RMweb Premium Welly Posted October 7, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2012 HI Here a shot of me doing a bit of spotting at Nine Elms in spring of 1967. Darren In white clothes? I bet your Mum was overjoyed when you came home covered in muck! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 D1062 meets D821 courtesy of human intervention... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 8, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 8, 2012 Coke for Commonwealth Smelting at Hallen Marsh is hauled over Smoke Lane crossing into the works, 26/1/82 Brilliant photo! Is this the location also known as 'Pasminco?'... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 (edited) Brilliant photo! Is this the location also known as 'Pasminco?'... Yes, Commonwealth Smelting Company, Imperial Smelting Corporation, National Smelting Corporation, Britannia Zinc and Pasminco are all names or titles I have seen or heard applied to the place. I think Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) may have owned it at one stage as well cheers Edited October 8, 2012 by Rivercider Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 8, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 8, 2012 Brilliant photo! Is this the location also known as 'Pasminco?'... And not only that but you can just see various signals in the extreme background - various parts of which myself and some 'associates' converted into 12":1ft scale signal kit components when the signalling in the area was rationalised in 1986. We then produced some completely different looking signals from said 'kits'. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren01 Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 (edited) In white clothes? I bet your Mum was overjoyed when you came home covered in muck! HI Yep my mum was none too happy about my dad taking me to Nine Elms shed, told her we where going to the park! But I am glad he did take me as it must have left a lasting memory of the Southern railway, as now I model the Southern. I have another photo of me next to a West Country, with the driver looking out of the cab at me; don’t know how he got away with taking a baby round Nine Elms in a push chair. Just wish I could remember it, the funny thing is when I built Torrington the Ivatt in the photo was one of the first to come down to the West Country, and the first model I brought and renumbered it to 41298, it was a year so later that my Dad found the photo’s of me standing next to it. All the best Darren Edited October 10, 2012 by darren01 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pobrien Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 In steam days - driver and fireman at rest before the work began http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/5400478727/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/5650194560/ Some of the Bristol Firemen's own photos http://www.bristolsteam64.co.uk/page15.html 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 And not only that but you can just see various signals in the extreme background - various parts of which myself and some 'associates' converted into 12":1ft scale signal kit components when the signalling in the area was rationalised in 1986. We then produced some completely different looking signals from said 'kits'. Glad you liked the Smelting works shot, here is an earlier shot showing the signals at Hallen Marsh One of the Hallen Marsh shunters is on the footsteps of 37255 as it draws out of the Smelting Works it will form 7C42 to Severn Tunnel Junction, the first 3 VDAs are probably empties from Rowntrees siding at Avonmouth returning to York, behind that are coke empties from the smelter, first a HCO coke hop then some HTVs, 5/2/81 cheers 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Glad you liked the Smelting works shot, here is an earlier shot showing the signals at Hallen Marsh One of the Hallen Marsh shunters is on the footsteps of 37255 as it draws out of the Smelting Works it will form 7C42 to Severn Tunnel Junction, the first 3 VDAs are probably empties from Rowntrees siding at Avonmouth returning to York, behind that are coke empties from the smelter, first a HCO coke hop then some HTVs, 5/2/81 cheers Interesting stuff Rivercider. I didn't realise you also had Rowntrees vans down Brizzul way. I remember vans for Penkridge and Eastleigh came down on 6O49 Haverton Hill-Eastleigh, and went back on 6E30 Eastleigh-Tees. Did yours connect on 4V10 and 4S38 at Bescot ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 9, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 9, 2012 Glad you liked the Smelting works shot, here is an earlier shot showing the signals at Hallen Marsh Those being two signals from which we removed quite a lot of useful components, plus the signalbox which is peeping over the lorry in the right background (Holesmouth Junction) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Interesting stuff Rivercider. I didn't realise you also had Rowntrees vans down Brizzul way. I remember vans for Penkridge and Eastleigh came down on 6O49 Haverton Hill-Eastleigh, and went back on 6E30 Eastleigh-Tees. Did yours connect on 4V10 and 4S38 at Bescot ? I'm not sure of the routing, the traffic was still in vanfits in 1978 when I first remember it, when the traffic flow was airbraked it may have been after Speedlink really got started. Of course the three in the picture could be loaded Hallen Marsh - Bloxwich traffic, but thats a different story... cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Here is one from Holyhead in 1982 The Driver of 40121 paces the platform waiting departure time with the 15.17 to Manchester Victoria, 26/6/82 cheers 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubber Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) Taken at Lauterbrunnen in 2008, I don't know whether this first picture belongs here, or in the 'What makes you smile' thread? Naval service kept me away from home during my daughter's very early years, and I did not know until later how much I missed it. The joy on these faces as they 'raced' the train makes me smile each time I see the picture.. Doug. [it's a large file, and if clicked gives a lot of detail, my first year of using a tripod...] Edited October 10, 2012 by Chubber 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 I'm not sure of the routing, the traffic was still in vanfits in 1978 when I first remember it, when the traffic flow was airbraked it may have been after Speedlink really got started. Of course the three in the picture could be loaded Hallen Marsh - Bloxwich traffic, but thats a different story... cheers I don't think they were Rowntree's traffic, as the vans used for that traffic in air-braked days had white-painted roofs. It could have been something from Chittening- didn't NCL move out there from Pylle Hill? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 10, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2012 Glad you liked the Smelting works shot, here is an earlier shot showing the signals at Hallen Marsh Excellent picture - thanks for posting that! How wonderful it would be to be able to replicate that view again....! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Here is one from Holyhead in 1982 The Driver of 40121 paces the platform waiting departure time with the 15.17 to Manchester Victoria, 26/6/82 cheers That looks like Wyn Smart of Llandudno Junction (6G) Merf. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 If anyone should doubt the effectiveness of orange clothing, what's the first thing that jumps out of this photo, on a dull day at Retford? 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 If anyone should doubt the effectiveness of orange clothing, what's the first thing that jumps out of this photo, on a dull day at Retford? I can just imagine this picture heading a new Daily Mail campaign against the dangers of reflections from high vis clothing. "Dazzled by the intense reflections the driver steers his train to the right to avoid imminent disaster..." Nick 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pobrien Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Young spotters at Bristol Temple Meads in the 1960's http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/5698683333/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/5251019685/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/6862256427/ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted October 15, 2012 Author Share Posted October 15, 2012 Our man Griff contemplates spending too much in the bookshop at Toddington... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold CovDriver Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 Our man Griff contemplates spending too much in the bookshop at Toddington... Your man Griff is always travelling on the cushions on our trains such a nice chap to speak to we've had many conversations putting the railways to rights !! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted October 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2012 About 9 months before the top photo on the attached page was taken my grandfather took me up into New St No. 2 box while we were waiting for our train to go on holiday - Birmingham to Swanage via the S&D. He phoned one of the boxes on his district to find out where there were some empty compartments on the train. Walter Prichard, the signalman in the picture, then picked me up to pull the lever for the signal into the station for our train. The first of many box visits over the next 50-odd years. I later came across Walter again when he was working at New St PSB and I had joined the S&T. http://www.photobydj...xInteriors.html 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 That is a very atmospheric photo, with a fascinating description. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixteen 12by 10s Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 More Severn Valley / Hydraulic filth.... "Gunny" Guntripp, there is aid that there was once a factory is the East end, that made Chris Guntripp's, there has to be more than one! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixteen 12by 10s Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Shot from the cab of 37190 at the Midland Railway Center. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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