62440 Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Nothing like "Flash the Sheepdog" for a wet Saturday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyOZFUzuFPE About 30s in and it gets interesting. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 18, 2011 Author Share Posted July 18, 2011 You'll never ever knock a Veetoo on a Monday at 'oik: http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=34885 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 And from the same rich seam, we also have the very unusual sight of a K3 on a Waverley Route passenger service. Considering the ubiquity of the class on the freight services, they were a very rare spot on passenger work. http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=28455 Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 dirty A3 on an express: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 dirty A3 on an express: http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream Pretty sure that image came up for sale on Ebay recently, didn't it? I avoided it as it didn't look like any part of the WR I recognised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 I avoided it as it didn't look like any part of the WR I recognised. Funny you should say that - non WR - my immediate thought was that it didn't look a NBR signal box. Looking again, my suspicion is Bank Junction on the GSW, with New Cumnock in the background. Which would probably mean that's a Holbeck A3. (edit: but I haven't done any checking of that suspicion. Just an impression for the moment) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Funny you should say that - non WR - my immediate thought was that it didn't look a NBR signal box. Looking again, my suspicion is Bank Junction on the GSW, with New Cumnock in the background. Which would probably mean that's a Holbeck A3. (edit: but I haven't done any checking of that suspicion. Just an impression for the moment) Yes - Holbeck engine in 1961, later shedded at Heaton, withdrawn from Gateshead in 1963. It's not impossible that it was used on the Waverley, but GSW more likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26power Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Would agree with suggested location, but can't find an on-line image to cross check. Would suggest from or close to overbridge leading to Lochside Hotel. (NS6014). Presumably lamp on post relates to buffer stop alongside, but in what way? Cheers, 26power Funny you should say that - non WR - my immediate thought was that it didn't look a NBR signal box. Looking again, my suspicion is Bank Junction on the GSW, with New Cumnock in the background. Which would probably mean that's a Holbeck A3. (edit: but I haven't done any checking of that suspicion. Just an impression for the moment) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 20, 2011 Author Share Posted July 20, 2011 Aha, that's the image I'd claimed as Darnick Siding a few pages back. Prepared to yield to GSW counter-pressures now though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Aye, deffo New Cumnock, might have to resort to packing my 'chib' (personal security apparatus) and take a site visit to prove it, can't find anything online either. "agcthoms" on Flickr has some from further North, which convince me that it's Bank Jct SB in the shot, as 26power says, from the Lochside/golf course bridge. Sorry for false lead, unintentional despite GSW content - honest! Edit: the modern view attached - taken from bridge rather than lineside (due to thon trees) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stuartp Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Presumably lamp on post relates to buffer stop alongside, but in what way? Possibly easier to see from the loco when setting back than one on the buffer stop itself would be, but why ? A driver setting back inside should be relying on the guard's handlamp to tell him when to stop, so unless there was some local reversing/running round/setting back manouevre not involving brake vans I'm a bit stumped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 22, 2011 Author Share Posted July 22, 2011 Kingmoor, with damaged 60864 and plain green chibley* in attendance: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=34944 * class 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 25, 2011 Author Share Posted July 25, 2011 This ebay seller has some never-before-featured photos listed. My link is to BFYE D5305 working bang-road in a possession, if the date is to be believed, near Fala. Look through the rest and see the GSYP+BFYE Dr Foster twin of repute, and incredibly, a BFYE Met Cam pictured rasping through Tynehead, Hawick from the A7 in '72, BFYE D89 and a great shot from the Holm footbridge of a retreating 2S52. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Railway-Photograph-BR-Class-26-D5305-Heriot-Oct-1967-2-/130548002798?pt=UK_Collectables_Railwayana_RL&hash=item1e65446fee#ht_500wt_1069 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 This ebay seller has some never-before-featured photos listed. My link is to BFYE D5305 working bang-road in a possession, if the date is to be believed, near Fala. Look through the rest and see the GSYP+BFYE Dr Foster twin of repute, and incredibly, a BFYE Met Cam pictured rasping through Tynehead, Hawick from the A7 in '72, BFYE D89 and a great shot from the Holm footbridge of a retreating 2S52. http://www.ebay.co.u...e#ht_500wt_1069 That's the guy selling Norman (G.N.) Turnbull's images ... don't think I'll be partaking all things considered, better to see Norman for duplicate slides then at least he gets something for his labours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 25, 2011 Author Share Posted July 25, 2011 Thanks Matt. I wonder does Norman have the records behind the library of pics, because if so this would add a wealth of detail to the WR workings history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 I would think he probably does, not seen him for a while to ask though. Bruce may know more about Norman's image library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 A view of Riccarton I've only seen previously without a train in shot .... Loco ID anyone?! http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=34907 Talking of Riccarton, I wandered down there yesterday to reacquaint myself and introduce Mrs 37175 to it ... shame the turntable brickwork is overgrown again, but nice to see a lot of clearfell where the forestry once stood. Also took a wander for a couple of shots of the old bridge over Leysburn that once took the path from Store Brae to Phaupknowe. Another bit of heritage that WRHA once tried to get reinstated! Shame the clearfell detritus has now covered the road down to it from the concrete stile (that is also no longer!) adjacent to the north 'box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 26, 2011 Author Share Posted July 26, 2011 Can't assist with the loco i.d Matt, but this 1975 shot of Gala is worth sharing, even if just to ease the pain: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=35002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Makes Gala look like a big station that. It looks like they could just have plonked all the track down again in a day if they'd wanted! Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 28, 2011 Author Share Posted July 28, 2011 Can't believe we've not seen this before. Atmospheric window-hanger shot of 60A BRCW D5340 curving into Riccarton during The Final Week. More evidence to suggest the Highland BRCWs were as prolific as the Lothians at this stage. http://www.flickr.co...57622602429982/ Oh hello, where did she come from? http://6lda.wordpress.com/test-history/26016d5316/ GSYP D5316 at ruddy Melrose, in a never before (by me) seen classic image from a very rare vantage, that would now look onto the A6098. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Can't believe we've not seen this before. Atmospheric window-hanger shot of 60A BRCW D5340 curving into Riccarton during The Final Week. More evidence to suggest the Highland BRCWs were as prolific as the Lothians at this stage. http://www.flickr.co...57622602429982/ An excerpt from the forthcoming article: "Towards the final days of the line a few rare workings took place, including that of a class 27 working the 15:58 Carlisle - Edinburgh on 7th November 1968. On 2nd January 1969 the 09:20 Carlisle - Edinburgh had another class 27, D5350, on the front only as far as Stainton Junction but due to steam heat problems this was removed and replaced with a class 26, D5340 from Kingmoor, whilst D5350 went onto the depot." So ... given that the window hanger took a photo with D5340 in it, I suppose it's safe to say that had the original motive power been on it at this point we would have seen an extremely rare "most wanted" shot! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 OK, no trains, rails or coaches but tradition involving the railways in the Borders. Many exiles return to Langholm for the Common Riding on the last Friday in July. The late train on a Thursday night to Langholm was withdrawn in the 1950s but on Summer Fair Night, the Thursday before Langholm Common Riding, the absence of coaches, then rails and even the station building itself has never deterred returnees. Somehow, perhaps mysteriously, every year exiles always appear off ‘the last train’. By tradition, Langholm Flute Band meets these returning exiles off the last train and parades them through the streets of the town. The parade now starts in the middle of the A7 (Trunk) road along side Station Buildings on the right of the photo which was taken just a few seconds after the parade started at 9.00 pm on 28 July 2011. I’m sure that Langholm is unique in having both a memorial cairn and an information board about the railway. Dumfries and Galloway Council have thoughtfully provided a waste bin next to these for the none-too-silent tears that may be shed into a paper hankie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 34 in autumn/ winter '68 at Hawick, with a modern image 1M01. Impossible to imagine, looking at this, that within months it would all be over. Peaks surely the signature Type 4 Waverley power... http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=35067 Not strictly Waverley, these look Kingmoor-bound to me, but we're always keen on proof that 27s hung out in the area, and this is one such bit of evidence: http://www.flickr.co...pool-60sdiesels D320 on the Up Waverley across the S&C http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwf2009/5669350839/in/pool-1307883@N23/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Tantalising picture of the class 27 in the vicinity. Question is can anyone go the full hog and give us a full blown WR instance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Tantalising picture of the class 27 in the vicinity. Question is can anyone go the full hog and give us a full blown WR instance? There is a reward to the first person to come up with one! I'll go away now and think of what the reward is ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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