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Some b&w from the 80s..

55007 southbound near the site of Bensham station on 1st February 1981

Street scene in Gateshead with 55015 northbound on 14th February 1981

I couldn't NOT put a shot from the Keep, could I?

55004 on 18th July 1981

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46 minutes ago, jcarta said:

 

This driver must have been thrashing the Deltic within an inch of it's life by the looks of that clag....... Mind you I bet the driver of the other loco (Peak / Whistler) had to shut all of it's windows as it travelled through the area...

 

Great capture

Thanks - it was Peak of some sort (see attached) but I didn't record the identity!

Cheers

Trevor

4 minutes ago, SHMD said:

HSTs were bitter-sweet for me.

Yes they displaced Deltics but they displaced them onto the occasional Trans Pennine where I could enjoy them!

 

Roaring up Platting bank before braking hard and turning left towards Stalybridge - wonderful no DREADFUL!

 

 

Kev.

Actually, I got to like the HSTs, even though they had displaced the Deltics (in the same way as I got to like the Deltics, even though they had displaced the East Coast Pacifics) and I went out of my way to photograph the last HSTs on the ECML (which is something I never imagined I would be doing when they were introduced!) 

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A couple from the 1980s now, not long before the end..

55009 heading north at Newcastle on 23rd August 1980, as an HST (boo!) waits to leave in the opposite direction

55002, repainted to pseudo-original livery (pity about the full yellow ends!) blasts through Gateshead with a Newcastle to Whitby special on 2nd August 1981

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This Deltic was too far away to identify at the time, but there are enough clues to work it out now - a large two line nameplate with regimental crest above, and if I enlarge it I can see that the bottom line is shorter than the top one and is probably one word. Only one fits the bill - it must be 55021 'Argyll & Sutherland Highlander'. Job done! (Although most reference books which I have seen describe it as 'Argyll and ...' the actual nameplate says 'Argyll & ...')

55021 southbound on the Royal Border Bridge, Berwick upon Tweed on 7th August 1975

Here's the same loco on my 'patch' the previous month..

55021 northbound at Low Fell on 6th July 1975, having just passed over a PW slack where work continues installing a new crossover between the fast and slow lines.

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55019 southbound approaching Retford on 29th July 1975

55018 takes the station avoiding lines at Darlington with the up 'Flying Scotsman' on 5th August 1975

55013 pauses at York with a northbound train on 28th June 1975

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55005 gets ready for the 'off' at Kings Cross on 3rd August 1975. I'd forgotten that a lot of the interest in those days was watching locos coupling on to the front of northbound trains - the chap on the extreme right (the driver?) seems to be checking it's being done correctly!

...and the train dives into Gas Works Tunnel. I hope the two unsuspecting passengers at the front had the sense to close the window before the Deltic erupted! I'm no coach expert but I have noticed the first vehicle is coupled ahead of the brake.

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17 hours ago, jcarta said:

55011 approaching Selby Swing Bridge

 

Your super shot at Selby where you have focused on the nameplate of 55011 reminds me of this one of mine at Kings Cross..

55015 waits to head north out of Kings Cross on 3rd August 1975

..and here's the front view, just before I boarded the train for the run to Newcastle at the end of an 'Eastern Rail Rover' ticket (£21 for seven days!)

(I uploaded some of my favourite shots from July and August 1975 on this thread back in November 2017 and I'm trying not to duplicate any!) 

Two days earlier I caught two at the buffer stops..

55005 and 55001 on 1st August 1975

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55002 enters Newcastle from the south on 1st June 1978

55003 waits to head south on 5th June 1976

55018 enters Gateshead from the King Edward Bridge in Silver Jubilee year on 28th May 1977

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45 minutes ago, ajwffc said:

 

http://www.ten.rhrp.org.uk/tens/TenderInfo.asp?Ref=249

Excellent - Many thanks for providing this link. 

I had read (I think on the KWVR site) that the original 4 axle tender had been cut down (shortened to 3 axles) to fit the Swedish turntables when it was in use over there.

Cheers

Trevor 

Another HST power car with buffers - 43080 with a southbound train at Carlisle in August 1994

Contrasts at Newcastle on 5th September 1999 with 43122 and 43119

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15 hours ago, 88D said:

I notice that the Swedish WD has a 6-wheel tender. Was it oil or coal-powered? Great photos btw.

I have never seen anything to suggest oil-firing on this loco was used on the KWVR (perhaps I will shortly!) so I have always assumed it was normal coal-fired. And thanks for the kind comment!

As a matter of interest, can someone say where the current tender came from? Is it the original which has been much altered?

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48431 in Haworth yard on 29th May 1972

The same loco (but with a different tender) leaving Keighley on 29th August 1999

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Lots of front end detail for modellers of 43013 at Newcastle in August 1994 - fresh out of the paint shop, by the look of it!

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The crew of 75078 on the KWVR on 7th June 1981

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Close up on 91001 at Newcastle on 18th February 1996, with 91026 beyond

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I visited the line on 1st October 1994 in really dull, occasionally rainy weather. As a result I had to uprate my b&w film to get decent fast shutter speeds - hence the grainy effect (which some people like, i suppose!)

Super power that day was provided by 45596 'Bahamas' double-heading with 5305 'Alderman AE Draper'.

Photographed from the train, the two locos depart Keighley

Here's a close-up showing the crew of the 'Jubilee' at Haworth..

..and the 'Black Five'

Here's a surprise in Haworth yard

Still life in the loco shed - this must be 78022

48431 departs north from Haworth

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14 hours ago, ajwffc said:

Nice picture. Also am i the only one that thinks the WD Austerity 2-8-0 looks better in it's SJ condition.

Thanks - also, have you noticed that the WD still had its 6-wheel tender in my 1976 pictures? (as opposed to the current 8-wheels).

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My first sight and photo of a 91:  91003 (with 91008 next in line) at Leeds on 29th May 1989. No 3 appears to have suffered slight front end damage - a high speed argument with a bird, perhaps, with traces of blood?

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AMENDMENT: Closer examination of my notebooks (rather than what I had written on the original slide mount) shows that the front loco was actually 91003 (not 4). My error, but why did BR have such tiny running numbers on these things in the early days? By 1990, when they reached Newcastle, the numbers were much larger, near the 'pointy' end. It's the same with today's Azumas - I predict their numbers will eventually be reapplied in a much larger style. 

1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said:

Non UK stuff is fine Trev, post away...!

 

I've been checking back and see that you uploaded a fine selection of French pictures in November (which have had 29 'likes', including one from me!) so it looks like you are correct, anything goes!

So if I can get away with it, here are two I originally uploaded yesterday, but then deleted..

Class QJ 2-10-2 locos receiving attention (one with a hammer, by the look of it!) at Daban shed, Inner Mongolia (China) in April 2004

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Some colour pics. from the 1980s...

The S160 departs Keighley on 7th June 1981..

..followed by 75078 at the same spot

..and approaching Haworth on the same day

'Bellerophon' at Keighley on 18th April 1987

'Austerity' 0-6-0ST 'Brussels' at Keighley on 23rd April 1987

34092 'City of Wells' climbing away from Keighley on 29th May 1989

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I visited the line in 1987 over the Easter weekend, when the locos in action were 0-6-0WT 'Bellerophon', 4F 0-6-0 No 43294, Ivatt 2-6-2T No 41241 and 'Austerity' 0-6-0ST 'Corby' (which I later identified as RSH No 7761 of 1954 which is now at the GCR(Nottingham). 

'Bellerophon with its 2-coach train at Keighley on 18th April

Seen from the train headed by 'Bellerophon', No 41241 enters the passing loop at Damems on 18th April

'Bellerophon' after arrival at Haworth on 18th April

No 43924 awaiting its next outing in Haworth shed yard on 18th April

No 41241 and 'Corby' climbing away from Keighley on 20th April

...and again, shortly after leaving Haworth

No 43924 arriving at Keighley on 20th April

.. and prior to running round its train

'Corby' and No 41241 arriving at Keighley on 20th April

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Post removed - not actually UK prototype!

(Sorry, petethemole  - deleted just as you liked it!)