The Border Reiver

I have a photo of it still in green taken in August 1966

Do you know if you can take photos at Westbury station at the moment without having a ticket?

On my first visit from Carlisle as a 14 year old in August 1961 to see GWR locos, I came across 46509 on Shrewsbury shed in green livery. I was quite amazed at seeing a non passenger LMS loco in green, so I took this photo of it. Taken with my trusty Box Brownie with Gratispool film, the quality is not brilliant.

Permits to visit sheds in the early 1960 used Motive Power Depot.

BR Green was far better that that awfull all over blue!!!!!

The club in front of the station has been demolished..... lots more parking spaces for the station now

The powers to be at Kingmoor tried to get the 5 Polmadie Clans when there were withdrawn but their request was refused.

Thanks for pointing that out. I have updated my records

Britannias smoke deflectors 1) 2 Handhold design 2) 6 Handhold WR design 3) Original Full handrail design 1) 2 Handholds - 29 locomotives in total 70001-70003 70005-70013 70017 70020 70024 70028-70030 70034-70041 70044 70053-70054 2) 6 Handholds - 9 locomotives in total 70015-70016 70018-70019 70022-70023 70025-70027 3) Original Full Handrail Deflectors - 17 locomotives in total 70000 70004 70014 70021 70031-70033 70042-70043 70045-70052

Ref C14512 86251 on Inverness-Euston train. Unless there is a DVT at the other end, its at the north end of platform 3 heading north

The sheds diesel locos used to be found on the two lines to the right in the late 1950s and 60s so I presume they were the fuel tanks for them. The caption on the photo is wrong where it says the demolished Upperby Depot on the left; it's actually the demolished carriage sheds

Better than all over blue which I think was an abomination!!!!!

While on a Railrover, I stopped off at Machynlleth to bunk the shed. My notes said that I then caught the Cambrian Coast Express to Aberystwyth (I could be wrong). Here is a photo of it arriving at Machynlleth station on the 15 August 1964 hauled by 7824 Iford Manor.

Seaton road blocked by lorry stuck under bridge https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/18533418.seaton-road-blocked-lorry-stuck-bridge/

There were two southbound fish trains through Carlisle in the 1950s and early 1960s. The first was around 2140 and the second one followed around 10 minutes later just before the Condor came through. I remember one always had Palethorpe Pork Sausages wagon(s).

Peak D23 at Carlisle station on the down Waverley in August 1965. Unusually, it standing at platform 4 and not the usual platform 3 which is occupied by a class 40.

LNER Gresley K3 2-6-0 61984 at Hawick shed, on a sunny day in 1961

That last photo looks interesting

Saw it hidden at the back of Huddersfield shed while on a RailRover

After I took a photo of the distant class 37 from the cab of D8588, I got my friend to take a photo of me hanging from the cab of the Clayton. In the right distance there is a dilapidated building. Is this the Insulation.s/Rockwool works centrifugal separator?

A view of the line up in the yard at Thornaby shed on Sunday 13 December 1964 along with the 'gang' from Carlisle. There are two class 37, one being D6768, a class 40 and a class 27 D5376. D6768 had TOPS number 37068 then 37356 then back to 37068. It was cut up at Booth's Rotherham 19-08-2005. The gang from Carlisle were regular visitors to the north east sheds. The 'Day Line Diesel' ticket we used allowed unlimited travel for the day in an area bounded by Carlisle-Berwick-Redcar-Penrith-Carlisle and you got a badge when you bought the ticket. We used to get the 7am train to Newcastle on a Sunday (or the 2-15 am Paddy train sometimes in the summer). First stop was Blaydon where we done the shed, bus to Newcastle for Gateshead shed then the train to Darlington. At Darlington we bunked the shed then the works scrap yard. Occasionally we bunked the works by jumping over the level crossing gates (and sometimes in later years Robert Stevenson & Hawthorn works). Train to Thornaby next for the shed then up to West Hartlepool shed then Tyne Dock shed. Then back to Newcastle and on to Percy Main shed which was usually locked up on a Sunday so we had to climb over the gate to get in. Back to Newcastle station for the last train back to Carlisle. My friend took this photo and I am third from the left. The guy on the left is Brian Grierson (photo below) who eventually was the last of his kind having seen the end of mainline steam on BR as his career started then as the steam revival for private charters took hold his services were much sort after. Carlisle Kingmoor Depots last steam driver signed off for the last time on 28/03/12014 with 50 years service to his name. Known simply as "No.1" for quite some time Brian Grierson was the last of his kind having seen the end of mainline steam on BR as his career started then as the steam revival for private charters took hold his services were much sort after. There can't been many drivers who can claim to have had the heir to the throne as an auxiliary fireman. He is seen here during a watering stop with a steam charter in Upperby Yard, Carlisle in familiar pose with a mug of tea.

A distant view of a class 37 with a brake tender taken from inside the cab of class 17 D8588 in the yard at Thornaby shed on Sunday 13 December 1964.

The majority of trains changes locos at Carlisle. That's what made it a great place for spotting when I was growing up there in the 1950s and early 60s

Class 37 D6756 later 37056 then 37513 in the yard at Thornaby shed on Sunday 13 December 1964 along with two brake tenders and another 37. It was withdrawn 7 December2007 and cut up at Booth's Rotherham in February 2008

A view of Thornaby shed yard on Easter Sunday, March 29, 1964. A variety of locos can be seen including eight class 37 (D6766 37066 centre left) and classes 25, 27, 40 and 17. IIRC there were over 60 locos on the shed that day.