Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted March 9, 2013 Report Share Posted March 9, 2013 Firbeck, I've deleted that post where you were having problems. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RGR 218 Posted March 9, 2013 Report Share Posted March 9, 2013 An unusual visitor to the GC, A1 60114 W P Allen at Leicester Central on a return Beaconsfield to Mexborough excursion on 12 June 1964 (photo H A Gamble). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RGR 218 Posted March 9, 2013 Report Share Posted March 9, 2013 A1 60123 H A Ivatt near Loughborough on the 17.53 Sheffield Vic to Leicester Central on 1 June 1962.(photo D Holmes) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RGR 218 Posted March 9, 2013 Report Share Posted March 9, 2013 Open house at Leicester goods yard on the 13 May 1939 with A4 Mallard 4468 on show. (N G Steele) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted March 10, 2013 Report Share Posted March 10, 2013 Bulwell Common c.1959 How do I make the image bigger? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted March 10, 2013 Report Share Posted March 10, 2013 Bulwell Common again on the same day, a class 71 electric on route to Southern region new from Doncaster. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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BulwellBrian 107 Posted March 10, 2013 Report Share Posted March 10, 2013 The two photo's I have managed to post were taken on the same day sometime around 1959 (note the lone 16t mineral wagon). The second photo shows a new class 71 electric loco on delivery from Doncaster to the Southern Region. Note also the pigeon baskets on the platform, this was a regular sight at Bulwell Common. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Perhaps I can get this to work. The last day of through mainline steam at Vic, Sept 3rd 1966, we started off at Weekday Cross photographing the stream of coal trains: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 This one looks like iron ore, no doubt bound for Stanton Ironworks 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Then the last northbound steam special hauled by MN Pacific 35030 'Elder Dempster Lines', an odd choice, could it have been the one and only time that a Merchant Navy appeared on the GCR. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 The MN retired to Colwick for servicing and the train was taken forward by two clean B1's from Wakefield and York sheds, the train in the left is the last southbound York-Bournemouth, the time on the station clock is about 13:00. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Later on that day we saw the last Semi-Fast to Marylebone, hauled by a filthy Class 5, I gather that volunteers had spent all day at Colwick polishing another example only for it to fail. I don't understand why BR hadn't used a V2 such as 60806, photographed by me at York only a few months previously, perhaps they tried and failed, it was condemned the day after September 3rd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 The last northbound Bournemouth-York pulled into the station at, according to the clock, 17:25 pm: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 We then left northbound for the last time As the light was running out, my last pic was taken as we passed through Hucknal Central We then carried on to Sheffield Victoria where the train reversed and we got out at Rotherham Central. After wandering about for a few hours and taking in the delights of the local fish and chip shop, we boarded the last southbound train. This was the York-Banbury Parcels, hauled by a grimy B! which was taken off at Sheffield Vic and substituted by a Class 37. The Station Master at Rotherham Central had risen to the occasion by wearing a top hat to see off the last train, I was able to purchase the last ticket issued by the station in it's former glory. By the time we got back to Vic, at about 22:00, we found ourselves to be the only passengers on the train, the ticket collector at Vic was well p###ed and refused to let us keep the tickets, silly sod, we couldn't use them again. Just looking back at those photos, I think that the middle one is entering Annesley Tunnel, so the light held out after Hucknall. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I find it sad to see the pictures of the last working steam locos. It is clear that BR had given up on them, and no proper maintenance or cleaning had been done for some time. The drivers and firemen must have hated them - they must have been a real handful to fire and drive. It is good to see that there was at least an attempt to make the last passenger hauling locos look presentable. We all know that the steam era had to come to an end, but did they have to do it in such a demeaning manner? Perhaps I am being sentimental, but steam locos always seemed to be machines with character and life, letting them die in misery somehow seems wrong. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 The irony is that if BR had not have ended steam and if Dr Beeching had not closed half the lines, todays preserved engines and lines would not exist? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 And the other irony is that if the Great Central had not closed, there would be major, expensive problems trying to decide where to put the new tram line out towards Wilford and Clifton. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted March 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 "And the other irony is that if the Great Central had not closed, therewould be major, expensive problems trying to decide where to put the newtram line out towards Wilford and Clifton" Not really, go straight to the River, and then drive into it! (Not a tram fan) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 I find it sad to see the pictures of the last working steam locos. It is clear that BR had given up on them, and no proper maintenance or cleaning had been done for some time. The drivers and firemen must have hated them - they must have been a real handful to fire and drive. It is good to see that there was at least an attempt to make the last passenger hauling locos look presentable. We all know that the steam era had to come to an end, but did they have to do it in such a demeaning manner? Perhaps I am being sentimental, but steam locos always seemed to be machines with character and life, letting them die in misery somehow seems wrong. An interesting comment, the Western Region had green locos that always seemed polished and well kept, they had lots of brass and cast number plates on the cab that always seem to be gleaming. This is my photo of a Grange Class taken at Crewe South shed in 1965, it's had everything stripped off of it as to be unidentifiable, I presume that someone had chalked the original number on the cabside which was common practice in those days. As you can see it was in steam and in use, but no survivors remain of this useful class even though they lasted until the end of steam on the WR. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 I'm sorry to contradict, but this isn't a Grange. I think this is one of the smaller boilered Manor class locos. The Grange was unmistakeable in that the footplate was raised over the cylinders as here http://www.time-capsules.co.uk/picture/number2907.asp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 I too think it is a Manor. A replica Grange is being built at Langollen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 We're all wrong, it's a Modified Hall, given away by the flush frames over the cylinders, the webs on the buffer beam and the slab sided Hawksworth tender that most of them had , though some tenders got transferred to earlier models.The Granges and Manors were built on the frames from withdrawn Class 43XX's and were very similar.A pity I never took the number, it was a Bilborough Grammar School railway society trip, maybe the kid with the notebook that you can see in the photo will read this and let us know. Here's an early Hall with Hawksworth tender in better days at Teignmouth when I was on holiday in 1962. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philby 21 Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 All I can find of former railways sites at the minute, shall we have a quiz? http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq154/Ashobel/haydrd.jpg[/img ] eh up ash! it seems no one actually answered this "where is it" quiz, but your first pic is my old stamping ground, taken sometime after 1982 between gayhurst green and arnold road. i can date it as post 82 as that was when the cutting was filled in, which threw me a bit, but just at the upper left side you can see the ends of the garage block for the top end of the estate. i was actually working at one of the houses on the right of that photo last september, orville road i think, the chap said he moved there in the early 70's (same as me!) and it was a nice place to live because the empty embankment meant that he had no hassle with noise etc. only now there are houses built on this bit almost up to his back fence! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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