RMweb Premium uax6 Posted March 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17, 2014 Along with the other 70's BL colours, TANGO Orange and a favorite of mine, BL Sh*t Brown, all with either a beige or brown velour interior! I noticed that that marina was something special, it's got chrome wheelarch embelishers, the sure sign it was someones pride and joy! Another set of lovely photos by the way! Andy G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) Along with the other 70's BL colours, TANGO Orange and a favorite of mine, BL Sh*t Brown, all with either a beige or brown velour interior! I noticed that that marina was something special, it's got chrome wheelarch embelishers, the sure sign it was someones pride and joy! Another set of lovely photos by the way! Andy G Ditto on the photos - the 'chrome wheelarch embellishers' and similar were usually after-market additions to cover the rampant rust that BL cars of the time were prone to... Edited March 18, 2014 by talisman56 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted March 18, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 18, 2014 More cracking pictures Jeff - 84008 is worth it for the brake rodding alone! Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18, 2014 One or two rarer locos tonight. I've not dated these as I haven't much idea. Doubtless someone will be long to help later Thanks in advance. Diesels 70's and 80's973.jpg Crewe works open day, and celebrity class 44, 44004, "Great Gable" is posed on the traverser. Superb photos Jeff. Are you sure the Peak is 44004? I remember a shed visit to Toton in 1980 not long before the withdrawal of the last Class 44s and 44004 was in green and I think it stayed green when it first entered service in preservation. 44008 was in the blue livery shown in your photo. Assuming it was still in service, my guess is 1980 as in this photo http://railphotoprints.zenfolio.com/p543678904/h169904A9#h169904a9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdlcs Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Interesting choice of AC electrics; both 82005 and 83009 survived longer than most as ECS locos out of Williesden and 84008 was derelict at Crewe for many years - it may have even been broken by a private contractor at the end of ZC rather than by BR. Wonderful pictures as usual - not the first person to wish for a time machine and a digital camera with unlimited SD cards... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Yes, according to the disposal book that I have, 84008 was cut up by A Hampton at Crewe in November 1988. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Thanks, brushman47544, yes, when I enlarged it, it's 44008 "Penyghent". Where's that rolling eyes icon when you need it? I've also dated the photos to 1979 from this photo: http://www.railblue.com/pages/Class%2082/82_005_at_brel_crewe.htm Also, the works open day sticks in my memory...I went with my wife, a mate and his wife. HIS older brother had told us to arrive at the works at 4pm as it opened then.....so we spent the rest of the day looking round the gardens at pre-theme park Alton Towers, (which became a theme park in 1980). On arrival at the works we found it CLOSING, so had to duck security and go in anyway...a slightly rushed tour.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1059 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Diesels 70's and 80's973.jpg Crewe works open day, and celebrity class 44, 44004, "Great Gable" 44008 "Penyghent" is posed on the traverser. Are you sure that's Crewe ? I have a remarkably similar shot from my little Kodak Instamatic taken at Derby Works Open Day 1979 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18, 2014 Are you sure that's Crewe ? I have a remarkably similar shot from my little Kodak Instamatic taken at Derby Works Open Day 1979 Certainly looks like the same traverser http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookephotography/2247601806/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) What I find amazing/depressing (delete where not applicable) is that the withdrawn class 82/83/84 locos look in better nick than the 85 at Euston in service... Edited March 18, 2014 by talisman56 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
84LA Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Ditto on the photos - the 'chrome wheelarch embellishers' and similar were usually after-market additions to cover the rampant rust that BL cars of the time were prone to... Marinas came with the chrome arches as standard back then,proper stainless steel too which if anything caused even more rust by trapping the dirt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Along with the other 70's BL colours, TANGO Orange and a favorite of mine, BL Sh*t Brown, all with either a beige or brown velour interior! I noticed that that marina was something special, it's got chrome wheelarch embelishers, the sure sign it was someones pride and joy! Another set of lovely photos by the way! Andy G Ahh- I might not be much use when it comes to dating photographs from class 50 liveries, but Morris Marinas I can do... That one is a later Mk1 1300SDL saloon, SDL ("Super Deluxe") being the higher of the two (!) trim levels available on the Mk1 1300, with such luxuries as carpets, top panels on the doorcards and the stainless arch trim over the basic DL (Deluxe) model. Purchasers of the 1800 could also go for the sporty TC (Twin Carb), which got even more stainless trim (bits to trap muck on the sills as well as the arches, etc etc) and- the height of decadence- a centre console! Sorry for the thread drift- another thread I've been thoroughly enjoying, but with very little to add myself, not being born until the late 80's... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) Certainly looks like the same traverser http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookephotography/2247601806/ Blast....(rushes off to change the post again) Thanks, really. Brian...so how come the interest in Morris Marinas? Edited March 18, 2014 by JeffP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted March 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18, 2014 I personally call Morris Marinas spare parts doners for uprating my Moggy minors! Andy g Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Mostly East Midlands tonight, with a couple of one-offs...for me at any rate. Preserved class 9F at Buxton, 92214, around 1979. View across the entrance to Westhouses depot, with a class 56 and two class 20's in the foreground, and a nice spoil heap in the background. In all my visits, I don't think I ever went when it wasn't dull. Circa 1979. Westhouses again, and class 56. 56055 is stabled with 56056 behind it. Circa 1979. Shot of the depot at Leicester, with three of it's allocation of 08's on view, and a class 45 inside the shed. Circa 1979. Overall view of the depot at Leicester, with three class 25's on the fuelling point. A class 37 is also present. I think the Midland roundhouse was behind the fuelling point in steam days. Nottingham Carriage Sidings maintenance depot, circa 1979, with classes 20, 25,and 45 present. Reading d.m.u depot, this is the diesel part, not the units part. I was on a week's course and went one night to try and track down the PWM which was allocated there. Sadly, it was out at Goring. Circa 1979. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) I personally call Morris Marinas spare parts doners for uprating my Moggy minors! Andy g Indeed. If they are so utterly terrible... why are you Moggy boys so keen to whip half the mechanics out to modernise your jellymoulds? I've got three of the damn things Jeff. I'm entirely incapable of giving any form of rational explanation for this, even to myself... Edited March 18, 2014 by brianthesnail96 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted March 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18, 2014 I actually think they are quite a good motor, sadly the only ones I have been up close and personal with have happened to be in a scrap yard, and rather than waste good parts it's better to re-use them. I have never killed a good marina in my life I swear! I also think that it is a logical progression, the marinas are basically just bigger minors, and a lot of bits just swap across, and if BL had kept the minor going any longer its the bits that would have appeared on them. In fact I'd love a TC Coupe, I justr love the shape. Now if I could just get my mitts on the Maurice Marinio Racing Team coupe... ;-} As for dolomites and there rear axles, I'd better not say anything! Andy G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 A good proportion of what i recovered from the Ely resignalling in 1992 came home in a Morris Marina. The young lady i was dating at the time took real offence to the state i left the back seat in with all the greasy signal bits i had thrown in there. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 Last few of the first thousand...yes, it really has been that many. I had to open a new folder for the last three hundred or so. London again, tonight, and one at Crewe. White-roofed class 47, 47172, "County of Hertfordshire" at Liverpool Street., circa 1980. Nameplate of above loco. Also white roofed, ex-WR namer, class 47, 47085 "Mammoth" enters Liverpool Street with an express from Norwich. View of HST's awaiting departure from Paddington. Another of Stratford's 47's, this time 47167, "County of Essex" looks ready for departure with an East Anglian express, Liverpool Street. Crewe, and a snatched shot of a parcels unit, class 128, 55994. Just the buffer missing, but "could do better" was what I thought. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Flashheart Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Really enjoying your thread here Jeff, with the recent posts about the Morris Marina any photos of a proper car namely your mk1 Escort Mexico?. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 (edited) Very much off topic, sorry, but yes. The first two are of the Mex, Laughton forest, shortly after it was bought, and before it gained another pair of Cibies above the lower cornering lights. NVO 249M In the background of the second is an old Renault and what I think is another Marina....beige, of course! What I replaced it with: Ford Escort MkII RS Mexico, with the 1.6 overhead cam engine. BJX 833S, photographed here at Dole in eastern France, wife in passenger seat. And what I replaced that one with: AJV 101W, Ford Escort 1.3 GL MkIII...probably the WORST, most unreliable car I've ever had, and the one that has put me off Fords ever since, photographed at St Enimie, in the Gorges du Tarn, France. Edited March 20, 2014 by JeffP 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Fantastic! Everyone loves a Mk1, They even almost pull off beige Brilliant looking car. And yes, it is another Marina lurking in the background- a Mk1 again, but an 1800 this time... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 My car ownership went: Anglia 105E, Lotus Cortina MkII, Escort MkI Deluxe 1100, (went back to being a student, couldn't insure the Lotus), MkI Mex, MkII Mex, MkIII 1.3 Gl. THAT was the one that killed Fords for me, the blasted thing had almost every part replaced including a complete engine when it seized....with no warning. If I had my time again, I'd LOVE the little 1100 MkI back. I'd spent £100 on the suspension so it handled like a rally car, bought bucket seats, fitted instruments out of a GT, 13" wheels and tyres, with slightly flared wings off a 1300 Sport, fitted carpets, a smaller wheel, a radio and even changed the dynamo for a 45A alternator from a scrapped Transit. All good fun. Even had it resprayed Ford Sunset Red. (Wife's choice...she loves red). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm81 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 The escorts aren't that much off topic, still cars of the era. Liking all the pictures, inc the mkII mex. I still hanker after a mkII RS2000 minus the nose cone, be a bit weird driving a car older than me though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Flashheart Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Absolutely superb Jeff, pleased to say I'm the owner of a mk2 RS2000 thats 2 years older than me, I'll let you have your railway thread back!. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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