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Spotters at Newcastle 1/11/69. 'Kestrel' had just arrived on a terminating train from Kings Cross which I had travelled on from Durham. Trevor

@ Rugd1022 - thanks, Rug. I was dead lucky to catch him with both feet off the ground! Here's one from 1967 at Low Fell, with my three cousins (including baby in the now-vintage pram) watching D8590 with a southbound freight. The saddle of my bike is just encroaching in the bottom corner. Trevor

Reading on 28/5/74 with 50009, D7016 and one excited spotter! Trevor

92044 on a Special at Newcastle on 6/7/13 (with 92010 trailing at the rear). Trevor

Line up at Newcastle on 6/7/13, with 92044 on a 'special' (with 92010 at the rear). Trevor

Another Deltic at York on 3/8/81 Trevor

Contrasts in liveries at Carlisle on 11/6/2000: 87021 and 87020 Trevor

90223 crossing the Tyne with a southbound mail train, 22/5/01. Trevor

York again, 28/6/85. The 'Deltics' have gone, but the spotters remain. Trevor

York 3/8/81, with 55022 waiting to head south. Trevor

Give that man a coconut! Trevor

Gateshead East station in 1979, with a couple sitting on the platform edge waiting for a train to Newcastle. Spot the spelling mistake on the BR sign? Trevor

Since my first effort was not thrown out, here's another take on the same theme: 55015 northbound in Gateshead in 1981. Trevor

How about 'people in the urban landscape with a train going past'? - It has to be deliberate or it doesn't count(!) This was a Southbound HST near the site of Bensham station in Gateshead in 1985. The train is going over an underpass known locally as 'dead man's arch'! Trevor

That nice shot of the two Black 5s reminded me that 44884 was the first '4er' I ever saw - early days at Low Fell, it was hauling a dead V2 - which rather let the home side down, I thought at the time! This was before I was let loose with the family Brownie 127. Trevor

Newcastle 31/7/95 Trevor

Two more of mine of 45562 on the 'Ashington Rail Tour' of 10/6/67. After heading east from Newcastle along the Coast line, it turned north at Percy Main over the freight-only line (i.e. coal trains, normally) and climbed up the gradient and under the Coast Road on its way to Bedlington and Ashington. A short section of this route is now used by the North Tyneside Steam Railway between Percy Main and Middle Engine Lane. Trevor

Two more local ones (i.e. Tyneside): The rather clean (at least at the front end) B1 was at Newcastle with a parcels train. The second one proves that a Brownie 127 is no match for an A4 in full flight! Actually it is 60009 with the 'last A4 to Kings Cross' Special at Low Fell on 24/10/64 (or the 'Jubilee Requiem' to give it its proper name.) That's probably all the 1964 pictures worth showing from me, but please keep yours coming in, chaps! Cheers Trevor

Great to see some colour from a Brownie 127 - that's something I never attempted. I should have done for my shot of the red 'Coronation' shown earlier! I think the Q6 with its innards hanging out is at West Hartlepool, judging by the coaling stage on the right. Thanks for sharing. Trevor

Hi RfDforever: I just tagged along with the party! My earlier post on this thread (#22) includes two other photos taken on the same day, including the 'Royal Scot' which took your train south from Carlisle that evening. Thank you for clarifying the workings of the Special. I have further checked the details on the excellent 'Six Bells Junction' website and have amended my incorrect caption. How about you sending in some of your pics as well from that day, if you have them scanned? We would love to see them. Cheers Trevor Thanks Clive. I had cropped off the right hand side of the picture you saw, not realising it might be of interest. This sectional enlargement shows everything from the wagon that was on the negative. Hopefully all of the number is there. Cheers Trevor

Two more at Kingmoor shed on 28/11/64 1) Taken on the occasion of my final (of twenty) A3 'cop' (although I was to see it at Low Fell several times in 1965). Salmon Trout was an Edinburgh engine so presumably had worked in to Carlisle over the Waverley Route. 2​) An​ oil tanker wagon somehow managed to appear in this shot of Connaught and partly obscure the smokebox door! Trevor

Thanks for confirming what I suspected, Arp. Checking my old notebooks I found I rarely visited Low Fell on a Sunday - not many trains, especially freight (best chance for steam) so I didn't have many personal sightings of Sunday ore trains. Cheers Trevor

Excellent pictures, Roy. Thanks for sharing them. Good views of the coaling stage as well. The Jubilee had worked a Bradford to Middlesbrough RCTS Special that day (then D6778 to Whitby), so it must have run light engine to West Hartlepool for servicing. By the time I saw it in June it had lost the red backing to the numberplate and the AWS 'bash plate' below the buffer beam had also reverted to black. (At least that what it looks like on my b&w pics. - are there more colour shots out there to confirm?) Trevor

Lovely shot of 80007 in particular, Mal. Perfect angle showing the quite elegant (in my opinion, anyway!) lines of these locos. Nice to have the coupling rods at the top. Perhaps elegant isn't the correct word - functional, perhaps? Trevor

By the way, posting that pic of 46160 (post #22 above) reminds me that I started another thread on 3rd October in the 'Modelling Questions, Help and Tips' section on the subject 'Bachmann Rebuilt Royal Scot?' It's had nearly 200 views but no replies. Could anyone here help on that, please? Thanks in advance Cheers, Trevor