The Border Reiver

I posted this picture on here in February 2017 asking if anyone could help with the location. It was takn on 22 August 1963 The Johnster confirmed it was Taff's Well as follows..... The 94xx is, I agree, at Taff's Well, in the sidings of what later became Forgemasters and with the Penrhos roads between it and the down platform, which you can see the fence for and the foot of the footbridge which is of course still there. It may be resting between banking duties, a very common task for the big panniers here. The Penrhos line is now a cycle path, and you can get up a good bit of speed coming down the bank on it!

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Saw it in Darlington north road scrapyard stripped down to its frames but it still had the Lincolnshire nameplates on

On 16 April 2009 I popped into Carlisle station to take a photo of the northbound 'Tesco' liner train. While I was there, I saw a group of people wating to get on a Northern 156 to Newcastle. Well, I couldn't resist taking this photo. I never saw Northern offering 'Personal Services' on their trains.... 😊

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Here is a rear view of Class 50 D420 at Brisco near Carlisle on a steel slab train looking south from the old bridge approaching the replacement bridge which is under construction in the early 1970s. The old bridge was eventually demolished.

90473 was withdrawn in December 1962.... so it's 90478 :)

Here is a photo of class 20 20206 with a line of another class 20 and class 37s behind taken by my late friend probably after December 1974 when the snowplough brackets were fitted. Can anyone idenfify the location? Its last two sheds were Tinsley 9-10-71 to 12-12-76 and Eastfield 12-12-76 to 12-4-91

C6616 and C6617 taken at my favourite spotting spot in the 1950s and 1960s :)

Happy birthday Jim... thanks for all the photos...

Class 155 155324 approaches Westbury station on a train to Cardiff General on 26 August 1991. Some locos can be seen in the now closed diesel depot

Here is a class 08 heading east on a local trip working after it had just passed under London Road bridge at Carlisle in the mid 1960s. The building in the background is the former North Eastern Railway goods shed, constructed in 1881 which in 2015 was give a grade 2 listed status. The small NER goods yard between the 08 has a variety of wagons in it. However, the goods yard has now been replaced by a drive through McDonald's...!!! :(

The 'Carlisle Gang' flanked by two 9Fs bunking Tyne Dock shed on 20 November 1965. It was a very cold day!!!

On Monday 15 June 1964 I was in London, possibly on a work related visit. I ventured to Kings Cross station where I saw amongst other locos an immaculate Deltic Type 5 (later class 55) D9012 (55012) 'Crepello' standing at the platform on 1A46. There seemed to be a great deal of activity on the platform with many well dressed people in attendance as I took this photo. It was only many years later that I found out that this was the first day of the summer timetable and that 1A46 was 'The Talisman' on its initial run with brand new XP64 stock behind it. D9012 was built by English Electric at its Vulcan Foundry works (works number 2917/D569), released on 4 September 1961 and was initially allocated to Finsbury Park shed. It was also named on 4th September 1961 at Doncaster Works without ceremony (in honour of racehorse owned by Sir Victor Sassoon, won The Derby and 2,000 Guineas). It was renumbered 55012 in February 1974. It was withdrawn on 18th May 1981 from Finsbury Park shed and cut up at Doncaster works during September 1981

The Flying Scotsman is on Talking Pictures on Thursday

11 August 1968.....

On 2nd April 1966 a few of us Carlisle lads, despite severe blizzard conditions ovenight, decided to go to to Carleton (2.5 miles south of the station) on a local bus to photo 4472 Flying Scotsman on the 'Stephenson Locomotive Society / Manchester Locomotive Society Lakes & Fells Rail Tour'. The train was coming up the Settle line then down the WCML to Penrith, then on to Keswick hauled by 2 Ivatt 2-6-0 locos. After we got off the bus. we struggled along a footpath through two foot snow drifts to the railway line and waited. Unknown to us the train was delayed waiting for a snowplough to reach Hellifield resulting in departure from Hellifield 54mins late. Meanwhile we were all freezing while standing in snow at the entrance to the cutting at the end of the embankment. Eventually, 79 mins late, we saw a plume of smoke approaching. My friends had decided to go to the cutting a couple of hundred yards south from where I was standing by the embankment. As the train approached I fired off a couple of shots, the latter one resulted in the photo below. However, immediately as I clicked the shutter, a class 40 on a long down freight hurtled past. Needless to say my friends never got any decent photos due to the freight blocking the shot. To say they were annoyed is an understatement and they expressed their annoyance very verbally indeed! I used my new yellow/green filter on my Ilford Sportsman camera that day and it certainly brought the sky out brilliantly.

Merry Christmas Dave... thanks for posting all the photos

Stanier 5F 2-6-0 with taper boiler... Lobster

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WCRC 37685, 37668 & 47804 have run between Carlisle and Corby Gates (where they crossed over and reversed) this afternoon route proving and clearing the rails ahead of the Petterill Bridge reopening tomorrow morning.