Popular Post Rugd1022 Posted July 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 12, 2023 Photographer unknown : 50 011 at Reading in July 1979, with the older pre-Tops number showing through at this end... 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 A Couple of my own. 50026 OOC April 85, 50041 Donny works, Showing off its rib cage, June 84 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Photo by Anthony Guppy... D404 at Lancaster... D411 at Crewe... D448 at Polmadie... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 (edited) OOC - easiest shed in London - straight down the ramp past the turntable - no messin' D7026 shakin' the old BP shed to bits on the right. Currently on 159001 between Woking & Basingstoke headin for Crewkerne - it's just not the same Edited August 10, 2023 by Southernman46 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 50149 - Drinnick Mill 1988 by Kernow Ned 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 (edited) 50 031 'Hood' chuntering away to itself in the sidings up past Royal Oak, I've spent many an hour here sat on 08s, 31s, 47s and 50s waiting for the next move... Edited August 11, 2023 by Rugd1022 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted August 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2023 (edited) 2nd edit: some pics from my photobucket 50049 when ATW were using them on trains to south wales Old scans And the day I failed with the sinfin tanks and had to be rescued by 50017 and 50050! Sinfin central station Edited August 31, 2023 by big jim 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium drjcontroller Posted September 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 1, 2023 50034 near Honiton Tunnel with a Down service, 27/8/89 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 50049 with barrier coaches through Runcorn on 10th October 2023. 50007 with barrier coaches through Runcorn on 13th October 2023. Mark 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt37268 Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 35 awaits time somewhere in the West Country in the mid 1970’s? There’s a few clues to guess where it is and it was only 2 weeks ago! (1/10/23) 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 Forty years ago today - I took just the one photo of 50041 'Bulwark' myself, coming off Bristol Bath Road, but no idea where it is right now so I hope a Flickr pic is acceptable to mark the occasion...... Doncaster did well to repair '041 within 12 months, considering the damage. This event also had an impact on me, indirectly. I'd travelled around on trains a lot in the 1970s, but got married in late 1979 and by the time of this incident we were a family of four so, as is often the case under such circumstances, my rail roving had become somewhat curtailed! However on 23rd November 1983 I had to get from Swindon to Bristol to attend an interview with the intention of getting myself onto a training course - I'd reached a point in life where a career change had become necessary so this was an important day and, despite having a car, not being familiar with the inner workings of Bristol I'd decided the train would be more reliable......... So I arrived at Swindon station in plenty of time, to find everything in total chaos due to Bulwark's ill-advised high-speed arrival at Paddington. Trains were running but it was a case of getting on if one turned up (taking care not to end up in South Wales in the panic of course!) By the time this happened I was too flustered to remember what got me to Bristol, but I do remember reaching the interview by the skin of my teeth and in a bit of a sweaty mess! It was well worth it as I was accepted onto the course (it had an upper age limit which I met at the time of the interview but had just exceeded by the time the course commenced) and it eventually led to me working for a company for 34 years. Since I was able to get a grant towards travel I commuted by train between Swindon and Bristol from July to November 1984 and took lots of photos (which I must get around to scanning one day) but during those months there was of course one particular Class 50 which never appeared........ 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 2 hours ago, Halvarras said: Forty years ago today - I took just the one photo of 50041 'Bulwark' myself, coming off Bristol Bath Road, but no idea where it is right now so I hope a Flickr pic is acceptable to mark the occasion...... Doncaster did well to repair '041 within 12 months, considering the damage. This event also had an impact on me, indirectly. I'd travelled around on trains a lot in the 1970s, but got married in late 1979 and by the time of this incident we were a family of four so, as is often the case under such circumstances, my rail roving had become somewhat curtailed! However on 23rd November 1983 I had to get from Swindon to Bristol to attend an interview with the intention of getting myself onto a training course - I'd reached a point in life where a career change had become necessary so this was an important day and, despite having a car, not being familiar with the inner workings of Bristol I'd decided the train would be more reliable......... So I arrived at Swindon station in plenty of time, to find everything in total chaos due to Bulwark's ill-advised high-speed arrival at Paddington. Trains were running but it was a case of getting on if one turned up (taking care not to end up in South Wales in the panic of course!) By the time this happened I was too flustered to remember what got me to Bristol, but I do remember reaching the interview by the skin of my teeth and in a bit of a sweaty mess! It was well worth it as I was accepted onto the course (it had an upper age limit which I met at the time of the interview but had just exceeded by the time the course commenced) and it eventually led to me working for a company for 34 years. Since I was able to get a grant towards travel I commuted by train between Swindon and Bristol from July to November 1984 and took lots of photos (which I must get around to scanning one day) but during those months there was of course one particular Class 50 which never appeared........ I was at Padd that day, just minutes after '41 came to a halt on its side, I was on the way in to Old Oak for the 06.00 shed turn on the tube from Hammersmith and saw the coaches skewed with some on their side as we pulled into Padd. When I got off you could hear a pin drop and there was still a fair bit of dust in the air. I made my way past the lawn to board the workabus where I found six other Old Oak lads waiting, there was much confusion on the way down to Old Oak and when we arrived the lobby was full of train crew booking on with nowhere to go. I can remember it as though it were only yesterday. 8 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 Photo by Julian Ogle of Old Oak... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted November 25, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2023 This is how it was reported in that evenings Evening Standard. I was working at Padd ODM at the time, and most were late that morning. I was with Paul Koch and it might have been one of the following days that after checking the battery room at the telephone exchange, we went up onto the roof and watched some of the re-railing proceedings. A class 47 was being attached to the drag-gear to pull the loco on greased up rails out from under the bridge, while the coaches were being re-railed. I remember one sleeper starting to roll towards Westbourne Park, spitting out scotches placed on the rails in an attempt to stop it. It did stop eventually, having gone through one crossover.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Banger Blue Posted November 26, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2023 Interesting to read the "How to get home tonight" part of the article as 40 years later and Paddington is once again closed with long distance services terminating at Reading with a limited service running between Reading & Ealing Broadway. Thankfully though, this isn't as a result of an accident but planned engineering work in preparation for the construction of the HS2 station at Old Oak. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Photo by Simon David Cooper : 50 035 at Manc. Vic. on 27th January 1975... 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Photo by Simon David Cooper : 50 035 at Manc. Vic. on 27th January 1975... One out on the ID Nidge! Never mind, the number's legible. IIRC there was a pause in their inter-regional reallocation when 35 locos had moved to the WR, leaving 15 on the LMR including this one which became my last required 50, copped while standing atop Langstone Rock near Dawlish Warren on 22/5/76. I've posed this question before but just in case the right person is reading this - did 50034 acquire nameplates in this original livery, as 50017 did? The 50s had a habit of doing such things in pairs (and I don't mean double-heading!) so I'm hoping it's true, to maintain this tradition! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 (edited) 1 hour ago, Halvarras said: One out on the ID Nidge! Never mind, the number's legible. IIRC there was a pause in their inter-regional reallocation when 35 locos had moved to the WR, leaving 15 on the LMR including this one which became my last required 50, copped while standing atop Langstone Rock near Dawlish Warren on 22/5/76. I've posed this question before but just in case the right person is reading this - did 50034 acquire nameplates in this original livery, as 50017 did? The 50s had a habit of doing such things in pairs (and I don't mean double-heading!) so I'm hoping it's true, to maintain this tradition! Fat finger syndrome strikes again, I'm sure I typed 34 not 35! Edited January 31 by Rugd1022 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted Monday at 13:37 RMweb Premium Share Posted Monday at 13:37 50008, having a run around South Yorkshire this afternoon. Seen at Wombwell, on the 0Z51 Sheffield-Sheffield, via Wakefield Kirkgate. Cheers, Phil. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted Monday at 16:20 RMweb Premium Share Posted Monday at 16:20 Seen a bit later at Mexborough, now running as the 0Z52 Sheffield-Knottingley T.M.D. Cheers, Phil. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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