jonny777 Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Excellent 9F photos. Oh, to have been fortunate enough to have been on that Marylebone - Nott Vic service in 1964 behind 92231. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrushVeteran Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Judging by the length of the parcels train behind that 31 at Swayfield, I suspect that it is 3E09 which was a feature of Sunday afternoons on the southern half of the ECML. However, I have no idea whether your photo was taken on a Sunday, so I might be talking nonsense. Anyway, I believe that the train originated at Leeds and usually loaded to between 30 and 35 assorted GUVs and BGs. Occasionally, a Deltic was seen on the train but almost anything could turn up. That sure looks like one of the original 'toffee apple' batch on the front of this according to the red circles above the buffers. These were all confined to local GE Stratford based duties by this time although it could of had a visit to 'The Plant'. Very interesing and atmospheric. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 This evening we have 9Fs on the Great Central. s East Leake tunnel 9F 92231 Marylebone to Nottingham Victoria June 64 J127.jpg East Leake tunnel 9F 92231 Marylebone to Nottingham Victoria June 64 J127 David Super pictures The concrete post colourlight is still just visible from the A6006 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Smashing pictures always liked the GC went to Nottingham and back by dmu from Aylesbury to see what the line was like ,pity it did not stay open as we could have terrific journey opportunities now . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted June 15, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 15, 2014 I just don't want this thread to ever end! Just great stuff, the railway like wot it was. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 15, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2014 Hi, Dave. Great photo's! I particularly like the side view of 92067 at Stanford on Soar, Sept' '64. It is displaying some terrific weathering! Do indeed please keep the photo's coming. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted June 15, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2014 (edited) I just don't want this thread to ever end! Just great stuff, the railway like wot it was. At the moment I have around 8,500 more images resized and captioned (some of them are also on flickr) and over 30,000 more of Dad's and my scanned slides to work on (though sometimes he and I stood side by side to take a photo). They go up to 2003, then there are all the ones I've taken since (digital ones). At the present rate that means over 4.6 years worth are ready to put on, then about another 16 years worth from slides to sort out - by then I'll be in my mid 80s! After that I can do the digital images. David Edited June 15, 2014 by DaveF 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 The Flickr site is also excellent. I look at that regularly too. Come to think of it, excellent just doesn't sum up just how good this thread and the Flickr site are Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 More great photos, thanks. BTW I appear to have accidentally clicked on the rating stars when I selected a page. Unless it was a 5 star vote please ignore it!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean hpw Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 the quality of both these photos and siubject is absalutely stunning, I requrly refer to your flickr site, modeling many eras and regions, it is invaluable, and I hope you enjoy sharing them as much as we enjoy looking at them many thanks Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted June 16, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2014 (edited) A batch for this afternoon Yesterday I went to see some friends in the Borders so naturally took a few railway photos. Sadly the light was not up to much. Scremerston is beside the sea just south of Berwick on Tweed. ScremerstonClass 91 down ex pass 15th June 2014 Scremerston Clas 82 2 leading up ex pass 15th June 2014 Scremerston Class 82/2 leading up ex pass in Sky livery 15th June 2014 A pity the loco doesn't match Scremerston Class 91 up ex pass 15th June 2014 A few hundred yards south 37 years ago: Scremerston Class 47 down ex pass August 1977 C3521 Today of course the weather is a bit better. Blyth Edited to add a caption David Edited June 16, 2014 by DaveF 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted June 16, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2014 (edited) This evenings batch of all "old" photos. All of them are from the Midland Railway line from Nottingham to Newark (and Lincoln). Again just everyday trains with the addition of some level crossings. Bleasby Class 25 D7618 up coal Aug 69 J1822 Rolleston Junction Class 104 Derby to Lincoln Jan 77 J5623 Rolleston Junction opening crossing gates Aug 69 J1823 Now you know what well dressed crossing keepers wear. Staythorpe Class 31 down oil April 80 J6875 Collingham Lane End Crossing Class 114 Derby to Lincoln St Marks April 66 J473 David Edited June 18, 2014 by DaveF 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 16, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2014 Hi, Dave, a great double selection of photo's that you have posted today. Good to see the ECML at Scremerston, it makes an interesting comparison with earlier photo's elsewhere of the ECML. That class 25 D7618 has a cab end with some interesting weathering - also love the photo of the class 104 DMU. Please do keep the photo's coming. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted June 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2014 That tanks train still runs.......often a 60 these days. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted June 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2014 Dave what cars were you sat in? Andy G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted June 17, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) Dave what cars were you sat in? Andy G That proved harder to answer than I thought as they are Dad's photos, fortunately he usually took photos of his cars and catalogued them (just like his railway photos). The one at Rolleston Junction in 1969 was an Austin 1800, PRA971E. He liked the car except for the awful gearchange. At Collingham in April 1966 he was in his Morris 1100 KWT892D. It wasn't his favourite car - it seemed to lack power (but he'd been driving an old Jaguar Mark IX until then). It was fine for me as I learnt to drive in the 1100. David Edited June 17, 2014 by DaveF 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted June 17, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 A few more from Sunday - a little "Then and Now" set. Scremerston Class 254 up ex pass August 1981 C5483 The old building has now gone, the train is at the same place but I am about 50 yards south this time. Scremerston Class 221 up ex pass 15th June 2014 Class 43 up ex pass Scremerston 15th June 2014 Scremerston Class 43 up ex pass 15th June 2014 Bamburgh Castle and Holy Island are in the distance. Scremerston Class 47down ICI tanks August 1981 C5481 Lastly one in the Scottish Borders. I wonder if anyone knows where I stood to take the photo Near Reston down Voyager 15th June 2014 David 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted June 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 David, The photos of the HST passing through Scremerston. Was it the 09:47 Aberdeen - KX (passing Scremerston at about 13:15) per chance? If so, then I was on it! Kev. PS. Thanks for the great photos. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 That proved harder to answer than I thought as they are Dad's photos, fortunately he usually took photos of his cars and catalogued them (just like his railway photos). The one at Rolleston Junction in 1969 was an Austin 1800, PRA971E. He liked the car except for the awful gearchange. At Collingham in April 1966 he was in his Morris 1100 KWT892D. It wasn't his favourite car - it seemed to lack power (but he'd been driving an old Jaguar Mark IX until then). It was fine for me as I learnt to drive in the 1100. David Ah yes. Driving lessons in a Morris 1100. I remember those well. My dad was a rather nervy instructor, and if he thought I might be going too fast coming to a junction he had the habit of pulling on the handbrake from the passenger seat. A very unsettling experience for a learner driver, and probably for those cars behind me, when my brakes came on suddenly, but the brake lights did not. However, I digress. Another batch of excellent photos as always. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted June 17, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 David, The photos of the HST passing through Scremerston. Was it the 09:47 Aberdeen - KX (passing Scremerston at about 13:15) per chance? If so, then I was on it! Kev. PS. Thanks for the great photos. Yes. David 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 Pardon my ignorance Dave, but what has Scremerston got that warrants an ice cream van, or is it your own personal trailer?! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted June 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2014 Hi David,In that case the leading power car was 43208 and 43309 trailing but, I'm afraid, I am not %100 sure of those numbers!Kev.(I stopped jotting numbers down 35 years ago. Since then I have only collect receipts and bills!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Collingham.....nice skewed crossing. I first drove over it in 1972 in a Ford Anglia, it had already been converted to barriers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted June 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2014 I last drove over Collingham Crossing around May 2005! I think that would have been in a Pighut 307 Estate. The 1100. A mate of mine once did Plymouth to Exeter in just under 40 minutes in one of those and that was on the old A38 (or whatever the 'old road' was). He was a bit 'quick' on the old gas pedal. This and the mini were part of the first transverse engine designs I think? More great pics Dave. Thanks Phil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 I last drove over Collingham Crossing around May 2005! I think that would have been in a Pighut 307 Estate. The 1100. A mate of mine once did Plymouth to Exeter in just under 40 minutes in one of those and that was on the old A38 (or whatever the 'old road' was). He was a bit 'quick' on the old gas pedal. This and the mini were part of the first transverse engine designs I think? More great pics Dave. Thanks Phil The 1100 came out two or three years after the Mini; subsequently to appear with 1100 and 1300cc engines, and with badge-engineered derivatives (Wolseley and Riley with walnut dashes, the later with twin carbs). They were disproportionately popular with teachers at late 1960s Welsh grammar schools. The front subframes had an unfortunate tendency to collapse; the Minix model replicated this well... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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