mullie Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Happy christmas Dave and thanks for a great thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2014 (edited) Hi, Dave. Well it's Christmas Eve, and I would also like to thank you for these wonderful photo's that you have been posting this year. Again, I hope that you will have a very Happy Christmas, and also a prosperous New Year - looking forward to more photo's in the New Year. I've really enjoyed the photo's today, especially those of the Scottish scenery on the line to Oban. All the best, Market65. Edited December 24, 2014 by Market65 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JCL Posted December 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2014 I was lucky enought to find out my sister lives only 10 minutes from Butterley so managed to get there this summer. There is certainly a huge amount to see. Thanks for all of the photos that you've been putting up, and I hope you have a very merry Christmas. Cheers Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 25, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2014 Merry Christmas everyone. Thank you very much for all the very kind and informative comments since I started this thread. A few fairly recent wintry ones for this morning. Damdykes up Class 220 3rd Jan 2008 DSC_3759 Damdykes Freightliner Clas 66 down coal 3rd Jan 2008 IMG_3811 Buston Barns Class 91 down 23rd Dec 2009 DSC_8022 Hexham 142071 to Newcastle 23rd Jan 2013 DSC_9427 David 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapland Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Thanks Dave for all the great photos this year. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Marshall Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Dave, great pictures once again - especially like the Hexham shot. Seasons Greetings! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 25, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 25, 2014 One more big thank you for this thread Dave - it has been one of the highlights of the forum this year. I too love the Hexham shot, as an ex-pat Geordie(South Shields) , and I really didn't know the Midland Spinner had steamed in preservation! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 It's not only the main subject of each photo that has been excellent but what is included in the back and foreground. Glimpses of our infrastructure past. From BR(E) and BR(M) signals at Sowerby bridge, United Steel Co's AHB crossing, Skillington Road, Highdyke the list is endless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 25, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 25, 2014 I've wasted far too much of my time looking at pictures on this thread this year. I look forward to wasting more time looking at it in 2015.................................. Thanks for sharing the photos. Mick 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Happy Christmas, Dave. Thanks for all the marvellous photos over recent weeks and looking forward to seeing more in the coming year. Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 25, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 25, 2014 (edited) Some for tea time now - though I am still too full from my dinner to eat any Christmas cake yet! Theses photos are all Dad's, taken at the Middleton Railway Open Day in September 1965. This was held at Clayton's Works in Leeds. I think that at this time the Middleton was still carrying a small amount of freight traffic for the local industries as well as being a preserved line. It's interesting to see what the well dressed railway enthusiast was wearing then. Middleton Railway Claytons Works Borrows 0-4-0WT Windle Sept 65 J360 Middleton Railway Claytons Works Avonside Swansea Sept 65 J361 Middleton Railway Claytons Works Sentinel Sept 65 J362 Middleton Railway Claytons Works Hunslet 0-6-0DS John Alcock Sept 65 J363 Middleton Railway Claytons Works ex GWR (was broad gauge) steam crane and tram Sept 65 J367 Middleton Railway Claytons Works ex NER 1310, from cab Sept 65 J369 Some more photos to come a bit later on. David Edited December 25, 2014 by DaveF 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Some for tea time now - though I am still too full from my dinner to eat any Christmas cake yet! Theses photos are all Dad's, taken at the Middleton Railway Open Day in September 1965. This was held at Clayton's Works in Leeds. I think that at this time the Middleton was still carrying a small amount of freight traffic for the local industries as well as being a preserved line. It's interesting to see what the well dressed railway enthusiast was wearing then. e Middleton Railway Claytons Works Borrows 0-4-0WT Windle Sept 65 J360.jpg Middleton Railway Claytons Works Borrows 0-4-0WT Windle Sept 65 J360 e Middleton Railway Claytons Works Avonside Swansea Sept 65 J361.jpg Middleton Railway Claytons Works Avonside Swansea Sept 65 J361 e Middleton Railway Claytons Works Sentinel Sept 65 J362.jpg Middleton Railway Claytons Works Sentinel Sept 65 J362 e Middleton Railway Claytons Works Hunslet 0-6-0DS John Alcock Sept 65 J363.jpg Middleton Railway Claytons Works Hunslet 0-6-0DS John Alcock Sept 65 J363 e Middleton Railway Claytons Works ex GWR (was broad gauge) steam crane and tram Sept 65 J367.jpg Middleton Railway Claytons Works ex GWR (was broad gauge) steam crane and tram Sept 65 J367 e Middleton Railway Claytons Works ex NER 1310, from cab Sept 65 J369.jpg Middleton Railway Claytons Works ex NER 1310, from cab Sept 65 J369 Some more photos to come a bit later on. David The tram was from the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (opened for passengers in 1807, probably the world's first passenger railway), for some reason bought by students from Leeds University. Sadly it was destroyed by vandalism. I remember riding on one of these cars, as a very small boy, back at the very end of the 1950s. The railway had been bought by the Slow, Wicked and Terrible bus company in 1958, and closed down just over a year later. Anyone who's sat in the traffic jams on Mumbles Road will know what short-sighted folly this was... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 25, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 25, 2014 Now for the rest of the photos for today which will be in two posts, starting with the old photos. These are again a mixed bag, I hope there is "something for everyone". Pilmoor Class 55 D9010 The Kings Own Scottish Borderer Newcastle to Kings X Sept 67 J1117 Swayfield Class 47 1863 Leeds to Kings X May 72 C967 Woodhead 76015 and another westbound coal April 77 C3275 Pirbright Junction Class 74 E6107 up parcels 17th April 1971 J2609 South Shields St Hilda sidings EE.Baguley No12 21st Feb 86 C7333 Carlisle 31449 Carlisle to Leeds May 90 J10928 David 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 25, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 25, 2014 (edited) This post has a few I took today. We'll start with three taken of a GBRf 66 stabled over the Christmas period at North Blyth. I was standing on the opposite site of the River Blyth at Blyth Quayside to take these, they were taken around low tide which is why not too much water is visible. North Blyth Alumina Terminal GBRF 66733 25th Dec 2014 DSC_4929 North Blyth alumina terminal GBRF 66733 25th Dec 2014 DSC_4931 North Blyth alumina terminal GBRF 66733 25th Dec 2014 DSC_4939 The orangy brown silos are used to store the alumina when it is unloaded from ships (usually Arklow ships) until it is taken to Fort William by rail. The remaining three are just some nice photos I took at various times today coming back from church and later visiting Mum. I know they are not railways but it is Christmas Day! Christmas Day sunrise St Marys Island from Blyth on Christmas Day Blyth harbour entrance 25th Dec 2014 David Edited December 25, 2014 by DaveF 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2014 Hi, Dave. I've really enjoyed seeing the photo's that you've posted today, a really good selection. I also like that one of the Sunrise. Please keep the photo's coming, Merry Christmas, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 25, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 25, 2014 Thanks for the South Shields photo David! No. 13 was 'my' loco though, driven by Billy Dunbar. Always good for a cab ride! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 I have to say thanks for what you have posted soo far. We all like different things in your photos, and the eclectic mix is wonderful. You have everything from a em1/76 coal train, through kettles, vermin voyagers to the pinicle of rail transport on railways, the 141. Long may it continue. Ps- anybody who had the misfortune to actually ride or work on the 141 will realise the irony in the above comments. But I actually liked them. As for the voyager units, whatever you mat think of them, you have to admit they can shift. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 26, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 A few for the afternoon before I settle down to give my undivided attention to "The Ladykillers". Fortunately I also have a small TV next to my PC! A mix of preserved steam for now. Cadeby Bagnall 0-4-0ST Pixie June 71 J2012 Pixie has just derailed, the wood across the track and the steel girder just being carried into the photo are for the rerailing operation. Steamtown LNWR 790 Hardwicke 6th June 76 C2767 Bressingham Orenstein and Koppel ex Penrhyn Brunhilde Aug 72 C1109 Dinting RSH 0-6-0ST Warrington Oct 69 C146 Harlaxton Quarries Gunby leaving with special trip Sept 70 J2327 Penrhyndeudraeth Mountaineer Aug 72 C1099 David 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted December 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2014 Hardwicke was a main line loco at that time - had her (Him?) on a railtour to Sellafield in May double heading with (6)1306 Smashing photos Dave Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 26, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2014 Another mixed bag for this evening from various locations. Cononley LMS Class 5 44884 down parcels June 67 J0916 Gamston Class 37 up empty ironstone April 69 J1614 Crewe Class 24s 5012 & 5073, very dirty green, up goods 13th March 71 C485 Rotherham Masborough Station South Junction Class 08 local freight December 1976 J5549 Marske 101 Middlesborough to Saltburn April 84_C6490 Shap 90129 Frachtverbindungen down freightliner 29th March 94 C19342 David 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 It's not only the main subject of each photo that has been excellent but what is included in the back and foreground. Glimpses of our infrastructure past. From BR(E) and BR(M) signals at Sowerby bridge, United Steel Co's AHB crossing, Skillington Road, Highdyke the list is endless. Another mixed bag for this evening from various locations. e Cononley LMS Class 5 44884 down parcels June 67 J0916.jpg Cononley LMS Class 5 44884 down parcels June 67 J0916 mb Gamston Class 37 up empty ironstone April 69 J1614.jpg Gamston Class 37 up empty ironstone April 69 J1614 Crewe Class 24s 5012 & 5073, very dirty green, up goods 13th March 71 C485 - Copy.jpg Crewe Class 24s 5012 & 5073, very dirty green, up goods 13th March 71 C485 Rotherham Masborough Station South Junction Class 08 local freight December 1976 J5549.jpg Rotherham Masborough Station South Junction Class 08 local freight December 1976 J5549 q Marske 101 Middlesborough to Saltburn April 84_C6490.jpg Marske 101 Middlesborough to Saltburn April 84_C6490 p Shap 90129 Frachtverbindungen down freightliner 29th March 94 C19342.jpg Shap 90129 Frachtverbindungen down freightliner 29th March 94 C19342 David Following on from my earlier comment.. A steel lineside location cabinet with steam going past, one in the eye for all those who say they look out of place on our heritage lines and HA point machines operating conventional facing point locks on a 3 way point. Bloomin' marvellous! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrushVeteran Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Dave, your selections get better and better and illustrates all round what a wonderful railway we once had. Richards input on the technicalities of the equipment equally provides added value. Richard does seek his reward though..................he's still after that picture of the point motor at Skillington Junction!! Happy New Year to you both!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 (edited) Dave, your selections get better and better and illustrates all round what a wonderful railway we once had. Richard does seek his reward though..................he's still after that picture of the point motor at Skillington Junction!! Happy New Year to you both!! It is the holy grail. One day something will turn up. You can find rare thing's on the net so anything is possible. A good set of photo's of the Sheremetef point motor would make my day/week/month though. I'm surprised you haven't turned up something Graham? Happy New Year to all. Edited December 26, 2014 by LNERGE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted December 27, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 27, 2014 (edited) A look at some dmus on the Cambrian Coast today, all taken on summer holidays. Being Wales in summer the sun always shines ......... well not quite always. Tywyn Class 101 and 108 July 82 C5768 ywyn Class 101 to Pwlhelli 24th Aug 70 C290 Fairbourne camping coaches and Class 101 Aug 69 J1884 Pont Briwet Class 108 Macynlleth to Pwlhelli 6th Aug 79 C4678 Porthmadog Class 103 and Class 101behind Pwlhelli to Machynlleth July 82 C5739 David Edited December 28, 2014 by DaveF 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2014 Hi, Dave. Looking at yesterday's photo's, and those of today has been very enjoyable. A good selection of trains to be seen. Some front end damage from couplings is seen a two of today's photo's - C5768 and C5739. Please keep the photo's coming, All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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