Thank you, I'm glad you and others have enjoyed them. I do have a connection into a publisher, but there is little interest in B&W photos - the demand is for colour from this era. This Forum has been a great way to share and make them available, plus the feedback and extra contextual information provided in response has proven fine motivation to see this through to the end.Lostwin, I’m sure I speak for many of us when I say thank you for posting all your photos.
The atmosphere of what you captured is so nostalgic and coincides time wise with many of the locations around the country that I was familiar with. Images that might have seemed commonplace forty years ago have nearly disappeared so you have done your bit for posterity!
Great stuff @lostwin(m)Thank you Mr C. Nearly ready with a new batch of around 80 photos from my archive. First few should be up around this time tomorrow.
Thank you. Recent advances in barrel scrapping technology, plus my dogged persistence with Photoshop have been applied in full to my archive from the time!Great stuff @lostwin(m)I look forward to this year's "early Christmas present" of another enjoyable time down memory lane.
Oh this brings back memories.07/07/86. 37422 also negotiating one of the tight turns on 10.05 Mallaig - Fort William.
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The (Fletton?) fly-ash workings are,.for me, a quintessential "1980s freight" with elderly PresFlo CPVs snaking behind a blue Grid. I never did see the working "in the flesh", as I was the wrong side of the UK at the time.06/05/85. My HST has the pace on 56082 on a long flyash train near Ratcliffe on Soar.
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Minor point, not CPVs, but CSAs (air-braked and a bit bigger than most presflos). I was in Leicester early 80s, and it wasn’t always a 56 when I saw them. But yes, Fletton brickworks by Peterborough was the destination.The (Fletton?) fly-ash workings are,.for me, a quintessential "1980s freight" with elderly PresFlo CPVs snaking behind a blue Grid
I never realised they were larger bodies. But I've realised my schoolboy error, of thinking a vacuum-braked rake behind an air-braked 56.Minor point, not CPVs, but CSAs (air-braked and a bit bigger than most presflos). I was in Leicester early 80s, and it wasn’t always a 56 when I saw them. But yes, Fletton brickworks by Peterborough was the destination.
It is indeed a 4CEP (Class 411). The livery is the London and South East sector ‘Jaffa Cake’ scheme that preceded the NSE branding that was launched in June 1986. Only some refurbished 4CEPs (together with the MLV Motor Luggage Vans that worked with them), 4CIGs and Class 309 units received the Jaffa Cake livery before it was superseded.A couple of bright and clear autumn days during what was presumably a half term break, visiting my Grandma on the Kent coast. As usual, I spent plenty of time 'down the cliff'.
23/10/85. Newly refurbished CEP (or is it VEP?) on a London bound service at Folkestone Warren. I'm trying to imagine what colour this livery is, an early NSE variation with reds and blues?
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Looks like 1604 to me! 1003 was a Hastings diesel.1003 forms one of the two units
Corrected, thank you! Samphire Hoe is a couple of miles further East from this area. I know what you mean about it being a slightly strange place, as an artificially made landscape. Over time though it has matured and feels more natural and has fulfilled its promise of being a haven for wildlife. The Warren area too - where these photos were taken, is also now being recognised for its rare habitat and is likely to achieve a highly protected status soon.Looks like 1604 to me! 1003 was a Hastings diesel.
How close was that to Samphire Hoe, the nature reserve they created from Channel Tunnel spoil? Weird place, but just alongside the line, and being at the foot of the cliffs, you get "welcome to France" on your mobile.