lmsforever Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 11 hours ago, woodenhead said: It was lovely this year, all snowy up Beattock Hope the show was good really missed my trip think its one of the best shows .Ah well roll on next year. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) 2 minutes ago, lmsforever said: Hope the show was good really missed my trip think its one of the best shows .Ah well roll on next year. The show was good, glad I made the trip Edited March 4, 2022 by woodenhead 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 4, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) Morpeth again for today. Morpeth grain wagons to be used for alumina Nov 83 C6327 Morpeth diverted HST up going away via Blyth and Tyne June 84 C6546 On the single line between Morpeth and Bedlington through Hepscott. Taken from the A196 bridge to the south of Morpeth. Morpeth diverted HST down via Blyth and Tyne Also up mail and passenger June 84 C6547 The mail train is waiting for the HST to clear the single line to the south through Hepscott to Bedlington and beyond. Morpeth Class 47303 up ICI Jan 89 J9733 Morpeth down HST and 47526 Berwick to Newcastle 3rd July 87 C8598 David Edited April 1, 2022 by DaveF 42 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 4, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) Good evening, David. You have posted some interesting photo’s of Morpeth, and in C6546, with a diverted HST, on an up express, going away via the Blyth and Tyne, in June, 1984, I am having a spot of bother trying to read the power cars number. I have cruelly enlarged the part of the photo’, below the cab windscreen, and can read 431, then also the last number which is an 8. It could be the errant number is a 3 or a 5, but I’m just not quite sure. Can anyone put me out of my misery? With warmest regards, Rob. Edited March 4, 2022 by Market65 To insert a word. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted March 4, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 4, 2022 44 minutes ago, Market65 said: Good evening, David. You have posted some interesting photo’s of Morpeth, and in C6546, with a diverted HST, on an up express, going away via the Blyth and Tyne, in June, 1984, I am having a spot of bother trying to read the power cars number. I have cruelly enlarged the part of the photo’, below the cab windscreen, and can read 431, then also the last number which is an 8. It could be the errant number is a 3 or a 5, but I’m just not quite sure. Can anyone put me out of my misery? Rob, You should have looked on the front valance rather than the side, it is 43138. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 5, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 5, 2022 (edited) A's at Grantham in the 1950s. all in black and white. Grantham A1 60119 Patrick Stirling up ex pass c1952 JVol6061 Grantham A3 60059 Tracery up ex pass August 1959 JVol4034 Grantham A3 60092 Fairway ex pass Kings X to Newcastle ready to leave May 51 JVol6103 Grantham A4 60014 Silver Link up Tees Tyne Pullman c1951 JVol6071 Dad used his track permit to take this photo. Grantham A5 69803 up pass c1953 JVol7157 David Edited April 1, 2022 by DaveF 47 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5, 2022 38 minutes ago, DaveF said: A's at Grantham in the 1950s. all in black and white. Grantham A1 60119 Patrick Stirling up ex pass c1952 JVol6061 Grantham A3 60059 Tracery up ex pass August 1959 JVol4034 Grantham A3 60092 Fairway ex pass Kings X to Newcastle ready to leave May 51 JVol6103 Grantham A4 60014 Silver Link up Tees Tyne Pullman c1951 JVol6071 Dad used his track permit to take this photo. Grantham A5 69803 up pass c1953 JVol7157 David Great pictures David, hard to tell but some of those early 50s Pacifics could be blue 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 First one's a special, no? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted March 5, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5, 2022 20 minutes ago, 62613 said: First one's a special, no? It might br but Dad's notes don't say anything about it. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 5, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5, 2022 Good evening, David. That’s a most impressive set of photo’s of Grantham from the 1950’s. The last photo’ of A5, 69803, on an up passenger train, in c1953, shows three different non corridor carriages with a Thompson brake composite leading, then an ex NER elliptical roofed 49’ eight compartment all third, and bringing up the rear is a Gresley, ex GNR, brake lavatory composite. It would make a lovely train to run on a model railway. With warmest regards, Rob. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 6, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2022 (edited) The 1970s in Essex toady with some more photos from what is now the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne. When the photos were taken it was the Stour Valey Railway Preservation Society. In those days it was thought that the Marks Tey to Sudbury line might close and that the preservation society could take it over. In the event the line didn't close. Chappel and Wakes Colne Barclay Belvoir and Grafton steam crane May 79 J6464 Chappel and Wakes Colne RSH 7597 Oct 77 C3577 Chappel and Wakes Colne N7 69621 4MTT 80151 S15 841 12th June 76 C2783 Chappel and Wakes Colne Hunslet Penn Green May 79 J6454 Chappel and Wakes Colne Barclay Belvoir and RSH Jupiter Sept 74 C1798 Chappel and Wakes Colne RSH Penn Green May 79 C4560 David Edited April 1, 2022 by DaveF 36 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted March 6, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 6, 2022 I assume that the vehicle on the right in the last photo is an LNER full brake, though it looks rather as though it is glazed all the ay along. A trick of the light presumably. I only ever went there once, and it is now a long way from home. Jonathan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted March 6, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2022 1 hour ago, corneliuslundie said: I assume that the vehicle on the right in the last photo is an LNER full brake, though it looks rather as though it is glazed all the ay along. A trick of the light presumably. I only ever went there once, and it is now a long way from home. Jonathan I think it is just the shadow giving the effect. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 6, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2022 (edited) Some late 40s/early 50s black and white photos of Boston and Sleaford this afternoon. Once again they are Dad's photos. I used to know Sleaford quite well in the early 70s. I bought my first car there, a Saab 96, from Malletts garage. As the years passed I bought two more from them but then changed to driving Citroens for a number of years. Boston J69 68981 shunting 1955 JMImageG03_1955 Sleaford B1 down pass c1948 JVol5120 Sleaford J6 64182 down pass c1952 JVol4262 Sleaford K2 61771 up special c1952J Vol3086 Sleaford V2 60948 down ex pass c1954 JVol4254 David Edited April 1, 2022 by DaveF 40 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 6, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2022 Good evening, David. That’s a delightful selection of photo’s of the Chappel and Wakes Colne preserved line as it was in the seventies. The way it is laid out makes for a series of reversals for trains. In C2783, you can see several engines, N7, 69621, then 4MTT, 80151, and S15, 841, from the 12th June, 1976 - possibly a hot weather day. It is certainly interesting to see those engines in various states of repair. Thank you for posting more of your Dad’s black and white photo’s, covering Boston and Sleaford from the late forties and the early fifties. They convey what words not always can do. In the last photo’, at Sleaford, with a V2, 60948, on a down express passenger train, in c1954, it can be seen that the bottom of the firebox is equal to the cabside sheeting, and that there are no visible rivits. I will take off the rivits from the new Bachmann model appropriately, but there is no need to alter the bottom of the firebox. Such a useful photo’ for modelling. Also the rear of the bucket seat in the cab has some vertical straps visible, so I’ll have to add them to the rear of the seats. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 7, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 7, 2022 (edited) Tyne and Wear Metro today between Backworth and Tynemouth. Backworth Metro 4070 St James to Pelaw 21st Feb 96 C20779 Whitley Bay Pelaw to St James 15th Feb 92 C16687 Tynemouth Metro Pelaw to St James 21st Oct 86 C8100 Tynemouth Metro 4043 Heworth to Tynemouth Sept 86 J8700 Tynemouth 26th Oct 84 C6646 David Edited April 1, 2022 by DaveF 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 7, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 7, 2022 Good evening, David. That’s a most impressive selection of photo’s of the Tyne and Wear Metro, from between Backworth and Tynemouth. In C16687, at Whitley Bay, with a Metro from Pelaw to St James, on the 15th February, 1992, I can’t help noticing all the things like the greenhouses, old doors, etc., in what look like allotments. As so often, that will help with making models of allotments. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 8, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) Today's photos are around Butterwell Junction, just to the north of Ulgham Lane crossing on the ECML in Northumberland. It was the junction for the opencast loader. Butterwell Junction Class 101 down going away 28th May 85 C6959 Butterwell Junction Class 254 down July 85 J8322 Butterwell Junction 43106 down going away 20th June 91 C15958 Butterwell Junction DVT up 23rd Jan 93 C18260 The coal loader is to the right of the DVT. Butterwell Junction Class 91 up 29th April 95 C20120 Taken from the other side of the line i.e. looking west. David Edited April 1, 2022 by DaveF 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2022 Good evening, David. That’s a great selection of photo’s from around Butterwell Junction, just north of Ulgham Lane level crossing on the ECML in Northumberland. In the first photo’, you have captured so perfectly that two car class 101 receding into the distance, on a down service, on the 28th May, 1985. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 9, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 (edited) Some more photos taken at Morpeth in the 1980s for today. Morpeth Class 37s Sept 84 J8178 Morpeth Cass 43 43086 Edimburgh to Kings X 13th Oct 84 C6607a Morpeth Class 47 47210 down special 25th July 85 C6989 Morpeth Class 37 down freight July 87 J9010 loco is almost out of sight Morpeth cement mixing wagons for electrification work 22nd July 89 C12156 David Edited April 1, 2022 by DaveF 38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2022 Good evening, David. That is an excellent set of photo’s of Morpeth from the eighties. The last photo’ of cement mixing wagons for the electrification work, on the 22nd July, 1989, are something which I don’t recall seeing before and I’m sure would make delightful models, along with the other vehicles etc., With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 10, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2022 (edited) Trains on the ECML in Northumberland at Ulgham Lane crossing in the early 90s. Ulgham Lane crossing Class 47 down dolofines June 91 J12038 Ulgham Lane crossing Class 90 pushing Glasgow C to Kings X 23rd May 92 C16863 Ulgham Lane crossing 91026 up Aug 92 J13312 Ulgham Lane crossing 91028 Glasgow to Kings X 30th July 94 C19529 Ulgham Lane crossing A4 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley Tyne Forth Express Bolton to Scotland and back 29th April 95 C20116 David Edited April 1, 2022 by DaveF 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted March 10, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2022 Good evening, David. That’s a most excellent selection of photo’s of Ulgham Lane crossing on the ECML in Northumberland from the early nineties. In C16863, with an unidentified class 90, in Swallow livery, pushing a Glasgow Central to London Kings Cross express on the 23rd May, 1992, you have captured a great scene with that 90 which was not to be seen everyday. With warmest regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERLAR Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Regarding C20116, I believe I was on that trip and SNG was taken off at Berwick where it was found the tender hand brake had been left on. Train was stuck in siding North of Berwick station while a locomotive came to take the train forward to Edinburgh and over the Forth and back. I remember someone waiting for the return at Newcastle to photograph it and asking what happened to SNG, had it happened now news would have got round in about 2 minutes! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted March 11, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2022 (edited) Some photos of Alnwick and Edlingham taken in the 80s and 90s long after closure of the NER line from Alnmouth to Alnwick and the line on to Coldstream. The second and third photos show what is now "Barter Books" in the former station at Alnwick, a very large secondhand bookshop which is well worth a visit. The area round the building is now busy with parked cars belonging to the shop customers. It is no longer as quiet as in these photos. The last two photos may give an idea of how empty the area is. Alnwick Dec 82 C5895 Alnwick 26th Dec 92 C18216 Alnwick 26th Dec 92 C18215 Edlingham Alnwick to Coldstream NER 31st Oct 92 C18128 Edlingham Castle in front of the viaduct. Edlingham cutting on Alnwick to Coldstream line 26th Dec 90 C15522 A little to the north of the previous photo. David Edited April 1, 2022 by DaveF 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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