RMweb Gold Downendian Posted December 31, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2015 Phil - many thanks for these - I'm especially fond of the Highbridge shots especially the Royal Mail apparatus. Very fond memories as a child spent there - long before my interest in railways developed. Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted January 1, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2016 (edited) Phil - many thanks for these - I'm especially fond of the Highbridge shots especially the Royal Mail apparatus. Very fond memories as a child spent there - long before my interest in railways developed. Neil Neil - I was pleased to be able to round up so many of Dad's photos. A word of caution - if you want to download any of the photos you are welcome to do so. I say this as the ipernity site seems to be going through a rather uncertain time, so you could find that these links go down without warning. We lived in Highbridge in the 1960s and early 70s. I can't remember which website it was, but there was an extensive correspondence arising out of someone spotting the mail train photo. A model of Highbridge was being built over a number of years and the modeller hadn't realised that there was a mail pick-up at that location. It was then discovered that at some point there had also been one on the down line, although no-one could work out where it was positioned. The discussion then got into massive detail over the mail trains' make up over the years and their routes etc. etc.. I was interested in railways when we lived there. Dad and I had a joint SDJR & GW layout based on Mendip, where we had previously lived. Some of my stock, photos and drawings can be found in the SDJR group's pages here. Best wishes for 2016 Edited January 1, 2016 by phil_sutters 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted January 1, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2016 Thanks Phil, I'm sure then either you or your father had known some of my relatives who lived in Highbridge and were active in the Church around that time. Both maternal great grandfathers were S&D engine drivers and my grandfather did an apprenticeship at Highbridge works. I had two great aunts living in Walrow and other family members in the close vicinity. I can only vaguely remember milk trains going up the old S&D branch to Bason bridge, but well remember the pairs of class 37s working the M5 construction traffic. I'd Iove to model the station site one day, a great railway history. Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Here is another image that has risen out of my price range. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-35mm-Colour-Slide-D1072-Class-52-Western-Glory-/291767353069?hash=item43eeb07eed:g:m44AAOSwcvdXPI4E Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Thread bump ahoy...! Another lurker found in the hard drive which I've been meaning to post : Newbury in 1971 with D6328 in the down bay and an unidentified Hymek on the Down Main, c/o Richard Courage... Southall c.1963, c/o Scott Fowler... D1037 in grubby green livery at Old Oak, reversing into the carriage sidings, c/o Scott Fowler... Random fortuitous find... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D860 VICTORIOUS Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Hi Nidge, Interesting collection of shots there,I like to see pictures taken from the footbridge at Southall,where I spent a lot of time as a lad...Is that maybe a failed Warship being removed from a train? Main line loco's were not uncommon visitors to the depot at Southall,although on one Saturday afternoon back in October 1971 I was really surprised when 831 Monarch arrived on shed,only Warship I saw on the depot. More pictures please! Neil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 (edited) Yes Neil, the poor old Warship is being removed from the train behind it on the Down Main, and my guess is that the Hymek on the Up Main will shunt across to replace it. Have a few more from ex-Old Oak man Scott to post, will sort them out later mate. Edited June 28, 2018 by Rugd1022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted September 30, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 30, 2022 Resurrecting a long quiet thread, on 27th September 2022 an arranged visit to Kidderminster Diesel Depot on the Severn Valley Railway produced the following; Class 42 Warship 821 Greyhound, under overhaul in the shed. Class 35 Hymek D7029 stored outside waiting its turn in the queue for attention. Class 52 Western D1013 Western Ranger and D1015 Western Champion in the shed... Outside standing on the turntable D1040* Western Queen. * This locomotive is in fact D1062 Western Courier, but was renamed and renumbered by its owners, the Western Locomotive Association, earlier this year to mark the late Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trade Member Strathwood Posted October 5, 2022 Trade Member Share Posted October 5, 2022 Reminds me of pleasant days of yore visiting Swindon Works. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 (edited) On 30/09/2022 at 16:20, 4630 said: I feel compelled to 'fill the gap'! D1014 Western Leviathan backs the empty stock from the down 'CRE' out of Penzance station in early April 1969 (using the Kodak Instamatic camera I'd only had since the previous Christmas). I've read somewhere that D1014 could have been the Golden Ochre-liveried one, but maybe 'Champion' sounded better than 'Leviathan'! Edited October 6, 2022 by Halvarras My pic was in wrong position....d'oh! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRUNFOS Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 A couple from last weekend. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Not a nice photo. Just found this on pinterest. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Albie the plumber Posted March 15 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15 (edited) On 11/03/2024 at 07:28, Ray M said: Not a nice photo. Just found this on pinterest. Cashmore's Newport with the cab of the doyen of class 42 Warships , D800 , Sir Brian Robertson. Edited March 15 by Albie the plumber Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 What a lovely paint job. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted April 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14 (edited) D1015 back on the mainline doing what a western does… 1352 Paddington to Birmingham hundreds of people out trackside for this… Edited September 23 by adb968008 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted September 22 Share Posted September 22 And look a Wezzy back in the day with a blue roof. Taken from pinterest. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 Another from Pinterest "Pimple Head" 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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