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

[35A]

7 hours ago, MidlandRed said:

Great photos as always - these late 60s/early 70s photos with their transition liveries and such items as telegraph posts and lines are very evocative of the era. In J776, the class 47 is not a namer (I’d like to say it doesn’t have erstwhile GW paraphernalia like those odd lamp brackets but I can’t see - definitely no route classification spot below the number though!!). Could it be D1969 or D1996 or similar? It’s got a shed code at the bottom of the cab side. 

 

Beat me to it. I was going to raise a query on the same ID. D1669 was "PYTHON" and was named on 31st March 1966 at Old Oak Common.

[jwealleans]

C20029  - unmistakably the late Roger Barker (Locomotive Manager) second from left.    I bought my house from him and his brother.

[DaveF]

Switzerland on a rather damp day, 2nd August 1988 at Aarau, between Olten and Zürich.  You may need to look up the places on Gogle Earth of similar if you are not familiar with Switzerland.

 

The WSB is the Wynental & Suhrental Bahn a metre gauge network, now part of Aargau Verkehr.

 

 

Aarau Re4/4ii 11293 EC Franz Schubert Basel to Wien  3rd Aug 88 C10036

 

 

Aarau Re4/4ii 11344 Geneve Aeroport to St Gallen 3rd Aug 88 C10040

 

 

Aarau Re4/4ii 11123 westbound 2nd Aug 88 C10043

 

 

Aarau WSB Be4/4 18 Aaau to Schöftland 3rd Aug 88 C10051

 

 

Aarau WSB Be4/4 25 Aarau to Gontenschwil 2nd Aug 88 C10053

 

David

 

[andytrains]

Re: C4815. Crich. Looks like Elvis has left the tram!🤣

[DaveF]

All I'll say about this batch is that they are  from three locations with no particular connection except that I like the photos.

 

From memory Chalton was the nearest place on the map to where I took the first two photos.  

 

 

Chalton near Luton Class 127 down pass January 1976 C2613

 

 

Chalton near Luton Class 127 up pass January 1976 C2614

 

 

Polesworth Class 40 down ex pass Nov 63 J081  

 

 

Polesworth Class 104 Stafford to Rugby Nov 63 J084

 

 

Ravensthorpe Class 25 D7573 up parcels Aug 67 J1104

 

David

Edited December 13, 2023 by DaveF

[Stoke West]

16 minutes ago, DaveF said:

All I'll say about this batch is that they are  from three locations with no particular connection except that I like the photos.

 

From memory Chalton was the nearest place on the map to where I took the first two photos.  

 

 

Chalton near Luton Class 127 down pass January 1976 C2613

 

 

Chalton near Luton Class 127 up pass January 1976 C2614

 

 

Polesworth Class 40 down ex pass Nov 63 J081

 

 

Polesworth Class 104 Stafford to Rugby Nov 63 J084

 

 

Ravensthorpe Class 25 D7573 up parcels Aug 67 J1104

 

David

J081 looks like an up train on the down fast

[DaveF]

1 hour ago, Stoke West said:

J081 looks like an up train on the down fast

 It does look like thta,

 

it is because I managed to post it the wrong way round.

 

Below it is corrected.

 

Polesworth Class 40 up ex pass Nov 63 J080  The right way round now.

 

David

 

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a fantastic set of photo’s of Switzerland on a damp day, the 2nd August, 1988, at Aarau, between Olten and Zürich. C10043, of Re4/4ii, 11123, on a westbound freight train, is a beautifully composed photo’ of the train.

 

The photo’s of Chalton, Polesworth and Ravensthorpe are a delightful mixture. The last photo’, at Ravensthorpe, with Class 25, D7573, on an up parcels train, in August, 1967, is a superb photograph, which captures a typical parcels train of that time. 
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[big jim]

50 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 It does look like thta,

 

it is because I managed to post it the wrong way round.

 

Below it is corrected.

 

Polesworth Class 40 up ex pass Nov 63 J080  The right way round now.

 

David

 

that’s not the same photo though! I’m pretty sure j081 was the right way round, its an up train 

 

J080 is a down train and that pic is the correct way round too

 

Edited December 13, 2023 by big jim

[Stoke West]

5 hours ago, big jim said:

that’s not the same photo though! I’m pretty sure j081 was the right way round, its an up train 

 

J080 is a down train and that pic is the correct way round too

 

J081 and your later j080 are both wrong way round just looked in mirror , totally confused me , your description is correct , brilliant shots

[St Enodoc]

6 hours ago, Stoke West said:

J081 and your later j080 are both wrong way round just looked in mirror , totally confused me , your description is correct , brilliant shots

I'm sure that @Stoke West is right about the mirror images. I think that J080 is an Up train on the Up Fast and J081 a Down train on the Down Fast. The clue is the road overbridge, which is on the Up side of the station.

[65179]

33 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

I'm sure that @Stoke West is right about the mirror images. I think that J080 is an Up train on the Up Fast and J081 a Down train on the Down Fast. The clue is the road overbridge, which is on the Up side of the station.

 

The headcode disc positions on the EE Type 4 doors are also a giveaway. Discs are on the left hand door as viewed from the front.

 

Simon

Edited December 14, 2023 by 65179

[DaveF]

Here are the two photos together.  Judging by the disc on the door they are now the right way round! (At last)!

 

My apologies for the confusion.

 

Polesworth Class 40 up ex pass Nov 63_J080

 

 

Polesworth Class 40 down ex pass Nov 63 J081

 

David

[DaveF]

This morning starts with some photos on the Southern.

 

 

Ashford 33210 and Class 423 7881 Jan 79 C4263

 

 

Ashford Cass 411 7197 up Jan 79 C4264

 

 

Ashford Class 423 7880 up Jan 79 C4265

 

 

Billingshurst 4COR 3150 Victoria to Bognor Regis Butlins Holiday Camp Express Sept 62 J021

 

 

Bursledon Bridge River Hamble  demu Sept 63 J065

 

David

[Stoke West]

6 minutes ago, DaveF said:

Here are the two photos together.  Judging by the disc on the door they are now the right way round! (At last)!

 

My apologies for the confusion.

 

Polesworth Class 40 up ex pass Nov 63_J080

 

 

Polesworth Class 40 down ex pass Nov 63 J081

 

David

Thanks for putting them up in the first place , two absolutely brilliant shots of EE type 4 on top link workings

[big jim]

1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

The clue is the road overbridge, which is on the Up side of the station.

course it is, Never thought to use that as a refrence! 

[Oldddudders]

A particularly nice set of Southern pics, thankyou. The snow reminds me I was covering the SM at Ramsgate for a few weeks that Winter, which was a bit of a commute from my home in Strood. 

 

4-Cor, and other Nelson pics, are inevitably rare among posters here, due to them disappearing more than 50 years ago. ISTR Railway World writing a eulogy at the time, which included the suggestion that they were piloted by a race of one-eyed, one-legged motormen, staring resolutely into the distance, with a parrot on one shoulder…..

[DaveF]

Around North Wales, with and without trains.

 

 

Llandudno Junction Class 40 pass to Llandudno July 82 C5691  View from Conwy

 

 

Llandudno Junction Class 108  Llandudno July 82  C5696  View from Conwy  not a 120

 

 

Llanrwst 47432 special Morpeth to Blaenau Ffestiniog 19th April 86 C7464

 

 

Betws y Coed view north 23rd July 2002 C25954

 

 

Dolwyddelan 23rd July 2002 C26007

 

 

Dolwyddelan 23rd July 2002 C26008

 

David

Edited December 14, 2023 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening David. That is a superb set of Southern photo’s. J021, at Billingshurst, of 4COR, 3150, on a Victoria to Bognor Regis, Butlins Holiday Camp Express, in September, 1962, is an absolute gem. I especially like that special headboard in pale blue.

 

The photo’s from around North Wales are a fantastic selection. C26007, at Dolwyddelan, on the 23rd July, 2002, is an excellent photo’, which shows some good detail on that bridge over the railway.
 

With warmest regards,

 

Rob.

[brushman47544]

11 hours ago, DaveF said:

Billingshurst 4COR 3150 Victoria to Bognor Regis Butlins Holiday Camp Express Sept 62 J021

 

Headcode 40 indicates that the train has run via Sutton and Dorking so presumably it’s a weekend. During the week pathing additional fast trains between the suburban stoppers would I imagine have been challenging.

[brushman47544]

C5696 - admittedly the DMUs are far away and slightly blurred, but the side windows are wrong for a Class 120. The guard’s area would be bigger. They look like Class 108s to me.

[Artless Bodger]

7 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

due to them disappearing more than 50 years ago

An abiding memory frorm their time on coastway services from Ore to Brighton was occasional travellers wiggling the brass droplight lock lever in an attempt to open the compartment door, usually accompanied by the droplight falling with a thud. Someone had removed all the brass instruction plates.

[DaveF]

An assortment from the eastern side of the country.  Somewhat late as I had to go out this morning.

 

 

Diss Class 47 1537 up Aug 72 J3076

 

 

Diss Class 47 down Aug 72 C1108

 

 

Bury St Edmunds  Class 105 Ipswich to Cambridge (not Spalding) May 83 C6049  Looking at the date I must have been on my way between Northumberland and Colchester for a meeting.

 

 

Huntingdon dmu up pass  Nov 70 J2456

 

 

Huntingdon Class 47 up ex pass June 75 C2065  This is one of very few of my photos of which I have no idea of why I was there or even exactly where I was.

 

David

[Donington Road]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

An assortment from the eastern side of the country.  Somewhat late as I had to go out this morning.

 

Huntingdon Class 47 up ex pass June 75 C2065  This is one of very few of my photos of which I have no idea of why I was there or even exactly where I was.

 

David

 

St. Peters Road Huntingdon.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3369207,-0.1894147,3a,75y,228.63h,90.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSmHEs9tRPqT4dmlIRnCN4w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu

[russ p]

On 13/12/2023 at 09:32, jwealleans said:

C20029  - unmistakably the late Roger Barker (Locomotive Manager) second from left.    I bought my house from him and his brother.

 

I didn't realised you lived in Rogers House.

Top fella Roger 

Edited December 15, 2023 by russ p