UK Screenshots for Pre BR Blue. High resolution warning.

[KotangaGirl]

Chatting to the footplate crew before it's time to leave.

 

[lewisner]

Bradbury was one of the tiniest stations on the ECML and it opened in 1844, closing in 1950. A G5 pulls up heading south in the vain hope of finding some passengers.

G5 At Bradbury 10.7.24 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr

 

[PortLineParker]

Looking good @lewisner, though the signs may need a change. I don't think they had contactless in the 40s!

Some from me of 4MT 75072 at the head of a goods train to Bath.

Passing through Chilcompton station. This is from across the valley and shows the cattle creep incorporated underneath the platforms which prevented the down platform from ever being extended:

Approaching Radstock:

Held at Midford for a down passenger to pass. This can be unfortunate with heavy trains as all northbound trains have an immediate gradient of 1:50 beyond the platform and 1:100 through the 1,672m Combe Down tunnel. Thankfully, 75072 is more than capable of this train which weighs around 230 tons:

I need to stop driving trains and posting grey screenshots now and crack on with the scenery.

Cheers,

PLP

 

[lewisner]

Point well noted @PortLineParker , I'll have to stick a poster over it ! Incidentally I walked the course of the "Titfield Thunderbolt" in 1998 so I recognised the location straight away.

Slightly less attractive was Ferryhill station, seen here with 60049 Galtee More slowing down to stop with a northbound train. TRS2019 kindly vaporised 1 hours work this afternoon including all the lamps I had under the canopies. Please ignore the Truro signs.

Galtee More at Ferryhill 11.7.24 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr

 

[KotangaGirl]

TRS2019 kindly vaporised 1 hours work this afternoon including all the lamps I had under the canopies.

There's nothing more frustrating when building up a route you have my utmost sympathy. The first thing I do at the end of every route building session is save to CDP and archive the file away in a safe place.

 

[PortLineParker]

BR Standard 4 75072 on a lengthy down goods from Bath to Templecombe, seen here passing through Shepton Mallet and then Evercreech Junction.

Cheers,

PLP

 

[lewisner]

I've been inspired by some photos of Ferryhill on Flickr including this one by the late John Boyes who I knew. So today I set to work assembling a Freightliner train and I saved it as a consist which took an hour. I saved and exited. I did some more work , saved and exited then went to the shops, On my return I started building the fan of sidings which connected to the rope worked incline to Thrislington Colliery. Then I did a search for NCB and found to my delight the new Lambton Tanks and rolling stock by edh6 so I set to downloading them. The downloading froze so I went to Surveyor but before I could save it , it froze too. I restarted and clicked Use Changes knowing it made no difference what I did and sure enough all my work was vaporised. I decided to take this photo and found that all the containers had been deleted so for this boring photo I have just filled it with red 20 foot containers.

https://flic.kr/p/24GaHak

47 Freightliner at Coxhoe Junction 16.7.24 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr

 

[lewisner]

I'm done with building today so here is green Lambton Tank 29 looking totally at home crossing the Victoria Bridge heading south to the NCB yard at Penshaw.

Lambton Tank 29 Victoria Bridge 16.7.24 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr

 

[KotangaGirl]

I'm done with building today so here is green Lambton Tank 29 looking totally at home crossing the Victoria Bridge heading south to the NCB yard at Penshaw.

I thought the new Lambton models would catch your eye.

 

[spitfire98462]

I thought the new Lambton models would catch your eye.

Wait where are these released?

 

[pistonsman]

yes

 

[johnwhelan]

Wait where are these released?

DLS.

John

 

[edh6]

See my industrial loco thread for more details of the Lambton stock

 

[lewisner]

I thought the new Lambton models would catch your eye.

That's an understatement. I thought I was hallucinating.

 

[lewisner]

Lambton Tank 31 waits for the signal to leave the NCB lines at Coxgreen Junction. This junction was controlled by a box called Lambton Junction until 1923 when it was worked by Coxgreen station box using motor and spring points.

Lambton Tank 31 at Coxgreen Junction 17.7.24 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr

 

[spitfire98462]

A L&Y class 5 doing some passenger runs.

 

[lewisner]

Lambton Tank No 29 in NCB black livery heads a rake of troublesome trucks through Millfield off to Sunderland South Dock for shipment.

Lambton Tank 29 at Millfield 20.7.24 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr

 

[spitfire98462]

Lambton Tank No 29 in NCB black livery heads a rake of troublesome trucks through Millfield off to Sunderland South Dock for shipment.

Lambton Tank 29 at Millfield 20.7.24 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr

Everyone knows the only troublesome trucks are on Sodor Lewisner !

You just have to ask their No.5.

 

[spitfire98462]

A L&Y Class 27 returning some old stock from Hellifield.

These would properly be the last images from me for awhile again since I will be getting a stronger PC.

I'm so dreading moving my 500GB folder.

 

[lewisner]

The Chilton Branch crossed over the ECML with a street of cottages marked on the map as "Chilton Cottages" but known locally as "Linger and Die" ! Apparently this was because the branch was steep at this point and sometimes engines would grind to a halt here. The cottages are marked as "Ruins" on the 1962 map but I've eked a few more years out of them. Here's D9005 heading south with Q6 63381 passing overhead with empties.

D9005 at Chilton Cottages 21.7.24 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr

A remarkable 1936 photo of the rear side of the cottages.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2kSFMyw]Chilton cottages by seanofselby, on Flickr[/URL]