RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted November 8, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 8, 2016 (edited) A visit to Teesside today, starting at Thornaby and heading east to Lackenby. Thornaby 142050 Saltburn to Bishop Auckland 12th May 90 C14453 Thornaby Class 37s 2nd Dec 95 C20658 Newport Class 153 up pass 14th April 93 C18459 Middlesbrough up pass 2nd Aug 86 C7819 Lackenby Class 37 and shunter 14th April 93 C18463 David Edited November 8, 2016 by DaveF 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted November 8, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2016 Hi, Dave. I like the Tesside photos. They are most nostalgic, and in C20658, in the background are various 60's, 56's, a 47 and more 37's. It would, I'm sure, make a magnificent model. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Nice to see the Cleveland Potash hoppers being shunted in C18463. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.hill64 Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 Fortunately Dad took more than one photo of 75021. I think we've had these 2 photos before but some of you may not have seen them. m Grassington BR Class 4 75021 in green July 67 J937.jpg Grassington BR Class 4 75021 in green July 67 J937 m Grassington BR Class 4 75021 in green July 67 J948.jpg Grassington BR Class 4 75021 in green July 67 J948 David Actually the Grassington shots are amongst my favourites, so any excuse to get you to post more and I will use it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted November 9, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) Some more photos from Radcliffe on Trent again today - as Mum and Dad lived near to the station Dad took a lot of photos there, so did I when I visited them. All today's photos are mine. Sometimes the weather was pleasant.... Radcliffe on Trent Class 47 Harwich to Manchester 1st Jan 77 C3166 Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Grantham to Nottingham Sept 78 C4155 Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Nottingham to Grantham 1st Jan 77 C3165 Radcliffe on Trent Class 47 47019 Manchester to Harwich July 77 C3391 Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Grantham to Nottingham Feb 78 C3672 Edited to correct a caption. David Edited November 10, 2016 by DaveF 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted November 9, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2016 When enlarged, C3391 looks like 47019. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted November 9, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2016 I can remember Radcliffe on Trent when it was lit by gas lamps and the trains pulled by L1s. (Early 60s). These shots made me realise just how many "Eras" have passed since then - gosh I feel old now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted November 9, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2016 Hi, Dave. A good set of photos from Radcliffe on Trent. I like the one of the 47 hauled train to Harwich in C3391. It is clearly accelerating, and looks most purposeful. There are several 114's on local trains, hopefully they could cope with the traffic on offer - the one in the last photo appears to be full. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted November 9, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2016 When enlarged, C3391 looks like 47019. I agree with you, but I am not quite certain enough to caption it as 47019. Perhaps others will have a look too and say what they think. I can remember Radcliffe on Trent when it was lit by gas lamps and the trains pulled by L1s. (Early 60s). These shots made me realise just how many "Eras" have passed since then - gosh I feel old now! I know how you feel. I remember travelling to Grantham to go trainspotting behind L1s. It was not uncommon to see them with cracks in the footplate valancing (and if I remember correctly even the footplate). I can go a little further back and remember the ex Great Central A5s as well. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted November 9, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2016 Hi, Dave. I have enlarged C3391. It, after careful examination, is 47 019 as thought by brushman47544. Best regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 I agree with you, but I am not quite certain enough to caption it as 47019. Perhaps others will have a look too and say what they think. I know how you feel. I remember travelling to Grantham to go trainspotting behind L1s. It was not uncommon to see them with cracks in the footplate valancing (and if I remember correctly even the footplate). I can go a little further back and remember the ex Great Central A5s as well. David Then there were the flying pigs as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted November 10, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2016 I know how you feel. I remember travelling to Grantham to go trainspotting behind L1s. It was not uncommon to see them with cracks in the footplate valancing (and if I remember correctly even the footplate). I can go a little further back and remember the ex Great Central A5s as well. David We might well have been on Grantham Station at the same time then although I cannot recall seeing the A5s. I think they had all gone by 1960 so I may have just missed them. 61-63 was probably my peak period at Grantham. Changed ECML trains at Grantham about 10 years ago so spent about 45 minutes on the platforms. All those houses where the sheds were! So hard to recall the action and bustle of those 60s days where there was always something to see at the sheds just across from the platforms even when the main was quiet. I don't want to go back in time but there are very many good memories of those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted November 10, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2016 Then there were the flying pigs as well Do you mean the Ivatt 4's? I have no memories of them at all on this line although I am most definately not contradicting you. My recall of those days is not what it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 The L1s seem to have worked Friargate-Nottingham-Grantham trains up to the end of 1962 with Ivatt 4MTs taking over in 1963 for the rest of Friargate's life. I think the 'Pigs' (nobody called them 'Flying Pigs' in those days) were cascaded from the M&GN when that closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted November 10, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2016 The L1s seem to have worked Friargate-Nottingham-Grantham trains up to the end of 1962 with Ivatt 4MTs taking over in 1963 for the rest of Friargate's life. I think the 'Pigs' (nobody called them 'Flying Pigs' in those days) were cascaded from the M&GN when that closed. I must have been asleep at that time! I had assumed the "Green Slugs", as we called them then, took over directly from the L1s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted November 10, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 10, 2016 (edited) Another visit to the Great Esatern main line today with photos at Ingatestone (in awful weather) and Church Lane crossing. :Ingatestone Class 47 up Jan 77 C3178 Church Lane crossing Class 47 up ex pass May 76 C2700 Church Lane Crossing Class 309 up July 77 C3364 Church Lane crossing Class 309 309602 Clacton to Liverpool St 5th May 80 C5058 Church Lane crossing Class 312 312789 up 5th May 80 C5060 I know it looks like 788 (or even 798) but on the original slide it was clearer. David Edited November 10, 2016 by DaveF 34 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted November 10, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 10, 2016 (edited) Interesting shots showing that headcodes didn't disappear in '76 - certainly didn't realise these EMUs kept them for so long (although even the 313s and 315s were built with them!) Edited November 10, 2016 by keefer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted November 10, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2016 Hi, Dave. A great set of photo's of the GEML today. In the first photo that 47 looks so disgraceful that I wonder when it was last cleaned! Interesting, as always, to see how the different windscreens on the 309's so changed the appearance of the front ends. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Swindon 123 Posted November 10, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 10, 2016 Interesting shots showing that headcodes didn't disappear in '76 - certainly didn't realise these EMUs kept them for so long (although even the 313s and 315s were built with them!) The last photos I have of headcodes in use in the GE was 1982. If David will forgive me for briefly hijacking his topic, here are some of the ones I took photos of during 1980-2. A780-002 by Paul James, on Flickr A780-003 by Paul James, on Flickr BW-0res-012 by Paul James, on Flickr A480B011 by Paul James, on Flickr Padd50-016 by Paul James, on Flickr Diversion over. You can have your excellent thread back now David. Paul J. 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted November 10, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 10, 2016 (edited) cracking detail in those pics Paul The last pic shows a headcode with a number instead of letter - IIRC David outlined the meaning of these numbers before, but I thought it odd that they'd go to the bother of using numbers instead of letters? Unless it was to keep headcodes for certain services completely separate? (EDIT: Paul, that's a class 302 unit, not 305) Edited November 10, 2016 by keefer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted November 10, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 10, 2016 (edited) Interesting shots showing that headcodes didn't disappear in '76 - certainly didn't realise these EMUs kept them for so long (although even the 313s and 315s were built with them!) Hi Keefer Headcodes on the GE suburban services continued to be used until the closure of the signal boxes when the new power boxes at Liverpool Street, Colchester and Norwich were commissioned in the early 80s. Edited November 10, 2016 by Clive Mortimore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted November 10, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 10, 2016 A visit to Teesside today, starting at Thornaby and heading east to Lackenby. a Thornaby 142050 Saltburn to Bishop Auckland 12th May 90_C14453.jpg Thornaby 142050 Saltburn to Bishop Auckland 12th May 90 C14453 b Thornaby Class 37s 2nd Dec 95_C20658.jpg Thornaby Class 37s 2nd Dec 95 C20658 d Newport Class 153 up pass 14th April 93_C18459.jpg Newport Class 153 up pass 14th April 93 C18459 e Middlesbrough up pass 2nd Aug 86_C7819.jpg Middlesbrough up pass 2nd Aug 86 C7819 i Lackenby BSC BSC Class 37 and shunter 14th April 93_C18463.jpg Lackenby Class 37 and shunter 14th April 93 C18463 David Last time I was at Thornaby station the old NER station was still there but you couldn't use it. As it was in June it duly snowed...and my was it cold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 cracking detail in those pics Paul The last pic shows a headcode with a number instead of letter - IIRC David outlined the meaning of these numbers before, but I thought it odd that they'd go to the bother of using numbers instead of letters? Unless it was to keep headcodes for certain services completely separate? (EDIT: Paul, that's a class 302 unit, not 305) Thank you keefer for the correction on the EMU class. Haven't a clue as to how I got it wrong, but I have now corrected the error. Paul J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted November 11, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2016 cracking detail in those pics Paul The last pic shows a headcode with a number instead of letter - IIRC David outlined the meaning of these numbers before, but I thought it odd that they'd go to the bother of using numbers instead of letters? Unless it was to keep headcodes for certain services completely separate? (EDIT: Paul, that's a class 302 unit, not 305) Hi Keffer and Paul The LTSR units ran with four number headcodes, the second number served the same purpose as the letter in other headcodes, i.e. the destination or route. Why the LTSR was different I don't know. Haven't got my LTSR headcode info close so cannot give the numbers and their meanings. When units off the LTSR were running on the GER the second number was wound to the blank white rectangle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted November 11, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2016 (edited) Thanks for that Clive, I'm sure someone explained them earlier in the thread but it was some time ago. EDIT: had a chance to search and it's in post #2704: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/85326-dave-fs-photos-ongoing-more-added-10th-november/page-109&do=findComment&comment=1833240 post #2702 has a couple of nice shots of 302s with the numerical headcodes post #2712 mentions them also Edited November 11, 2016 by keefer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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