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

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like the photos of Gretna. That 25 hauled freght train would make a great model.

It's good that Gretna Green has a new station.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[leopardml2341]

Post #8695, pic C5295 above, don't those rails look like they're phosphor bronze rather than nickel silver?

[DaveF]

Two batches in quick succession today.

 

First some more Tanfield photos.  I wonder how many stations have grass platforms?

 

 

Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5339

 

 

Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5341

 

 

Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5343

 

 

Tanfield Railway Causey Arch 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5325

 

 

Tanfield Railway Causey Arch 10th Sept 2011 DSC_5333

 

 

David

[DaveF]

The second batch of photos are around the GWR.

 

 

Chalford Pressed Steel dmu Swindon to Cheltenham Spa April 72 C0876

 

 

Hall Green Class 116 dmu probably Stratford to Birmingham April 71 J2627

 

 

Hartlebury Class 117 dmu down 5th April 74 C1527

 

 

Haywood Lodge south of Hereford A3 4472 Flying Scotsman down special steam Newport to Hereford 7th April 74 C1570  A special for Bill McAlpine and guests.

 

 

Kingswear station and ferry landing Aug 1961 J1682

 

 

Sharpness Docks April 73 C1245

 

 

David

Edited December 28, 2016 by DaveF

[Phil Bullock]

Hi Dave

 

More smashing shots - but afraid the DMU gremlins have got at the captions!

 

J2627 is a Derby 116 suburban unit - window layout on side and first class accommodation in centre car are main clues - and C1527 is a 117 or 118 - I suspect the latter, BRCW, due to curved top on headcode box

 

Cheers

 

Phil

 

Edit - please see Keefer's post below, set number says its a 117, many thanks!

Edited December 28, 2016 by Phil Bullock

[keefer]

i think it's a 117 phil, http://www.railcar.co.uk/type/class-117/set-numbers gives (from 1972) B 408 - 51346, 59498, 51388

There is a curve there, possibly the roof curve but the front of the headcode box is straight

Edited December 28, 2016 by keefer

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. What lovely photos of the Tanfield Railway today, it is good that old carriage bodies have been given new lives on chassis like, for example, Mk1 CCT's.

Then there are a great set of GWR photos, with, in J2627, a good view from behind, of a GW banner repeater signal.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

Hi Dave

 

More smashing shots - but afraid the DMU gremlins have got at the captions!

 

J2627 is a Derby 116 suburban unit - window layout on side and first class accommodation in centre car are main clues - and C1527 is a 117 or 118 - I suspect the latter, BRCW, due to curved top on headcode box

 

Cheers

 

Phil

 

 

i think it's a 117 phil, http://www.railcar.co.uk/type/class-117/set-numbers gives (from 1972) B 408 - 51346, 59498, 51388

There is a curve there, possibly the roof curve but the front of the headcode box is straight

 

It doesn't surprise me at all that I've got them wrong (again).  I thought they probably were wrong when I posted them but wasn't sure what they really were either.

 

Captions now amended.

 

David.

[corneliuslundie]

"I wonder how many stations have grass platforms?"

Lots, but usually not the bits passengers use, merely the ends where the trains don't stop and no maintenance is done any more, though often weeds rather than what one would normally call grass.

I didn't know you recognised the existence of God's Wonderful Railway. I love the first one, "train in landscape"!

I assume some colour problems with C1527. Or can I have ballast in a nice shade of girly pink on my layout?

Jonathan

[Phil Bullock]

i think it's a 117 phil, http://www.railcar.co.uk/type/class-117/set-numbers gives (from 1972) B 408 - 51346, 59498, 51388

There is a curve there, possibly the roof curve but the front of the headcode box is straight

 

Thanks Keefer - I did have a good squint , happy to stand corrected!

 

Cheers

 

Phil

[Clive Mortimore]

Hi All

 

Class 117s and 116 118s before the class 117 refurbishment programme could be told apart by the lack of marker lights below the driver and secondman's cab windscreens on the Pressed Steel built coaches.

 

The above is not fool proof, there has been discussion on here before where it was stated that the first few 117s had the lights or the first few 116 118s didn't have them (or both) but my memory of which way round it was is lacking and where it was discussed.

Edited December 28, 2016 by Clive Mortimore

[Swindon 123]

The second batch of photos are around the GWR.

 

 

 

Hall Green Cloucester dmu Hereford to Birmingham April 71 J2627.jpg

Hall Green Class 116 dmu Hereford to Birmingham April 71 J2627

 

 

David

Sorry David but the DMU in photo J2627 is not a Hereford-Birmingham service. 3 reasons. 

1- Its a Class 116 and in the early 70's would not have had gangways, so wouldn't have been allowed through Ledbury tunnel.

2- If it's the Hall Green to the south east of Birmingham, then Hereford services would not have run through there.

3- The destination panel has Birmingham Moor Street as a destination, which Hereford trains didn't run to in the diesel era.

More than likely a Stratford-Birmingham service.

 

Paul J.

[woodenhead]

Those Tanfield pictures are lovely, now if only someone would produce an RTR 0-4-0 industrial tank in a shade of light green

[Jon Fitness]

Here we go. And a choice of scales too...

 

[DaveF]

"I wonder how many stations have grass platforms?"

Lots, but usually not the bits passengers use, merely the ends where the trains don't stop and no maintenance is done any more, though often weeds rather than what one would normally call grass.

I didn't know you recognised the existence of God's Wonderful Railway. I love the first one, "train in landscape"!

I assume some colour problems with C1527. Or can I have ballast in a nice shade of girly pink on my layout?

Jonathan

 

 

At the Tanfield Railway even the bits of platforms passengers use are grass at two stations.

 

 

C1527.  The ballast seems to have been a pale browny grey from one of the other photos I took that day.

 

From time to time photos do have colour problems.  At one time I kept them in some slide boxes sold by Boots which had a smoky grey clear plastic lid.  They were kept stacked on top of each other but the slides near the ends of the boxes received a lot of light over the years and suffered a lot of colour change.  In some cases the top half of the slide had become bright orange.

 

David

[DaveF]

Sorry David but the DMU in photo J2627 is not a Hereford-Birmingham service. 3 reasons. 

1- Its a Class 116 and in the early 70's would not have had gangways, so wouldn't have been allowed through Ledbury tunnel.

2- If it's the Hall Green to the south east of Birmingham, then Hereford services would not have run through there.

3- The destination panel has Birmingham Moor Street as a destination, which Hereford trains didn't run to in the diesel era.

More than likely a Stratford-Birmingham service.

 

Paul J.

 

 

Paul,

 

Many thanks for the information.  It's one of Dad's photos, I've no idea where he got the information from.  Once again I was in Manchester at the time.

 

David

[corneliuslundie]

Don't I know. I have scanned all my family slides and some makes have had terrible colour shift, though usually to the blue/green. And I have recently scanned several hundred for my sister in law and again one make has changed a lot over the years though others seem fine.

I knew what you meant about grass platforms. OK in dry weather! 

I am sure the Colonel Stephens lines would have had a few.

Thanks again for all the photos. So many scenes it would be great (but impossible) to model.

Jonathan

[45125]

j1791 seems to have a 46 that has toasted itself recently, notice that the bodyside from the large grill back to the cab appears to be black. Does anyone actually know if this is the case?

 

Lovely set of photos again David. Thank you.

 

Andy G

 

The black staining on the bodyside is fuel oil, a common sight on Peaks at onetime when someone has overfilled the tanks. The fuel tanks are located just behind no1 cab, with two vents just behind the cab. If the oil cooler goes on a Peak it will trow  the gunge out at sole bar level just below the radiator grill.

 

Al Taylor

Edited December 28, 2016 by 45125

[DaveF]

More from the Tanfield Railway.

 

 

Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th September 2011 DSC_5345

 

 

Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th September 2011 DSC_5347

 

 

Tanfield Railway Andrews House 10th September 2011 DSC_5364

 

 

Tanfield Railway Marley Hill 10th September 2011 DSC_5365

 

 

Tanfield Railway Marley Hill 10th September 2011 DSC_5369

 

 

David

[DaveF]

As it's very close to the end of the year I thought a few statistics might not come amiss today.

 

According to my records this thread has about 6620 photos in it,  most of them are scans from old slides.

My European thread has about 1550 photos in it.

 

So that makes about 8170 photos so far

 

So  about 8,000 slide scans (I think a slight overestimate) and 170+ digital images.

 

In all I have around 40,000 scans of railway slides of mine and Dad's, with a few taken by Mum as well.

 

I use, on the two threads, just under 4,000 scans a year.

 

So in theory the two threads can continue for about 8 more years - but the european scans will run out well before then.  So the British one might go on longer - if I have the will to keep on posting them.

 

However I have now used up almost all the 1950s photos and only have a few hundred 1960s photos left.  I haven't tried to count the 1970s images, but they are gradually being used up too.

 

So as time passes I will be posting more photos from the 1980s onwards.  The slide scans finally end around August 2003 - even that is around 13 years ago now, which is when I (and Dad) changed to digital cameras.

 

In terms of the areas the photos cover.

I am running very short of GWR photos and don't have too many Southern ones left.  To be honest there never were many GWR images because except for 4 years in Manchester I have always lived on the eastern side of the country and for the last 36 years in the north east.

Eventually the GER and LTSR photos will also all be used up.

 

Then the focus will more be on the midlands northwards, with a lot from the north east and parts of the north west.

 

One other point, from time to time on weekdays I will have to start to post preserved railway images as I have a lot of those which will not be used up if I only post them on Sundays.

 

To anyone who asks for more photos each day - sorry but NO.  At times it is hard enough getting 10 ready a day for the two threads (5 for each),  even though I try to work about a week in hand.

 

I hope this is useful.

 

Of course you may all get bored and ask me to stop posting the images!

 

Now for today with photos from more trips to Swayfield.  

 

 

Swayfield Class 55 possibly 9003 Meld up ex pass Sept 71 C717  12.00 Edinburgh to Kings X

 

 

Swayfield Class 55 9006 up ex pass Sept 71 C734  08.00 Edinburgh to Kings X

 

 

Swayfield Class 55 up ex pass July 72 C1012 06.50 Newcastle to Kings X

 

 

Swayfield Class 55 down ex pass Jan 74 C1459 13.00 Kings X to Edinburgh

 

 

Swayfield Class 55 up ex pass 30th May 78 C3878 probably 10.20 Newcastle to Kings X

 

With thanks again to Mark 54

David

Edited December 29, 2016 by DaveF

[highpeakman]

 

 

Of course you may all get bored and ask me to stop posting the images!

 

 

 

 

No chance!

 

 

 

Just grateful Thanks!

[stovepipe]

Don't forget the other key statistic - 1.3m views which must be very close to the most read thread on RMweb. I'm happy to keep checking in as long as you still have the urge to keep posting the pictures.

 

I'll pass on the Deltic IDs today, but C1012 has a maroon coach in the formation in July 1972.

[Geoff Endacott]

I do miss the King's Cross pigeon scarers.

 

Geoff Endacott

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I love the Tanfield Railway photo's. The Swayfield photo's are superb, and so nostalgic. Seeing Deltics running at high speed is a great thing which I never tire of.

 

The statistics are very interesting, and I can say now that I too will not get bored with your photos! Please keep them coming.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[SHMD]

Wow - a Deltic full house for today's "must read" thread.

 

And a great big thank you from me.

 

 

Kev.