Photo's Of East Yorkshire Railways

[Market65]

Good evening, everyone. This we go back to Hull, and Botanic Gardens depot, thanks to a photo’ by Paul Smith on Flickr. It shows 08248, shunting stock on a day in February, 1985.

 

 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

[Market65]

Good evening, everyone. Well, for this evening, thanks again to Paul Smith on Flickr, we see 31440 running past Boothferry Park Halt, with a diverted 10.59 Hull to Manchester Picadilly service on the 5th January, 1986.  
 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

 

[Market65]

Good evening, everyone. This evening, with thanks again to Paul Smith on Flickr, we stay in Hull, and we see 45013, with the cab full up, waiting to depart from Hull Paragon station with a Rugby League special to Leeds, on the 6th April, 1985.

 

 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

[Market65]

Good afternoon, everyone. This afternoon we go to Seamer thanks to ricsrailpics on Flickr. The black and white photo’ is a head on view of class B1, 61069 approaching the station from Scarborough, on the 25th August, 1962. The smoke indicates the the fireman has been putting coal on the fire. I dread to think how old the boys to the right will now be.
 

Class B1 no.61069. Seamer Junction near Scarbro. York-bound. 25 August 1962 by ricsrailpics, on Flickr
 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

[45125]

On 20/06/2022 at 18:59, Market65 said:

Good evening, everyone. This evening, with thanks again to Paul Smith on Flickr, we stay in Hull, and we see 45013, with the cab full up, waiting to depart from Hull Paragon station with a Rugby League special to Leeds, on the 6th April, 1985.

 

 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

 

Leeds v Hull FC, Championship game Hull won 35 -18.

 

Suspect that is a Leeds crew.

 

 

Edited June 21, 2022 by 45125

[Boris]

Gallows Close Goods Yard in Scarborough in the early 1960s with an unidentified BR STD 3 shunting the yard.  Photographer unknown, found on the Scarborough and Whitby Railway Facebook Group.

[russ p]

1 hour ago, Boris said:

Gallows Close Goods Yard in Scarborough in the early 1960s with an unidentified BR STD 3 shunting the yard.  Photographer unknown, found on the Scarborough and Whitby Railway Facebook Group.

 

Excellent picture 

Wonder what's in those two minerals?  The first one looks very clean and even painted inside 

[Artless Bodger]

10 minutes ago, russ p said:

Wonder what's in those two minerals?  The first one looks very clean and even painted inside

I wondered that too, first thought was sand but too dense for that depth in the wagon and also some rather big bits in there. I settled for sawdust / sawmill waste - big bits are off-cuts, chips etc. Probably wrong, usually am.

[lmsforever]

Could it be gypsum

[Andy Hayter]

Fly ash?  Either from the loco shed or less likely (based on the location)  from a power station.

[Artless Bodger]

On 13/06/2022 at 19:19, Market65 said:

Good evening, everyone. I think if I laid track with a joint like that on my model railway I’d get into trouble for people would say it is not like that on the prototype. 
Well, this evening we are still in Hull, but out to the west on the mainline to Selby and Goole. We are seeing 37299 accelerating away having just collected it’s train from Hessle yard. It’s giving out a good plume of exhaust. The still being built A63 can be seen on the right, and Hessle yard to the left which is now well built on. The date is the 9th April, 1985, and the photo’ is courtesy of Paul Smith, on Flickr.

 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

Interesting comment wrt the road building. Around that time I went to stay with SIL who lived somewhere off the Anlaby Road, in order to travel on the Settle and Carlisle line - there was a daily through train from Hull to Carlisle and back. Plans went awry because some Herberts had nicked a digger from road works in Hessle and driven it onto the tracks (so possibly those roadworks in the photo). As a result we were all piled onto double deck busses and shipped to Brough - a lot of people were carrying suitcases (going to Blackpool perhaps). Despite the disruption and delay I did manage the S&C, went from Selby to York, then to Newcastle, did the Newcastle to Carlisle line in the DMU behind the driver, good views, then caught the return S&C train through to Hull. V. late for tea, not in SIL's best books though I'd tried to 'phone from Carlise she was out. Couldn't work out the right bus when back in Hull so walked, which added to lateness.

[russ p]

7 minutes ago, Andy Hayter said:

Fly ash?  Either from the loco shed or less likely (based on the location)  from a power station.

 

Was there a power station at Scarborough 

[Artless Bodger]

Wasn't fly ash was normally carried in Presflos? Used to get them at Peterborough for disposal in the brick pits. Its a bit fly-away for opens?

[The Stationmaster]

46 minutes ago, russ p said:

 

Excellent picture 

Wonder what's in those two minerals?  The first one looks very clean and even painted inside 

Probably loco ash from the shed - fairly light compared with many other things such as sand so could be loaded quite high especially if there's plenty of smokebox char in it.  The nature of the material also varies with some bigger lumps - very much like stuff dropped out of a firebox.

[Andy Hayter]

30 minutes ago, russ p said:

 

Was there a power station at Scarborough 

 Yes but it shut in 1958, so if the early 60s is correct for the photo date, this would not be the source.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Coal-fired_power_stations_in_England

[Market65]

Good evening, everyone. Thank you, Boris, for that excellent photo’ of Gallows Close goods yard in the early 1960’s, it is an excellent addition to the thread. I can’t add to the discussion about the mineral wagons, except they probably were carrying loco ash from the shed.

Now, this evening, with another photo’ from ricsrailpics on Flickr, we are once again in Seamer and the same date, the 25th August, 1962. We see class K3, complete with a proud riveted tender, 61853, on it’s way from York to Scarborough. Note the very tall NER revolving disc ground signal in the foreground and the somewhat strange looking bufferstops.

 

Class K3 no.61853. Seamer Junction. 25 August 1962 by ricsrailpics, on Flickr
 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

[iands]

41 minutes ago, Market65 said:

Good evening, everyone. Thank you, Boris, for that excellent photo’ of Gallows Close goods yard in the early 1960’s, it is an excellent addition to the thread. I can’t add to the discussion about the mineral wagons, except they probably were carrying loco ash from the shed.

Now, this evening, with another photo’ from ricsrailpics on Flickr, we are once again in Seamer and the same date, the 25th August, 1962. We see class K3, complete with a proud riveted tender, 61853, on it’s way from York to Scarborough. Note the very tall NER revolving disc ground signal in the foreground and the somewhat strange looking bufferstops.

 

Class K3 no.61853. Seamer Junction. 25 August 1962 by ricsrailpics, on Flickr
 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

Could be wrong, but it looks like a couple of de-railers propped up against the buffer stops.

[cctransuk]

Just now, iands said:

Could be wrong, but it looks like a couple of de-railers propped up against the buffer stops.

 

Shouldn't that be RE-railers?

 

CJI.

[iands]

36 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

 

Shouldn't that be RE-railers?

 

CJI.

Possibly. (I did say I could be wrong!)

[russ p]

12 hours ago, Market65 said:

Good evening, everyone. Thank you, Boris, for that excellent photo’ of Gallows Close goods yard in the early 1960’s, it is an excellent addition to the thread. I can’t add to the discussion about the mineral wagons, except they probably were carrying loco ash from the shed.

Now, this evening, with another photo’ from ricsrailpics on Flickr, we are once again in Seamer and the same date, the 25th August, 1962. We see class K3, complete with a proud riveted tender, 61853, on it’s way from York to Scarborough. Note the very tall NER revolving disc ground signal in the foreground and the somewhat strange looking bufferstops.

 

Class K3 no.61853. Seamer Junction. 25 August 1962 by ricsrailpics, on Flickr
 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

Hi Rob

A lot of details in that picture that would look odd on a model . A crossover which appears to be able to hold a loco and two right handed signals 

Excellent picture though 

[Boris]

12 hours ago, cctransuk said:

 

Shouldn't that be RE-railers?

 

CJI.

They are definitely short rerailing ramps, knowing the amount of crap buried in the bushes and undergrowth at Seamer I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were still on site somewhere!

[Market65]

Good evening, everyone. This evening we again stay in Seamer, on the 25th August, 1962, with thanks again to ricsrailpics on Flickr, and watch B16/3, 61454, approaching from Scarborough on a train of Stanier corridor stock.  

 

B16/3 no.61454 approaching Seamer station. 25 August 1962. by ricsrailpics, on Flickr
 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

[The Stationmaster]

On 23/06/2022 at 10:36, Boris said:

They are definitely short rerailing ramps, knowing the amount of crap buried in the bushes and undergrowth at Seamer I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were still on site somewhere!

However they would be very attractive items for the metal fairies - assuming they could actually manage to lift the ruddy useless things.  

 

They were definitely something the d-i-y re-railing cognoscenti avoided like the plague if they were on offer (and many places didn't have them) as reportedly they were quite adept at breaking chairs as part of the re-railing process.  Far better, and easier, to use some bits of timber packing (bits of old sleeper in good condition, sprags were said by 'the old boys' to be even better) and, ideally, some steel plate although fishplates were an alternative but the older types had a tendency to break at the wrong moment as a wheel went over them.

[Artless Bodger]

I was quite amazed to see a film of a large American co-co (SD40-2 or the like perhaps) being rerailed (the rail had turned over on a curve) using nothing more than blocks of wooden packing. I think the axle load of one of these is about 30T.

[Artless Bodger]

On 07/06/2022 at 18:21, Market65 said:

Good afternoon, everyone. This afternoon we go to Bridlington, in the 1950’s and have an accident! Two photo’s, by fishermandave89 on Flickr make things clear. A D49/1, Shire, ended up in the turntable pit when things went a bit wrong. There is no date, but I seem to recall it may have been 1957. One of the ex-NER Cravens 25 ton breakdown cranes helped with the recovery. A former GCR non corridor carriage can be seen as part of the breakdown train.
 

 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

By co-incidence I found a photo compilation on Youtube today which includes this incident and some details of the consequent measures taken to turn a lot of waiting excursion locos; 'Misfortune at Bridlington'.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHQnXZsgfgk