RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2016 Hi, Dave. I like the photos of Gretna. That 25 hauled freght train would make a great model. It's good that Gretna Green has a new station. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Post #8695, pic C5295 above, don't those rails look like they're phosphor bronze rather than nickel silver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 28, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2016 Two batches in quick succession today. First some more Tanfield photos. I wonder how many stations have grass platforms? Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5339 Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5341 Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5343 Tanfield Railway Causey Arch 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5325 Tanfield Railway Causey Arch 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5333 David 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 28, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2016 (edited) The second batch of photos are around the GWR. Chalford Pressed Steel dmu Swindon to Cheltenham Spa April 72 C0876 Hall Green Class 116 dmu probably Stratford to Birmingham April 71 J2627 Hartlebury Class 117 dmu down 5th April 74 C1527 Haywood Lodge south of Hereford A3 4472 Flying Scotsman down special steam Newport to Hereford 7th April 74 C1570 A special for Bill McAlpine and guests. Kingswear station and ferry landing Aug 1961 J1682 Sharpness Docks April 73 C1245 David Edited December 28, 2016 by DaveF 32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted December 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2016 (edited) Hi Dave More smashing shots - but afraid the DMU gremlins have got at the captions! J2627 is a Derby 116 suburban unit - window layout on side and first class accommodation in centre car are main clues - and C1527 is a 117 or 118 - I suspect the latter, BRCW, due to curved top on headcode box Cheers Phil Edit - please see Keefer's post below, set number says its a 117, many thanks! Edited December 28, 2016 by Phil Bullock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted December 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2016 (edited) i think it's a 117 phil, http://www.railcar.co.uk/type/class-117/set-numbers gives (from 1972) B 408 - 51346, 59498, 51388 There is a curve there, possibly the roof curve but the front of the headcode box is straight Edited December 28, 2016 by keefer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2016 Hi, Dave. What lovely photos of the Tanfield Railway today, it is good that old carriage bodies have been given new lives on chassis like, for example, Mk1 CCT's. Then there are a great set of GWR photos, with, in J2627, a good view from behind, of a GW banner repeater signal. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 28, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2016 Hi Dave More smashing shots - but afraid the DMU gremlins have got at the captions! J2627 is a Derby 116 suburban unit - window layout on side and first class accommodation in centre car are main clues - and C1527 is a 117 or 118 - I suspect the latter, BRCW, due to curved top on headcode box Cheers Phil i think it's a 117 phil, http://www.railcar.co.uk/type/class-117/set-numbers gives (from 1972) B 408 - 51346, 59498, 51388 There is a curve there, possibly the roof curve but the front of the headcode box is straight It doesn't surprise me at all that I've got them wrong (again). I thought they probably were wrong when I posted them but wasn't sure what they really were either. Captions now amended. David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted December 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2016 "I wonder how many stations have grass platforms?" Lots, but usually not the bits passengers use, merely the ends where the trains don't stop and no maintenance is done any more, though often weeds rather than what one would normally call grass. I didn't know you recognised the existence of God's Wonderful Railway. I love the first one, "train in landscape"! I assume some colour problems with C1527. Or can I have ballast in a nice shade of girly pink on my layout? Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted December 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2016 i think it's a 117 phil, http://www.railcar.co.uk/type/class-117/set-numbers gives (from 1972) B 408 - 51346, 59498, 51388 There is a curve there, possibly the roof curve but the front of the headcode box is straight Thanks Keefer - I did have a good squint , happy to stand corrected! Cheers Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted December 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2016 (edited) Hi All Class 117s and 116 118s before the class 117 refurbishment programme could be told apart by the lack of marker lights below the driver and secondman's cab windscreens on the Pressed Steel built coaches. The above is not fool proof, there has been discussion on here before where it was stated that the first few 117s had the lights or the first few 116 118s didn't have them (or both) but my memory of which way round it was is lacking and where it was discussed. Edited December 28, 2016 by Clive Mortimore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 The second batch of photos are around the GWR. Hall Green Cloucester dmu Hereford to Birmingham April 71 J2627.jpg Hall Green Class 116 dmu Hereford to Birmingham April 71 J2627 David Sorry David but the DMU in photo J2627 is not a Hereford-Birmingham service. 3 reasons. 1- Its a Class 116 and in the early 70's would not have had gangways, so wouldn't have been allowed through Ledbury tunnel. 2- If it's the Hall Green to the south east of Birmingham, then Hereford services would not have run through there. 3- The destination panel has Birmingham Moor Street as a destination, which Hereford trains didn't run to in the diesel era. More than likely a Stratford-Birmingham service. Paul J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Those Tanfield pictures are lovely, now if only someone would produce an RTR 0-4-0 industrial tank in a shade of light green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Here we go. And a choice of scales too... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 28, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2016 "I wonder how many stations have grass platforms?" Lots, but usually not the bits passengers use, merely the ends where the trains don't stop and no maintenance is done any more, though often weeds rather than what one would normally call grass. I didn't know you recognised the existence of God's Wonderful Railway. I love the first one, "train in landscape"! I assume some colour problems with C1527. Or can I have ballast in a nice shade of girly pink on my layout? Jonathan At the Tanfield Railway even the bits of platforms passengers use are grass at two stations. C1527. The ballast seems to have been a pale browny grey from one of the other photos I took that day. From time to time photos do have colour problems. At one time I kept them in some slide boxes sold by Boots which had a smoky grey clear plastic lid. They were kept stacked on top of each other but the slides near the ends of the boxes received a lot of light over the years and suffered a lot of colour change. In some cases the top half of the slide had become bright orange. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 28, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2016 Sorry David but the DMU in photo J2627 is not a Hereford-Birmingham service. 3 reasons. 1- Its a Class 116 and in the early 70's would not have had gangways, so wouldn't have been allowed through Ledbury tunnel. 2- If it's the Hall Green to the south east of Birmingham, then Hereford services would not have run through there. 3- The destination panel has Birmingham Moor Street as a destination, which Hereford trains didn't run to in the diesel era. More than likely a Stratford-Birmingham service. Paul J. Paul, Many thanks for the information. It's one of Dad's photos, I've no idea where he got the information from. Once again I was in Manchester at the time. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted December 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2016 Don't I know. I have scanned all my family slides and some makes have had terrible colour shift, though usually to the blue/green. And I have recently scanned several hundred for my sister in law and again one make has changed a lot over the years though others seem fine. I knew what you meant about grass platforms. OK in dry weather! I am sure the Colonel Stephens lines would have had a few. Thanks again for all the photos. So many scenes it would be great (but impossible) to model. Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45125 Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 (edited) j1791 seems to have a 46 that has toasted itself recently, notice that the bodyside from the large grill back to the cab appears to be black. Does anyone actually know if this is the case? Lovely set of photos again David. Thank you. Andy G The black staining on the bodyside is fuel oil, a common sight on Peaks at onetime when someone has overfilled the tanks. The fuel tanks are located just behind no1 cab, with two vents just behind the cab. If the oil cooler goes on a Peak it will trow the gunge out at sole bar level just below the radiator grill. Al Taylor Edited December 28, 2016 by 45125 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 29, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2016 More from the Tanfield Railway. Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th September 2011 DSC_5345 Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th September 2011 DSC_5347 Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th September 2011 DSC_5364 Tanfield Railway Marley Hill 10th September 2011 DSC_5365 Tanfield Railway Marley Hill 10th September 2011 DSC_5369 David 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 29, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2016 (edited) As it's very close to the end of the year I thought a few statistics might not come amiss today. According to my records this thread has about 6620 photos in it, most of them are scans from old slides. My European thread has about 1550 photos in it. So that makes about 8170 photos so far So about 8,000 slide scans (I think a slight overestimate) and 170+ digital images. In all I have around 40,000 scans of railway slides of mine and Dad's, with a few taken by Mum as well. I use, on the two threads, just under 4,000 scans a year. So in theory the two threads can continue for about 8 more years - but the european scans will run out well before then. So the British one might go on longer - if I have the will to keep on posting them. However I have now used up almost all the 1950s photos and only have a few hundred 1960s photos left. I haven't tried to count the 1970s images, but they are gradually being used up too. So as time passes I will be posting more photos from the 1980s onwards. The slide scans finally end around August 2003 - even that is around 13 years ago now, which is when I (and Dad) changed to digital cameras. In terms of the areas the photos cover. I am running very short of GWR photos and don't have too many Southern ones left. To be honest there never were many GWR images because except for 4 years in Manchester I have always lived on the eastern side of the country and for the last 36 years in the north east. Eventually the GER and LTSR photos will also all be used up. Then the focus will more be on the midlands northwards, with a lot from the north east and parts of the north west. One other point, from time to time on weekdays I will have to start to post preserved railway images as I have a lot of those which will not be used up if I only post them on Sundays. To anyone who asks for more photos each day - sorry but NO. At times it is hard enough getting 10 ready a day for the two threads (5 for each), even though I try to work about a week in hand. I hope this is useful. Of course you may all get bored and ask me to stop posting the images! Now for today with photos from more trips to Swayfield. Swayfield Class 55 possibly 9003 Meld up ex pass Sept 71 C717 12.00 Edinburgh to Kings X Swayfield Class 55 9006 up ex pass Sept 71 C734 08.00 Edinburgh to Kings X Swayfield Class 55 up ex pass July 72 C1012 06.50 Newcastle to Kings X Swayfield Class 55 down ex pass Jan 74 C1459 13.00 Kings X to Edinburgh Swayfield Class 55 up ex pass 30th May 78 C3878 probably 10.20 Newcastle to Kings X With thanks again to Mark 54 David Edited December 29, 2016 by DaveF 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted December 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2016 Of course you may all get bored and ask me to stop posting the images! No chance! Just grateful Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted December 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2016 Don't forget the other key statistic - 1.3m views which must be very close to the most read thread on RMweb. I'm happy to keep checking in as long as you still have the urge to keep posting the pictures. I'll pass on the Deltic IDs today, but C1012 has a maroon coach in the formation in July 1972. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Endacott Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I do miss the King's Cross pigeon scarers. Geoff Endacott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2016 Hi, Dave. I love the Tanfield Railway photo's. The Swayfield photo's are superb, and so nostalgic. Seeing Deltics running at high speed is a great thing which I never tire of. The statistics are very interesting, and I can say now that I too will not get bored with your photos! Please keep them coming. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted December 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2016 Wow - a Deltic full house for today's "must read" thread. And a great big thank you from me. Kev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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