johnw1 Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Here are a couple more 24113 at Inverness 24120 at Edinburgh 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 3, 2011 Author Share Posted April 3, 2011 Here are a couple more 24113 at Inverness http://www.flickr.co...ohn/5585614272/ 24120 at Edinburgh http://www.flickr.co...ohn/5585020187/ Two excellent finds there. That second really should make Pennine's day, I must confess it's the first action shot I think I've seen of an HA HBS, and she's entrusted with a passenger working to boot! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 That second really should make Pennine's day, ... she's entrusted with a passenger working to boot! 'Tis nice During that summer of '76 my main recollection is of a few of them lined up at Haymarket but we did see a pair bring an Aberdeen train into Waverley, I have a poor b/w print of it. 5/66 Drummuir http://www.gnsra.org...comotives40.htm 5/68 Cairnie http://www.gnsra.org...comotives40.htm Bob, those two link to the same pic, which they didnt earlier - plus I think it's the same train so one of the dates is wrong, with the blue/grey coach in formation I reckon it's '68 rather than '66 Sorry, back to the polishing 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Reid Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Bob, those two link to the same pic, which they didnt earlier - plus I think it's the same train so one of the dates is wrong, with the blue/grey coach in formation I reckon it's '68 rather than '66 Sorry, back to the polishing Thanks Ian - severe cut n'paste failure on my part there! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Reid Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Here's the culprit for 5131s demise....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUTTLEY Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 These are the last of my shots of IS 24s. I have some from the "Photographer unknown, from my collection" category, which I'll put on, when I get back from work in the morning. Please pardon the dire shot of 24121 - Zenit-Es had good days and bad days........ http://www.flickr.co...n_h/5586034984/ http://www.flickr.co...n_h/5586034470/ http://www.flickr.co...n_h/5585440959/ http://www.flickr.co...n_h/5585440379/ http://www.flickr.co...n_h/5586032814/ Cheers, Ron. PS - My shot of 24119, which states it was taken at Dalry, was actually Haymarket but Flickr, in their wisdom, wouldn't let me put Haymarket as the location! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 3, 2011 Author Share Posted April 3, 2011 HBS Life and Times, 1975 5/2/75 24113 (IS) + 47427 (ED) Up "Clansman" 1030 Inverness - Euston (taken off at Perth) 3/5/75 25026 (HA) + 24127 (IS) 1535 GQS - Aberdeen 17/5/75 24117 (IS), 24121 (IS) Glasgow Works Open Day 17/5/75 24130 (IS) + 40173 (HA) 2050 Euston - Inverness (from Perth) 13/9/75 24117 (IS) + 24126 (IS) Inverness - Wick (leg of excursion) and return 13/9/75 24112 (IS) Georgemas Jct - Thurso (trip, excursion) 13/9/75 24125 (IS) + 24127 (IS) Inverness - Perth The three day railtour above was the last 'fixed' opportunity to experience significant 'Highland' 24 mileage, as the regular use of 24s out of Inverness ended in October. The remaining machines were exchanged for 26s and their headlights removed before reallocation to Haymarket (excluding early withdrawals 5114, 5122 and 5131, and 24132 which never left Inverness, instead being stored there in October). Glasgow Works was still providing unclassified attention, though (Derby had stopped), as 24116 and 24118 were there during transfer IS - HA, presumably this is the time when 24116 received her curious (unique for a 24?) number and arrow positionings. There was life in the girls yet, and Haymarket put its new charges to use locally and further afield : 6/10/75 24128 (HA) 1730 Edinburgh - Cardenden 12/11/75 24127 (HA) 0835 GQS - Oban (how rateable was that!) 19/11/75 24129 (HA) Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh DMU drag 29/11/75 24120 (HA) + 24116 (HA) 1245 Aberdeen - Edinburgh 29/12/75 24121 (HA) 1710 Edinburgh - Berwick 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 3, 2011 Author Share Posted April 3, 2011 Who's this from the query pile? http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete.php?id=5093 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
South of 1E Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 HBS Life and Times, 1975 5/2/75 24113 (IS) + 47427 (ED) Up "Clansman" 1030 Inverness - Euston (taken off at Perth) 3/5/75 25026 (HA) + 24127 (IS) 1535 GQS - Aberdeen 17/5/75 24117 (IS), 24121 (IS) Glasgow Works Open Day 17/5/75 24130 (IS) + 40173 (HA) 2050 Euston - Inverness (from Perth) 13/9/75 24117 (IS) + 24126 (IS) Inverness - Wick (leg of excursion) and return 13/9/75 24112 (IS) Georgemas Jct - Thurso (trip, excursion) 13/9/75 24125 (IS) + 24127 (IS) Inverness - Perth The three day railtour above was the last 'fixed' opportunity to experience significant 'Highland' 24 mileage, as the regular use of 24s out of Inverness ended in October. The remaining machines were exchanged for 26s and their headlights removed before reallocation to Haymarket (excluding early withdrawals 5114, 5122 and 5131, and 24132 which never left Inverness, instead being stored there in October). Glasgow Works was still providing unclassified attention, though (Derby had stopped), as 24116 and 24118 were there during transfer IS - HA, presumably this is the time when 24116 received her curious (unique for a 24?) number and arrow positionings. There was life in the girls yet, and Haymarket put its new charges to use locally and further afield : 6/10/75 24128 (HA) 1730 Edinburgh - Cardenden 12/11/75 24127 (HA) 0835 GQS - Oban (how rateable was that!) 19/11/75 24129 (HA) Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh DMU drag 29/11/75 24120 (HA) + 24116 (HA) 1245 Aberdeen - Edinburgh 29/12/75 24121 (HA) 1710 Edinburgh - Berwick mighty fine gen on such an largely ignored sub class in the mags of the time .. My notes for 030276 read Inverness Lochgorm "usual compliment of 12 plus 26's incl 26019,26031,26032,26023,20083 and 24123!!" The 24 was not logged on other days so must have returned to her old home! 24069 was at inverness on 0746 ex Perth on 310176, and 24107 was at Pitlochry paired up with 40063 on freight on 040276. Also returning from Kyle on 020276 i noted 25109 on cements at the new Strome Ferry cement terminal, a "rat on tour! happy days NR www.leightonlogs.org 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 HBS Life and Times: 1976 9/1/76 24117 (HA) stored 31/1/76 24115 (HA) rescued on fire 26029 (IS) 0435 Edinburgh Glasgow 25/2/76 24116 (HA) Edinburgh - Dundee footex 3/4/76 24117 (HA) sighted at Glasgow Works, see This Day In History thread 6/4/76 24121 (HA) + 26034 (IS) (26034 replaced @ Kingussie by 25029 (IS), 25029 detached at Stirling) 1635 Inverness - Glasgow 19/4/76 24124 (HA) failed before departure 1710 Edinburgh - Berwick (1E83) 4/76 24119 (HA) stored 5/76 24128 (HA) stored 6/76 24123 (HA) stored 7/76 24124 (HA) stored There are no reported workings in the usual places during the summer T/T, but as that finishes interest is heightened: 11/9/76 24113 (HA) + 26027 (IS) 1310 Edinburgh - Inverness 15/9/76 24115 (HA) 1E83 again 15/9/76 24116 (HA) stored 17/9/76 24115 (HA) + 24120 (HA) 0740 Aberdeen - Edinburgh 30/9/76 24120 (HA) + 24104 (HA) 1230 Aberdeen - Edinburgh 6/10/76 24130 (HA) stored 7/10/76 24120 (HA) stored 11/10/76 24129 (HA) stored 13/10/76 24118 (HA) stored The last two workings are possibly the final paired HBS (and Exiled Skinhead HBS) trips of all, 24104 working four months into its reprieve at HA. On 22/10/76 the last four remaining operational HA 24s (24104/106/115/121) are officially stored, along with several already at Millerhill. However, on the same day 24121 over at Polmadie is reinstated to work its Glasgow - Ayr grand finale. Down the road at Kingmoor, the previously frequent performer 24115, stopped with a defective window, has that sorted and returns, unofficially working right up to its official withdrawal date of 31/12/76, turning up on: 23/11/76 24115 HA(S) 1E83 Edinburgh - Berwick 4/12/76 24115 HA(S) SRPS excursion Edinburgh - Carstairs (with 26043 IS). Was this the last HBS pax working of all? 1977. Clearance of Millerhill Yard in the third week of June left only two Class 24s on the ScR: 24006 at Eastfield for re-railing exercises, and 24002 at nearby Glasgow Works. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUTTLEY Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Found a couple more 24s at Doncaster Works on 3/4/77. http://www.flickr.co...n_h/5587646907/ http://www.flickr.co...n_h/5588239266/ And a few that I didn't take... http://i46.photobuck...n_H/gb24113.jpg http://i46.photobuck...n_H/gb24112.jpg http://i46.photobuck...n_H/gb24108.jpg http://i46.photobuck...n_H/gb24132.jpg A couple of snippets from MY perspective.... I copped 24132, which was put to store in October 1975, at Eastfield on 20 October 1975...how lucky is that?? Aside from those 24s scrapped pre-TOPS, the only 24 I never saw, was 24117, which was chopped at Doncaster Works, no more than three weeks, before my planned visit....how UNlucky, is THAT??? Rgds, Ron. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Reid Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Many thanks for the pictures Ron. Chard; A couple of errors have crept into the disposal history of 24115 & 24124. These two were cut up at Swindon, having left Millerhill according to David of the DerbySulzers web site on May 4th 1977 (along with 24065 & 24107) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Found a couple more 24s at Doncaster Works on 3/4/77. http://www.flickr.co...n_h/5587646907/ And a few that I didn't take... http://i46.photobuck...n_H/gb24112.jpg http://i46.photobuck...n_H/gb24132.jpg A couple of snippets from MY perspective.... I copped 24132, which was put to store in October 1975, at Eastfield on 20 October 1975...how lucky is that?? Aside from those 24s scrapped pre-TOPS, the only 24 I never saw, was 24117, which was chopped at Doncaster Works, no more than three weeks, before my planned visit....how UNlucky, is THAT??? Rgds, Ron. 24118 with round headlight blanking plates, like sister 24116, great detail, that. Your personal sighting of 24132 possibly confirms what I've been thinking since looking at her allocation history, that she was never reallox HA but was never stored at IS either. And I reckon she was stored whilst away from her home depot, presumably after fetching up at ED with a failure. Then stored on paper and tripped to the Works, never returning to her home depot again. Skinhead HBS exile 24112 at Kyle is beautiful, unusual place for double arrows again! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Reid Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Ron is there a date & location for this shot of 24132? http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f122/Ron_H/gb24132.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Ron is there a date & location for this shot of 24132? http://i46.photobuck...n_H/gb24132.jpg I await the Muttley chuckle with breath bated... For my tuppence-worth, she's sandwiched between two unidentified DMU vehicles, that look suspiciously like Swindon Cross-Country in profile, and the corrugated shed shouts St Rollox rather than Lochgorm to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 D5129 heads a trio of HBS at Perth, courtesy of Derby Sulzers, literally: http://www.derbysulzers.com/5129perth.jpg D5124, whom it is said, was cut at Swindon: http://www.derbysulzers.com/5124polmadie.jpg 5116 in her final finery http://www.derbysulzers.com/24116haymarketbw.jpg D5114 at Eastfield http://www.derbysulzers.com/5114eastfieldgreen.jpg D5117 http://www.derbysulzers.com/5117bwgreenshed.jpg http://www.derbysulzers.com/5117kyle72.jpg D5119 in store http://www.derbysulzers.com/24119haymarketbw.jpg 24123 at IS in HA condition http://www.derbysulzers.com/24123invernessbw.jpg 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrushVeteran Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I have found a few more which you may or may not have seen. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Oh, D5131 Legend after her unhappy episode in British railway history. That was an awesome batch of photos, major respect B) Here's another pair, this time featuring D5116 in the early days at 60A http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=28641 ...and another unknown full frontal. TIDY! http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=29848 Hmmm, Royal Train duty I think: http://www.railbrit....18000/18524.jpg Anon at Aberdeen http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=20624 108+125 at Aberdeen again http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=12514 Bob, have we seen this from the flickr set of Lonegroover, before? http://www.flickr.co...over/907732799/ Here's another new set, I think, and this is preposterous - 24147 at Motherwell in store, not an HBS, but a creature of fable and myth nontheless: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdjt42/4247457523/in/set-72157615587879220 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Skinhead HBS exile 24112 at Kyle is beautiful, unusual place for double arrows again! Almost certainly the remnants of an early blue repaint, when it would have had arrows on each cab and numbers somewhere aft of the doors Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Reid Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Bob, have we seen this from the flickr set of Lonegroover, before? http://www.flickr.co...over/907732799/ Here's another new set, I think, and this is preposterous - 24147 at Motherwell in store, not an HBS, but a creature of fable and myth nontheless: http://www.flickr.co...157615587879220 Some I've already seen Chard - curiously missed that one of D5125..... I'll go back over them again, Here's my own favourites from the DerbySulzer site; St.Rollox painters doing what they did best on this one - not getting with the programs as far as the Rail Warning Yellow was concerned..... http://www.derbysulzers.com/24kyle74bw.jpg D5125 looking much like I remember any of the cars I bought with delivery mileage only on the first day.... http://www.derbysulzers.com/5125barrowbw.jpg Funnily enough in this shot you've shown; http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=12514 The red arrow/blob thing is directly above where my office once was - before being relegated (as with a lot of ScR depots) to a Portakabin! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUTTLEY Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Ron is there a date & location for this shot of 24132? http://i46.photobuck...n_H/gb24132.jpg Sorry, nothing on the backs of any of those photos - they came from EBay and they're probably copies of commercial prints. HOWEVER......a quick (!?!) shufty at my collection, came up with this shot of 20023; http://www.flickr.com/photos/ron_h/5589173933/ . Look at the guttering of the shed, just above and to the right of 20023's cab and compare it with just above the cab of 24132 with the number on, and I reckon we can nail it as Eastfield, more or less the same position I saw it in Oct 1975. Rgds, Ron. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUTTLEY Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Almost certainly the remnants of an early blue repaint, when it would have had arrows on each cab and numbers somewhere aft of the doors Correct!! And closer examination of the shot of 24113, reveals it to be in the same livery. Both locos were early blue in pre-TOPS. I have a shot from the Interweb, of 24112 in Derby Works, being rubbed down, on 26 Sep 1974, also 24113 still in service with arrow on far cab-end, on 2 Oct 1974 - it had central arrows, by the time of the next shot I have of it, dated Aug 1976, so "probably" one of the last of the overhauls in early 1975. Rgds, Ron. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUTTLEY Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Here's another new set, I think, and this is preposterous - 24147 at Motherwell in store, not an HBS, but a creature of fable and myth nontheless: http://www.flickr.co...157615587879220 Fable and myth indeed.....given a full green repaint with Lion & Wheel in 1974!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/ron_h/5009307438/ Rgds, Ron. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUTTLEY Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Here's an interesting shot of 24132, probably at her final resting place. http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f122/Ron_H/gb24132-22Feb1976.jpg Where have the headlights gone? Would they have bothered sealing up the holes if it was (and we know it WAS) going for scrap, or did it have headlights at one end only? I'm not clued-up enough to tell which is No1 end or No2, so I don't know if this pic is of the SAME end, as the other one I posted.... Ron. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Here's an interesting shot of 24132, probably at her final resting place. http://i46.photobuck...2-22Feb1976.jpg Where have the headlights gone? Would they have bothered sealing up the holes if it was (and we know it WAS) going for scrap, or did it have headlights at one end only? I'm not clued-up enough to tell which is No1 end or No2, so I don't know if this pic is of the SAME end, as the other one I posted.... Ron. Yesiree Ron, same (no.2) end AFAICS! How curious! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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