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

[DaveF]

A few photos taken in the summer of 2004 on the Cumbrian Coast Line at Askam and Bootle.

 

 

Askam Class 156 156428 to Carlisle 27th July 2004 IMG_4323

 

 

Askam 29th July 2004 IMG_4324

 

 

Askam 29th July 2004 IMG_4325

 

 

Bootle 153363 to Carlisle July 29th 2004 IMG_4336

 

 

Bootle July 29th 2004 IMG_4337

 

 

Bootle July 29th 2004 IMG_4338

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a most impressive selection of photo’s of the Cumbrian Coast line at Askam and Bootle from July, 2004. In IMG_4324, at Askam, on the 29th July, 2004, it can be seen how the style of the station buildings seems to to reflect that of  buildings in the Shropshire area. Timber framing for the waiting room, with quite a large overhang to the roof all puts me in mind of some buildings in and around Shrewsbury. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[35A]

Going back to Saturday's Widdrington photographs (sorry, David, I've been away and am just catching up), may I suggest that the J94 in C5478 is actually 68078, rather than 69078 (https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/68078-wd-71463-lner-8078-br-68078/).

 

With regards to your query against the Class 11 in C5475 & C5476, MP228 is the former 12052 According to my most recent records, it is at the Caledonian Railway in Brechin, these days.

[DaveF]

57 minutes ago, 35A said:

Going back to Saturday's Widdrington photographs (sorry, David, I've been away and am just catching up), may I suggest that the J94 in C5478 is actually 68078, rather than 69078 (https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/68078-wd-71463-lner-8078-br-68078/).

 

With regards to your query against the Class 11 in C5475 & C5476, MP228 is the former 12052 According to my most recent records, it is at the Caledonian Railway in Brechin, these days.

 

 

Thanks for the information.

 

I've run out of excuses for my typos at the moment!

 

David

[DaveF]

 

Another assortment of old photos today.

 

 

Invershin Class 24 5117 Wick and Thurso to Inverness Aug 73 J3308  Taken from the end of the platform.

 

 

Chalkwell 308315 down passMay75 C2067   London Tilbury and Southend line.

 

 

Eastgate Class 101 North Briton 23rd May 87  C8515 A charter looking at lines around Darlington.

 

 

Pye Bridge 4F down empty coal Oct 63 J069  This has always been one of my favourites of Dad's photos.

 

 

Stainby sidings ex British Steel ex BR Class 14 shunting Nov 68 J1490  This is the end on junction at the end of the Hiogh Dyke branch with the British Steel lines.

 

 

David

[eastwestdivide]

C2067 2nd coach is one of those few motor luggage van conversions by the look of it. Was discussed here yonks ago. 
edit: page 6 of this thread!

Edited June 2, 2022 by eastwestdivide

[JeffP]

The 4F in J 069...superb photo.

I don't suppose you have it in hi-res?

I'd love that framed.

Edited June 2, 2022 by JeffP

[DaveF]

30 minutes ago, JeffP said:

The 4F in J 069...superb photo.

I don't suppose you have it in hi-res?

I'd love that framed.

 

 

I've sent you a PM

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That is a truly superb selection of photo’s from various dates and locations. I must add that J069 is truly outstanding, and so full of atmosphere. A photo’ which would make a great oil painting. The last photo’ of Stainby sidings, ex-British Steel, with ex-BR class 14, 0-6-0, shunting, in November, 1968, shows a fascinating scene which is now long gone, except in photo’s such as this one.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

Some photos from the Glasgow and South Western line from Glasgow to Carlisle, taken on 31st Aogust 2007.

 

 

New Cumnock 31st August 07 DSC_2675

 

 

New Cumnock 31st August 07 DSC_2676

 

 

Polquhap 156508 up 31st August 07 DSC_2683

 

 

Polquhap 66550 up coal 31st August 07 DSC_2691

 

 

Polquhap 156495 up 31st August 07 DSC_2694

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a most excellent set of photo’s of the Glasgow and South Western railway from Glasgow to Carlisle, as photographed on the 31st August 2007. In DSC_2676, at New Cumnock, you can see not only the semaphore signals but the box too. It’s good the traditional signalling lasted so long there. I haven’t been there for some time, but I can only guess that colour lights may have replaced the semaphores by now.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[highpeakman]

On 02/06/2022 at 15:52, DaveF said:

 

 

Pye Bridge 4F down empty coal Oct 63 J069  This has always been one of my favourites of Dad's photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

David

 

What an absolutely superb shot. I grew up in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire in the late 50s and 60s and this picture takes me right back to that period.

 

When I see such pictures that really mean something to me I like to look on Google and old NLS maps to "explore" the area. Such research shows the close web of lines close by which served all of the many collieries in the area but Google maps also showed up something modern which has intrigued me. If, on current Google aerial maps,  you follow the road in the picture down under the bridge and a few hundred yards along on the left there is a short length of railway track in a yard. At first glance it looks like an old railway yard but is in fact where there was a wharf for the Pinxton Canal (a branch of the Cromford canal). While the area around was surrounded by old "Tramways" and lines none of the maps show any of them reaching the wharf where the track now lies.

 

Just to satisfy my curiosity, does anyone know why there is a short length (100 yds?) of track there please?

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Butterley,+Ripley+DE5+3QZ/@53.071606,-1.347421,165m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4879929792e2895b:0x9f4e50b35abdb8c4!8m2!3d53.06122!4d-1.402739?hl=en

 

Dave, I apologise for sidetracking your thread but your Dad's great picture stirred so many memories and this track has intrigued me. 

 

 

[DaveF]

A few of the photos I took yesterday morning at Damdykes, on the ECML just south of Cramlington.

 

Since this is only the second time I've seen any 800s please forgive me for not sorting out the specific class!

 

 

DSC_0773 Damdykes Lumo 800 up 3rd June 2022

 

 

DSC_0775 Damdykes XC 220 down 3rd June 2022

 

 

DSC_0776 Damdykes LNER 800 down up 3rd June 2022

 

 

DSC_0777 Damdykes LNER 800 up 3rd June 2022

 

 

DSC_0781 Damdykes LNER 800 down 3rd June 2022

 

 

DSC_0786 Damdykes Northern 156  down 3rd June 2022

 

 

DSC_0788 Damdykes TPE 800 up 3rd June 2022

 

 

DSC_0790 Damdykes LNER 800 up 3rd June 2022

 

 

DSC_0792 Damdykes XC 220 up 3rd June 2022

 

 

David

Edited June 5, 2022 by DaveF

[great central]

1 hour ago, highpeakman said:

 

What an absolutely superb shot. I grew up in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire in the late 50s and 60s and this picture takes me right back to that period.

 

When I see such pictures that really mean something to me I like to look on Google and old NLS maps to "explore" the area. Such research shows the close web of lines close by which served all of the many collieries in the area but Google maps also showed up something modern which has intrigued me. If, on current Google aerial maps,  you follow the road in the picture down under the bridge and a few hundred yards along on the left there is a short length of railway track in a yard. At first glance it looks like an old railway yard but is in fact where there was a wharf for the Pinxton Canal (a branch of the Cromford canal). While the area around was surrounded by old "Tramways" and lines none of the maps show any of them reaching the wharf where the track now lies.

 

Just to satisfy my curiosity, does anyone know why there is a short length (100 yds?) of track there please?

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Butterley,+Ripley+DE5+3QZ/@53.071606,-1.347421,165m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4879929792e2895b:0x9f4e50b35abdb8c4!8m2!3d53.06122!4d-1.402739?hl=en

 

Dave, I apologise for sidetracking your thread but your Dad's great picture stirred so many memories and this track has intrigued me. 

 

 

 

If I've followed your link correctly,  I think somehow you've finished up a couple of miles from the bridge in David's photo.

The link photos show the area at the bottom of Butterley Hill, in Ripley, Close to the Midland Railway Centre station, the track being, I'm fairly sure, in what used to be the Butterley company yard.

The bridge in David's photo is at Pye Bridge and crosses the current B600. Just the other side of the bridge was the access road to Pye Hill and Somercotes Station on the Midland Erewash Valley route.

The photo was taken from somewhere close to the bridge over the Great Northern Pinxton branch which some years ago was used as an underpass for large dumper trucks involved in the opencast mining of the area.

Currently the area on the right immediately before the bridge is occupied by several mobile and sectional built homes.

 

 

Edit: Apologies I've looked closer at the map and can see you're correct in saying the track is in a yard off the B600, the photos attached to the image are, I'm certain,  from Butterley Hill.

If the track is where I think it is there used to be a crane repair company based there, although I did some CCTV work there 30 or more years ago I don't recall any railway track in the yard.

Edited June 4, 2022 by great central
Further clarification

[DaveF]

 

Now for today's older photos, between Darlington and Newcastle.

 

 

Hett Mill Class 43 down  Oct 93 J14451

 

 

Croxdale Class 153 down  Oct 93 J14459

 

 

Durham Class 43 Paignton to Newcastle  Oct 93 J14469

 

 

Tyne Yard 158799 Liverpool to Newcastle 10th Aug 95 C20442

 

 

Tyne Yard 60044 down empty coal 3rd Sept 94 C19803

 

 

David

[brushman47544]

I think J14469 is the first photo I’ve seen of the railway bridge in Durham without the cathedral in it as well.

[highpeakman]

39 minutes ago, great central said:

 

Edit: Apologies I've looked closer at the map and can see you're correct in saying the track is in a yard off the B600, the photos attached to the image are, I'm certain,  from Butterley Hill.

If the track is where I think it is there used to be a crane repair company based there, although I did some CCTV work there 30 or more years ago I don't recall any railway track in the yard.

 

I have studied the maps and was confident the yard was a few hundred yards up the road to the left on that road. A crane servicing depot could certainly make sense and that length of track would suffice for rail mounted crane testing I guess. Thanks.

 

As to the photo itself, this is current view. The house on the left, before the bridge, of the old picture has been demolished in years past but shows up on the  old NLS map. The houses beyond look the same. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.071344,-1.3401559,3a,75y,245.86h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSj5W8nAxVk2R4IrcqsxMqA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

 

[Market65]

Good afternoon, David. That’s a delightful selection of photo’s of Damdykes, just south of Cramlington, on the ECML, which you took yesterday. In DSC_0777, with an LNER, 800, on an up express, you can see clearly how well the livery suits the class, especially the upsweep on the cab ends. 
The photo’s of the ECML between Darlington and Newcastle are excellent, and the last one of Tyne Yard, with 60044, on a down empty coal train, on the 3rd September, 1994, shows how even at that date, Tyne Yard was still huge and well used.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[BoD]

On 02/06/2022 at 15:52, DaveF said:

 

 

Pye Bridge 4F down empty coal Oct 63 J069  This has always been one of my favourites of Dad's photos.

 

Those tension lock couplings stick out like a sore thumb.

 

 

Edited June 5, 2022 by BoD

[31A]

Thank you Dave for posting these pictures showing recent traction on the ECM over the years.  I'm probably as confused as you are by the different varieties of 8xx type units, but would just like to point out that DSC0786 shows a 158 rather than a 156, 158s having become much more familiar in the North East in the last couple of years.

[DaveF]

The Tanfield Railway for this morning.  Nice industrial locos with 4 wheel coaches - lovely.

 

Marley Hill Black Hawthorn Wellington 28th May 90 C14474

 

 

Marley Hill chaldron wagons Sat 2nd Aug 87 C8724

 

 

Marley Hill Hawthorn Leslie 2 goods Sunniside to Andrews House 28th Aug 89 C13738

 

 

Marley Hill RSH 21 28th May 88 C9488 train to Sunniside

 

 

Marley Hill RSH 38 and RSH 21 30th Aug 87 C9085  Train to Sunniside.

 

 

Bobgins Lane crossing  RSH 38 Sunnside to East Tanfield  April 93 J13810

 

 

David

 

[DaveF]

Some photos from Mum and Dad's holiday in Austria in September 1989.

 

 

Zell am See1010 003 Graz to Saalfelden Sept 89 J10157

 

 

Zell am See Class 2092 2092 002 Sept 89 J10257  The loco is on the narrow gauge Pinzgauer Lokalbahn from Zell am See to Krimml.

 

 

Lans Sistrans tram 31 Sept 89 J10352  Innsbruck tram to Igls.

 

 

Jenbach 1044 119 Wien to Basel  Sept 89 J10457

 

 

Innsbruck Westbahnhof  6020 072 Landeck to InnsbruckSept 89 J10475

 

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a delightful selection of photo’s of the Tanfield Railway. In C13738, at Marley Hill, with Hawthorn Leslie, number 2, on a goods train from Sunniside to Andrews House, on the 28th August, 1989, it appears that the double arm signal on the left was just for appearance - there’s no glass in the spectacle plate, with the top one having no back blinder. 
The Austrian photo’s from September, 1989, are excellent and convey some of the charm of that countries railways. In J10352, at Lans Sistrans, with tram 31, on an Innsbruck to Igls service, the tram appears like some that could be seen in Blackpool. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

[DaveF]

Some of today's photos are on the Newcastle to Carlisle line, others are not too far from it.

 

The first two are of the railway at the Hunday Farm Museum which was open from 1979 to 1989 and had a very good collection of farm machinery.  There was a 2' 6" gauge railway seen here.

 

 

 Hunday Farm Museum Hunslet 14th July 87 C8699

 

 

Hunday Farm Museum Hunslet and Motorrail 14th July 87 C8700

 

 

Prudhoe 143011 Carlisle to Newcastle March 89 J9809

 

 

Stocksfield 156442 Newcastle to Stranraer Oct 88 J9703

 

 

Riding Mill 142525 Newcastle to Hexham May 90 J10878

 

Now a couple of lines which closed a long time ago.

 

Nilston Rigg trackbed of Allendale branch from road Hexham to Alston 15th Aug 95 C20456

 

 

Milton trackbed of Brampton Railway  29th March 94 C19377

 

 

David

Edited June 6, 2022 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a most intriguing selection of photo’s from the Hunday Farm Museum, the Newcastle to Carlisle line, and two closed railway photo’s. The first photo’ of the Hunday Farm Museum, with Hunslet, ‘Hunday’, on the 14th July, 1987, reveals some unusual couplings that look like those used on Juggernauts, and a chimney which I think is the diesel exhaust pipe. It would make a most unusual model, along with the matching carriages. Then, in C20456, at Nilston Rigg, with the trackbed of the former Allendale branch from the road from Hexham to Alston, on the 15th August, 1995, shows how exquisite the countryside is in that area, and thankfully can still be enjoyed from the road, although to go by train would be best of all. ;)

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.