Jonny's Dodgy Quality (Mostly Cardiff) Photos

[Prometheus]

What is the Green vehicle in-between the Rover and the Austin ?

 

Is it a Saab ?

 

VW 1600, but whether it's a TL or a TS I can't tell. I had several and they were surprisingly fast but suffered from light front ends. There was also an Estate version made called the Variant, spartan but extremely practical. The saloon versions looked just plain odd....

 

Tony

[jonny777]

I added this to the prototype for everything thread, but as it is passing Cardiff I thought I ought to include it here as well.

 

 

 

37220 August 1978.

[jonny777]

Similarly, this was added to the 1990s steelworks thread, but deserves a second showing on here.

 

I apologise for creating a dome fitted class 37, but my ability to see the finished photo was not always as thorough as it ought to have been with sudden approach of trains on the through lines.

 

 

 

37051 and 37505 on 13th May 1992.

 

[jonny777]

Just before Christmas we had a new living room carpet fitted. This meant moving almost every item of furniture out of the room in order to take up the old carpet and underlay, in preparation for the fitters to put in the new one.

 

With umpteen boxes dumped in various bedrooms I felt as though I was moving house, and had cables and hardware randomly distributed in the boxes over the festive season, but I am beginning to get back to normal now; and things are returning to their rightful places.

 

Thus, more slides from Cardiff in the ~1980s can be given the light of day.

 

 

 

08589 and uid colleague in the summer of 1978.

 

 

 

31165 arrives with ecs into platform 1 1981

 

 

 

37692 passes Canton with coal empties in Feb 1987

 

 

 

47437 l/e undated

 

 

 

25132 also l/e with class 119 at platform 2 (W51066 is the identifiable car).

 

[jonny777]

Starting with a couple of units today.

 

Here is a Derby/MetCamm hybrid.

 

 

 

53617 and 51505 in 1979.

 

 

 

150110 heads east in June 1987  (Sadly the destination is unreadable on the original).

 

 

 

47624 Cyclops at Canton in 1986.

 

 

 

56102 passing the depot with a westbound train of MGR hoppers in August 1988.

 

 

And I'm not sure what was going on here -

 

 

50018 presumably on ecs in 1983, but the passengers don't mind as their HST can be seen extreme right entering platform 3.

[Mandrover]

Vw type3 fastback.

[jonny777]

The next group begins with a prime example of mis-timed shutter pressing. 

 

 

 

Ooops. 47479 arrives at platform 1 with ecs for a cross-country service in 1979.

 

 

 

253029 in 1978 with re-furbished valley lines units in the background.

 

 

 

A view inside Canton with 56046 under repair in 1983 with a 47 and 37.

 

 

 

43150 leaves for London while 43189 arrives in 1983.

 

 

 

47612 has an ecs for a cross country service in July 1988, on the down through line, while a uid 37 approaches from the west.

[jonny777]

Not Cardiff again, but I have just won this slide online and thought that it made such a great example for modelling purposes that I would share it here.

 

This is 76053 on a Bournemouth to Southampton local stopper on 5th August 1965 at Southampton Central.

 

 

 

 

[melmerby]

Looks like the poor loco didn't have much longer left in this life! (It lasted until Jan 67)

Somewhat careworn for a 10 year old loco.

No shed code either, should be 70D

Nicely mixed rake of stock.

 

Cheers

 

Keith