Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

[35A]

great stuff - i like how they retained the named platform lights, presumably only changed the cover.

 

As I remember, they were complete replacements - albeit with similar lanterns (there's probably not a lot that you can do with a fluorescent strip!). IIRC, the concrete post variant used to have the station name in capitals, whereas the later steel column variant had the names in rail alphabet.

[The Johnster]

More cracking stuff.  The Deltic leaning to the curve with a bit of exhaust haze is very impressive!

[RANGERS]

There is another unit behind the 114, don't suppose anyone wants to tell us what it is?....

 

Dave

 

The body profile looks different to the 114, and as it looks like a 2 car, I'd hazard a guess at a Cravens.

[caradoc]

Great pictures (as always) of Grantham. Reminds of the time in summer 1976 when, on an East Midlands Railrover, me and a friend had a break in the station buffet at Grantham. In those days smoking was acceptable in such places, and my friend went to knock the ash of his cigarette into the ash tray.  However he was distracted and used my (open) bag of crisps instead ! I was not happy.

[DaveF]

Today has been quite a busy day, soon my loft will be tidy without any junk.

 

The photos for today are from Scotland on the Glasgow and South Western. They were taken mainly in 1974 in Troon and at Stranraer Harbour.

 

 

Troon Class 126 Glasgow C to Ayr July 74 J3840

 

 

Troon harbour branch bridge over B674 July 74 J3938

 

 

Stranraer harbour Class 27 April 70 C211

 

 

Stranraer Harbour July 74 J3833

 

 

Stranraer Harbour July 74 J3834

 

 

David

[D803Albion]

Great weathering on the 31 in J2927.  Great photo David.

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the photo's of Troon and Stranraer Harbour. In the second photo', I've found myself admiring the cars, and thinking that they don't make them like that anymore. And the last photo' has quite a bit of detail in it which might be useful for modelling.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

Today we start with a few photos from the Ffestiniog in the early and late 1970s.

 

 

Tan y Bwlch Earl of Merioneth 22nd Aug 70 C243

 

 

Tan y Bwlch Hunslet Linda Dduallt to Porthmadog Aug 72 J3034

 

 

Dduallt Earl of Merioneth 22nd Aug 70 C242

 

 

Tan y Grisiau Hibberd Upnor Castle 6th Aug 79 C4680

 

 

Tan y Grisiau Hunslet Blanche Porthmadog to Tan y Grisiau 6th Aug 79 C4693

 

 

Tan y Grisiau Hunslet Blanche Porthmadog to Tan y Grisiau 6th Aug 79 C4694

 

 

David

[DaveF]

Now we have some photos on the Great Eastern main line in the 1970s.

 

 

Church Lane Crossing Class 47 Norwich to Liverpool St Apr 75 J4266  47158 perhaps

 

 

Church Lane Crossing Class 309 down and Class 47 up Feb 78 C3685

 

 

Church Lane Crossing 37107 Norwich to Liverpool St July 79 C4599

 

 

Chelmsford 37014 down Sat 4th March 1978 C3687

 

 

Boreham Class 37 down parcels Oct 74 J4068

 

 

David

Edited September 4, 2017 by DaveF

[Covkid]

J3034.  Would I be right in thinking the right hand footplateman was Alan Garraway ?  Certainly looks like him.

[AberdeenBill]

Great photos, always provoking questions... 

 

J3840: what was the story with the class 126 (an under-photographed type of DMU) with some of them having a corridor end and some looking like a Swindon cross-country unit?

 

J3034: interesting angled water gauges.  The fireman must be careful how he swings his shovel...  

 

Bill

[chrisf]

AberdeenBill, the first examples of the Swindon InterCity set [not strictly 126s but identical to them] ran between Birmingham and Swansea with one unit not running beyond Cardiff.  The thinking appears to have been that passengers in the whole train could access the buffet car but six cars were not necessary for the whole run.  There must have been occasions when the two non-gangwayed ends were marshalled together in the middle of the train.  By 1959 the Inter-City sets had been transferred to Scotland.  They and the 126s proper were the only units to have the white circle coupling code.

 

Chris 

[luckymucklebackit]

Today has been quite a busy day, soon my loft will be tidy without any junk.

 

The photos for today are from Scotland on the Glasgow and South Western. They were taken mainly in 1974 in Troon and at Stranraer Harbour.

 

 

Troon Class 126 Glasgow C to Ayr July 74 J3840.jpg

Troon Class 126 Glasgow C to Ayr July 74 J3840

 

 

Troon harbour branch bridge over B674 July 74 J3938.jpg

Troon harbour branch bridge over B674 July 74 J3938

 

 

Stranraer harbour Class 27 April 70 C211.jpg

Stranraer harbour Class 27 April 70 C211

 

 

Stranraer Harbour July 74 J3833.jpg

Stranraer Harbour July 74 J3833

 

 

Stranraer Harbour July 74 J3834.jpg

Stranraer Harbour July 74 J3834

 

 

David

 

Thanks for sharing the Troon Photographs with us, Troon is a bit of a home from home from me as I have a caravan at Prestwick.  The Harbour branch has been completely obliterated and without some historical knowledge would be hard to trace.  Here is the view today, only the gable end of the tenement gives the point of reference.

 

 

Would love to see more if you have them

 

Jim

[DaveF]

Thanks for sharing the Troon Photographs with us, Troon is a bit of a home from home from me as I have a caravan at Prestwick.  The Harbour branch has been completely obliterated and without some historical knowledge would be hard to trace.  Here is the view today, only the gable end of the tenement gives the point of reference.

 

troontoday.JPG

 

Would love to see more if you have them

 

Jim

 

 

It's certainly changed a bit!

 

I do have a few more photos of Troon but cannot remember exactly what they show.

 

They are still in the queue to get photoshopped and captioned as they were (if my memory is right) taken in the later 1980s.

 

David

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Ffestiniog photos. Such a great little line. So well captured in the photos.

The GEML photos are such gems. A lovely set of level crossing gates to be seen in the first photo at Church Lane LC. And I'm not quite sure what the 37 is doing in C3687 - it looks like steam is bursting forth from the rear bogie. And in the last photo it is interesting to see all those piles of sand.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[The Johnster]

The Ffestiniog in August 1970; I was there!  In fact, I am very probably serving in the little shop at Dduallt just out of frame to the right of C 242.  The previous shot, J3034, definitely features General Manager Alan Garraway in the driver's seat; Linda was 'his' engine.

[35A]

A real treat the last couple of days, with those evocative Troon shots, the Festiniog and then back on the GE!

 

An observation, to correct your records, David:  C4599 is 37 107 (not 109).

 

Thanks, as always, for sharing yours and your dad's wonderful pictures.

[Fat Controller]

Now we have some photos on the Great Eastern main line in the 1970s.

 

 

 

Boreham Class 37 down parcels Oct 74 J4068.jpg

Boreham Class 37 down parcels Oct 74 J4068

 

 

David

Looks as though the sand train from Marks Tey to London had come to grief approaching the loop. From the mid-1960s, for about a decade, freight train derailments were relatively frequent on Britain's railways; it was fairly common to see wagons abandoned at the foot of embankments or, as in this photo, their loads scattered over the lineside.

[brushman47544]

J4266 looks like 47158, which was a SF loco and was later named Henry Ford

[DaveF]

The weather seems to be quickly moving towards autumn so I thought it might be an idea to have a look at what we might have when we get to winter.

 

The photos are all at Radcliffe on Trent, between Grantham and Notingham.

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Skegness to Nottingham Jan 78 J5913

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Skegness to Nottingham Jan 78 J5914  The original slide was not sharp all over, probably a film problem.

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Grantham to Nottingham Feb 78 J5918

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent Class 47 Parkeston Quay to Manchester Feb78 J5920 47011?

 

 

Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Grantham to Nottingham Feb78 J5921

 

 

David

Edited September 4, 2017 by DaveF

[The Stationmaster]

Great photos, always provoking questions... 

 

J3840: what was the story with the class 126 (an under-photographed type of DMU) with some of them having a corridor end and some looking like a Swindon cross-country unit?

 

J3034: interesting angled water gauges.  The fireman must be careful how he swings his shovel...  

 

Bill

 

Judging by the firebox door I have the strong impression that a shovel wouldn't have been of much use to the Fireman on that engine

[brushman47544]

J 5920 - 47011?

[Swindon 123]

J 5920 - 47011?

I was thinking 47011 as well.

 

Paul J.

[keefer]

J3840 class 126 vehicles were: DMBS (full width cab at outer end and brake van at the inner end), TC and DMS (with end gangway).

The b/g vehicle is one of the original 79xxx 'intermediate' DMBS with a gangway and brake van at the outer end

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Radcliffe on Trent photos. I can't help but notice that someone has scraped out the wording 'Big Ben' on the snow covered platform, and that in the second photo, the snow is already thawing away quite quickly. Also, in the second photo, the class 114 DTCL has oval buffer faces.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.