RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2017 A few years back when I lived in Cumbria I did a bit of exploring around the harbour and found some of the rails were still in place on the high level bit by Glasson Dock. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted September 29, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 29, 2017 A few of the Great Eastern in Suffolk today, together with one where you can debate whether the rails count as a railway. Anyway, I like the photo and its my thread.... Westerfield June 75 C2181 Woodbridge Class 37 37264 down May 75 J4346 Woodbridge Class 37 37264 down May 75 J4347 Woodbridge The slipway has rails May 75 J4348 David 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted September 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 29, 2017 Hi, Dave. The Great Eastern photos are a real delight, and thank you for posting them. In J4346 and J4347, the Mk1 BSK seems to have quite some trouble with its steam heating - such a lot of steam is escaping from the pipe. The last photo is really lovely, and what a great oil painting could be painted from it. It’s all so English, and very charming. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
67A Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Hi Andy, I'll have a search for the pic, I'm sure David will be okay posting it here. It may be the weekend before I get chance. Hi David and Andy, I could not put my hand to the original which is only a print and sadly no negative and this was the best the scan could do. By way of making amends I found another of 84' at Newport. I trust you don't mind the hijack David. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 29, 2017 Aug 77 J5767 Definitely different times with your mum ambling across a bridge adjacent to an open line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 J4346; Steam heating in May ? Soft Southerners ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 29, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 29, 2017 J4347 interesting to see 37264 in banger blue - a long way off from how i remember it in the mid-'80s, in large logo livery and the wilds of Scotland! (from jbg06003's zenfolio) http://brucegalloway.zenfolio.com/p866763645/h5c7acb4#h5c7acb4 IIRC 37260-264 were a batch used particularly on the Far North/Highland lines, gaining the small nose-mounted headlight required due to unworked crossings on the lines Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted September 29, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 29, 2017 (edited) Aug 77 J5767 Definitely different times with your mum ambling across a bridge adjacent to an open line. I wasn't there that weekend, I would have been in Essex. However from my own visits there I remember the whole area was unfenced and was used for dog walking, children to play on and so on. As you correctly say, definitely different times. It's a bit like some of my earliest memories of being on engine footplates at Nottingham Victoria with Mum and Dad in the early 50s when I was 3 or 4 years old. Also of Dad coming home from work looking a bit grubby sometimes after having a footplate ride home from Nottingham Victoria instead of being in a comfortable carriage. I was quite often in our local signalbox from about 8 years old. In another context I was sailing dinghies by myself when I was 9 and travelled to France by myself to stay with friends when I was 14. Things have changed a very great deal. David Edited September 29, 2017 by DaveF 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted September 30, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 30, 2017 I think it's about time we had another trip to Barton on Humber and New Holland today. It's March 1978 with typical Humber weather. Barton on Humber view to New Holland Pier March 78 J5962 Barton on Humber Class 114 E56026 Cleethorpes to Barton on Humber March 78 J5963 New Holland Pier MV Farringford March 78 J5968 New Holland Pier March 78 J5970 New Holland Pier MV Farringford March 78 J5971 David 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted September 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 30, 2017 Hi, Dave. I like the Barton on Humber and New Holland photos. Memories! Barton on Humber station certainly was much reduced over the years to the single track terminus that it now is, and all but was in that second photo'. It's great to see MV Farringford. It makes a fine sight in J5968, and it's hard to believe that they finished the ferries back in May, 1981 with opening of the Humber Bridge. If you have anymore photos, then I hope you will post them. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 1, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2017 The Bluebell Railway at Shefield Park in the late 70s this morning. Specifically October and 1976 and Boxing Day in both 1976 and 1978. Sheffield Park USA 30064 Oct 76 C3074 Sheffield Park SECR Class C 592 26th Dec 76 C3133 Sheffield Park SECR Class H 263 26th Dec 76 C3135 Sheffield Park SECR CLass P 323 Bluebell coupling to train 26th Dec 78 C4230 Sheffield Park SECR SECR H Class 263 ecs 26th Dec 78 C4233 David 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Barton on Humber felt like the end of the world..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Barton on Humber felt like the end of the world..... It looked like the end of the world too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 1, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2017 Northumberland this afternoon with the ECML at Widdrington Station. Widdrington station April 83 C6012 Widdrington station Class 254 43112 down April 83 C6013 Widdrington station 37023 up p w April 83 C6014 Widdrington Station 56106 down coal July 83 C6102 Widdrington Station 47453 Edinburgh to Newcastle July 83 C6103 David 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Lovely illustration of weathering on the BG in C6103 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 C6014. a prototype that anybody can model. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted October 1, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2017 (edited) That's a nice sprinkling of coal dust on the protruding bits on the front of the 56 in C6102! And is that a lumberjack at the controls? Edited October 1, 2017 by Western Aviator Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 1, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2017 Hi, Dave. I like the Bluebell Railway photos, and the class H tank engine in the last photo makes such a lovely sight. The photos of the ECML at Widdrington in Northumberland are so delightful. The last one shows some great weathering effects on the Mk1 BG. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted October 1, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2017 That's a nice sprinkling of coal dust on the protruding bits on the front of the 56 in C6102! And is that a lumberjack at the controls? More than a sprinkling of dust there. Makes me wonder, if the loco had been No.1 end leading, how much coal the radiators would have ingested, and to what effect? Another cracking set of photos.... Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 2, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2017 (edited) Harrogate today in 1965/6. All the photos feature ex lMS Class 5s. The scans are from half frame slides. Harrogate LMS Class 5 45210 Harrogate to Kings X Oct 65 J399 Harrogate LMS Class 5 Harrogate to Kings X Nov 65 J413 Harrogate LMS Class 5 Harrogate to Kings X Nov 65 J415 Harrogate LMS Class 5 45351 Harrogate to Kings X Dec 65 J425 Harrogate LMS Class 5 45061 Harrogate to Kings X July 66 J569 David Edited October 2, 2017 by DaveF 41 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 All of them living up to their name there as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Small point with J413.. Black 5 numbering started at 44658. So 44617 is probably a typo? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 @DaveF Fascinating shots of the Black 5s at Harrogate, Dave. So where would the coaches have been combined with the diesel-hauled train for the rest of the journey to KX? And were these portions always only 2 coaches? Cheers Trevor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted October 2, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2017 Small point with J413.. Black 5 numbering started at 44658. So 44617 is probably a typo? A mistake in Dad's notes, so I've no idea which one it is. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted October 2, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2017 @DaveF Fascinating shots of the Black 5s at Harrogate, Dave. So where would the coaches have been combined with the diesel-hauled train for the rest of the journey to KX? And were these portions always only 2 coaches? Cheers Trevor The train joined with one from Bradford at Leeds. The train was 2 or 3 coaches. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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