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

[russ p]

2 hours ago, big jim said:

Sounds like a Spanish resort! 

 

I only visited for the first time a couple of years back and thought it was fantastic, I also after my trip rode my bike from ravensglass to dalgarth and back, I took the family last year and they loved it too (and they hate trains!) 

 

To me it was the reverend awdrey railway books were actually real! I remember the engine we had was red .... bloody hell James is real and we passed a green one somewhere so Henry was still working! For what seemed like years later I longed to return to this place

[DaveF]

Some Southern electrics near Headcorn for this morning.  Thay were all taken on a day in May 1976 - probably the late May Bank Holiday.  I know I may not have interpreted the headcodes correctly.  The reference I use is the 1978 edition of "Southern Region Two Character Headcodes", published by Southern Electric Group.

 

 

Headcorn Class 411 7159 Charing Cross to Folkestone  May 76 J5174

 

 

Headcorn Class 411 7166 Victoria to Folkestone May 76 J5175

 

 

Headcorn Class 411 7160 Margate to Charing X May 76 J5176

 

 

Headcorn Class 411 7132 Charing X to Dover  May 76 J5177

 

 

Headcorn Class 411 7182 Charing X to Ashford May 76 J5178

 

David

Edited May 1 by DaveF

[eastwestdivide]

I think the '56' headcodes were boat trains, 56 = Victoria-Folkestone, 46 = Victoria-Dover Marine (later Western Docks)?

See also https://sremg.org.uk/headcodes/eheadcodes/eheadcodes03.html

 

[keefer]

3 hours ago, DaveF said:

Headcorn Class 411 7160 Margate to Charing X May 76 J5176

And pair of manky 4VEPs on the back.

[The Lurker]

that's my "commuting to school" experience a few years later, a couple of stops up the line - almost unremitting blue/grey  CEPs and BEPs and VEPs. At least Tonbridge had the Hastings units

[DaveF]

Five photos taken by Dad at Burton le Coggles on the ECML south of Grantham for this afternoon.

 

 

Burton le Coggles Class 47 down car carriers Aug 71 J2763

 

 

Burton le Coggles Class 40 up Aug 71 J2764

 

 

Burton le Coggles Class 47 1992 down Aug 72 J3102

 

 

Burton le Coggles Class 55 9017 Kings X to Newcastle March 73 J3154

 

 

Burton le Coggles Class 47 up  11.30 Leeds to Kings X Nov 74 J4089

 

David

Edited May 1 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a great set of photo’s of Southern electrics, near Headcorn, on a day in May, 1976. The last photo’, of Class 411, 7182, on a Charing Cross to Ashford service is a beautifully composed photo’ by your Dad of the unit running solo.

 

The photo’s at Burton le Coggles, on the ECML south of Grantham, are an excellent selection. J3154, of Class 55, 9017, which, according to the Napier Chronicles, is the 15.00 Kings Cross to Newcastle, in March, 1973, is a superb photo’ of the train.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[St Enodoc]

9 hours ago, DaveF said:

Burton le Coggles Class 40 up Aug 71 J2764

I do like this composition, especially with the (your?) family group. Perhaps half a second earlier so as to get the whole loco in (and avoid the telegraph pole growing out of it)?

[Oldddudders]

5 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I do like this composition, especially with the (your?) family group. 

With a posh Silver Cross pram.

[keefer]

I don't know how they were priced back in the day but they seemed fairly common - firmly a luxury item nowadays though!

Edited May 2 by keefer

[St Enodoc]

3 minutes ago, keefer said:

I don't know how they were priced back in the day but they seemed fairly common - firmly a luxury item nowadays though!

In the context of RMweb I'd have expected it to be a Pedigree...

 

(Moderators: photo from World of Railways website so I assume no copyright restriction on RMweb - if I'm wrong, please delete).

[DaveF]

6 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I do like this composition, especially with the (your?) family group. Perhaps half a second earlier so as to get the whole loco in (and avoid the telegraph pole growing out of it)?

 

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

With a posh Silver Cross pram.

 

I've no idea who the people were, certainly not family.   Very often when Dad or I were there taking photos people from the local village would walk up the hill with their children, I think it was a popular path.

 

I agree about taking the photo a bit earlier, it was one of Dad's and he probably had taken a photo of it coming towards him and then turned round to take the photo of it going away and was a fraction late doing so.

 

David

Edited May 2 by DaveF

[DaveF]

Newcastle, Benton and Benton Quarry junction for this morning.

 

 

Newcastle right Class 101 to coast left Class 101 from South Shields May 74 J3714

 

 

Benton Class 101 Morpeth to Newcastle 10th Aug 85 C7112

 

 

Benton HST 43073  up10th Aug 85 C7113

 

 

Benton 47188 up ammonia tanks Grangemouth to Haverton Hill 10th Aug 85 C7115

 

 

Benton Quarry Junction Class 254 down May 83 C6053  The line to the left went to Gosforth and eventually reached Ponteland at one time.  At this time I think there were still trains to Rowntrees at Fawdon as well as making a connection to the Tyne and Wear Metro.  Now the line is gone.

 

David

[corneliuslundie]

Is that a Deltic in the platform above the rear end of the left hand class 101?

I am sure one of our experts will be able to tell us which one . . . . 

Jonathan

[Fat Controller]

There would still have been Rowntree's  traffic, in their signature white-roofed VDAs, and also explosives traffic for Black Callerton  for ICI- Nobel.

[markw]

2 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

In the context of RMweb I'd have expected it to be a Pedigree...

 

(Moderators: photo from World of Railways website so I assume no copyright restriction on RMweb - if I'm wrong, please delete).

Silver Cross is equally valid

[St Enodoc]

2 minutes ago, markw said:

Silver Cross is equally valid

...but not made by Lines Brothers.

[keefer]

3 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

In the context of RMweb I'd have expected it to be a Pedigree...

 

(Moderators: photo from World of Railways website so I assume no copyright restriction on RMweb - if I'm wrong, please delete).

Now that you mention it, there were probably a few manufacturers of those 'traditional' prams, Silver Cross being only one (and perhaps the best known) of them.

Certainly SC are still going and they're very much a niche item.

Edited May 2 by keefer

[DaveF]

Another of Dad's black and white photos, this time of an A3 at Nottingham Victoria.  I haven't edited it in Photoshap, partly because this is how I remember the photos he printed to about whole plate size, 8"x6".

 

David JImg398May

Edited May 3 by DaveF

[DaveF]

Ratcliffe on Soar on the Midland between Trent and Loughborough comes next.

 

 

Ratcliffe on Soar Class 47 up July 71 C664

 

 

Ratcliffe on Soar Class 45 St Pancras to Nottingham June 76 J5300

 

 

Ratcliffe on Soar Derby dmu Class 116  June 76 J5334

 

 

Ratcliffe on Soar Class 45/1 45xxx St Pancras to Nottingham April 78 J5991  Might be 45104

 

 

Ratcliffe on Soar Class 45 down ballast Feb 83 C5940

 

David

Edited May 3 by DaveF

[eastwestdivide]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

J5991

Not 45099 as the /0s didn't go that high. Looks like a 45/1 - any nameplate experts here? (or itinerant Deltic identifiers?)

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a fantastic selection of photo’s of Newcastle, Benton and Benton Quarry junction. The first photo’ at Newcastle, with on the right a Class 101 on a service to the coast, with on the left another Class 101 from South Shields, in May, 1974 - exactly 50 years ago - being a superb photo’ of both the crossovers and trains. 

 

The whole plate photo’ by your Dad, of A3, 60058, Blair Atholl, on an up express passenger train from Sheffield to London Marylebone, The Master Cutler, at Nottingham Victoria Station in March, 1950, in the rain, is a truly magnificent photo’, and I look forward to seeing many more of these whole plate photo’s.

 

The photo’s at Ratcliffe on Soar are a splendid set. The last photo’ of a Class 45, on a down ballast train, in February, 1983, is a well composed photo’ of the train.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[keefer]

J5991 is definitely a 45/1 as it has ETH jumper and socket.

 

J5334 DMU is a cl.116. I didn't realise that this class had TC coaches and unusually amongst DMU types, they didn't have a toilet. 

Edited May 2 by keefer

[morethansixchars]

Is J5991 45104 The Royal Warwickshire Fusilier? https://flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/35664261825

 

[DaveF]

In the early 90s I sometime went to and from Europe from North Shields on a DFDS ferry to Esbjerg in Denmark.  Sometimes I stayed a night there and always made sure I photographed a few Danish trains.  Sometimes ex UK coaches appeared.

 

These photos date from 1992 and 1993.

 

 

Esbjerg Class MY 1132 25th July 92 C17021  Taken at the loco depot.

 

 

Esbjerg DSB dmus on right 4044 Frederica to Esbjerg    4282 on left 25th July 92 C17028

 

 

Esbjerg DSB sleeping cars 25th July 92 C17005

 

 

Esbjerg DSB IC3dmu 5207 and 5251 25th July 92 C17013

 

 

Esbjerg DSB dmu 4007 17th Aug 93 C19062

 

David

Edited May 3 by DaveF