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

[DaveF]

1 hour ago, North Eastern said:

Hi David,

                 Do you happen to have any photos of the crane, bogie bolster, tool van & GWR brake van in the photo below.

I'm looking to model the consist in 7mm and would appreciate any photos that will show any further detail and livery.

 

 

Regards

 

Chris 

 

Hi Chris,

 

I've done a search of all my north east railway images and have not found any photos of these vehicles.  Mine only cover 1980 to the present time, all the cranes etc I have photos of are much more modern ones.

 

Do you happen to know when yours was taken?

 

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but I'll see if I can find anything in books.

 

David

[DaveF]

London Tilbury and Southend for the first set this morning.

 

 

LaindonTrack relaying by up platform 5 March 78 C3691

 

 

Laindon pw work to replace track 5 March 78 C3692

 

 

Laindon lowering track panel 12 March 78 C3718

 

 

West of Laindon Class 308 up pass Sept 75 C2448

 

 

Benfleet 302 272 up June 75 C2129

 

 

David 

[lmsforever]

Good to see a picture of Benfleet  spent a great deal of my life there in the forties and fifties used to stay on the steep hill opposite the station and went for bus rides on Canvey Island happy days.The track laying at Laindon is very dated  and shows how many men used to work on the railway always enjoyed watching trains from Fenchurch St hauled by steam not always tank locos sometimes Black Fives very boring now.

[DaveF]

We'll head west for the next set of photos - but not too far as we end up at Paddington.

 

I was flying to Switzerland the next day and rather than flying from Newcastle to Heathrow early the next day to catch my plane I decided to have a day and night in London and so travelled on the train and spent the day taking raikway photos around London.

 

 

Paddington 50030 Repulse parcels 27th July 88 C09588

 

 

Paddington Class 121 55031 up 27th July 88  C9591

 

 

Paddington LT 5714 to Barking 27th July 88   C9595

 

 

Paddington Class 117 51363 to Marlow 27th July 88   C9596

 

 

Paddington 50035 Ark Royal27th July 88    C9601

 

 

David

[45655]

23 hours ago, DaveF said:

Skipton Class 110 and 101 Morecambe to Leeds Aug 83  C6243

 

Gosh, Hillards! I remember them well from my student days in York in the 1970s. A regional supermarket chain of the pile 'em high variety (cans displayed in cut open boxes).  I don't suppose they are still going.

 

They did have a quite reasonable meat counter, though.  Tomato sausage, anyone?

 

Keith

Alton.

[Leander]

1 hour ago, 45655 said:

 

Gosh, Hillards! I remember them well from my student days in York in the 1970s. A regional supermarket chain of the pile 'em high variety (cans displayed in cut open boxes).  I don't suppose they are still going.

Bought out in a hostile takeover by Tesco in May 1987, two years after celebrating their centenary. When we moved to Derbyshire in 1983, Hillards was our nearest supermarket, in Alfreton.

[The Lurker]

56 minutes ago, Leander said:

Bought out in a hostile takeover by Tesco in May 1987, two years after celebrating their centenary. When we moved to Derbyshire in 1983, Hillards was our nearest supermarket, in Alfreton.

and by the time I moved to Northampton in September 88, the Hillards in Jimmy's End next to Franklin's Gardens ha been rebranded - but was still referred to as Hillards for quite a few years after! I think it has been knocked down now!

Edited March 27, 2023 by The Lurker

[45655]

Thanks both.  I've learned something today. In my ignorance I had imagined that Hillards' reach extended no further than Yorkshire and Humberside.

 

Keith

Alton.

 

 

 

[DaveF]

Some black and white photos at Derby next taken around 1961.  Dad I went together, it was in the school holidays, I have a few photos I took that day with my Brownie 127.  I can still recall the sight of the locos in the first photo, there was a lot of noise as well as all the steam and smoke.

 

I have realised I missed out a sentence when I typed the above, my apolgies for misleading you.

 

I should have put after the sentence ending" ... my Brownie 127".  These are the photos Dad took, mine will appear sometime later.

 

 

Derby 2 BR Class 5s down ex pass c1961 JM90

 

 

Derby BR 9F 92014 up freight c1961 JM74

 

 

Derby ex MR 3F light engine c1961 DM401

 

 

 Derby Jubilee class 45586 Mysore up ex pass c1961  JM72

 

 

Derby LMS 8F up freight c1961 JM92

 

 

David        

Edited March 27, 2023 by DaveF

[John Besley]

6 hours ago, lmsforever said:

The track laying at Laindon is very dated  and shows how many men used to work on the railway

 

And no high viz or hard hats

[Market65]

Good afternoon, David. That’s a superb set of photo’s of the London Tilbury and Southend. In C2448, west of Laindon, with a class 308, on an up passenger service, in September, 1975, on enlarging the photo’ it would appear there are not many passengers on the train. 
 

The photo’s of Paddington on the 27th July, 1988, are excellent and C9591, of class 121, 55031, on an up service, is a superbly composed shot of the unit, lit by the Sun perfectly.

 

In the final set of black and white photo’s, of Derby, in about 1961, you have posted some truly outstanding photo’s which you took with the Brownie 127. That first photo’ is exceptionally good, full of atmosphere, with all that smoke and steam. The two BR class 5’s, on that down express really must have been struggling for some reason. And thrre must have been plenty of wheel slip too as they struggled to get a grip on the rails.
In the last photo’ of an ex-LMS, 8F, on an up freight train, you have a sight which was so commonplace, and can never be seen again. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

The first two photos were taken at South Stainley on the Harrogate - Ripon - Northallerton line on the last day of services in March 1967.

 

The rest of the photos are from York.

 

 

South Stainley, south of Ripon Class 101 Leeds City to Darlington, going away, taken on last day of services March 67 J793

 

 

South Stainley, south of Ripon Class 46 Newcastle to Liverpool Lime St taken on last day of services March 67 J794

 

 

York Merchant Navy 35026 Lamport and Holt Line special Elizabethan Newcastle to Kings X Oct 66 J675

 

 

York Class 31 D5802  Newcastle to Ipswich March 67 J813

 

 

York Class 101 showing Tynerail name Nov 71 C756

 

 

York The North Country Lass name on Class 101 - used on Tyneside allocated dmus for a time Nov 71 C755

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. What a delightful selection of photo’s of South Stainley, on the Harrogate - Ripon - Northallerton line, on the last day of services, in March, 1967, along with the rest of the photo’s of York.

The first two photo’s of South Stainley, are sad, but a great record of some of the last trains to run over the line, and that is an excellent shot of a class 46, on a Newcastle to Liverpool Lime St in J794. 
The first of the York photo’s, of Merchant Navy, 35026, Lamport and Holt Line, on a special train, the Elizabethan, from Newcastle to Kings Cross, in October, 1966, in J675, is a fairly rare sight of a Bulleid pacific at York in BR days. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[North Eastern]

23 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

Hi Chris,

 

I've done a search of all my north east railway images and have not found any photos of these vehicles.  Mine only cover 1980 to the present time, all the cranes etc I have photos of are much more modern ones.

 

Do you happen to know when yours was taken?

 

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but I'll see if I can find anything in books.

 

David

Hi David,

                 The photo was taken around the mid 1980's. 

This is another photo of it passing Gateshead but without the tool van & GW Brake Van.

I'm sure I've seen the GW Brake Van in one of your photos at Plessey Crossing at Newsham during track relaying.

 

Regards

 

Chris

[russ p]

18 minutes ago, North Eastern said:

Hi David,

                 The photo was taken around the mid 1980's. 

This is another photo of it passing Gateshead but without the tool van & GW Brake Van.

I'm sure I've seen the GW Brake Van in one of your photos at Plessey Crossing at Newsham during track relaying.

 

Regards

 

Chris

 

It was probably based at low fell

[DaveF]

26 minutes ago, North Eastern said:

Hi David,

                 The photo was taken around the mid 1980's. 

This is another photo of it passing Gateshead but without the tool van & GW Brake Van.

I'm sure I've seen the GW Brake Van in one of your photos at Plessey Crossing at Newsham during track relaying.

 

Regards

 

Chris

 

Hi Chris,

 

I've had another look and have found these three with Toads.  I think the last one may be a different Toad as it has the open end covered in.

 

 

Bebside down pw train 4th March 84 C6437

 

 

Bebside DR81312 4th March 84 C6438

 

 

Tyne Yard 37005 up p w June 81 C5440

 

David

[russ p]

6 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

Hi Chris,

 

I've had another look and have found these three with Toads.  I think the last one may be a different Toad as it has the open end covered in.

 

 

Bebside down pw train 4th March 84 C6437

 

 

Bebside DR81312 4th March 84 C6438

 

 

Tyne Yard 37005 up p w June 81 C5440

 

David

 

How neat Tyne Yard is in the pictures compared to today's overgrown quagmire 

[DaveF]

I've also found these two I took at Morpeth which might be of use.

 

Morpeth 37087 p w train Sept 86 J8684

 

 

 

Morpeth March 81 C5306

 

David

[DaveF]

Local places again today on the Blyth and Tyne at Freeman's crossing and a little further along at Cambois.

 

I think it is time to mention a problem I sometimes encounter when reposting photos which got lost in the outage.  As I am working from a back up file now and then I may post a photo twice if I don't notice that the back up contains two versions of an image.

 

 

Freemans Crossing 37077 up l e 29th July 87 C9035

 

 

Freemans Crossing 56094  up empty coal from power station 25th July 96 C21068

 

 

Freemans Crossing 37410  Alcan to Fort William 29th Dec 97  C23294

 

 

Cambois 26th April 86 C7498

 

 

Cambois May 81 C5389

 

 

David

[Oldddudders]

We might think, given that Dave F posts quality, annotated images several times each day, that he'd be busy enough preparing those for our delectation. But no, here he is making special postings to help another member. Chapeau, as they say around here, Dave F!

[woodenhead]

Found this the other day, Freemans Crossing back in the day, I've set it to start at the right point.

 

[Alcanman]

Great photos at Freemans Crossing, Dave. Thanks for sharing.

 

Still a great location for photographing trains on the Blyth & Tyne although coal trains are now consigned to history.

[DaveF]

A look at the Foxfield Railway on 28th September 1975 to go with lunch.

 

 

Dilhorne Bagnall Hawarden 28th Sept 75  C2461

 

 

Dilhorne Bagnall 0-4-0ST Hawarden going down hill to run round 28th Sept 75  C2462

 

 

Dilhorne Bagnall Hawarden 28th Sept 75  C2461  Once again Mum has managed to get into Dad's photo.

 

 

Dilhorne Platform Bagnall Hawarden Dilhorne to Cash Heath Wharf 28th Sept 75   J4950

 

 

Dilhorne Platform Bagnall Hawarden Dilhorne to Cash Heath Wharf 28th Sept 75   J4952

 

 

David

[DaveF]

A few black and white photos from the early 50s around Loughborough Midland come next.

 

 

Loughborough Midland 3F 43232 shunting c1952 JVol2205

 

 

Loughborough Midland 4F 44160 down goods c1950 JVol7176

 

 

Loughborough Midland Beyer Garratt down iron ore c1950 JVol7177

 

 

Loughborough Midland Jubliee 45667 Jellicoe down ex pass c1952 JVol2211

 

 

Loughborough Midland Stanier Class 5 up ex pass c1952 JVol2206

 

 

David

[DaveF]

In the Lune Gorge with three at Dillicar troughs over many years.

 

I remember the ones at Dillicar troughs only too well.  I was 16 then and had rejoined Mum and Dad that summer after staying with friends to take my O levels in Nottingham as Mum and Dad had moved to Harrogate.  We went away for a few days in the Lakes and at one stage visited the troughs.  While we were there I upset a wasp and got stung - more than once.  It was then I discovered that there are some things I am quite allergic to, it didn't affcet my breathing but I did feel quite ill for several hours.

 

 

Lune Gorge Class 47 Birmingham to Glasgow Aug 65 J254

 

 

Dillicar troughs Class 47 Perth to Euston Aug 65 J304

 

 

Dillicar troughs Class 40 up Royal Scot Aug 65 J307

 

 

Dillicar troughs LMS Class 5 down goods Aug 65 J308

 

 

Lune Gorge Class 87 down ex pass 10th Aug 87 C8916

 

 

Lune Gorge Virgin Class 220 down ex pass 19th July 03 C26295

 

 

David

Edited March 28, 2023 by DaveF