Michael Delamar Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Leeds: Copley Hill Shed. 1963. by jb303, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Hunslet: Parkside Junction. 1965. by jb303, on Flickr 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEngineShed Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 to embed flickr shots, go to share then copy and paste the bb code, i usually use the large option. some spoil sports disable the bb code however Thanks, I was trying to use the code, will try harder! By the way your mailbox is full, tried to send you a PM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 There are three visible in that shot of Dover- two behind the tender loco (is it a 01, or whatever the ex-SECR 0-6-0s were called?) , and the end of a third behind the Drewry. The buildings in the lower part of the photo are still there; the barracks behind have gone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted April 17, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2012 A couple of mine: Class 31 down coal Chesterfield November 1970 C408 Class 40 233 Empress of England up goods Preston 22nd May 71 C621 David 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Those first two vehicles behind the 31 are from the mid/late '60s batch of conversions to 4-shoe vac brake - the doors are something like the original colour, they will have been out of shops around 4 years at max... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave777 Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Some interesting markings too - what's the white outline square for? And on the one nearest the camera, there's a symbol that looks like the 'national speed limit applies' road sign (!)? The one with the Class 40 really does show the sheer variety of colouring one can put onto a rake. The 5th one back for example, with a replate that shows a rusty lower half and near pristine top half, and what may be a replate on the other side of the door as well, but higher this time and no variation between top and bottom. The 4th one contrasts in colour to the 5th too - nearly all over dark brown/grey with little of the original light grey showing... except on the door. And to take that to the next level, the final one nearest the camera with the door a near-pristine grey compared with the rest of the wagon. Even the 3rd one back has a contrast between the left and right sides. You see that variation in many of these photos of course, but that particular photo really demonstrates that a 'batch job' weathering of a rake doesn't fully capture the prototype - each wagon ideally needs to be treated as an entirely seperate modelling/weathering exercise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Some interesting markings too - what's the white outline square for? And on the one nearest the camera, there's a symbol that looks like the 'national speed limit applies' road sign (!)? I think the 'road sign' is just chalk marks, Dave. The box is, I believe, a remnant of a scheme that was intended to replace XP markings with a range of numerals corresponding to speed ranges; the 'empty' box is presumably the lowest of these. ... that particular photo really demonstrates that a 'batch job' weathering of a rake doesn't fully capture the prototype - each wagon ideally needs to be treated as an entirely seperate modelling/weathering exercise. Yup. Give it another two years, I'll let you know how I'm doing 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Killin 1965 http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5743496548/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Bristol Barrow Road 6th July 1965 by Boxbrownie3, on Flickr 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 R1396 60886 Marylebone 21Apr1964 by Ron Fisher, on Flickr 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 GWR 0-6-0PT 4656 at Radstock GWR c1960 by phil seaford, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Quarry_Gap_2 by Alf Mullins, on Flickr St Ives (Hunts) station in 1970 by Tom Burnham, on Flickr 013-20-Egremont-27-5-66-43073 by david.l.quayle, on Flickr Bath Green Park 3681 by trafalgar45682, on Flickr Blandford Yard by walkinmycat, on Flickr 30586 Wadebridge. 17 July 1962 by ricsrailpics, on Flickr highland - trains pass forsinard 10-72 JL by johnmightycat1, on Flickr R1252 Blakesley Jan1964 by Ron Fisher, on Flickr Oundle goods yard by Jodel Aviator, on Flickr syks - 47 hexthorpe old sta site 69 JL by johnmightycat1, on Flickr 76040 Dinting Station 08/05/81 by barefootgoth, on Flickr R1255 45287 Towcester Jan1964 by Ron Fisher, on Flickr 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 (edited) Wow! A picture of the real St.Ives - well done. Those 16t wagons would have been in use on the sand train to KGX, with the class 100 on the shuttle to Cambridge. That was soon switched to the old Huntingdon branch platform, which had seen little use for many years, thus leaving the main platforms clear for the sand train and its shunting and run-round. Stewart Edited April 19, 2012 by stewartingram Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 56054 Warrington Arpley 24/02/84 by MagLad, on Flickr 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) 65879 Seaton Bank 4.9.67 by George of Dufton, on Flickr 63437 Seaton Bank 23.5.67 by George of Dufton, on Flickr 65860 Seaton Bank 23.5.67 by George of Dufton, on Flickr 90382 Hall Dean 24.5.67 by George of Dufton, on Flickr Edited April 23, 2012 by michael delamar 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted April 24, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 24, 2012 Michael, forgive me if I've missed something - I have to admit I haven't scanned through the whole of the thread. But have you a source of pictures for minerals c. 1965 on the S&C ... iron ore or general quarry material, pulled by either green diesel or steam traction? I thought it was worth asking as you seem to be a major shareholder in a goldmine of superb images! Cheers, Jeff 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 56054 Warrington Arpley 24/02/84 by MagLad, on Flickr Now this has got to be unusual - an unfitted train composed entirely of fitted wagons !! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 I thought that class 56 pic would be of interest even though its not a close shot of the wagons. Jeff, i shall have a look around, I like a bit of a challenge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I thought that class 56 pic would be of interest even though its not a close shot of the wagons. Jeff, i shall have a look around, I like a bit of a challenge and look what's standing in Warrington station too................. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Would the 56 have worked all the way to Tinsley via the former CLC/GC routes, I wonder, or had they been closed by then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 (edited) How come I've only just found this thread? Anyway, a 5-digit number, B68991, with repanelling (?) half-way up, a bulging side door, still with the top small door, and a load of bent scrap (probably a good description of the wagon itself too). Queenborough 1983. and another from the same visit, B48917, rivetted, very little paint left, number still on maker's plate, but renumbered '61'. Also piled high with scrap metal. Edited April 25, 2012 by eastwestdivide 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 (edited) More Scrap. Probably heading for Consett Iron Works via Tyne Yard... Newcastle by cabsaab900, on Flickr Porcy Edited April 25, 2012 by Porcy Mane 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 And this might make a good modelling cameo, although getting it to happen "live" might be a challenge: B160143 at Hoo Junction 1982/3, looking like it's been propelled into the buffers, up and over, lost a wheelset and landed, damaging pretty much everything on the way. Like the pile of sleepers behind it. But how come the remaining wheelset is still on the rails? Any other interpretations of the sequence of events? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 From 1986, quite late in its career, one of the spoil conversions with holes cut in the sides. Were those holes edged in white for a reason? Surely not for rust protection! Possibly Didcot area, DB209736 coded ZHV. There's spoil spillage on the horizontal surfaces of the end doors. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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