My scanned slides - 1977-1985

[eastwestdivide]

Just to confirm that Stratford location for the train heating loco, here's my terrible Instamatic photo of ADB968000 there at the open day on 14 July 1979. I got a better camera soon after that!

 

[D1511]

Thank you so much @ac6000cw @eastwestdivide @Gloster and @D6130
These are the exact corrections, clarifications, observations and nuggets of knowledge I was hoping for by posting these pics up on here. It's making the laborious workflow of the cleaning, scanning and multi size saving of each one worthwhile, so if you don't mind keeping the helpful posts coming, I'll keep posting the photos! I will try to keep them interesting!

 

[D1511]

Tonight's scans start with a view of Old Oak in 1980 with each locomotive having used the turntable to get where they are. The 50 is Centurion.

 

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Continuing the depot theme, Tinsley was always a spotting favourite, although you generally didn't get round without a permit that cost £12 at the time. We got the bus for 2p up to the 3 magpies pub in Brinsworth and walked up to the depot and asked speculatively, and were waved round with a dismissive hand. Our warning was 'watch out for any moving ones'!

 

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86247 in Crewe works in 1980...... .......having insect removal undertaken

 

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37152 coasts downhill past Kingsknowe box and over the level crossing it controlled with an Uddingston to Oxwellmains cement working in 1979.
The crossing gates were hand wound by the signalman by a large wheel in the box at this time.
Also, I scanned the slide three times to try to get rid of that hair top right, but it's a lighting cable!

 

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37s were relatively uncommon in Paddington in the early 80s, and especially dirty Welsh ones with cut away noses and their boiler tanks changed to extra fuel tanks!

I was surprised to see 37256 at the head of a parcels train......I suspect Old Oak couldn't wait to send it back to Wales!

 

[D1511]

Worst 47 paint job ever? Just saying.....!



This is Carstairs in 1981, and it's just arrived with the Edinburgh portion of a WCML service. The Glasgow portion would come past in the opposite direction on the adjacent platform, and 47583 would run up the line and then reverse the Edinburgh portion on to the back of the Glasgow. The coaches were connected and the loco uncoupled, and the joined train would head off with its AC loco and 47583 would wait at the stabling point until the process was reversed!

 

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56076 under construction in 1980 in its green primer at Crewe probably. Being a BREL one it probably performed a bit better when in service than the Romanian predecessors! You can see the production line in action.....there's another chassis next to the camera

 

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26012 brings in ECS into to Glasgow Central from Polmadie in July 1979. The 85 is about to reverse on to it. The peak will likely be for a later Glasgow Nottingham service.

 

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47705 lurks in the shade at Waverley with the light from the roof illuminating its then unique flush front. It was the first 47/7 to emerge with this front variant, and it's very fresh from works in this picture, as the brakes and ETH connectors are pristine!

 

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The last few days of 40010 and 08533 at Swindon in 1981

 

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Oops. 25148 looks like it's hit a corner of a HAA, judging by the shape of the indentation. I don't know if they bothered repairing it, as the rats were dwindling by this time.

 

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40150 explodes away from Platform 15 at Waverley with an Aberdeen service in September 1979. It doesn't look healthy!

 

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47334 is just one of a number of splendid vehicles at Landore in 1980!

 

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Haymarket loco line up in 1980. All of these engines were based here apart from the genny and the peak on the right.

 

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With the overhead gantries compressed by the telephoto lens, 47346 whirrs into Crewe from the North with a train of Cargowaggons on works open day in 1980.

 

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47210 Crosses the Edinburgh Glasgow Union Canal at Kingsknowe with an Edinburgh Liverpool service in 1979. The WCML services had Mk2s more often than ECML services did at that time

 

[GusB]

47334 is just one of a number of splendid vehicles at Landore in 1980!

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These photos really capture the period when I was getting into trains (I'd have been five or six when this was taken), but I love this one because it depicts what I used to see on the roads, too. The Austin 1100s and Hillman Imps were probably fairly rare by then (the D plate on the Imp gives its age away), but Allegros were very common, and the Chrysler Alpine is instantly recognisable because my grandfather had one.

Keep them coming!

 

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37242 crawls along the Leith line on an oil train from the Docks to Grangemouth refinery in early 1980. The secondman was a friend of ours from the Scottish Railfans Society who spotted us on the footbridge! The line is now closed and the footbridge is long gone.

 

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Two classes of locomotive that were among my favourites for haulage. 83s seemed sparkier than the others and 40s made such a wonderful noise. These 2 specimens were in Crewe works in 1979.

 

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Sadly this is what became of them.
40125 in a sorry state at Swindon in 1981.
The split head code ones looked particularly handsome engines.

 

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47346 idles at Wolverhampton waiting to take a mystery tour to Telford in 1981.

 

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With an impressive lean out the cab to check the platform, the driver of 55022 gets ready to leave Berwick with a southbound ECML service in 1980. They'd all be HSTs soon after this.

 

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On that note, a poignant one to finish with this evening that needs no caption. The gas bottle and the remains say it all.

 

[eastwestdivide]

47346 whirrs into Crewe from the North with a train of Cargowaggons

The wagons aren’t Cargowaggons but the UKF bagged fertiliser vans that worked all over the country from the Stanlow area (Ince?)

 

[lostwin(m)]

Excellent, I really enjoyed these. Interesting lighting can really make a picture and the 47/7 at Waverley is a cracker. The 37 at Paddington oozes atmosphere and you have got to love a bit of clag, so the 40 on departure has got my arm involuntarily twitching in salute!

 

[ac6000cw]

56076 under construction in 1980 in its green primer at Crewe probably. Being a BREL one it probably performed a bit better when in service than the Romanian predecessors! You can see the production line in action.....there's another chassis next to the camera


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...with what looks like a bogie on the left (with a cab behind it) and probably a traction motor blower on the floor in front of 56076. 40+ years later some have been rebuilt into cl.69's, retaining the (refurbished & modified) original bodyshell and bogies - Crewe obviously built them well!

 

[lostwin(m)]

Worst 47 paint job ever? Just saying.....!



This is Carstairs in 1981, and it's just arrived with the Edinburgh portion of a WCML service. The Glasgow portion would come past in the opposite direction on the adjacent platform, and 47583 would run up the line and then reverse the Edinburgh portion on to the back of the Glasgow. The coaches were connected and the loco uncoupled, and the joined train would head off with its AC loco and 47583 would wait at the stabling point until the process was reversed!
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This paint job was in honour of the Charles & Diana wedding, wasn't it? Did it subsequently run without the red & blue stripes on the logo?

 

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Thanks both!

Also, glad the period motors are also getting noticed!

On that note, here's Longsight shed in Jan 1979 with a range of motive power on show. The source of the smoke filling the shed was the DMU, which is probably why the cyclist was getting out of there!