Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

[DaveF]

16 minutes ago, brushman47544 said:

Happy to provide info again. The Deltic in C203 is 55017 The Durham Light Infantry.

 

Very many thanks.

 

David

[35A]

Regarding C683, David, the EE Type 4 can't be 251, as that loco was blue before the end of 1970. By August 1971, only 252, 254 and 257 (of that batch of Eastern Region locos) were still in green. It's most probably the latter.

[DaveF]

I'll start today with the usual preserved railway visit.

 

They are just a few more photos of activities on the High Dyke branch and associated ex British Steel lines during the short preservation period.

 

 

Skillington Junction road crossing Avonside Fred special Market Overton to High Dyke Aug 74 C1756  Near the end of the High Dyke branch where the lines to Sewstern/ Market Overtton and Sproxton Quarries diverged.  The train is heading towards High Dyke Junction on the ECML north of Stoke Tunnel.  As BR had officially closed the line the barriers were not working. 

 

 

Sewstern ex BR Class 03 D2381 Mc Alpine Flying Sotsman's spare boiler July 73 C1267

 

 

Sewstern Avonside Fred special  High Dyke to Market Overton Aug 74 C1773  shunting en route

 

 

Sewstern GWR Castle Class 4079 Pendennis Castle and NER saloon 305 March 74 C1491

 

 

Paines siding Peckett Sept 73 J3399  climbing from the (closed) BR Saxby to Bourne line to Market Overton, loco is banking.

 

 

Market Overton Barclay crane tank Glenfield 7th Sept 75 C2436

 

 

David

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 21, 2022 by DaveF

[DaveF]

Now some more replacements taken at Beckfoot on the WCML south of Low Gill.  The M6 now runs just to the west of the line so the view is very different.

 

 

Beckfoot Class 17 D8531 up with brake van April 68 J1253

 

 

Beckfoot Class 47 D1950 down Royal scot April 68 J1256

 

 

Beckfoot Class 40 D307 down parcels April 68 J1259

 

 

Beckfoot Class 40 D224 Lucania down goods April 68 J1261

 

 

Beckfoot Class 50 D405 Glasgow to Birmingham New St. April 68 J1264

 

 

David

Edited August 22, 2022 by DaveF

[corneliuslundie]

That parcels train is a lovely example of the kind of mix of vehicles you used to see.

Jonathan

[DaveF]

 

Simply Damdykes and Cramlington this afternoon. A few minutes later than usual as I've been to my local n gauge society area group meeting today.

 

 

Damdykes 91027 up going away 20th Feb 96 C20756

 

 

Damdykes 91010 down 18th March 95 C20014

 

 

Cramlington 91027 down May 94 J14716

 

 

Cramlington 43154 up 27th Aug 88 C11501

 

 

Cramlington DVT up Nov 91 J12906

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a most delightful selection of photo’s of the High Dyke branch and associated ex-British Steel lines from that short period of preservation. In C1491, at Sewstern, with GWR Castle class, 4079, Pendennis Castle, and the NER saloon, 305, in March, 1974, the NER saloon looks so good in the red livery, fully lined out. 
The ‘old’ photo’s at Beckfoot on the WCML, south of Low Gill, in April, 1968, are truly excellent, and in the first photo’, you have a great shot of a class 17, D8531, on an up light engine movement complete with a brake van - you can have light engine movements with brake vans, a friend who was a fireman said such light engine movements were very common, especially in steam days.

The Damdykes and Cramlington photo’s are lovely, and the first one, at Damdykes, with 91027, on an up express, going away, on the 20th February, 1996, is most atmospheric and reminds me of just how cold that winter was with the remnants of snow on the ground.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[Leander]

J1264, 1M35 was a Glasgow Central - Birmingham New Street train.

[DaveF]

Thgis morning we have some replacement photos from Pilmoor, between York and Northallerton.  All taken in 1967 and 1968.

 

 

Pilmoor Class 20s D8308 and ano up goods June 68 J1305

 

 

Pilmoor Class 37 D6754 up ecs April 67 J846

 

 

Pilmoor Class 40 D278 Paignton to Newcastle Aug 67 J1062

 

 

Pilmoor Class 46 D167 Liverpool to Newcastle Dec 67 J1199

 

 

Pilmoor Class 55 D9021 Argyll and Sutherland Highlander Edinburgh to Kings X March 67 J786

 

 

David

[DaveF]

 

Today would have been Mum's 98th birthday so I thought I would once again use a few of her railway photos in my daily post on here.  I have chosen some from August 1990 taken in Switzerland

 

She loved her trips to Switzerland with Dad and I, her one wish in her later years was to be healthy enough to travel there again, even though she realised it could never happen.

 

The first five photos were taken while staying at Reichenau Tamins, west of Chur in a hotel in a castle overlooking the Rhätische Bahn at the station.  Starting at Reichenau Tamins the photos move along the RhB to Disentis and then to Andermatt on the Furka Oberalp Bahn.  There is also a photo taken between Andermatt and Göschenen on the Furka Oberalp showing a train entering the tunnel  just above the road bridge there known as the "Devil's Bridge".

 

The remaining photos were taken while staying in a small hotel at Sattel,  a village on the Südostbahn from where she visited Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee), including boat trips with a stop at Vitznau to see the Vitznau Rigi Bahn.  There is also a photo of the lowest level of the spirals at Wassen on the Gotthard line.  I say the hotel was small, it was but did superb food.  There was a large underground garage - not for guests' cars but for the owner's car collection, including Rolls Royces.  I wonder if it is still the same.

 

Reichenau Tamins station buffet  showing that the entrance is round the corner 7th Aug 90 P6654

Mum liked taking photos of details, I have yet to reproduce this type of curtain on my n gauge layout!

 

 

Reichenau Tamins RhB Ge6/6 415 mixed train to Chur 7th Aug 90 P6640

 

 

 

Disentis Furka Oberalp HGe4/4 101 Glacier Express St Moritz to Zermatt 8th Aug 90 P6663

 

 

Disentis Furka Oberalp HGe4/4 101 Glacier Express St Moritz to Zermatt 8th Aug 90 P6663

 

 

Schöllenen Gorge Devils Bridge FO De4/4 92 Realp Andermatt to Göschenen 11th Aug 90 P6828

 

 

Vitznau  Vitznau Rigi Bahn Te2/2 18 Güterzug to take hay up Rigi and Dhe4/4 beyond to Rigi Kulm 10th Aug 90 P6780

 

 

Wassen SBB Re6/6 11682 Pfaffikon SZ  EC Hermann Hesse Stuttgart to Milano 11th Aug 90 P6811

 

 

David

 

 

Edited August 22, 2022 by DaveF

[keefer]

Thoughts with you Dave on what must be a difficult day, it's something though that you have so many good memories of mum.

Love the Pilmoor pics earlier, J1305 the class 20 still has its light engine headcode up, they must've forgotten to change it before setting off!

And in J846 you have the perfect excuse to run a Restaurant car without resorting to a long train, call it ECS and just use whatever odds and sods you have lying around!🙂

[corneliuslundie]

Brilliant photos. Now we know where you received your training.

Many thanks for posting them.

Jonathan

[Market65]

Good evening, David. I hope you are getting through today as well as you can with it being your Mum’s birthday, but it’s so good that she lives on with all those lovely photo’s.
Now, the ‘old’ Pilmoor photo’s from 1967 and 1968 are excellent, and in the last one, with class 55, D9021, Argyll and Sutherland Highlander, on an  Edinburgh to Kings Cross express, in March, 1967, you can see that the fifth carriage is a Mkllz FK. Also the down slow line, nearest the camera has what look to be some wet spots. 
The photo’s your Mum took of Switzerland in August, 1992, are all so delightful and capture the railways of Switzerland so perfectly. In P6828, at the Schöllenen Gorge, looking over at the Devils Bridge, with FO De4/4, 92, on a Realp Andermatt to Göschenen service on Saturday, 11th August, 1990, you can see how the tunnel portal was formed out of the mountainside with nothing added by man.

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

[DaveF]

 

This morning's replacements were taken at Church Lane level crossing on the Great Eastern main line just north of Ingatestone, south of Chelmsford.

 

It wasn't far from where I lived in Basildon so I quite often went there for a couple of hours on Saturdays.

 

 

Church Lane LC 306053 Liverpool St to Chelmsford June 75 C2069

 

 

Church Lane Level Crossing 309608 Clacton to Liverpool St July 76 C2837

 

 

Church Lane level crossing Class 47 Norwich to Liverpool St July 79 C4601

 

 

Church Lane LC Class 31 down goods July 79C4603  31019

 

 

Church Lane LC (south of) Class 37 down XP 5th May 1980 C5055

 

 

David

Edited August 23, 2022 by DaveF

[St Enodoc]

4 minutes ago, DaveF said:

Church Lane Level Crossing 309608 Clacton to Liverpool St July 76 C2837

@Clive Mortimore

[Fat Controller]

16 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

This morning's replacements were taken at Church Lane level crossing on the Great Eastern main line just north of Ingatestone, south of Chelmsford.

 

It wasn't far from where I lived in Basildon so I quite often went there for a couple of hours on Saturdays.

 

 

Church Lane LC 306053 Liverpool St to Chelmsford June 75 C2069

 

 

Church Lane Level Crossing 309608 Clacton to Liverpool St July 76 C2837

 

 

Church Lane level crossing Class 47 Norwich to Liverpool St July 79 C4601

 

 

Church Lane LC Class 31 down goods July 79C4603

 

 

Church Lane LC (south of) Class 37 down XP 5th May 1980 C5055

 

 

David

 

[Fat Controller]

C4603:- sand hoppers to/from Marks Tey 

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

 

This morning's replacements were taken at Church Lane level crossing on the Great Eastern main line just north of Ingatestone, south of Chelmsford.

 

It wasn't far from where I lived in Basildon so I quite often went there for a couple of hours on Saturdays.

 

 

Church Lane LC 306053 Liverpool St to Chelmsford June 75 C2069

 

 

Church Lane Level Crossing 309608 Clacton to Liverpool St July 76 C2837

 

 

Church Lane level crossing Class 47 Norwich to Liverpool St July 79 C4601

 

 

Church Lane LC Class 31 down goods July 79C4603

 

 

Church Lane LC (south of) Class 37 down XP 5th May 1980 C5055

 

 

David

In the field behind the Slippery Door stock (class 306 in new money) there use to be a pair of donkeys, they were there for years.

 

Can't go wrong with a photo of a Clacton.

 

The sand train was the only train I overtook on my Honda C90, it was moving. David would know the stretch of A12 that runs parallel to the GE main line at Boreham, I must have been doing terminal velocity of about 55mph, I caught up with and then overtook a moving sand train with a 31 and 37 on the front. 

 

The Type 3 with the train of Mk1 coaches would either be on a Harwich or an East Suffolk line train. Brush 4s were at the time used on Norwich and some Harwich trains.

[eastwestdivide]

3 hours ago, Fat Controller said:

C4603:- sand hoppers to/from Marks Tey 

and at the other end, probably from/to Mile End not far out of Liverpool St

[DaveF]

The early 90s at Buston Barns for today.

 

 It is still a pleasnt quiet place today, though I wish some of the more recent growth of trees and shrubs could be cut back.

 

Buston Barns 43106 up 6th Oct 90 C15397

 

 

Buston Barns 43056 Inverness to Kings X April 91 J11903

 

 

Buston Barns 43078 up 11th April 91 C15793

 

 

Buston Barns 60089 down  May 92 J13127

 

 

Buston Barns 91004 down March 93 J13750

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a great set of ‘old’ photo’s of Church Lane crossing on the GEML. In C4603, with an unidentified class 31, on a down goods train, in July, 1979, it can be seen that the discs were still in use. 
The photo’s of Buston Barns on the ECML in Northumberland are excellent and in the last photo’ of class 91, 91004, hauling a down express, in March, 1993, you have a great three quarter, ground level shot of the train.

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[Davexoc]

10 hours ago, DaveF said:

Church Lane LC Class 31 down goods July 79C4603

That will be 31019 there then....

Discernable from it's sister 31005 by the OHLE warning sign position.

[DaveF]

Photos from the far north of Britain today on the Highland line from Inverness to Wick and Thurso.

 

We are back in August 1973 looking at trains at Culrain and Invershin which lie to the south and north of the Kyle of Sutherland (at the top end of Dornoch Firth).  The railway crosses the water on Invershin viaduct.

 

 

Culrain Class 26 5333 Inverness to Wick and Thurso Aug 73 J3305

 

 

Culrain Class 26 Inverness to Wick and Thurso Aug 73 C1335

 

 

Culrain northbound pass Aug 73  J3306

 

 

Invershin 2x Class 26 Inverness to Wick and Thurso Aug 73 C1337

 

 

Invershin Class 24 Wick and Thurso to Inverness Aug 73 C1338

 

 

David

[DaveF]

Back to Morpeth today with a fairly random selection of photos, mainly of local trains (except the first one).

 

 

Morpeth Class 254 Aberdeen to Kings X Jan 85  J8225

 

 

Morpeth Class 101 Newcastle to Berwick Aug  88 J9638

 

 

Morpeth Class 101 Newcastle to Alnmouth 23rd Dec 88 C11613

 

 

Morpeth Class 108 ecs in yard 23rd Sept 89 C13785

 

 

Morpeth Class 142 ecs to yard 28th Oct 93 C19223 Train is moving to left, the ECML is out of shot to the right.

 

David

Edited August 24, 2022 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good afternoon, David. That’s a most impressive and atmospheric set of photo’s of the Highland line from Inverness to Wick and Thurso at Culrain and Invershin in August, 1973. The last photo’ at Invershin, with a class 24 on a Wick and Thurso to Inverness service, is most photogenic, and what a typical Scottish formation with the BG in the middle.

The Morpeth photo’s are an excellent selection, and once again, how tired the class 101 DMU is in C11613, working a Newcastle to Alnmouth service on the 23rd December, 1988. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.