Killybegs Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 This first batch are some of the last photos I took, mostly at Patchway - a favourite spotting location when I was a lad! Down freight passing through station Another freight, same location Another down freight, passing the small goods yard to the East of the station Light engine waiting for the road. Down freight in passing loop. Up freight approaching station And now a few for the diesel fans...... Down passenger Up passenger Hymek on up freight passing Cattybrook brick works Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 This second batch were taken on a misty winter morning, again at Patchway, when I was probably supposed to be a Tech College! Very little light so picture quality is not great! Diesel first this time! Hymek with a load of empties drifts under the footbridge on its way to South Wales Now a nice little sequence: 5954 Faendre Hall (a local engine from St Philips Marsh) arrives with what looks like an engineering train The coach has been left in the yard while 5954, sandwiched between the brake van and the rest of the train, stands at the up platform Having left the rest of the train blocking the up main line, 5954, together with brake van, has pulled up alongside the signal box, while an unidentified Mogul heads towards South Wales with another train of empties At this point I must have decided that it was time to attend a few lectures, so it was back on the trusty push bike to Ashley Down! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted March 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 2, 2014 Wonderful photos. Never mind college, I think we're all glad you got your priorities right :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 Lovely.......................... . Brian R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 This is the final batch from Patchway. These were taken a little earlier, 1961/2, when I was still at school and using an old bellows camera passed down from my elder brother. This had a maximum shutter speed of 1/100th second, so 'stopping' trains was a bit of an art. Patchway was great for this, as the severe gradient slowed the subject matter somewhat! St Philips Marsh's 5040 Stokesay Castle hauls an express from the North (via the Welsh Borders) up the gradient on its way to Bristol An unidentified Hall makes its way up the bank hauling a special on a glorious summer's day 4093 Dunster Castle from Landore Shed hurries down the bank, heading for home on a down express from Paddington The next two shots are taken west of Pilning The crews relax in the sunshine waiting for a slot through the Severn Tunnel. Large prairies assisted most freights through the tunnel, double heading so that the crews on the assisting loco would not get asphyxiated as they would if they were at the rear of the train. From Pilning, freights would be banked up the gradient to Patchway These two appear to be positively flying as they exit the tunnel! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 I've found a couple more taken at Pilning in 1961. These were taken on a seiously old camera that was handed down by an ageing aunt. It should probably have been in a museum. I think these were probably the only two shots that didn't suffer from light getting into the camera! 4130 and 2853 are working hard as they climb from the Severn Tunnel. It was quite unusual by this time to see the pilot loco carrying a disc. Light engines would accumulate outside the tunnel and then be let through in a group. 6964Thornbridge Hall has been joined by 2887, 2872 and 2851. 2887 was the fourth Collett 2-8-0 to be built in 1938. It looks remarkably clean and has probably had a recent overhaul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 We are off to Bristol Temple Meads now, again, I think this is 1961. 5059 Earl St Aldwyn was a Shrewsbury loco and one would have expected a loco change at Bristol but, as the next photo shows, she has stayed on the train and been joined by 4955 Plaspower Hall, from Taunton shed,for the onward trip to the West Country. 5031 Totnes Castle is seen leaving Temple Meads on the Northbound Cornishman. 5094 Tretower Castle has either just come off shed or is waiting to return to St Philips Marsh, Bristol Bath Road having closed to steam by this time. 6026 King John arrives with a train from Paddington. By this time, most London to Bristol trains would have been diesel hauled, the Kings have been transferred to duties on the London to South Wales line. 6911 Holker hall is looking immaculate. She has probably just come off a running in turn from Swindon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 We are still at Temple Meads. 7020 Gloucester Castle waits to leave with a train for Paddington (with my aunt on board, returning to London!) 92004 rattles through on a freight working This shot of 6900 Abney Hall was taken from Bath Road bridge. This entailed standing on the cross bar of your bike! 73138 arrives on the 'Midland' platform which served trains to an from the North and Midlands as well as local traffic to Bath Green Park. At some point in the day we would venture off to see what was on shed. After a quick trip round St Philips Marsh it was a short bike ride to Barrow Road Between these two sheds, one crossed Doctor Day's Bridge where we see 5056 Earl of Powis performing rather menial duties on what appears to be a rather short parcels train. This is the point where one gained access to the back of Barrow Road shed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pobrien Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Great set of photos from the early sixties. The 9.05 Liverpool to Plymouth (1V93) and return 8.00 Plymouth to Liverpool (1M91) were lodging turns. Newton Abbot and Shrewsbury Castles worked through. The turns were dieselised from early March 1962. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 Great set of photos from the early sixties. The 9.05 Liverpool to Plymouth (1V93) and return 8.00 Plymouth to Liverpool (1M91) were lodging turns. Newton Abbot and Shrewsbury Castles worked through. The turns were dieselised from early March 1962. Thanks for that John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 This is the point where one gained access to the back of Barrow Road shed! I remember it well, though I didn't have a camera at the time. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Excellent photos. Thanks very much for sharing them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I remember it well, though I didn't have a camera at the time. Nick With me it was a choice, spend money on camera film, or money to buy that ticket to get me to be able to bunk that shed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Endacott Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 You managed to get a shot of one of the first three Hymeks before the horns were moved to the cab roof. Geoff Endacott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Great atmospheric pictures - many thanks for posting! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrowroad Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 BBR 01.jpg This is the point where one gained access to the back of Barrow Road shed! John you've kept these quiet especially Barrow Road.This is an interesting shot - a Reidinger rotary poppet valve Crab - never mind the GWR stuff have you any more at Barrow Road Robin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 You managed to get a shot of one of the first three Hymeks before the horns were moved to the cab roof. Geoff Endacott Here's another one, just for you Geoff. Bristol Temple Meads old Platform No. 9, 1961. No horns on the roof and the paint barely dry! John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 John you've kept these quiet especially Barrow Road.This is an interesting shot - a Reidinger rotary poppet valve Crab - never mind the GWR stuff have you any more at Barrow Road Robin Sorry about that Robin, guilty as charged. In my defence, Your Honour, I knew the prosecution were in possession of better photos taken from the same location and was unaware that such a rare beastie was lurking on shed! I can only find one more photo of Barrow Road and this one was taken because the subject was a rare visitor (for me, anyway!), Pocket money didn't stretch to taking too many photos, something most of us regret in retrospect I still have some pics taken at St Philips Marsh and on shed bashing trips to the East Midlands and some taken on the Southern. These may appear in due course. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Sorry about that Robin, guilty as charged. In my defence, Your Honour, I knew the prosecution were in possession of better photos taken from the same location and was unaware that such a rare beastie was lurking on shed! I can only find one more photo of Barrow Road and this one was taken because the subject was a rare visitor (for me, anyway!), Pocket money didn't stretch to taking too many photos, something most of us regret in retrospect I still have some pics taken at St Philips Marsh and on shed bashing trips to the East Midlands and some taken on the Southern. These may appear in due course. John BBR 02.jpg Never mind the B1; what about the seemingly ex-works mineral wagons, loaded with really chunky bits of coal, rather than the little bits one often sees? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Wow, these photos just get better and better. I'm glad someone has some photos of 16t minerals in 'new' condition, or we might have believed they were all delivered ready weathered during the late 50s/early 60s. Do you have a date for these photos? 61183 was a Darnall loco, and was one of the relatively early withdrawals. Possibly it arrived on an SO dated service to the Devon coast? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 4, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 4, 2014 Never mind the B1; what about the seemingly ex-works mineral wagons, loaded with really chunky bits of coal, rather than the little bits one often sees? I wonder if it is coal - looks a bit more like broken masonry or stone to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Never mind the B1; what about the seemingly ex-works mineral wagons, loaded with really chunky bits of coal, rather than the little bits one often sees? As it's more or less the same period as the layout I'm building , now I know what series to number my 'minerals' to save weathering them . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Do you have a date for these photos? 61183 was a Darnall loco, and was one of the relatively early withdrawals. Possibly it arrived on an SO dated service to the Devon coast? By the look of it pretty late in it's life, it has an electrification warning plate on the frames below the smokebox door so it makes it early 1961 at the earliest, and the loco went for scrap late-ish 62. B1's weren't rare in the Bristol area by this time as exLMS lines in the Sheffield area came under ER control, and had exLMS locos replaced by exLNER examples, with Canklow allocated B1's being more common. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 Wow, these photos just get better and better. I'm glad someone has some photos of 16t minerals in 'new' condition, or we might have believed they were all delivered ready weathered during the late 50s/early 60s. Do you have a date for these photos? 61183 was a Darnall loco, and was one of the relatively early withdrawals. Possibly it arrived on an SO dated service to the Devon coast? Late 1961, possibly early 1962 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I wonder if it is coal - looks a bit more like broken masonry or stone to me. It looks very much like the concessionary coal my nan used to get; I'd be given a lump hammer and be told 'break it into sensible bits'.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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