Popular Post Garry Morris Posted March 30, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2015 Finally connected up my scanner (Lidl bargain!) after having it sat around for six months so I can now subject the world to my slides and negatives. I hope to get better at colour corrections etc as time goes by. Will add more as and when. To start here's a lazy hot afternoon at Dainton on Tuesday 4th July 1978. 50031 'Hood' on Tavistock Yard to Stoneycombe empties and a return full working with 47 231 in charge, Please feel free to comment and add your own pictures to this thread. I will be posting some of mine that have been published, so apologies if you've seen any before. These two have never seen the light of day before. Anyone got pictures of locos actually in Stoneycombe sidings? The loaded train would be a nice one to model with a Shark on the back. 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) .....you're welcome to inspect a few of my Devon diesel pics https://www.flickr.com/photos/43564631@N08/sets/72157623135256021/ Dave Edited March 30, 2015 by Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbles2 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) A rather distant one, not sure if there is a loco on the far end of the train of loaded wagons. https://www.flickr.com/photos/elmtreephotos/8386568969/in/photolist-a1KWK8-qw9zyL-a1RAuG-dtNopK-dURq4m-anYJe5-egvMJN-dM6mLH-pZYQEG-qS7gfB Edited March 30, 2015 by bubbles2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I passed Stoneycombe a few times when it was open for rail traffic and remember seeing dogfish hoppers but never a loco. My father, who worked for the WR Civil Engineers, told me that Stoneycombe ballast was not as hard as that from Meldon, and that it was generally only used branch lines, or the main line west of Plymouth. My only photo of Stoneycombe traffic is at Newton Abbot, it is chippings for Taunton Concrete Works loaded in hoppers. I am looking forward to more photos from around Devon, cheers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 Would very much like to know what working this was. May 1983 up freightliner near Aller Junction 50015+45145 heavily loaded. Nothing much happened all afternoon and then as I returned back to the car this turns up, hence strange angle, glad I got the first wagon in or no one woulld believe me! As there was no freightliner terminal further west I can't work this one out...Falmouth Docks or Friary? Any ideas? 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I passed Stoneycombe a few times when it was open for rail traffic and remember seeing dogfish hoppers but never a loco. My father, who worked for the WR Civil Engineers, told me that Stoneycombe ballast was not as hard as that from Meldon, and that it was generally only used branch lines, or the main line west of Plymouth. My only photo of Stoneycombe traffic is at Newton Abbot, it is chippings for Taunton Concrete Works loaded in hoppers. I am looking forward to more photos from around Devon, cheers Stoneycombe is described in a Devon County Council document as 'marbalised limestone' (limestone that was 'cooked' by the heat from the massive igneous intrusion of Dartmoor. Meldon is part of the intrusion itself, the main rock quarried being hornfels: this is much harder than the rock at Stoneycombe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Would very much like to know what working this was. May 1983 up freightliner near Aller Junction 50015+45145 heavily loaded. Nothing much happened all afternoon and then as I returned back to the car this turns up, hence strange angle, glad I got the first wagon in or no one woulld believe me! As there was no freightliner terminal further west I can't work this one out...Falmouth Docks or Friary? Any ideas? Is it possible that a loaded container ship had to put into Falmouth for emergency repairs, and had to be unloaded? There had been a Freightliner presence at Par in the early 1970s, but this was for domestic traffic only. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 Have just posted a picture of the Par Park Royal freightliner in the Diesel Hydraulic Group. Must have been one of the heaviest trains out of Falmouth Docks I would imagine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 A light load for a Class 50! 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I expect that the 50 will pick up more milk tanks (assuming that is what they are) on its way to London. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I expect that the 50 will pick up more milk tanks (assuming that is what they are) on its way to London. More tanks may have been attached at Exeter, the Hemyock branch closed in 1975, but Chard Junction continued to send milk until around 1980. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Thanks for the pictures, I missed out on the diesel era when I moved to the US. Branch lines would be especially welcome. Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted March 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2015 Have just posted a picture of the Par Park Royal freightliner in the Diesel Hydraulic Group. Could you post a link please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Link is http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/95191-neils-hydraulic-pics/page-29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 Thanks, I didn't realize how much there is in that thread - a few more hours reading to come! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Sometimes good fortune is spot on. October 1982 and Aller Junction. Not a Mecca for freight but two were caught passing each other. 50032 on empty Motorail flats (is that freight?) and a named 45 on Speedlink?. What a fine gantry sadly stripped of most of it's signals. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Sticking to the theme of capturing trains passing. Here's a pair of 50's at Totnes. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Can anyone guess this mystery location? 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 Definitely Heathfield, looking through the double bridge carrying the A38 over. We took the Santa Special up from Newton Abbot before Christmas and it's still possible to see the siding tracks, although I don't think they've been used for many years.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Definitely Heathfield, looking through the double bridge carrying the A38 over. We took the Santa Special up from Newton Abbot before Christmas and it's still possible to see the siding tracks, although I don't think they've been used for many years.... Well spotted Rich, I was running out of ideas, admittedly from a very short list to start with! I have never been up there, cheers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I am always interested in photos of diesels in Devon, particularly from the 1970s and 1980s, I took quite a few myself in the 1980s, most of the freight photos have already appeared on threads here. Whilst I am looking forward to the next post from East Wivelshire here are a couple of my passenger train photos. Following the theme of pictures already posted, at Totnes and Newton Abbot, here are a couple more views. Firstly a view from the footbridge at Totnes It is fairly early on a Saturday morning in July and one of the numerous Friday overnight holidaymaker services approaches, this one, with 47447 in charge, has come from Edinburgh and is heading for Plymouth, 3/7/82 Later that day I was at Newton Abbot and there was a steady procession of trains heading up and down. 50045 Valiant has restarted the 09.30 Paddington - Paignton away from Newton Abbot as 47240 approaches with the 12.20 Paignton - Manchester Piccadilly. 47240 was a non-boilered slow speed fitted Canton loco that probably spent more time going round the Aberthaw Power Station loop discharging coal trains than working passenger services, so I wonder if there were any loco haulage enthusiasts aboard, 3/7/82 cheers 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 Aller Junction 30.06.84 'Was a hot afternoon, last day of June, and the sun was a demon!' Extra points if you can name that song and artist! Googling is cheating! This next group of images are from the 30th June 1984 at Aller Junction. A summer Saturday with the sun blazing down and my camera giving very erratic exposures. 50028 Tiger heads down the Torbay line with 1C31 the 10.18 Paddington to Paignton. I believe that the substantial terrace of houses behind have now been demolished to make way for the new road. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) I have been singing that song quote to myself, and I vaguely know the music that goes with it, but am not sure of the song title unless it is called "Summer of 1942" or similar. It will probably go round and round in my head until I go crazy, but I think it was from a long time ago; maybe 40 years? EDITED: to add that the more I think of it, the lyrics revolved around two lovers with quite an age difference and it was a man singing. Edited April 4, 2015 by jonny777 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 Moving across to the Plymouth line off Aller Junction with the housing terrace directly ahead now. A Great Western semaphore emphatically of - I'm sure they don't normally drop to such a steep angle! The following down train was the 09.14 Brighton to Plymouth hauled by 47539 Rochdale Pioneers. There is still some evidence of the down loop where freights would be held to attach a banking loco. This working has a long and interesting history dating back to steam days when it was routed via Okehampton, then later curtailed back to Exeter with the paired 33's and later Hastings units. In 1984 its destination was once again Plymouth and I believe it may even have subsequently been extended to Penzance with 159's all the way. I don't know if any equivalent working still exists. Probably deemed too much bother to reverse at St. Davids. I look forward to it returning to the Okehampton route one day! 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caradoc Rd Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Summer (the first time) by Bobby Goldsboro is the track and the artist - Really good to see the pics after an "interesting" night shift! They certainly bring back memories of my first trips to Devon and Cornwall during this era Thank you folks! Jonathan 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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