fredjee 6 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Hi Fredjee, if you search around on Nottstalgia you'll find a considerable number of photo's that I've published from the Firbeck archives. I took my first photo back in 1958, WC 'City of Wells' on the Golden Arrow at Folkestone. I have so many photo's most of which I haven't put on here, it's so time consuming to upload and put them up, not helped by the fact that my PC crashed badly a few weeks ago and stuff vanished into the ether. I have a 35mm colour slide cassette entitled 'Trains 1970's', must be loads of local diesel stuff on there, I probably haven't looked at it for 25 years!! I have approx 10,000 colour slides plus countless black and white photo's, I'd love to have the time to sort them out but I work full time and doing that is hard. I'll see what I can do today. Your pics by the way are really cool. I've already had a quick look at your pics on the site and think i've stumbled upon your Photobucket account firbek I like to see railway images from all over the UK but have a passion for things along the Erewash Valley / Ilkeston / Long Eaton / Stanton and diesels do it for me. I search constantly for the images I still have inside my head but at the time was too poor for a camera like the single class 25 sitting on the GNR overbridge just outside Kirk Hallam at the bottom of Bulls Head as a team of engineers surveyed the line and bridges for demolition . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fredjee 6 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Some real crackers you got there firbeck I do love the old stuff and you can send them all over for safe keeping if you want Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fredjee 6 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 A poor quality photo taken on a poor quality 110 camera but historically important It shows Class 50 015 at Toton having popped into the depot for 10 minutes of attention before returning to Beeston to continue its booked diagramthe afternoons Beeston - Lawley Street Freightliner. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 You've tapped into my Photobucket account, that's appalling, I'd never do that to anybody. I'm not impressed. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Here's one I took in, I think, June 1989 showing 150131 departing the Midland Station. Of interest is how different the background was then compared to today. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Is that fyfes in the background Merthyr? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fredjee 6 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 You've tapped into my Photobucket account, that's appalling, I'd never do that to anybody. I'm not impressed. I've not tapped into anything and find it hard enough to post my own pics off my Flickr account Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 #80 Is that a steam (preserved) loco in the background ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Yes, it was 'Bahamas', which I was there taking photos that day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fredjee 6 Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 I'll start with a photo passed onto me by John Simpson who was a fireman at Colwick Depot showing Peak class D148 at Nottingham Midland Station in July 1966. Yesterday I popped my head over the bridge and took a photo from roughly were John had taken his picture many years ago and as you can see much has changed. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Fred,nice one..my goodness some changes indeed..almost 50 years! Keep it up,Ian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fredjee 6 Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 D9009 ALYCIDON sits quiet in the late evening surrounded by strangers at Toton Depot on 02-07-15 ready to work The Torbay & Dart Explorer from Derby a few days later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Sadly it looks out of place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Always hated Deltics as they replaced my beloved A1,2,3 &4's. Then of course there were the D200's etc. Sacrilege. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted January 4, 2016 Report Share Posted January 4, 2016 I preferred the steam also but I never hated the Deltics. But they were noisy bu--ers. I know! so were steam locos but steam locos made a NICE noise. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 I love your pic of D9009, Alycidon, amongst the foreign interlopers at Toton, it looks, and was, a 'really usefull engine' as Rev Awdry would have said. It was the first production Deltic I ever saw and I photographed the moment at Grantham circa 1961 ( I can't be ar@@@ to look up the actual date ), as you can see by the front buffers and the general appearance, plus the fact the cab was full of men in white coats, I reckon it was on it's first mainline test run from Doncaster, they used to run light engine to there from Vulcan Foundry in Lancs where they were built. Please note the real anoraks on the platform in front of the loco. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 Just for the comparison, here's a photo taken by me of the original Deltic in the same spot only a year or so previously. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 #92 - Alycidon entered service on 21st July 1961, so can't have been long after that. http://www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/9009.htm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 7, 2016 Report Share Posted January 7, 2016 Lovely memories Pete & Bilbra,sure you didn't bump into my Dad on your travels?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 I preferred the steam also but I never hated the Deltics. But they were noisy bu--ers. I know! so were steam locos but steam locos made a NICE noise. If you're going to have a diesel there is very little nicer to listen to than a well-thrashed Napier Deltic. I've always loved the sound of two-stroke diesels, having been brought up within earshot of Hoveringham Gravels' main quarry, where they kept a fleet of two-stroke Fodens back then. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 I remember trying to have a conversation on York station when Deltics were around. Almost impossible. HSTs were very noisy, particularly when pulling away. I remember nipping through the engine rooms when I worked in the sidings because I was too lazy to climb out then in again. Silly beggar me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 Sulzer Type 2, or Class 25, no. 25064 with an inspection saloon. Don't know the date sorry, but I see the locomotive was based at Crewe from October 1982 until withdrawal at the end of 1985, so possibly nearer the earlier of those dates. Quite unusual to see one of those in Nottingham from the mid-1970s onwards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 27, 2016 Report Share Posted January 27, 2016 Was there some talk years ago about leaving some viaduct areas in Nottm,as they now are a haven for certain plants and creatures? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
albert smith 803 Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 Quite right Ian, Canal St./Weekday Cross viaduct was declared a SSI until it was in the way of the tram ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim in the North East 200 Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 Katyjay For a nostalgic film of clearing snow drifts go to YouTube search for Snowdrift at Bleath Gill and advance to 4:30 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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