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

[Fat Controller]

There’s a Shark that has been parked at Shenfield Station for about the past thirty years - gradually disintegrating. I believe it has it’s own thread on here now....

 

Best, Pete.

It even had a feature about it in a recent Rail Express, IIRC.

[trisonic]

It even had a feature about it in a recent Rail Express, IIRC.

 

I moved to the USA in 1989 and during that year I tried to  remember how long it had been there. My Folks lived in Shenfield.

 

Best, Pete.

Edited April 6, 2018 by trisonic

[DaveF]

Photos taken on Midland lines for today, around Clay Cross, Toton and Trent at various dates.

 

 

Clay Cross Central Trains 153370 up pass 26th Oct 99 C24701

 

 

Toton 45126 down oil Aug 83 C6143

 

 

Toton Class 47 down mgr April 78 C3768

 

 

Meadow Lane LC 47328 down mineral Jan 79 C4259

 

 

Trent Class 45 coal Oct 75 C2501     Sometimes I wasn't standing in quite the right place when the train went by.....

 

 

David

[eastwestdivide]

...Sometimes I wasn't standing in quite the right place when the train went by.....

We've all been there!

But sometimes, if you're lucky, you get an unexpected bonus of a photo - making a virtue out of a necessity, that kind of thing. 

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Midland photos. It’s a great selection, and I particularly like C4259, at Meadow Lane LC, with 47, 47328, on a down mineral train, in January, 1979, in the midst of that infamous winter. Such an atmospheric view.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[Rob F]

When was the bridge seen in C3768, from the high level lines to the down side yard taken out of use?

 

Rob

[DavidBird]

Photos taken on Midland lines for today, around Clay Cross, Toton and Trent at various dates.

 

...

 

Toton Class 47 down mgr April 78 C3768.jpg

Toton Class 47 down mgr April 78 C3768

 

...

 

 

David

 

Barton's busses in the bus depot on the left, such a part of my childhood.

Now Asda's carpark...

[DaveF]

When was the bridge seen in C3768, from the high level lines to the down side yard taken out of use?

 

Rob

 

 

Sorry,

 

I don't now the answer to that.

 

Perhaps someone else does?

 

David

[DaveF]

Back to the north east today with photos from the NER Newcastle to Carlisle line.

 

 

Blaydon Oct 82 C5863

This line crossed the Tyne to Scotswood Junction and then ran along the north side of the River to Newcastle Central.

The line to the left is now the line to Newcastle, running to the south of the River Tyne, serving the Metro Centre etc.

 

 

Hexham 9F 92220 Newcastle to Hexham Blaydon to Hexham 1835 to 1985  150th anniversary specials.   9th March 85 C6750.

 

 

Hexham 37078 and ano westbound 9th June 84 C6499

 

 

Warden Class 101 Newcastle to Carlisle 9th June 84 C6506

 

 

Denton School crossing Newcastle to Carlisle line Aug 73 J3350

 

 

Edited to add some information.

David

Edited April 7, 2018 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Newcastle to Carlisle photos. In the first photo’, unless I’m seeing things, the right hand track has a bit of a kink in it. I hope it did not lead to any derailments. It is interesting to see a big engine, like Evening Star, in the second photo’ working a train tender first, even though it was just a short distance. In the last photo’, your Father has captured a scene which is just oozing North Eastern Railway. It’s so good how that infrastructure survived for so long. Good that it did too.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[talisman56]

Hi, Dave. I like the Newcastle to Carlisle photos. In the first photo’, unless I’m seeing things, the right hand track has a bit of a kink in it. I hope it did not lead to any derailments.

 

Nice to know the 'real thing' can lay track like mine...

[Mark Saunders]

Nice to know the 'real thing' can lay track like mine...

 

More likely it just needs a bit of lifting and packing!

[DaveF]

Nice to know the 'real thing' can lay track like mine...

 

 

More likely it just needs a bit of lifting and packing!

 

 

The line which crossed the Tyne over the Scotswod bridge closed on 4th October 82 (i.e. the line in the photo).  The photo was taken a day or so before it closed, so I doubt any work had been done on the track for a while.

 

David

[Fat Controller]

The line which crossed the Tyne over the Scotswod bridge closed on 4th October 82 (i.e. the line in the photo).  The photo was taken a day or so before it closed, so I doubt any work had been done on the track for a while.

 

David

I recollect travelling on it a few times in 1982; Lynne had started at TTTV in the spring, but I had a couple of projects to finish before I could move up. My recollection was that there was quite a bit of freight traffic still; coal to Stella North, bitumen to Shell (later Colas) at 'Paradise' on Scotswood Road and cement to Ribble Cement, opposite Forth Banks Goods. There were sidings serving Vickers, but I never saw anything in them.

[DaveF]

The first set for today were taken at the Bowes Railway in County Durham.

 

Once again some of the film didn't keep too well.

 

 

Bowes Railway Springwell Barclay WST 7th April 85 C6778

 

 

Bowes Railway Springwell Barclay WST 7th April 85 C6779

 

 

Bowes Railway Springwell 7th April 85 C6785

 

 

Bowes Railway Springwell 7th April 85 C6787

 

 

Bowes Railway Blackhams Hill Barclay WST 7th April 85 C6784

 

 

Blackham's Hill Bowes Railway Barclay WST 27th May 91 C15841

 

 

David

[DaveF]

Around Harrogate in 1965/6 this afternoon.

 

 

Crimple Class 110 Harrogate to Bradford Aug 65 J268

 

 

Harrogate B1 Harrogate to Kings X Aug 65 J245

 

 

Harrogate Class 45 Harrogate to Kings X Jan 66 J433  probably D117

 

 

Harrogate Class 5  Harrogate to Kings X Nov 65 J412

 

 

Harrogate Class 110 Harrogate to York June 65 J193

 

David

Edited April 8, 2018 by DaveF

[Western Glory]

Around Harrogate in 1965/6 this afternoon.

 

Harrogate Class 45 Harrogate to Kings X Jan 66 J433.jpg

Harrogate Class 45 Harrogate to Kings X Jan 66 J433

 

David

D117 probably.

[corneliuslundie]

It has probably been said often before but Harrogate makes an excellent modelling area with trains like that in J142.

Jonathan

[Davexoc]

DMU gremlin crept in on J193, that is also a Class 110, albiet with a slight variation on SYP application compared to the eariler one.

 

Dave

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the Bowes Railway photos, in County Durham, which show how good the engines and stock was on it back then.

The photos of Harrogate are truly delightful, as always, and memories are vividly brought to life of the NER of BR in the mid sixties. I like the Black Five with a snow plough in J412, and in the last photo’, the unit is another class 110, not a class 104.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[cctransuk]

Around Harrogate in 1965/6 this afternoon.

 

 

Crimple Class 110 Harrogate to Bradford Aug 65 J268.jpg

Crimple Class 110 Harrogate to Bradford Aug 65 J268

 

 

Harrogate B1 Harrogate to Kings X Aug 65 J245.jpg

Harrogate B1 Harrogate to Kings X Aug 65 J245

 

 

Harrogate Class 45 Harrogate to Kings X Jan 66 J433.jpg

Harrogate Class 45 Harrogate to Kings X Jan 66 J433  probably D117

 

 

Harrogate Class 5 44617 Harrogate to Kings X Nov 65 J412.jpg

Harrogate Class 5 44617 Harrogate to Kings X Nov 65 J412

 

 

Harrogate Class 104 Harrogate to York June 65 J193.jpg

Harrogate Class 104 Harrogate to York June 65 J193

 

David

 

Dave,

 

J412 - not 44617; no such loco.

 

Sorry,

John Isherwood.

[45125]

DMU gremlin crept in on J193, that is also a Class 110, albiet with a slight variation on SYP application compared to the eariler one.

 

Dave

 

Suspect one is an Eastern unit and the other LMR, so slight variation in works painting schemes.

[Phil Bullock]

Mr CCT beat me to it on 44617. As loco has a domeless boiler does that make her one of the early build 450/451/452xx locos? 

 

But smashing photos none the less - that 110 unit looks like a photo from an Ian Allan annual...

 

Phil

Edited April 8, 2018 by Phil Bullock

[Peter Kazmierczak]

 

 

But smashing photos none the less - that 110 unit looks like a photo from an Ian Allan annual...

 

Phil

 

Know what you mean Phil; invariably taken by Michael Mensing or Derek Cross..........................

[DaveF]

DMU gremlin crept in on J193, that is also a Class 110, albiet with a slight variation on SYP application compared to the eariler one.

 

Dave

 

 

Hi, Dave. I like the Bowes Railway photos, in County Durham, which show how good the engines and stock was on it back then.

The photos of Harrogate are truly delightful, as always, and memories are vividly brought to life of the NER of BR in the mid sixties. I like the Black Five with a snow plough in J412, and in the last photo’, the unit is another class 110, not a class 104.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

 

 

Thanks to both Dave and Rob for pointing out yet again that I have got a dmu wrong.  I corrected the first image cation before I posted it and never looked at the last one!

 

Dave,

 

J412 - not 44617; no such loco.

 

Sorry,

John Isherwood.

 

 

Mr CCT beat me to it on 44617. As loco has a domeless boiler does that make her one of the early build 450/451/452xx locos? 

 

But smashing photos none the less - that 110 unit looks like a photo from an Ian Allan annual...

 

Phil

 

Thanks for pointing out the number impossibility.

 

I ought to know the Class 5 number range, I underlined a lot of them in by spotting books when I was trainspotting.  It must be old age (to be honest it is just carelessness in not checking Dad's notes, he often got numbers wrong - I suspect this was another he tried to decipher from the slide).

 

 

Edit:  I've had a look through all my Harrogate photos as well as the rest of Dad's.  This was the only time that loco was photographed.  There was another Class 5 around at the time with a snowplough but it had a different boiler and different structures attached to the footplate, so I am afraid it's identity will remain a mystery.

 

David

Edited April 8, 2018 by DaveF