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

[highpeakman]

Love the Newark pics.

 

Your pictures have given so much pleasure over the year, Thank you very much indeed.

 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I love the Severn Valley photos, and what a sight The Great Marquess makes in red primer!

The photos of Newark look magical in the snow and fog. And in the last one, the MkII must be another stock move.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[mark54]

1A07 was the 07:25SX Newcastle-KX

J2056 with the damaged headcode in theory should be the following 07:50 Bradford-KX, but if so should be formed of Mk2a stock. The Mk1 formation suggests 08:48 Halifax/09:00 Bradford/09:30 Leeds-KX possibly.

C3400 from the formation was the 14:10 KX-Leeds

[Jon Fitness]

C3301 at Bridgnorth. 3 chaps from my past there! If I'm not mistaken, Frank Cronin, Steve Sennet and Bernard Crick, 2 of whom were the locos owners.

 

Jon F.

[DaveF]

A few more from Beamish for this afternoon.

 

 

Beamish Rowley station Sept 11 DSC_5187

 

 

Beamish Pit 2nd September 2011 DSC_5274

 

 

Beamish Pit 2nd September 2011 DSC_5275

 

 

Beamish Pockerley Waggonway 2nd September 2011 DSC_5280

 

 

Beamish Pockerley Waggonway 2nd September 2011 DSC_5282

 

 

David

[DaveF]

A look at ex LNWR lines today.

 

 

Polesworth Class 40 down ex pass Nov 63 J081  This photo seems to be back to front, my apologies.  The corrected version is a couple of posts further down.

 

 

Welton Class 86 Euston to Glasgow May 70 J2115  By the M1.  Somewhere Watford Gap - Dad only made a note of a nearby village for this and the next one.

 

 

Welton Class 85 down parcels May 70 J2116

 

 

Perry Bar LNWR Birmingham to Wolverhampton line April 71 J2630

 

 

Nuneaton Class 86 Euston to Blackpool 9th Aug 77 C3431

 

 

David

Edited December 26, 2016 by DaveF

[eastwestdivide]

Were they rebuilding/doing some engineering at Polesworth? The track under the train doesn't look very well ballasted, and I thought the lines were paired by direction (up-up-down-down) there.

[melmerby]

Hi Dave

 

J2630 captioned "Perry Barr"

Being pedantic the Stour valley line from B'ham to Wolves doesn't go through Perry Barr.

 

I don't recognise the shot from that area

Any more info?

 

Cheers

 

Keith

 

EDIT

I reckon this is the shot:

https://goo.gl/maps/vepKSShccbG2

 

It is the A4040 (Outer Circle) Winson Green loooking North

The brick arch bridge is the connecting line from the Stour Valley Line (from the left) to the Grand Junction LIne (to the right) Via Soho Pool

The steel girder bridge is the GWR  (now Birmingham to Stourbridge Line & Midland Metro) going from Snow Hill (to the right) to Wolverhampton/Stourbridge (to the left)

Edited December 26, 2016 by melmerby

[DY444]

Were they rebuilding/doing some engineering at Polesworth? The track under the train doesn't look very well ballasted, and I thought the lines were paired by direction (up-up-down-down) there.

 

I wondered if the image might be back to front

[DaveF]

I wondered if the image might be back to front

 

Is this better?

 

I did make a note when I scanned this batch that I thought this might be back to front but forget to check it when I posted it - perhaps a result of too much Christmas food.

 

The version below does look more believable.

 

 

Polesworth Class 40 down ex pass Nov 63 J081

 

David

Edited December 26, 2016 by DaveF

[DaveF]

Were they rebuilding/doing some engineering at Polesworth? The track under the train doesn't look very well ballasted, and I thought the lines were paired by direction (up-up-down-down) there.

 

 

I should have done a multiquote for this and the query below about the photo being back to front.

 

Elsewhere in the thread are more photos of Polesworth.  In the others it can be seen that there is a length of rail each side of this track which looks as though it has just been removed with new rail on the sleepers.  This makes the track look odd, in fact the ballast is as normal.

 

 

David

[DaveF]

Hi Dave

 

J2630 captioned "Perry Barr"

Being pedantic the Stour valley line from B'ham to Wolves doesn't go through Perry Barr.

 

I don't recognise the shot from that area

Any more info?

 

Cheers

 

Keith

 

EDIT

I reckon this is the shot:

https://goo.gl/maps/vepKSShccbG2

 

It is the A4040 (Outer Circle) Winson Green loooking North

The brick arch bridge is the connecting line from the Stour Valley Line (from the left) to the Grand Junction LIne (to the right) Via Soho Pool

The steel girder bridge is the GWR  (now Birmingham to Stourbridge Line & Midland Metro) going from Snow Hill (to the right) to Wolverhampton/Stourbridge (to the left)

 

Thanks very much for working that out.  The image is one of Dad's, I wasn't there that day - I was living in Manchester at the time.

 

When I captioned it I just used his notes which, just like my own, are fallible at times.

 

David

Edited December 26, 2016 by DaveF

[DaveF]

1A07 was the 07:25SX Newcastle-KX

J2056 with the damaged headcode in theory should be the following 07:50 Bradford-KX, but if so should be formed of Mk2a stock. The Mk1 formation suggests 08:48 Halifax/09:00 Bradford/09:30 Leeds-KX possibly.

C3400 from the formation was the 14:10 KX-Leeds

 

 

Mark,  

 

Thanks again for sorting out these trains.

 

I am sure you are right about the second up train in the fog and snow at Newark.  It was a day which has remained in my memory - partly because of the fog and ice on the drive from Dad's near Radcliffe on Trent to Newark along the A46.

 

The trains were not running to time and a number of headcodes were wrong too.

 

Edited to correct a detail.

David

Edited December 26, 2016 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. Another great set of photos from Beamish. Great seeing the Locomotion replica in steam.

 

The WCML photos are show a typical variety of trains at different times, both diesel and electric.

Just to confirm that the first copy of the Polesworth photo being back to front is that the first coach, a Mk1 BSK, was showing the compartment side on the wrong side. All is as it should be in the second photo'.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[melmerby]

Hi Dave.

I recognise some of the locations quite well from trips on the road network!

 

You and your Dad must have done a fair bit of walking to get to the site of some of the photos because J2115 & J2116 are taken from by this farm bridge looking south:

 

https://goo.gl/maps/iM7XdBhdmEF2

 

You would need to walk across the fields from the A5 to get there!

(Actually it is a public footpath from the A5 to Long Buckby)

 

Cheers

 

Keith

Edited December 26, 2016 by melmerby

[stovepipe]

J2053 the 2 class 31's at Newark are the tablet fitted variety with nearest one looking like D5675. They are likely heading back to High Dyke for another load of iron ore for Scunthorpe. The headcode on the rear locomotive 8D78 was for 04.20 Barnetby - High Dyke empties, and with reversal taking place at Barnetby on a subsequent trip to Scunthorpe, this appears to have become the rear loco.

[R Marshall]

A few more from Beamish for this afternoon.

 

 

Beamish Rowley station Sept 11DSC_5187.JPG

Beamish Rowley station Sept 11 DSC_5187

 

 

Beamish Pit 2nd September 2011 DSC_5274.jpg

Beamish Pit 2nd September 2011 DSC_5274

 

 

Beamish Pit 2nd September 2011 DSC_5275.jpg

Beamish Pit 2nd September 2011 DSC_5275

 

 

Beamish Pockerley Waggonway 2nd September 2011 DSC_5280.jpg

Beamish Pockerley Waggonway 2nd September 2011 DSC_5280

 

 

Beamish Pockerley Waggonway 2nd September 2011 DSC_5282.jpg

Beamish Pockerley Waggonway 2nd September 2011 DSC_5282

 

 

David

David,

 

That Y7 is a little beauty!

 

I guess that on the Polesworth shot the up and down fast lines are widely separated?

 

Regards,

 

Roy

[DaveF]

David,

 

That Y7 is a little beauty!

 

I guess that on the Polesworth shot the up and down fast lines are widely separated?

 

Regards,

 

Roy

 

 

Yes, they are as you can see in this photo (which has been on this thread a long time ago).

 

 

Polesworth Britannia 70029 Shooting Star up ex goods Nov 63 J082

 

 

David

Edited December 26, 2016 by DaveF

[melmerby]

David,

 

That Y7 is a little beauty!

 

I guess that on the Polesworth shot the up and down fast lines are widely separated?

 

Regards,

 

Roy

It looks like one time there might have been plans for an island platform which has not been provided:

 

http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwr/polesworth/lnwr_pol1212.jpg

 

Keith

[Swindon 123]

Hi Dave

 

J2630 captioned "Perry Barr"

Being pedantic the Stour valley line from B'ham to Wolves doesn't go through Perry Barr.

 

I don't recognise the shot from that area

Any more info?

 

Cheers

 

Keith

 

EDIT

I reckon this is the shot:

https://goo.gl/maps/vepKSShccbG2

 

It is the A4040 (Outer Circle) Winson Green loooking North

The brick arch bridge is the connecting line from the Stour Valley Line (from the left) to the Grand Junction LIne (to the right) Via Soho Pool

The steel girder bridge is the GWR  (now Birmingham to Stourbridge Line & Midland Metro) going from Snow Hill (to the right) to Wolverhampton/Stourbridge (to the left)

 

 

Thanks very much for working that out.  The image is one of Dad's, I wasn't there that day - I was living in Manchester at the time.

 

When I captioned it I just used his notes which, just like my own, are fallible at times.

 

David

The line carried on the nearest brick arched bridge is the line from Soho East Junction to Perry Bar West Junction. The overbridge seen in the distance through the arch is the GWR line between Birmingham Snow Hill and Wolverhampton LL. Going to the right, down the line going over the arched bridge, after about 200yds the line crosses over the GWR line and about another 400yds beyond that is the site of Soho Road station, also the site of Soho Road Junction, where a spur led down to Soho Pool. I worked over the line from Soho to Perry Bar, first with the Tanks trains from Albion and then steel trains from Wolverhampton Steel terminal. It being used to complete the loop back to Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury via Bescot, having taken the direct route from Wolverhampton with the incoming trains. The nearest photo I took to the location, seen below, was at Soho North Junction, the points being set to head around to the left towards Soho East.

A25-(JC6-082) by Paul James, on Flickr

 

Paul J.

 

Edited to correct some awful grammer.

Edited December 27, 2016 by Swindon 123

[DaveF]

We'll move to the Tanfield Railway now for today's north east preserved railway photos.  They were taken on 10th September 2011.

 

Once again I'll just state the locations so you can work out the loco identities if you wish to.

 

 

Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5313

 

 

Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5316  Some young volunteers

 

 

Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5319

 

 

Tanfield Railway Causey Arch 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5321

 

 

Tanfield Railway Causey Arch 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5322

 

 

David

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. A great set of photos of the Tanfield Railway. It has a good stud of locomotives which are a delight to see. More please.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

Hi, Dave. A great set of photos of the Tanfield Railway. It has a good stud of locomotives which are a delight to see. More please.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

 

 

There will be some more over the next few days.

 

David

[DaveF]

Now for some photos taken around Gretna on a dismal day in March 1981.  I had probably been to a meeting for work and had some spare time before I went home.

 

 

Gretna Class 86 down March 81 C5289

 

 

Gretna Class 87 up March 81 C5290

 

 

Gretna Class 25 down freight to G&SW March 81 C5292

 

 

Gretna Class 25 down freight to G&SW March 81 C5293

 

 

Gretna Green G&SWR March 81 C5295

A new station has since been built.

 

 

David

[melmerby]

The line carried on the nearest brick arched bridge is the line from Soho East Junction to Perry Bar West Junction. The overbridge seen in the distance through the arch is the GWR line between Birmingham Snow Hill and Wolverhampton LL. Going to the right, down the line going over the arched bridge, after about 200yds the line crosses over the GWR line and about another 400yds beyond that is the site of Soho Road station, also the site of Soho Road Junction, where a spur led down to Soho Pool.

 

Paul J.

 

That link line was quite late in coming as the Grand Junction was built in 1837 and the Stour Valley in 1852.

The Soho - Perry Barr line was not built until 1887.

 

Keith