East Midlands Miscellany

[Guest B Exam]

Not quite as what it should of been...

Grrrrrr... Not What Was Planned! by Type Ones on Tour, on Flickr

 

37604 leads 73138 well off the beaten track at Lowdham. The 73 should of been leading at this point, but the 37 was run round at Lincoln to pilot the 73....

[Ramrig]

Too right Peter

 

 

Beats 'Corporate' plain blue any day!!!

 

 

The Midland dumped them in a big tub to make 'Wagon Grey'

That livery looks like an explosion in the Dulux factory 

 

Apparently designed by a child at the last family day using wax crayons by the looks of it  ............................. they should have left the crayons in Pizza Hut! 

[pete_mcfarlane]

Now for something completely different! 50007 goes for a little jaunt to Lincolnshire.....

Sublime To The Ridiculous... by Type Ones on Tour, on Flickr

 

 

Elton and Orston must be the least busy station in the whole East Midlands. One train a day in each direction stops there. I guess it's cheaper to keep it open like this than to close it.

Edited May 20, 2014 by pete_mcfarlane

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Some days stick in the memory. Though this shot at Stenson Junction was taken in October 1968, it seems just like yesterday. It was a bright, cold morning on the first day of the autumn half term holidays and we'd cycled over from Derby to spend a day here.

BR Type 4 D100 "Sherwood Forester" arrives at Willington Power Station with a load of coal.

Forty five years gone in a blink.....

[Allegheny1600]

^^^ That's the picture of the topic for me!

Absolutely stunning!

Cheers,

John E.

[Guest B Exam]

^^^ That's the picture of the topic for me!

Absolutely stunning!

Cheers,

John E.

I agree! Pity the view has changed somewhat....

 

Anyway over to the Lincolnshire Riviera.....

 

45037 Prepares to depart Skegness on Saturday 9th July 1988 with 1E48 10.15 to Sheffield via Nottingham. This was just over 3 weeks before these 16 wheeled monsters ended their working career for BR bar 45106 which lasted until Feb 1989.

 

In the background can be made out a pair of 31s which has just propelled back into the carriage sidings after arriving with 1E47 06.36 from Sheffield via Nottingham.

Edited May 21, 2014 by B Exam

[Poor Old Bruce]

I've just posted this photo on the Class 50 thread as well. It shows 50011 at Moira on 5 June 1983 after visiting the open day at Coalville.

 

[Guest B Exam]

Now for something completely different and an excuse to use modellers' licence!

 

 

90003 Hitchin' a ride through Nottingham in the consist of 4L90 Crewe Basford Hall to Felixstowe Freightliner 26th August 2008.

[eastwestdivide]

I've just posted this photo on the Class 50 thread as well. It shows 50011 at Moira on 5 June 1983 after visiting the open day at Coalville.

 

From the same day, a panorama of Coalville with that 50, a DMU special, Peak D4 (see also this post) and others:

 

And another(?) DMU special the Coal-Ton Flyer, plus a saddletank "Progress" (?) with some MGR HAA wagons.:

 

There was also 4F 4027, and both the steam locos were trundling about and posing on different trains:

 

Mantle Lane signalbox above, and below, Coalville Crossing signalbox:

Edited May 23, 2014 by eastwestdivide

[eastwestdivide]

Adding to the Coalville story, I just found my notes:

4F 4027 and D4 with two brakevans came through Leicester about 0705.

The Coal-Ton Flyer was a 6-car DMU, all NH-based according to my notes 51786 59679 51791 51584 59581 51575, coming through Leicester at 1010, and departing Coalville about 1300 (I think the -Ton bit was a visit to Toton)

I travelled on the other 6-car DMU at about 1045 from Leicester, reversing at Knighton 1050/1054, arriving Coalville 1145. Cars included 59087 and 53324. Came back on the same train departing Coalville 1640-ish, arriving Leicester 1810 ish. We passed 20167+20164 at Coalville Crossing on some Mk2f coaches - according to Six Bells Junction, that was the Coalville Collier, coming back from Toton to pick up 50011, which had come off the outbound train at Wigston and ran light to Coalville to wait for the train to catch it up again.

 

Locos on display were 08695 (a Leicester regular), 20177+20192, 25078, 27014 from Scotland*, 31131, 37252, 40177, 45049, 56084, 56120,

plus 97201 (Derby RTC's class 24); RDB975874 or LEV-1, an early railbus prototype; steam locos 4027 and Progress; a rake of coaches/parcel vans with displays and stands inside them; cinema coach ZDW150353.

And the usual suspects regarding wagons - there seemed to be a rake of odd wagons around that time that always turned up at open days - a curtainsided Procor van, an LPG training tanker and a side-tipping thing.

 

*just visible in the panorama in the previous post

Edited May 23, 2014 by eastwestdivide

[Rugd1022]

Love the Coalville Open Day stuff - very nice!

 

It's probably not common knowledge but Coalville / Mantle Lane is officially open again as our Freightliner Heavyhaul Stabling Point, with locos being stabled on the two shed remaining shed roads and if needed on 'Goods 2', which is the old Up Goods Loop.

[Poor Old Bruce]

Keeping to the Coalville open day theme, here are 20167 and 20164 at Hathern with the special from Plymouth after visiting Toton

 

 

and a DMU excursion at Moira after the event while waiting for the 50.

[Catkins]

This tread is stirring some memories for me.

 

That's actually a class 150/2 - but an interesting picture nonetheness.  Were they conventional traffic lights on the crossing or flashing ones mounted vertically?

 

it looks like they were conventional traffic lights set back from the junction at the top end of the high street, the junction itself is two car lengths past the level crossing - you can see another set of traffic lights on the left.

 

Yes it is the silica sand again. Clearly the current wagons have better doors as the train still goes that way.Edit to add.. The train would have gone via the Lincoln avoider but i guess by 1983 that was out of use?

Yes the Lincoln avoider was out of use by 1983, I believe that it became disused in 1982, and they started demolishing it in 1983. If you know where to look though, you can still see reminants of all the old track formations in Lincoln.

 

I really should get some of my pictures on here.

[PinzaC55]

Seen by me in 1978 when I was several pounds lighter and still had use for a comb, Whitwick station on the old LNWR Loughborough (Derby Road) to Hugglescote branch which closed to passengers in 1931.

 

Whitwick Station  (1) 24.6.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Whitwick Station (2) 24.6.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Edit* I just looked on Google Earth and incredibly it not only still exists but has been very tastefully restored !  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitwick_railway_station

Edited May 23, 2014 by PinzaC55

[Peter Kazmierczak]

A late 60's summer day at High Dyke, as a Deltic emerges from Stoke Tunnel with an express for Leeds.

[LNERGE]

Super shot. What stands out for me is the modification, probably for the provision of ATC (as AWS was first known)to Highdyke 13 signal circuits to bring back a filament alarm and an ON/light out\OFF indication back to the box. This signal also acted as Stoke UMAOD.

[jonny777]

It must be dated after 1968, because before that the 'L' headcodes were (somewhat illogically) used for Cleethorpes services.

 

Leeds/Bradford/Harrogate were 'N', and Newcastle/Edinburgh were 'A'.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Some years later.....

[PinzaC55]

Elton and Orston must be the least busy station in the whole East Midlands. One train a day in each direction stops there. I guess it's cheaper to keep it open like this than to close it.

 

In my Deltic bashing days there was a legendary basher (he was the one who kissed 55022's nameplate at Kings Cross on the last service train) and I think it was him who was bashing a pair of 20s back from Skegness via Elton. Supposedly the train was stopped at Elton and he bailed out there just to say he had rare haulage to an obscure station!

Apologies to him if he reads this and it is a shaggy dog story.....

[LNERGE]

Some years later.....

Now a VMS colourlight. I'm guilty of that.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

The GBL model of a Deltic pops its nose out of a rather poorly modelled tunnel portal.........

 

Alternatively, a real Deltic pops out of Stoke Tunnel in the summer of 1969 with a Kings Cross - Scotland service.

Edited May 26, 2014 by Western Sunset

[Guest B Exam]

In my Deltic bashing days there was a legendary basher (he was the one who kissed 55022's nameplate at Kings Cross on the last service train) and I think it was him who was bashing a pair of 20s back from Skegness via Elton. Supposedly the train was stopped at Elton and he bailed out there just to say he had rare haulage to an obscure station!

Apologies to him if he reads this and it is a shaggy dog story.....

Ahhh.... The erstwhile Mr Fraser. It sounds about right for him. I spent 2 hours at around midnight at Etruria station with him waiting for a pair of 20s on the last Derby-Crewe one night....

 

Anyway, apologies for the thread drift!

[Poor Old Bruce]

PinzaC55's photos of Whitwick station reminded me of a trip tp Coalville in 1963 to seek out the last Midalnd 2F 0-6-0s as we afterwards walked along that line to Shepshed. Somewhere (safe?) is a photo I took of Whitwick station from the track side but don't hold your breath waiting for me to post it (sorry).

 

To make up for that, here are the photos I took of the 2Fs:

 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Where better than to watch the passing trains than lying in the grass on the cutting side near High Dyke on a beautiful summer's afternoon - memories of 45 years ago......

[LNERGE]

Where better than to watch the passing trains than lying in the grass on the cutting side near High Dyke on a beautiful summer's afternoon - memories of 45 years ago......

Beautiful.