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

[DaveF]

1 hour ago, Ray M said:

C909 ,E3189 looks to have 1 blue cab roof

& 1 white cab roof ?

 

 

It does look like that but I think it's just light reflecting off the rear cab roof.

 

David

[DaveF]

Some more LTSR photos, once again at Laindon.

 

 

Laindon Class 302 Shoeburyness to Fenchurch St June 75 C2068

 

 

Laindon Class 302 302300 Fenchurch St to Shoeburyness Aug 77 C3540

 

 

Laindon Class 302 Fenchurch St to Shoeburyness Dec 77 C3628

 

 

Laindon 302276 Shoeburyness to Fenchurch St May 79 C4554

 

 

Laindon Class 302 275 Shoeburyness to Fenchurch St Feb 80 C4952

 

David

[New Haven Neil]

9 hours ago, SHMD said:

No, Sutton Hoo as confirmed by Rob above.

(I can't find it now.)

 

 

Kev.

 

Simon someone, in France IIRC - I think life caused him some issues he hasn't posted anything on FB group for ages.  His 3rd rail was live!  Very characterful layout.

[Southernman46]

On 31/10/2023 at 12:03, Artless Bodger said:

Nice photo C5034, the train is crossing the Luton Arches. 2EPB in the lead as you say, the second unit looks like a 2HAP - you can see the water pipes along the roof to the toilet tanks.

Taken from the "Great Lines" as locally known just next to the Medway Hospital.

Definitely a pair of Class 414 2-HAP's, the rear is a Phase 1 with the external lighting conduit, the front is a Phase 2 - lighting wiring internal and the "Hibar" headcode panel - the only 2-EPB's with these were the ex-Tyneside ones which never worked on the SED.

Headcode 92 is likely to be the Gillingham portion off the Victoria - Maidstone East / Gillingham Stopper via Catford which split at Swanley during the 70's/80's.

Edited November 3, 2023 by Southernman46

[Fat Controller]

4 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Simon someone, in France IIRC - I think life caused him some issues he hasn't posted anything on FB group for ages.  His 3rd rail was live!  Very characterful layout.

That wasn't Simon Parks who did a model of Newhaven, was it?

[SHMD]

The name does ring a bell...

 

 

Kev.

[nigb55009]

It was Colin Parks who built Newhaven Harbour. Simon Park conducted his own orchestra. They reached number one in the charts, or

maybe it was still the Hit Parade then. Anyway, they were at number one with Eye Level, which was the theme from Van Der Valk, the 

original series with Barry Foster in the lead role. Incidently, the B-side was Distant Hills, which was the theme from Crown Court, still

being shown on TalkTV.

[DaveF]

I don't think there is much of a connection between this batch of photos, unless someone can think of one.

 

 

Runcorn bridge May 69 J1711  Railway bridge on right, taken from passenger seat of car.

 

 

Rushcliffe Halt Hotchley Hill Class 45 shunting plasterboard sidings Aug 75 C2236  On the Great Central between Nottingham and Loughborough.

 

 

Great Rocks 24th Aug 90 C15299

 

 

Hathern Class 120 Nottingham to Birmingham via Leicester Aug 72 C1041

 

 

Hathern Class 45 85 Royal Corps of Transport Sheffield to St Pancras Aug 72 C1044

 

David

[Southernman46]

2 hours ago, nigb55009 said:

It was Colin Parks who built Newhaven Harbour.

He is now sadly no longer with us - his scratch-built EMU's were works of art ..........................

Edited November 3, 2023 by Southernman46

[LMS2968]

42 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

 

 

Runcorn bridge May 69 J1711  Railway bridge on right, taken from passenger seat of car.

I've been over both those bridges so many times. The railway bridge was called Ethelfleda.

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a great selection of photo’s of LTSR photos, at Laindon. C3540, of Class 302, 302300, leading a Fenchurch St. to Shoeburyness service, in August, 1977 C3540, is a particularly well composed photo’, which is sharp, clear and I like seeing the overhead catenary along with the train. 

 

The mixed bag of photo’s are simply superb. Each one is a gem. C15299, at Great Rocks, on the 24th August, 1990, is a splendid shot of the scene. I like how you get the railway going into the tunnel with the vast area of works on the right. All so well captured in the photo’. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[keefer]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

Hathern Class 45 85 Royal Corps of Transport Sheffield to St Pancras Aug 72 C1044

 

1M88, only a few years before, was the Up 'The Waverley' (Edinburgh - St. Pancras).

Originally ran from Princes St. station but after closure in 1965 ran from Waverley, until the closure of the Waverley Route in 1969.

Edited November 3, 2023 by keefer

[Artless Bodger]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

 

Great Rocks 24th Aug 90 C15299

One for the 'when the real thing looks like a model' thread - the scenery on the left looks contrived, to hide the fiddle yard behind the industrial sidings on the viewing side. A wonderful prototype for anything photo!

 

Did the expanding quarry remove an exisiting hill continuing to the right of the main line, or were the lines built by competing companies. I'm afraid this is an area of England I don't know much about, nor its railway history.

[New Haven Neil]

4 hours ago, Fat Controller said:

That wasn't Simon Parks who did a model of Newhaven, was it?

 

Simon Glidewell.  I think he fell out with the mods here big time.  The layout was St Mary Hoo.

[DaveF]

Some trains at Morpeth on 12th July 2016.  67003 is featured, it was the only time I saw it in this livery.

 

 

BSC_0780 Morpeth 67003 0Z67 Newcastle to Newcastle 10.19 12th July 16

 

 

BSC_0785 Morpeth Class 221 1V56 Glasgow to Plymouth 1032 12 July 16

 

 

BSC_0788 Morpeth 67003 0Z67 to Newcastle 1036 12 July 16

 

 

BSC_0790 Morpeth 67003 and 142026 Metro Centre to Morpeth 1036 12 July 16

 

 

BSC_0797 Morpeth 43319 Edinburgh to Kings X 1E07 10

 

David

[65179]

19 hours ago, Artless Bodger said:

One for the 'when the real thing looks like a model' thread - the scenery on the left looks contrived, to hide the fiddle yard behind the industrial sidings on the viewing side. A wonderful prototype for anything photo!

 

Did the expanding quarry remove an exisiting hill continuing to the right of the main line, or were the lines built by competing companies. I'm afraid this is an area of England I don't know much about, nor its railway history.

 

Here you're looking south from Great Rocks Jct. The line to the left is the former Midland Railway mainline south to Derby and Buxton, by this time freight only and to Buxton only, while the line to the right are the then ICI lines at South Works carrying on into Tunstead Quarry. The quarry dates from the late 1920s.

 

You can see how things were arranged here:

 

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15.9&lat=53.27139&lon=-1.84979&layers=193&right=ESRIWorld

 

together with the more recent satellite view showing the former MR line heading south through Great Rocks Dale while quarrying has now expanded to both sides of the dale.

 

Simon

[DaveF]

A quick trip to East Yorkshire to see Brough and Hull.  It's not an area Dad or I went to very often.

 

Around 60 years ago when I was a teenager I used to do a lot of sailing in the Humber. If we moored anywhere overnight it was always on the south side, usually South Ferriby or Grimsby, never the north side.  I can't remember the reason.

 

 

Brough Class 124 Hull to Liverpool Sept 65 J353

Brough Class 156 Hull to Liverpool 31st July 90 C14619

 

 

Brough Class 254 Kings X to Hull 31st July 90 C14620

 

 

Hull 22nd July 00 C24931  Class 158 hiding under the roof.

 

 

Hull 158905 22nd July 00 C24933

 

David

Edited November 4, 2023 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a great set of photo’s of Morpeth on 12th July, 2016. The first photo’ of 67003, on 0Z67, Newcastle to Newcastle, at 10.19, is a superb shot of the 67, and is well composed. A lovely photo’.

 

The photo’s of Brough, East Yorkshire, and Hull, are especially interesting for myself, living not far away in Beverley. The first photo’ at Brough, with a six car class 124 unit, on a Hull to Liverpool service, in September, 1965, is a most excellent photo’, and full of nostalgia. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[43110andyb]

The HST is quite frankly the most amazing railway phenomenon- they looked for years so ultra modern in old infrastructure pictures then seemingly without notice became instantly retro in a modern railway environment! Top class!

 

[corneliuslundie]

Lovey to see the Class 124. They don't seem to feature often in photos.

Jonathan

[DaveF]

A trip Belgium to see some trams in Ghent.  The photos were taken on the way back to catch a ferry from Zeebrugge to Hull after a holiday in Austria and Switzerland.

 

I didn't make a note of the exact locations or details about the trams.

 

 

Ghent 14th August 90 C15234  Ketelbrug

 

 

Ghent 14th August 90 C15235 Koophandesplein

 

 

Ghent 14th August 90 C15236 Koophandesplein

 

 

Ghent 14th August 90 C15237 Bridge over R. Leie Koophandesplein

 

 

Ghent 14th August 90 C15238 Koophandesplein

 

 

Ghent 14th August 90 C15239 Koophandesplein  approaching Ketelbrug

 

 

Ghent 14th August 90 C15240  Kortrijksepoortstraat

 

David

Edited April 8 by DaveF

[DaveF]

A few from the Blyth and Tyne between Winning and North Blyth in November and December 2016.

 

 

BSC_2122 Cambois 66070 15 Nov 16  from the coal terminal

 

 

BSC_2127 Freemans crossing 66070 15 Nov 16 from the coal terminal

 

 

BSC_2393 Cambois 66605 14th Dec 16 empties to the coal terminal

 

 

BSC_2397 North Blyth 66605 14th Dec 16

 

 

BSC_2400 North Blyth 66605 14th Dec 16

 

David

[DaveF]

A few Great Eastern photos this evening. One Class 08 and four Class 309 emus.

 

 

Harwich Class 08 08460 May 77 C3354

 

 

Shenfield Class 309 Clacton to Liverpool St Jan 79 C4270

 

 

Shenfield 309626 Liverpool St to Clacton Jan 79 C4273

 

 

Marks Tey Class 309 down Jan 77 C3185

 

 

Marks Tey 309617 down May 79 C4557

 

David

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a most excellent selection of photo’s at Ghent, in Belgium, of some trams, on the 14th August, 1990. The first one is a most enchanting photo’ of a tram crossing that bridge, with reflections in the calm waters.

 

The second set of photo’s of the Blyth and Tyne between Winning and North Blyth in November and December, 2016, are an excellent set. BSC_2393, at Cambois, with 66605, on the 14th December, 2016, with a train of empties to the coal terminal, is a well captured photo’, and the driver is having a conversation with someone.

 

That’s a great selection of photo’s of the Great Eastern mainline. In the last photo’, at Marks Tey, with 309617, working solo on a down service, in May, 1979, you have captured perfectly, the unit between the masts of the overhead catenary. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[mullie]

Dave

 

I've been meaning to ask for a while, were some of your Brentwood bank photos taken from the Seven Arches bridge? You might know the road as it had a pub of the same name in it, came off Shenfield common if I remember rightly and  there was an entrance to Hartswood park in it? The position looks familiar to me as I always stopped for a look over the bridge when I used to go to my early evening piano lesson in a house just over the bridge. It was only a mile from school to the lesson but a four mile cycle ride home in all weathers.

 

Blue and grey Great Eastern photos are a real blast from the past, really enjoy all your photos.

 

Martyn