Unidentified GER locations 1910 - 1940 can you help

[Classsix T]

Pretty sure this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8749297977/in/photostream/ is Needham Market (thought I had a scan for comparison, but can't find it now, so a link to someone else's http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4079/4940555095_37a68cb625_z.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/sinkplunger/4940555095/&h=480&w=640&sz=231&tbnid=nahPeLW4HuN4iM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=121&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dneedham%2Bmarket%2Bstation%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=needham+market+station&usg=__i4QxOSJVCCXnYRhG4djBD14VJYw=&docid=R2rI7dr_j0_bNM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=u1mZUYPbD8rC0QWg-oHoAg&ved=0CEkQ9QEwAzgK&dur=1), sign looks to be BR days.

Exact same spot pic was rather pointless as a tree and 7' fence would obscure much of the detail, but this compliments Eddie and Duncan's links.

Note Spruce/Pine on the left!

[Shadow]

Have  been working near this photo today, so made a detour to see what it looks like today.

 

Bridge over the Great Ouse :- http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8750422008/

 

Today, no longer there :-

 

 

 

This is a photo of the remaining bridge over the Relief channel, just East of the first.

 

[Blandford1969]

Thanks for the comparison photos of Needham Market and of the Great Ouse bridge.

 

I have now uploaded another 21 images,http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/ again all from F.V. Russell, however this time we have at least one which I think is LBSCR  http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8822472014/and a LTSR engine working a tanker train http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8822475346/

 

Again any help you can give in identifying them would be appreciated and if you can't identify them, I just hope you enjoy these images from about 100 years ago

kind regards

 

Duncan

[Shadow]

Untitled 66 -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8811875943/sizes/h/in/photostream/

The name on the station board appears to be at least "xxxxxxxxxx xxx" two words.

The name on the Signal Box appears to be "xx xxxxxxxx xxxx xxxxx" 4 words?

 

Is it something "xx xxxxxxxxxxx xxx North" ( or East/ West/ South !!) 

 

 

Untitled 52 - 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8822468948/

The track layout is the same as the previous Chelmsford image.

Also, the signals are in the same position.

 

[Blandford1969]

Thanks for the confirmation on Chelmsford, its always good when someone else backs up what you are thinking, on 66 I did wonder about the Cambridge to St Ives line?

[Shadow]

Untitled 45a  http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8822473076/sizes/k/

 

This is Thurston. If you look at the enlarged image, just to the left of the wheel barrow on the platform, left of building, you can just see the name board on the opposite platform.

 

I think that this building had been pulled down, and only the opposite side remains.

 

Dave

 

[Shadow]

Untitled 46a, http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8822472014/lightbox/

 

This looks Southern (or more likely one of it's constituents!) 

 

Trains heading east to south-east going by the shadow.

A long straight section, maybe Godstone, South Nutfield area?

Or further on down towards Tonbridge.

[The Stationmaster]

Untitled 46a, http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8822472014/lightbox/

 

This looks Southern (or more likely one of it's constituents!) 

 

Trains heading east to south-east going by the shadow.

A long straight section, maybe Godstone, South Nutfield area?

Or further on down towards Tonbridge.

LB&SCR by the look of the engine.  I see there's an ad for something in Croydon on the platform so it might be in that neck of the woods.

[jwealleans]

Building visible here after a few seconds and then again later in the video. It was indeed demolished during the 1960s although the other side still stands.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0m9lwUcxM

 

[unashamed plug]See it for real at Butterley in August and Folkestone in October[/unashamed plug]

[bike2steam]

#51 was really bugging me, it looked very familiar, a station I had used often, then thought - Epping.

#52 is indeed Chelmsford , with what was or was to become the old Bus station off to the right. I think #54 is also Chelmsford, a bit further north, by New Street bridge, right by the turnout ( on the right hand side) to the goods yard that had a little engine shed at the northern end.

[Andy Kirkham]

The loco in No 44a looks like a type used by the Furness lindal-in-furness.co.uk/RailPhotos/FR36.htm

[PhilJ W]

# 48a is Wisbeach, you can just see the special low tramway platform on the right just beyond the signal box. On the extreme right there looks like a tramway engine, then it could also be a brake van.

[Shadow]

I also thought that 54 was Chelmsford, looking from the North.

I came across another photo/image when trying to locate the first Chelmsford, that had 

a tower with a pointed roof in it, (behind chimney), but couldn't re-find it to confirm.!!

 

Dave

[Shadow]

Photo 62 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8811877247/

 

Just a long shot, but this may be Earith Bridge!

 

Look on disused stations website http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/e/earith_bridge/index.shtml)

 

Third photo down. Possible? Not sure.

 

Just the position of the road, barn (now refaced) and where the station used to be.

[jwealleans]

I'm told that 59 is Burwell. Are you able to supply copies (I'm not a flickr user).

[Shadow]

59 does look like Burwell as stated above. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8822467734/)

 

If you look on wiki for Burwell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burwell_Station_(remains).jpg)

the buildings are the same. Removed canopy post holes in platform align, also, the corner of the building

has the same discolouring pattern as 59.

[jwealleans]

My contact sent me two links for Burwell:

 

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.murkin/Books/example.pdf

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burwell_Station_%28remains%29.jpg

[EddieB]

"Untitled 63" looks very much like Bartlow (taken from Bartlow Junction signal box).  The footbridge in the background spans between Roman tumuli.

[EddieB]

Untitled 53 has already been identified as Felixstowe Beach; here's further confirmation.

 

[EddieB]

Quite happy with identification of "Untitled 61" as Linton, as the photograph seems to show the yellow-brick construction used on the "1865" style there.

[EddieB]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/8754468132/in/photostream/

 

I think that this one may be Stratford Carriage works. (Photo reversed)

 

Looking at the map of the works here on Wiki  (Stratford_works_and_depot_1914.jpg)

 

Starting at top right, go 4 folds to left, 1.5 folds down, and then looking to bottom left of map.

 

Appears to match layout. (when reversed)

 

Any takers?

 

Dave

 

Looking for something else, I found a picture on p61 of "Great Eastern in Town & Country" Volume 1 that matches exactly.  As has been noted, Loop Junction signal box is behind the camera and the negative is back-to-front.

[Blandford1969]

Thanks for all your help on identifying more of these images. There will be a further batch to come this week, which I hope you all enjoy.

 

Kind regards

 

Duncan

[EddieB]

Regarding the date of the Bartlow photograph ("untitled 63"), there are two factors suggesting a much later date than 1926 (when Bartlow Station Signal Box was removed).

 

1. The sidings' headshunts have been replaced by trap points;

2. The station nameboards have been expanded to include "change for Ashdon Halt & Saffron Walden".

 

Unpublished photos from the mid-1930's show much more vegetation along the platform walls (the stationmaster was a keen gardener, encouraged by annual station garden competitions), the headshunts still present and simple station nameboards (reading just "Bartlow").  In BR times, the station nameboards were replaced by enamel signs. 

 

Taking these things together, I'd expect the photograph to date from the late 'forties or early 'fifties.

[trisonic]

Thanks for all your help on identifying more of these images. There will be a further batch to come this week, which I hope you all enjoy.

 

Kind regards

 

Duncan

I haven't been much help at all from New York. I have, however, enjoyed looking at the photos..............

Many thanks for posting them.

 

Best, Pete.

[Buckjumper]

 As has been noted...the negative is back-to-front.

 

To further back that up, the Westinghouse pumps on the condensing Bucks are on the wrong-side tank fronts in the image.