lostwin(m)
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And I love this one, one of the many uses for a BRUTE trolley! Not sure where this was taken, doesn't look like my Scottish hiking attire, London terminus perhaps?
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lostwin(m)
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Yes, I was trying to piece this together myself. Strangely, I don't have the picture I was framing up in that shot and whilst 37414 & 417 are the two locos crossing in the other pictures I took, 414 seems to be going in the opposite direction to this new photo. Perhaps it was the day before / after and we camped around Garve?@lostwin(m) Many happy returns R - although, with this thread, I think iyou are giving the presents to us
How on earth did you cover the distance, from Garve station platform (#839) to the road overbridge (#6) before 37414's departure?! Sprint with rucksack?
Sun Chariot
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Ah that would make sense.
In August 1988, I took a Kyle service (coincidentally, 37417), then I ferried to Kyleakin and stayed overnight at the SYHA.
The following morning, I reversed my route back to Kyle - to discover 37417 had sat at Kyle overnight, ready to take the morning's service back to Inverness.
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Peter Sarf
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That would be a good candidate for the guess the station thread !.
All you have to do is correctly guess one (or wait for someone to cry open floor as I do) and then eventually someone will get it - tricky that you cannot confirm if they are correct or not !.
Be nice to find out though ?.
lostwin(m)
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Yes, I would quite like to pin the location down. I could try and work through my negatives, I'm obviously taking a picture and it looks like I am using the metal mesh of the trolley as a prop. Problem is, I seem to have done this quite as few times, never to any especially satisfactory effect. Here is probably the best of them, taken at Leicester.
As for the picture above, it does have a London vibe, so my guess is Victoria.
eastwestdivide
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Carefully positioned there, with a 43 each side of a bit of mesh!
Sun Chariot
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I recall Neville Hill used to stencil power car vehicle number on DMB's front. In the days of blue-yellow-grey, I'd only seen the stencil positioned on the drawbar valance. So this photo has taught me something new. 
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lostwin(m)
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If there is one class of loco that I associate with my early enthusiast days, it would be the Peaks. Nothing as exotic as a 46 mind, more the MML regulars 45/1's. In the early 80's, being based in Leicester, they were the regular daily backcloth to spotting life. By the mid 80's and my photography days, their numbers were starting to dwindle and use on the MML was limited to fill in stopping services to supplement the express services in the hands of HST's.
15/09/85. 45146 has charge of the 17.05 Nottingham service.
15/09/85. 45146 has charge of the 17.05 Nottingham service.
lostwin(m)
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28/05/85. 45132 stands at Nottingham depot.
lostwin(m)
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22/12/86. Another trip down to the South West had me carefully selecting my morning ride to the capital. 45136 has brought in the 08.00 from Derby.
lostwin(m)
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29/12/86. My trip back was similarly selected. Here is another view from a nice series of shots I took at dusk of 45120 working the 16.35 Nottingham service.
lostwin(m)
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26/10/86. Inside the cab, but this Peak would be going no further than its final destination of Vic Berry's.
eastwestdivide
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I managed to phot them quite a lot during my time at Leicester, just before the HSTs came in, although mostly not to as good a quality as yours. Was impressed by the HSTs cutting the London/Leic time from 1h30 to 1h15, mostly from better performance rather than top speed, as much of the line was still 90mph or less with semaphores. With broadly twice the power for more or less the same weight of loco(s), hardly surprising! And now it’s down to a round hour if you’re lucky enough to get a rare clear run with a 222.
D6130
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Wonderfully-evocative photos as always! Compare and contrast the bufferstops view of the Peak at St Pancras with the present day view of Eurostars at the same location. At least the clock has been restored and put back in its original position.
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lostwin(m)
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Yes, I would be sat in the Champagne bar if that picture had been taken now - that’s progress for you!
lostwin(m)
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A couple of unusual shunting manoeuvres.
02/08/85. After 50017 had expired on the up Torbay Express, it was dragged into Exeter by 47238 and ultimately replaced by 50008. The 47 initially pulled 017 into the yard, but that left a serviceable Duff, already required elsewhere, blocked in by the errant Hoover. What better way to shift it than another pair of Hoovers - 023 & 027 both under power - enabling it to be dumped at the back of the yard and the end of the queue.
02/08/85. After 50017 had expired on the up Torbay Express, it was dragged into Exeter by 47238 and ultimately replaced by 50008. The 47 initially pulled 017 into the yard, but that left a serviceable Duff, already required elsewhere, blocked in by the errant Hoover. What better way to shift it than another pair of Hoovers - 023 & 027 both under power - enabling it to be dumped at the back of the yard and the end of the queue.
lostwin(m)
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29/07/85. Now I'm not quite sure how this works. 08941 is sandwiched between 47555 and the coaches it is adding to 06.50 Swindon - Penzance, at Plymouth. My notes don't really explain why or what happened next.
Peter Sarf
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My rash guess is the 08 failed while putting the two coaches on, 47555 used to finish the shunt and then park the 08 somewhere. Then service starts (late ?).
lostwin(m)
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I had a bit of a pause again. Still got a few bits and bobs left, so to avoid 'thread lock' I'll pop this one in and try to upload a few more in the coming days.
29/04/85. Googling this now, the top hits are for the rather wonderful Wang Fuchun - a Chinese railway photographer who had an exhibition at the NRM a few years back. I don't think this exhibition train is related though and it didn't hang around long at Leicester Station for me to find out at the time. 45116 is in charge and quickly ran round the train and headed off again. Didn't Wang have something to do with computers...?
29/04/85. Googling this now, the top hits are for the rather wonderful Wang Fuchun - a Chinese railway photographer who had an exhibition at the NRM a few years back. I don't think this exhibition train is related though and it didn't hang around long at Leicester Station for me to find out at the time. 45116 is in charge and quickly ran round the train and headed off again. Didn't Wang have something to do with computers...?
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Sun Chariot
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The 1980s exhibition trains seemed to crop up for a myriad of events; it seems a distant memory now.
The blue and white carriages, in your photo, I can remember for two other exhibitions, plus the well travelled chocolate & cream set for GWR150.
Yes, Wang Laboratories was a US computer company; I can't recall why it was on promotion by train. In my teen years, one school wag coined Wang as maker of cough mixture. I recall general confusion, until we said it out loud:
"Wang Cough Mixture".
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eastwestdivide
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The logo matches the Wang computers logo.
Sun Chariot
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And it's bigger in seven-mill...
Ashley Hill
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Was that part of the exhibition train that was kept at Salisbury? Ambassador Rail IIRC. Were they privately owned or a BR subsidiary?
Gloster
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A BR subsidiary/department based at Salisbury; it had been at Wimborne until around 1976. The Mark 1s appeared in 1979 and 1980, replacing former LMS coaches. A lot of the alterations for each hirer were, I think, done by outside contractors: BR’s part was owning, maintaining and operating the trains to fit the arrangements made by the agents.
lostwin(m)
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25/08/85. Gateshead 'Generator" 47418 stops at Leicester with the 10.30 Newcastle - Penzance. From memory, the unusual routing was a weekend / Sundays only thing for a while. The 'NB' marking - presumably for non-boiler - I'm going to say was unusual too. Let me know if you think otherwise!
From memory, all of the Generators were dual heat locos when built and a few them still had the steam heat equipment (all be it isolated) right up to the end.
Pretty sure 47406 still had its boiler port on the roof even though it was painted in Intercity Executive livery for example.
lostwin(m)
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1/11/86. Under the impressive train shed at Dover Western Docks, 73002 stands having arrived in charge of the 03.30 mixed passenger / papers from Victoria.
Class15
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You could almost do a ‘spot the difference’ with post #7 with that 73!
I can only spot a different headcode on the front!
I can only spot a different headcode on the front!
lostwin(m)
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9/8/87. Similar mixed working but different routing to the above. 33211 doesn't have much of its train left having reached Ramsgate with the 04.09 ex London Bridge.
