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[DaveF]

A J20 at Barnwell Junction in February 1949.

 

 

David

Edited August 10 by DaveF

[SHMD]

What's that building on the left?

 

Being that close to the running lines, it has to be railway related.

I thought, perhaps, a signal cabin (a brick base with a track level access "arch").

 

Interesting architecture though.

 

 

Kev.

 

[Artless Bodger]

1 hour ago, SHMD said:

What's that building on the left?

 

Being that close to the running lines, it has to be railway related.

I thought, perhaps, a signal cabin (a brick base with a track level access "arch").

 

Interesting architecture though.

 

 

Kev.

 

Looking at the Disused Stations site, it looks like the back of a building on the branch down platform. See also this wikimedia photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barnwell_Junction_railway_station_1762861.jpg

 

Reading further, all is explained, along with more recent photo's. Dave's photo also features, suitably aknowledged.

 

The signal box was off shot to the left in Dave's photo.

Edited August 10 by Artless Bodger
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[DaveF]

Some photos of Carlisle for teatime.

 

 

Carlisle 85034 up European Glasgow & Edinburgh to Parkeston Quay 23rd Oct 84 C6627

 

 

Carlisle 87009 & 86033 down limestone 23rd Oct 84 C6634

 

 

Carlisle 47589 Glasgow to Carlisle via GSWR 12th April 88 C9399

 

 

Carlisle 86103 Ayr to Euston via Glasgow 12th April 88 C9413

 

 

Carlisle 90003 down test train 12th April 88 C9430

 

David

[billy_anorak59]

4 hours ago, jacko said:

On 02/08/2024 at 11:57, Pyewipe Jct said:

Ahem, Riley...

[the One-Point-Five sitting outside my window told me I had to say that... 😁]

We had a Riley 1.5 for our wedding car in 1987 and it didn't look like the car in Dave's photo. 

 

I'm guessing, but your wedding car was most likely a Riley RM-series car (of which the RMA and RME had 1.5 litre engines) made 1945-55 - rather than the Riley 'One-Point-Five' (made 1957-65) which is is the example shown in Dave's photo. The RM looks much more like a potential wedding car.

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a fantastic selection of photo’s on a wet August day at Aarau in Switzerland. C10041, of Re4/4ii, 11181, on a Romanshorn to Brig service, on the 2nd August, 1988, is a superb rear end portrait shot of the rain drenched locomotive.

 

The black and white print of a class J20/1, 64697, on a down class C through freight train from Temple Mills to Whitemoor at Barnwell Junction, in February, 1949, is a superb and historical photo’. There is good detail to be seen of the front of the J20/1. Thank you for posting the lovely photo’.

 

The Carlisle photo’s are an excellent set. C9399, of 47589, on a Glasgow to Carlisle via GSWR service, on the 12th April, 1988, is a delightful three quarter portrait shot of the locomotive. The 47 is seen in a typical weathered condition, just right for aiding modellers with their weathering projects.
 

Very best regards,

 

Rob.

[H2O]

On 07/08/2024 at 09:44, DaveF said:

Snip...

Disentis FO HGe4/4 33 15th Aug 88 C11170

With the flat front, narrow door, handrails on the end and flat sides almost looks like a narrow boat! All it needs is a tiller :-)

[Mol_PMB]

3 minutes ago, H2O said:

With the flat front, narrow door, handrails on the end and flat sides almost looks like a narrow boat! All it needs is a tiller :-)

Ah, but how many narrow boats have a pantomime on the roof? Solar panels instead maybe...

Perhaps not as famous as the Krokodils on the neighbouring RhB, the FO boxcabs do have some charm of their own.

Here's a Krok in the same place as Dave F's boxcab:

 

[Artless Bodger]

I recall seeing a large scale model of a RhB crocodile (LGB perhaps?) for sale in a shop window in Zermatt many years ago (we were adding a few days holiday to a trip for Head Gardener to attend a conference in Lausanne). I think the price was somewhere in excess of what we paid for the holiday! Lovely locos.

[Johann Marsbar]

On 05/08/2024 at 19:11, big jim said:

That bit of Nottingham fascinates me, so much railway in such a small area! 
 

I bet that chevette in the picture is practically brand new, also note the B&H ciggy advertising hoarding at the bottom left on the bridge 

 

Looks a bit different now (last Thursday)....

 

 

[Davexoc]

On 09/08/2024 at 16:37, DaveF said:

Allens West Halt Class 101 Darlington to Saltburn going away  June 75 J4401

 

Now I can't be sure, but I think I lived in one of those houses on the right as a toddler. I remember climbing the three bar fence to wave at passing trains, ending up in the undergrowth on the railway side on at least one occasion.

The sidings on the left are part of Dow Mac, the concrete sleeper company, something I remember my father commenting on if he saw one on a train trip. The following shot looking the other way shows the line connected to the Royal Naval Spare Parts Distribution Centre, something I wasn't aware of, and not quite what I expected when I pulled up the NLS maps to dig a bit deeper. Probably was a munitions storage facility as well looking at the layout.

So, I've learnt something from your post, which is a distraction from modelling, but I have to have my daily fix, so keep posting....

[DaveF]

Early days on the Keighley and Worh Valley Railway, 1969 to 1973.

 

 

Keighley No 63 Sept 69 J1979

 

 

Haworth LMS Class 5 5212 Keighley to Oxenhope Sept 70 J2344

 

 

Haworth 8F 8431 Aug 72 C1048

 

 

Haworth Ivatt 2MTT 41241 Aug 72 J3026

 

 

Haworth USA 72 and Ivatt 41241 Feb 73 C1212

 

David

[Hroth]

Lovely photos!

 

My school "Transport Society" organised a summer end of term visit to the KWVR in the early 70s, 71 or 72 I think.  I don't remember much about it now, I didn't take any photos, but I still do have a Trix tinplate wagon I bought on the visit as a memento!

 

 

[DaveF]

Now you can imagine you are leaning on the original low bridge parapet at Swayfield watching the trains go by on the ECML as Dad and I often did on a Saturday afternoon - but we usually took a photo of everything that came by.

Swayfield Class 55  9013   09.50 Harrogate to Kings X Yorkshire Pullman May 70 J2121

 

 

Swayfield Class 47 1784 down freight Dec 71 J2799

 

 

Swayfield Class 47 1760 down 1005 SO Kings X to Edinburgh July 72 J2976

 

 

Swayfield Class 55 9006 up  Flying Scotsman 10.00 Edinburgh to Kings X Oct 72 C1151

 

 

Swayfield 254010 up 30th May 78 C3882

 

David

 

Edited August 11 by DaveF

[Market65]

Good evening, David. That’s a fantastic selection of photo’s of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, from 1969 to 1973. The last photo’ of Haworth, with USA, 72, and Ivatt, 41241, in February, 1973, is a delightful panorama of the yard. 

 

The photo’s of Swayfield are a superb set. C1151, of class 55, 9006, on the up  Flying Scotsman, 10.00 Edinburgh to Kings Cross, in October, 1972 C1151, is a particularly excellent shot of a typical Deltic hauled express train of Mklld air conditioned stock. 
 

Very best regards,

 

Rob.

[brushman47544]

Hi David,

 

The Deltic in J2121 is 9013 The Black Watch (the only ScR one that had already lost its crest).

[DaveF]

17 minutes ago, brushman47544 said:

Hi David,

 

The Deltic in J2121 is 9013 The Black Watch (the only ScR one that had already lost its crest).

 

Thanks once again Andrew.

 

David

[DaveF]

Some places beginning with C this morning.  You may need a map for one or two of these.

 

 

Cockburnspath Class 40 up freightliner Aug 77 C3509

 

 

Cockenzie Power station 26002 coal 21st Aug 86 C7900

 

 

Cockfield remains of Lands (or Gaunless) viaduct across Gaunless valley Stockton and Darlington Railway Haggerleases branch on left June 75 J4432

 

 

Collingham Lane South crossing Class 47 down oil April 76 J5105

 

 

Coltfield Platform Burghead branch Aug 74 J3916

 

David

[Artless Bodger]

C3509, is that Bass Rock and Oxwell Mains cement works chimneys in the distance?

[St Enodoc]

4 minutes ago, Artless Bodger said:

C3509, is that Bass Rock and Oxwell Mains cement works chimneys in the distance?

I believe so.

[Bob-65b]

12 minutes ago, Artless Bodger said:

C3509, is that Bass Rock and Oxwell Mains cement works chimneys in the distance?

 

Yes, the Bass Rock on the horizon and to the left of it the two chimneys of the Blue Circle cement works before the plant was converted in 1986.

 

Bob

[St Enodoc]

11 minutes ago, Bob Reid said:

 

Yes, the Bass Rock on the horizon and to the left of it the two chimneys of the Blue Circle cement works before the plant was converted in 1986.

 

Bob

I think you can just see Barns Ness lighthouse above the rear of the loco, too.

[Bob-65b]

1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

I think you can just see Barns Ness lighthouse above the rear of the loco, too.

 

Must be, I hadn't seen that rather ghostly image of it. Good spot!  😀

 

Bob

 

 

Edited August 12 by Bob Reid
Tried to make my directions a bit clearer!

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, Bob Reid said:

 

Must be, I hadn't seen that rather ghostly image of it. Good spot!  😀

 

Bob

 

 

A few years too early to see Torness nuclear power station.

[Bob-65b]

18 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

A few years too early to see Torness nuclear power station.

 

A good bit, pity it is such a blot on the landscape! Due to be decommissioned in 2028 anyway...

 

Bob