Rivercider Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Don't think it is either, I would go for Langwith Junction. Agreed, there are similarities with this view, notably the roof line of the shed on the left https://www.flickr.com/photos/gricerman/27057320485/in/photolist-qhcMuo-qjqyH9-cSSL7U-4TvE9Y-q2Vrm5-cSSHQL-pnyR1A-qjnKmj-qevjDB-cSSHZf-8RMPEJ-qjr69n-dXU3pP-GitPqu-yqEZNJ-xye4yN-Htvo1F-HdXQC6-H6L11F-rt6VwF-HjWXqh-gws79C-CEPML1-CNmWxp-H3P5p3-CH5bye-CN4PBj-Cn9NFe-CTmfAq-CgScJT-C4zrmH-BY99BS-CTFakx-CgScNR-CTmg8C-pTncHB-st3x2v-JT6oWw-HdXQHB-HdXQAH-HdXQza-H6L14B-H3P5rN-GTvUZD-GMyjf4-GevcVC-GevcSw-GQvtLG-FJhPiK-C4sgjJ cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 You are right. Thanks very much to you both. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 This photo was taken from a dmu, possibly a Derby lightweight. I suspect that it is somewhere in Suffolk or Essex, but does anyone recognise it? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 My guess is the Derby Lightweight is leaving Burnham on Crouch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2017 My guess is the Derby Lightweight is leaving Burnham on Crouch. I thought Burnham but I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a Derby lightweight on the branch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2017 I thought Burnham but I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a Derby lightweight on the branch https://flic.kr/p/dSdXKz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2017 Cheers, I'll go with Richard and also say Burnham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted January 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2017 Cheers, I'll go with Richard and also say Burnham http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5533/10314906814_5bf793fed2.jpg 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 Wonderful. Thanks very much, and might I hazard a guess this next one is Fambridge? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2017 I would go along with that 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 This is interesting, even if poor quality and under-exposed. Prints like this probably get chucked in a bin bag by the thousand every year, by non-enthusiast relatives; but although it is a Britannia on the GE somewhere with electrification under way or finishing at that point, it was the emus (presumably class306s) in the background which caught my eye. What livery is the nearest one painted in? Crimson and cream maybe? I thought electric units from the mid-50s era wore green livery. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) Trick of the light on that EMU maybe? The curve of the body below the windows makes it look darker/doesn't reflect the sky so much as the upper part? Edit: similar effect on the photo at the top of : http://www.lner.info/locos/Electric/shenfield.php Edited January 31, 2017 by eastwestdivide Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 Yes, you could be right. I will have to look more closely at the original, but it is quite convincing at first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 This is interesting, even if poor quality and under-exposed. Prints like this probably get chucked in a bin bag by the thousand every year, by non-enthusiast relatives; IMG_1101.jpg So much must go this way. My own family members thrown out pictures because they were of poor quality etc. One such poor quality picture contained a photo of me standing next to an 03 in green livery at Hitchin. It's poor quality made up for my poor memory, though i was probably less than three years old at the time. Luckily that one was saved. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Show us it then? Green 03's are nice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Show us it then? Green 03's are nice. I'll have to extract it from Mum's house, may take a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) This is interesting, even if poor quality and under-exposed. Prints like this probably get chucked in a bin bag by the thousand every year, by non-enthusiast relatives; but although it is a Britannia on the GE somewhere with electrification under way or finishing at that point, it was the emus (presumably class306s) in the background which caught my eye. What livery is the nearest one painted in? Crimson and cream maybe? I thought electric units from the mid-50s era wore green livery. It doesn't look like a trick of the light to me, it looks like blood and custard but I have never come across any reference to an EMU being painted in this livery. Could this be an unofficial repaint? Fascinating! Chris Turnbull Edited January 31, 2017 by Chris Turnbull Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 31, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2017 I think the picture is gidea park carriage sidings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 It doesn't look like a trick of the light to me, it looks like blood and custard but I have never come across any reference to an EMU being painted in this livery. Could this be an unofficial repaint? Fascinating! Chris Turnbull I have rummaged in the box and discovered this one which shows the entire unit. I believe that the transition from light to dark is not sharp enough to be a paint job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 31, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2017 I'm pretty certain that paint job is a trick of the light. If a unit had been painted blood and custard I'm sure there would have been photographic evidence before now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 I have rummaged in the box and discovered this one which shows the entire unit. I believe that the transition from light to dark is not sharp enough to be a paint job. Hmm...perhaps you're right. Chris Turnbull 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 It's simply the way the light is catching the side of the unit - highlighting the flat part above the very shadowy and rather pronounced tumblehome. No EMUs were painted in 'blood and custard' (until the Scottish sets in the 1980s) and the only 'DMUs' to receive it were the GWR railcars. Even the Southern's express units such as the 4CORs were green throughout, albeit different shades of green. Blue came in with the Scottish units and the WCML electrification and then Rail blue with Corporate Image in 1964.(CJL) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 It's simply the way the light is catching the side of the unit - highlighting the flat part above the very shadowy and rather pronounced tumblehome. No EMUs were painted in 'blood and custard' (until the Scottish sets in the 1980s) and the only 'DMUs' to receive it were the GWR railcars. Even the Southern's express units such as the 4CORs were green throughout, albeit different shades of green. Blue came in with the Scottish units and the WCML electrification and then Rail blue with Corporate Image in 1964.(CJL) Not forgetting the maroon Class 309 express units on the Clacton line Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 There was a discussion somewhere just recently, maybe the Yahoo GER group? I read that the GE electrification was delayed by the war, though some units were built (and stored?) in late LNER days, and were painted in LNER livery. I think it might have been light/dark blue? I'm not able to look at the group website until the weekend unfortunately. Anyway, there was some interesting discussion about this, and a desparate plea for someone to find a photo! To me, that pic shows a two tone livery and is not a trick of the light. Stewarr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted January 31, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2017 I've never heard of any units being built in LNER days but I suppose it could be true as the service started in 49. The prototype EM1 was delivered in LNER livery and then sent to Holland Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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