Rugd1022 Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 Photo by Wilson Adams : 08 782 at Knottingley in 1987... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippel Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Found this on YouTube. At 15:40 and 18:00 there is a glimpse of D3158, engine by Blackstone, electrical by BTH. Only 15 of them built, and were never classified 08/09/10. Also at 17:06 there is a glimpse of a class 11 (no exhauster on front left footplate) Paul 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 Photo by Grahame Causer : 08 019 at Wolverhampton Low Level... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 O8714 on its way from Hope Cement works on 07/06/23 Caught me by surprise as I was on my way to parents' evening 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted June 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 11, 2023 08628 at Saltley Depot on 02/10/99 (my photo) 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 Photo by 'Deva Bob' : 3953 at Old Oak c.1970... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 On 26/05/2023 at 19:19, Rugd1022 said: Photo by Jim Freebury : D3291 at Crewe Works on 4th Marc h1973... I photographed this one parked in the bay at Stafford in November that year - close examination of the cabside revealed its original large number 13291 still discernible under the paint (a photo of it as 13291 appears in one of my Bradford Barton albums). The following year it was renumbered to 08221, its third identity in the same green livery with early BR emblems (presumably @08221 already knows this 😊!) 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 08221 Posted June 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 12, 2023 18 minutes ago, Halvarras said: I photographed this one parked in the bay at Stafford in November that year - close examination of the cabside revealed its original large number 13291 still discernible under the paint (a photo of it as 13291 appears in one of my Bradford Barton albums). The following year it was renumbered to 08221, its third identity in the same green livery with early BR emblems (presumably @08221 already knows this 😊!) @Halvarras thank you! Thats the best photo I have seen of it in that livery - really appreciated! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 (edited) That photo should explain to younger enthusiasts why we had such trouble telling what colour locos were painted “back in the day”; a seriously dirty green one looked very like a faded black one. Edited June 12, 2023 by Nearholmer 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 5 hours ago, 08221 said: @Halvarras thank you! Thats the best photo I have seen of it in that livery - really appreciated! I didn't take that one - it was taken by Jim Freebury and posted by @Rugd1022! If only I'd had a camera that good back then (but the film and processing costs would have meant fewer models being bought of course.....) - here's my somewhat cr@ppier attempt at Stafford on 11th November 1973......but at least it shows the other side, which may be useful to a potential modeller out there (in contravention of Sod's Law which says that one will usually find six views of the same side before a view of the other side emerges........and that will have been taken in the dark 🤪!!) Note, only one vacuum exhauster box on this one, as well as those early external side hinges....... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 (edited) PS actually my pic looks better on my tablet than it does on my laptop's screen, where I posted it from - perhaps I was being a little harsh on myself (and the camera I had at the time!) Comparing the two sides, there are variations in the positioning of the top front OHLE flash and a couple of the grabrails, note two are out of alignment in my photo, and those doors are also missing the horizontal rails seen on the opposite side. Off another loco? Edited June 12, 2023 by Halvarras Another difference spotted! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted June 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2023 No, I know it's not an 08, but I thought this movie on YouTube might be of interest. Mostly it features Italian 3 phase electrics ( which are fascinating beasts in their own right), but there is also some steam, and at 02:39 there is a short clip of a former LMS jackshaft drive shunter, ancestor of class 08. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippel Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 There were some interesting shots of electrics there. Looks like there were two overhead wires to each track, was one the return, rather than using the track? Thanks, Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 (edited) No, it’s three phase, so three AC currents, 120 degrees out off phase with one another, using two wires and the running rails as the three conductors. You do sometimes see two-wire dc systems, like s trolleybus system, typically where the track is so awful, or subject to such abuse, or is portable, that using it as a return is not viable. Being uber-picky, the Jack shaft locos weren’t ancestors of the 08, they were the single motor alternative to the two traction motor animals that evolved (slightly) to become 08. The two motor beasts rapidly proved more suitable, and the single motor genus died out. The LMS conducted a really well thought out programme of diesel shunter trials during the 1930s, ditto railcar developments, and later “big” locos. Smart cookies, especially Tommy Hornbuckle, the engineer who led it all. Edited June 13, 2023 by Nearholmer 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Class 11 12139 prepares to uncouple from Standard 4mt 2-6-4T 80136 after shunting it into position at Grosmont MPD on 10/06/23 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 There's a Class 08 back shunting the Cornish china clay! 08752 (ex-D3920), looking in superb condition and a credit to RSS, was delivered by road to Rocks Dryers, Goonbarrow, on 6th June and has just been trialled - scroll down to beyond Bristol, love the view from the cab! : http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/latest-input--news--old-pictures-etc If you scroll down a little further there's a couple of photos of Imerys P405D 'Alex' going the other way, plans for this one (and P406D 'Isaac' still at Rocks AFAIK) unclear at the moment - overhaul, or......? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Class 08 08850 at Newbridge on 10/06/23 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Photo by Roger Gregory : D3155 at Rugby Midland on 13th September 1970, a few days after I started school just over a mile away... Photo by Michael Thomas : D3168 and D3975 at Washwood Heath... Photo by Derek Jones : D3994 at Gloucester in 1970... 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 20, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 20, 2023 I think I’ve put this up before, it’s one of me in 1987 driving an 08 at the Caledonian railway in Brechin when I went up there with my dad to view some tubes for his quarry Hunslet ‘Alice’, i drove it from Brechin to bridge of dun with my dad holding his foot on the deadmans pedal 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 65179 Posted June 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 29, 2023 (edited) A quiet Saturday morning at Celsa Tremorfa: Simon Edited June 29, 2023 by 65179 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 On 15/06/2023 at 06:21, 6990WitherslackHall said: Class 11 12139 prepares to uncouple from Standard 4mt 2-6-4T 80136 after shunting it into position at Grosmont MPD on 10/06/23 Not actually a Class 11 as it was never owned by BR. It's the same design but was built by English Electric for industry. ICI, I think. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 (edited) 6 hours ago, Ruston said: Not actually a Class 11 as it was never owned by BR. It's the same design but was built by English Electric for industry. ICI, I think. So THAT'S why it's not listed in this book! I was wondering why it wasn't listed in there and thought maybe they forgot about it. Edited June 30, 2023 by 6990WitherslackHall 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Photo by Theo Beckett, from the Cornwall Railway Society site : D3510 at Truro with a shunting truck in January 1959... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hal Nail Posted July 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) Watercress line shuttle between Alresford and Ropley today, in between the steam service train. I was interested to discover later that this is ex St Blazey 08377 that appears in many of my 70s books, including on the Wenford Bridge line. Edited July 28, 2023 by Hal Nail 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Photo by Joseph Kelly : 08 780 at Reading Depot in October 1976... 14 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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