vitalspark Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Peering in through the shed window one evening, wondering what's being discussed... Through the window 2.jpg The office light looks like its enclosed within a glass bowl and if so well done and it also gives the perfect diffused effect. Would have expected nothing less of course. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitalspark Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 It's August 1986 and the west end of Edinburgh Waverley station is busy with services waiting to depart to all corners of Scotland... WW 2.jpg Fantastic and very atmospheric. I have just recently copied down to dvds a load of video taken by myself in that period around Waverley and Queen St and the scenes look uncannily familiar. 47/7s 26s and 107s ..Scotrail Strathclyde I/C and Blue Grey..could be taken on WWs layout! Dave. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post black and decker boy Posted January 28, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 28, 2018 (edited) NCB Barclay No24 oozes power whilst the driver chats to ground staff Edited January 28, 2018 by black and decker boy 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 A few from me... please excuse the Peco setrack (Layout plan modified from one in the setrack planbook...) and the Hornby/Balsa Wood Signals. Most of those signals have now been replaced by Ratio ones, which are a considerable upgrade! There are some MSE LSWR ones hidden away in a box somewhere, should the time arise when they can be built. No.34023 'Blackmore Vale' sits in the Up Platform at Yately, with a late-night service bound for Waterloo, via the former SECR line as far as Sturt Lane, then onto the ex-LSWR Mainline, calling at Brookwood and Woking, then fast to Surbiton, Clapham Jct and finally Waterloo. Maunsell S15 No. 30831 coasts into platform 2 with a Down Goods from Tonbridge, bound for Reading and the Western Region. The loco will be coming off at Reading, turned, and is then booked to take a fitted freight through to Feltham. 34023 now has the road out of the station and into the very short section across Yately Junction, hence why the Distant is cleared. The S15 seems to be almost crawling through the station, as the Bulleid's train appears to have left during the short time it should have taken to get from just before the Siding into the platform. It appears 30831 has strayed rather far from home, being listed as a Salisbury loco from at least 1948 until it was withdrawn! In the daylight! Drummond M7 Class 0-4-4T No.30108 is shunting the factory sidings to the South of Yately, towards Darby Green, with a Down fast freight passing in the background, probably bound for Reading, or beyond to the Western Region. If it is a Sunday, it may be diverted from the LSWR mainline and is bound for Basingstoke and points West to Southampton, Bournemouth, Exeter, Plymouth or Weymouth. 30108 is another loco that is far from home, being a Bournemouth engine at this time! It was no stranger to the area, having been a Guildford loco until 1953, but it's a long way from Yately to Bournemouth! Yet another down goods! This time headed by 34023. A new 0-6-0DE Shunter can be seen in the factory sidings, whilst specially-liveried No.34090 'Sir Eustace Missenden' (My User-namesake!) is trundling off the branch (to Eversley, Bramshill and Heckfield) and into Yateley Junction shed, a small sub-shed of Reading (Southern). Quite what such a loco is doing at this small shed (Nomally utilised only by the branch locos and whichever loco is employed on shunting the Factory sidings) is a mystery, as it was on Stewarts Lane's books at the time! 34023, meanwhile, has strayed even further than 34090, being an Exmouth Junction loco! The 0-6-0DE Has mysteriously acquired a yellow-front many years before this feature was officially introduced! Indeed, it would appear this loco (D3256) had yet to be built! At any rate, D3256 was a Western Region loco, so it is a true mystery why a loco of this number should be appearing in North-East Hampshire, with a Yellow front, several years before its listed build-date... Maunsell N No.31404 rounds the curve from Yately (Station) through to the junction on an Up working, possibly headed for Guildford, Redhill or even Tonbridge. Although the shedplate on the loco reads 72B (Salisbury, 31404 was allocated to Guildford from September 1963, so it is fair to say that the photo dates from that month before the shedplate has been changed. Still, given the allocations of some of the locos pictured above, anything's possible! sem34090 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john flann Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Hardy's Mill, Port Bredy 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post steve fay Posted January 30, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2018 Lightning skirts the sea wall Dawlish 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Some workmen conduct a last inspection of a disused branch near Newton Broadway. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 31, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2018 Lightning skirts the sea wall Dawlish 5023D5FF-71D7-4E02-9A57-B98FD400F8B8.jpeg Presumably on a through working from the LMR with it's electrification flashes; previously a Canton Brit and never allowed to get in that state! Very believable photo though... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Plymouth Swansea service, she got very dirty in her last few months at Canton I’ve got the pictures to prove it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 1, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2018 Fair enough, but did she have the electrification flashes prior to transfer to LMR (he said desperately trying to dig himself out). Incidentally I thought the WR type grab holes on smoke deflectors were a very handsome addition to these already impressive locos, and burnished up with the 'full Canton' treatment looked wonderful. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted February 1, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2018 NCB Barclay No24 oozes power whilst the driver chats to ground staff 9FD5664C-C943-4164-8272-2BEC22DB6C31.jpeg I do like that. Looks bl**dy cold up there! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tricky Posted February 1, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 1, 2018 Just to give a bit of variety, the back end of a Midland Railway lighter waiting patiently for loading at the Bristol Docks, C1907. Excellent colour photography back then... 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted February 1, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2018 Shed scene 03.jpg Pannier tank 3643 has arrived with three wagons of coal for the coal stage. Having dropped off them and the brake van, it will collect the empties and put them on the brake van before propelling the loaded wagons up the ramp. The crew will probably stop for a natter with the shed staff before heading back to the goods yard with the empties. In the background, a 9F trundles along the embankment with a train of empties for South Wales. That coal stage looks familiar. Cheltenham? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Swindon 123 Posted February 1, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 1, 2018 Some photos of some recent action at Canada Street docks. Class 15 stabled in Canada Street sidings Tea time at Dee's for the crew of D2294. Paul J. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Fair enough, but did she have the electrification flashes prior to transfer to LMR (he said desperately trying to dig himself out). Incidentally I thought the WR type grab holes on smoke deflectors were a very handsome addition to these already impressive locos, and burnished up with the 'full Canton' treatment looked wonderful.I like the WR type grab holes and at one time they where polished right up! I only decided to have her weathered to this state after I found the pictures, if I had another Brit she would be bulled up Canton style. As for the over head flashes to be honest I’m not sure, I’ve got pics of her with them as a LMR loco but I must have found a shot of her with them whilst still on the Western as I’m sure I wouldn’t have added them other wise. From 61 onwards a lot of locos gained them even Castles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mudmagnet Posted February 1, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 1, 2018 A class 16 being serviced, or is that broken again .... 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 27052 waits patiently for some attention... 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 27052 waits patiently for some attention... Depot 7.jpg I don’t know how you do it...masterful. I always look forward to your posts. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 What you might call a cruel enlargement. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 What you might call a cruel enlargement. 24B3B1D7-9C37-48FA-8677-29A6ECB2FD03.png Excellent!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Not mine. But a pic from the Ponty show. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted February 2, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2018 Three Scottish-based 47/4s take a break in the sun at Haymarket MPD, must have been around 86-87 I should think... 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CME and Bottlewasher Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Three Scottish-based 47/4s take a break in the sun at Haymarket MPD, must have been around 86-87 I should think... 47s 1.jpg Not my era (modelling) but my era in terms of my age. Stunning, just stunning....superb! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted February 3, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2018 Three Scottish-based 47/4s take a break in the sun at Haymarket MPD, must have been around 86-87 I should think... 47s 1.jpg There are no words left in the English language.... I had to enlarge that photo and look very hard to convince myself it isn't real. The lighting and long focal length really sets it off. Score: 11/10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted February 3, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2018 No.34023 'Blackmore Vale' sits in the Up Platform at Yately, with a late-night service bound for Waterloo, via the former SECR line as far as Sturt Lane, then onto the ex-LSWR Mainline, calling at Brookwood and Woking, then fast to Surbiton, Clapham Jct and finally Waterloo. Maunsell S15 No. 30831 coasts into platform 2 with a Down Goods from Tonbridge, bound for Reading and the Western Region. The loco will be coming off at Reading, turned, and is then booked to take a fitted freight through to Feltham. 34023 now has the road out of the station and into the very short section across Yately Junction, hence why the Distant is cleared. In the daylight! Drummond M7 Class 0-4-4T No.30108 is shunting the factory sidings to the South of Yately, towards Darby Green, with a Down fast freight passing in the background, probably bound for Reading, or beyond to the Western Region. If it is a Sunday, it may be diverted from the LSWR mainline and is bound for Basingstoke and points West to Southampton, Bournemouth, Exeter, Plymouth or Weymouth. 30108 is another loco that is far from home, being a Bournemouth engine at this time! It was no stranger to the area, having been a Guildford loco until 1953, but it's a long way from Yately to Bournemouth! Yet another down goods! This time headed by 34023. A new 0-6-0DE Shunter can be seen in the factory sidings, whilst specially-liveried No.34090 'Sir Eustace Missenden' (My User-namesake!) is trundling off the branch (to Eversley, Bramshill and Heckfield) and into Yateley Junction shed, a small sub-shed of Reading (Southern). Quite what such a loco is doing at this small shed (Nomally utilised only by the branch locos and whichever loco is employed on shunting the Factory sidings) is a mystery, as it was on Stewarts Lane's books at the time! 34023, meanwhile, has strayed even further than 34090, being an Exmouth Junction loco! The 0-6-0DE Has mysteriously acquired a yellow-front many years before this feature was officially introduced! Indeed, it would appear this loco (D3256) had yet to be built! At any rate, D3256 was a Western Region loco, so it is a true mystery why a loco of this number should be appearing in North-East Hampshire, with a Yellow front, several years before its listed build-date... Maunsell N No.31404 rounds the curve from Yately (Station) through to the junction on an Up working, possibly headed for Guildford, Redhill or even Tonbridge. Although the shedplate on the loco reads 72B (Salisbury, 31404 was allocated to Guildford from September 1963, so it is fair to say that the photo dates from that month before the shedplate has been changed. Still, given the allocations of some of the locos pictured above, anything's possible! Based on all your local place names, either you used to live around here or we must almost be neighbours. Northmoor (Camberley resident) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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