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

[DaveF]

Now we move a short distance to Nottingham Midland as it was in the 1970s.

 

 

Nottingham Class 104  dmu Derby to Nottingham  and Class 45 to Manchester Feb 71 J2509

 

 

Nottingham 2 Class 20s up le Aug 75 C2246

 

 

Nottingham 45101 St Pancras to Sheffield  Aug 75 C2247

 

 

Nottingham Class 104 Nottingham to Skegness Aug 75 C2251

 

 

Nottingham Class 45 down ex pass  July 76 C2879

 

David

Edited May 29, 2023 by DaveF

[keefer]

49 minutes ago, DaveF said:

Nottingham 45101 St Pancras to Sheffield  Aug 75 C2247

Nice picture for showing the corridor handrail on a Mk2d FK - even with tinted windows, the orange(?) handrails are very visible.

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a delightful set of photo’s of Morpeth, from the early 1980’s. In C6386, of 45108, on an up Sunday ballast train, in January, 1984, it is a well composed shot, in the snow, of the Peak. 

 

The photo’s of the Great Eastern at Manningtree, are a superb selection, and in the first one of a Class 37, on a Liverpool St. to Harwich service, in January, 1976, that’s a great shot of the train, in the distance, and the fifth carriage can be seen to be a Gresley buffet car, one of the last survivors at that time.

 

In the photo’s of Nottingham Victoria, in black and white, from the early 1950’s, you have an excellent and historical set and thank you for posting them. In the first photo’ of a class J1, on a down passenger train from Grantham to Derby Friargate, c1950, that is a superb view, with the train composed of two Gresley twin art non corridor carriages. That last photo’ of V2, 60831, running light engine, and a B1, in c1954, along with a very young you, is a lovely shot, and one which will bring back happy memories for you. 

 

Finally, the photo’s of Nottingham Midland in the 1970’s, are an excellent selection. In C2251, of a four car Class 104, on a Nottingham to Skegness service, in August, 1975, it can be seen that there are luggage racks opposite the toilets, and the internal finish is a light green finish, unlike the LMR sets with a wooden finish. Along with the guards van being in the second car, that all makes it a former NER unit. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[brushman47544]

C2246 - a shame you didn’t record the loco numbers; Class 20s in green with TOPS numbering were not that common.

[Davexoc]

8 minutes ago, brushman47544 said:

C2246 - a shame you didn’t record the loco numbers; Class 20s in green with TOPS numbering were not that common.

 

Looks like 20017, which ties in with a Rail Express produced list some years ago now, which read 20014-8/20-3/5/6/45/7/56/75, 129-33/7/8/40/1/4-7/9-56/8/62/4/5/7/9/70/4/5/7, 228

[DaveF]

17 minutes ago, brushman47544 said:

C2246 - a shame you didn’t record the loco numbers; Class 20s in green with TOPS numbering were not that common.

 

7 minutes ago, Davexoc said:

 

Looks like 20017, which ties in with a Rail Express produced list some years ago now, which read 20014-8/20-3/5/6/45/7/56/75, 129-33/7/8/40/1/4-7/9-56/8/62/4/5/7/9/70/4/5/7, 228

 

 

20017 was allocated to Immingham at the time so it is possible.

 

I think it might be 20047 which was a D16 (Nottingham Dvision) loco at the time.

I've looked at the original scan and and am sure it ends in 7, the number next to it looks thicker than a 1 and seems to have a slope hence my suggestion.

 

David

[62613]

6 hours ago, DaveF said:

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

I'm pretty sure JVol4031 appeared recently on Facebook, in one of the "Memories of Steam"  groups. Your father was acknowledged as the photographer in the comments following, but not in the header 

[DaveF]

45 minutes ago, 62613 said:

I'm pretty sure JVol4031 appeared recently on Facebook, in one of the "Memories of Steam"  groups. Your father was acknowledged as the photographer in the comments following, but not in the header 

 

Thanks for the information.

 

I can't find it there but have given up tracking down every thing which gets copied.

 

I've found several of my photos on Facebook usually put in as links from flickr which also has a copy of the image in my photostream on there (DavidWF2009).

EDit - I have now found the photo on facebook.

David

 

 

Edited May 29, 2023 by DaveF

[DaveF]

We are in Weardale, County Durham this morning on the line betwen Bishop Auckland and Eastgate.  I was there on a charter, "The North Briton" which used a Class 101.

 

 

Stanhope Class 101 North Briton 23rd May 87  C8506

 

 

Stanhope Class 101 North Briton 23rd May 87  C8507

 

 

Eastgate goods shed 23rd May 87  C8514

 

 

Eastgate Blue Circle cement Thomas Hill shunter 23rd May 87 C8516

 

 

Eastgate Class 101 North Briton 23rd May 87  C8518

 

 

Eastgate Class 101 North Briton 23rd May 87  C8519

 

 

David

[43110andyb]

Some interesting local pictures for me today -thank you!
    - One observation is that no one quite does ‘milling around’ better than Railtour passengers! Not sure if general ‘milling around’ is particularly a British thing but it has certainly been perfected by Railtour users (myself included in the past). 

[DaveF]

Some electrics at Lichfield and Elmhurst for a late lunchtime.  They were taken on 200ASA (ISO) slide film so they are very grainy.  For the time it was a very fast colour film.

 

 

Lichfield 86225 down ex pass Jan 76 C2571

 

 

Lichfield 86202 up ex pass Jan 76 C2572

 

 

Lichfield CLass 86 up ex pass Jan 76 C2573

 

 

Lichfield Class 87 down ex pass Jan 76 C2574

 

 

Elmhurst 84005 down freight Jan 76 C2576

 

David

[DaveF]

Something a bit different now concerning iron ore quarrying, in this case at Exton Park Quarry.

 

We start with a photo of the line to the quarry, the rest show the quarry and some of the machinery just in case anyone wants to model a quarry with a walking dragline.

 

Sunsew, the walking dragline of type W1400 shown in the last 3 photos was built in 1957 and named after the Grand National winner of that year, it weighed 1675 tons.  It walked 13 miles when it was transferred to another quarry.  It's jib was 282 feet (86m) long and its bucket could hold 27 tons.

 

It was electrically powered.

 

 

Exton Park iron ore line Nov 72 C1271

 

 

Exton Park Quarries 5W walking dragline May 73 VJ1214

 

 

Exton Park Quarries May 73 VJ1215

 

 

Exton Park Quarry Sundew May 73 VJ1207  Mum with one of the quarry managers.

 

 

Exton Park Quarries view up jib of Sundew May 73 VJ1206

 

 

Exton Park Quarry Sundew walking dragline view from roof. Note railway track at bottom of quarry on right. May 73 J3203

 

David

 

[DaveF]

Today's final set are at Prestonpans, east of Edinburgh together with one in Princes Street Gardens.

 

 

Prestonpans 43071 up ex pass 21st Aug 86 C7904

 

 

Prestonpans 26002 down empty coal 21st Aug 86 C7906

 

 

Prestonpans 26002 empty coal Cockenzie to Bilston Glen 11th Aug 87 C8939

 

 

Prestonpans 26007 down light engine 11th Aug 87 C8940

 

 

Princes Street Gardens Class 27 5374 Glasgow to Edinburgh Aug 73 C1301

 

 

David

 

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a delightful set of photo’s of Weardale, County Durham, on the line betwen Bishop Auckland and Eastgate, on the 23rd May, 1987. In C8516, at Eastgate, of Blue Circle cement, Thomas Hill, shunter, you have captured an excellent portrait shot of the locomotive.

 

That’s a great set of photo’s of electrics at Lichfield and Elmhurst, in January, 1976. In the last photo’ at Elmhurst, with 84005, on a down freight train, that is a beautifully composed shot of the 84 and train. 

 

What a fascinating selection of photo’s of Exton Park Quarry. They will indeed be of much use for modellers. In VJ1207, with Sundew, in May, 1973, along with your Mum with one of the quarry managers, you have such an exquisite photo’. It’s great to see your Mum in that photo’. 

 

Finally, the photo’s of Prestonpans, east of Edinburgh, along with one in Princes Street Gardens, are all superb, and C8940, at Prestonpans, of 26007, on a down light engine movement, on the 11th August, 1987, being a delightful portrait photo’ of the locomotive.
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[corneliuslundie]

VJ1207 really shows the size of the dragline, because you can see in that shot just how small the cab is. It must have taken a bit more than a 13 amp socket to power it!

And it would need a big layout with plenty of headroom to include one.

Fascinating.

Jonathan

[DaveF]

A different place to start the day, Radwell on the Midland main line.  It is between Bedford and Wellingborough.

 

 

Radwell Class 45 down ex pass  11th April 75 C1943

 

 

Radwell Class 45 up ex pass  11th April 75 C1944

 

 

Radwell Class 45 down ex pass  11th April 75 C1945

 

 

Radwell Class 47 down ex pass  11th April 75 C1946

 

 

Radwell  Class 47 up ex pass  11th April 75 C1947

 

David

[Rugd1022]

Those Radwell shots are very nice Dave, proper 'train in the landscape' stuff. The slow lines viaduct there is subject to 20mph or 30mph speed restrictions these days with certain types of wagon when fully loaded, it often feels like a very slow slog between Sharnbrook and Bedford, with restrictions on nearly all of the bridges and viaducts on the route.

 

The Nottingham pics posted earlier are superb too 😉

[DaveF]

Next are some photos at Carlisle around 1987/8 in the usual dull weather.

 

 

Carlisle 86246 down freightliner 1st Sept 87 C9088

 

 

Carlisle 87009 and 87004 up steel 1st Sept 87 C9095

 

 

Carlisle 85009 down limestone 1st Sept 87 C9099

 

 

Carlisle 47586 Leeds to Carlisle 1st Sept 87 C9100

 

 

Carlisle 90003 down test train 12th April 88 C9411

 

David

[DaveF]

Back to Switzerland this afternoon to Interlaken Ost.  It is a mixed gauge station serving the BLS on standads gauge and the Zentralbahn with its metre gauge trains from Luzern.  There are also the metre gauge trains of the Berner Oberland Bahn.  

 

These photos were taken in 1988 when the BLS was celebrating its 75th anniversary with exhibitions of locos and trains from other companies at both Interlaken Ost and West stations.  Hence the more unusual stock in these photos.

 

 

Interlaken Ost BVZ HGe4/4 12 12th Aug 88 C10840  BVZ = Brig Visp Zermatt Bahn, now part of the MGB.

 

 

nterlaken Ost MOB Ge4/4 6004 12th Aug 88 C10848 MOB = Chemin der Fer Montreux Oberland Bernois.  This railway uses 850VDC so the loco was a static exhibit as the station is electrified at 15kV.

 

 

Interlaken Ost BLS ABt 956 coaches from RVT SBB GFM Interlaken Ost to Interlaken West pendelzug 12th Aug 88 C10865  A BLS railcar with coaches from other railway companies in it.

 

 

Interlaken Ost Brunig G3/4 208 Ballenberg Dampf Bahn Sonderzug Interlaken Ost to Meiringen 12th Aug 88 C10872

 

 

Interlaken Ost STB BDe4/6 102  12th Aug 88 C10887a  STB = Sensetalbahn which runs from Flammat to Gümmenen.  The line is now operated by SBB.

 

David

Edited May 31, 2023 by DaveF

[corneliuslundie]

Radwell viaduct looks very easy to model, though probably shortened considerably.

And 86426 looks very nice, a contrast to 85009 which looks very dull in comparison, and not I think just because it is a bit dirty.

Thanks also for the Interlaken photos. I went there once but not when anything special was happening.

I have, though, travelled over most of the MOB. A great trip from Montreux to Zweissimmen if you can fit it in,  and a nice cable car up the local mountain when you get there.

And a fascinating range of locos at Interlaken.

Jonathan

[DaveF]

The Great Eastern again for the final batch today at Shenfield, Chelmsford and Boreham.

 

 

Shenfield Class 309 Liverpool St to Clacton Nov 75  C2527

 

 

Shenfield 307109 up pass Jan 79 C4271

 

 

Shenfield 307124 Liverpool St to Southend Victoria Feb 79 C4295  going away

 

 

Chelmsford Class 37 up pass June 79 C4592

 

 

Chelmsford station July 74 C1655

 

 

Boreham Class 37 down parcels Oct 74 C1810

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good afternoon, David. That is an excellent set of photo’s of Radwell, on the Midland main line, between Bedford and Wellingborough, from the 11th April, 1975. In the first photo’ of a class 45, on a down express passenger train, it is a great shot of the train as it runs over the low height viaduct. 

 

The photo’s of Carlisle, on the 1st September, 1987, and the 12th April, 1988, are a superb set. In the first photo’ of 86246, on a down freightliner, on the 12th April, 1987, you have captured a superb portrait shot of the locomotive as the driver either enters or steps down out of the cab.

 

That’s a most delightful and atmospheric set of photo’s from Switzerland, at Interlaken Ost, on the 12th August, 1988. In the first photo’ of BVZ, HGe4/4, 12, that is a splendid portrait shot of the electric locomotive. 

 

Finally, the photo’s of the Great Eastern, at Shenfield, Chelmsford and Boreham, are  a great selection, and C4592, at Chelmsford, with a Class 37, hauling an up passenger train, in June, 1979, is an excellent composition of the train running across the viaduct with lovely reflections in the water. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

St Pancras to start with this morning in October 1993.  I had  a bit of time to spare after a meeting in London and as St Pancras is next to Kings Cross it was the obvious place to waste spend an hour before catching  a train back to Newcastle.

 

 

St Pancras 47809 St Pancras to Sheffield 20th Oct 93 C19162

 

 

St Pancras 43056 and 43083 20th Oct 93 C19164

 

 

St Pancras 43050 Sheffield to St Pancras 20th Oct 93 C19165

 

 

St Pancras 43085 and 43050 20th Oct 93 C19168

 

 

St Pancras 43085, 43050 and ano 20th Oct 93 C19170

 

 

David

[DaveF]

Some trains at Raskelf, between York and Northallerton in May 1967.

 

 

Raskelf Class 37 D6755 down empties May 67 J0900

 

 

Raskelf Class 37 D6702 up freight May 67 J0901

 

 

Raskelf Class 37 D6767 down empties May 67 J0902

 

 

Raskelf Class 47 D1679 up car carrier Perth to London May 67 J0903

 

 

Raskelf Class 55 D9008 Kings X to Edinburgh May 67 J904

 

David

[keefer]

I take it the new-looking Down line is because it was relaid after the derailment & collision which led to the demise of DP2? 

EDIT: had a quick look and I see Raskelf is right next to (South of) Pilmoor

@DaveF You must've been on Hag Lane? Overbridge and cottages as shown in J904

Edited June 1, 2023 by keefer