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

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a superb selection of photo’s of the Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh line, at Plockton and Kyle of Lochalsh. In J3324, at Plockton, with a class 26, on a Kyle to Inverness service, in August, 1973, you have the train sandwiched in between the tree covered hillside, and the water in the foreground. You can also see the refections of the masts in the water. That photo’ would make an excellent oil painting.

The Newcastle photo’s are excellent and in C13864, of the QE2 Metro Bridge, with a Metro crossing it, and the King Edward bridge, on the 18th November, 1989, you have captured a delightful shot of the Metro bridge in very slightly misty conditions. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

 

[hmrspaul]

On 25/11/2022 at 09:40, DaveF said:

Some photos from the Great Eastern for this morning's replacements.  

 

 

 

 

 Harold Wood 47091 up continental goods 13th June 76 C2788

 

 

 

 

David

 

Nice, three Associated Octel tanks and an Algeco. 

 

Paul

[DaveF]

Today's preserved railway photos come from the Great Central at Loughborough and Quorn, rather a long time ago.  The first one was taken by Dad 47 years ago, the most recent ones 33 years ago.  The places have changed a bit since then.

 

 

Quorn and Woodhouse Hunslet Robert Nelson No 4 Mar 75 J4169

 

 

Loughborough Central Director D11 506 April 79 C4434

 

 

Loughborough Central N2 4744 April 79 J6431

 

 

Loughborough RSH 7597 Jan 83 J7786

 

 

Loughborough Central GWR 6990 Witherslack Hall and RSH 7597 10th June 89 C11989

 

 

Loughborough Central Fowler D4279 EMGB Gasworks No 1  10th June 89 C11998

 

 

David

Edited November 27, 2022 by DaveF

[DaveF]

Derbyshire for today's replacements, at Great Rocks.

 

 

Great Rocks LMS 8F 48511 light engine April 63 J046

 

 

Great Rocks LMS 8F 48295 down ICI limestone April 63 J047

 

 

Great Rocks 37684 & 37678 le from Buxton 19th April 90 C14403

 

 

Great Rocks ICI shunter 24th Aug 90 C15296

 

 

Great Rocks 47532 down goods 24th Aug 90 C15301

 

 

David

[DaveF]

 

Back to the Great Central for today's final batch.  They were taken at Stanford on Soar, just north of Loughborough.

 

They are in black and white and date from the early 50s.

 

Stanford on Soar B1 61233 Marylebone to Manchester c1952 JVol4084 gif

 

 

Stanford on Soar north of Loughborough GC B1 61158 ex pass Marylebone to Sheffield c1950 JVol3069 gif

 

 

Stanford on Soar O1 63590 down goods c1952 JVol4082 gif

 

 

Stanford on Soar O1 63594 down goods c1952 JVol4085 gif

 

 

Stanford on Soar O1 63752 up goods c1952 JVol4080 gif

 

 

David

Edited November 27, 2022 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening, David. Sorry I’m late again, my internet has been off again today until just recently. The photo’s of the preserved Great Central Railway at Loughborough and Quorn, are full of interest, and in C11989, at Loughborough Central, with GWR, 6990, Witherslack Hall, and RSH, 7597, on the 10th June, 1989, on the track furthest from your camera can be seen a preserved GCR Barnum carriage. I forget if it is the only example of a Barnum to be preserved.

The Derbyshire replacements photo’s at Great Rocks, are fascinating, and in the last photo’ of 47532, on a short down goods train on the 24th August, 1990, with the camera angle and distance, it makes it look like an N gauge model. ;)

The Great Central Railway photo’s from Stanford on Soar, just north of Loughborough, are superb, and in JVol3069, with B1, 61158, on an express passenger train from Marylebone to Sheffield, in c1950, it can be seen that there is a headboard on the centre lamp iron turned back to front. I wonder if the train was a Saturday working of a Monday to Friday named express?

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[corneliuslundie]

C14403: So who painted their model class 37 the wrong yellow on the ends?

I think I have seen that Barnum carriage in a much better state more recently. I can't remember if there is more than one.

Jonathan

[DaveF]

Pilmoor in September 1967 for this morning's replacements.

 

 

Pilmoor Class 37 D6796 down goods Sept 67 J1114

 

 

Pilmoor Class 55 D9007 Pinza 08.45 Edinburgh to Kings X Sept 67 J1116

 

 

Pilmoor Class 55 D9010 The Kings Own Scottish Borderer11.00 Newcastle to Kings X Sept 67 J1117  

 

 

Pilmoor Class 55   Sept 67 J1125  12.00 Newcastle to Colchester via coast    Kings Cross portion onto 1A27 at York

 

 

Pilmoor Class 47 D1982 Sept 67 J1128

 

 

David

 

 

[corneliuslundie]

J1114 got me thinking. Go back the same amount of time as between that photo and today and really all that would be different would be the locomotive and the signal. Between 1967 and now about the only thing that would be the same would be the locomotive. The track would now be flat-bottomed. In all likelihood even the signal would have been changed to an LED type, and the rolling stock would be completely different as would be the traffic carried. Some class 37s soldier on in various liveries nothing like that of BR.

And that is in the time I have been looking at railways.

Jonathan

[russ p]

11 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said:

J1114 got me thinking. Go back the same amount of time as between that photo and today and really all that would be different would be the locomotive and the signal. Between 1967 and now about the only thing that would be the same would be the locomotive. The track would now be flat-bottomed. In all likelihood even the signal would have been changed to an LED type, and the rolling stock would be completely different as would be the traffic carried. Some class 37s soldier on in various liveries nothing like that of BR.

And that is in the time I have been looking at railways.

Jonathan

 

And let's not forget overgrown backsides and graffiti covered wagons... I know which era I prefer. 

Can't wait for someone to create a device to upload you onto your model railway I'm going to stay on mine permanently! 

[DaveF]

Black and white photos from the late 40s/early 50s again this afternoon.

 

This time they are all at Nottingham Victoria, the Great Central and Great Northern station.

 

 

Nottingham Victoria interior and B1 c1950 JVol3003 gif

 

 

Nottingham Victoria interior c1950 JVol3191.gif

 

 

Nottingham Victoria J1 65009 l e and N2 69550 up pass c1950J Vol7340.gif

 

 

Nottingham Victoria J5 65491 Grantham to Derby Friargate c1951 JVol7102.gif

 

 

Nottingham Victoria J11 64370 down goods c1952 JVol4071.gif

 

 

Nottingham Victoria J39 4749 and A5 c1948 JVol1161.gif

 

 

David

[corneliuslundie]

A great photo of the interior. 

Jonathan

[Chris116]

Sadly Nottingham Victoria had been knocked down and a shopping centre built on the area before I ever knowingly went to Nottingham.

[88C]

They did leave the clock tower.

 

Brian

[Chris116]

Just now, 88C said:

They did leave the clock tower.

 

Brian

Sadly the first time I went the clocks were all showing different times and none were correct!

[great central]

The clock tower has also been extensively re built I understand, due surprisingly to deterioration of the original brickwork.

Truly a station fit for an important city, compared with the low roofed thing in the meadows, squatting under the GC viaduct, that passes for Nottingham's railway station now.

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a fabulous set of replacement photo’s of Pilmoor from September, 1967. In J1125, with a class 55 Deltic on the 12.00, Newcastle to Colchester, via the coast, with the King’s Cross portion attached onto 1A27 at York, unless I’m seeing things, the third carriage from the rear looks like a Thompson SK. I know some survived into 1967, so it’s not too unlikely.

The Nottingham Victoria station photo’s from the late 1940’s and the early 1950’s, are all gems, with JVol7102, with a class J5, 65491, on a Grantham to Derby Friargate service in c1951, is a fascinating view of the engine, the carriages, staff and passengers. It really is another world compared with today.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[D7063]

 I'm no expert on Deltic variations but what are the two black dots either side of the top of 'nose' of D9007 Pinza in J1116, are they horn grills like on a class 40?

[SHMD]

2 minutes ago, D7063 said:

 I'm no expert on Deltic variations but what are the two black dots either side of the top of 'nose' of D9007 Pinza in J1116, are they horn grills like on a class 40?

 

What on earth !

I have never seen them in my life.

 

 

Kev.

 

[DaveF]

55 minutes ago, D7063 said:

 I'm no expert on Deltic variations but what are the two black dots either side of the top of 'nose' of D9007 Pinza in J1116, are they horn grills like on a class 40?

 

51 minutes ago, SHMD said:

 

What on earth !

I have never seen them in my life.

 

 

Kev.

 

They appear on a number of photos of D9007 on the web when in green with full yellow ends.

 

The notes copied below come from the Chronicles of Napier page on D9007:

web page:    http://www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/9007.htm

 

21.03.66
1st EE maintenance contract expires - mileage recorded at 799,147.
04.06.66
Experimental warning horns inserted into the nose cones of both No.1 and No.2 ends.
27.10.66
Experimental Syphonic warning horns were fitted.
27.11.66
Locomotive underwent audible testing of experimental Syphonic nose cone fitted warning air horns between Arelsley and Great Ponton with D9016 (standard fitted warning horn below buffer beam) and D9018 (bonnet fitted horns - later fitted as standard).

1967

12.01.67
Released from Doncaster Works, after General repair, with full yellow ends applied and experimental ETH equipment.
24.10.68
Released from Doncaster Works, after General repair, in blue livery (the experimental nose-cone fitted air horns were also removed.

 

David

Edited November 28, 2022 by DaveF

[D7063]

9 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

They appear on a number of photos of D9007 on the web when in green with full yellow ends.

 

The notes copied below come from the Chronicles of Napier page on D9007:

web page:    http://www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/9007.htm

 

21.03.66
1st EE maintenance contract expires - mileage recorded at 799,147.
04.06.66
Experimental warning horns inserted into the nose cones of both No.1 and No.2 ends.
27.10.66
Experimental Syphonic warning horns were fitted.
27.11.66
Locomotive underwent audible testing of experimental Syphonic nose cone fitted warning air horns between Arelsley and Great Ponton with D9016 (standard fitted warning horn below buffer beam) and D9018 (bonnet fitted horns - later fitted as standard).

1967

12.01.67
Released from Doncaster Works, after General repair, with full yellow ends applied and experimental ETH equipment.
24.10.68
Released from Doncaster Works, after General repair, in blue livery (the experimental nose-cone fitted air horns were also removed.

 

David

That's great thank you David!!!!!

[JeffP]

9 hours ago, russ p said:

 

And let's not forget overgrown backsides and graffiti covered wagons... I know which era I prefer. 

Can't wait for someone to create a device to upload you onto your model railway I'm going to stay on mine permanently! 

Aaaargh!

Reminds me of a story called "The Attic Express", which was featured in the Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories.

Interesting, but as to be expected, didn't end well😮

[35A]

2 hours ago, DaveF said:

04.06.66
Experimental warning horns inserted into the nose cones of both No.1 and No.2 ends.
27.10.66
Experimental Syphonic warning horns were fitted.
27.11.66
Locomotive underwent audible testing of experimental Syphonic nose cone fitted warning air horns between Arelsley and Great Ponton with D9016 (standard fitted warning horn below buffer beam) and D9018 (bonnet fitted horns - later fitted as standard).

 

In all of the times, over the years, that I have looked at pictures of D9007 with the syphonic horns fitted, I have NEVER noticed that the ETH jumpers had been fitted at that time. Shocking - I must pay more attention!  🙄😁

[DaveF]

A trip to the Humber estuary for today's replacements.  Barton on Humber is the terminus of a branch on the south bank.  It still exists as a single platform with trains to and from Cleethorpes.

 

 

Barton on Humber station buildings June 64 J134

 

 

Barton on Humber goods yard June 64 J135

 

 

Barton on Humber Class 114  June 64 J136

 

 

Barton on Humber Class 114 dmu Aug 77 C3467

 

 

Barton on Humber  Class 114 E56026 28 Mar78 C3752

 

 

David

Edited November 29, 2022 by DaveF

[Fat Controller]

I wonder what that SNCF (?) ferry van was doing there?