RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted March 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 24, 2020 1 hour ago, jcarta said: Both pictures are great but the second one is absolutely brilliant......A great capture Jim I really like them both, but I prefer the first one, I think it's an absolute belter !! Wouldn't do for us all to be the same now would it. Cheers, Phil. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Trainshed Terry Posted March 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 24, 2020 (edited) D400/50035 Fearless taken at St Phillip Marsh 40th HST open day in 2016. It was attached to Herclues at the time Edited March 24, 2020 by Trainshed Terry Top number added 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) Delving into my photo archives produced 50017 'Royal Oak' in Network SouthEast livery at London Waterloo. The image is scanned from one of my slides and is undated, but best estimate would be late 80s/very early90s, before class 159s took over on services to Salisbury and Exeter. Edited March 26, 2020 by 4630 to reflect info from brushman47544 in a later post 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2020 2 hours ago, 4630 said: Delving into my photo archives produced 50017 'Royal Oak' in Network SouthEast livery at London Waterloo. The image is scanned from one of my slides and is undated, but best estimate would be late 80s/very early90s, before class 159s took over on services to Salisbury and Exeter. there are photos of 50017 on the web in late 1990 and at that time the two paint chip area on the cab (central above the headlight and at the end of the red stripe) hadn't yet appeared. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 14 minutes ago, brushman47544 said: there are photos of 50017 on the web in late 1990 and at that time the two paint chip area on the cab (central above the headlight and at the end of the red stripe) hadn't yet appeared. Thanks for the info. Andrew, that's helpful. That timeframe makes sense as some of the slides in the box that I scanned were of class 485s on the Isle of Wight, which were in their final months and that I'd made a specific visit to photograph, probably on one of NSE's 'Network Days'. I imagine that 50017 was at Waterloo on my arrival from Portsmouth Harbour and merited a photo to finish off the film in the camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forest2807 Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 A friend sent me this and asked if I could ID the loco. It was taken (by my friend) in Dec ‘81 or Jan ‘82 from Chelvey Bridge just west of Nailsea en route to Yatton and Weston-super-Mare. (His description, I don’t know the area at all). Anyone have an inkling about which Hoover this might be? Sorry for the poor quality of the photo. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) That last digit looks like a 6. If so, then it could well be 50036, as that was one of two with number ending in 6 which had been refurbished by that point (the other being 006, but I am not sure when it was painted in large logo livery, or when it got the odd handrail on the cab front). 50016 was outshopped in Jan 82, but I suspect wouldn't have had time to get that mucky in a couple of weeks (if the photo was taken in late Jan 82). Edit: Just seen a picture of 50006 dated April 1982, still in all over blue. Edited March 26, 2020 by Claude_Dreyfus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forest2807 Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Thanks Claude, that’s what I thought too (the last digit being a 6, possibly 036) but I didn’t want to influence anybody’s judgement by mentioning it in the original post. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2020 My one piece of outdoor exercise today involved walking onto the deserted platform at Swinton about half an hour ago. Just happened to coincide with the passing of this- Cheers, Phil. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2020 6 hours ago, Claude_Dreyfus said: That last digit looks like a 6. If so, then it could well be 50036, as that was one of two with number ending in 6 which had been refurbished by that point (the other being 006, but I am not sure when it was painted in large logo livery, or when it got the odd handrail on the cab front). 50016 was outshopped in Jan 82, but I suspect wouldn't have had time to get that mucky in a couple of weeks (if the photo was taken in late Jan 82). Found this later image of 50036, and it does seem to have a similar staining/defect on the logo http://railwayherald.com/imagingcentre/view/452877/CC Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jessy1692 Posted March 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) On 24/03/2020 at 16:37, Richard Croft said: Here are a few photo's I've had of 50's That was a cracking line up in that convoy to the KWVR, pity i didnt manage a trip on the HST but went hunting for the 50 up a dodgy path to find the 50 and scrambled up the banking to the fence, driver wandered up and started it up just after the HST screamed up the hill, good day was that! Edited March 27, 2020 by jessy1692 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I have posted some more Class 50 photos including D400 quite soon after introduction. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/class50 Paul 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 50 040 at Coventry, 1st June 1982, photo by Nigel Rawlings.... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I've never been a fan of the Class 50s (Do I hear cries of heretic!!) probably because I never saw one when I was a kid, but living in Manchester I've always been fascinated by pictures of them when they were on the WCML and its environs and pre-refurb, so I've been searching out Flickr pics of them..... Apologies if any of these have already been posted. I love this pic as it features two of them passing, parcel stock and some maroon passenger stock. This one at Carlisle is interesting (to me at least) mainly because of the Coffy Johnny stickers on the DMU. I'd never heard of him or seen these stickers before but apparently he was famous bare knuckle boxer in the North East. Carlisle 1971 New loco, new wagons, new yard... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 39 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: I've never been a fan of the Class 50s (Do I hear cries of heretic!!) probably because I never saw one when I was a kid, but living in Manchester I've always been fascinated by pictures of them when they were on the WCML and its environs and pre-refurb, so I've been searching out Flickr pics of them..... Carlisle 1971 New loco, new wagons, new yard... That would make a lovely model in any scale given the room...! It looks the very epitomy of modernity for 1971 and pre-Tops 'as built' 50s seem to be seldom modelled... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Unidentified pair at Reading in 1974, photo by Richard Courage.... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamespetts Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 On 18/12/2019 at 17:14, Rugd1022 said: I really do miss driving these, I have so many happy and quite vivid memories of thrashing them out of Padd, a bit naughty really but I was but a lad, encouraged by many an old hand 'not to be frit of it'. When in good fettle they just flew down the Thames Valley on the Oxfords and Newburys. Even better though were the Summer Saturday relief jobs down the B&H as far as Exeter, a quick trip to the chippie down the road then back up to London with another as fast as we could, within reason. Sigh.... I have fond memories of seeing these when I was a nipper and sometimes even travelling on them, a particular delight finding some corridor mk. 1 stock to ride on from Reading to Oxford and/or back. I am currently building a substantial layout in N gauge set in 1989 which will represent the latter days of the class 50s in the Thames valley. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
50031Hood Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 36 years and one day ago, 50039 on the only loco-hauled train to Wolverhampton from Paddington via High Wycombe, pictured here at Princes Risborough. It had headed this service for 4 consecutive days and on this day, it failed briefly at Princes Risborough only to splutter into life 10 minutes later. It then returned on the 8.23 morning service back up to Paddington the next day. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted March 31, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2020 A bit earlier than that, and a little further south. Same service... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2020 On 27/03/2020 at 19:27, montyburns56 said: I've never been a fan of the Class 50s (Do I hear cries of heretic!!) probably because I never saw one when I was a kid im the same, never been a huge fan of them, saw plenty as a kid but only ever had a ride behind one of them between reading and london Paddington and back, 50024 ‘vanguard’ I’ve driven one mainline, 50049, nice to say I have done that but I’d prefer a class 47 anyway! (Runs for cover), if I learn them through work then brilliant but if I don’t then so be it, must admit I struggled with the door between the clean air end and engine bay, far tighter than any class 37 fan end I’ve had to squeeze through Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2020 @montyburns56 do you have locations for your pics above, I know the first one is crewe but I can’t place the rest Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 31, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, big jim said: @montyburns56 do you have locations for your pics above, I know the first one is crewe but I can’t place the rest There are a couple at Glasgow. I think the shed is Polmadie and the "long" shot is north of Preston? The previous Monty pics include Preston and Carlisle Edited March 31, 2020 by newbryford Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2020 That signal gantry in Preston is fantastic! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 31, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2020 Just now, big jim said: That signal gantry in Preston was fantastic! Corrected....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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