ba14eagle Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 That's really sad - I used to really enjoy these films 🙁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 6, 2020 Author Share Posted July 6, 2020 Only one train today, and no sunshine to brighten up the photos. At first I thought it might be the Thames-Clyde Express, but research shows it can't be, as that had a restaurant car in the 1950s. So this is just an anonymous express with no refreshment facilities, pulled by a very clean Jubilee. Here it's seen passing Black Ghyll cavern, and then beyond. There seems to have been a lineside fire on Foxdale Bank, presumbly caused by the proverbial stray spark from a locomotive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 The video from yesterday's run: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) Just found this old negative from about 60 years ago... Edited July 14, 2020 by Andrew photo not displaying 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) Just a few pics from today's 1950s running session Nothing too unusual in the locomotive department: this Black 5 on Foxdale Bank and here on Bamboo Curtain Straight And a couple of shots of the 9F on a coal train at Throstlebeck I've just noticed one of those junction signals is facing the wrong way. Wonder how that happened! Edited July 24, 2020 by Andrew addition 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noisynoel Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Andrew, I've been requested to ask what the foilage is on the side of Foxdale Bank with the signal. The small, short leaved stuff (I use the word "stuff" as the wife has the fingers whilst I have no clue what so ever!!) Cheers Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 Hello, Noel, it's this: Mind-your-own-business or baby’s tears, Soleirolia soleirolii (syn. Helxine soleirolii) is a creeping perennial with tiny rounded leaves. Despite looking pretty in cracks in paving, it re-grows from the smallest stem sections and can soon get out of control. It is especially difficult to control in the lawn. https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=348 But I may have let it get too dried out (or a spark from a passing train may have started a fire, as you can see if you scroll up). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noisynoel Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Great thanks for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) Great Western delight What a pleasure to have the first visiting locos of the year, especially Julian's finely wrought models. And some visiting lower quadrant signals too. King William IV enjoying the sunshine: Earl of Mount Edgcumbe pauses near a shunting signal: Details of the Earl's cab and tender: A small Prairie drifts down Bamboo Curtain Straight: and Resolven Grange heads home with a coal train with a glimpse of the driver, eager for supper: The end: Edited July 31, 2020 by Andrew Edgcumbe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 Piling on the coal again Here's the BR Standard 4MT waiting at Throstlebeck for departure with a coal train, alongside one of the recently arrived and very elegant ground signals which really improve the general appearance. and later caught (from a drone) passing Black Ghyll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 (edited) A 1.5 minute video of the King Edited August 7, 2020 by Andrew video link 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 12, 2020 Author Share Posted September 12, 2020 Modern railways Goodness! More than a month with no pictures. So it was jolly good that Geoff and Josh came over yesterday for a suitably distanced running session and brought lots of exciting rolling stock to add new liveries to the normal DGR diet of steam age British Railways. The photos will be posted in installments, starting with "Lady Penelope". Lady P. is number 57307, re-engined from a Class 47 and, at the time shown, owned by Virgin Trains primarily as a rescue engine for Pendolino electric units and other trains in trouble, such rescue locos commonly being known as thunderbirds. First we see her setting out from Throstlebeck inland port with her intermodal train: Crossing the Northern Viaduct On across Foxdale Bank and then, later the same day on a different working, passing Black Ghyll Grasshopper watching the trains go by Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 13, 2020 Author Share Posted September 13, 2020 South West Trains These Siemens Desiro Class 450 units have been a mainstay of medium distance suburban services on the third rail electrified routes out of Waterloo since 2003 and are familiar to thousands of people who in days gone by were commuters. The livery started to change after SWT lost the operating franchise in 2017. This one is on an Up Waterloo service: Rear view on Foxdale Bank Rural Hampshire perhaps Still heading for Waterloo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 Virgin Trains When Virgin Trains used Pendolino electric units for their West Coast Main Line franchise they also had a full rake of MK3 coaches including DVT as a standby set (known as WB64). In 2011 Virgin Trains started hauling this set with Class 90 locomotives hired in from Freightliner, and this arrangement lasted until the operations ceased in late 2014. More details here: http://www.class90electriclocogroup.co.uk/virgin_trains.html This is what it looked like (you have to imagine the OHL equipment): 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 Belmond British Pullman in the Surrey Hills In normal times this luxury day excursion train is often hauled by Merchant Navy class engine "Clan Line", lovingly polished into gleaming condition. During periods of high fire risk, most of the tractive effort is provided by a Class 67 diesel running as the train engine, with the Bulleid sauntering along as pilot with little effort. These photos were taken near Dorking on one such trip, although no-one attached the headboard that day. Northdown Junction Running along the Downs Passing a typical Surrey Hills residence (a.k.a.Palmer's Farm, the home of Anne Arden, William Shakespeare's mother) Heading back to London Victoria with passengers well wined and dined. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 Strange Cargo at Northdown Junction This curious object was recently seen on a Lowmac. Is it perhaps a prototype Korean deep diving bathysphere? Nope! It was of course Josh's 360 degree camera ready to record full details of the DGR circuit. On the following video you can swivel the field of view by tilting your device or using the mouse. Quite fun to give it a try: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 11 hours ago, Andrew said: Strange Cargo at Northdown Junction This curious object was recently seen on a Lowmac. Is it perhaps a prototype Korean deep diving bathysphe...... Wow! Isn't that just amazing. It gives a completely different view of your layout which looks so much more expansive than it appears on photos and standard video. I'd love one of those but unfortunately, unless you can get them smaller, I can't see it fitting through the tunnels in my shed. The 4K quality footage is stunning. Better start Googling..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 1 hour ago, mick said: Wow! Isn't that just amazing. It gives a completely different view of your layout which looks so much more expansive than it appears on photos and standard video. I'd love one of those but unfortunately, unless you can get them smaller, I can't see it fitting through the tunnels in my shed. The 4K quality footage is stunning. Better start Googling..... I can only agree with Mick, the result is really great. Like him, however, I fear that the device will not fit into the clearance profile of my railway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 Not the Night Mail Some old negatives recently came my way, courtesy of Julian, which look like photos from sixty years ago of the overnight mail trains that ran in both directions between Paddington and Penzance. Presumably these are summer photos, taken when the train could be seen in daylight. The trains had originally been known as the Great Western Up and Down TPOs and that continued after nationalisation. The Travelling Post Office vehicles are in the striking Post Office red livery used for the new Mk 1 mail train stock (1959 onwards) until their repainting into blue and grey livery from 1970. It's not clear whether these photos are of the Up or the Down train. Several vehicles are fitted with mailbag exchange apparatus which would be on the nearside of the train, but they are marshalled with apparatus on both sides so that the stock would not need to be turned at final destination. As well as the TPO coaches, there are several ex-GWR Siphon G vehicles coupled at the rear which by this time were in parcels use and would be dropped off at various points on the Down service and reattached on the Up. Peter Johnson's book Mail by Rail gives a general introduction to this traffic. A computer generated colour rendition(!) to show the Post Office red livery, with a view of the mailbag exchange apparatus: And the same treatment for the first photo above: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) A new kid on the block The 1st October celebrations in Dorking and Beijing mark an important milestone for the Fat Controller and the People's Republic of China. The date is also the anniversary of the opening of the DGR in 2012, and for all these reasons it frequently results in new stock arriving in Dorking. This year was no exception, seeing the DGR finally escape from the steam age with the acquisition of our first diesel (about time too, I hear Mick say) and what should be a decent train of intermodal wagons to complement it. Getting the too-bright and shiny intermodals coupled up and running proved to be too fiddly and time-consuming for the limited time available, so the Class 66 made its proud debut towing just a modest pair of containers. The loco is nicely weathered, so the pristine wagons will have to get theirs in due course. A longer train should be along soon. And here are a couple of examples of the real thing a few years ago, also in Dorking: Edited October 8, 2020 by Andrew extra photo added 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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