bike2steam Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 (edited) Taken with your back to the roundhouse entrance, probably Royal Scot 46101 parked somewhere to the left - my god you could have bumped into me - Willesden, closed 50 years ago day before yesterday. Edited September 29, 2015 by bike2steam 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Taken with your back to the roundhouse entrance, probably Royal Scot 46101 parked somewhere to the left - my god you could have bumped into me - Willesden, closed 50 years ago day before yesterday. It was quite a place, wasn't it, Bike2steam? I went there about half dozen times (it was expensive for me, as a schoolboy, to get to as I then lived in Northfleet, Kent. From memory, the railfare was about 10/-, a film around 5/6 and printing and all that a further 5 or 6/-. As I was getting 10/- per week fro my paper round and my deliveries included Saturdays, it was difficult to fit in) My freind and I used to get in via a hole in the fence on the canal side. I did see a Royal Scot there once as a 4-4-0 - its rear wheels had been removed for some reason. Oh how I wish I'd been able to take decent photos! But then you can wish your life away! Cliff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Another one, bike2steam - note the tell-tale shape of the smoke deflectors! Same visit - perhaps that's you to the left of the BR standard 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Hey cheeky, I'm not that old, like you just a school-boy on a 5 bob Twin-Rover ticket from Ongar. Like you my trips were funded by a paper-round, but a mate covered for me on Saturday mornings as I was always on the 5.14 train out of Ongar. I only had a Box Brownie camera in those days, and you think your pics are bad. The 'hole in the wall' was Old Oak, entrance to Willesden was a quick walk for a little way along the road entrance, then along the canal side of the main running-shed wall. The last pic looks like 46101 in the middle, it stayed there for a few months 'till being dragged off to the scrapper. To a young lad who likes steam locos, visits to the combination of Willesden+ Old Oak was a dream. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Hey cheeky, I'm not that old, like you just a school-boy on a 5 bob Twin-Rover ticket from Ongar. Like you my trips were funded by a paper-round, but a mate covered for me on Saturday mornings as I was always on the 5.14 train out of Ongar. I only had a Box Brownie camera in those days, and you think your pics are bad. The 'hole in the wall' was Old Oak, entrance to Willesden was a quick walk for a little way along the road entrance, then along the canal side of the main running-shed wall. The last pic looks like 46101 in the middle, it stayed there for a few months 'till being dragged off to the scrapper. To a young lad who likes steam locos, visits to the combination of Willesden+ Old Oak was a dream. Sorry bike2steam - I hadn't really looked at the figure closely, and hope I haven't offended you, but now having looked at him under magnification, I can see that he was a railwayman of mature years (and well our senior) who on looking at this callow youth probably imputed to me that my presence in the shed was not strictly necessary to the efficient running of British Railways and in some ways not even desirable, even if he couldn't put his finger on the actual reasons for this, and that I might like to consider removing myself from the premises sharpo... Cliff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Fancy something a little different? This is an oil burning 2-8-0 at Hyderabad in '84. Scanned from a photo that I notice is a bit faded. Cliff 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn1 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 (edited) Q6 63395 backs onto its train at Grosmont, 29th September 2015 Edited October 2, 2015 by Unicorn1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Three from the recent SVR Autumn steam gala. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 The "face" of Gresley K4 61994 "The Great Marquess" at Pickering, NYMR. Original photograph by Helen. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 A couple more not-very-good-un's, but may interest you. Holbeck in, I think, '66 Regards to all, Cliff PS I think the loco the other side of the N7 is "The Great Marquess" the excellent photo of which was posted by Bluebottle. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoilerBasher Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 Some shots from the US of A: Somewhere between Phoenix and the Grand Canyon, I nearly got the car stuck in snow as I pulled over to take the picture! A "plinthed" loco at the Grand Canyon. 3 truck shay locomotive at the Sugar Pine Railroad in Yosemite Valley. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 (edited) Something from Brighton. Dratted speed restriction sign; one of the many banes of railway photography Edited October 4, 2015 by Peppercorn 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 Parked Peak at St Albans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 A couple more not-very-good-un's, but may interest you. Holbeck in, I think, '66 Regards to all, Cliff PS I think the loco the other side of the N7 is "The Great Marquess" the excellent photo of which was posted by Bluebottle. Nice pics, but think it was Neville Hill shed - but not 100% sure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 Nice pics, but think it was Neville Hill shed - but not 100% sure. You're absolutely correct, bike2steam - my memory was at fault. Cliff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 (edited) Battle of Britain Class 34070 'Manston' arriving at Corfe Castle, 4th October 2015: Regards, Matt Edited October 4, 2015 by TheSoutherner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Here we are, bike2steam, the "Royal Scot" as 4-4-0 at Willesden around the same time that the others (above) although I think for this trip I'd borrowed my brother's 35mm (a "Kowa" if memory serves) It's 46115 "Scots Guardsman", although its sans nameplates as well as its rear drivers. The photo is awful - sorry - and I scanned it from a phot that was itself badly produced by a colleague who was learning to print. It was free, so I shouldn't grumble. If/when I come across the negative, I'll give it another try. Regards, Cliff 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 J15 and friend at Sheringham before 2004 (as I got my first digital camera that year) Another scanned photo Cliff 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 J15 and friend at Sheringham before 2004 (as I got my first digital camera that year) Another scanned photo Cliff Nice shot. The buffer stops are long gone, and work began last week to demolish the Tourist Information office and toilet block (seen behind the J15) to allow the existing run-round loop to be lengthened a little. Should allow an extra coach length or so in the platform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 (edited) I've just completed this and thought you might like to see it, even though its a painting, and hope you don't mind. If its not appropriate, I'll delete it. Cliff Edited October 7, 2015 by Peppercorn 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catweasel Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Nowt wrong with that mate. I like the character of it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParkeNd Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 Nowt wrong with that mate. I like the character of it. Nowt wrong with that avatar either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 4-4-0 compound no.85 'Merlin" at Lisburn on 27 Sept 2015 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 A pair of up-to-date photos - for me. When my daughter was still in Sheffield, I spent a little time on a footbridge a little north of Chesterfield station. For this excursion I used my film camera, Pentax ME Super with a Tamron lens. The film was Kentmere 400ASA, the day overcast. It was the first time I'd used my film camera for about 8 or 9 years and, strange to relate, I'd half-forgotten how to, for instance, I omitted to manually wind on the film, missing a good shot or two. Cliff 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Something from the (my) past. Taken with a FILM camera (Minolta Maxxum 7000), what!??!?!?!??! 34016 Bodmin, May 1989 Watercress Line 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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