the degradation is quality.

(No offence meant, just curious for such "late" subjects.)

 

 

Thanks,

Kev.

 

 

 All were taken on a Minolta Dynax 500si, mainly using a 35-105 zoom lens.  The film was Agfa CT100.  They were taken when digital did not exist for amateurs.

 

The quality of the first two is a result of the scanning process, and any subsequent work in Photoshop.

 

I originally scanned my and Dad's slides purely for my own use between 2003 and 2005 using a Minolta film scanner.  The resolution I used varied depending on how good and interesting the images were to me.  Putting them on the web came much later.

 

I have found that Agfa film scans well if the original slides were taken in good weather.  On dull days Agfa slides tend to have a slight green colour cast, scanning can result in this being corrected to a pink cast.  Remember that when I was doing this technology was not as advanced as now and computers were very much slower, so work in Photoshop took much longer and the software was not as good. 

 

I can now correct the colour casts etc much better but at present have very little time as I spend at least eight hours a day caring for my mother, who is 97.  Hence the images I am using at the moment are mainly run through auto enhance and captioned and resized for RMWeb use.  The files I use on RMWeb are only 1500 pixels wide and about 350KB.

 

In an ideal word I can produce better results, but at present it is what I have or no photos at all.

 

I hope this helps.  Of course it could be suggested that I rescan all my slides - I can't as I did not bother keeping them, I ran out of space.  I have better things to do with the years I may (if I am lucky) have left.

 

A few minutes "play" with a newish copy of Photoshop Elements produced the results below - you can do almost anything you want with colour/lighting and so on now.  The grain is a function of the original scan, and, I suspect the lighting on the day - I think theses images may have been underexposed to start with.

 

 I have not been able to replace the images below as I had not saved them to my RMWeb file as I just worked on them and posted them.

 

 

Milford Junction 59203 down empty coal 29th May 96 C20920  Modified version

 

 

Milford Junction Class 142 up 29th May 96 C20921 Modified version

 

I hope this is some use.

 

David

Edited April 2, 2022 by DaveF