Dave F more photos added 21 June from 1947 to 1955ish

[Mallard60022]

Another few batches of classic  shots. Just look at the tidy area around Trowell Station (ballast etc.) in the shot (last in 534) of the double header; wonderful and a credit to the 'linemen'  locally.

This collection is priceless David. Had you thought of some sort of publishing or offering them to the National Collection or, at least, Notts Archives at a later date?

Phil

[Jack P]

Can only echo what's been said above -. Fantastic shots. You're making me want some form of Garrett though, which could lead me into dangerous territory!

[asa]

The shot with the Garratt and wooden wagons is brilliant,I love it.

[DaveF]

Here is the selection for this afternoon, once again most of them around Notingham taken at various times of the year in a mix of weather conditions.

One, the Jubilee, has been seen before but this is from a slightly sharper print.  Hence there are nine images instead of eight.

 

Grantham J6 pass Grantham to Nottingham and D3 62000 le c1950 JVol5023

 

 

Nottingham Victoria K2 le c1952 JVol5025

 

 

 

Nottingham Victoria B1 61376 station pilot c1952 JVol5027

 

 

Nottingham Victoria left stopping pass right down ex pass c1952 JVol5028.

 

 

Radford Junction Jubilee 45694 Bellerophon up ex pass a second sharper copy c1951 JVol5029

 

 

Radford Junction 8F up goods c1951 JVol5030

 

 

Radford Junction  a drill c1951 JVol5031

 

 

Radford junction in snow c1952 JVol5032

 

 

New Basford B1 61186 Sheffield to Nottingham c1951 Vol5033

 

David

Edited May 16, 2013 by DaveF

[The Stationmaster]

I think 5031 might be a drill.  One of the extra values of these marvellous pics is that your dad didn't just take pictures of engines - we owe him a debt for having a wider ranging lens in times when it was not easy to get hold of film etc.

[LNER4479]

5031 is definitely a drill! I say that because I once used one of these things that someone had 'acquired' in the early days of a preservation scheme. Used for drilling holes in the ends of lengths of rails for the fishplate bolts, no less! You lift the bottom half (with the handles) up to the vertical position, which engages the bevel cogs at the other end. You engage the yoked clamp-like assembly (folded back on top of the drill in the picture) underneath the rail, then two of you crank the handles like mad to make the drill bit turn!! We reckoned if we could drill a hole in less than 10 minutes we was doing well

 

If you think that was bad, you should try the manual rail saw! Fascinating insight though as to how them platelayers used to have to go about their work in the 'good ol' days'...

Edited May 17, 2013 by LNER4479

[DaveF]

Mainly goods trains and locos tonight.  Lots of 2-8-0s on the Great Central.

 

New Basford O1 down goods c1953 JVol5036

 

 

New Basford O1 up goods c1953 JVol5037

 

 

 

Rugby Central O4 up goods c1952 JVol5038

 

 

Rugby 4F 44413 up le c1952 JVol5040

 

 

Loughborough Central O1 up mineral c1952 JVol5041

 

 

Loughborough Central O1 down goods c1952 JVol5042

 

 

Loughborough Central K3 61974 down empties c1952 JVol5043

 

 

Loughborough Central B1 61390 Leicester to Nottingham c1952 JVol5044

 

David

Edited May 17, 2013 by DaveF

[Mallard60022]

Those O1s at New Basford are manna for those about to Purchase the new model. As you all know there are houses in this cutting now! There is?/was a small play park area just in front of the tunnel mouth according to my book purchase.(Mac Hawkins)

P

[cctransuk]

DaveF, on 16 May 2013 - 19:01, said:

Loughborough Central K3 61934 down empties c1952 JVol5043.jpg

Loughborough Central K3 61934 down empties c1952 JVol5043

61974, I think.

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

 

 

 

 

Nottingham Victoria B1 61376 station pilot c1952 JVol5027.jpg

Nottingham Victoria B1 61376 station pilot c1952 JVol5027

 

 

 

 

Pardon my ignorance, I plead the 5th diesel amendment!, but what is that gizmo on footplate at the side of the smokebox, some sort of generator?

 

Mike.

[LMS2968]

Yes, a turbo generator, this engine having electric headlights.

[DaveF]

This afternoon we'll concentrate on the line to the east of Nottingham Midland as far as the bridge over the River Trent (now a road bridge I believe) which was on the line south to Melton Mowbray and eventually to London over the Welland viaduct .

There are also a couple of GC photos.

 

Nottingham Midland Class 5 44959 Sheepbridge Engineering Annual Excursion c1952 JVol5045

 

 

Nottingham Midland Jubilee 45564 New South Wales up ex pass and Compound 41060 Nottingham to Lincoln c1953 JVol5046

 

 

Nottingham London Road Junction Compound 41060 Nottingham to Lincoln and 3F with brake van c1953JVol5047

 

 

Nottingham River Trent Bridge Class 5 44959 Sheepbridge Engineering Annual Excursion c1952  JVol5048

This is from a sharper and less heavily cropped print than the earlier copy

 

 

Nottingham London Road climbing to bridge over R Trent Junction 4F 44401 up goods c1952 JVol5049

 

 

Nottingham River Trent Bridge Fairburn 4MTT 42174 Kettering to Nottingham c1093 JVol5050

 

 

Nottingham Wilford Railway Bridge GCR Diver Everett's boat he is under the water 1953 JVol5053

This will make sense if you have seen the earlier photos in this thread.

 

Loughborough Central B1 61368 Leicester to Nottingham c1952 JVol5054

 

David

Edited May 17, 2013 by DaveF

[Orinoco]

First class again - what is the coach behind the engine in the first shot though JVol5045? No toilets - I hope they weren't going too far!

[DaveF]

A quick look at Chester this evening 

and then another look at the ECML around Grantham and Barkston.

 

Chester loco c1951 JVol5055

 

 

Chester General57xx 3665 l e c1951 JVol5056

 

 

Grantham A4 60009 Union of South Africa down Elizabethan c1953 JVol5057

 

 

Grantham A4 down ex pass 1953 JVol5058

 

 

Grantham A4 up ex pass c1950 JVol5058a

 

 

Grantham B12 61580 up pass c1953 JVol5059

 

 

Barkston A3 60053 Sansovino up ex pass c1953 JVol5060

 

 

Barkston A3 down ex pass c1953 JVol5061

 

David

Edited May 17, 2013 by DaveF

[melmerby]

I see copper topped chimneys (at last!)

 

Keith

[Mallard60022]

When I was working on a temp contract with Notts CC in 2004/5 I was based mostly at Trent Bridge House. Depending upon which route I took when driving in to work (taking around 50 minutes from 36E), I often went over this bridge. It was a good 3 months into the contract before I discovered what it had been. I then went and had a poke around West Bridgeford and out towards Plumtree to see what was what. 

When I caught the train to Work (taking almost two hours including the drive to Worksop and walk from 'Midland') on the 'Robin Hood' line was when I began to get curious about the 'old routes' and look where that has got me

Thanks then for posting this shot of the Black 5 on the 'outing' and the Fairburn. I've been over there but not in such style!

In the Grantham shots of the 'down' JVol5058, I assume that was the fast through line?

Phil

Edited May 17, 2013 by Mallard60022

[Mallard60022]

On a 57xx tank....???

Nah. Look just to the left of the shed........under the right end of the big gantry.........

P

[melmerby]

On a 57xx tank....???

All those tender engines on shed

(I've got good eyesight!)

 

Keith

[DaveF]

 

In the Grantham shots of the 'down' JVol5058, I assume that was the fast through line?

Phil

In  5058 (and 5057) Dad was standing at the north end of the up platform - the line on the left of the platform is a bay (I think used for Lincoln trains but it was a long time ago...)  The A4 is on the down platform line, normally used by all northbound passenger trains.

 

5058a was mis captioned - it is an up train and I have altered it!

 

David

Edited May 17, 2013 by DaveF

[melmerby]

Actually I'm surprised that we haven't seen a Hall or Grange at Notts Vic as I thought the GWR locos did work through on occasionly cross country trains.

 

(Or maybe not?)

 

Keith

[DaveF]

Actually I'm surprised that we haven't seen a Hall or Grange at Notts Vic as I thought the GWR locos did work through on occasionly cross country trains.

 

(Or maybe not?)

 

Keith

 

I remember seeing both Halls and Granges at various times in the late 50s and early 60s but I don't think Dad was ever there at the right time of day.  I've looked at all his photos and certainly haven't found any.  Photos of Hall's are to be found in a number of books, I don't remember seeing a photo of a Grange.

 

I'm not sure when the ex GWR locos started working through, it may have been after he stopped taking so many photos - the reason for that will be explained when we get to the end of the photos.

 

I think that at one time ex GWR locos only worked as far as Leicester Central.

 

David

[beast66606]

The (very nice) Chester photos show Chester No.4 signal box and it's signals, to the left the line curves away to North Wales / Wrexham to the right the line goes to Birkenhead Woodside - the shed is the GWR one (still open but completely rebuilt as a 175 maintenance depot), the LMS shed was at the other end of the station. Apart from the odd ground disc every signal is pure LNWR. For those in the know the gap between the main and calling on arm visible in 5055 is apparently large, this is because at one time the LNWR provided fixed distant signals under all the homes - the LMS twigged that these were superfluous and removed them - hence the gap. This gantry was dual worked by Chester No.3A cabin, which is why there are slot weights visible within the gantry structure.

 

5056 shows the bridge signals which acted as Chester No.4 down homes, these were unusual as the operating rod acted down on the arms, rather than pushing them to off from underneath, these signals were replaced by colour lights ca 1955 and these colour lights were then replaced by modern colour lights in the early 1980s and are now controlled by Chester PSB. Notice also the double disc to the right, showing two different shades of red, one will be "signal red" and the other more of a maroon red.

[Fat Controller]

Photo 5047- that Siphon G is wandering even further away from the WR.. It's one of the ones that were converted for use in ambulance trains, hence the sheeted-over louvres, small windows, and roof vents (just about visible).

[Mallard60022]

In  5058 (and 5057) Dad was standing at the north end of the up platform - the line on the left of the platform is a bay (I think used for Lincoln trains but it was a long time ago...)  The A4 is on the down platform line, normally used by all northbound passenger trains.

 

5058a was mis captioned - it is an up train and I have altered it!

 

David

Ah yes, I see now. I only once was on a train that stopped at that down platform, in 1962 and an A3 'swap' took place. Lovely.

P 

[Enterprisingwestern]

This afternoon we'll concentrate on the line to the east of Nottingham Midland as far as the bridge over the River Trent (now a road bridge I believe)

 

Ladybay bridge.

 

Mike.