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

[Market65]

Hi, David. Just back from my evening meal. I believe the railway, unless I’m very wrong would be the one which had the station at Tyne Commission Quay. It was, of course the NER. 
 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

40 minutes ago, Market65 said:

Hi, David. Just back from my evening meal. I believe the railway, unless I’m very wrong would be the one which had the station at Tyne Commission Quay. It was, of course the NER. 
 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

Full marks Rob.

 

Until the houses and marina were developed there was still some track visible but now it is all gone.  I find it hard to believe there was room for the station along the quay, it seems so short.  But in photos it does look a bit cramped.

 

David

 

David

[Davexoc]

4 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

It is.    But what was the railway there?

 

David

 

Guessing you are talking about what was the Seaton Burn Waggonway, Percy Main being just up the way....

Edited May 27, 2023 by Davexoc

[Artless Bodger]

I had an inkling it was somewhere around the north bank of the Tyne - the blue and yellow concrete benches look just like the ones in the centre of North Shields. Head Gardener (Mrs Bodger) lived in North Shields for a few years when working in Newcastle. Annoyingly for a lot of the time North Shields metro station was under redevelopment (no shelter, temporary access stairs etc) and no service at weekends when I went up to stay, we never did get to see it completed before her job moved to Bristol. Her flat had a view up river to the Tyne Commisioners quay, and down river to the mouth. We used to see the DFDS ferry pass each morning and evening. A favourite evening walk in the early days, before the station redevelopment started, was along the river bank from Fish Quay (vicious gulls)  to Tynemouth, then back on the metro.

[Oldddudders]

I have twice sailed from the Ferry Terminal, cruising on MV Balmoral.

[35A]

Good morning, David.

 

Re: J4351, the first of the Abbots Ripton batch, it's not 47 295, as it has ETS jumpers on the front. With a closer look, it appears to be 47 5xx, possibly ending in a 6. I've had a look through my notes for June 1975 but, unfortunately, 1L29 tended to pass, either when I'd headed home for tea or before I'd headed out for an evening's spotting. A further look through the images gallery for each loco in that batch (at that time, the class 47/4s only ran up to 47 555), on www.class47.co.uk, doesn't help much, either. There are very few images from the time when headcode panels were still in use. I did find one of 47 524 (that one, again!), in summer 1975, which showed evidence of similar damage to the panel between the headcode panel and the buffer beam (http://class47.co.uk/c47_zoom_v3.php?img=0696021373000) but I don't think that that is the loco in your picture, as the numbers don't look like 524.

[DaveF]

 

 

7 hours ago, 35A said:

Good morning, David.

 

Re: J4351, the first of the Abbots Ripton batch, it's not 47 295, as it has ETS jumpers on the front. With a closer look, it appears to be 47 5xx, possibly ending in a 6. I've had a look through my notes for June 1975 but, unfortunately, 1L29 tended to pass, either when I'd headed home for tea or before I'd headed out for an evening's spotting. A further look through the images gallery for each loco in that batch (at that time, the class 47/4s only ran up to 47 555), on www.class47.co.uk, doesn't help much, either. There are very few images from the time when headcode panels were still in use. I did find one of 47 524 (that one, again!), in summer 1975, which showed evidence of similar damage to the panel between the headcode panel and the buffer beam (http://class47.co.uk/c47_zoom_v3.php?img=0696021373000) but I don't think that that is the loco in your picture, as the numbers don't look like 524.

 

 

Many thanks, I thought it probably wasn't 47295 but couldn't read the numbers!

 

David

[DaveF]

Thanks for the comments about the cruise terminal and the railway.  It was Tyne Commission Quay, there were a lot of other bits or railway and waggonway in the area as well.  Just about any photo taken in the area would include where a line once ran, even though in most cases there is no eveidence left now.

 

David

[DaveF]

Today starta in Lincolnshire with Grimsby and Cleethorpes stations.

 

 

Grimsby Class 114 to Cleethorpes 11th Aug 77 C3461

 

 

Grimsby 153352 Cleethopes to Barton on Humber 26th July 2000 C25005

 

 

Grimsby 158789 Grimsby to Great Malvern 26th July 2000 C25009

 

 

Cleethorpes 47434 ecs for Cleethorpes to Kings X 28th March 78 C3759

 

 

Cleethorpes 153352 Cleethorpes to Barton on Humber 26th July 2000 C25002

 

 

Cleethorpes Little Dipper Railway 26th July 2000 C25001

 

 

David

[JeffP]

Cleethorpes is where I was born.

In 1956 my grandpa and I boarded a train there and alighted at Grimsby Town, where my dad met us to return us home.

My first experience of riding on a train.

[DaveF]

ECML next on Stoke Bank at Little Bytham together with one taken looking at the ECML in Peterborough from a different angle to usual.

 

 

Little Bytham Class 55 down ex pass Sept 70 C403  11.00 Kings X to Newcastle

 

 

Little Bytham Class 55 9009 up Oct 70 J2422 11.00 Newcastle to Kings X

 

 

Little Bytham Class 47 1872 down ex pass May 71 C609

 

 

Little Bytham Class 47 down ex pass July 72 C1002 10.15 Kings X to Newcastle

 

 

Peterborough East MR line with Class 105 ecs on ECML Nov 70 J2451

 

 

David

Edited May 28, 2023 by DaveF
To add train details

[DaveF]

Klosters on the Rhätische Bahn in south east Switzerland.  It has the reputation of being the skiing centre for very rich people but has a pleasant station, especially on a fine summer day.

 

I took the photos in 1991 when the work on building the Vereina Tunnel had just started, one of the photos shows some preliminary work at the mouth of the tunnel on the line to Davos, the new tunnel starts at the same place.

 

 

Klosters RhB Ge4/4ii 631 Regionalzug Landquart to Klosters 8th Aug 91 C16237

 

 

Klosters RhB Xm2/2 9915 8th Aug 91 C16238

 

 

Klosters RhB Ge4/4ii 631 running round Regionalzug Landquart to Klosters 8th Aug 91 C16239

 

 

Klosters 8th Aug 91 C16243

 

 

 

Klosters RhB Tm2/2 20 8th Aug 91 C16244

 

David

Edited May 28, 2023 by DaveF

[DaveF]

The MIdland Railway north of Skipton today, at Gargrave and then on the S&C at Helwith Bridge.

 

 

Gargrave Class 101 Heysham to Leeds Oct 65 J402

 

Gargrave LMS Jubilee class 45643 Rodney up fitted freight Oct 65 J406

 

 

Gargrave Class 25 D7576 Leeds to Morecambe Oct 65 J407

 

 

Gargrave Class 111 NE51544 Morecambe to Leeds May 67 J0908

 

 

Helwith Bridge BR 9F 92076 up goods Dec 66 J714

 

David

[corneliuslundie]

j407 is a really beautiful photo, though it would have helped if the loco had been a bit cleaner.

Jonathan

[TheSignalEngineer]

On 27/05/2023 at 17:29, Fat Controller said:

Don't know when you worked there, but I worked clearing out the vehicle spares place directly opposite you in 1977/8. In the space of a few days, I watched a skip lorry remove its 'Gallows', a lorry of fleeces get stripped, and a brand-new Leyland National leave its air-con pod on a car's bonnet.

I was based there 1971-2. Whenever I spent a full day in the office I either heard a crash or a squeal of brakes then saw a reversal when someone had managed to stop short. Nobody seemed to bother much about stopping the trains as the bridge always won.

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That is a great set of photo’s from Lincolnshire of Grimsby and Cleethorpes stations. In C25002, at Cleethorpes, with 153352, on a Cleethorpes to Barton on Humber service, on the 26th July, 2000, you have captured a typical train that worked the Barton branch. It’s historical too, since most of the 153’s are now withdrawn.

 

The photo’s of the ECML, on Stoke Bank at Little Bytham, and with one taken looking at the ECML in Peterborough, are a superb selection, and C1002, at  Little Bytham, with a Class 47, on a down express passenger train, the 10.15 from London King’s Cross to Newcastle, in July, 1972, being a delightful photo’ and the fifth carriage is still in maroon livery.

 

That’s a delightful and atmospheric set of photo’s of Klosters,on the Rhätische Bahn, in south east Switzerland, on the 8th August, 1991. In C16239, of RhB, Ge4/4ii, 631, running round the Regionalzug Landquart to Klosters train, that is a superb view of the locomotive. 

 

Finally, the photo’s of the MIdland Railway north of Skipton, at Gargrave, and then on the S&C at Helwith Bridge, are a splendid selection. In the last photo’ at Helwith Bridge, of BR 9F, 92076, on an up goods train, in December, 1966, your Dad has captured a superb view of the train, and it’s full of atmosphere thanks to the December sun, steam and smoke.
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[russ p]

9 hours ago, DaveF said:

ECML next on Stoke Bank at Little Bytham together with one taken looking at the ECML in Peterborough from a different angle to usual.

 

 

Little Bytham Class 55 down ex pass Sept 70 C403  11.00 Kings X to Newcastle

 

 

Little Bytham Class 55 9009 up Oct 70 J2422 11.00 Newcastle to Kings X

 

 

Little Bytham Class 47 1872 down ex pass May 71 C609

 

 

Little Bytham Class 47 down ex pass July 72 C1002 10.15 Kings X to Newcastle

 

 

Peterborough East MR line with Class 105 ecs on ECML Nov 70 J2451

 

 

David

 

Excellent pictures again David 

I didn't realise the connection from Peterborough East to what is now the nene Valley lasted so late.  I doesn't look like its used very much in the picture 

[Donington Road]

18 minutes ago, russ p said:

 

Excellent pictures again David 

I didn't realise the connection from Peterborough East to what is now the nene Valley lasted so late.  I doesn't look like its used very much in the picture 

 

It was still open for iron ore trains from the Nassington Quarry which closed in February 1971.

[35A]

2 hours ago, Donington Road said:

 

It was still open for iron ore trains from the Nassington Quarry which closed in February 1971.

 

It was also used for infrequent school trains to Oundle. The last passenger train to Oundle was on 4th November 1972, from Peterborough North, via a reversal at Peterborough East (I was on it). It was supposed to have been formed of a six-car DMU and tickets had been sold, accordingly. On the day, a five-car set appeared, a three-car Derby Works Class 125 (51156+59458+50998) and a two-car set, missing a driving vehicle (59449+51169). Needless to say, there wasn't a lot of room!

 

 

Regarding Sunday's ECML images, I'd suggest that C403 is 9013 "THE BLACK WATCH". It's clearly one of the four Haymarket Deltics with single line nameplates and the lack of a crest above the nameplate suggests that it would be 13, which lost its crests before receiving blue livery and never gained replacements. The other three retained their crests until the later part of the 1970s.

[russ p]

1 hour ago, 35A said:

 

It was also used for infrequent school trains to Oundle. The last passenger train to Oundle was on 4th November 1972, from Peterborough North, via a reversal at Peterborough East (I was on it). It was supposed to have been formed of a six-car DMU and tickets had been sold, accordingly. On the day, a five-car set appeared, a three-car Derby Works Class 125 (51156+59458+50998) and a two-car set, missing a driving vehicle (59449+51169). Needless to say, there wasn't a lot of room!

 

 

Regarding Sunday's ECML images, I'd suggest that C403 is 9013 "THE BLACK WATCH". It's clearly one of the four Haymarket Deltics with single line nameplates and the lack of a crest above the nameplate suggests that it would be 13, which lost its crests before receiving blue livery and never gained replacements. The other three retained their crests until the later part of the 1970s.

 

Class 125s I'm surprised Peterborough men signed those as were quite different to normal DMUs 

[DaveF]

A few pictures at Morpeth in the early 80s this morning.

 

 

Morpeth 37066 up coal on main line Aug 80 C5188

 

 

Morpeth Class 43 down ex pass April 82 C5651

 

 

Morpeth 45108 up Sunday ballast Jan 84 C6386

 

 

Morpeth 47436 up ex pass 16th June 84 C6532

 

 

Morpeth Class 101 Alnmouth to Newcastle 13th Oct 84 C6608

 

 

David

[DaveF]

The Great Eastern at Manningtree, between Colchester and Ipswich.

 

A word of warning, if you want to take pictures from some of the locations be careful - you could get very muddy or wet if you do not take account of the tides and the conditon of the grass and mud areas.

 

 

Manningtree  Class 37 Liverpool St to Harwich Jan 76 C2586

 

 

Manningtree Class 105 Manningtree to Harwich 3rd April 76 C2671

 

 

Manningtree Class 47 Liverpool St to Norwich Nov 76 C3088

 

 

Manningtree Cattawade Bridge Class 47 down Feb 77 C3193

 

 

Manningtree Cattawade Bridge Class 47 down  Feb 77 C3195

 

 

David

Edited May 29, 2023 by DaveF

[F2Andy]

On 11/01/2023 at 10:41, DaveF said:

This morning's replacements come from Clapham Junction in the 1980s.  They were all taken after I moved to Northumberland.

 

The first two were taken on a day when I had a work meeting in London, the third one , the UKF vans was taken on a day trip to London with friends.  The final two were taken when I decided to have a day in London on the way to a holiday in Switzerland.

 

...

 

 

Clapham Junction Class 33 33017 UKF vans 21st Nov 87 C9271

 

...

 

I am somewhat behind on this thread, so apologies for going back to January, but the UKF vans image is intriguing me. The first van appears to have no roof. As far as I can see it is otherwise a normal UKF van. I am aware that as-built they had no sides, but no roof?

[Fat Controller]

14 minutes ago, F2Andy said:

I am somewhat behind on this thread, so apologies for going back to January, but the UKF vans image is intriguing me. The first van appears to have no roof. As far as I can see it is otherwise a normal UKF van. I am aware that as-built they had no sides, but no roof?

It's got a flat roof, I believe.

[DaveF]

Nottingham Victoria in black and white from the early 1950s.  The last photo includes me when I was about 5 years old.

 

Once again Dad was making use of his track permit for most of the photos.

 

 

Nottingham Victoria J1 down pass Grantham to Derby Friargate c1950 JVol3177

 

 

Nottingham Victoria N7 down pass c1950 JVol7132

 

 

Nottingham Victoria O1 down goods and B1 c1952  JVol4286

 

 

Nottingham Victoria O4 up goods B17 in bay c1951 JVol3165

 

 

Nottingham Victoria V2 60831 le and B1 and me c1954  JVol4031

 

David