Prototype Duff photos
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DougT
Western Thunderer
I couldn't resist joining in
I'm pretty sure this was Vulcan, approaching Reading from the east, around 1985..
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Isn't that 47509 Albion rather than 47623 Vulcan?
I'm quite tempted to go and plug in the scanner and join in myself!
Mr Grumpy
Western Thunderer
auld_boot
Western Thunderer
47804 in the fog on 12th Sept 1989 just past Cogload junction, as if taking photos on a foggy day wasn't bad enough (for my skills) my old Pentax ESII developed some weird light leak resulting in a stripy sky. The flash at the end of the train is a colour light signal.
Steph Dale
Western Thunderer
Bob,
And for all those reasons, a fantastic artefact. I remember seeing the APT when I was a nipper and always enjoy seeing original material relating to it.
Steph
And for all those reasons, a fantastic artefact. I remember seeing the APT when I was a nipper and always enjoy seeing original material relating to it.
Steph
adrian
Flying Squad
Likewise - I think I've got a couple of photos somewhere when I saw it at York.
DougT
Western Thunderer
The 7 year old me was very taken by the sight of an APT rushing through Berkhampstead whilst I was visiting the castle with my mum. It had quite an effect!
Steph Dale
Western Thunderer
Doug,
I'd have been about the same age as you when I saw it. Apsley was our local station.
Steph
I'd have been about the same age as you when I saw it. Apsley was our local station.
Steph
DougT
Western Thunderer
I have a really clear memory of it looking like it was falling over as it went through the curves; it was pure chance that we saw it but I can't think of many better places to have seen the tilt in action. It did somewhat distract from the purpose of going to the castle which was because I had a holiday topic to do on castles from school!
DougT
Western Thunderer
At the risk of becoming (!) something of a pedant and/or generally irritating know it all...
...that looks to me like was 47484 IKB - it's the flush front that gives it away.
That said I think that's a really evocative photo, you can sense the warmth of the day slowly fading in the stillness of the evening.
auld_boot
Western Thunderer
...that looks to me like was 47484 IKB - it's the flush front that gives it away.
You're spot on there, thanks, IKB it is I would never have noticed that. I'm not sure who the loser is though, me for getting it totally wrong or you for knowing the Duff information.
That said I think that's a really evocative photo, you can sense the warmth of the day slowly fading in the stillness of the evening.
I didn't quite pull off what I was trying to do though, the loco is blurred and I think it would have been better if I was a few feet taller at the time.
You're spot on there, thanks, IKB it is I would never have noticed that. I'm not sure who the loser is though, me for getting it totally wrong or you for knowing the Duff information.
That said I think that's a really evocative photo, you can sense the warmth of the day slowly fading in the stillness of the evening.
I didn't quite pull off what I was trying to do though, the loco is blurred and I think it would have been better if I was a few feet taller at the time.
DougT
Western Thunderer
I don't know, maybe not, but I think too much can be made of technically perfect photos with spot on exposure and composition. My favourite photos are the ones that make you feel something and this works for me; I can imagine being there.
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Just a few from my collection, I've hundreds of photos but sadly I doubt many will get scanned, just not enough time in the day and I need a better scanner to do them justice.
First up a 312 drag at Hitchin one Sunday afternoon.
Next a couple of shots at Baylham between Ipswich and Needham Market, this was the last few months of diesel haulage and I recall both of these were going like the clappers trying to get close to the proposed electric schedules.
This section had just been passed for 100 running and I reckon these were running pretty close to that. At that time I was commuting to college in London and has some really fast runs.
Finally a Freightliner crests the small rise at Nacton Heath just outside Ipswich.
All taken back in the day when the footplate still had two men on it
MD
First up a 312 drag at Hitchin one Sunday afternoon.
Next a couple of shots at Baylham between Ipswich and Needham Market, this was the last few months of diesel haulage and I recall both of these were going like the clappers trying to get close to the proposed electric schedules.
This section had just been passed for 100 running and I reckon these were running pretty close to that. At that time I was commuting to college in London and has some really fast runs.
Finally a Freightliner crests the small rise at Nacton Heath just outside Ipswich.
All taken back in the day when the footplate still had two men on it
MD
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
I agree, it's the earlier photographs which have a charm of their own and they take me back to the days when I had my first camera and taking photographs of moving trains. Expecting the camera to perform better than it really was and the photographs to come out perfectly. But alas not.
Some more of my Duff photographs - all taken around 1981-1984.
Aylesbury
Crewe
Derby
Derby
Folkestone Harbour
Stafford
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
And a couple of B&W photographs, again early 1980s
Oxford
York
And not to be outdone with the APT, Crewe open day 1981.
Oxford
York
And not to be outdone with the APT, Crewe open day 1981.
40126
Western Thunderer
Hi Dave,
The pic at Derby.
Different to see the duff heading north on platform 3 !, & where would the Rat be going ?. That bridge has gone now. I was there when the DMU collided with the bridge. Spent many years at the end of platform 4 (Next to the Rat) in my youth.
Steve
The pic at Derby.
Different to see the duff heading north on platform 3 !, & where would the Rat be going ?. That bridge has gone now. I was there when the DMU collided with the bridge. Spent many years at the end of platform 4 (Next to the Rat) in my youth.
Steve
DougT
Western Thunderer
Couldn't be resist any longer...
Just a few snaps taken in early May 2002 when I had a few days down in the South West trying to capture a few of the last loco-hauled workings
47818 topping out at Hemerdon with 1M40 Plymouth to Liverpool
47826 at Par working 1V50 Glasgow Central to Penzance - oh to have be able to do that trip again as a loco hauled through service!
47818 heading up country with 1M56 Penzance to Manchester at Restormel
47826 (can't recall where
) working 1V35 Derby to Plymouth
47826 (again) at Truro with 1V50 Glasgow Central to Penzance
47832 and 67023 at Penzance. The 47 on 1A45 to Paddington and the 67 ECS to Long Rock
47846 THOR (A proper western duff...) at Marizion with the down sleeper and motorail - 1C99
And lastly some proper western traction. 50031 at Starcross with a Crewe to Penzance charter. Shocking light and a shocking scan but boy does that look good...
Happy days.
Just a few snaps taken in early May 2002 when I had a few days down in the South West trying to capture a few of the last loco-hauled workings
47818 topping out at Hemerdon with 1M40 Plymouth to Liverpool
47826 at Par working 1V50 Glasgow Central to Penzance - oh to have be able to do that trip again as a loco hauled through service!
47818 heading up country with 1M56 Penzance to Manchester at Restormel
47826 (can't recall where
) working 1V35 Derby to Plymouth47826 (again) at Truro with 1V50 Glasgow Central to Penzance
47832 and 67023 at Penzance. The 47 on 1A45 to Paddington and the 67 ECS to Long Rock
47846 THOR (A proper western duff...) at Marizion with the down sleeper and motorail - 1C99
And lastly some proper western traction. 50031 at Starcross with a Crewe to Penzance charter. Shocking light and a shocking scan but boy does that look good...
Happy days.
