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

[Unicorn1]

Those weather conditions really make those CEPs look careworn and ready for the scrapman.

Indeed, but they kept going for another 20 odd years - albeit with refurbishment - at Swindon IIRC. The last ones ended up as '3' CEPs, not much good on busy services as we lost a whole 2nd open!

I never thought I'd miss them, but I suppose I do. 

Great pics as ever David.

Les

[Porcy Mane]

The Stratford level crossing, where was that?

 

 It's the inevitable roundabout now. TA centre to right.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/YA6qhKEdGfQ2

 

P

[DaveF]

Bottesford today on the Great Northern line from Grantham to Nottingham.

 

 

Bottesford Class 114 Grantham to Nottingham Feb 81 C5277

 

 

Bottesford 2 Class 25s 25270 and 25056 Derby to Yarmouth 1st August 81 C5451  Many thanks to balders for working this out.

 

 

Bottesford 20075 and ano Leicester to Skegness 4th August 81 C5462

 

 

ottesford Class 105 Grantham to Derby 4th August 81 C5463

 

 

Bottesford 20181 and ano Nottingham to Skegness 4th August 81 C5468

 

 

 

Edited to correct the dates on the last three photos having had a closer look at my notes.

David

Edited December 17, 2016 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. A great selection of photo's of Bottesford today. Great seeing 20's in multiple on the summer passenger workings. And that Cravens unit in C5463 will have been giving a typically rattly ride!

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[keefer]

not really my area at all, but even i know that 2 x 20 on a rake of mk1s will invariably be bound for skegness!

 

I notice in the pic of the 114 particularly, the platforms seem to be very low - quite a step down from the train

[beast66606]

Two sets of photos today.

 

The first ones are at Cambois and North Blyth yesterday, about 12.5pm.  The train is a Freightliner Heavy haul empty coal from York Yard south to North Blyth (Battleship Wharf).

 

4N04, 08:16, York Up Reception - North Blyth

[Swindon 123]

 

 

I notice in the pic of the 114 particularly, the platforms seem to be very low - quite a step down from the train

Some of the stations between Crewe and Shrewsbury, and some on the Central Wales line suffered from the same problem. Usually associated with reballasting the track raising raising it up, but the platforms not following suit. The solution was to provide movable steps, as seen in the photo below. The steps, painted a fetching Arriva Blue, can be seen on the left hand platform.

Prees by Class 92, on Flickr

 

 

Paul J.

[balders]

C5451........25177 and 25220 I believe, 1E47 08.35 Derby - Yarmouth 11th July 81'. The only ones that seem to fit the bill, vac braked later shape engine plus earlier companion. Courtesy of Alan Bayliss' fine directory.

 

Regards

 

Guy

Edited December 16, 2016 by balders

[DaveF]

C5451........25177 and 25220 I believe, 1E47 08.35 Derby - Yarmouth 11th July 81'. The only ones that seem to fit the bill, vac braked later shape engine plus earlier companion. Courtesy of Alan Bayliss' fine directory.

 

Regards

 

Guy

 

 

Guy,

 

Thanks very much for trying to work out the loco numbers for me.

 

I hate to say it but having had another and more careful look at my notes I must have taken the photos between the 28th and 31st July 1981.

 

The images just before the Class 25s were taken on 28th July, so the 25s could not have been earlier as I was only using one camera then.

 

David

[newbryford]

Some of the stations between Crewe and Shrewsbury, and some on the Central Wales line suffered from the same problem. Usually associated with reballasting the track raising raising it up, but the platforms not following suit. The solution was to provide movable steps, as seen in the photo below. The steps, painted a fetching Arriva Blue, can be seen on the left hand platform.

Prees by Class 92, on Flickr

 

 

Paul J.

 

With a Class 153 emphasising the height difference. Yorton, a couple of stops along from Prees

 

 

Cheers,

Mick

[DaveF]

It's about time we had another visit to Pilmoor to see a few trains in 1967 and 1975.



Pilmoor Class 55 D9015 Tulyar Kings X to Newcastle May 67 J876 11.00 Kings X to Tyne Commission Quay



Pilmoor Class 47 down ex pass May 67 J892 10.38 Yarmouth to Newcastle



Pilmoor Class 46 Newcastle to Lverpool Sept 67 J1129



Pilmoor Class 47 down ex pass Aug 75 C2214



Pilmoor Class 101 Darlington to York Aug 75 J4542


David

Edited December 18, 2016 by DaveF

[DY444]

It's about time we had another visit to Pilmoor to see a few trains in 1967 and 1975.

 

 

Pilmoor Class 47 47169 down ex pass Aug 75 C2214.jpg

Pilmoor Class 47 47169 down ex pass Aug 75 C2214

 

 

 

David

 

 

That 47 has eth so it's not 169

[jonny777]

C5468, are those 20s still in green livery - or is it my eyesight?

[brushman47544]

J892 - what Class of loco is that on the slow line? It looks odd and enlarging makes the photo too blurred.

[DaveF]

C5468, are those 20s still in green livery - or is it my eyesight?

 

 

They are very dirty blue.

 

David

[DaveF]

J892 - what Class of loco is that on the slow line? It looks odd and enlarging makes the photo too blurred.

 

 

When I look at the original scan it is clearly a Class 37.

 

I think it is this 37 which is the next of Dad's photos.  

 

 

Pilmoor Class 37 down freight May 67 J893

 

 

David

Edited December 17, 2016 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I love the Pilmoor photos. So nostalgic, and the first one is such a classic view of a Deltic hauled express passenger train. And that class 37 looks so unkempt - a good exercise in weathering.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[balders]

Guy,

 

Thanks very much for trying to work out the loco numbers for me.

 

I hate to say it but having had another and more careful look at my notes I must have taken the photos between the 28th and 31st July 1981.

 

The images just before the Class 25s were taken on 28th July, so the 25s could not have been earlier as I was only using one camera then.

 

David

 

For the sake of completion, after having a chat with Dave, looks like it was the same train but on 1st August, 25270 and 25056 in charge.....confirmed I believe by the pair caught at Thetford the same day......

 

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/86020500@N06/7985429077/in/set-72157632183760017/

 

Regards

 

Guy

[DaveF]

For the sake of completion, after having a chat with Dave, looks like it was the same train but on 1st August, 25270 and 25056 in charge.....confirmed I believe by the pair caught at Thetford the same day......

 

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/86020500@N06/7985429077/in/set-72157632183760017/

 

Regards

 

Guy

 

 

I've now amended the caption.

 

Thanks very much again.

 

David

[mark54]

1A20 was the 11:00 KX-Newcastle TCQ

1N74 was the 10:38 Yarmouth-York (FO in summer months extended to Newcastle)

 

I'm not sure about 1S99. Not a usual ECML reporting code, so maybe a special of some sort to Scotland.

Edited December 18, 2016 by mark54

[35A]

That 47 has eth so it's not 169

 

Perhaps 47 469, which was a Haymarket loco from May 1974, after transfer from the Western Region? 1S99 is an Anglo-Scottish train, so could well be a Haymarket diagram. Expanding the image you can clearly see that it's 47 4?? - although the last two digits lose resolution.

 

 

On a separate query - if J892 is a Yarmouth to York working, what would it be doing at Pilmoor?

[cornish trains jez]

Hi,

 

I love the J892 photo with the chap parked up having a seat and watching the trains. Can't do that nowadays as network rail have fenced off any vantage point possible with their fencing.

Oh for the happy days.....

 

Best regards,

 

Jeremy

[DaveF]

Perhaps 47 469, which was a Haymarket loco from May 1974, after transfer from the Western Region? 1S99 is an Anglo-Scottish train, so could well be a Haymarket diagram. Expanding the image you can clearly see that it's 47 4?? - although the last two digits lose resolution.

 

 

On a separate query - if J892 is a Yarmouth to York working, what would it be doing at Pilmoor?

 

J892.  You have made a very good point, thanks.  I've no idea, I suspect Dad meant Newcastle and I didn't notice when I captioned it from his notes.

 

I'll change it.

 

David

[brushman47544]

On a separate query - if J892 is a Yarmouth to York working, what would it be doing at Pilmoor?

  

J892.  You have made a very good point, thanks.  I've no idea, I suspect Dad meant Newcastle and I didn't notice when I captioned it from his notes.

 

I'll change it.

 

David

Unless the train is correct and the stock ran ecs to Heaton?

[35A]

That had been my first thought. However, I remember well into the Seventies there was a daily Newcastle - Norwich/Yarmouth return service, which ran from Doncaster via the GN&GE Joint line down to March and then across to the east coast. Latterly it was a fairly solid class 40 turn. I suspect that Dave is right and that it's probably that working.