RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 12, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 12, 2015 Hi, Dave. Excellent photo's of both the ECML at Damdykes and North Wales. I particularly like C5751 at Trawsfynnydd in July, 1982, of class 25, 25327. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted June 12, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 12, 2015 (edited) DSC_6502 Is that a UFO on the right of the photo? Did they cause you any harm? I love the idea of a typo alert which itself has a typo in Trawsfynydd. I did think about cloning it out but decided not to. It's actually a balloon publicising a new store which opened in Cramlington this week. David Edited June 12, 2015 by DaveF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Church Lane level crossing Class 37 up ex pass June 75 C2082.jpg Church Lane level crossing Class 37 up ex pass June 75 C2082 Now that photo has solved a mystery that's bugged me for years. I could never work out why some models of class 37s never looked right from the front, from Bachmann's early efforts to the RJH 7mm kit. Now I can finally see just how much the nose tapers - that front end is so much narrower than the width of the cab across the windows. No wonder all those fat nose versions looked wrong. Great telephoto shot - thank you! David 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted June 13, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2015 Another batch from Pilmoor today taken in 1966, 1967 and 1975. Pilmoor Class 37 D6780 down goods July 66 J555 Pilmoor Class 55 D9018 Ballymoss Kings X to Edinburgh July 66 J563 Pilmoor Class 46 D183 Liverpool to Newcastle April 67 J849 Pilmoor Class 40 D242 up goods April 67 J0851 Pilmoor Class 101 Darlington to York Aug 75 C2211 David 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapland Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Love j555 with brake tender and a whole range of wagons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 ... I love the idea of a typo alert which itself has a typo in Trawsfynydd. see "Muphry's Law" e.g. here 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 13, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2015 Hi, Dave. Great photo's of Pilmoor. I especially like J563 of Deltic D9018 Ballymoss on an Edinburgh service in July, 1966. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 David, Many thanks for the GER mainline at Margaretting! Lovely as usual.... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted June 13, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 13, 2015 Love the EE Type 3 shot....it is what it's all about for me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted June 13, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 13, 2015 David, Many thanks for the GER mainline at Margaretting! Lovely as usual.... Best, Pete. Hi to go up to your real Lundun today, all has changed at Margaretting. New overhead, new overlap and the donkeys didn't appear to be in the field next to the crossing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted June 13, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2015 see "Muphry's Law" e.g. here S*d the spelling!!! Can you please send that wonderful shot of a class 120 to the Blue Box Brigade please Dave. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Griffin Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 On the ECML again today, between Peterborough and Stoke Summit, back in the early 70s. Lolham Class 47 down ex pass July 72 C1005.jpg Lolham Class 47 down ex pass July 72 C1005 Edited to amend a caption. David brilliant shot of loham. my fave so far. i used to work at helpston box so seeing this really did bring a smile to my face. how times have changed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Interesting shots again. In J563, with D9018, had there been an accident there? Was that the site of the DP2 crash? I spy what looks like a ripped off bogie and loads of broken sleepers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted June 14, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2015 Interesting shots again. In J563, with D9018, had there been an accident there? Was that the site of the DP2 crash? I spy what looks like a ripped off bogie and loads of broken sleepers? I never did find out what had happenedin 1966 but I assume that there had been an "incident" with a freight train. When (if) I get time I'll look back through Dad's photos to see when the sleepers etc appeared. The DP2 accident was a bit further north a year later, in 1967. After the DP2 accident the crossovers at Pilmoor were used to allow wrong line working around the blockage. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted June 14, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2015 I've only visited Didcot once ,in May 1979 which I think was on one of the Bank Holiday weekends. This was probably because I never enjoyed the journey from Fenchurch Street to Paddington - or for that matter Fenchurch Street to anywhere as it involved either a walk to get to the Underground or changing at Barking to the Hammersmith and City line (or for other journeys at Upminster to the District line). Perhaps I was lazy! It appears that if you were a volunteer at Didcot at this time it was helpful if you knew something about Morris Dancing. Didcot 5900 Hinderton Hall railcar 22 and B of B 34051 Winston Churchill May 79 C4511 Didcot 6998 Burton Agnes Hall May 79 C4517 Didcot 3650 May 79 C4524 Didcot 1366 May 79 C4525 Didcot Radstock North signal box May 79 C4533 Didcot Morris Dancing May 79 C4536 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
waggy Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Sir Thomas Beecham's quote or whoever said it springs to mind after looking at the last picture 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted June 14, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2015 A quick look at Nottingham Midland and then heading east for today's second batch, taken in the mid to late 70s. Nottingham Midland 20177 and 20043 eastbound coal Aug 75 C2249 Nottingham Midland 45143 5th Royal Iniskilling Dragoon Guards July 76 C2881 Nottingham Midland 25129 down tanks and Class 114 refurbished Jan 79 C4247 Sneinton junction Class 114 Crewe to Lincoln view west to London Road low level Feb 79 C4353 Trent Lane Crossing 25101 le and brake van June 78 C3897 David 38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 14, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2015 Hi, Dave. A great set of photo's of Didcot, followed by some classics of Nottingham Midland. In particular, I cannot help noticing all the brake dust which has not been washed away from the sides of the class 114 DMU in photo' C4353 at Sneinton Junction in February, 1979. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted June 15, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 15, 2015 Today's photos, somewhat early once again. I've had to come in from the garden as it has started gently raining so though I'd get work on some photos for a while. They were taken around Cramlington, on the ECML north of Newcastle at various times in the 1980s - on a variety of film types. Cramlington South Class 101 Newcastle to Morpeth Aug 80_C5129 Cramlington 55012 Crepello Edinburgh to Newcastle Aug 80_C5132 Cramlington Class 31 track and ballast 19th Feb 84_C6470 I think I took this after a freight train derailment when some track had to be replaced. Cramlington South 47521 Edinburgh to Newcastle 5th July 85_C6975 Cramlington South 37079 down dolofines & vans 20.00 25th May 88_C9463 David 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I wonder how much lighter those lime wagons would have been when they reached their destination? No doubt the farmers would have been happy for the free dusting at all points south but I don't think the housewives would have been so pleased. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I wonder how much lighter those lime wagons would have been when they reached their destination? No doubt the farmers would have been happy for the free dusting at all points south but I don't think the housewives would have been so pleased. P It is not Lime but Mag Lime which is crushed magnesium limestone, which is also known as Dolofines (Dolomite Fines) which was sent by rail to BSC Ravenscraig and currently SSI Redcar! Mark Saunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Farmers might not have been either, depending on the soil pH. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) It is not Lime but Mag Lime which is crushed magnesium limestone, which is also known as Dolofines (Dolomite Fines) which was sent by rail to BSC Ravenscraig and currently SSI Redcar! Mark Saunders Thanks Mark. I know exactly what it is. As I type this I look out of the window to see the Magnesium Limestone Escarpment that produced the very lime in those wagons. It surrounds my house by about 270 degrees. Just so happens an ex colleague manages the works that probably refined the stuff you see been blown out of the wagons in Daves Phot. I say probably because the product could have come from a one of a number of sources within a few miles of each other. The fact the wagons are railfreight uncovered gives the game away that the product is to be used for agricultural liming rather that flux in steelmaking. Just like basic slag was used for soil treatment. Only the steelmaking part is missed out.. It would be presumptuous of me to say were the fines came from exactly, or the exact destination without knowing what the train reporting number is but I can be 90% certain that the loose fines was loaded from Lorries via this pad and it's destination was Gartcosh or Brechin and later Monrtose: Ferryhill by Jonathon Hurley, on Flickr Loose fines ...and the covered wagons behind came from here: https://flic.kr/p/bkijsu Very few of the quarries round here have used the top ten metres (The Magnesum bearing Layer) for a good few years now(Apart from roadstone and tarmac). The last load of Magnesium fines going to Africa for use in banana plantations a good few years ago, Most of the seasonal (April/May) de souring lime coming from this quarry: https://goo.gl/maps/oZnSy and been loaded at the previously mentioned pad. Here's some of the Steelworks bound lime being redistributed for agricultural purposes. Dust blowing ! by keith.mcgovern1, on Flickr And https://flic.kr/p/5XAuoU https://flic.kr/p/dLScKc Porcy Edited June 15, 2015 by Porcy Mane 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 The lime went to several locations in Scotland; Montrose is probably the best known, but there were other destinations, including Stranraer Town. The wagons in this photo are ex-Ferry Opens, latterly coded OJX; all bar one have been cut down. There were several other types used on the various mag-lime flows; Procor opens on ex-Blue Circle van chassis and the impressive side-tippers from 'Billy' Thompson amongst them. The steelworks flow to Ravenscraig used unsheeted opens- both containers on FPA flats and 102t iron-ore tipplers- BR apparently had a claim against it for damages to a fur coat worn by a lady who was waiting for her train at Berwick station when one of the trains went through... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted June 15, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2015 Hi, Dave. I like the Cramlington photo's, in particular C5132, of Deltic 55012 Crepello, in August, 1980. Wonderful. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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