Chris T's photo archives

[russ p]

The road was built at the same time as the Broad Marsh Centre, the service area on the roof being accessed from that road.

How old is the broad marsh centre?

[great central]

How old is the broad marsh centre?

 

I was working on it around  winter1972-73, I would think, pulling cables in around the Lister Gate area. It was before the glazing had gone in, like a (very cold) wind tunnel. The working day consisted of about 1hr work followed by at least 30 minutes in the Woolworths cafe next door to warm up before another hour or so working, then back to Woolies.

 

Opened in 1975 apparently;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadmarsh

[russ p]

Ah, thanks for that I hadn't realised it was that old

[Chris Turnbull]

Back to Cambridge for today's selection.  In the 1980s I worked close to Hills Road bridge and a favourite lunchtime jaunt in good weather was to the railway.

 

 

Its 11th March 1980 and 37052 is leaving on the 13.26 to Liverpool Street.  The new Cambridge power signalbox can be seen under construction behind the locomotive.  The old cattle market is to the right and was still in use at this time.

 

 

Moving down to the railings in the foreground of the previous photograph, this is 37021 on the 13.39 arrival from Liverpool Street taken on the same day. 

 

 

 

Nine days later the 13.26 departure was hauled by 37017.

 

 

An interesting working was always the lunchtime arrival of the CIBA-GEIGY train from their plant at Duxford.  This is 45071 on the working on 26th March 1980.  The factory was connected to the rail network in the mid-70s but the connection is now overgrown and disused.

 

Thanks to Jonny777 as usual.

 

Chris Turnbull

Edited May 18, 2022 by Chris Turnbull

[JeffP]

I was working on it around  winter1972-73, I would think, pulling cables in around the Lister Gate area. It was before the glazing had gone in, like a (very cold) wind tunnel. The working day consisted of about 1hr work followed by at least 30 minutes in the Woolworths cafe next door to warm up before another hour or so working, then back to Woolies.

 

Opened in 1975 apparently;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadmarsh

Parts of it were open before that, I was In Nottm from Sept 73 to July 75 and it was open in parts when I was there.

[Phil Bullock]

Here's a part of the world that hasn't featured as yet in this thread - Bromsgrove on 8th March 1980.

  

800308 Bromsgrove 253003 K16.10.jpg

 

Finally here's a relatively new Class 253 No. 253003 passing the bankers having just descended the bank.

 

Season's Greetings

 

Chris Turnbull

 

 

Amazing weathering on those 37's...it's almost as if it's been sprayed on.

Posted Today, 22:58

 

Smashing photos Chris

 

This was a few years earlier but the weathering is similar! Different locos but they still probably haven't been cleaned in the intervening years....

 

http://www.rmweb.co....46290_thumb.jpg

 

Kind regards

 

Phil

[Chris Turnbull]

One railway that has always fascinated me is the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway.  Since the original closed in 1924, a casualty of the Irish Civil War, I never thought that I would see a working example of a Lartigue monorail.  However, a 1,100 yard replica has been built in Listowel and thanks to the Railway Study Association organising a long study weekend in Limerick in 2008 I was able to see and ride on this most unusual railway.  All photographs were taken on 22nd May 2008.

 

 

The replica locomotive is seen here ready to depart.  This is diesel powered, the original locomotives being steam powered which meant two independent boilers and fireboxes which had to be kept balanced. 

 

 

Another view of the locomotive

 

 

This is the arrangement for a point which also doubled as a turntable.

 

 

 

Two shots of the train in action.

 

 

The arrangement of the passenger coaches.  Seats are longtitudinal and passengers must be balanced either side.

 

My apologies if you consider that this shouId be in the Irish section but I think this is a fascinating railway and well worth a visit if you are in the area.  For more details see:

 

http://www.lartiguemonorail.com/

 

Don't forget to click on the History and Gallery tabs.

 

Chris Turnbull

Edited May 18, 2022 by Chris Turnbull

[Jon Fitness]

A seriously bonkers bit of kit .

I've read about the original but I didn't know they'd built a replica. Many thanks for sharing that

Jon F.

[108]

A fascinating railway. Also probably the only 0-3-0 loco in the world.

[Enterprisingwestern]

Are they sure they got the headlamp big enough?

 

Mike.

[Chris Turnbull]

Back to East Anglia tonight and a few more views of Bury St Edmunds.

 

 

Brush Type 2 D5581 passes Bury St Edmunds Yard signalbox on 12th June 1968

 

 

An unidentified Brush Type 2 hauls failed English Electric Type 3 D6752 on 8th March 1969

 

 

Another Brush Type 2 D5628 and B.R. shunter D2006 on 28th March 1969.  The barren area in the foreground was the site of the locomotive shed, 31E.

 

 

Brush Type 2 D5629 departs westwards, again on 28th March 1969.

 

Thanks to Jonny777 again.

 

Chris Turnbull

 

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Edited May 18, 2022 by Chris Turnbull

[russ p]

Fantastic again chris. I didn't realise the up middle road was left in after the down was removed or was it a dead end siding. ?

Incidenly when were they taken out as running lines.

Views like these make me want to crack on with my layout as its the same era and period

 

Just noticed the iron railings on the platform, were these always black or were they ever green or cream?

[LNERGE]

Back to East Anglia tonight and a few more views of Bury St Edmunds.

 

 

690308 Bury St Edmunds Class 31, D6752 K6.9.jpg

 

An unidentified Brush Type 2 hauls failed English Electric Type 3 D6752 on 8th March 1969

I love the facing point lock bars up the insides of the blades..

[Chris Turnbull]

On 28/12/2014 at 20:54, russ p said:

Fantastic again chris. I didn't realise the up middle road was left in after the down was removed or was it a dead end siding. ?

Incidenly when were they taken out as running lines.

Views like these make me want to crack on with my layout as its the same era and period

 

Just noticed the iron railings on the platform, were these always black or were they ever green or cream?

 

Glad you like the photos.

 

As far as I can recall the track was rationalised in the station in 1965.  The Down through road was removed entirely but the Up through road was left as a siding.  If you look at post #34 you will see there is no connection at the Up end of the station.

 

Here's a couple of shots of Bury St Edmunds taken in 1963 by a railway-mad 11 year-old, black and white I'm afraid as a 35mm camera and colour slide film was an unattainable expense to a lad receiving 2/6d (IIRC) weekly pocket money.  

 

 

In this shot the Down through road is still signalled as such.  Note the GE water crane adorning the yard.  The track in the foreground led to Gough's Maltings where there was a wagon turntable.  Only once did I see the yard shunter venture down this siding and didn't have my camera with me at the time (probably hadn't any money for the film).  

 

 

An unidentified BR shunter potters about the yard.  The Thompson coach was one of a two-coach rake that up until 1961 ran between Bury St Edmunds and Long Melford.  The rake remained in the yard for years, probably until it had to be moved to allow the sidings to be re-aligned when the engine shed was demolished and the track removed.

 

I don't remember the railings being any colour than black but as a lad I didn't really look at railings, I was more concerned with locomotives!

 

Chris Turnbull 

Edited May 18, 2022 by Chris Turnbull

[Chris Turnbull]

A selection on the East Coast Main Line this evening.

 

 

On 12th July 1968 "Deltic" D9019 "Royal Highland Fusilier" passes through Doncaster on an Up Down express.

 

 

Taken from the train on the same day, this is a view of the MPD 

 

 

Class 55 No. 9004 "Queen's Own Highlander" passes High Dyke Junction on 29th March 1973 on an Up express and is about to enter Stoke Tunnel which lies just behind the photographer.  

 

 

High Dyke was the junction for the freight-only line to iron ore mines west of Colsterworth and lies a few miles south of Grantham.  The branch into Colsterworth itself had closed in 1966 while the branch from Skillington Road Junction to Stainby Quarry had closed in 1972.  This left only the line to Sproxton Quarry open at the time this photograph was taken, 29th March 1973, which was itself closed later that year.  An unidentified Class 31 brings a train of iron ore into the exchange sidings.

   

 

Moving further south to Peterborough this is Brush Type 2 D5535 in Platform 5 on 9th September 1968

 

 

And this is "Deltic" D9006 "The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry" in Platform 2 on a Down express.

 

Thanks to Jonny777 as usual.

 

Chris Turnbull

Edited May 18, 2022 by Chris Turnbull

[AberdeenBill]

Hi Chris,

 

What a gorgeous set of photos.   On the original, can you make out the lettering on the brake van behind D5535? 

 

Many thanks,

Bill

[LNERGE]

680909 Peterborough Brush type 2 D5535 K5.2.jpg

 

Moving further south to Peterborough this is Brush Type 2 D5535 in Platform 5 on 9th September 1968

 

 

Chris Turnbull

There's rather a lot of writing on the side of that brakevan.

[SHMD]

   

680909 Peterborough Brush type 2 D5535 K5.2.jpg

 

Moving further south to Peterborough this is Brush Type 2 D5535 in Platform 5 on 9th September 1968

That Brakevan looks like it has (large-ish) wasp warning stripes on the 'inside' of the veranda!

 

 

Kev

[LNERGE]

That Brakevan looks like it has (large-ish) wasp warning stripes on the 'inside' of the veranda!

 

 

Kev

That is to attract the attention of someone taking over this van it is deficient in something, weight maybe?

[cctransuk]

That Brakevan looks like it has (large-ish) wasp warning stripes on the 'inside' of the veranda!

 

 

Kev

 

From the angle of the sun - just  diagonal shadows.

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

[31A]

Thanks again for posting these pictures, Chris.  The ones of Bury are very interesting - although the passenger train service is quite possibly more frequent now than it was in 1968/9, what an impression it still gave then of being a 'railway centre' (despite the loco depot and branch lines having closed) with evidence of buoyant freight traffic locally at the time.  Thinking about it, perhaps the same applies at various places.

 

Interesting ECML pictures too; I note from my travels up and down the Main Line that Doncaster Carr Loco has been demolished and erased over the past year, having for a long time been one of the few diesel depots still functioning that was recognisable from steam days (although I think part of the office buildings at Neville Hill go back to North Eastern days).

[Enterprisingwestern]

Hi Chris,

 

What a gorgeous set of photos.   On the original, can you make out the lettering on the brake van behind D5535? 

 

Many thanks,

Bill

 

It will more than likely be a Kings Cross DCE van due to it's location, (maybe!), usually outstationed at Hitchin yard, the writing is shown on various of David Larkins pictures, don't know whether Paul Bartlett's site has any on.

 

Mike.

[Chris Turnbull]

What a gorgeous set of photos.   On the original, can you make out the lettering on the brake van behind D5535? 

 

I've had a play around including scanning the original at a much higher resolution but still can't read the writing.  Sorry.

 

Chris Turnbull

[Gary H]

Fantastic photo's, Chris.

One the best threads on the forum to get my daily 'nostalgia fix'.

[mark54]

Correction to one of the captions - D9019 at Doncaster is on a down express (not up). The train is the 12:00 KX-Aberdeen.