J.W. Sutherland Slides

patrick · November 2, 2015

http://sutherland.davenportstation.org.uk/ws-189.html

Some great photos from the seventies here. I don't know if the link has been posted here before but its certainly worth another look.

Edited November 2, 2015 by patrick

Garfield · November 2, 2015

http://sutherland.davenportstation.org.uk/ws-189.html

Some great photos from the seventies here. I don't know if the link has been posted here before but its certainly worth another look.

Thanks for posting that link, Patrick... a wonderful mix of Black & Tan and Supertrain, often running together.

Edited November 2, 2015 by Garfield

Noel · November 2, 2015

Thank you. Fabulous slides. Will be really helpful for my next project.

jhb171achill · November 2, 2015

Excellent stuff.

DiveController · November 3, 2015

Super photos. Really enjoyed the trip back in time!

Noel · November 3, 2015

Super photos. Really enjoyed the trip back in time!

Agree - Loads of loose coupled unbraked goods wagon formations with brake vans, corrugated wagons, vans, Black and Tan, not a double bogie to be seen, few boring containers, nostalgia memories of what freight and passenger trains once were. My favourite era. Operationally very interesting and diverse compared to what followed after 1980. Can't stop progress but can't help liking all the shunting, running around trains, intricate track work, turn tables, and wonderful little goods yards at every station now long lost.

jhb171achill · November 3, 2015

Would anyone be interested if I scanned and posted a few extracts from 1960s / 1970s working timetables showing goods workings?

Noel · November 3, 2015

Does anybody know what the van behind the A class in galway is. The roof has some bits on it suggesting it may have been a heating type van as opposed to just a luggage van or P&T van. Also does anybody know if it was a bogie van, twin axil or three axil setup?

It has a very distinctive side profile with the vertical upper section sloping outwards as it falls before the lower tumblehome. The same van seems to appear again in the Westport station pic.