RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted November 16, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2015 Some electrics on the WCML today taken in January and February 1976. Most were not taken in good weather. They are quite grainy as they were taken on GAF 200ASA slide film which was very fast at that period. Huddlesford Class 310 up pass Jan 76 C2569 Lichfield 86225 down ex pass Jan 76 C2571 Elmhurst 84005 down freight Jan 76 C2576 Dudswell Class 87 down ex pass Feb 76 C2600 Cheddington Class 86 down ex pass Feb 76 C2610 David 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 I am jealous of that 84 photo, because they were not too common in the daytime south of Crewe by 1976. In fact my regret is that I don't have a photo of 84005, and my only one of 84007 is on the scrap line at Crewe Electric Depot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 It's high time someone made an RTR AM10 - I'd forgotten how handsome they were, especially in all-over blue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted November 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2015 Hi, Dave. Great photo's of the WCML. I also like the one with AM10. Great units, that are indeed ripe for modelling! In the second photo, there are two coaches which look as if they have snow on the roofs, is that right, I wonder, for I cannot see snow elsewhere. With warm regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 I thought that too at first Rob, but I decided it must be overfull toilet tank water being blown over the roof as the train leans into curves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted November 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2015 Hi, Dave. Great photo's of the WCML. I also like the one with AM10. Great units, that are indeed ripe for modelling! In the second photo, there are two coaches which look as if they have snow on the roofs, is that right, I wonder, for I cannot see snow elsewhere. With warm regards, Rob. Not only that, there's 8 sets of windows. I always thought that there were 7 in MKII stock : 3+4. Kev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2015 They ain't CDAs, that would be a CBA. Built 1969 (+5 more in 1977 to replace accident wright offs). Designed to carry crushed limestone. Tunstead to Margam behind a Peak was one of their earliest workings. Now how can we convert Hornby HAAs to CBAs? Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted November 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2015 The FKs and FOs had 7 windows, wheras the TSOs had 8 windows. These are Mk2c coaches I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted November 16, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2015 Hi, Dave. Great photo's of the WCML. I also like the one with AM10. Great units, that are indeed ripe for modelling! In the second photo, there are two coaches which look as if they have snow on the roofs, is that right, I wonder, for I cannot see snow elsewhere. With warm regards, Rob. As jonny 777 has said I think it's just water overflow. I think I've got other photos taken over the years showing it. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) That looks like another panel, under the route indicator box of 84005. i can`t recall seeing that before. Edited November 16, 2015 by Ray M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted November 16, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2015 That looks like another panel, under the route indicator box of 84005. i can`t recall seeing that before. The thick line just under the indicator box is part of the surround to the box. I don't know about the horizontal line lower down but it is present on others of the class. There are quite a lot of photos if you search for Class 84 on the web. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2015 Heres one of my favourite shots of 84003 at Glasgow Central The same lines are there but perhaps not as pronounced Cheers Phil 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted November 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2015 As jonny 777 has said I think it's just water overflow. I think I've got other photos taken over the years showing it. David That is something which I have not, knowingly, seen before! I thought that it could not really be snow, for everything else was saying it wasn't. Very interesting! Warm regards, Rob. P.S. I will have to try modelling it now - if I can work out how to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted November 17, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2015 Some photos taken on the S&C in Cumbria for today. Once again some of them actually contain a train. Langwathby Class 40 down freight Aug 77 J5783 Langwathby RES 47543 Esk Valley Fellsman Whitby to Carisle 6th March 93 J13707 Langwathby Class A2 60532 Blue Peter The Waverley Newcastle Bradford Carlisle 6th March 93 J13710 Little Salkeld Dodds Mill viaduct Aug 77 J5782 Low House Crossing 156489 Carlisle to Leeds Oct 91 J12899 Cumwhinton 11th April 86 C7394 David 34 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted November 17, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2015 Hi, Dave. Excellent selection of photo's of the S & C today. I especially like that first one at Langwathby. A real train in the landscape shot as the 40 hauls that freight past the camera. With warm regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I must say I love these photos you share, and check in every day. Ps- nearly 200 pages. Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted November 17, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2015 Must also, personally, just quickly add that you are so close to 200 pages. It is such achievement! Warm regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted November 18, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 18, 2015 Great photos and so helpful for weathering locos, stock, track buildings etc. Baz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted November 18, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2015 (edited) Another visit to the High Dyke branch for today's photos, starting at High Dyke Junction at the north end of Stoke Tunnel on the ECML. The photos were taken between 1968 and 1974. High Dyke Class 55 16.00 Kings X to Edinburgh NER saloon in sidings Aug 74 J4007 Dad took this from a train on the branch. BR had closed the branch some time before (1973) but privately owned locos were used after the official closure to transfer stock from Sewstern and Market Overton to BR and vice versa. The coach in the sidings is a NER saloon No 305. The loco working on the High Dyke branch that day was an Avonside 0-4-0ST Fred, the stock used on the train was the Pullman car Zena and a Gresley coach as well as the NER saloon which was on its way to somewhere on BR. Burton Lane crossing Class 31 D5518 down empty iron ore Nov 68 J1497 Colsterworth Class 31 down empties Nov 70 J2435 Colsterworth No 2 quarry 100RB loading wagons, 54 RB diesel shovel in distance Feb 73 J3138 Skillington junction Class 47 1566 down empty iron ore Aug 72 J2999 David Edited November 18, 2015 by DaveF 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBill Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 J4007: superb study of a Deltic, if only photos had sound effects... J3138: that looks like very low grade iron ore... Was there any washing before it was transported to a steelworks? Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 J4007: superb study of a Deltic, if only photos had sound effects... J3138: that looks like very low grade iron ore... Was there any washing before it was transported to a steelworks? Bill It was 30% or so iron content; it wasn't washed, but would have been crushed before going into the blast furnace. There were sources of higher iron content ore in South Wales and Cumbria, but it was deep-mined, and much more expensive to extract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted November 18, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 18, 2015 (edited) J4007: superb study of a Deltic, if only photos had sound effects... J3138: that looks like very low grade iron ore... Was there any washing before it was transported to a steelworks? Bill J3138 was taken in Feb 73 which was very close to the end of the iron ore quarrying operation. I think that a lot of the ore moved then was "left overs" and from small unused areas, so that the sites could be tidied up before closure. The ore was simply quarried, loaded and transported at that time. In early years the ore had been calcined at the quarries. Davd Edited November 18, 2015 by DaveF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Tunstead to Margam behind a Peak was one of their earliest workings. Now how can we convert Hornby HAAs to CBAs? Phil As usual I am playing catch-up with this marvellous thread. I managed to photograph the Margam - Tunstead working in 1983 45017 arrives at Peak Forest with the empties from Margam, 13/6/83 cheers 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 As usual I am playing catch-up with this marvellous thread. I managed to photograph the Margam - Tunstead working in 1983 scan0016a.jpg 45017 arrives at Peak Forest with the empties from Margam, 13/6/83 cheers I think someone used to do a conversion kit, but I can't remember who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Superb shot of High Dyke showing the full extent of the sidings south of the 'box. Though someone seems to have parked in "our" spot though and got their garden chairs out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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