ChrisM Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Wowza! Presumably going that way round because those troublesome trucks weren't gauged for the WR, much the same as Freightliner flats. Beautiful stuff! Was someone looking for a dubdee on WR metals t'other day? http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=25897 Sure was!!!! Nice find - about 6 years earlier than my time frame but a photo is a photo and it means that my WD can come out of the display case for a run on the layout on a 'accurate' operating day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Don't think I have seen this one before? B1 just south of St Boswells: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Sunday 5 January 1969 Edinburgh Waverley with the 2055 ex-Waverley to Hawick. I agree - a dreadful photo, but the flash failed. However, it meant that I could try using the bulb again at Hawick - and it worked second time around. (Remember these blue bulbs with dodgy contacts?) This DMU arrived in Hawick at 2216 (try that timing with an X95 bus!), crossed over and was signalled ECS to Galashiels at 2219. (St Boswells box had shut on the Saturday night so the section was Hawick to Galashiels.) Normally this DMU would have remained overnight at Hawick to work the early morning Hawick to Carlisle. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 That info fills-in a few gaps, especially the normal DMU working. So these 64H Metro-Cammells worked the whole line, albeit as part of separate days' duties. There wasn't a counterpart 12C diagram taking a Derby Lightweight to Waverley, though, as the ECS for example on Saturday night worked in from Appleby - as we learnt a couple of weeks ago - before working back south on Sunday morning. Today being the anniversary of the bona fide last day of normal main line operations, it's poignant to think of what was going on 43 years ago this minute. The final freights are already long since history, and like you say, St Boswells 'box is now closed, as is Tynehead station. I wonder when the DMU left Galashiels for Edinburgh, ECS and wretched on its futile retreat from the route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 5 January 1969 Hawick station around 1.15pm. The same DMU on the Up line with the 1155 ex-Waverley to Hawick: once the large loco with the special on the Down line had left for Edinburgh, the DMU would be shunted into the dock to form the1816 to Waverley. Bruce 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 The dock between the down platform and the depot, Bruce? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 The dock between the down platform and the depot, Bruce? Yes - often caught the Sunday evening train to Edinburgh from there. B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 Note to self: WR bay platforms were used for turning back services right up to the end, better factor that into one's thinking on a model level... Back to full size matters, and just discussing the nuts and bolts of the secondary services brings home how important Hawick was as the principal operational, if not the spiritual, heart of the route. Anyway, I'm going off-line now for a weathery trip just shy of two-hundred miles north... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Anyway, I'm going off-line now for a weathery trip just shy of two-hundred miles north... Had I been onshore I'd have joined you Pilgrim Brothers for year 43 of the hibernation ritual. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveArkley Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Who was asking about WDs on the Waverley Route? http://cumbrianrailw...d672b#h1a0d672b That was me, and that's just the ticket. I have an excuse for a Farish one when they arrive later this year. Cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tony graham Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Note to self: WR bay platforms were used for turning back services right up to the end, better factor that into one's thinking on a model level... Back to full size matters, and just discussing the nuts and bolts of the secondary services brings home how important Hawick was as the principal operational, if not the spiritual, heart of the route. Anyway, I'm going off-line now for a weathery trip just shy of two-hundred miles north... Look forward to meeting you later today in our very own Starship Enterprise.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tony graham Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Where in the world? I love this picture.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tony graham Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Like this one too, Newcastleton in winter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tony graham Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 And one final one for today..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Not sure where the 2P/Inspection saloon combo is, Tony. Not Waverley though. My first thought was round about Girvan but I'm not even sure of that. Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwb.photos Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Thanks I added the B1 at St Boswells yesterday and also joined this Forum, as I am from the Borders originaly and known to both Bruce and Matt. Hopefully I can help with some info around St Boswells. I started working Galashiels Goods Office in 1961 and left BR Employment from St Boswells Booking Office in 1967. My father was the guard on the last passenger train on the Tweed Valley Line St Boswells - Tweedmouth in 1964. David Burrell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Great to see you on here David! It seems an age ago I popped down to see you & completely fill the car with the layout, perhaps 5 years ago?? You'll probably see more of your photos linked as we seem to have been right through Flickr and most of the other photo sites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Not sure where the 2P/Inspection saloon combo is, Tony. Not Waverley though. My first thought was round about Girvan but I'm not even sure of that. Don't think it's Girvan on account of track layout, though see where you're coming from with the backdrop. Got me intrigued, for sure. I don't know how reliable, date-wise, the LMS pattern lining on the saloon is either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwb.photos Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 (edited) Great to see you on here David! It seems an age ago I popped down to see you & completely fill the car with the layout, perhaps 5 years ago??You'll probably see more of your photos linked as we seem to have been right through Flickr and most of the other photo sites. Thanks Matt,I have added a couple of Diesels today at St Boswells of course.Regards David Edited December 19, 2015 by 'CHARD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Thanks Matt, I have added a couple of Diesels today at St Boswells of course. Regards David I didn't realise you'd put them on just today ... I saw them earlier and wondered if I'd previously missed them! Great stuff! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Found them eventually .... a couple of photos of D5310 at Torwoodlee. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted January 7, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2012 The first shot of D5310 puts me in mind of her current stamping ground: the approach to Carrog on the Llangollen Railway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=24042 Apologies for straying onto enemy territory but the loco would be more familiar in our part of the world. Bernard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 The first shot of D5310 puts me in mind of her current stamping ground: the approach to Carrog on the Llangollen Railway. Indeed, it is very similar ... such a shame I had to sell it but needs must & all that (covered previously on here) ... my one dream was to see it plying its trade in the same way, in the same livery as the photos, up at Whitrope .. alas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 not on the Waverley but heading towards it. a Peak on 1s64 heads through the now closed station at Culgaith on the S&C http://www.flickr.com/photos/kerryp28/6661826209/in/photostream 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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