Rugd1022 Posted September 25, 2017 Author Share Posted September 25, 2017 (edited) D1046 Off the road Woodborough Loop July 71. From my collection GC Jones 30th July Gareth, just six weeks after coming out of Swindon for an overhaul! It was hauling the 14.20 Theale - Westbury freight and sat there for a fortnight before being towed off to Swindon for repairs on 14th August, once the repairs were complete 'Marquis' left the works again on 25th November, this is the reason why there were no headboard clips at the B end from this date. Edited September 25, 2017 by Rugd1022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Louch Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Couple from SVR gala 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 26, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2017 Always easy to tell some pictures are modern - folk on the footplate wearing specs (definitely not a good combination unless they are the proper safety glass). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted September 26, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2017 A little gem I recently stumbled across on youtube quite by acident. Its real purpose was to tell the viewer about the causes and effects of delays but from an enthusiast point of view it is excellant. The drivers, the guards, the station staff, P-Way personnel and the managers, its all here and from 1969! My favorite scene is the loco change at Crewe where the AL6 comes off in favour of D415!! - solid gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMN2iQCH1o&pbjreload=10 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 26, 2017 Author Share Posted September 26, 2017 Got this on the BTF boxset which my other half bought for me a few Christmases ago - the scenes at Rugby Midland are wonderful! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Just found this thread - good stuff! Loco crews were what kept the trains running! Here are three of mine: 70049 at Carlisle, 10/8/67; 62050 at Pelaw 26/5/67 with the driver coming to give the fireman a hand; Rheine (W.Germany) 18/8/74 with an 012 Pacific waiting to take over a northbound express just outside the station. Cheers Trevor 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Kings Cross, some time in the 80's. They're taking an interest, and he's taking notes. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Shap banker (the loco, not the man!): Tebay 15/7/67 Trevor 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 Excellent stuff Trevor, keep 'em coming! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Another one at Carlisle station: Driver Lawson waits to depart with an evening Carlisle-Perth express on 13/5/66. The previous evening I had travelled to Lockerbie behind 70005 and a different driver. Trevor 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Thanks, Rugd1022. Here's a crew change at Newcastle on 5/8/75 with 55021. Trevor 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 ..and a similar scene at Exeter St David's on 29/5/75 with D1036, fresh from the paint shop by the look of it. Trevor 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 D9012 at Newcastle with an express for Kings Cross, 5/3/70. I sent the driver a copy of the print so I've got his details somewhere in the archives. Trevor 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 The driver (complete with steam-era headgear) of the final North Tyneside 3rd-rail emu, pictured at Whitley Bay on the last day of operation, 17-6-67. I travelled on this train but did not make a note of the unit numbers! Can anybody help me out, please? Trevor 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 28, 2017 Author Share Posted September 28, 2017 At the risk of being a repetative old bafoon - keep 'em coming Trevor! Seriously good images there, spot on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Righto, Rug Two more at Carlisle in 1967 when Summer Saturdays still saw a fair number of steam-hauled passenger trains. 1) Here's something you don't see very often - a wheeltapper! Waiting for the train from the S&C arriving behind 45562 to draw to a halt before checking the coach wheels. 44802 is waiting to take forward a southbound train which will arrive from north of the border behind a diesel. Photographed from the window of a train waiting to leave behind D1631 on 5/8/67. 2) 45038 and 44878 waiting to take over southbound trains on 12/8/67. The engineman is sweeping away any surplus char from the last smokebox cleanout to prevent it blowing in his face later on! Cheers Trevor 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2017 D1046 Off the road Woodborough Loop July 71. From my collection GC Jones Love the photo. 2 breakdown cranes. Heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Love the photo. 2 breakdown cranes. Heaven. Indeed - that was an impressive bow-wave of soil it collected too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Ulverston right at the end of steam, on 18/7/68. The Black 5 was working an evening parcels train from Barrow. The drifting steam effect was due to a longer than usual exposure because of the low light, using a home-made tripod cobbled together at school from an old music stand! Trevor 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 29, 2017 Ulverston right at the end of steam, on 18/7/68. The Black 5 was working an evening parcels train from Barrow. The drifting steam effect was due to a longer than usual exposure because of the low light, using a home-made tripod cobbled together at school from an old music stand! Trevor What a fantastic shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 29, 2017 Author Share Posted September 29, 2017 Lovely job Trevor... what a fascinating place Citadel must have been back then! The last time I set foot on the platforms there was back in December '82 on a BR YTS scheme 'jolly boys outing' one Saturday, we piled into the compo of a short rake of steam heated Mk1s for a run over the S&C behind a 47, there was snow on the ground most of the way and it seemed to take forever to get to Leeds. The freezing weather didn't stop us from bagging an open window for a proper view over Ribblehead Viaduct, something which will always stay with me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 @96701 Wow, thanks for the comment! @Rug Another one at Carlisle, on 12/8/67. Shows nice detail for anyone wanting to model cab doors in the closed position! Trevor 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Away from the main line, here's a 1968 portrait of Jimmy McIvor, driver of the NCB 0-4-0ST loco which worked on the line to Ravensworth Park Drift Mine, which was a cycle ride away from where I used to live in Gateshead at the time. There's a shopping complex on the site these days! Trevor 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Funny how owld Jim has a look of AT in that pic. He must have been one of the most photographed ingine drivers in the country during the late 1960's till Ladypark closed. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 Photo by Darren Ford on the Reading General facebook group... Reading PSB... Photo by Martyn Sanders of his Dad Mick (of Oxford Depot) driving 47 099 on a Bescot job... Photo by Stephen Brooks, Godley East in 1976... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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