RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted May 8, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 8, 2015 The lower one was a light on the walking route marking the start of a walking route and the upper one is outside the railway boundary. The walking route was from the station to the diesel depot and the lights would go out for trains going in or out of the old platforms 1 and 2. If I remember correctly, when a route was set out of the station, the walking route lights would go out straightaway but there would be a short delay before the signal cleared to allow anyone on the walking route time to find a refuge point on the Caversham Road bridge. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Sorry I missed Stationmaster's comment. I do find your second sentence a little curt, I was just looking for clues in the picture as to location and I thought I could see marker lights from headcodes of a small diesel so putting that into context with an unnamed 50 I made a suggestion it might be north of Carlisle. I guessed the first location was Eastleigh but you get no points for guessing after someone else posts photographic evidence. Sorry. I do curt without realising. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steamyrog Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Hi I have been cataloguing some of my early slides, some of which I don't know/remember the location where they were taken as I have misplaced my notes. Here is a photo of 30499 being towed through a station in June 1966, and as I found out later, on its way to Woodham's at Barry. Can anyone identify the station it is taken at? 30499_480.jpg Hello, I am chairman of the Urie Loco Society and am very interested in this photo of our engine 30499. I wondered if I could get a copy for our records please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Hello, I am chairman of the Urie Loco Society and am very interested in this photo of our engine 30499. I wondered if I could get a copy for our records please? I have sent you an email.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 I have been scanning in more photos taken around 1966. Can anyone conform the locations. I have 61008 as at Aberdeen and 60019 at Perth. Thanks 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 60019 looks more like Stirling to me, heading southbound. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 ... and I think 61008 might be Carstairs! Access footbridge from the West side. Train is heading north (note that loco is allocated to Eastfield). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 61008 is definitely at Carstairs northbound: https://images.app.goo.gl/C5o1rNUbEaouwLXy5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 And 60019 is Stirling southbound (same engine, even!): https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/35/692/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 61008 at Carstairs, at one time a Leicester Central loco, I have a painting on the wall of it at Nottingham Victoria. I'm also involved in the group which exhibited the Carstairs layout, although that was set in blue electric days, so I recognised the footbridge immediately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted March 21, 2021 Author Share Posted March 21, 2021 Thanks to all for the info.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted June 7, 2021 Author Share Posted June 7, 2021 Here is a photo of Black 5 44713 at an unidentified shed. It has a 10D Lostock Hall shed plate and was reallocated there on 24 June 1967, so the photo must have been taken after that date. I am trying to identify the shed where it is. I'm sure I have seen photos with the same screens and gantries that can be seen in the background. There can't be many steam sheds still open after June 1967. Any ideas anyone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Edge Hill? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 (edited) I’d say this is the same location: https://btckstorage.blob.core.windows.net/site3376/Doug.B - 8A Rail/Edge Hill 8A/8A 44964 outside shed R Mercer Coll 1960's.jpg (Edit - the caption doesn’t show. It’s 44964 in Edge Hill shed yard.) Edited June 7, 2021 by pH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 First thing that came to mind was edge hill 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted June 7, 2021 Author Share Posted June 7, 2021 Thanks to all for the location info... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted September 16, 2022 Author Share Posted September 16, 2022 I took this photo of an unidentified class 47 on a pullman train passing through Trowbridge, heading for Westbury. The last photos on the film roll were taken at Crewe Basford Hall Open Day on 27 August 1995 so it must have been taken some time before that date. Can any class 47 experts identify the loco and possible the date? I have looked on Six Bells Junction without success. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 1998 Combo may not be the best guide but it's to hand ...... the only candidate with a ginormous nameplate and InterCity livery looks to be 47.841 ....... try blowing up the picture and see if you can read the plate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 I don't think it is 47841 - it had a flush front by then, and the nameplate was fixed higher up the bodyside. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 47528 'The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry'. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Ah ! - that had been repainted in BR maroon by the time of my '98 Combo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted September 16, 2022 Author Share Posted September 16, 2022 5 hours ago, stovepipe said: 47528 'The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry'. Thanks for the info stovepipe... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 As to the working, it looks like the VSOE stock which worked regularly to Folkestone and Southampton, but also to other places. There was a period in 1995 when steam locos could not be used for risk of lineside fires; this may be one of the occasions or perhaps it is just a positioning move. I don't think those are heads out of the window in the 4th coach, but then that probably wasn't what the Pullman clientale would want to do.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 You'd have to be a contortionist to get your head out of a Pullman toplight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share Posted September 17, 2022 While on a RailRover in August 1965 I took a photo of this coach W80969W in a bay at an unknown station. After using Google I found this: 80969 is one of six 52ft inspection saloons (INSP) built at Swindon as lot number 1701 to diagram Q13. It was ordered under FW Hawksworth’s tenure as GWR CME, although it has little visual similarity to his other carriage designs. Can anyone identify the station where I took the photo? I tried to Google "Bracey's Furnishers" without success. The photos on the film roll before this were taken at Cardiff East Dock shed and those after taken from the train passing Hayes Scrap Yard Bridgend although I was jumping about South Wales on that day 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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