Rugd1022 Posted September 15, 2014 Author Share Posted September 15, 2014 Quiet moment at Kidderminster... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted September 18, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18, 2014 watering at Loughborough 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 That is very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 18, 2014 Author Share Posted September 18, 2014 (edited) I've just had a very enjoyable trawl back through the entire forty pages of the thread (partly to remind myself what I have or haven't posted so far) and just want to say a very big 'thank you' to each and every contributor who has taken the time to add their thoughts, stories and of course images - when I started it two years ago I never thought it would still be going strong all this time later. A big thank you too, to those who've posted links to other collections such as those on flickr etc... all good stuff and it's very welcome. I've made a point of adding some belated 'likes' here and there too - to posts which I'd somehow previously missed. Looking at a lot of the photos from the good old days of British Rail has made me dig out my trusty old BR leather driver's bag and mash can once more - they might even see some action on tomorrow's 6D45 Luton - Mountsorrel empties... Thanks again folks Edited September 18, 2014 by Rugd1022 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Another not so human shot of me riding on the shunting step of 09002 at Whitemoor yard. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Get them interested early. EDGE HILL - SUMMER 1980 - ANDY SPARKS by Michaeldelz, on Flickr 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cold-ash Posted September 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2014 Weekenders. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingsignalman Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 S&T at Hall Road cabin on 3/2/1994 during Merseyrail IECC commissioning works. Note the "pristine state" of the HV gear! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Flying scotsman 1964 Copyright national railway musuem and sspl. http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=Liverpool%20Street&objid=1995-7233_LIVST_LP_274A 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted September 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 24, 2014 Waiting for the road. Year - probably Summer 1974 as I was tracking down the few remaining Westerns and Hymeks at the time. Location - almost certainly Westbury as the adjacent slides in the box are from that location, but could possibly be Reading. There are assorted slides in the box of Westerns, Hymeks and 50s taken at Reading and Westbury during 1974 that I'll get scanned and posted in a suitable thread. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Getting dirty 36---Michael-Delamar-66-719-6G60-Liverpool-Bulk-Terminal-17-9-14 by D1021, on Flickr 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted September 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 24, 2014 fell over did ya? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Hey us shunters work hard and get dirty, inbetween posing for photos 3 in the morning loading biomass at Liverpool bulk terminal. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2014 Getting dirty 36---Michael-Delamar-66-719-6G60-Liverpool-Bulk-Terminal-17-9-14 by D1021, on Flickr That's not dirty - your hands and face are clean 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Haha gloves off there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Just going back to that flying scotsman pic. Is there any of those thistle headboards preserved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 25, 2014 Author Share Posted September 25, 2014 Just going back to that flying scotsman pic. Is there any of those thistle headboards preserved? I'm pretty sure the NRM have one of them Michael, I'd be very surprised if they didn't. 4630 / Russ W - lovely shot of Western Glory and Driver - looking forward to seeing your other slides if you have the time to share them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I've just had a very enjoyable trawl back through the entire forty pages of the thread (partly to remind myself what I have or haven't posted so far) and just want to say a very big 'thank you' to each and every contributor who has taken the time to add their thoughts, stories and of course images - when I started it two years ago I never thought it would still be going strong all this time later. A big thank you too, to those who've posted links to other collections such as those on flickr etc... all good stuff and it's very welcome. ...... Thanks again folks I have also greatly enjoyed this thread and the variety it has thrown up. I have been thinking about my railway photography, and about the importance, or absence, of people in photographs. As a kid with my instamatic and its 12 exposure film I guess I would just point and shoot and hope that the subject loco or train was somewhere within the frame. Later in my twenties when most of my railway photos were taken I would try, wherever possible, to keep people out of the shot. I regularly bought Modern Railways and knew that I liked some photos but was not really sure why, then I discovered Les Nixon. I bought his book 'The Art of Railway Photography' and gradually understood what made, in my opinion, a good photo. Earlier this year I had the pleasure of meeting Les when he gave a slide show at my local Railway Society. Nowadays I never go out specifically to take railway photos, but often take a camera on days out so if a shot presents itself I will take it. I do now sometimes wait when taking a photo for someone to move into shot to give more life to the photo, something I should have done more often in the 1980s, cheers 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BR(S) Posted September 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2014 76003 Dunford West 19 08 1980 by John-Sydney-Han, on Flickr "Class 76 electric loco no. 76003 at the head of a westbound coal train stops at the signal box at Dunford West so that a member of the train crew can climb down from the cab to deliver a message to the waiting signalman. Afterwards the signalman told me that the message was to inform him that an unauthorised person had tampered with one of the colour light signals between Dunford East and West signal boxes. Apparently the signal had been turned and was no longer facing in the correct direction." 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 Piccie of the week for me is that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Preston, 1982. Whoops!: http://www.prestonstation.org.uk/photoarchive/displayimage.php?album=17&pid=70#top_display_media 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingsignalman Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Exchanging tokens at Portmadoc 13/7/1978 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 50041 CPX770002MLRR by alistairfyffe, on Flickr 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Day in the life of a steam engine driver: http://locodriver.co.uk/Vol01/Part01/01/index.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 50041 CPX770002MLRR by alistairfyffe, on Flickr I used to get that on the way home from work. Every time I stopped at the lights some b****er would wash my screen and ask for £1.50. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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