Rugd1022 Posted October 29, 2017 Author Share Posted October 29, 2017 Another fabulous shot Trev... I hope they didn't use woodchip wallpaper...! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted October 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 29, 2017 I wonder what happened to all those nameplate rubbings,considering how many times you used to see it taking place I've never seen one for sale Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted October 29, 2017 Author Share Posted October 29, 2017 Probably languishing in lofts, or landfill... I can remember watching a couple of young lads doing a rubbing of 47 081's plate at Reading one Sunday morning in the '70s, the Driver was keen on getting away right time and the two lads were making a hash if it, I always wondered what happened to it. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted October 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 29, 2017 I never really saw the point of it because as you say above it was often done in a rush so wouldn't be good ,then once its at home what do you do with it, hardly the best thing for a bedroom wall and if it was a Deltic one it could be huge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 29, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2017 They would probably have come out blurred anyway with the vibration from the engine ticking over. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 I wonder what happened to all those nameplate rubbings,considering how many times you used to see it taking place I've never seen one for sale Probably languishing in lofts, or landfill... I can remember watching a couple of young lads doing a rubbing of 47 081's plate at Reading one Sunday morning in the '70s, the Driver was keen on getting away right time and the two lads were making a hash if it, I always wondered what happened to it. In an effort to find out I have just started a new thread 'Souvenirs from the good old days' which might bring forth some gems from the past. Cheers Trevor 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBird Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 Here's another one at York. Anyone recognise himself? (1776c) 55021 York station 05-08-80 (T Ermel) .jpg Spotters indulge in a bit of nameplate-rubbing, with 55021 the target on 5th August 1980. Good job they seem to be using wallpaper - Argyll & Sutherland Highlander is one of the longer ones. Trevor Well. the only time I tried that must have been in 1981, on a school railway club outing to York. Came specially armed with a roll of wall paper and wax crayon/ The only Deltic which stopped on our platform had already lost its nameplate! So I got a rubbing of its number. Wonder what happened to it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted November 1, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 1, 2017 Nothing better than a Magnum photograph and no better photographer than David Hurn. http://www.beatlesarchive.net/the-beatles-by-david-hurn.html ...but that ain't non of the Acton stations. He should have remembered being here. Harooowld2.jpg P The 1930s Gatwick Airport station - now flattened and the site of Tinsley Green crossovers. Not to be confused with the current Gatwick Airport station - opened as Gatwick Racecourse by the LSBCR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 The 1930s Gatwick Airport station - now flattened and the site of Tinsley Green crossovers. Not to be confused with the current Gatwick Airport station - opened as Gatwick Racecourse by the LSBCR I'd believe this location, seeing as the train on the far right is formed of 4Cor stock... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Scottish-Exile Posted November 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2017 35028 at Chester. 30 June 2015 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Scottish-Exile Posted November 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2017 (edited) 46100 Royal Scot on its return to mainline steam, after 50 years. Chester 06 Feb 2016 Edited November 4, 2017 by Scottish-Exile 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 P1170122.JPG P1170120.JPG 35028 at Chester. 30 June 2015 Well he looks cheerful, doesn't he. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Well he looks cheerful, doesn't he. No doubt looking forward to shoveling five tons of coal !!! Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Thumbs up for the HST! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Something topical; a poppy-seller at Waterloo. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted November 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 5, 2017 I have no information about this image. It was made from a negative, which had no details with it. I think that it might be at Lawrence Hill Bristol, although I have not seen it from this angle before. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted November 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 6, 2017 That's Lawrence Hill all right, with the train on the up main; the down main is nearest the camera and the relief roads serve the platforms. The viewpoint is looking southwestwards from the eastern side of the station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted November 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 6, 2017 That's Lawrence Hill all right, with the train on the up main; the down main is nearest the camera and the relief roads serve the platforms. The viewpoint is looking southwestwards from the eastern side of the station. Thanks for confirming that. Although it was one of Dad's spotting haunts, when we lived in Somerset, I don't think he took other photos from precisely this vantage point. I wonder what was happening to bring out the other spotters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted November 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 6, 2017 The answer might be in the photograph; if this is late in the day for WR steam a Castle hauled express is a rarity. I can't identify the loco, which is not clean but not in bad nick, feathering at the safety valves ready for the climb to Filton. The headcode denotes a North to West line train, or possibly one from the Gloucester direction as the train is not on the relief road as one might expect for a working heading for the Severn Tunnel, but anyway a working heading for the LMR. A chalked headcode has not been cleaned from the smokebox door and suggests the outward working; perhaps someone with Working Time Tables for the period ('63/4?) can identify it. Perhaps a Pontypool Road or Gloucester loco, or from even further afeild. And I'll hazard a guess that it's weekend or evening shot, or those spotters ought to be in school! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted November 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 6, 2017 Perhaps I'll plough through Dad's spotting logs, when I get a minute (or an hour or two!) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southof1E top tmd Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 (edited) On the Friday evening (3 Nov 2017) a nocturnal scene from Totnes Riverside with 8568 awaiting departure for Buckfastleigh during the superb South Devon deisel gala. The staff look on whilst the enthusiast is engrossed in his moves. Could pass for Hawick in the early 60's perhaps? NR Edited November 6, 2017 by Southof1E top tmd 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Well I'm sure our train is there somewhere dear. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 More spotters... 47461 at Darlington on 27th July 1977 Trevor 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted November 18, 2017 Author Share Posted November 18, 2017 Chalk Farm Depot, photo by Lyn Wratten... New Cross Gate 1969, photo by Paul Colins... Bolton, late '60s, photo by Philip Stainer... Radstock 1970, left to right ; Stanley Tout, Driver Frank Kemp and Shunter Jock Wilson, photo by Stanley Tout... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Ready for the RA at Paddington. As this shot was taken three weeks ago, HST fans will be able to recognise which power car this is....... Anyone know the driver? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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