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For The Benefit Of Mr.Kite - herbal tea era Fabs...

Looks like a Crewe built one to me so D1030 onwards and dual braked which makes it no earlier than 1968, but we can rule out D1036 as its number plates were higher up the cab side. It's a pity you don't have a date for the photo. Can't tell if it's maroon / full yellow ends or blue / full yellow ends which would help. If it's blue we can also rule out D1039, D1056 and D1071 which all had the small square air vent below the driver's window.

10 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

Not exactly although they are sometimes used like that.  The whole point of having a fixed red is that it allows a running aspect (single yellow) to read to it.  Thus for example you will find them on certain goods loops at Southall where i specifically requested them to be provided to allow a freight c9ming off the Main or Relief Lines not  to be slowed right down waiting a subsidary (tw white lights) signal to be approach released.  In some ;ocations they have also been used instead of STOP boards on Goods and yard reception Lines for teh same reason as you cannot have a main running aspect reading to a stop board.

 

Those at southall were installed as part of the resignalling for the LHR branch and electrification scheme where I wanted to get freight trains off, or across, the running lines more quickly through what was going to be much denser levels of traffic.

 

Incidentally the idea of a fixed stop signal is not new - there were semaphore examples on the LMR and the WR created one at west Drayton as part of Slough resignalling scheme in 1963..

There's a fixed colour light stop signal at the south end of the down fast platform at Wellingborough Mike, effectively marking the limit of bang road working on the down fast.

Photo by Gordon Hopkinson : D5347 at Saltley on 4th April 1966...

Cardiff Canton in the '70s...

Photo by C.Warmer : dear old 'North Star' at Reading, c.1975, note the lack of double arrow logo...

1 hour ago, Halvarras said:

 

One out on the ID Nidge! Never mind, the number's legible. IIRC there was a pause in their inter-regional reallocation when 35 locos had moved to the WR, leaving 15 on the LMR including this one which became my last required 50, copped while standing atop Langstone Rock near Dawlish Warren on 22/5/76.

 

I've posed this question before but just in case the right person is reading this - did 50034 acquire nameplates in this original livery, as 50017 did? The 50s had a habit of doing such things in pairs (and I don't mean double-heading!) so I'm hoping it's true, to maintain this tradition!

Fat finger syndrome strikes again, I'm sure I typed 34 not 35!

Photo by Simon David Cooper : 50 035 at Manc. Vic. on 27th January 1975...

Photo by Andrew Armitage : D5401 being fuelled up at Cricklewood on 6th April 1968...

On 29/01/2024 at 09:59, DaveF said:

 

 

 

Renishaw Central GCR June 69 J1744

 

David

 

So much modelling inspiration in one photograph with this one Dave, particularly in the colour palette and weathering on the station building... lovely stuff 😉

The One After 9.09 - ye olde Fabs, who last performed live fifty five years ago today on the roof of Apple Corp HQ in Saville Row...

Bits 'n' bobs...

Old Oak from the air...

7 minutes ago, big jim said:

had that last year on Sutton park, people walking down the track searching for their dog, my mate was on the train in front of me and spotted a dog wandering round the 4ft so stopped, actually getting down and offering it the ham from his sandwiches!
 

he managed to get it to come to him but when he tried to get hold of his collar it made a run for it, he reported it to the box so we were cautioned through the section, my mate then found the owners at one of the foot crossings shouting for the dog (called yoda!), by the time I’d got there with my train they had wandered along the cess between the 2 foot crossings where the dog was seen, I had to then report that as well as it was no longer a missing dog on the line but 4 people to boot! 
 

I believe they got the dog back though, they had told my mate they only got him the day before from a rescue centre and it was his first ‘walkies’ when he slipped his lead! 
 

 

A similar thing happened to me on the same line about fifteen years ago, a chap walking his German Shepard lost it on the straight stretch south of Streetly and was wandering about in a right old panic. I was light engine at the time so easily stopped to help him out and report it. We found the dog within a couple of minutes and all was right in the end.

13 hours ago, keefer said:

That's a hell of a quick turnaround for something shot on film with multiple locations etc.

Very Professional!😁

Each episode was allotted two weeks of actual filming, plus the pre and post production processes taking a few more weeks, including Laurie Johnson's recording sessions for the soundtrack, sometimes they had to extend this though and there was actually a lot of overlap between episodes, with two film units working in different locations on the same day. On many occasions Gordon Jackson would be in one place working on one episode, while Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins were elsewhere working on another one. Towards the end of series two Lewis Collins broke his ankle during a weekend parachute jump which put production back by nearly three months, upsetting the schedule somewhat! On several occasions Martin Shaw was hospitalised with injuries acquired while doing his own stunts, which also took time out of the shooting. During series one they were based at Harefield Grove in Middlesex, and during series two at Lee International Studios in Wembley, they tried to keep the locations to within fifteen miles of each, but sometimes had to go further afield, such as Dover, High Wycombe, Gerrards Cross, Marlow etc. Another fly in the ointment was the strikes affecting LWT during 1978 and 1979, which played havoc with the scheduling.

I've been rewatching 'The Professionals' yet again and a particularly favourite episode is 'A Stirring Of Dust' from series two which was filmed in September and October of 1978 and first broadcast on Saturday 25th November 1978. Robert Urquhart plays an aging spy returning to Blighty from Russia to see his daughter before falling off his perch, he arrives at Dover on the ferry then boards a train to Victoria. On Thursday 21st September Urquhart and the second unit film crew took the 08.44 from Victoria to Dover, shot various scenes around the harbour then boarded the 16.00 train back to town, aboard which they shot more footage in a pre-booked second class compartment, and arrived back in London just after 18.00 having had a nice day out at the seaside!

Photo by Tony Hunter : 08 917 at Washwood Heath on 25th June 1981...

These are all from British Railways Staff Magazines of the '50s...