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

[DaveF]

On the Cambrian coast at Criccieth and Talsarnau for this morning.  The photos are from 2001 and 2002.  They really just show infrastructure and scenery.

 

Criccieth view east 23rd July 01 C25346

 

z Criccieth view towards Pwlhelli 23rd July 01 C25345

 

 

Criccieth Central Trains 158856 up pass 23rd July 01 C25370

 

 

Criccieth view across railway 23rd July 01 C25594

 

 

Talsarnau view north 22nd July 02 C25939

 

 

Talsarnau Wales and Borders Class 158 down pass 23rd July 02 C25969

 

David

[DaveF]

Another one from Dad's whole plate prints from his usual 35mm film, this time at Grantham North.  He was 24 when he took this one.  Some of this batch of photos have been on here before but without the exposure etc details.  Also the bigger prints give a bit more detail than the usual scans from postcard size ones (or smaller).

 

 

David

[DaveF]

It's time for more photos from visits to Carlisle in the 1980s.

 

 

Carlisle Class 108 53597 and 54236 Carlisle to Dumfries 23rd Oct 84 C6615  North of the station.

 

 

Carlisle Class 26  26023 23rd Oct 84 C6658

 

 

Carlisle 86413 ex pass to Cardiff 6th Aug 85  C7082

 

 

Carlisle 87019 Sir Winston Churchill Glasgow to Euston 30th July 86 C7709

 

 

Carlisle 318270 brand new on test 14th April 87 C8276

 

David

[Artless Bodger]

8 hours ago, DaveF said:

They really just show infrastructure and scenery.

And are no less interesting for that, you have some superb photos of the railway in the scenery, with or without trains. Thank you for posting them.

[Artless Bodger]

C6615, it took me  a while to realise what was in the lower right corner, my first reaction was 'What is a scalextric track doing by the railway?' The double yellow lines I saw as the copper tape contact strips on model car racing track (like the ones I saw on the Reed Model Engineering Society track).

[The Border Reiver]

C6615 One of my favourite spotting spots in Carlisle. Took lots of photos there from the 1960s to 2000s. However no more photos from there as the powers to be have put palisade fencing along the top of the wall. For 50 years there was no fence and no problems...

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a great set of photo’s of the Cambrian coast line at Criccieth and Talsarnau, in 2001, and 2002. The last photo’ at Talsarnau, with a Wales and Borders Class 158, on a down passenger service, on the 23rd July, 2002, is a lovely “Train in the landscape” view, and full of Welsh atmosphere.

 

The whole plate print of class J2, 65019, on a down class B express freight train, on the Nottingham line, at Grantham North, in August, 1950, is truly stunning, and shows much which is now either gone or completely changed.

 

The photo’s at Carlisle, from the 1980’s, are full of interest and. C6658, of Class 26, 26023, on the 23rd October, 1984, is a delightful and well composed three quarter portrait shot of the locomotive.
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

Switzerland again today at Arth Goldau station.  This is where lines from Zürich, Luzern and Rotkreuz (bringing trains from the north) meet.  The line then heads south as the Gotthard route.  It is also the junction for the Südostbahn line to the north east of the country.

 

In 1988 I stayed for just under a month at a hotel near the station, spending days exploring by train.

 

 

Arth Goldau Re4/4i 10005 Luzern to Airolo 28th July 88 C9638

 

 

Arth Goldau E3/3 No1 Oswald Steam ex SBB and SOB Re4/4iii 42 Arth Goldau Sonderzug 29th July 88  C9715

 

 

Arth Goldau Ae3/6i 10684 2nd Aug 88 C09982

 

 

Arth Goldau Ae6/6 11520 Shunting coach for extra train on SOB 5th Aug 88 C10198

 

 

Arth Goldau Re4/4iii 11361 Schaffhausen to Chiasso 5th Aug 88 C10202

 

 

Arth Goldau BT(Bodensee Toggenburg Bahn, now part of SOB) Re4/4 92 Romanshorn to Luzern 5th Aug 88 C10216   a push pull (pendelzug)  Also two Ee3/3 shunters

 

David

Edited May 13 by DaveF

[PJT]

On 09/05/2024 at 10:44, Artless Bodger said:

I used to see a (I think) Escort estate on my way to work, originally white it had been patch painted in a pointillist style apparently with the entire stock of the owner's Humbrol tinlets. It also sported an aerodynamic spoiler made from a contiboard shelf (priceless as the advert used to say). Some of my colleagues had cars kept going with parts from the scrappie, not the most reliable to accept a lift from.

University Motors in Epsom used to have a very regular parts department customer that the staff christened 'Mr Antelope'.  Over a very long period of time he repeatedly purchased paint touch up sticks in Antelope Beige and eventually hand repainted his entire Austin 1100 with them.  Several of those U.M. staff went on to work in the parts industry for British classic cars;  some are still working today and thus the tale of Mr Antelope is still legendary.

 

Pete T.

 

[DaveF]

Some photos at High Dyke on the ECML south of Grantham, at the northern end of Stoke Tunnel.

 

 

High Dyke Class 47 08.55 Hull to Kings X Oct 69 J2019

 

 

High Dyke Class 47 iron ore from branch July 72 J2984

 

 

High Dyke Class 55 down July 72 C1014

 

 

High Dyke Class 47 1581 07.05 Darlington to Kings X Class 31 behind May 73 C1262

 

 

High Dyke Class 254 HST up Feb 83 C5943

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a great set of photo’s of Switzerland at Arth Goldau station, in July and August, 1988. C09982, of Ae3/6i, 10684, on the 2nd August, 1988, is an excellent photo’ of the locomotive.

 

The photo’s at High Dyke are a superb selection. The first photo’ of a Class 47, on the 08.55 Hull to Kings Cross, in October, 1969, is a splendid shot of both the train and the infrastructure too. A reminder that semaphore signals and telegraph poles are all long gone. Bullhead rail is nearly gone too.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

This we morning we visit the Ipswich area.  Back in 1975 Dad used to visit Ipswich from time on business, he must have taken these photos on his trips there.

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton crossing Class 31 up cement Apr 75 J4257

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton sidings 31177 down May 75 J4277

 

 

Ipswich Class 31 Peterborough to Parkeston Quay May 75 J4284

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton sidings 37109 down freight May 75 J4300

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton sidings 37109 down freight  showing rear of train May 75 J4301

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton sidings Class 37 shunting May 75 J4302

 

 

Ipswich June 75 J4490

 

David

[Mol_PMB]

Some interesting vans there, including the first vehicle in J4284. 

Ipswich docks very evocative too! Presumably the railway was out of use by then?

[Johann Marsbar]

12 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Some interesting vans there, including the first vehicle in J4284. 

Ipswich docks very evocative too! Presumably the railway was out of use by then?

The lines on the quayside in the last photo remained in use until the early 1980's to serve Cranfields and Pauls mills.....

 

 

 

...though not a lot ventured beyond where that photo was taken from which is the far end of the grey painted, tin clad building, visible beyond the moored barges in my last photo.

 

Other parts of the docks saw rail traffic up to the mid 1990's.

 

 

 

[DaveF]

20 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Some interesting vans there, including the first vehicle in J4284. 

Ipswich docks very evocative too! Presumably the railway was out of use by then?

 

 

I don't know when the line in the photo became disused but I believe the last trains on the dock's railway system were to Cliff Quay tank farm and the grain terminal.  Final closure was in 1992.

 

Source: https://suffolkmuseums.org/the-ipswich-dock-railway-1848-1992/

 

David

[lmsforever]

Like the pictures of Ipswich  went from the dockside pictured for a boat trip down to Felixstowe and back some years ago looks very different now no commercial activities just pleasure activities 

[Johann Marsbar]

34 minutes ago, DaveF said:

This we morning we visit the Ipswich area.  Back in 1975 Dad used to visit Ipswich from time on business, he must have taken these photos on his trips there.

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton crossing Class 31 up cement Apr 75 J4257

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton sidings 31177 down May 75 J4277

 

 

Ipswich Class 31 Peterborough to Parkeston Quay May 75 J4284

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton sidings 37109 down freight May 75 J4300

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton sidings 37109 down freight  showing rear of train May 75 J4301

 

 

Ipswich Sproughton sidings Class 37 shunting May 75 J4302

 

 

Ipswich June 75 J4490

 

David

 

Sproughton Sidings were mainly used to serve the adjacent British Sugar factory at Sproughton.  The area where your Father was standing (amongst the churned up earth) is more or less where the Ipswich Western Bypass (A14) runs now, with the area between there and Sproughton Road itself being occupied by an industrial estate - which was where the bus company I worked for between 2006 and 2012 had their depot!

I did venture to Sproughton sidings on the odd occasion in the early 1980's as there was a Public footpath that crossed the line at that point.   Didn't take too many photos though.....

 

 

You can just see the signal box on the right with the (then disused) sidings on the other side of the mainline.

 

 

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Edited May 14 by Johann Marsbar

[Johann Marsbar]

42 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

 

I don't know when the line in the photo became disused but I believe the last trains on the dock's railway system were to Cliff Quay tank farm and the grain terminal.  Final closure was in 1992.

 

Source: https://suffolkmuseums.org/the-ipswich-dock-railway-1848-1992/

 

David

 

The last train ran on 20th March 1992, this being a grain service from Cliff Quay behind an 08 which used the direct route via the lock gates swing bridge and New Cut West to get to Ipswich Lower Yard and on to the Uppper Yard.  Someone who worked at Pauls Maltings at the time did take a photo of the last train from the top of their silo which we have in our Museum Archives.

The other lines in the dock were all disused by that time and the Cliff Quay route was then "mothballed" with the likelyhood of traffic resuming at some time in the future - which it never did.

 

As an aside to this, the tracks remained there and linked to the Lower Yard through Bridge Street crossing until April 2010 when the road crossing was lifted.  At (presumably) great expense, a set of manual gates - albeit rather short ones - had been installed on the road crossing by the Borough Council on 10th November 2003, citing "road safety issues", despite there not being any rail use of the line for over 11 years!

 

 

These stayed there - unused - until April 2010, when they were removed, along with the crossing lights and signs, and most ended up at the Ipswich Transport Museum for storage and eventual passing on to somewhere that might use them.

Fast forward to last Thursday, and all that equipment was delivered on a trailer to the Mountsorrel Heritage Centre for use there.......

 

 

 

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Edited May 14 by Johann Marsbar
duplicate image removed

[brushman47544]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

This we morning we visit the Ipswich area.  Back in 1975 Dad used to visit Ipswich from time on business, he must have taken these photos on his trips there.

Ipswich Class 31 Peterborough to Parkeston Quay May 75 J4284

 

 

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

Some interesting vans there, including the first vehicle in J4284. 

 

It's the prototype 2-door Mk1 GUV 86500.

[DaveF]

Some more photos at Kegworth between Loughborough and Trent Junction on the Midland.   Three of them were taken in February 1977 which was a very wet month,  all the water in the photos is from flooding.

 

 

Kegworth Class 45 up Jan 71 C450

 

 

Kegworth Class 45 45015 St Pancras to Nottingham Feb 77 J5637

 

 

Kegworth 2 Class 20 up coal Feb 77 J5638  A couple of days later the area where Dad stood to take this was under at least 2' of water.

 

 

Kegworth  Class 25 down ballast 24th Feb 77 C3219

 

 

Kegworth Class 47down ballast Aug 83 C6149

 

David

Edited May 14 by DaveF

[Dagworth]

36 minutes ago, DaveF said:

Kegworth Class 47down ballast Aug 83 C6149

 

One for the "When the real thing looks like a model" thread

 

Andi

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a fantastic set of photo’s from the Ipswich area, in 1975. J4284, of a Class 31, on a Peterborough to Parkeston Quay service, in May, 1975, is a most atmospheric shot of the train.

 

The photo’s at Kegworth are a superb selection. The last photo’ of a Class 47, on a down ballast train, in August, 1983, is a splendid and well composed shot. It can be seen that the second wagon is empty for some reason.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

 

[DaveF]

More from the London Tilbury and Southend this morning.  Most of them show p.w. work around Dunton (not a railway place, just the area name) between Laindon and West Horndon.  The final photo shows the new track a couple of months later.

 

 

Dunton 37262 tracklaying April 78 C3798

 

 

Dunton Class 31 pw train  April 78 C3799

 

 

Dunton Class 37  April 78 C3800

 

 

Dunton  April 78 C3801

 

 

Dunton 37262  April 78 C3802

 

 

Dunton 302306 down June 78 C3913

 

David

Edited May 15 by DaveF

[SHMD]

I never thought I would catch myself saying this but that 31, in C3799, is lovely!

 

 

Kev.

[keefer]

One of Stratford's cl.31/0 locos.

Note the Red Circle multi-working code.