Michael Delamar Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 the last shot above a few years before looked like this.. Aintree by Kerry Parker (KP), on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 and before that it looked like this, can see the signals next to the austerity are where Ford station's wooden platforms ended. http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/ford/index.shtml Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodshaw Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 I think this thread should be kept and more photos posted of the same locations in 30 years' time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 24, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2012 the last shot above a few years before looked like this.. Aintree by Kerry Parker (KP), on Flickr Nice mixture of wagons on that train. Clank-clank, clank-clank! Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Here is another pair I have just matched up at Exmouth. Set P467 waits to form the 11.30 departure for Exeter St Davids, 11/3/83 And 29 years later..... Class 143 set 143612 waits to form a Paignton service, 15/5/2012 cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I had a trip to the Shirehampton Model Railway Club open day today so tried to recreate this picture:- Single power car 55032 stands in number one platform at Bristol Temple Meads between trips on the Severn Beach line, 26/4/80 Class 150 set 150130 waits to form the 12.03 departure for Avonmouth, 11/5/2013 cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 When changing trains at Taunton the other day I tried to replicate this shot:- Taunton East Gantry, HST set 253005 on the 14.25 Paddington - Plymouth slows for the Taunton stop. In the East Yard pilot 08322 takes a break from shunting, visible are a number of 21t coal hoppers for the CCD, and an Aberthaw cement lorry, 24/4/81 With this shot, though I got the angle somewhat wrong, A Cross-Country HST for Leeds powers away from the platform. The East Yard has gone, and in its place is rising the Firepool Development. The building on the left has been removed and the goods avoiding lines are also no longer there, 8/6/2013 cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Wigan North Western, 2010 / 1969 Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 This is a view that does not work well now, taken from over the fence at Weston-super-Mare, for the now shot I had to hold the camera above my head, point and hope. 31421 and set C571 at Weston-super-Mare, 24/8/81. 31421 is working a 17.09 Bristol Temple Meads - Taunton control special in lieu of a late running Liverpool - Plymouth working. Power car 43088 or 43089 on the rear of a Paddington service in the platform. I could not stand in exactly the same spot as 3 new houses have been built there. Increased vegetation and new lineside fencing also spoil the shot. The Sea Cadets have a new drill hall and headquarters on the downside of the line, 6/6/2013. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Here is another pair, from Dawlish Warren My mother took this of me in the middle with my late brother steve, and sister probably about 1969. Mrs Rivercider took this one, some things don't change, like my ears, but it will be a long wait for a Warship, 11/9/2013. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pobrien Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 I had a trip to the Shirehampton Model Railway Club open day today so tried to recreate this picture:- scan0046.jpg Single power car 55032 stands in number one platform at Bristol Temple Meads between trips on the Severn Beach line, 26/4/80 IMG_6353a.jpg Class 150 set 150130 waits to form the 12.03 departure for Avonmouth, 11/5/2013 cheers And a Black Five on March 12, 1964 http://www.flickr.com/photos/55350440@N06/5718213789/in/photolist-9HikJV Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 19, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2013 Here is another pair, from Dawlish Warren scan0109b.jpg My mother took this of me in the middle with my late brother steve, and sister probably about 1969. IMG_7129a.jpg Mrs Rivercider took this one, some things don't change, like my ears, but it will be a long wait for a Warship, 11/9/2013. cheers In these days of increased security of railway property I notice that the wire fence has, somewhat strangely, vanished! Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Here is a 1981 picture at Temple Meads that I tried to recreate last year:- Class 119 3 car cross country set C596 stands on the Up Through Line, 47456 is waiting in platform 3 with a Plymouth - Manchester Piccadilly service, 11/12/81 66176 stands on the Up Through Line with an engineers train, it was top and tailed with 66174, 6/10/2013 cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/1542-now-then/ my album they are mostly of around my area, south and east of Wakefield (EDIT) enlarged the font size Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I had a day out yesterday, and while waiting at Weston-super-Mare for my delayed service to Taunton a Cross Country service arrived so I realised I could try to recreate this shot from 1979:- DMU W51462 is on the rear of class 101 Met-Cam set B812 on a down working as 45073 runs in on the 10.28 Taunton - Birmingham New Street, 31/12/79. With this:- Set 221137 calls at Weston-super-Mare on the 10.34 departure for Manchester PIccadilly, 14/6/2014 cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pobrien Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 Some then and now photos of Bristol https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/15369025568/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/15369025538/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/15369025498/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/15369025488/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/15369025468/in/photostream/ And one of Weymouth https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristolsteam/15369025608/in/photostream/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 While searching for photos for another thread I realised I had another matching pair though as they are dated 1981 and c1993 they might be titled 'then and not quite so then!' St Andrews Road looking north towards Holesmouth Junction 55032 working 09.05 Severn Beach - Bristol Temple Meads 5/2/1981 BBHT (Bristol Bulk Handling Terminal) under construction c1993 cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted November 9, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2014 While searching for photos for another thread I realised I had another matching pair though as they are dated 1981 and c1993 they might be titled 'then and not quite so then!' St Andrews Road looking north towards Holesmouth Junction scan0030a.jpg 55032 working 09.05 Severn Beach - Bristol Temple Meads 5/2/1981 scan0029a.jpg BBHT (Bristol Bulk Handling Terminal) under construction c1993 cheers A nice pair of photos. A trio of questions: Was this area a railway yard before? It looks like the through lines had been singled. Do you know if that was permanent? 21 years on, does the new terminal still exist? (So many seem to have come and gone!) Cheers Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 A nice pair of photos. A trio of questions: Was this area a railway yard before? It looks like the through lines had been singled. Do you know if that was permanent? 21 years on, does the new terminal still exist? (So many seem to have come and gone!) Cheers Keith The area to the left of the running lines in the 1981 photo is PBA (Port of Bristol Authority) land, the grassy area was the former BR operated Royal Edward Yard which closed in 1978, by the 1990s Bennetts were importing coal through the adjacent Royal Edward Dock. The land to the right of the running lines was I believe low lying marshy land not previously in rail use, the tip siding was installed around 1980 and spent ballast used to raise the land up. The Severn Beach line in 1981 had been double track from Avonmouth Dock Junction to Hallen Marsh, when the BBHT was built the down line became the single passenger line, the former up line which is fenced over in the 1993 shot became a run round/engine release road for the BBHT. The BBHT is still in use, though I am not familiar with current traffic levels since I left EWS in 2007, cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2014 A nice pair of photos. A trio of questions: Was this area a railway yard before? It looks like the through lines had been singled. Do you know if that was permanent? 21 years on, does the new terminal still exist? (So many seem to have come and gone!) Cheers Keith The Severn Beach branch beyond St Andrews Road was singled in 1986 and the former Up Line became a goods line serving various places between St Andrews Road station and the main road over to the right of River Cider's photos - Norsk Hydro were in there at one time and there was also a tip siding looped off the goods line but I don't know to what extent it was ever used. All of it was out of use by the time I first looked at the site and started planning BBHT in 1991 or thereabouts so I was able to use the full site to get in the track layout I needed to handle the contract tonnage and when the Perway design office did the scale drawing it all fitted very nicely. I believe BBHT is still used but alas it has never been stretched to its full potential - the CEGB remit (although never made public) was to make it capable of handling 24 miliion tonnes of coal per annum serving Didcot (100% of its supply), Aberthaw (up to 8 trains per day) and one other power station (which was never clearly stated but could have been Ironbridge or one elsewhere in the Midlands). Thus it had two very large rapid loading bunkers which were designed to load a complete Didcot train without reclaim, plus I planned the reception, departure, and run round capability to allow two trains working into and through the loading bunkers simultaneouosly while also allowing simultaneous arrivals at departures at the Portbury Terminal Jcn end of the layout. I specifically planned the run round neck to allow trains to be worked by pairs of Class 37s but Trainload Coal decided to use Class 60s on the Didcot trains Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 The Severn Beach branch beyond St Andrews Road was singled in 1986 and the former Up Line became a goods line serving various places between St Andrews Road station and the main road over to the right of River Cider's photos - Norsk Hydro were in there at one time and there was also a tip siding looped off the goods line but I don't know to what extent it was ever used. Thanks Mike for the clarification, I had forgotten how extensive the 1986 rationalisation had been. The tip siding was definitely in use in february 1980, I have a photo of a spoil train heading there in my 1980s freight thread. In the picture above you can see the tip siding partly buried in the ballast, the connection to it is hidden by the DMU, it was by then out of use having fulfilled its function, unloaded spent ballast had been spread across the land, to raise the ground level, as far as the A403 on the right. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Just before Christmas I had a trip to Topsham and while in Exeter attempted to recreate this shot from 1979 33047 heads down the bank from Exeter Central with the 13.00 from Waterloo, 15/5/79 With this effort of a slightly less interesting train Set 150128 will still be under power as it climbs the last few yards into the platform with a service for Exmouth, 20/12/2014 cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 On a day out today I was at Exeter St Davids, and remembered i had taken an instamatic photo at the Red Cow Crossing end of the station so I tried to replicate the photo from memory, First, a double headed service lead by a class 47 and a peak wait at Exeter st Davids 6/6/75 And the shot taken today from near the same spot, the NCL shed has gone, burnt down a few years ago. 5/12/15 cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 A couple of days ago on a day out I changed trains at Newton Abbot and recreated this view from 1981 50021 Rodney waits at Newton Abbot with the 06.35 Bristol - Plymouth a train that always conveyed parcel vans, 5/11/81 A class 220 Cross Country set stands at Newton Abbot on the 08.07 Manchester PIccadilly to Paignton, 18/12/2015 On both occasions I had just got off the train pictured cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted December 19, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2015 Although in a lot of these comparisons there are numerous obvious differences I occasionally wonder how much of the change of the look and feel is also down to the camera and the high quality pictures it's easy to take nowdays. It would be interesting to see if there's some sort of Photoshop filter that would render digital pictures to the same quality as old film and thus remove that difference (a pity that doing the opposite isn't really possible). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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