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

[Waverley West]

Love the latest Carlisle pics, Dave. Happy days. 

 

Thanks!

Dave

[Alister_G]

I know you say the quality is poor but I like C5080 - the picture of Eynsford. The area has hardly changed in the intervening years. Archaeology fans can check out Lullingstone Roman Villa which is in the same lane as is crossed by the viaduct!

 

I'm glad you said that, I thought the same.

 

To me it has almost the feel of an Edwardian era watercolour (notwithstanding the modern rolling stock).

 

Al.

[DaveF]

Northumberland today, at Morpeth on the ECML in 1980 and 1981.

 

 

Morpeth 254013 up Aug 80 C5185

 

 

Morpeth Class 37 down coal April 81 C5330     probably 37083

 

 

Morpeth Class 45 up coal empties Aug 81 C5532

 

 

Morpeth Class 40 40064 Edinburgh to Carlisle via Newcastle June 81 C5419

 

 

Morpeth Class 101 E50294 Newcastle to Alnmouth Aug 81 C5495

 

 

David

Edited April 11, 2017 by DaveF

[eastwestdivide]

This thread has just hit 1,500,000 views.

 

Thanks to everyone who looks at the photos, I hope you are all still enjoying them.

 

David

Works perfectly with my afternoon tea. Thanks for all the effort.

[Swindon 123]

Northumberland today, at Morpeth on the ECML in 1980 and 1981.

 

Morpeth Class 37 down coal April 81 C5330.jpg

Morpeth Class 37 down coal April 81 C5330

 

 

 

 

David

Another nice set of photos David. Interesting in that the coal train headed by the 45 had a brake van either end. Reversal somewhere en-route?  I'm going to make a contribution in the "what's the loco number" competition, by saying the 37 in C5330 is 37083. The plated over nose door is a givaway. As my evidence I offer the following pics.

https://flic.kr/p/nbACUS

 

https://flic.kr/p/e1Uo6C

 

Thanks you again for sharing you photo collection with us.

 

Paul J.

[DaveF]

Another nice set of photos David. Interesting in that the coal train headed by the 45 had a brake van either end. Reversal somewhere en-route?  I'm going to make a contribution in the "what's the loco number" competition, by saying the 37 in C5330 is 37083. The plated over nose door is a givaway. As my evidence I offer the following pics.

https://flic.kr/p/nbACUS

 

https://flic.kr/p/e1Uo6C

 

Thanks you again for sharing you photo collection with us.

 

Paul J.

 

Thanks for working out the number.

 

As for the two brake vans coal trains did sometimes reverse in the area but by this time 16T wagons were rare.  It may be a working of empties for civil engineers use, but my notes don't suggest this.

 

David

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. Excellent start to the next 1,500,000 photo's. The Northumberland photo's certainly bring back many memories, and it would be so good to be able to travel on a train hauled by a class 40 hauling Mk1 stock as in C5419. Such a delightful sight it makes.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[leopardml2341]

There are insufficient superlatives for this thread, well done David - I'm sure it's regular viewing for a lot of people!

[DaveF]

Today's theme (if there is one) could well be "The Midland in Nottinghamshire".  Or it may just be I have a batch of photos to use but enough at Kirkby in Ashfield for all five to have been taken at one location.

 

Dad took the first four photos, I know I was with him as I have a couple of photos I took with my Brownie 127.  I have no idea at all why we chose to go there, it was quite unusual for dad to take photos of locos at a shed.

 

 

Kirkby in Ashfield 8F 48098 April 64 J118

 

 

Kirkby in Ashfield 8F 48447 April 64 J119

 

 

Kirkby in Ashfield 8F 48282 April 64 J120

 

 

Kirkby in Ashfield 8F 48105 plus 4F 44441 and ano 8FApril 64 J121

 

 

Plumtree bridge on MR line from Nottingham to Melton Mowbray 9th June 89 C11983

 

 

David

Edited April 12, 2017 by DaveF

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. What a great set today of photos from Kirkby in Ashfield. Never seen so many 8Fs for a long time, and how absolutely filthy they all are too! I love the portrait shot of 48447 in J119. How taken for granted they were too until the last of them had been withdrawn from service.

Plumtree bridge looks interesting, with rail level several feet higher up than the underside of the arch. And I can't quite make out the height of the bridge on the road sign, butI think it reads 15 feet.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[flapland]

The 8f in J120 is happy to see someone. 

 

Suspect much happier than in Jan 69 when she was scrapped. 

[highpeakman]

There always seemed to so much happening at Kirkby in A. It all seemed pretty permanent at the time.

 

More good memories. Thank you (yet again).

[hmrspaul]

I like the guy with a coat using an (un)official walking route!

 

Paul

[Dan Griffin]

There are insufficient superlatives for this thread, well done David - I'm sure it's regular viewing for a lot of people!

It is by far one of my favourite threads on the forum. The picture quality is good, as are the comments and memories it stirs.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Must admit I prefer the "everyday" shots, which David and his father captured so well, to the more clinical preserved lines.

 

Kirkby was a dump, but at least an honest one with no pretentions.

[DaveF]

Cromford and High Peak, Stoke on Trent, Repton and Willington - what more could anyone want?

 

I nearly didn't bother posting two of these images until I looked at them more closely and found they were interesting (at least they are to me).

 

 

Middleton incline C&HP Sept 64 J175

 

 

Middleton incline C&HP Sept 64 J176

 

 

Repton and Willington Class 37 6807 and Class 31 D5671 down freight June 69 J1719

 

 

Stoke on Trent Class 86 up Sat 12th Feb 72 C0824

 

 

north of Stoke on Trent from train Sat 12th Feb 72 C0835

 

 

David

Edited April 13, 2017 by DaveF

[Enterprisingwestern]

Kirkby was a dump, but at least an honest one with no pretentions.

 

Still is, some things never change!

 

Mike.

[Fat Controller]

The last one is the former ESSO LPG terminal, just north of Longport station, which provided fuel for the modern tunnel kilns that replaced the coal-fired bottle kilns. It used to receive a daily train of about a dozen tanks; when we used to live in the Potteries, in a flat with a distant view of the main line, we would see the loaded train pass in the early evening. The decimation of the pottery industry, from the early 1980s onwards, meant that the remaining pot-banks could be supplied via the normal gas supply network, and the trains ceased to run.

[DY444]

Stoke on Trent Class 86 down Sat 12th Feb 72 C0824.jpg

Stoke on Trent Class 86 down Sat 12th Feb 72 C0824

 

 

 

That 86 is approaching the station on the Up Line

[Market65]

Hi, Dave. I like today's photo's. The Middleton incline was clearly in a state of decay when those photos were taken. I wonder if any models have ever been made of it?

In J1719, it is interesting to see a 31 and a 37 in multiple. I've seen very few photos of them working in multiple.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[DaveF]

That 86 is approaching the station on the Up Line

 

 

Thanks for pointing that out, it's yet another of my typing errors.

 

David

[The Pilotman]

The last one is the former ESSO LPG terminal, just north of Longport station, which provided fuel for the modern tunnel kilns that replaced the coal-fired bottle kilns. It used to receive a daily train of about a dozen tanks; when we used to live in the Potteries, in a flat with a distant view of the main line, we would see the loaded train pass in the early evening. The decimation of the pottery industry, from the early 1980s onwards, meant that the remaining pot-banks could be supplied via the normal gas supply network, and the trains ceased to run.

The Fawley to Longport LPG trains were still running at least as late as 1993. At that time, the loaded northbound working was 6M23 and it's empty southbound return was 6O32. In later years, the consist also included bitumen-filled TTAs for Castle Bromwich.

[Fat Controller]

The Fawley to Longport LPG trains were still running at least as late as 1993. At that time, the loaded northbound working was 6M23 and it's empty southbound return was 6O32. In later years, the consist also included bitumen-filled TTAs for Castle Bromwich.

I hadn't realised they lasted that long- presumably the frequency had dropped from that of the late 1970s? It used to be a busy area around Longport, as there was a terminal for Carless Solvents almost opposite the gas terminal, and both a BR Full-Loads Terminal and a parcels depot.

[Porcy Mane]

Thanks for working out the number.

 

As for the two brake vans coal trains did sometimes reverse in the area but by this time 16T wagons were rare.  It may be a working of empties for civil engineers use, but my notes don't suggest this.

 

David

 

From their insides it looks like they may have been in use on the Scottish Limestone traffic originating from Ferryhill?

[great central]

Hi, Dave. I like today's photo's. The Middleton incline was clearly in a state of decay when those photos were taken. I wonder if any models have ever been made of it?

In J1719, it is interesting to see a 31 and a 37 in multiple. I've seen very few photos of them working in multiple.

 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

 

We certainly had a Cromford and High Peak model complete with working rope incline some years ago at the Nottingham show. I'm afraid I can't remember when or anything much about it though.