British stuff from the Catacombs

[Irishswissernie]

First 2 Inverness Last 2 Stranraer Harbour.

[Galteemore]

Bottom 2 are Stranraer, aren’t they? Ernie and I clicked the keys simultaneously I think ! 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Galteemore

[jhb171achill]

7 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Bottom 2 are Stranraer, aren’t they? Ernie and I clicked the keys simultaneously I think ! 

Could well be! I would not be familiar........ last time I got a train from Stranraer was about 1970! And I've never been to Inverness. I hear there are lots of Scotsmen there..........

OK, one more for today, since ye've all been good. Again, possibly posted before, but there ye go.

[hexagon789]

13 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Today's 1st November offering:

And another few, for good luck:

Closer:

Top ones are Inverness. Class 24 diesel.

The fact that it's in the 'south' side platforms and has a Class 1 'Express' headcode in the headcode box, suggests a Glasgow or Edinburgh service.

Aberdeen trains were Class 120s DMU from 1959-80, so I'm ruling that out.

The mix of Blue/Grey & Maroon Mk1s suggests late-60s/very early 1970s.

 

Bottom two are Stranraer Harbour with a Class 126 DMU, these were repainted from Green first to all-blue then to Blue/Grey as here. 

The 126s only received Blue/Grey from 1977 and the Class was mostly withdrawn in 1982, a couple of sets surviving until January 1983.

The Stranraer services became loco-hauled in 1981/2.

So bottom photos are 1977-81; likely more in the middle of that range.

5 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Could well be! I would not be familiar........ last time I got a train from Stranraer was about 1970! And I've never been to Inverness. I hear there are lots of Scotsmen there..........

OK, one more for today, since ye've all been good. Again, possibly posted before, but there ye go.

Class 52 'Western' (2,700bhp 90mph Diesel-hydraulic), no idea of location or year though but they were all based on the Western Region!

[Broithe]

3 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

OK, one more for today, since ye've all been good. Again, possibly posted before, but there ye go.

A lot of cranes and big machinery - implying a possible dock setting, maybe with a steelworks adjacent?

Edited November 1, 2022 by Broithe

[Galteemore]

The first two digits suggest a fitted freight to a Southern Region destination. Can’t find what ‘56’ working was….

[Horsetan]

38 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

The first two digits suggest a fitted freight to a Southern Region destination. Can’t find what ‘56’ working was….

56 was just the service number for that route that day, so train number 56.

[Noel]

Kingsbridge before it was converted to CIE Irish Outline stock. Nothing but BR era stock in this photo.

[jhb171achill]

I believe this was taken by Senior about 1937 / 1938 / 1939. That's one big beast of an engine. Probably has a very hungry firebox!

[Broithe]

11 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

I believe this was taken by Senior about 1937 / 1938 / 1939. That's one big beast of an engine. Probably has a very hungry firebox!

Is this the same thing?

https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/LOCOMOTIVES-OF-THE-LONDON-MIDLAND-SCOTTISH-RAILWAY/LONDON-MIDLAND-SCOTTISH-RAILWAY/i-5Brb4HH

 

[jhb171achill]

4 minutes ago, Broithe said:

Is this the same thing?

https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/LOCOMOTIVES-OF-THE-LONDON-MIDLAND-SCOTTISH-RAILWAY/LONDON-MIDLAND-SCOTTISH-RAILWAY/i-5Brb4HH

 

Certainly looks like one of them! 

Nice find!

Edited November 3, 2022 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

Another 1930s view.

[jhb171achill]

Nice scenery in the background (right)...Scotland, perhaps? This is again, I believe, from a visit in the 1930s.

[Galteemore]

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

Nice scenery in the background (right)...Scotland, perhaps? This is again, I believe, from a visit in the 1930s.

Lake District? 11E is shed code for Tebay. No 70 was, I think, a long term resident.

[jhb171achill]

8 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Lake District? 11E is shed code for Tebay. No 70 was, I think, a long term resident.

I knew I'd get excellent info on this one! Apparently it was built in 1932.

[jhb171achill]

More, this time the LNER area.

[hexagon789]

18 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

More, this time the LNER area.

Forth Bridge in Scotland.

An LNER J38, I think. (I'm not the best with steam loco classes.)

[jhb171achill]

Another for tonight. I believe this to be mid-1930s.

[Galteemore]

12 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Another for tonight. I believe this to be mid-1930s.

Looks like Crewe. Shed code is Crewe North. Wheel size suggests an LNWR 5’7 2-4-2T. Would have been nice had it been one of the similar 4’6 tanks which ended up on the DWWR! 

Edited November 5, 2022 by Galteemore

[jhb171achill]

Now that I'm back from a few days away, here are a couple more.

 

Edited November 9, 2022 by jhb171achill

[Galteemore]

Now that top one is especially nice. A large boilered Claughton - ‘Baltic’, at the end of her days I think - withdrawn in 1937. She looked gleaming in 1932….https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p302805879/hC5F5FA6A

Edited November 9, 2022 by Galteemore

[jhb171achill]

Fine lookin' beast

 

 

The final one in this series - unless I find more!

[Galteemore]

Indeed it is, ‘ E C Trench’, one of the ‘Patriots’. Amazingly, the first few were actually rebuilds of the Claughtons like ‘Baltic’ above, although not much of the original loco survived……hopefully the new build Patriot will be on the rails soon….

The lower loco is a Beames 0-8-4T - one of the final LNW designs before amalgamation. Beames was educated in Monkstown. 
 

Edited November 12, 2022 by Galteemore

[jhb171achill]

Found some more British stuff of Senior's. This one is badly out of focus, but shows a lot. Must have been colourful with all those private owner wagons.

 

Next, this: I've posted it before, but putting it here for completeness with the other ones.

 

[Broithe]

If that's a Collins Green Colliery wagon, as it seems to be - it looks newly painted and the mine closed in 1931, I think.

[Irishswissernie]

8 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Next, this: I've posted it before, but putting it here for completeness with the other ones.

Class E1R at Halwill Junction in the platform built for the Light Railway to Torrington. Loco is an ex LBSCR E1 0-6-0t one of 10 rebuilt by the Southern Railway as E1R 0-6-2t's to provide more coal/water space.

[jhb171achill]

Pre-preservation Festiniog. This may have been taken by my grandfather in the 1920s, though the severing of the bottom of the locomotive's wheels tends to point towards a teenage Senior as the culprit, a decade later! Still, highly interesting image, without a camera-totin' gricer in sight.

 

Finally for the moment (from Senior's Brexitstan material), the Vale of Heavy Rain in about 1956.

Edited November 23, 2022 by jhb171achill