RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2017 This was Grantham 033_Grantham Shed p (1024x621).jpg This was Grantham coal stage: https://returntograntham.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/829.jpg?w=584&resize=960%2C657 https://i1.wp.com/www.tracksthroughgrantham.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Grantham-Loco-coal-stage-and-coaling-plant-before-demolition-view-from-north-east-2-adj.jpg?resize=960%2C648 Water tower is different from Phil's photo but otherwise the same type. Keith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Streak Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 (edited) WAGR S Class 4-8-2 S549 Greenmount under restoration at WA Rail Heritage in Bassendean a couple of Months ago. It's being restored for Mainline use by the Wheatbelt Rail Heritage Group with backing from 3 Local Shires for use on tourist trains throughout the West Oz Wheatbelt. These S classes were all named after WA Mountains. Edited September 8, 2017 by The Blue Streak 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted September 8, 2017 Author Share Posted September 8, 2017 When I started this thread I was hoping it would be light-hearted and we would see photographs from many people. It did get many contributors. Since starting the thread a certain member has continuously complained about my pictures with references to them 'not what was asked for'. Yet similar photographs from others are 'okay'. I shall no longer post anymore pictures here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2017 (edited) This is the best I can do No 813 being restored in the open on the SVR in the early 1970s behind 3205. (I thought I had a close up of 813, complete with donations bucket, but can't find it!) It shows the primitive conditions in the early days. The site was open to the public when it wasn't operating and you could just wander around. There were no staff to be seen anywhere You couldn't do that today with all the vandalism and theft. Note the buffer just sitting on the ground. Keith Edited September 8, 2017 by melmerby 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2017 Managed to find one with people working 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2017 This was Grantham coal stage: https://returntograntham.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/829.jpg?w=584&resize=960%2C657 https://i1.wp.com/www.tracksthroughgrantham.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Grantham-Loco-coal-stage-and-coaling-plant-before-demolition-view-from-north-east-2-adj.jpg?resize=960%2C648 Water tower is different from Phil's photo but otherwise the same type. Keith Many thanks for your research. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2017 Seems like good topic. I don't think I have that many to offer but there's this one and a couple more from the Bluebell which I'll upload later. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2017 Back in 2003 on my 'Grand Tour' I happened to arrive at Interlaken Ost on a Friday and that coincidentally was the day the local preservation centre - in a large wooden shed not far from the station - was open to visitors. Some years later the shed burnt down and I don't know what happened to the things it had housed (I expect Eddie B does?). But here we are almost exactly 14 years ago - 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Back in 2003 on my 'Grand Tour' I happened to arrive at Interlaken Ost on a Friday and that coincidentally was the day the local preservation centre - in a large wooden shed not far from the station - was open to visitors. Some years later the shed burnt down and I don't know what happened to the things it had housed (I expect Eddie B does?). But here we are almost exactly 14 years ago - It wasn't somewhere I'd visited (or been aware of before the fire), so I can only offer the report made on this site (http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/78722-fire-destroys-ballenberg-dampfbahn-depot/), which has a slightly happier recent update. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2017 (edited) Seems like good topic. I don't think I have that many to offer but there's this one and a couple more from the Bluebell which I'll upload later. NER cl Q6 080 2238 Grosmont 8 1989.jpg I also have a picture of the Q6/T2 when it was being restored there, It must have been going on for a long time. Keith Edited September 8, 2017 by melmerby 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2017 Many thanks for your research. Phil I assume it must one of the main depots on the GN line but I haven't managed to track down any matching pictures on the net. Not an area I visited so I have no information of my own, unless it's in a book. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John ks Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Here are a couple more of the QR heritage fleet at the Ipswich Workshops/Rail Museum. This looks like the blue baby frame, a Tank engine that used to haul commuters around the Brisbane suburban network when I was a lot younger I don't know what this frame is from but from the lack of apparent buffer mounts & the wide coupler?? slot at the end I suspect it may be a narrow gauge cane train By narrow gauge I mean narrower than the 3'6" of QR's main lines John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted September 8, 2017 Author Share Posted September 8, 2017 I am sure others can place this. It's from a negative with no indication of the date either. It continues the murk theme. LNER A4 60030 Golden Fleece.jpg I have a photograph of the shed (different engine) somewhere. It is in my late father's collection and is in one of the books I have had published. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 When I started this thread I was hoping it would be light-hearted and we would see photographs from many people. It did get many contributors. Since starting the thread a certain member has continuously complained about my pictures with references to them 'not what was asked for'. Yet similar photographs from others are 'okay'. I shall no longer post anymore pictures here. Two things I'd say: 1) Illegitimi non carborundum 2) Don't give 'em the satisfaction. If you'd not started the thread, just think of the gems we'd not have seen! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2017 Plus 3) Illius me paenitet, deux. Absit invidia Keith N.B. I don't do Latin so I can't go further! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 And let's not get apprime aberratio. I don't speak much Latin though some of my friends can speak it fluently! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2017 Here are a couple more of the QR heritage fleet at the Ipswich Workshops/Rail Museum. This looks like the blue baby frame, a Tank engine that used to haul commuters around the Brisbane suburban network when I was a lot younger IMG_0105 (1).JPG I don't know what this frame is from but from the lack of apparent buffer mounts & the wide coupler?? slot at the end I suspect it may be a narrow gauge cane train By narrow gauge I mean narrower than the 3'6" of QR's main lines IMG_0095 (1).JPG John The top one is definitely a DD17 - says so on the headstock if you look closely. Here's one in one piece and seen from the opposite end (masquerading as a rather chubby 'Thomas' on the ZigZag Railway in NSW). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2017 One of mine from the Bluebell this time - 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Oddments at the KWVR a couple of weeks ago: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 8, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2017 (edited) Last one - the second Bluebell one wasn't that good - but across the mid-Sussex border at Amberley there is a bit of a long shot of the narrow gauge works. Edited September 8, 2017 by phil_sutters 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 9, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2017 Dare I suggest shunting locomotives for 24 hours? I'll start it with a one off at the time. The Isle of Wight shunter in BR blue pre TOPS days. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Streak Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 (edited) Shunters Another one from the line up of Locos sadly being readied for scrap at the back of the WAGR workshops in the mid 80's. Still in Larch green (The poor little thing never even got the chance to repainted into Westrail corporate orange !) PS. It's a B class for those who are interested. One of the early batch that had straight cabsides rather than the sloped ones (in order to clear the cranes at the port) that the later versions had. Edited September 9, 2017 by The Blue Streak 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Here are a couple of photos I took last week while on holiday in North Devon. Me and Mrs Rivercider spent an enjoyable day walking along part of the Tarka Trail and stopped twice at the old Torrington Station which now has a cafe called the Puffing Billy Trading Company. Progress formerly worked at one of the local clay pits, 7/9/2017 This loco was new to the Llanelli Dock & Railway company and came here via Chacewater I believe, 7/9/2017 cheers 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 9, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2017 A return to Swanage - like the USA tank, I think this little shunter has moved on elsewhere. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Class 06 built by Andrew Barclay on Aberdeen (Ferryhill) depot on 13 August 1973. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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