Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

[lmsforever]

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.

[woodenhead]

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

[DaveF]

 

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

[Market65]

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.

[Davexoc]

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.

[DaveF]

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

[russ p]

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

[62613]

First one's a special, no?

[DaveF]

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

[Market65]

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.

[DaveF]

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

[corneliuslundie]

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

[DaveF]

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

[DaveF]

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

[Market65]

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.

[DaveF]

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

[Market65]

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.

[DaveF]

 

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

[Market65]

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.

 

[DaveF]

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

[Market65]

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.

[DaveF]

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

[Market65]

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.

[LNERLAR]

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!

[DaveF]

 

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