brianusa Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Its always interesting to view comments on the various eras an liveries. One can almost guess the age of the writers by their preferences. BR was the bland time for me who worshipped at the altar of all things green which included both Swindon and Malachite. Then there was the sectors which looked like game boards; pick a pattern! After a fair start privatisation brought us a lot of patterns and squiggly lines and you didn't really know who was who or where they went. Finally TOCs appear to have come to their senses and hopefully a whole new set of liveries will follow the new GWR on to other railway companies. Brian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoovering_crompton Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 In preparation for the launch of the rebranded Great Western Railway 43187 & 43188 Approach Totnes this afternoon working from Laira- Paddington 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted November 7, 2015 Author Share Posted November 7, 2015 The first Class 26 in Devon is guesting on the SDR Diesel Gala Weekend. A good crowd given the stormy conditions this morning.An excellent choice for a visiting loco.which has proved very popular.. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasky Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Any idea when the 26 arrived and when is it due to go back? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted November 9, 2015 Author Share Posted November 9, 2015 Sorry don't know its movements. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 12, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2015 A Class 45/0 is supposed to be amongst a number of diesels running onto the Dartmoor Railway from Barrow Hill on Saturday, in connection with their forthcoming 'Polar Express' operation. I have just arranged clearance for it, as it is a higher 'RA' than is normally permitted between Cowley Bridge Jct and Coleford Jct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 (edited) A Class 45/0 is supposed to be amongst a number of diesels running onto the Dartmoor Railway from Barrow Hill on Saturday, in connection with their forthcoming 'Polar Express' operation. I have just arranged clearance for it, as it is a higher 'RA' than is normally permitted between Cowley Bridge Jct and Coleford Jct. I remember we had class 45s regularly going to Meldon in the 1970s and 1980s. I have looked in my old Freight Train Loads book and see the route is RA6 but a class 45/0 was RA7 there were published loads for class 45s to/from Meldon, so there must have been some routine dispensation back then, cheers Edited November 12, 2015 by Rivercider Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasky Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 This is good news. I was talking to the duty manager at Okehampton a week or so ago and he told me that they had asked for 45060 three years in a row, and had been unlucky with it. He also said that 47701 and a 33 were due down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 How it was! Not a 45 but the original named 46. There is a big 45 sign in the picture though as The Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry 46022 (D163) rolls out of Okehampton with a ballast train from Meldon (Feb or March 1980). Quality poor. I think it was a long lens hand held on a cold day in Okehampton light plus any other excuses that you can think of! Mermaids? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 How it was! Not a 45 but the original named 46. There is a big 45 sign in the picture though as The Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry 46022 (D163) rolls out of Okehampton with a ballast train from Meldon (Feb or March 1980). Quality poor. I think it was a long lens hand held on a cold day in Okehampton light plus any other excuses that you can think of! Mermaids? Though Meldon did load mermaids sometimes, those wagons are not mermaids. The first one wagon has two doors per side so may be a lamprey, the second wagon has three doors per side and looks like a grampus, cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Though Meldon did load mermaids sometimes, those wagons are not mermaids. The first one wagon has two doors per side so may be a lamprey, the second wagon has three doors per side and looks like a grampus, cheers A rebuilt Lamphrey, I think. The original build didn't have flat doors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted December 21, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2015 I will try to round up some of my father's photos from the diesel era in Devon. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 The last shot of the Cornish Riv. is a classic. Perfectly composed, stands up well against the likes of Ivo Peters and Eric Treacy. Thanks for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted December 21, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 21, 2015 Lots of happy memories in those pictures. Thanks for posting! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted December 22, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) The last shot of the Cornish Riv. is a classic. Perfectly composed, stands up well against the likes of Ivo Peters and Eric Treacy. Thanks for sharing. Many thanks. Dad would be very pleased to have that accolade. His cameras were never that sophisticated, so I have been pleased how many turned out well. He was a lot more considered in his shooting than I am and tried to choose his positioning and framing carefully. Mind you when he wasn't so clever with his composition, the resulting prints were chopped about with nail-scissors, leaving some rather odd shaped little photos! I have found another Devon diesel or two or three - BR WR Warship class D821 Greyhound on empty carriage stock working at Starcross on 30.6.1967 BR D1062 Western Courier Paignton 31.7.1977 BR diesel railcar at Brixham - Summer 1962 - The tall youth standing under the WAY OUT sign is me! One of my sisters is beside me in a check skirt. I know these details will mean a lot to all you rail fans! The really scary thing is that there is a bearded bloke in the nearest passenger window that looks a lot like me about 8-9 years later! Edited February 5, 2016 by phil_sutters 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Just a little 1, to keep the thread alive. from a few years ago. i have it jotted down as 50030, but no date. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 An ebay purchase. No information at all but a scene from when life was less cluttered? Probably early 1960's before the Hymeks left the area. Maroon coaching stock with destination boards so probably a portion to be attached at Newton Abbot. Branchline headcode. What happened to Cadets?.The staff building (nearest) has since been demolished along with the Regent Cinema and I guess the electrified gas lamp has gone along with the red telephone boxes. Compare with the last picture, there may be other details. I like the porters bike next to GWR spear fencing! 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 45139 (D109) 19.8.83 on the the 09.50 Manchester to Paignton SO passing Kingskerswell. Spotters of the day will know that Peak in the early 100's numbering were notoriously difficult to collect in the Westcountry. Not sure if the new road to Torquay blights this view now. Kingskerswell survived Beeching and closed just after; must have been second thoughts and no opposition. Some very nice bullhead rail and detail of how to model vegetation on a disused platform! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 I know nothing about these things! They weren't in the ABC! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 No 'Devon Diesel Record' would be complete without showing some of the native DMU's. Not sure what class these are but I notice they have different buffer styles. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 This was a cheap ebay purchase in very poor condition. 'D6336 Plymouth' was all the information given. At a guess I think it's taken from the Tamar Bridge. The headcode is 6C18. In the background to the right is the line of the narrow gauge armaments storage railway? A line which has very little photographic evidence. I am puzzled as to where on the old SR line would produce 11 vent vans for a trip working? Lydford perhaps? The up line looks to be in very good fettle with concrete sleepers. Confusingly when the line closed beyond Bere Alston and before the track was singled the up line became the down line and vice versa - a signalman's nightmare! I am not good with colours but if anyone can do better with this please do, it's a rare location and a nicely framed shot which deserves a wider audience. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) This was a cheap ebay purchase in very poor condition. 'D6336 Plymouth' was all the information given. At a guess I think it's taken from the Tamar Bridge. The headcode is 6C18. In the background to the right is the line of the narrow gauge armaments storage railway? A line which has very little photographic evidence. I am puzzled as to where on the old SR line would produce 11 vent vans for a trip working? Lydford perhaps? The up line looks to be in very good fettle with concrete sleepers. Confusingly when the line closed beyond Bere Alston and before the track was singled the up line became the down line and vice versa - a signalman's nightmare! I am not good with colours but if anyone can do better with this please do, it's a rare location and a nicely framed shot which deserves a wider audience. I'd say it was coming from the RN depot at Ernesettle; indeed, I'd go further and say the photo was taken just after the train had departed from there, as there looks to be part of the internal narrow-gauge line visible in the top right corner. Here's a link to a Google Earth photo:- the narrow-gauge line is now a roadway:- https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Ernesettle,+Plymouth+PL5/@50.4096524,-4.1994313,298m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x486c9294a2882c0b:0xe684be2ff3990ac6?hl=en Edited January 27, 2016 by Fat Controller 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 I underestimated the amount of traffic from Ernesettle. Also on checking I see that Ambrosia rice at Lydford used short wheelbase container wagons. Thanks for the link. I wonder if nuclear warheads are stored under the hill? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymw Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Hi, I'm not sure if this is any better, but you can always do the cheap trick for poor colour photos, convert to black and white... Although I have Photoshop, and other editing software, For a quick fix, you can't beat IrfanView http://www.irfanview.com/ download it, for free with all the plugins. I suggest you play with the software for a while, you will find you will easily be able to convert colours, crop, add copyrights, whatever, and may well be able to use the batch processing features if you have a number of images with similar problems. I use it as my 'go to' quick fix software for web purposes. If you are into photos, then you owe it to yourself to get the hang of it. A few seconds to adjust gamma and contrast, and resize. Best not to work with jpegs, but good enough for web. Do you scan in the slides/photos, or get to digital in some other way? Best wishes, Ray 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 Thanks. Bolder colours and more contrast. I scan slides in and I can adjust colours but I think more practice is needed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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