Peter Kazmierczak Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Any pictures of your father's East Leake layout which you can share David? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted October 24, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2015 Keefer, I think Akeman Stret is a typo for Arkwright Street. I'm sorry but the link in your post doesn't work for me. The disused stations link is: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/a/arkwright_street/index.shtml Nottingham Vic is indeed just of the top of the map, if you scroll it up Victoria station was between Mansfield Road and Huntingdon Street/Glasshouse Street. The junction is indeed Weekday Cross Thanks for that Dave, I've now corrected my original post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 (edited) The GC was my local mainline and we had some interesting locos through Aylesbury and sadly they were in a right old state at the end ,one service in the morning to Victoria was a dmu and this gave a good view of a decaying route.Most locos were Royal Scots and Black fives the former often broke down miles from anywhere leaving a crew member a long walk to raise help sadly the most reliable units were the dmu,s most of our stations were run down dirty and Marylebone a dying place and then a long came Network Southeast but northwards was derelict thanks to the good doctor but for quite a long time the shed at Aylesbury was quite busy standard class four tanks some times a Fairburn ,western locos (foriegners!) the local model rilway club at P/Risboro are building a model of the station in this time period so you will be able to see what we were once like.Thanks for the pics did you get down to the south at all ie Brackley Quainton? The Scots were indeed bad, see http://www.annesleyfireman.com/ for an insight. The LMR sent various locos onto the GC, a batch of (poor) Brits was allocated. The Annesley fitters fettled them up and the LMR promptly transferred them away When the LMR first got their hands on Annesley one of the first actions was to condemn most of the ex LNER locos on the books. According to Yeadon one of the O1s they condemned was only a couple of weeks after a General Repair Edited October 24, 2015 by great central Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted October 25, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) Any pictures of your father's East Leake layout which you can share David? Sadly no, Peter. In fact I have very few photos of his layouts until he was getting too old to go out taking photos very often. From what I remember the platforms were about scale length, there was a 3' or so radius curve at the "south" end to get to the hidden loops, at the north end the goods yard was shortened a bit and then again a 3' radius curve to the hidden loops. The buildings were to scale - I remember helping Dad measure them one weekend. They were built with the usual card layers to provide relief for the brick panels and then covered with Merco brick papers (that was all there was then). The stairs up from the road underbridge were modelled, he had a sheet of white glazed brick paper he used for that - in fact I still have the remains of the sheet and have scanned it for when I need glazed bricks. The landscape was dyed and painted hessian and the fences from matchsticks and balsa wood. As I mentioned he scratch built bodies to fit on an available chassis - I think there were two 4-6-0s, one outside cylindered (an Immingham?) and one inside cylindered (Glenalmond I think), an A5, one or more J11s (on a Triang 0-6-0 chhassis). He also built a V2 but I'm not sure about the chassis he used. Of course all this was before the days of even cast kits, just about the only kits were the Jamieson ones. This was in the days of Wrenn and Welkut fibre sleepered track and points, steam roller alloy wheels on many locos etc. Hornby Dublo was still 3 rail only then, so he couldn't use any of their locos. Coaches were modified Triang, Ratio and CCW kits (wooden) - I still have some of them. Wagons were any available, re wheeled to convert HD ones to 2 rail. He used home made couplings which looked rather like the current tension lock type, but made out of wire. I do have a couple of photos of his previous layout in his shed. The child in one photo is me. The loco in the first photo is Stewart Reidpath (Essar) which I still have, though somewhat modified. The pannier in the platform was Gaiety. In the second photo are a GSWR Baltic tank, a GNR American mogul and a CR 4-6-2T. All are long gone - as he used proprietary chassis they were built to fit the chassis while retaining the look of the prototype. Also a Hamblings "Gnat" which I still have. Some people may be able to work out which stations were used as inspiration for the layout. David Edited October 25, 2015 by DaveF 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 25, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) Today's preserved line photos are from the Great Central at various dates from the mid 1970s. Quorn Hunslet Robert Nelson No 4 pass to Loughborough 26th April 75 C2004 Quorn NSB 377 King Haakon VII Loughborough to Rothley 6th Sept 75 C2432 Quorn Littleton No 5 March 76 C2647 Quorn N2 4744 Loughborough to Rothley Aug 78 C4113 Swithland Reservoir Hunslet Robert Nelson No 4 Loughborough Central to Rothley 6th Sept 75 C2427. Rothley NSB 377 King Haakon Vii 6th Sept 75 C2426 David Edited October 25, 2015 by DaveF 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2015 Hi, Dave. A lovely collection of photo's of the G C Railway. Nice to see the preserved N2. I wish it could be steamed once more. With best regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Hi, Dave. A lovely collection of photo's of the G C Railway. Nice to see the preserved N2. I wish it could be steamed once more. With best regards, Rob. Rob, the N2 is currently in working order and visiting the Nene Valley (we travelled behind it on the North Norfolk last year), and as this picture taken 18 October shows, it's currently in GNR livery, which looks good: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanhughes/22219704889/ Adam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted October 25, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2015 Article about Arkwright St. at disused-stations: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/a/arkwright_street/index.shtml In the map shown in the article, I take it that Nottingham Vic is just off the top of the map and the junction between there and Arkwright St. is Weekday Cross? (Not a GC expert but I find that area fascinating) EDIT: Following Dave's kind post below, I've corrected both the station name and web link - can only plead temporary brain fade! There's a good farcebook page on the railways of Nottingham. I've learned loads about the GC from that and there are heaps of great pictures of the area. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2015 Rob, the N2 is currently in working order and visiting the Nene Valley (we travelled behind it on the North Norfolk last year), and as this picture taken 18 October shows, it's currently in GNR livery, which looks good: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanhughes/22219704889/ Adam Thank you. I could have sworn that it was not currently steamable. I can't think where I got that idea from! Thanks for the photo'. It makes a most glorious sight. With best regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 25, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) Great Central again today, this time to the east of the Woodhead Tunnel. Edit. Some of these have been used earlier in a thread about the Woodhead route, so this a second chance to see them for some of you. Hazlehead Bridge 26047 Diomedes Sheffield to Manchester Aug 67 J1088 Hazlehead Bridge Class 76 up light engine Aug 67 J1092 Hazlehead Bridge 26017 down goods Aug 67 J1093 Deepcar view north 24th Oct 85 C7267 Orgreave Colliery junction Class 31 eastbound ballast Feb 79 C4334 David Edited October 25, 2015 by DaveF 50 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2015 Hi, Dave. Always good to see quality photo's of the Woodhead line, which these are. I particularly like the first one at Hazlehead Bridge, with 26047 Diomedes, in August, 1967. With best regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted October 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2015 Interesting shot of 26047 with a Porthole Brake leading and a Southern green third coach. Is that one of the Bulleids transferred north in exchange for the Mk1s used in the Bournmouth EMU conversions? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted October 25, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2015 Interesting shot of 26047 with a Porthole Brake leading and a Southern green third coach. Is that one of the Bulleids transferred north in exchange for the Mk1s used in the Bournmouth EMU conversions? Looking at the photo I think the green coach is a BR mk1 composite, it would have been a steam heat one swapped for a dual heat one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted October 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2015 Yes, I've done a blow-up and the door lights look like a Mk1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 25, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2015 The trussing also confirms that it is a BR Mk1. With regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted October 26, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2015 Looking at the photo I think the green coach is a BR mk1 composite, it would have been a steam heat one swapped for a dual heat one. Somewhere on the Wodhead thread the coach number is mentioned, Nunnery just had the one I believe, always the same one I travelled in anyway. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted October 26, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 26, 2015 Swindon and Reading today with photos taken in 1978, so most of the trains are much like today's apart from the livery. I'd gone to Swindon for the day to look at the then railway museum. Whenever I post HST photos I think perhaps they are too recent - but these were taken around 37 years ago. Reading 253015 up ex pas Feb 78 C3665 Swindon 253010 down pass 7th Oct 78 C4160 Swindon 253010 & 253004 both down pass 7th Oct 78 C4161 Swindon Class 101 set B802 7th Oct 78 C4162 Swindon 253015 up ex pass 7th Oct 78 C4163 David 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 None of the 125's have had their smoke deflectors fitted. That dates them for a start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted October 26, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2015 Hi, Dave. Lovely photos of HST's at Reading and Swindon from 1978. Some paint is coming off the power car in the first photo', and improvements in the paint, washing and the fitting of deflectors would all help to solve things like that. With best regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 26, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2015 All rather nostalgic Dave - the old Reading station and absolutely nothing of the station and track shown in your first photo still exists, the whole lot has been swept away. And as ever nice to see a view of my old office window in that big red brick building at Swindon above 253004 although regrettably when we moved in because I needed more office space for my team than the other part of TLF my office was on the other side with just one of those windows in the end on the far corner but at least I could actually see the railway, just about - only had a couple of years there alas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted October 26, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2015 None of the 125's have had their smoke deflectors fitted. That dates them for a start. And the first second class coach isn't a TGS yet either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Rather than poor paintwork on 253015, are those white bits just soap suds from the screen washer? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 26, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2015 Rather than poor paintwork on 253015, are those white bits just soap suds from the screen washer? Could well be Peter - it does look 'odd' for paint damage and the colour isn't right for what was underneath the paint. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 and it looks like the wiper's moving too... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRUNFOS Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Its lost its light covers aswell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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