RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted June 20, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 20, 2016 Apologies if this has been up before, the link is from MREmag last week. http://www.bundesbahnzeit.de/page.php?id=HS2016-01-17_England Some rather nice colour pictures of British steam through the eyes of a German visitor in 1960. Lots of great weathering effects. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted June 20, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20, 2016 Nice pictures, thanks for pointing them out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Those are truly excellent, although the captions are a bit more than my German can cope with. I foresee many hours with the dictionary ahead! Again, thanks for posting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.hill64 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Some wonderful photos there: really nice quality work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 What a wonderful resource, they'd make a fine book. I can see my German improving in the coming week... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn1 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 What excellent photos these are. The two Panniers on shed is a superb capture. The push-pull stock behind the H class at Tonbridge looks positively ancient - another world. Thanks for posting the link. Les Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45568 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Note the condensing pannier with the GWR shirtbutton emblem. Also, whilst the SR WC are called 'West Country' class, the BB are not expanded upon! 'Kanalkampf Klasse' perhaps...? Overall though, some splendid pictures. Cheers from Oz, Peter C. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Excellent stuff, both in images and commentary. My schoolboy German wasn't up to the job so I handed the task to Google Translate, with interesting (sometimes verging on hilarious) results. It's a good read, notwithstanding Google sometimes struggling a bit. http://tinyurl.com/z53egay Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandrover Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Fantastic pictures, Especially liked the ones of Oxenholme as it was my local station as I grew up. Spent many a Saturday there as a youngster watching the trains go by. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 whilst the SR WC are called 'West Country' class, the BB are not expanded upon! 'Kanalkampf Klasse' perhaps...? At one point Google translates "WC" as "toilet"! Great photos, though. Many thanks to TSE for posting the link. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Sidelines Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Excellent - thanks for posting Ray Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Yes, the quality of the pics is superb, thanks for posting, some of those sheds were my old haunts, it brings back the good memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 20, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 20, 2016 Yes, the quality of the pics is superb, thanks for posting, some of those sheds were my old haunts, it brings back the good memories. And one of them even includes one of my past offices in the picture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 And one of them even includes one of my past offices in the picture. Would that happen to be the offices behind Corfe Castle at Old Oak ? Hey fellow modellers, notice the old GWR crest on 9710 :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Hey fellow modellers, notice the old GWR crest on 9710 :-) It looks very much like that loco is black so could be an early wartime paint job. If it was, say painted in 1940 it would be 20 years old in 1960. That's like 1996 now.... into the post-BR, Privatisation era Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 21, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2016 The Southern and Western ones in particular struck me as being remarkably similar to the work of R.C.Riley. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Not photos, but a colour video of a stopping service (mainly through dmu windows) from Paddington to Reading in 1960. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 And if that didn't blow you away, here is a colour video of the ECML from the same era. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 What an excellent set of photos. I loved the M7 at Eastleigh with a fresh coat of paint, the standard tank at Olympia, Willesden shed...happy days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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