Allegheny1600 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 No doubt like countless other Derbians and trainspotters, I spent many happy hours sitting on top of this bridge so am quite surprised at it's demise, although given the amount of road traffic that has gone over it, it's not that great a shock, really. My very first railway photographs were taken from here (& developed & printed at school!) and I remember that when I was a school kid, I could sit on the top with no problem - later I developed my fear of heights which reduced the fun but it was still a great view from there. R.I.P. London Road bridge. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 Can you spot the ex-MR signal is this photo? A Sheffield - St Pancras HST approaches Spondon on a cold winter's day. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 Moving across to the suburbs of Nottingham, we look over the bridge at the site of Radford station. Just in time to catch a Cl.47 coming off the Trowell branch with a Glasgow - Nottingham train. We are just in time in another sense too as, judging by the headboard, this was one of the last of these through workings. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted January 19, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) Until 2002 I walked over that bridge on the way to work in the RTC. By that time it had acquired various reinforcements and clearly wasn't a happy bridge even then. Apparently the work to replace it started over Christmas and will last until next autumn. Seems a very long time for one bridge! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-25495486 It has actually been closed for about 4 months already with all traffic diverted via Osmaston Road or Pride Park. Contractors have been doing preparation work as they have installed a temporary pedestrian and cyclists bridge and had to re-route all the gas, electric, phone and water services. Bridge was removed over the Christmas break. These newspaper reports give further information - cost of £6.9m ! http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/City-roads-moving-despite-bridge-closure/story-19761881-detail/story.html http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Temporary-footbridge-road-closures-Derby/story-20249663-detail/story.html http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Derby-s-Victorian-London-Road-bridge-demolished/story-20364975-detail/story.html EDIT - just realised that in a couple of those reports there are several photos - look for the left/right arrows and scroll through to see some interesting shots of the demolition Edited January 19, 2014 by Mike Bellamy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Moving eastwards across the region we hit the ECML south of Grantham at High Dyke. On a gorgeous June day in 1973 we find 9013 "The Black Watch" heading south with the 08.00 Edinburgh - King's Cross. Much of what we see here has now been consigned to history, though a little bit of the former telegraph wiring survives on one of my layouts to operate the points..... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Sometimes I feel like I've been stalking DaveF, as here we are at one of his favourite locations - Swayfield. A Deltic on a York - King's Cross semi-fast sweeps round the curve on the long descent from Stoke Summit to Peterborough. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 And looking the other way at Swayfield as a King's Cross - York train nears the end of it's climb out of Peterborough. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) Oops! An errant GUV is re-railed by the Toton breakdown crane after an earlier shunting accident. We are standing on London Road bridge, Derby, looking down the line towards Burton and beyond. Edited January 20, 2014 by Western Sunset 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Despite being almost brand new, this Cl.58 is throwing out a lot of clag as it leaves Ratcliffe Power Station with the daily flyash train to Fletton near Peterborough. If you look at the picture very carefully, you can just make out a Cl.47 leaving Redhill Tunnel - just to the right of the white building in the centre of the photo. Can you spot it? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted January 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2014 Only just! Regards & keep em coming. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 How many of us have stood in this spot to get a view of Toton Yard and the adjoining depot? There was always the elusive numbers you couldn't see, despite having binoculars A typical misty day in the Erewash Valley is brightened up by a Cl.25 on the Down Main with a vacuum-braked coal train. A pity there's not a brakevan on the rear, but by this period fitted trains could run without them. Behind the train in the Old Bank Sidings is a rake of tipplers with an ex-SR brakevan on the end. A Cl.08 waits by the Up Hump to shunt the next arrival. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Looking east from King's Mills Lane, near the village of Weston upon Trent. The road up to the railway bridge is quite steep so I used to practise hill starts here whilst learning to drive. Could get distracted by the trains though..... Castle Donington power station is on the right, whilst on the horizon is the mighty Ratcliffe. Castle Donington has long since gone. The Cl.47 and its train has just crossed over the Trent & Mersey Canal. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 With the city on the horizon, a Sheffield - St Pancras HST accelerates away from its Derby stop. The train is really kicking-up the snow. Note an additional second class trailer marshalled at the rear of the unit. The train is also the wrong way round as first class should usually be at the London end. Though on the Midland Line this was hard to achieve at times, especially with some trains reversing at Nottingham. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friar Tuck Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Your photos really are absolutely superb. Great composition in every one! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted January 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2014 No doubt like countless other Derbians and trainspotters, I spent many happy hours sitting on top of this bridge so am quite surprised at it's demise, although given the amount of road traffic that has gone over it, it's not that great a shock, really. My very first railway photographs were taken from here (& developed & printed at school!) and I remember that when I was a school kid, I could sit on the top with no problem - later I developed my fear of heights which reduced the fun but it was still a great view from there. R.I.P. London Road bridge. Me too but I always stood on the cross bar of my bike as I always had difficulties with heights, it was OK until some ratbag would give the bike a shove....ouch it still hurts!! Question: Between Chellaston Rd, about a mile and a half along the Weston Rd there was a small dump of withdrawn locos maybe a dozen, all were 0-6-0s or 0-6-0 tanks some were "fivers" so would have been pre LMS builds anyone remember them?? I recall we had to sprint from the road across a farmers field as he didn't like trainspotters on his property. Beautiful photography bringing back some great memories. Rgds.......Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DY444 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 seems a strange numbering arrangment, 334 to 342, wonder where 336 was? i think they are still numbered that now, i had an AWS fault along there last week which bought me to a stop and DY342 rings a bell to me (or not in the case of the AWS fault!) i'll have a look later tonight when i pass over there en route to and from ratcliffe I've got a copy of the as built plan for Derby PSB and it has no 336 (or 340, 337, 339 either). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Cl.58 58013 heads along the High Level Goods Line at Trent with an MGR train for Ratcliffe Power Station. It's just crossing the bridge over the former curve linking Long Eaton Jn and North Erewash Jn. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Question: Between Chellaston Rd, about a mile and a half along the Weston Rd there was a small dump of withdrawn locos maybe a dozen, all were 0-6-0s or 0-6-0 tanks some were "fivers" so would have been pre LMS builds anyone remember them?? I recall we had to sprint from the road across a farmers field as he didn't like trainspotters on his property. Beautiful photography bringing back some great memories. Rgds.......Mike Probably ex Midland 2Fs and 0-4-4Ts. I can just about remember St.Andrew's Goods Yard being full of old locos plus some lined up between London Road and Osmaston Road but I didn't bother about them as they weren't in the Ian Allan ABCs. What a mistaka ta maka as 'Allo 'Allo's Captain Bertarelli would say! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 A winter's evening at the north end of platform 6 at Derby. The HST has arrived from St Pancras and is waiting to leave ECS for Etches Park depot. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 A notable freight working in the East Midlands during the 1980s was the Lackenby - Corby steel train. After a period of pairs of Thornaby Cl.37/5s on the working, there was a time when two Cl.56s became the norm. Here we see such a working passing Toton Yard. The building behind the train is the wagon repair shop. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 "Peaks" are outnumbered 2:1 by HST power cars undergoing overhaul inside Derby Loco Works in this 1982 view. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 Hathern station was on the Midland mainline between Trent and Loughborough. Being some "two short miles" from the village it served, it closed even before Dr Beeching arrived on the scene. Here we see a "Peak" on the daily Ratcliffe to Fletton flyash train passing Hathern on the up goods, a change from the more usual Cl.58 power of the mid 1980s. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Country Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 A notable freight working in the East Midlands during the 1980s was the Lackenby - Corby steel train. After a period of pairs of Thornaby Cl.37/5s on the working, there was a time when two Cl.56s became the norm. Here we see such a working passing Toton Yard. The building behind the train is the wagon repair shop. Fantastic images Pete, as a native of Long Eaton they really take me back to my earliest train spotting days. I think the period of 56s on the Lackenby - Corby steel came before the 37/5s arrived and it was very brief. The dip in coal traffic due to the Miners' Strike meant BR had a lot of 56s (and they were still being delivered at this time) that were underemployed, and they found their way onto petroleum and steel trains, this working being one of them. After the strike ended it went back to Thornaby 37s, and refurbished 37s from 1986 onwards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 25th January 1976 20044 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6928801007/ 45117 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/11683619136/ 47322 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6856069088/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 An ex-works Cl.20, in the then new "Red Stripe Railfreight" livery, trundles along the up goods on the approach to Derby station from the north with a trip freight from St Mary's goods yard. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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