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

[hexagon789]

9 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

A first batch from the missing photos.  To start with they will be ones originally posted between 1st May 2014 and 11th July 2015 - some 3060 images in all.  They will not be in the original order, that would be far too complicated to do.

 

I cannot guarantee to post two sets of photos every day, there may be days with only "new" or only "old photos".

 

Today's were taken at Lanceaster in 1972.  At that time I was living in Manchester, just coming to the end of my student days after completing a degree in Biology in 1971, I did my PGCE which took a further year to qualify me to teach.  I left Manchester in June 1972.

 

 

Lancaster Class 08 3200 shunting 17th May 72 C0962

 

 

Lancaster Class 40 301 in green up carflats 17th May 72 C957

a Lancaster Class 50 409 up ex pass, Class 108 on right  17th May 72 C960

 

 

Lancaster Class 108 up pass 17th May 72 C959

 

 

Lancaster Platform finger indicator 17th May 72 C954  Class 108 and Class 101

 

 

David

Lovely selection David, every shot is priceless. I particularly like C957 and C959. I don't think I'll have seen these before, so first time for me - many thanks for deciding to repost the lost ones, a task I'm sure no one envies but we are all grateful for.

 

In C960, 1M35 denotes the 1340 Glasgow Central to London Euston.

 

How handy were headcode displays to future photo admirers? ;)

Edited August 9, 2022 by hexagon789
A wee typo

[DaveF]

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel this morning.  Once again lost ones re added.

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel 86205 Blackpool to Euston June 75 J4370

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel Class 85 down parcels June 75 J4368

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel Class 86 E3157 up parcels March 67   J836

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel Class 86 Euston to Wolverhampton June 75 J4371

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel Class 87 Euston to Glasgow June 75 J4372

 

 

David

[balders]

J836. A lovely shot. 6 wheel Eastern Region BZ behind the loco and the usual ubiquitous SR vans as well. Timeless. 

 

Regards

 

Guy

[Rugd1022]

3 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel this morning.  Once again lost ones re added.

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel 86205 Blackpool to Euston June 75 J4370

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel Class 85 down parcels June 75 J4368

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel Class 86 E3157 up parcels March 67   J836

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel Class 86 Euston to Wolverhampton June 75 J4371

 

 

Kilsby Tunnel Class 87 Euston to Glasgow June 75 J4372

 

 

David

 

Lovely shots Dave, thanks for sharing them - a local one for me Kilsby Tunnel and I drive through it regularly. I've walked the entire length of it a few times on ballast jobs and it's quite spooky if you're on your own!

[St Enodoc]

3 hours ago, DaveF said:

Kilsby Tunnel 86205 Blackpool to Euston June 75 J4370

That model looks just like the real thing.

[lmsforever]

 Like the photos always felt like a proper express with a loco on front and some comfortable mk2,s to sit in.Very good idea to reshow photos  like it.  Chris

[DaveF]

 

A batch on here for the first time this afternoon at Ulgham Lane crossing on the ECML in Northumberland.  The colour balance is a bit "off" on a couple of them.

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 43115 up 17th September 88 C11519

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 43041 up 27th May 89 C11895

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 43099 Edinburgh to Kings X May 91 J11924

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 37358 up l eJuly 91 J12056

 

 

Ulgham Lane crossing 37071 empty alumina Fort William to North Blyth Aug 94 J14801

 

 

David

[DaveF]

 A couple of photos I took on the Blyth and Tyne this afternoon of an inspection saloon being propelled by a Class 37.

 

 

BSC_6974 Newsham Plessey Road 37418 down inspection saloon

 

 

BSC_6975 Newsham Plessey Road 37418 down inspection saloon

 

David

 

 

 

 

[keefer]

5 hours ago, balders said:

J836. A lovely shot. 6 wheel Eastern Region BZ behind the loco and the usual ubiquitous SR vans as well. Timeless. 

 

Regards

 

Guy

And the mix of liveries!

 

And the Inspection Saloon with 37418 is 975025 'Caroline', the former SR General Manager's Saloon. It now just works with Blue-Star MU fitted locos, whereas originally it had the SR high-level pipes for working with EMUs and cl.33/1 & 73. 

Edited August 10, 2022 by keefer

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a great set of the missing photo’s of Kilsby Tunnel. In J4368, with a class 85 on a down parcels train, in June, 1975, you have a great example of a short parcels working, which most people should be able to fit onto their layouts.

The new Ulgham Lane crossing photo’s are excellent, and in J12056, with 37358, on an up light engine movement, in July, 1991, I am wondering if that man, on the right, with a camera, on a tripod, is yourself, David. I can see that it was your Dad who took the photo’ you have posted.

Finally, that is a lovely two photo’s of Newsham Plessey Road, with 37418, on a down inspection saloon from earlier today in the afternoon. The large double arrow looks just a bit ‘thin’. Perhaps it’s my old, tired eyes. But it’s certainly good to see that 37 pushing Caroline.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

38 minutes ago, Market65 said:

Good evening, David. That’s a great set of the missing photo’s of Kilsby Tunnel. In J4368, with a class 85 on a down parcels train, in June, 1975, you have a great example of a short parcels working, which most people should be able to fit onto their layouts.

The new Ulgham Lane crossing photo’s are excellent, and in J12056, with 37358, on an up light engine movement, in July, 1991, I am wondering if that man, on the right, with a camera, on a tripod, is yourself, David. I can see that it was your Dad who took the photo’ you have posted.

Finally, that is a lovely two photo’s of Newsham Plessey Road, with 37418, on a down inspection saloon from earlier today in the afternoon. The large double arrow looks just a bit ‘thin’. Perhaps it’s my old, tired eyes. But it’s certainly good to see that 37 pushing Caroline.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

 

Rob,

 

J12056.  Yes it is me, wrestling with my video camera and my car is in the shot as well.

 

David

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by DaveF

[DaveF]

 

This morning we visit Hougham on the ECML between Grantham and Newark, just north of Barkston.  There used to be a station here.

 

 

Hougham Class 40 40145 down ex pass Aug 74 C1742  Kings X to Scarborough

 

 

Hougham Class 47 up ex pass Aug 74 C1743

 

 

Hougham Class 55 down ex pass Aug 74 C1744 probably 55020

 

 

Hougham Class 40 Grimsby to Kings X Aug 74 C1739

 

 

Hougham Class 47 up cement Aug 74 C1740

 

 

David

Edited August 11, 2022 by DaveF

[DaveF]

 

Time now for this afternoon's "new" photos.

 

Today we have a look at three Swiss metre gauge railways, probably not amongst the better known to those who live in the UK.

 

The first photo shows a train on the preserved line from Blonay to Chamby.   Prior to preservation the loco had been owned by SBB used on the Brünig line and later by the BAM (Biere Apples Morges).

 

The second photo shows a train on the Chemins der fer Electriques Veveysans (CEV), now a part of the MOB group.

 

The tremaining photos show La Givrine, a small station on the Nyon St. Cergue Morez line which lies to the north of Geneva.  It now runs from Nyon (on Lake Geneva/ Lac Leman) to La Cure on the border with France but it used to run to Morez in France.  It has been modernised since these photos were taken.

While hurrying to take these photos before the trains moved I put my sunglasses on the car roof.  Sadly they were still there when I drove off, never to be seen again.

 

 

Blonay      Blonay Chamby ex Brunig & ex BAM Ed3/3 6 5th Aug 78  J6252

 

 

Blonay CEV BDeh2/4 71 Vevey to Les Pleiades 5th Aug 78 J6249

 

 

La Givrine NStCM ABDe4/4 1on inspection train & ABDe4/4 11 La Cure to Nyon 15th Aug 78  J6304  No 1 was built in 1916, Number 11 in 1918  so they were only around 60 years old when photographed.  Both these railcars still exist, they were sold to the Chemin de Fer de la Mure, in France in 1982 and 1992 respectively.

 

 

La Givrine NStCM ABDe4/4 11 La Cure to Nyon 15th Aug 78  J6305

 

 

La Givrine NStCM ABDe4/4 1on inspection train & ABDe4/4 11 La Cure to Nyon 15th Aug 78 C4067

 

 

La Givrine NStCM ABDe4/4 11 La Cure to Nyon 15th Aug 78  C4068

Edited August 11, 2022 by DaveF

[corneliuslundie]

Really great to see the Swiss pics. I knew about the Blonay-Chamby line but never managed to visit it even though we went through one of the terminal stations on the MOB (or was it the funicular line up the local mountain to Rochers du Naye,, being marketed as the Marmot line when we visited)?

And nice to be reminded that it wasn't only Deltics on the ECML.

Jonathan

[35A]

C1744 is, I'm pretty certain, 55 020 "NIMBUS". The number is almost legible when zoomed, the nameplate is the right length, there is a white "DL" experiment plaque to the lower left of the leading cab door which corresponds with other photos of that loco in 1974 and, additionally, I found a photo from later in the year where the dent at the top of the nose had been filled but was still (just) visible.

 

Can anybody provide any more information on C1742? I'm not familiar with 1L11 and, unfortunately, for most of that summer, I was "off the road". The only reference in my notes for 1974 has 47 471 at the head of 1L11. I don't recognise the headcode but I'm wondering (given that it's Mk. Is) if it was the summer Saturdays King's Cross - Scarborough, which was normally a class 40 diagram. TIA.

 

Beautiful pictures, Dave. As always, I love anything that takes me back to my teenage stamping ground around that period. The Swiss photos are fascinating, also - not areas that I managed to get to.

[hexagon789]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

 

Time now for this afternoon's "new" photos.

 

Today we have a look at three Swiss metre gauge railways, probably not amongst the better known to those who live in the UK.

 

The first photo shows a train on the preserved line from Blonay to Chamby.   Prior to preservation the loco had been owned by SBB used on the Brünig line and later by the BAM (Biere Apples Morges).

 

The second photo shows a train on the Chemins der fer Electriques Veveysans (CEV), now a part of the MOB group.

 

The tremaining photos show La Givrine, a small station on the Nyon St. Cergue Morez line which lies to the north of Geneva.  It now runs from Nyon (on Lake Geneva/ Lac Leman) to La Cure on the border with France but it used to run to Morez in France.  It has been modernised since these photos were taken.

While hurrying to take these photos before the trains moved I put my sunglasses on the car roof.  Sadly they were still there when I drove off, never to be seen again.

 

 

Blonay      Blonay Chamby ex Brunig & ex BAM Ed3/3 6 5th Aug 78  J6252

 

 

Blonay CEV BDeh2/4 71 Vevey to Les Pleiades 5th Aug 78 J6249

 

 

La Givrine NStCM ABDe4/4 1on inspection train & ABDe4/4 11 La Cure to Nyon 15th Aug 78  J6304  No 1 was built in 1916, Number 11 in 1918  so they were only around 60 years old when photographed.  Both these railcars still exist, they were sold to the Chemin de Fer de la Mure, in France in 1982 and 1992 respectively.

 

 

La Givrine NStCM ABDe4/4 11 La Cure to Nyon 15th Aug 78  J6305

 

 

La Givrine NStCM ABDe4/4 1on inspection train & ABDe4/4 11 La Cure to Nyon 15th Aug 78 C4067

 

 

La Givrine NStCM ABDe4/4 11 La Cure to Nyon 15th Aug 78  C4068

A lovely set of photos, David. All so interesting to British eyes.

 

I have heard of the Blonay-Chamby, I'm not 100% on the others but I've come across a wide variety of Swiss lines through the MITV series Swiss Railway Journeys which used to air on the Travel Channel on Sky about 10 years ago or so until it was taken over.

 

I believe the production company has subsequently released the entire series of 24 episodes on YouTube subsequently for anyone to enjoy.

[Market65]

Good evening, David. The ‘old photo’s’ of Hougham, on the ECML between Grantham and Newark, are full of historical interest, and in C1743, with an unidentified class 47, on an up express passenger train in August, 1974, you can see several vertical streaks on the visible bodyside. That would be a good weathering project.

The ‘new’ Switzerland photo’s are truly excellent, starting with that preserved line from Blonay to Chamby, and then the Chemins der fer Electriques Veveysans (CEV), with finally the station of La Givrine, on the Nyon St. Cergue Morez line. In that first photo’ at Blonay, with a Blonay to Chamby train, with ex Brunig & ex BAM, Ed3/3, number 6, on the 5th August, 1978, your Dad has captured a superb scene of the train with the large tree covered hill in the background.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

1 hour ago, 35A said:

C1744 is, I'm pretty certain, 55 020 "NIMBUS". The number is almost legible when zoomed, the nameplate is the right length, there is a white "DL" experiment plaque to the lower left of the leading cab door which corresponds with other photos of that loco in 1974 and, additionally, I found a photo from later in the year where the dent at the top of the nose had been filled but was still (just) visible.

 

Can anybody provide any more information on C1742? I'm not familiar with 1L11 and, unfortunately, for most of that summer, I was "off the road". The only reference in my notes for 1974 has 47 471 at the head of 1L11. I don't recognise the headcode but I'm wondering (given that it's Mk. Is) if it was the summer Saturdays King's Cross - Scarborough, which was normally a class 40 diagram. TIA.

 

Beautiful pictures, Dave. As always, I love anything that takes me back to my teenage stamping ground around that period. The Swiss photos are fascinating, also - not areas that I managed to get to.

 

 

According to the workimng timetable on the napier chronicles web site it is a Kings X to Scarborough working, running  8/6 to 31/08 Saturdays only, 11.10 from Kings X.

http://www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/menu.htm

David

[keefer]

A KX-Scarborough 'holiday Saturdays' train sounds a bit weird to me, being more used to umpteen trains there from Scotland or the provincial regions. But there must've been a market for Londoners etc looking beyond Margate & the South Coast for their hollybags! 🙂

[hexagon789]

3 minutes ago, keefer said:

A KX-Scarborough 'holiday Saturdays' train sounds a bit weird to me, being more used to umpteen trains there from Scotland or the provincial regions. But there must've been a market for Londoners etc looking beyond Margate & the South Coast for their hollybags! 🙂

Possibly a continuation of sorts of the erstwhile "Scarborough Flyer"?

[35A]

4 hours ago, DaveF said:

 

 

According to the workimng timetable on the napier chronicles web site it is a Kings X to Scarborough working, running  8/6 to 31/08 Saturdays only, 11.10 from Kings X.

http://www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/menu.htm

David

 

Thanks, David. I didn't think of looking at Chronicles of Napier for it, as it was usually a class 40 diagram (although I do, vaguely, remember seeing a Deltic on it, once).  🙄

[35A]

29 minutes ago, keefer said:

A KX-Scarborough 'holiday Saturdays' train sounds a bit weird to me, being more used to umpteen trains there from Scotland or the provincial regions. But there must've been a market for Londoners etc looking beyond Margate & the South Coast for their hollybags! 🙂

 

There was a King's Cross - Skegness summer Saturdays, as well, which still ran well into the mid-1980s, usually a Class 31. IIRC, the Scarborough service was withdrawn before the end the 1970s (with the HST timetable of 1978, I think).

[DaveF]

 

I forgot to mention something about replacing the missing photos.  Although I have them all they will not be posted in the same batches as before as that takes too long to sort out.  

 

Today's are from visits to Chesterfield.  When I was at Manchester I often changed trains at Chesterfield as trains to and from Manchester generally went via Derby wheras I was going to/from Nottingham.

 

 

Chesterfield  Class 31 5690 down coal November 70 C408

 

 

Chesterfield Class 08 D4032 up goods wrong line December 70 C426

 

 

Chesterfield Class 47 1634 up oil, on fast line December 70 C428

 

 

Chesterfield Class 47 1789 up oil May 71 C600

 

 

Chesterfield Class 45 Newcastle to Bristol March 72 C857

 

 

David

 

 

 

 

[DaveF]

Another random selection this afternoon, all places beginning with "S".  I don't think these have  been in this thread before.

 

 

Skipton LMS Class 5 45221 light engine Jan 67 J743

 

 

South Shields Westoe Colliery EE/Baguley No11 21st Feb 86 C7337

 

 

Sowerby Bridge Class 110 Leeds to Manchester Victoria Oct 69 C158

 

 

St Mary Cray Class 73 down empty car transporters May 80 J6891

 

 

Stafford Class 304 Rugby to Stafford Aug 66 J594

 

 

David

[corneliuslundie]

Really great to see Chesterfield before it was rebuilt. I have travelled to/from/through it often in recent years but not nearly as interesting.

Many thanks for all your work every day (almost). I wondered if it would be too hot today.

Jonathan