Reading General Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 We have started a facebook group looking for early photos of the MHR...if you have any to contribute , we'd love to see them https://www.facebook.com/groups/925021707521081/?fref=ts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted June 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 2, 2015 Do you mean early in service, or early preservation era? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reading General Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 well Preservation really, but earlier pictures are very welcome too...there is plenty of both posted already Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froxfield2012 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I have these four shots taken at Ropley sometime (but who knows when?). The negatives are very mucky and date from the time when my father (H Gordon Hands) had more or less given up railway photography and didn't really bother to note details! In many respects, he wasn't much interested in photographing preserved railways: I think there were just so many other people around doing just that. However, he was very friendly with Roy Nash, a fellow church organist, who I think put in quite a lot of time on the Mid Hants. I don't want to join another Facebook group, but if these are of interest then please feel free to post them. Frankly I would prefer to edit them a bit, but I don't have the time right now! As a quid pro quo, I would be interested if anyone could give an approximate date: they are all from the same roll of film. Somewhere I will also have some 35mm colour but I am still working through the earlier B&W stuff. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reading General Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 I have these four shots taken at Ropley sometime (but who knows when?). The negatives are very mucky and date from the time when my father (H Gordon Hands) had more or less given up railway photography and didn't really bother to note details! In many respects, he wasn't much interested in photographing preserved railways: I think there were just so many other people around doing just that. However, he was very friendly with Roy Nash, a fellow church organist, who I think put in quite a lot of time on the Mid Hants. I don't want to join another Facebook group, but if these are of interest then please feel free to post them. Frankly I would prefer to edit them a bit, but I don't have the time right now! As a quid pro quo, I would be interested if anyone could give an approximate date: they are all from the same roll of film. Somewhere I will also have some 35mm colour but I am still working through the earlier B&W stuff. Richard Ropley 1_ms.jpg 34106 Ropley 2_ed.jpg 31806 Ropley 3_ed.jpg Ropley 4_ms.jpg Thanks i'll come back with a date Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reading General Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 Early 1982 is the opinion I'm hearing, just before the extension to Medsted and Alton started Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Here are the only ones that I have. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reading General Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 Here are the only ones that I have. 34016 1.jpg 34016 2.jpg 34016 3.jpg very nice shots Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froxfield2012 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Early 1982 is the opinion I'm hearing, just before the extension to Medsted and Alton started Thank you for that.. It is much later than I would have imagined as I was pretty sure the two and a quarter Ross Ensign had been pensioned off by then. I know it had shutter problems and this might explain why the original (non-Photoshopped) negatives are so very dark. The photos are then "end of the line" in more senses than one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reading General Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 It made us scratch our heads but given that 31806 appears to be ready for service and the extension has yet to start we though early 82, possibly late 81. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froxfield2012 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 It made us scratch our heads but given that 31806 appears to be ready for service and the extension has yet to start we though early 82, possibly late 81. I am sure you are right. After a bit of Googling I could see clearly that 3162x was still at Woodhams in the late 1970s. Most interestingly (for me) this also gives a date for the rest of the images from that film that share the same development fault: far too dark and heavy. It is a tribute to Photoshop that there is anything to see. I cannot imagine trying to print these negatives conventionally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 very nice shots Thanks. They were from August 1990. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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