firbeck 860 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Following the success of the Friargate quiz, where was this taken then, relatively local, probably not where you think it is, and taken in 1972. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Hogsmeade station? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted July 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Hogsmeade station? That was Kings Cross, and the Hogwarts Express was pulled by a Hall. looks like I shouldn't have bothered. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 No idea at the moment, Can you give us a clue? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted July 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 No idea at the moment, Can you give us a clue? There was a Deltic stood next to it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Doncaster?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted July 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 OK, here's the Deltic. A bit further south from Doncaster. A few more questions please before any more clues. Deltics were still in service then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Barrow Hill - or I give up? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annesley 0 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Yep. Barrow Hill definitely. Main loco yard / viewing area outside the roundhouse. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Racecourse halt on the GNR? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Found it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted July 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Well done, that was obviously too easy, does anyone else want to pose a question. Incidentally, does anyone recall that occasion, I haven't a clue what the event was all about, closure of the original shed perhaps, I just have these pictures taken with an Instamatic. I think that we must have stumbled apon it by accident, it was in the middle of our wierd student days, I won't mention the names of my co-conspiritors for reasons of protection of currently honest citizens, I have this memory of us arriving on site in a cloud of illegal smoke, to put it mildly, 'Steam trains, Cool Man'.......................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 The event is simply listed as an "open day" in the Deltic diaries. Whether it coincided with shed closure, who knows. Here is a pic of 3 rare diesels: anyone know the place & engine type? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Toton ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Nah, good answer - but not right! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Out behind Colwick loco sheds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Nah, getting colder Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Back end of Ilkeston ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Clayton Class 22's... Looks rather spacious for their usual home depot of Motherwell! Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Clayton - yes Type 22 - no Location, think where they were built, not Scotland Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Clayton Class 17...Derby... Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted July 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 Off the top of me head, weren't the Claytons initially designed and built in Uttoxeter, and when they came out there were problems and were stored all over the place till the issues, whatever they were, got resolved. I can remember a line of them at Langwith Shed, but it ain't there, looks like Derby to me, would the picture have been taken from what is now the Pride Park area. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 Yes, They are Clayton Type 1, parked up at Derby around 1963/4 I think. They were built in Hatton. The now Pride Park gas holders are in the back of the image. Judging by the white cabs they were new. They did have engine mount issues. See Wiki page. Later called Class 17 & withdrawn by BR less than 10 years old. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted July 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Just for the record, I found another photo of that Barrow Hill event, it's dated September 1972:- Some interesting early 70's fashions there, though the real railway nutters still wear suits and ties to this day, I recall being treated with utter contempt by some of these people during an A-4 high speed run up to Ely, it wasn't kosher to wear a Homer Simpson T shirt, striped shorts and have a bag full of Wadworths 6X, let alone to confessing that my last trip behind an A-4 was down Stoke Bank in 1960, it was a hot day, they suffered, I didn't. Another quiz question. I took this typical scene of an 8F being prepared for duty at a Notts shed, 3rd October 1966:- Thing is, which shed is it and what was the significance of the date and the loco in the picture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Kirkby (16B)...Lowmoor Road provides the backdrop, on closure day. Bet you don't know that its the same 8F that featured in the Chapel-en-le-Frith runaway, of some years earlier. As immortalised by Ewan MaColl in his "The Ballad of John Axon"... Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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