RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 14, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 14, 2014 Now for this evening's photos - except I can't remember what they are, so I'll have to actually look in the folder before uploading them! I usually have about a week's photos in hand for this thread kept in a folder for each day of the week. It turns out they are of Huddersfield in 1972, 1990 and 2000. Even 2000 is 14 years ago now - it seems like yesterday. Huddersfield Class 101 Huddersfield to Sheffield via Penistone Feb 72 C0851 Huddersfield Class 124 Hull to Liverpool Feb 72 C854 Huddersfield 47423 NSE stock to Wakefield Westgate 8th Sept 90 C15392 Huddersfield 156484 Huddersfield to Lincoln 25th July 00 C24985 Huddersfield warehouse and wagon hoist 25th July 00 C24988 David 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 14, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 14, 2014 Hi, Dave. More terrific photo's tonight. That last one of Huddersfield warehouse and wagon hoist is absolutely modellable - love it! Also like that photo of the class 124 Trans-Pennine unit. Please keep the photo's coming. All the best, Market65. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Yes, the one of the Trans-Pennine unit is a gem; even the train looks like it's smiling. Why do so many modern units look like they're scowling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Yes, the one of the Trans-Pennine unit is a gem; even the train looks like it's smiling. Why do so many modern units look like they're scowling? If the 124 is smiling, this is positively rolling on the floor http://www.phantasrail.co.uk/April06/365505.jpg 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 15, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2014 On the London and North Western this evening with a mixture of traction. Madeley Coronation class 46254 City of Stoke on Trent down Royal Scot June 60 JVol4043 Madeley D227 down ex pass Euston to Liverpool June 60 JVol4044 Roade Class 85 E3056 up parcels July 67 _J977 Penkridge 86 E3172 down ex pass April 71_J2587 Atherstone Class 86 Euston to Manchester May 71_J2638 David 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted October 15, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 15, 2014 Love the green 40 still with its nose ladder and the 85 showing that 'weathered' can still be colourful! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 (edited) Thanks David. More excellent nostalgia, and D227 still has its nose end ladder. Edited; to add that the loco, at the time of the photo, was still 2 years away from its naming - Parthia. Edited October 15, 2014 by jonny777 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 15, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2014 Hi, Dave. Excellent photo's. Yes, I also like that photo' of D227. I also like that last photo', for it shows the original overhead catenary well, compared with the replacement that is now in use on the WCML. Please keep the photo's coming. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Yes Market65, and the last photo also shows one of the harder weathering aspects to get correct on blue/grey Mk1 stock of the late 60s/early 70s; i.e. the 'bleaching' of the blue under each window, caused by the chemicals used when windows were cleaned individually (with a man and a long handled brush?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 15, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2014 Hi, jonny777. Thank you, and the bleaching under the windows is a weathering aspect that I would really like to have a go at one day. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted October 15, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 15, 2014 That picture of the 85 at Roade shows that brick overbridges are NOT just red or blue brick, but have all sorts of weathering and stains too. Yet again more cracking images. Thanks Andy g Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Hi, jonny777. Thank you, and the bleaching under the windows is a weathering aspect that I would really like to have a go at one day. All the best, Market65. I did try this many years ago, (before weathering powders became popular), and I achieved a reasonable effect on a Lima Mk1 one bodyside. All I did was thin either white or very pale grey paint with white spirit, to a ratio of about one part paint to ten parts spirit. With a very small brush, I dabbed drops of this mixture carefully onto the narrow sills underneath the perspex "windows" while the bodyside was vertical and standing on a layer of tissues (or toilet paper), and just let the very thinned paint run down the sides. The white spirit dried leaving very thin streaks of white/pale grey. It took a few attempts to get the right effect, but at the time I thought it looked quite realistic. I thought I might still have the coach body to photograph for this thread, but I can't find it. I probably disposed of it when my modelling interest moved back 10 years from the late 60s to late 50s. However, this method is probably a bit 'old hat' these days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Great shots of the Southend Victoria branch of the GE, many thanks, Dave. I don’t suppose you ever managed to get out to Southminster from Wickford? Or any shots of the nuclear trains (from Bradwell, loaded at Southminster) at the same time? Thanks, again, inspiring stuff! Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted October 16, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2014 Great shots of the Southend Victoria branch of the GE, many thanks, Dave. I don’t suppose you ever managed to get out to Southminster from Wickford? Or any shots of the nuclear trains (from Bradwell, loaded at Southminster) at the same time? Thanks, again, inspiring stuff! Best, Pete. I have a few photos, I think at Fambridge, Althorne and near Battlesbridge but for some reason never did all the branch. I never saw the flask trains either, but most of my photography then was at weekends. The ones I do have will appear here in due course. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 16, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2014 Visits to Carlisle in the 1980s for this evening. Carlisle 87030 Black Douglas up steel coil 23rd Oct 84 C6616 Carlisle 85014 up European Glagow and Edinburgh to Parkeston Quay 6th Aug 85 C7070 Carlisle cab of 143002 6th Aug 85 C7074 Carlisle 85017 down empty steel 26th Aug 86 C7972 Carlisle Class 108 54247 & 53964 Skipton to Carlisle 26th Aug 86 C7983 David 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Yes Market65, and the last photo also shows one of the harder weathering aspects to get correct on blue/grey Mk1 stock of the late 60s/early 70s; i.e. the 'bleaching' of the blue under each window, caused by the chemicals used when windows were cleaned individually (with a man and a long handled brush?). Some trains are still cleaned by a man (or woman, mustn't be sexist) with a brush and hose/power washer. Funny thing is they often miss the windows 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I didn't go to the WCML much, not that interested then (silly boy!), oh to have those days back, but when I did almost every time 87030 would turn up fairly soon after I arrived, now it's here as well 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 16, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2014 Hi, Dave. Great photo's of Carlisle tonight. I particularly like the last one and the way in which the class 108 DMU has a light dusting of either brake dust or weathering. Please keep the photo's coming. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Dave, Thanks for your reply re: Southminster Branch. I shall look forward to them in due course! I must say that you have something for everyone and as I said before I’ve come across new (to me) locations that I have found fascinating - and others like Carlisle that I have not visited since the steam era, when I was a child. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 17, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2014 This evening's photos are on the Highland Railway from Inverness northwards. Note, there aren't many trains in today's set! Inverness Probably a Class 122 Aug 73 J3282 Inverness Welsh's Bridge signal box Aug 74 J3908 Dingwall Aug 74 J3899 Invershin Class 24 Wick and Thurso to Inverness Aug 73 C1338 Thurso 21st June 69 C009 David 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 17, 2014 Hi, Dave. I like tonight's photo's very much indeed. That first one is indeed a class 122, and it is substituting for a class 120 driving car. J3908 is an excellent photo' of Inverness Welsh's Bridge signal box and the signal gantry. I also like J3899, of Dingwall, August, 1974. Lovely architecture. Please keep the photo's coming, All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 Thanks for the Scottish shots like the 24 good locos on that line . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 18, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2014 A few from North Kent, with some industrial locos, for this evening. Hoo Junction 4EPB 5328 down pass June 75 C2088 Swale Class 414 6159 Sheerness to Sittingbourne July 78 J6149 Sheerness Steel 2 0-4-0 shunters June 75 C2124 Sheerness Steel 0-6-0 shunter June 75 C2125 Sheerness Steel 0-6-0 shunter July 78 J6150 David 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 18, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2014 Hi, Dave. Great photo's tonight, especially those of Sheerness Steel. It is very modellable, including the 0-4-0 and 0-6-0 shunters. Please keep the photo's coming, All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Thanks for the 2-Hap photo at Sheerness, David. I often wondered why some of those Ramsgate units were elusive, even after visits to many of the depots in the area. Now I have a clue why I never saw them all. I never thought to visit the branches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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