RMweb Gold daveyb Posted March 1, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) I wonder how many of you remember the narrow gauge loco collection at Gloddfa Ganol Mountain Tourist Centre, just outside Blaenau Ffestiniog in the slate quarry. Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol 2442 8th Aug 79 C4743.jpg Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol 2442 8th Aug 79 C4743 Kerr Stuart Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol Ker Stuart 2451 8th Aug 79 C4747.jpg Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol Ker Stuart 2451 8th Aug 79 C4747 Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol Hudson 36863 Hunslet 45913 behind 8th Aug 79 C4748.jpg Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol Hudson 36863 Hunslet 45913 behind 8th Aug 79 C4748 Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol Deutz 257081 Delta 8th Aug 79 C4754.jpg Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol Deutz 257081 Delta 8th Aug 79 C4754 Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol unidentified Simplex perhaps 8th Aug 79 C4759.jpg Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol unidentified Simplex perhaps 8th Aug 79 C4759 Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol Kerr Stuart 3014 8th Aug 79 C4761.jpg Blaenau Ffestiniog Gloddfa Ganol Kerr Stuart 3014 8th Aug 79 C4761 David David, I'd like to say I remember the Gloddfa locos well but I would have be about 5 to 7 when we visited. I remember it being a parallel museum to Bleanau complete with railway ride in a tunnel behind a battery loco. It had not long closed as a working mine (prob after one of the many Penrhyn Company change rounds). I went back in the mid '80s and the museum and locos were gone and it was a working mine again.... albeit briefly. That would have been about the time The Deep Pit opened at Llechwedd. All the slate museums were very different in the mid 70s... the H&SW Act was new and there was a lot of recent Industrial activity obvious. It's all much less dangerous now! We visited Dinowic Power Station during the build around then as my father was a Power Supply Engineer with London Transport and we visited with one of his clubs/groups/associations. It was a very weird deja vu to visit Electric Mountain in my 40s! Edited March 1, 2018 by daveyb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Is it just me, or does any one else just not care which Deltic it was! Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the photos immensely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Is it just me, or does any one else just not care which Deltic it was! Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the photos immensely. Don't be a spoilsport 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
35A Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Is it just me, or does any one else just not care which Deltic it was! Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the photos immensely. I suspect that David cares. Most of the point of this (Deltics or otherwise) is to help him identify & label the content of his and his father's photographs. I know how irritated I get when I find an image that I hadn't labelled correctly! It's just that there are so many detail differences within a small class of locomotives, with Deltics, that it is relatively easy to identify the subject of the photographs for him (plus, it's a bit of fun ) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 1, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2018 C1836 and J4123 are definitely 55019 on the same train taken a few seconds apart. Other than the lighting and clean rolling stock, the giveaway they are not on different days is the partly open sandbox filler beyond the nameplate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 1, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) Today's photos are a bit later than usual as I have been to the funeral of a friend who was only a couple of years older than me. He had a very aggressive cancer and died barely two months after being diagnosed. The photos are of the Blyth and Tyne north of Newcastle. This time we visit Cambois (you say it as Cammus) and the sidings for Blyth West staithes. But first there is a photo of the East Pier at Blyth harbour which I took on the way back from the funeral to show you what the weather is like today. To get the car out this morning I had to remove a small (2 foot) snowdrift from the drive. Blyth east pier in an easterly gale I was standing on the cut down South Side staithes, once used for coal experts. The remains have been made into a walkway and can also be used as moorings for ships. Cambois 56133, 56076, Class 101 26th April 86 C7502 The Class 101 was on a special working, "The Chevy Chase", from Newcastle to Cambois and Morpeth via the Blyth and Tyne and back to Newcastle. Cambois 56097 16th April 92 C16754 Cambois 37423 29th May 93 C18580 Blyth West staithes sidings 56134 16th Aug 85 C7145 Blyth West staithes sidings 37134 16th Aug 85 C7147 David Edited March 1, 2018 by DaveF 38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted March 1, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2018 Is it just me, or does any one else just not care which Deltic it was! Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the photos immensely. I suspect that David cares. Most of the point of this (Deltics or otherwise) is to help him identify & label the content of his and his father's photographs. I know how irritated I get when I find an image that I hadn't labelled correctly! It's just that there are so many detail differences within a small class of locomotives, with Deltics, that it is relatively easy to identify the subject of the photographs for him (plus, it's a bit of fun ) It's not tremendosuly important, but it is nice to know which locos Dad and I photographed all those years ago, and I do update the catalogues. However I too get just as much enjoyment simply looking at the photos, whether I know the loco number or not. They all bring back memories, despite having many thousands of photos I can often remember a lot about each day I (or Dad) went out to take them. David 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Nice mixed rake of HTOs and HUOs in that last picture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) d Blyth West staithes sidings 56134 16th Aug 85 C7145.jpg Blyth West staithes sidings 56134 16th Aug 85 C7145 David Having just built two more sections to my model railway, one above the main boards and one below, i can't believe the gradient change in this shot. I've been faffing about trying to make them as gentle as possible. Edited March 1, 2018 by LNERGE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Having just built two more sections to my model railway, one above the main boards and one below, i can't believe the gradient change in this shot. I've been faffing about trying to make them as gentle as possible. IIRC from a solitary visit to Blyth to measure wagons, the staithes were worked by running the loaded wagons up with the 08, then letting gravity return the empty ones to the foot of the staithes. They would then be returned, again by gravity, to the low-level sidings from which the 37 and 56 are emerging. The brake van would be detached from the incoming train, then either dropped down to the far end of the 'empties' sidings, or dropped into the van kip, like the one in the photo. It would make an interesting model, though the massive scale of the staithes would dwarf any rolling stock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Endacott Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Blyth looks a bit spartan. Geoff Endacott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 1, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2018 I can't agree. I see no evidence of classical Greek buildings, or the hillside on which newborn babies were left to fend for themselves to prove their worthiness to be citizens. AFAIK Sparta was not in a coal mining area either. I may not be being entirely serious in this post... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 1, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2018 Hi, Dave. I like the Blyth and Tyne photos. The first one, from today, shows how vile today’s weather has been, and is a good record of it. I particularly like C18580, of 37432, Sir Murray Morrison, at a Cambios, on May, 29th, 1993. It looks good in the Inter City livery. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelp Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Blyth looks a bit spartan. Geoff Endacott Great team! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
35A Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I find the Blyth & Tyne photographs fascinating, especially as (along with the Cumbrian coast) it is about the only part of the network that I've never visited in nearly fifty years. Perhaps if the proposed passenger services up to Ashington and/or Newbiggin-by-the-Sea ever see the light of day I might be able to put that omission right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 2, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 2, 2018 A mix of photos from the Great Eastern today with trains and railway ships. First though another weather photo of the harbour entrance at Blyth today, taken from the promenade. Rough sea at Blyth. The harbour entrance is between the two piers. Now the railway photos. Shotley view to Parkeston Quay May 75 J4345 Parkeston Quay from Harwich Feb 75 C1869 Harwich SNCF 141R tender March 75 C1872 Bentley Class 47 Liverpool St to Yarmouth May 75 J4299 Bentley Class 47 Norwich to Liverpool St June 75 J4491 David 36 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted March 2, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 2, 2018 C18580 looks just like a model which shows how good our models are these day. As always, more wonderful photos, many thanks for sharing them with us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 2, 2018 Hi, Dave. I like the GE photos. The last two of class 47 hauled expresses are great photos, and so iconic of the GE from the 70’s and 80’s. The SNCF class 141R tender in C1872, at Harwich, would have gone to either the Nene Valley line, or the Great Central. I’m favouring the Nene Valley. With warmest regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Wasn't the 141R tender the Bressingham one? Not sure whether it would be coming in or going back though, I believe the loco is in Switzerland now? Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Blyth looks a bit spartan. Geoff Endacott Where's the 'groan' button? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
35A Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 The SNCF class 141R tender in C1872, at Harwich, would have gone to either the Nene Valley line, or the Great Central. I’m favouring the Nene Valley. The loco that was at the Nene Valley was a 4-6-0, rather than a Mikado - unless this tender was acquired as a spare (I don't recall ever seeing it there). Specifically, it was de Glehn compound 3.628: http://ajectathefrenchsteam.unblog.fr/nord-3628-3628-sncf-230-d-116-french-ten-wheels/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted March 3, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2018 The tender was with a 141R. It is now in Switzerland - the restoration company it eventually ended up with failed, I believe it is now used for spares. There are photos of the loco earlier in the thread - just search "This topic" using "141R" David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 3, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 3, 2018 (edited) Trains at Ratcliffe on Soar today which is between Trent and Loughborough. The MGBGT in the first photo was Mum's, dark grey with a primrose stripe. Ratcliffe on Soar Class 45 down freight Mar 75 J4153 Ratcliffe on Soar Class 47 up fly ash May 75 J4317. Ratcliffe on Soar Class 45 up June 76 J5298 Ratcliffe on Soar Class 116 dmu June 76 J5334 Ratcliffe on Soar Class 254 special Derby to London April 78 J5989 Edited to get the right photos in the right order. David Edited March 3, 2018 by DaveF 36 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2018 Never seen fly ash in presflos before; my local workings were from Aberthaw power station to various sites during the M5 build across the Somerset Levels in MGR hoppers, with double headed 37s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Was always Presflos from Ratcliffe to Fletton Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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