Chris Turnbull Posted July 4, 2022 Author Share Posted July 4, 2022 A visit to London today. Canary Wharf DLR on 12th July 2008. 450075 enters Clapham Junction on 17th April 2004. Croydon tram at Sandilands (I think) on 12th July 2008. Dalston on 15th December 2007. Gospel Oak on 17th April 2004. And finally, 357005 draws near to Fenchurch Street on 17th April 2004. Chris Turnbull 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted July 4, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 4, 2022 (edited) The Dalston picture is interesting as it shows the erstwhile Western Junction. Tracks on the left (grassy trackbed) were removed after the line to Broad St. closed. However there are, once again, tracks from that direction as part of the East London Line Extension - two tracks electrified by 3rd rail run as far as Highbury & Islington. The station (and much of the approaches from the south) is now built over. Next to these tracks, on the right, are two tracks for the North London Line whose Dalston Kingsland station is to the right of your pic. Interestingly, despite the obliteration/rebuilding of the whole Dalston 'triangle' area, provision has been made for future easy installation of the Dalston Eastern Jcn/Curve - even though that was the first bit to close, during WW2! History of Dalston Jcn at abandonedstaions.org (in particular the last two pictures) Current Google satellite view of Dalston EDIT: having looked at the maps, there is a Streetview on Boleyn Road which must've been around where you took your pic (unfortunately, Google didn't look over the wall!) https://goo.gl/maps/JLtvG8WAP9ivG68Q6 Edited July 4, 2022 by keefer 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) We remain in London for another day... ...and we start at Willesden High Level with 313109 arriving on 12th July 2008. Stratford DLR on the same day. Some eighteen months later on 25th February 2010 this is 315808 at Stratfoed. And on the same day this is the Jubilee Line platforms. Finally St Pancras on 15th December 2007, this is "The Lovers" statue. I had hoped to post my usual six photos but RMWeb is again playing silly , telling me I have posted 10MB when I have only posted just over three. Still, that's more for another day. Chris Turnbull Edited July 5, 2022 by Chris Turnbull Tytpo 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 6, 2022 Author Share Posted July 6, 2022 Back to Carlisle Kingmoor and the black and white days of August 1967. 70049 Solway Firth on the 23rd. 43106 on the 24th 45435 on the same day. Just one brake van? There's a prototype for everything. 70013 Oliver Cromwell on the 24th. It was de rigueur to ride on the cab steps! And here's Ollie again speeding past with it's coaches Another prototype for everything. D8081 on the turntable on the 25th. Chris Turnbull 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Chris Turnbull said: Another prototype for everything. D8081 on the turntable on the 25th Presumably at an angle like that they were actually turning it 90° rather than just selecting a different track on the other side. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted July 6, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Chris Turnbull said: 45435 on the same day. Just one brake van? There's a prototype for everything. Looks like a 'Shark' ballast-plough van. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 6, 2022 Author Share Posted July 6, 2022 1 hour ago, eastwestdivide said: Presumably at an angle like that they were actually turning it 90° rather than just selecting a different track on the other side. It's a long time ago now but I am pretty sure it was turned 180 degrees. Chris Turnbull 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Chris Turnbull said: 180 degrees Doh! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 11, 2022 Author Share Posted July 11, 2022 A visit to Wales today. 150280 at Blaenau Ffestiniog on 7th May 2015. Beddgelert on the Welsh Highland on 8th May 2016. I have no idea what this loco is and am hoping some kind soul will tell me. Big Pit Mining Museum, Blaenavon on 23rd May 2010. Again, I don't know the locomotive but I'm sure someone does. 150262 at Cardiff Central on 24th May 2010. Cardiff Queen Street looking north on 21st May 2010. Ebbw Vale Parkway on 22nd May 2010. Chris Turnbull 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 65179 Posted July 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2022 38 minutes ago, Chris Turnbull said: A visit to Wales today. 150280 at Blaenau Ffestiniog on 7th May 2015. Beddgelert on the Welsh Highland on 8th May 2016. I have no idea what this loco is and am hoping some kind soul will tell me. Big Pit Mining Museum, Blaenavon on 23rd May 2010. Again, I don't know the locomotive but I'm sure someone does. 150262 at Cardiff Central on 24th May 2010. Cardiff Queen Street looking north on 21st May 2010. Ebbw Vale Parkway on 22nd May 2010. Chris Turnbull The Big Pit loco is Barclay 0-4-0st 1680 carrying the name Nora No.5. Built 1920 for the Blaenavon Co. Ltd. Regards Simon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
balders Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WHR_Garratt_143.jpg With reference to your WHR query, It's a former SAR Garrett. Had a few runs behind it and got some nice video! Regards Guy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cctransuk Posted July 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2022 2 minutes ago, balders said: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WHR_Garratt_143.jpg With reference to your WHR query, It's a former SAR Garrett. Had a few runs behind it and got some nice video! Regards Guy Indeed - a day on the footplate was a very much appreciated retirement present from the owner. CJI. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted July 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2022 3 hours ago, Chris Turnbull said: Cardiff Queen Street looking north on 21st May 2010. Now stick that signal on a layout, how many people would say the feather is wrong handed? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 13 hours ago, Davexoc said: Now stick that signal on a layout, how many people would say the feather is wrong handed? Same at Kirkby in Ashfield 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted July 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2022 3 hours ago, great central said: Same at Kirkby in Ashfield I was just about to post the same! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 12, 2022 Author Share Posted July 12, 2022 (edited) I spent a few hours in Peterborough today (12th July) taking a few shots to show as a "then and now" feature. As Real Time Trains (RTT) showed a few freights coming through before my departure time I went to the line an hour-and-a-half early to capture the action. The first train was 66725 on 4L02, Hams Hall to Felixstowe, which came through Soham just after half past nine. And here it is again disappearing off to Felixstowe across the flat Cambridgeshire countryside. A short time later 66544 appeared on 423R Felixstowe to Crewe Basford Hall, seen here passing under the footbridge that carries a Public Right of Way over the line and allowed Network Rail to close a nearby foot crossing. I had hoped to capture more freights but they didn't appear. Checking RTT later they were delayed. Instead, this is 755410 on the balancing Ipswich service. My Peterborough train arrived at Soham shortly after and here it is, formed of 755415, after arrival at Peterborough. Peterborough station soon filled up and here is 158780, 755415 and 170146 at platforms 5, 6 and 7. The freight on the right is the 6M60 Whitemoor to Mountsorell which had 66762 providing traction. I'll try and sort out the "then and now" photos in the next day or two. I'm out tomorrow playing trains at a local G1MRA meeting but will post them asap. Please bear with me. Chris Turnbull Edited July 14, 2022 by Chris Turnbull 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 *Garratt with 2 A's Ex south african class NGG16 No87 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 Then and now at Peterborough. I have just bought a supa-dupa mobile phone and read "Android for Dummies" from cover to cover. Inspired by my new-found expertise I bought a micro SD card and loaded my 1968 Peterborough photos onto it which I inserted it into my mobile. It worked! Here's some of the results of my efforts. 158783 enters plarform 2 on 12th July. I would have preferred a train coming in on the adjacent line but nothig would oblige. And this is D1872 doing the same thing, albeit on the Up Main on 9th September 1968. For reference look at the arch of the bridge in the distance on the far left. It's all that is similar that I can see. 158783 in the platform. Not much similarity here either. D9006 The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry on a Down express. Note the the station nameboard says "North". There was also an "East" which had closed to passenger traffic a couple of years earlier in 1966. At the other end of the station this is 800203 on an up working. This is D5535 in a similar position in 1968. Exact matches are impossible as Peterborough station has undergone two rebuilds in that time and is scheduled for a third. Let's hope they improve the utilitarian buildings. I was chatting to one of LNER staff who said there is only so much you can do. "You can't polish a turd" - his supervisor's words, not mine, but most apt I thought. Chis Turnbull 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted July 13, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 13, 2022 2 hours ago, Chris Turnbull said: ...... "You can't polish a turd"... No, but you can roll it in glitter! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 14, 2022 Author Share Posted July 14, 2022 A couple more Then and Now shots of Peterborough today. 156411 enters from the north on 12th July 2022. D10 Tryfan trundles through on an Up freight on 9th September 1968. 700146 departs for Kings Cross in 2022. D1900 departs for Kings Cross in 1968. And this is a shot that was impossible in 1968 without trespassing on the ECML (or you worked on the railway). 755415 departs for Ipswich on 12th July 2022. In 1968 Peterborough was a notorious bottleneck and was rebuilt to ease the problem. It would seem that it was not entirely successful. This is 456R en route for Felixstowe held at signals and stationary across the ECML blocking all tracks. This didn't last long but I am sure it would have had a knock-on effect on a busy line like the ECML. Chris Turnbull 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 Another trip around East Anglia with my Anglia Day Ranger over a period of time. 60025 at Ely on 26th August 2004. Fouteen years later on 29th June 2018 here is 387116 at Ely. On 13th March 2004 86227 leaves Ipswich on a Liverpool Street working. Eighteen years later on 26th April 2022 745008 forms a Liverpool Street train from Ipswich. Down the line to Norwich where we see 37114 and 37047 on 3rd May 2003. As you can see I wasn't the only photographer there. Does anybody recognise themselves? Norwich on 22nd March 2022 and 755328 and 158788 are ready to depart. Chris Turnbull 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 A bit further afield today I thought so here are a few of my European photos. Starting in Berlin this is Hackester Market on 12th August 2013. A great place to eat with trains rumbling overhead and trams passing on the road. Bremen on 26th July 2015. No musicians in this shot! (If you don't get this then check out Grimm Brothers' fairy tales). Frankfurt Flughafen on 21st June 2003. Hamburg on 26th July 2015. Budapest West on 7th August 2013 Bridge over the River Daugava, Riga on 1st August 2015. I apologise for the lack of information on the trains but I am not very knowledgable about such things. If anyone can tell me what they are I would be obliged. Chris Turnbull 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted July 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19, 2022 The Frankfurt Flughafen pic looks like a modern train set, with everything still brand new out of the box! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 After a delightful day yesterday playing trains on a friends magnificent Gauge One garden railway I have time today to post a few more of my railway photos. So here are a few shots of tourist / heritage / preserved railways in East Anglia. LNER Y7 985 at Brockford on the Mid-Suffolk on 6th May 2019. Same place, same day, this is Sirapite. No. 9 Mark Timothy approaches Aylsham on 21st February 2021. This is Mark Timothy being watered at Wroxham by a proud driver. M56352 at Sheringham, North Norfolk Railway, on an overcast 20th June 2018. Sheringham on a brighter day - 28th May 2021 - with the B12 about to depart for Holt. Chris Turnbull 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 Today (22nd July) my wife and tootled around the lanes of East Suffolk and one of the places we visited was Beccles. As always I took my camera and was givien permission to visit the station while she emptied all the charity shops. I strolled down to the station and didn't expect to find much but was pleasantly surprised. The first thing that greeted me was the station building that looked in good condition. Then there were the great flower displays and the retro nameboard. There was also a handy bridge as you can see. Just for once luck was on my side and I had arrived just in time to see the up and down trains passing. First in was 755418 from Lowestoft. A couple of minutes later 755416 arrived from Ipswich. For a short time both trains were alongside each other until... ...755418 departed to Ipswich followed by... 755416 departing to Lowestoft. Although shadow of it's former self I was pleased to have recorded this small example of modern working. Chris Turnbull 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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