trisonic Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Hi Pete Do you remember the donkeys in the field next to the crossing they were there for years? No, but that may be my memory at fault - feverishly trying to remember..........sounds logical, however! I remember drinking at the Red Lion with Ian Middleton behind the bar (he used to work for NME) with many fellow guitarists over the years up to the mid-eighties. I do remember the surreal time (earlier) when the Duke Ellington tour bus turned up! Best, Pete. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted February 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2015 Now for some on the Great Eastern between Church Lane crossing (north of Ingatestone) and Marks Tey. This was an area I quite often visited on Saturday afternoons when I lived in Basildon. e Church Lane level crossing Class 31 down pass rain March 75 C1903.jpg Church Lane level crossing Class 31 down pass in rain March 75 C1903 f Margaretting Class 37 Norwich to Liverpool St in rain Oct 74 C1809.jpg Margaretting Class 37 Norwich to Liverpool St in rain Oct 74 C1809 k Hatfield Peverel Class 37 down ex pass April 75 C1959.jpg Hatfield Peverel Class 37 down ex pass April 75 C1959 k Hatfield Peverel Class 47 Liverpool St to Norwich April 75 C1961.jpg Hatfield Peverel Class 47 Liverpool St to Norwich April 75 C1961 t Marks Tey 31122 up parcels Oct 75 C2476.jpg Marks Tey 31122 up parcels Oct 75 C2476 The prototype 4PEP is in the background David Interesting that three of these trains have a Mk1 BSO leading. Come on Bachmann... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 2, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2015 (edited) Haresfield, on the Great Western this evening. Nearly all Peaks of two classes. Once again they were taken on visits to friends in Gloucestershire. Only one has a TOPS number. I'd made notes of the loco numbers at the time, I sometimes wonder how accurately I wrote them down. Haresfield Class 45 D35 Paignton to Edinburgh April 72 C905 Haresfield April 1972 C906 Haresfield Class 45 possibly 30 Leeds to Paignton April 72 C907 Haresfield Class 46 157 Plymouth to Edinburgh April 73 C1239 Haresfield Class 45 33 possibly Leeds to Weston super Mare April 73 C1240 Edited February 2, 2015 by DaveF 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Not far from my old stomping ground, I did enjoy regular NE-SW thrash with Peaks when I used to head back to Polytechnic. Never the same after the HSTs took over. I well recall a hair-raising trip down the Lickey in a DMU replacement, as the Peak went tech at New Street. I was accompanying a lovely young lady called Vivian Jones from an interview at Liverpool Poly. The lights had failed in the DMU, and we tore down the Lickey in the dark, all quivering, shaking and rattling. And the DMU wasn't too smooth either.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2015 Hi, Dave. Great photo's tonight of Haresfield. Good to see the Peaks, and they must have been thrashing along! Like the track recording machine as well. Please keep the photo's coming, All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted February 3, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) Photos taken at Pilmoor, north of York again this evening. They were taken on four visits, four in 1967 and one a few years later in 1975. The 1967 photos were probably taken on Saturdays. The 1975 photo was taken on the way to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Pilmoor Class 40 down goods April 67 J848 Pilmoor Class 47 D1109 down vans June 67 J922 Pilmoor Class 55 D9002 Kings X to Edinburgh July 67 J971 Down Flying Scotsman Pilmoor Class 55 Newcastle to Kings X Sept 67 J1125 Pilmoor Class 25 25164 up light engine Aug 75 C2212 David Edited February 3, 2015 by DaveF 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Super detail pictures Dave! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted February 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2015 Absolute classics David, oh for a time machine. Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted February 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2015 That's the muckiest deltic I have ever seen!!! Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted February 3, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2015 That's the muckiest deltic I have ever seen!!! Phil Wouldn't have thought it had taken long to get into that state - I wouldn't have thought it had been painted blue for very long then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Marshall Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) Dave, Great pictures - does anyone know anything about the bogie van behind the Class 47 in J922. Is this related to the SR van 374-631 that Farish plans to produce? Were they common in NE England any earlier than this - say 1950s? By the way, an earlier post - way back - showed an SR pill box brake van on a cement train. Up till then I had no idea these vans could be seen in NE England, but since then I've seen a grey van with a Q6 at Blyth in a DVD - Marsden Rail No. 34. Regards, Roy Marshall Edited February 3, 2015 by R Marshall Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2015 Hi, Dave. Excellent photo's of Pilmoor tonight. In the first one, J848, there is a really good example of a very well weathered 40. Then in J1125, with a Deltic on a Newcastle to Kings Cross train, there is, from what I can make out, the third coach from the rear of the train looks like one of the last remaining Thompson SK's. Please keep the photo's coming, All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Wouldn't have thought it had taken long to get into that state - I wouldn't have thought it had been painted blue for very long then. From: http://www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/9002.htm 18.10.66 Released from Doncaster Works, after General repair, in blue livery (First of the class to be painted in blue). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2015 Dave, Great pictures - does anyone know anything about the bogie van behind the Class 47 in J922. Is this related to the SR van 374-631 that Farish plans to produce? Were they common in NE England any earlier than this - say 1950s? By the way, an earlier post - way back - showed an SR pill box brake van on a cement train. Up till then I had no idea these vans could be seen in NE England, but since then I've seen a grey van with a Q6 at Blyth in a DVD - Marsden Rail No. 34. Regards, Roy Marshall Hi, Roy Marshall. The bogie van is a Van B, and is the one to be introduced by Farish. They were to be seen earlier as well, I've seen plenty of photo's, including one of a Van B at Pocklington, in June, 1963, behind a class 40, in a York to Hull train. Try Google Images, there should be more to be seen there as well. I hope that this will be of some help. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Marshall Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Hi, Roy Marshall. The bogie van is a Van B, and is the one to be introduced by Farish. They were to be seen earlier as well, I've seen plenty of photo's, including one of a Van B at Pocklington, in June, 1963, behind a class 40, in a York to Hull train. Try Google Images, there should be more to be seen there as well. I hope that this will be of some help. All the best, Market65. Many thanks - great news - I'll add one to my intended parcels train Regards, Roy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted February 3, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2015 1A16 was the down 'Flying Scotsman' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted February 3, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2015 That's the muckiest deltic I have ever seen!!! Phil That Gateshead cleaners for you, like their 4-6-2s you could always tell it was a 52A Deltic before reading the number. The next picture shows what a 34G polish was like. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edin_bry2x Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 I believe its a Class 108 car i will have to dig around i may have a car number but the sets were very fluid at the time especially out of Haymarket TMD Hi Dave C8927 the Portobello DMU shot does look like a hybrid, but it's not a Class 101 on the rear. Being Scotland could it be a Class107? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Wasn't D9002 the first Deltic in Rail Blue? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) Wasn't D9002 the first Deltic in Rail Blue? See Post 2195........ Edited February 4, 2015 by leopardml2341 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted February 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2015 I believe its a Class 108 car i will have to dig around i may have a car number but the sets were very fluid at the time especially out of Haymarket TMD Hi,edin_bry2x. You have it right. I've been looking at this photo' myself for the last few days, and you can see that the body-side saloon windows are lower down than on the class 107, and the other thing is that the roof vents are in two rows, not the three of the clas 107. Also the tumblehome is correct for class 108. Hope this helps. All the best, Market65. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) Are you sure that 1E79 is a Newcastle to KX service? I don't have the WTT in front of me at the moment, but I will look it up later. However, in 1967 I believe all the Newcastle services (and the Edinburgh ones for that matter) had 'A' headcodes for both up and down services. Up services were odd numbers, with down trains even. That was a convention on the ECML until a year or two later. The 'E' headcodes were up services from Yorkshire, mainly Leeds/Bradford or Hull. Edited February 3, 2015 by jonny777 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted February 3, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) From edin_bry2x I believe its a Class 108 car i will have to dig around i may have a car number but the sets were very fluid at the time especially out of Haymarket TMD from Market 65: Hi,edin_bry2x. You have it right. I've been looking at this photo' myself for the last few days, and you can see that the body-side saloon windows are lower down than on the class 107, and the other thing is that the roof vents are in two rows, not the three of the clas 107. Also the tumblehome is correct for class 108. Hope this helps. All the best, Market65. Many thanks, I've amended the caption. Sorry, I made a mess of the quotes so it looks a bit odd. David Edited February 3, 2015 by DaveF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted February 3, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) Are you sure that 1E79 is a Newcastle to KX service? I don't have the WTT in front of me at the moment, but I will look it up later. However, in 1967 I believe all the Newcastle services (and the Edinburgh ones for that matter) had 'A' headcodes for both up and down services. Up services were odd numbers, with down trains even. That was a convention on the ECML until a year or two later. The 'E' headcodes were up services from Yorkshire, mainly Leeds/Bradford or Hull. I'm not at all sure, all the notes on the 1967 Pilmoor photos are from Dad's slide catalogue and I don't have a working timetable for the period. As the photo is at Pilmoor the train must have come either from the Newcastle/Edinburgh line or routes from Sunderland or Middlesbrough. Edited February 3, 2015 by DaveF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted February 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2015 That J922 pic is a real gem. TT 47s are almost acceptable to a steam bloke like me, especially when hauling those vans. Another fine excuse for a layout train. P 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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