Ray M Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Wonky numbers. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 47422 with a Newcastle to Kings Cross train approaching Newark on 1st August 1975 Trevor 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted December 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2017 I'm still trying solve the mystery of this picture I took 50 years ago! Because the original negative was overexposed I was not able to print it satisfactorily at the time, so didn't bother to keep a proper record of the subject. But digital scanning works wonders and I have a quite presentable picture now. The trouble is, I have no date or even a note of the loco numbers. It was taken at Low Fell, Gateshead, where I did my early 'spotting' and photography. Going by the negative I know it was taken with a camera I was using between 1967 and 1969. The train is heading north and is obviously the 'Anglo-Scottish Car Carrier' (whether that name was still in use at the time, I'm not sure.) Both the Type 2 leading and the Brush Type 4 (which has presumably failed) are in original green livery. Any ideas what the locos are, and the date, anyone? Needless to say it is the only photo I ever took of a diesel brake tender with XP headlamps! (748gS) D51xx+D1xxx Low Fell (Trevor Ermel) .jpg Taken at Low Fell, probably 1967/8 Thanks in advance! Trevor The Class 47 has a SYP and Serck grills rather than three fixed grills, which was not that common... not that it really helps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Trev52A Posted December 10, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2017 Here's a shot with a bit of extra interest (or distraction?): 47546 has just left Gateshead depot and heads light engine onto the King Edward Bridge on its way to Newcastle to work a southbound train on 28th March 1976 Trevor 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 47580 on the Riviera Statesman 26-8-10 ready for the off. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold geoff Posted December 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 11, 2017 A blast from the past. Harrowden Junction looks a great deal different today. Some years ago and at astronomical cost the relief line was extended to Kettering South Junction and now, at an even greater cost, the line is being doubled to restore it to a four track section as it had been for a hundred years. Cost savings??? Geoff 47777 sounding off beat as it passes Harrowden Junction with a Serco train at 1338 on Tuesday 2 November 1999. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 (edited) 47477 eases away from a signal stop shortly after leaving Blea Moor tunnel with a southbound train during diversions via the S&C on 2nd May 1987 Trevor Edited to correct the loco number (45477?? d'oh!) Edited December 17, 2017 by Trev52A 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Here's a shot of the original D1500.... 47401 North Eastern passing King Edward Bridge Junction, Gateshead on 20th June 1987 with the 18.25 Newcastle to Liverpool Trevor 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slilley Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 The Class 47 has a SYP and Serck grills rather than three fixed grills, which was not that common... not that it really helps. More common than you think as many Class 47s were fitted with air brakes from new and many of those had the later style grille arrangement. It is also from what I can make out an all-parallel locomotive rather than one of the earlier series parallel machines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 The photograph of the 25/47 reminded me that I had this photograph, I don't think 47s were that common at Glasgow Buchanan Street Jim 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Here's another oldie from the 70s... 47106 heads west past Teignmouth on 30th May 1975 with a train of (what looks like) 16-ton mineral wagons. Trevor 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted December 19, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2017 I've posted this already on my video thread, but I've posted it here in case you class 47 fans missed it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Class 47 to the rescue!.. 47611 Thames assists a Paignton to Newcastle HST (power cars 43107 and 43078) past Tyne Yard, Gateshead, on 1st July 1989. The 47 had been attached at Derby. Trevor 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold geoff Posted December 20, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2017 (edited) 47514 with the Hastings Laboratory Test train at Kangaroo Spinney, Wellingborough. 15:22 14/8/75 f5.6 1/500 55mm 47514 Hastings Lab Test Train 15:22 14/8/75 by Geoffrey Robinson, on Flickr Geoff Edited to correct the number. Geoff Edited December 21, 2017 by geoff 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 47512 with the Hastings Laboratory Test train at Kangaroo Spinney, Wellingborough. 15:22 14/8/75 f5.6 1/500 55mm 47512 Hastings Lab Test Train 15:22 14/8/75 by Geoffrey Robinson, on Flickr Geoff Lovely, lovely shot Geoff! Trying to place it - just south of Wellingborough I think with the train heading north on the Down Fast, the stop block being the neck of the sidings on the up side where the Morris Engines factory used to be...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_anorak59 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) Some of mine - not brilliant, but it's the record that counts... 1859 and 1814 at Birkenhead Mollington Street - Feb 1973 47089 'Amazon' - Crewe Works Open Day 22nd Sept 1979 47090 'Vulcan' - Northwich Shed 1981 47232 crossing the canal at, I believe Ferrybridge Power Station c1984 - I was on a barge at the time, and didn't always know exactly where we where! 47365 Crewe Works c1977 - the last green 47 I saw 47365 Turned up at Warrington Arpley nearly 10 years later, now named as 'Diamond Jubilee' (1986-ish) looking very different... Finally, an unidentified 47 at Liverpool Lime Street in about 1989 Edited July 22, 2022 by billy_anorak59 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium mezzoman253 Posted December 21, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) These have been posted before, a while ago on a completely different thread, so may not have been see by some. Taken 23/09/2006 at the NRM York Some scans of photos, pre-digital cameras. 3 at Tonbridge, undated. 4 at Basingstoke, undated. Finally 2 near Dawlish, undated. Again not great shots but a record none the less. 3 taken at the Epping & Ongar railway 25/08/2015 Rob Edited December 21, 2017 by mezzoman253 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 47512 with the Hastings Laboratory Test train at Kangaroo Spinney, Wellingborough. 15:22 14/8/75 f5.6 1/500 55mm 47512 Hastings Lab Test Train 15:22 14/8/75 by Geoffrey Robinson, on Flickr Geoff Except it is not 47512, because as D1958 it appeared in standard BR livery on being renumbered. As far as I know there were only two of the class renumbered and still keeping their four BR arrow symbols under the cab windows. They were D1956 and D1960, becoming 47260 and 47514 respectively. I believe the loco here is 47514. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold geoff Posted December 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2017 Except it is not 47512, because as D1958 it appeared in standard BR livery on being renumbered. As far as I know there were only two of the class renumbered and still keeping their four BR arrow symbols under the cab windows. They were D1956 and D1960, becoming 47260 and 47514 respectively. I believe the loco here is 47514. It is indeed 47514. In my notes I don't have the last digit recorded so I cannot account for why I described it as 47512. The number can be clearly read off the original when enlarged. Thank you for pointing it out. Geoff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold geoff Posted December 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) Lovely, lovely shot Geoff! Trying to place it - just south of Wellingborough I think with the train heading north on the Down Fast, the stop block being the neck of the sidings on the up side where the Morris Engines factory used to be...? Thank you Rugd 1022. Yes it is just about to pass under the Irthlingborough Road bridge. Geoff Edited December 21, 2017 by geoff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitalspark Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 (edited) These have been posted before, a while ago on a completely different thread, so may not have been see by some. Taken 23/09/2006 at the NRM York 100_0698.JPG Some scans of photos, pre-digital cameras. 3 at Tonbridge, undated. IMG_0014.JPG IMG_0015.JPG IMG_0018.JPG 4 at Basingstoke, undated. IMG_0019.JPG IMG_0020.JPG IMG_0021.JPG IMG_0022.JPG Finally 2 near Dawlish, undated. IMG_0025.JPG IMG_0026.JPG Again not great shots but a record none the less. 3 taken at the Epping & Ongar railway 25/08/2015 100_9409.JPG 100_9410.JPG 100_9417.JPG Rob Interesting shot off 47712 at Tonbridge as it still carries the 100mph authorisation plate on the drivers door permitting this higher speed when working the Push Pulls on the Glasgow Edinburgh mainline. In have never seen reliveried locos away from the 100mph lines in Scotland that still retained this plate. Its also something thats usually overlooked by modellers when detailing 47/7s. I spent lot of time behind these locos in their last months on these duties and 100 mph was almost guaranteed every trip. When the new 156 replacements were introduced after much hype the schedule was eased from 43 mins to 50! Even the 27s that preceded the 47/7s were originally timed on the fastest trains at 39 mins to Haymark.et and 43 to Waverley. These were actually more exciting with noisy non air con mk 2s and locos flat out from the start with speed well into the 90s every trip..no wonder the failure rate was high. Both these and the 47/7s were too good to last unfortunately. Pic of 'Waverley' on such a duty the significance of which is a limited edition Bachmann model which goes on sale at the Glasgow show in Feb. Dave. Edited December 23, 2017 by vitalspark 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBill Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 47514 with the Hastings Laboratory Test train at Kangaroo Spinney, Wellingborough. 15:22 14/8/75 f5.6 1/500 55mm 47514 Hastings Lab Test Train 15:22 14/8/75 by Geoffrey Robinson, on Flickr Geoff Edited to correct the number. Geoff Nice loco and signals... Did the 'T' head-code signify a test train? Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Photo c/o Alan Bricker, who is stood in the doorway of 1657 at Paddington in 1971 with top link man Bertie Miles... 47 081 at Old Oak c.1974 minus its 'Odin' nameplates... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitalspark Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Re post 718 from Mezzoman which includes this excellent shot of 47712 at Tonbridge. I commented regarding it unusual to see it still retained the max speed exemption plate pin the drivers door allowing 100mph on the Glasgow - Edinburgh main line. Bit blurred but easily read. I doubt if the forthcoming Bachmann releases of 47/7s in Scotrail livery will include this detail but its easily rectified. Hope this is of some interest. Dave. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Heres a old one from Leeds 28-8-73 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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