jonny777 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 More 37s today. ER stalwart 37119 on a rather mixed goods. 37158 with grampus (I think) wagons in 1978. 37179 heads a coal train 1979. 37207 has ballast wagons in tow, also in 1979. 37254 with more coal wagons in 1979. (Anyone recognise the chap with bag and notebook?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 The wagons are Grampus, and although I did have glasses, a black sports bag and denims, the hair isn't long enough, and my sports bag wasn't Adidas! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitchinLoco Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Just had a quick play with this one to see if it could be improved a little Jonny! Hope that is OK 43010 CF 1983.jpg 43010 has arrived at platform 4 in 1983. 08580 CF 1976.jpg 08580 is on shunting duties in 1976. 50033 CF 1983.jpg 50033 arrives (possibly with a Manchester service in 1983. 37307 37299 CF 1976.jpg Three 37s at Canton in 1976, including 37307 and 37299. My jury is still out on whether the two left hand locos are in green, or just very dirty. There are no BR arrows or lion transfers which only adds to the confusion. D1051 CF 1976.jpg I think this is D1051, and it appears to be running round its train in platform 1. Another 1976 photo. The loco certainly has a long name, maybe 11 characters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted October 22, 2015 Author Share Posted October 22, 2015 Thanks Hitchin. That is great. Also, I see from your location that you are in Sleaford. I went to school there, but haven't been back for years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitchinLoco Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Your welcome, Yes I am nr Sleaford now, but was living in Hitchin/Letchworth Herts until 2006 when moved to here! Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Not me either - I'd have been concentrating on that riveted body HTV................... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted October 29, 2015 Author Share Posted October 29, 2015 Canton depot again in 1978 with lots of 47s, and a 45 with a very long nameplate. 08195 resides in the parcels siding, although it looks as though it needs a repaint. Sep 1983. 25113 l/e through the station in 1977. 31126 is on a Portsmouth service in 1979. 60008 another l/e on 5th Aug 1991. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 3, 2015 Author Share Posted December 3, 2015 I am departing from the Cardiff theme, just to bring you this view of Gloucester in 1974 - mainly for the line up of 1970s cars on show. I love these old photos that seemed nothing out of the ordinary at the time, but 40 years on they show just how far vehicle design has progressed in that time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted December 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2015 Free parking outside a major railway station? Surely not! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted December 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2015 I am departing from the Cardiff theme, just to bring you this view of Gloucester in 1974 - mainly for the line up of 1970s cars on show. I love these old photos that seemed nothing out of the ordinary at the time, but 40 years on they show just how far vehicle design has progressed in that time. gloucester sta 1974.jpg Gloucester station doesn't look anything like that now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 I am departing from the Cardiff theme, just to bring you this view of Gloucester in 1974 - mainly for the line up of 1970s cars on show. I love these old photos that seemed nothing out of the ordinary at the time, but 40 years on they show just how far vehicle design has progressed in that time. gloucester sta 1974.jpg So they all look similar now! Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D803Albion Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 What is the Green vehicle in-between the Rover and the Austin ? Is it a Saab ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 What is the Green vehicle in-between the Rover and the Austin ? Is it a Saab ? It's a Volkswagen; I have an inkling it may have been the original Passat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vin Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Hi, It looks like a VW roundback from the mid sixties. Regards Vin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigherb Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 What is the Green vehicle in-between the Rover and the Austin ? Is it a Saab ? Volkswagen Type 3 fastback Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 7, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2015 Gloucester station doesn't look anything like that now. Very true - this is about as near as I can get to that viewpoint on Google Streetview. The building (sort of) visible through the trees is Asda. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Although if you venture into the car park and don't get too close to the hedge (which takes you back to the dual carriageway each time) you can get this view of the entrance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.hill64 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Although if you venture into the car park and don't get too close to the hedge (which takes you back to the dual carriageway each time) you can get this view of the entrance. Screen Shot 2015-12-07 at 13.11.41.png The modern view is on the site of the old Central station. The original post was Eastgate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Oh, ok. Those two stations always confused me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted December 7, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2015 Oh, ok. Those two stations always confused me. Eastgate was on the Midland Line from Birmingham. Central was on the South Wales Main Line via Stroud, Gloucester and Lydney. Hope this helps. There is a map in this thread. http://ftp.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?f=240&t=131972 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 And, because it is Christmas - I thought I would share this unusual archive view of Virginia Water station. Warning - the following link may not be suitable for those of a excitable disposition. https://www.flickr.com/photos/norbet/12722869933 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted December 24, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2015 I like how he mentions the car first.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toffee Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 The 'good old days' as far as coal traffic in that part of the country was concerned 37238 CF 1978.jpg 37238 with a train of MDVs heading west ]in 1978 31125 37431 37897 CF 7:88.jpg A July 1988 view from the most useful Canton depot staff footbridge. Included here are 31125 37431 and 37897 A couple of light engines now - 33026 CF 1979.jpg 33026 heading for platform 1 in 1979. Class 33s were almost unheard of in Cardiff until the late 1970s, when they began to take over the Portsmouth services from the class 123 units and 31/4s which had in turn replaced Hymeks. Subsequently, the 33s also took over the Crewe services from 25s, which had proved to be under-powered for the hilly Welsh Marches section. 25270 CF 11:76.jpg 25270 in November 1976. This loco had spent most of its life at Toton but, soon, the slaughter of the later type 2s would commence, and in all (despite costing around £100,000 to build) it would only have a working life of 16 years. Beg to differ regarding 33 s in Kardiff ! Summer dated Saturday workings from Pompy harbour were well known to bring a couple up every year 60s and 70s, likewise 33/1s and 4TC sets would turn up frequently on Sundays when some odd routes were taken around trackwork. Likewise with the 25, during the power hungry mid 70s 25s from all midland depots turned up in Cardiff on a daily basis, Kingmoor and Cricklewood were the rarer beasts but by no means unknown. Back to the 33s we even had a oil working from Fawley arriving in the docks at 5am in the 70s, me and a mate stayed up one night to see it ! And not all that turned up were EH, HG ones were frequent on Saterday 'Merrymaker' workings from the South East, not forgetting the time a pair of Hastings DMus turned up on a Hastings - Swansea away day, how I wished I'd jumped on that outrageous working ! Great photos by the way, keep em coming, we need more from this great hotspot, not picture book pretty but the sheer number of trains, locos, and foreigners turning up on a daily basis could hardly have been bettered by other locations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toffee Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Sorry, only just come across this thread so still catching up. Nice to see Bri filling in the gaps ! As to the two 20s up the valleys after replacing the Deltic at the General, Bri you ought to have jumped on, they only charged us a fiver for the trip up, well worth it, I wish I had a photo of the signal mans face at Ponty when he stuck his head out to witness these strange machines ! Never saw the Aberthaw 20s, think I might have left for the midland at that point, did see my one and only pair on canton one evening around 75/6, 20 077 and 163, etched in my memory. Turned up for fuelling and away within the hour ! Much sucking of teeth by the running shed Forman when they arrived, when they went the local spotters were still turning up having heard on the grapevine and were charging up the footbridge steps, they just about saw them ! The Pompy trains were the 10-20 and 11-20 ex Pompy if I remember correctly, and yes 33/1 did turn up, I have Kodak photos somewhere as I was partial to photographing these trains in the early 70s. At various times one took a right at Dr Days and avoided BR, one went in and ran round, and one went in and changed engine so we only got 1 not 2 !! As I said above 4tc sets did turn up on Sundays, only ever saw them from the bridge at canton when doing a bunk, as they seemed to just turn round in the station and didn't bother with going into the carriage shed. Bri, you ought to have been seduced by the Pengam Bridge Boys like me and made your way there in the evenings (from Whitchurch by bike !) to see all the fancy stuff that never got to the General !, I did get to see the odd pair of 20s a couple of 40s and loads of ER 31s going into the docks. Falcon used to turn up sometimes as well ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 29, 2015 Author Share Posted December 29, 2015 A bit of festive season amusement today; A group of blokes, all aged around 40, discussed where they should meet for a reunion lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Bristol because the waitresses were generously endowed and wore mini-skirts. Ten years later, at age 50, the friends once again discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Bristol because the food and service was good and the beer selection was excellent. Ten years later, at age 60, the friends again discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Bristol because there was plenty of parking, they could dine in peace and quiet, and it was good value for money. Ten years later, at age 70, the friends discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Bristol because the restaurant was wheelchair accessible and had a toilet for the disabled. Ten years later, at age 80, the friends discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Bristol because they had never been there before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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