firbeck 859 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I've been digging out some of my old colour slides as you know, quite frankly, given the lack of interest and comments given to my photo's of Wilford Power Station and in particular Stanton Ironworks (not Trowell Moor Colliery again!!), I wasn't going to bother, but I found some of my early colour slides last night and thought that some of you might like to see them. Here's a taster, it's too sunny an afternoon to sit indoors fiddling about on a computer. July 1966, the Bradford to Skegness summer Saturday special and the last timetabled steam hauled passenger train into Nottingham Midland:- I took this with my brothers Hanimex 35mm camera on Agfa colour slide film, it was a very hot day and as you can see, the driver was opening up for the climb up to Wollaton Colliery. This caused a burst of cinders to blast out the chimney, one of which landed on my head and set my hair on fire!! The loco is Jubilee 45562 Alberta, it had lost it's cast nameplate but the Leeds Holbeck shed staff had carefully painted the name on the backing plate. You'll note the yellow stripe on the cab denoting that the loco was banned from travelling 'under the wires' south of Crewe. For the rolling stock enthusiasts, the second carriage is an LNER Thompson open second, these were produced from 1947 into BR days and were constructed with steel panels rather than teak, the LNER examples were painted in a mock teak paint finish so that they matched in with the Gresley stock. Interesting to see the station buildings and a glimpse of the platform at Trowell Station, I believe it was still open at the time. I don't think you were at Trowell with me that day Bilbraborn, I have a feeling that I was with Barry Withey for some reason, I may be wrong though. A few weeks later Bilbraborn, John Smith and I caught the train up to Sheffield so that we could travel back to Nottingham Midland by steam for the last time. The 'Skeggy Special' was notorious for being late, however I recall that Sheffield Midland's timetable gave no posting of the platform number it was due to arrive on, the platform staff had no idea either, nor of it's timing that day. Eventually we missed it, I don't know how as we kept wandering the station trying to find the damn thing, how do you hide a steam train in even a large busy station like Sheffield. We travelled back 'Peak' hauled in the end, we couldn't go the Saturday after as it was the finale at Nottingham Vic, but that was another story and another colour picture. 10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Keep em coming Pete,I know you have loads of them so get em on here mate Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Keep em coming Pete,I know you have loads of them so get em on here mate Rog You always were enthusiastic Rog, as an aircraft keen type how about my several hundred colour slides of the making of the 'Memphis Belle', or stumbling across and walking round the just arrived silver B-17 (to become 'Sally B') parked at the side of the road at a disused airfield called Duxford back in the 70's, or an SR-71 Blackbird doing a high speed, low level fuel dump and burn more or less over the top of my head at Mildenhall, it'll take forever to upload that lot!! I have more of Trowell Junction in colour, photo's of a very unique and special event taken in the early 70's and of another incident that happened there a few years ago. I'll put them up sometime if anyone is interested. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Oh no,what you done Rog,.............only joking 'Firbeck'..........keep em coming mate some great pictures. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Of course we're interested. Trowell station closed the following year (1967) according to Wikipedia. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DavidA 153 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I love these old photos, please keep 'em coming, and thanks for posting them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 "Alberta" was also a regular on the Summer Saturday Bradford to Poole, after it had been diverted away from Victoria. I recall a similar Saturday morning trip to travel behind it from Penistone to Nottingham. For many years I had a cassette recording of it coming up the gradient out of Sheffield with that unforgettable six-beats-to-the-bar exhaust rhythm that you could recognise as a Jubilee without even looking up. It seems criminal how casually we regarded it until it was about to disappear for ever. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Firbeck: great to see a grand photograph of Alberta!! Wish my old Dad could see that one- enjoyed your last pictures but am under qualified to comment on them. But I'll say thanks and did remember your posts about "spoil" dumped from another place. Keep sending them mate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 PS..Firbeck perhaps we should do a nottstalgia roadshow and display all our pics.. meet up ..then hit the pub!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 Pete! There is one part of me that has never changed in 50 years. I am always up for any photos that you (or anyone else) posts of steam around Notts in the 60s. Keep'em coming. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 That's a great photograph Firbeck ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted June 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 Weren't a couple of posts deleted, why was that, I was going to respond but didn't have time, now they've gone, but I have the gist of it, the response to Trowell 2 sums it up really. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Russell Saxton 0 Posted August 5, 2018 Report Share Posted August 5, 2018 Fantastic shot, any more like it? And do you know what were the last steam workings along the wash? I know freight continued till at least december 1966 but were there any steam turns into 1967? I can never find the answer to this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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