Steele Road Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of that, excellent work by all those involved. Will certainly be ordering myself a copy in hardback although the other book listed on that page sounds like the backstage rider for a Gary Glitter concert. I'll get my coat! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Might as well awake a few days of forum slumber with a fresh link ... http://steamingnorth.com/thumbnails.php?album=130 Photos used to be on Fotopic ... a great mini-travelogue, window-hanging on the Scottish Lowlander tour in 1964 ... careful you don't get smut in your eye whilst you browse the photos! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Crossing Mangerton viaduct? You were right about smut, Matt. That's smut of the highest order that photo! Dave. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yes, that's what I would have thought - the exposure must have been about f2 @ a fortnight. On the last Saturday Robin Barbour managed to capture 1S65 (after a fashion) passing through Riccarton Junction but that was a much brighter day. Bill PS Perhaps Bruce can supply a better version of this shot. Sorry folks, the last two shots on the film strip have light-entered camera type damage - John, of RailScot site has done wonders with them. I find Robin's last shots so poignant - I wonder what he was thinking seeing the last trains on his beloved line. Although he lived a couple of doors down from me in Hawick, I never really got to know him. He's got one slide of the final Sunday with the Deltic special disappearing into the distance with the Minto Hills in the background: his last ever Waverley Route shot. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Iain Mac Posted March 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2012 Crossing Mangerton viaduct? You were right about smut, Matt. That's smut of the highest order that photo! Liddel Viaduct at the Caul Pool. 232, Muckle Knowe is ahead of the engine in the cutting. (He says waiting on correction from Roy). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=38003 Discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 A not very frequently seen aspect. Looks like a B1 on top of the southbound. Very busy looking scene. Not the brand new flats up on the brow. Little do the new inhabitants know that their contact with the rest of the world is going to be severely disrupted in five years' time. Dave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 60027 leaving Waverley, and heading south on the up Waverley. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Don't remember having seen this on here before either?: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Don't remember having seen this on here before either?: http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/ Think that is new :-), nice find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newcastleton P.Way Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Don't remember having seen this on here before either?: http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/ Looking north from the recently demolished bridge 41 at Cowbraehill if I'm not mistaken. There's another shot of this same train by the same photographer on page 68 of Neil Caplan's Border Country Branch Line Album, this time near Bowland. How sad to see a streamliner reduced to hauling such a pitifully short freight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Looking north from the recently demolished bridge 41 at Cowbraehill if I'm not mistaken. There's another shot of this same train by the same photographer on page 68 of Neil Caplan's Border Country Branch Line Album, this time near Bowland. How sad to see a streamliner reduced to hauling such a pitifully short freight. Not so bad for us waverley route layout owners with A4s and limited train length!!! new Dapol A4 plus some of these lovely new Farish wagons anyone :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Iain Mac Posted March 23, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2012 Not so bad for us waverley route layout owners with A4s and limited train length!!! new Dapol A4 plus some of these lovely new Farish wagons anyone :-) Mind and drill the dome casing off said farish 27. If authenticity is is required? Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Iain Mac Posted March 23, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2012 http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=38003 Discuss. Hawick when it was Simple Minds. Alive and Kicking......... Mac. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Big beastie at Whitrope: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Nice find there Jamie, a very well composed shot of a pleasant consist, you don't see many of empty car trains. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Made me go a bit wrong, did that! Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Interesting to see a Spaceship - as an aside, I take it they were rare beasties on the WR, as with the rest of Scotland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Interesting to see a Spaceship - as an aside, I take it they were rare beasties on the WR, as with the rest of Scotland? Jim, they weren't all that rare in the last few years of steam in Scotland, once Kingmoor got an allocation of them. In fact, some of the last trains scheduled to be hauled by steam in Scotland were worked by Kingmoor 9Fs. These were Wallerscote - Larbert soda ash trains in the summer of 1967, and with only emergency steam servicing facilites in Scotland (if that), the fact that the 9Fs' tenders could hold enough coal for a return trip made them the regular choice. (There was an odd 8F used as a substitute.) Here's a picture of the empties in late 1966 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/monochrome_trains/2971859657/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Now that is interesting, as I never knew they ventured as far up as Larbert/Stirling, pre that music jolly with Evening Star to Perth in 1980-something. Many thanks - and more Scottish 9F pics welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveArkley Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Not so bad for us waverley route layout owners with A4s and limited train length!!! new Dapol A4 plus some of these lovely new Farish wagons anyone :-) You read my mind, I've ordered an A4 today after seeing one in the flesh at Alley Pally - the weathered Farish wagons I've been squirreling a few away for the last three months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 ... more Scottish 9F pics welcome! A couple here: http://www.flickr.co...ins/2971903179/ http://www.flickr.co...N07/6911224055/ (Incidentally, the second picture is at Hurlford, not Ayr. I took a picture of 92110 from about 10 feet to the left of that one on August 1 1965.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Iain Mac Posted March 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2012 Jim, they weren't all that rare in the last few years of steam in Scotland, once Kingmoor got an allocation of them. In fact, some of the last trains scheduled to be hauled by steam in Scotland were worked by Kingmoor 9Fs. These were Wallerscote - Larbert soda ash trains in the summer of 1967, and with only emergency steam servicing facilites in Scotland (if that), the fact that the 9Fs' tenders could hold enough coal for a return trip made them the regular choice. (There was an odd 8F used as a substitute.) Here's a picture of the empties in late 1966 - http://www.flickr.co...ins/2971859657/ WD 2-10-0 & 2-8-0 where not unheard of if not quite regulars. Plenty to view on Railscot site mainly in the Hawick area. The rumour was of spreading the road but that's also the supposed reason the Brits got finished off the route? Well before my time and its surfacemen I know surviving more as footplate so? Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 (edited) ... Here's a picture of the empties in late 1966 - http://www.flickr.co...ins/2971859657/ Nice pic, caption is thought provoking also. I'd initially thought it was a bit off the mark as I thought the Mond 45T caustic tanks were early enough to be vac braked (1965 build), but having checked, there was also a 1966 batch with air brake and vac through pipe - and those tanks do look very smart and new. The first two vehicles, though they probably there for braking, are a Prestwin and a Presflo, which as bulk powder wagons are too specialised to be there for that reason alone - other photos at this period exist of them mixed in with the 45 tonners so it's likely they were just part of the pool at the time. Edited March 25, 2012 by Pennine MC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 A couple here: http://www.flickr.co...ins/2971903179/ http://www.flickr.co...N07/6911224055/ (Incidentally, the second picture is at Hurlford, not Ayr. I took a picture of 92110 from about 10 feet to the left of that one on August 1 1965.) I'd never seen photographic evidence of 9F's in Scotland, and always assumed that they had made it up on here on a regular(ish) basis it'd be widely photographed. Many thanks again for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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