montyburns56 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 D426 Carnforth 1968 by George Woods Crewe Railway Works in 1968 by f22photographie D415 + D409 + D407 at Crewe North Junction 1968 by Anthony Guppy D406 Crewe Works 1970 by Trevor Casey 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) D429 Shap D429 Scout Green signal box 1969 D420 Helm Tunnel 1970 D417 1968 Farington Junction by Terry Campbell D405 Crewe 1969 by Graeme Wareham D403 at Polmadie MPD 1969 by Derek J Jones Edited July 28, 2021 by montyburns56 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted July 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2021 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: D420 Shap 1970 I didn’t know there was a tunnel at Shap There are a few on the S&C though…. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Definitely not Shap. Davey 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium drjcontroller Posted July 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2021 Helm Tunnel heading north? Douglas 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Helm Tunnel heading north? Douglas Yeah, having looked at the comments under the Flickr page someone says that is the location. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 50009 Brierley Hill 1989 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 D436 Crewe Diesel Depot 1970 by Trevor Casey D435 by Dave Wragg D433 Queens Road 1968 by Alan Sheridan D432 Scotforth D432 Crewe by KDH Archive D432 Carlisle 'Hoover' D430 1968 by Peter Foster 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 It's a little known fact that originally the Class 50s ETH supply came from a man on a treadmill. D438 at Crewe in 1968 by Fred Castor Crewe D438 & D437 D436 Crewe 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Not sure where this is.... 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purnu Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 20 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: Not sure where this is.... Carnforth? 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted August 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Purnu said: Carnforth? Yes, taken from just along the same platform as this one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ap86316/25870434038/in/photolist-Fq5JJb-2jxXfe3-25fhvmY-2feqo1J-rkrnb2-A1QQj7-e2er4A-ByKfgH-ZMiugd-AML3yY-FXrysM-fH6qS7-anNcQm-2gKpoYy-fGJdSh-fHfZ2X-fFY6QZ-S2ZYgq-2jvfBV9-EhCCcw-26gCCzQ-ZtSAuu-256owTs-2ffY2dm-2iys783-DRD81L-MP3Le2-j9GxkN-fFdAC3-2fkDxbV-Nop82a-2hcRAt9-Kj7Jec-2afjDBT-2gLWapg-2gMyRBe-2gLW8Dh-26dasuj-2gNtJ2n-28TDCpq-2gLWXaA-7XScEu-LQxUeA-28p3qRG-2gLWVVB-LQpUUE-Mp2sN6-Mp372z-Kj7Kdg-Db55vU/lightbox/ I’ve posted the link rather than the image so as not to contaminate the thread with non-class 50 images Edited August 5, 2021 by Western Aviator 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Not Jeremy Posted August 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 5, 2021 Going pretty fast on the down at Bathampton Junction, in 1976 I think. You can see the remains of the station platform on the right and the rubble of the signalbox behind the junction signal. The junction has long since been reconfigured with single leads. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 "Who's nicked my jumper cables?" D405 - Crewe 1968 by Neil Pulling 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 D405 Kirkconnel 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
47164 Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Great pictures of the early 50s, and modelling inspiration of a subject not really covered, I doubt Hornby will ever cover them… ought to be easy enough for us modellers to produce! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Severn Valley several years ago.... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 On 06/08/2021 at 20:14, 47164 said: Great pictures of the early 50s, and modelling inspiration of a subject not really covered, I doubt Hornby will ever cover them… ought to be easy enough for us modellers to produce! I'm a N Gauge modeller and I was a bit nonplussed when Dapol released their version without MU cables as at that point I'd only ever seen a single picture of one like that, so I presumed that it was a rare occurrence, but now I know that it wasn't. Having said that I can't imagine that many people model the very late steam/blue diesel period. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaGrange Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 7 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: I'm a N Gauge modeller and I was a bit nonplussed when Dapol released their version without MU cables as at that point I'd only ever seen a single picture of one like that, so I presumed that it was a rare occurrence, but now I know that it wasn't. Having said that I can't imagine that many people model the very late steam/blue diesel period. Initially D400/1 came with them fitted from the factory, the other 48 followed without and had them added later, as you can see the plating where the MW jumpers will be fitted when 2 locos became standard on Crewe to Glasgow runs up to 1974 when the WCML was fully electrified 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 On 06/08/2021 at 19:52, montyburns56 said: D405 Kirkconnel Just coming back to this thread for another shuftie at all the wonderful pre-Tops photos being posted and noticed that the third and fourth vehicles behind D405 appear to be of ex-LMS Stanier origin, if you modelled this combo on a layout someone would no doubt say ''it never happened''! 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 23 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Just coming back to this thread for another shuftie at all the wonderful pre-Tops photos being posted and noticed that the third and fourth vehicles behind D405 appear to be of ex-LMS Stanier origin, if you modelled this combo on a layout someone would no doubt say ''it never happened''! One of the reasons why I posted that picture despite it not showing the 50 that clearly, was the wonderful mish mash of coaches behind it. 424 by 67C Edited August 11, 2021 by montyburns56 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Teignmouth Sea Wall 1977 by George Woods 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted August 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 11, 2021 2 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Teignmouth Sea Wall 1977 by George Woods Doesn't look like that is firing on anywhere near 16 cylinders, and possibly not got a full complement of 4 turbo-chargers either..... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Prompted by Monty's excellent pre-Tops photos I thought I'd add this - the same photo was used in the 1974 edition too.... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Photographer unknown : 'Courageous' at Waterloo.... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now