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    in Free to a good home

    Posted · Edited by Western Glory

    Job lot:

    Tri-ang Hornby various rolling stock including EM2 in blue, small amount of ropey track, catalogues

    Scalextric, track including hump back bridge, crossroads, crossovers & road narrows, cars & controllers (well used), catalogues

    Matchbox vehicles, not many, mostly beaten-up

    H & M Duette controller, worked last time I used decades ago

    Wrenn green 60022 Mallard, ditto, nice condition

     

    FREE, collect only from Gloucester, GL1, near The Park

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    Class 27's at Gloucester in 1968

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by Western Glory

    23 hours ago, keefer said:

    Want sure if it was that one or the one Western Glory linked to! (They're not even next to each other in the Flickr set).

    And Phil did ask for a new link to the pic (albeit 7 yrs ago).......:D

    Just found the second and correct pic but keefer has beaten me to it. Apart from warning flashes only clean bits are where the numbers are otherwise they'd be unidentifiable!

     

    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by Western Glory

    Thanks for pointing out that I hadn't changed the caption. Usually I do when someone points out my errors, in this case I clicked thanks on your post but was in a hurry as I had to be somewhere else and then forgot all about it when I got back home.

     

    David

     

    Edit - I have now changed it to D84x on the image you see when you go to the post, but cannot change the caption which appears on the enlarged photo if you click on it without deleting it and re uploading it which does not always work well.

     

    David

    Thanks, I believe we can do better than D84x, though. When I plumped for D842 I hadn't checked which D84x carried maroon and there were only four: D840/2/4/8.

     

    The third digit in the photo is different from the others which rules out D844/8 and looks like '2' to me, as it has a horizontal at the bottom. A '0' would be quite easy to spot, I think. In summary, it would be safe to say "probably D842."

     

    Sorry for being so fussy but there might not be another Warship to identify.

     

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    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    Today we have Birmingham New Street in 1979 and Silk Mill Junction in 1966.

     

    Once again they are some of Dad's photos. He took the Birmingham photos while on his way to a business meeting in Exeter.

     

    The 1966 photos were taken on the way either to or from a holiday in Appledore, North Devon to stay with some friends and go sailing. They are probably the only photos I have of hydraulics in BR service which I haven't posted earlier in this thread.

     

    Taunton Silk Mill crossing Class 42 D827 Kelly down Aug 66 J577.jpg

    Taunton Silk Mill crossing Class 42 D827 Kelly down Aug 66 J577

     

    David

    Not D827, which means we have a Spot-the-Warship contest - yippee!

     

    I go for D842 Royal Oak, seen at Reading in 1969 in the photo below.

    http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6108/6310136322_6c94fdcb16_b.jpg

    I'm giving this a bump because caption still reads D827. There are two good reasons why this is not correct:

     

    1. The number is clearly D84-something.

    2. D827 was never maroon!

     

    No criticism of Dave intended.

    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    Today we have Birmingham New Street in 1979 and Silk Mill Junction in 1966.

     

    Once again they are some of Dad's photos. He took the Birmingham photos while on his way to a business meeting in Exeter.

     

    The 1966 photos were taken on the way either to or from a holiday in Appledore, North Devon to stay with some friends and go sailing. They are probably the only photos I have of hydraulics in BR service which I haven't posted earlier in this thread.

     

    Taunton Silk Mill crossing Class 42 D827 Kelly down Aug 66 J577.jpg

    Taunton Silk Mill crossing Class 42 D827 Kelly down Aug 66 J577

     

    David

    Not D827, which means we have a Spot-the-Warship contest - yippee!

     

    I go for D842 Royal Oak, seen at Reading in 1969 in the photo below.

    http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6108/6310136322_6c94fdcb16_b.jpg

    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by Western Glory

    Today our time machine is taking us to Harrogate Stray, south of the station at various dates in the mid 1960s.

     

    Harrogate LMS Class 5 44617 Harrogate to Kings X Nov 65 J419.jpg

    Harrogate LMS Class 5 44617 Harrogate to Kings X Nov 65 J419

     

    David

    Not 44617 as that didn't exist! Number is hard to decipher, possibly 44672. Is there another photo of this loco, perhaps?

     

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    Blue repaints 1966/67

    in Transition Diesel Liveries

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    Built in Blue you had

    400-449

    1953-61

    7660-77

    8178-99, 8300-27

     

    The first of each class to go blue as far as my research says were;

    D4

    D101

    D184

    D237

    D602

    D864

    D1030

    D1528

    Shunters-some debate, poss D3464? Unsure re 03s, Class 10 poss D3638.

    D2554

    D2992

    D5068

    D5389

    D5649

    D5701

    D6300/3/14/27 unsure which was first.

    D6937

    D7033

    D8049

    Claytons-no idea, several done at once in late 1967.

    D9002

     

    I think it's safe to say that D5909 was the first of its class to go blue! :) No prizes for guessing where I saw it.

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    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by Western Glory

    A few more 1960s photos from Pilmoor this afternoon

     

    Pilmoor is on the ECML north of York.

     

    Pilmoor Class 46 171 Newcastle to Cardiff April 68 J1244.jpg

    Pilmoor Class 46 171 Newcastle to Cardiff April 68 J1244

     

    Pilmoor Class 55 down ex pass April 68 J1286.jpg

    Pilmoor Class 55 down ex pass April 68 J1286

     

    David

    J1244 is a class 45 and 171 was a 46 so number not right. Not a simple typo of 117 as highest one with split headcode boxes was 107 and that's my choice.

     

    J1286 can only be one, surely, which I'll leave to others.

     

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    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    Loughborough Central since preservation this morning.

     

    Loughborough Central Class 14 9523 and ano April 83 C5982.jpg

    Loughborough Central Class 14 9523 and ano April 83 C5982

     

    David

    It's good to see a headcode panel in working order, presumably.

     

    Something I've always wondered about is how headcodes were changed, not just for Class 14s, e.g. the nose ends on Class 20s. Which had to been done from outside the cab?

    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

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    Trains at Harrogate today between 1965 and 1967.

     

    Harrogate Class 40 D283 Newcastle to Liverpool Nov 65 J423.jpg

    Harrogate Class 40 D383? Newcastle to Liverpool Nov 65 J423

     

    David

    Apologies to Market65, but I think D393 is more likely. There is a gap in the middle number, below the centre that extends all the way to the left. Although the style of numbering is different, here is a later view of 393 at March from a very similar angle which shows that extra handrails were added to the nose:

    https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3608/3419281208_2456c6cb29_o.jpg

    According to http://www.brdatabase.info, in 1965 D383 was allocated to Camden and D393 to Gateshead.

    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by Western Glory

    Trains at Harrogate today between 1965 and 1967.

     

    Harrogate Class 40 D283 Newcastle to Liverpool Nov 65 J423.jpg

    Harrogate Class 40 D383? Newcastle to Liverpool Nov 65 J423

     

    David

    Apologies to Market65, but I think D393 is more likely. There is a gap in the middle number, below the centre that extends all the way to the left. Although the style of numbering is different, here is a later view of 393 at March from a very similar angle which shows that extra handrails were added to the nose:

    https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3608/3419281208_2456c6cb29_o.jpg

     

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    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by Western Glory

    Swayfield Class 55 9012 up Yorkshire Pullman July 72 J2979.jpg

    Swayfield Class 55 9012 up Yorkshire Pullman July 72 J2979 09.48 Harrogate to Kings X on a Saturday

     

    Swayfield Class 55 Newcastle to Kings X July 72 J2980.jpg

    Swayfield Class 55 Newcastle to Kings X July 72 J2980 08.50 SO

     

    David

    I think J2980 is most likely to be 9011, just from the photo without any other evidence. The similar weather and slide numbering suggest J2979 and J2980 were shot on the same day, which according to the Napier Chronicles for 9012 must be either the 15th or 29th of July 1972. 9011 hauled 1A13 on the latter, but what is was doing on the 15th is unrecorded. Thus the exact date for both photos could very well be Saturday 29th July 1972, thanks largely to headcode panels. It's a pity they stopped being used as locos with them never looked as good afterwards.

     

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