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On 17/03/2024 at 00:07, ERIC ALLTORQUE said:

The 50,s at Ally Pally.

Wow - fantastic... and all crying out to be weathered! Nice clear view of the desk and cooker in the 50 006 shot, the cooker only needs a tea can and a pasty wrapped in tin foil for the full effect! On arrival at Padd we used to nip up to Mickey's Fish Bar in Praed Street for our supper and keep it warm on the cooker until the next empty stock move beckoned.

Overall impression - very nice indeed 😉

Who's going to buy an entire fleet of them I wonder...?

No, it's not the lovely old 1/72nsd scale FIAT 124 Spider... it's the Wills embossed  plastic stone sheeting, complete with unsightly gap...!

Listen To The Band - The Monkees

Photo by Bob Faulkner : D3587 with D5405 at Wellingborough on a snowy 9th February 1969...

Falcon was photographed on static test at Swindon in its new blue livery with its '0280' number applied...

Do You Know The Way To San Jose - Dionne Warwick

Somebody accidentally hit the b&w button again... 😉

Came across this the other day, made me smile...

''This is Jim Rockford, at the tone leave your name and message I'll get back to you''.

😉

Photographer unknown : D6700 somewhere on the Great Eastern...

I've had this blasting out of the stereo in the car this week, a flawed masterpiece recorded in late '67 and released in January '68...

The flaw is really in the production as in places it's quite 'muddy', but McGuinn's Rickenbacker 360/12 comes shining through, particularly on 'Change Is Now', a full on psychedelic guitar fest with a country tinged chorus. If ever this album is remastered properly, then the highly compressed fuzz guitars and backwards tape loops on 'Space Odyssey' can be heard as they were meant to be heard. There's a lot more depth in these songs than their earlier output and one of the tracks, 'Wasn't Born To Follow' was picked by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper for the soundtrack of 'Easy Rider'.

Red House - The Jimi Hendrix Experience...

Alone Again Or - Love...

Photo by David Neville ; 5605 at Holloway in 1973 with a KX to Ferme Park empty stock move...

23 hours ago, DaveF said:

Photos from the southern end of Toton for this evening.

 

 

Toton Class 40 40150 down freight Oct 77 J5840

 

 

Toton Class 20 20172 Propelling towards down hump Oct 77 J5844

 

 

Toton Class 20 20136 up breakdown train and Class 47 47170 up coal Oct 77 J5846

 

 

Toton Class 47 down mgr April 78 C3768

 

 

Toton 45126 down oil Aug 83 C6143

 

 

Toton 25051 down freight Aug 83 C6144

 

David

Another great selection there Dave - Toton is a shadow of its former self now but these are terrific. Oh, and 25 051 was the first loco I ever drove as a fledgling Secondman in January '83 at Stonebridge Park!

21 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

1975.  Skived off games for the afternoon and a school-mate took me to the scenic splendour of Bescot 😎

I was there last night, it looks more scenic in the dark!

I started spotting 'proper' in 1971, in the summer an older cousin gave me his 1969 and 1970 locoshed books and I was hooked, then a visit to Old Oak with my grandad in September '71 sealed my fate.

I had another clear run across the branch with 6M68 last night, but being about twenty minutes early I was held at Bedford St.Johns for a while. Which was nice 😉.

Train Song - Vashti Bunyan

1 hour ago, Pete the Elaner said:

 

I am curious: You are not the only person I have seen to add an e to Ridgmont.

My club has a layout of it & members assure me it used to be spelled with an e, so I looked it up on an old ordnance survey map from c1900 on the national library of Scotland's website. It was spelled Ridgmont on that too.

Just habit I suppose!

2 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

It’s gone into confusion-land again, because of strikes I think. The buses have run throughout, so oddly enough a “faux train service” on days when there’s been none elsewhere, but no actual trains for several days.

I had a clear run across the branch from Bletchley to Bedford last night with 6M68, I actually attained the giddy high of 60mph going over the top at Ridgemont!

32 minutes ago, papagolfjuliet said:

Interesting how you can divide 70s British crime/espionage series into two categories. On the one hand there's stuff like The Sweeney and Callan: tin ashtrays, Watney's Red Barrel, men in grey slacks kicking one another in the crotch. On the other there's stuff like The Professionals and Return of the Saint: onyx ashtrays, Babycham, men in double breasted Italian suits kicking one another in the crotch.

With a fair bit of crossover between the two, not least in the guest stars who appeared in each series, and sometimes appearing as two different characters in the same series! There was an overlap in production of The Sweeney and The Professionals of almost a year (1977 and 78) with the same writers, directors, camera men, continuity ladies, stunt men etc working on both at different times. Some of the Rover P6s used in The Sweeney reappeared in The Professionals too. The Sweeney 'base' was at Colet Court in Hammersmith and although the main base for The Professionals were in Harefield Grove and Wembley they also used Cadby Hall in Hammersmith a lot, which was formerly the HQ of J.Lyons, less than a mile away from Colet Court.

The colouring and weathering is spot on Bob, it's like looking through the pages of one of Peter Gray's WR books.

Proper job!

Photo by Harry Cauldwell ; D212 and D327 at Crewe Diesel in 1966...

Jag nostalgia...