NCC, old photographs from April 1949

[Irishswissernie]

My mate Dave Dunn has recently received a collection of slides/negatives etc from a relative of a deceased photographer which will be added to the Armstrong Railway Photographic Trust Archive. All 'big island' images apart from an album containing 17 old postcard prints but no negatives taken in April 1949, mainly on the old NCC at Belfast, York Road. I have added them to ERNIE's Railway Archive although the Copyright is not known,as it is possible that the negatives no longer exist.

Does any of the ones below ring a bell ?

EDIT : I keep forgetting that if I bung em on here it doesn't display the flickr captions. The shed is Ballymena and the yard York Road. Date for all the photos is 6 April 1949. A couple of the others are Coleraine and there is one at Portrush. Check out the flickr album it also has most of the loco numbers/details.

The remainder are in this album

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/albums/72157626750300070

 

Edited November 16, 2018 by Irishswissernie

[jhb171achill]

I did a double take there as one of them looked like one of my dad’s!

On comparing, his is of the same class of loco and a similar angle!

My dad’s NCC photos were taken between (from memory) 1944 and 1947.

[Patrick Davey]

Top one looks like Ballymena shed and bottom looks like York Road.  Looking forward to looking at the full album, thanks for the info!

[Irishswissernie]

I think the photos were in a collection belonging to (I think) R Valentine but I am invariably wrong when trying to remember names!

Also uploaded this one acquired from EB recently

 There is a link to this topic !  B&NCR/ NCC had an A Class which were rebuilt and this is an A Class also rebuilt

Ernie

Edited November 16, 2018 by Irishswissernie

[leslie10646]

Can't help you on the photographer, Ernie, but they are VERY nice - some really golden shots among them - like the Festival Express, the train at Whitehead Excursion and the shots of the Mogul on the 1964 Joint Tour.

Thanks for sharing them.