Dave's Slide Collection

Genghis · 25 June 2026

After our tour round the NorthWest we set out on an InterRail trip to Germany. First port of call abroad was Calais where this was dumped.

First stop in Germany was Dillingen. There is a note with the slides that the weather was awful. I think the shutter settings were a fortnight at F8.

I always liked the 023s.

Genghis · 25 June 2026

Some more background. The photos to date were taken with my first SLR camera: a Praktika with a coke bottle lens that was later supplemented with a better telephoto lens. At 18 it was the only thing I could afford. I had a cheap light meter. You make do with what you had.

Dave

hrmspaul · 26 June 2026

Genghis said:
Some more background. The photos to date were taken with my first SLR camera: a Praktika with a coke bottle lens that was later supplemented with a better telephoto lens. At 18 it was the only thing I could afford. I had a cheap light meter. You make do with what you had.

Dave

Praktica were very nice cameras in their day, Zeiss Ikon lens which would be difficult to better.

Paul

HDSmith · 26 June 2026

hrmspaul said:
Praktica were very nice cameras in their day, Zeiss Ikon lens which would be difficult to better.

Paul

Until 1976, I was using a Kodak Retinette 1A, with a seperate rangefinder mounted in the flashgun shoe, that I was given s/h as a birthday gift in 1964. I spent weeks practising with dummy film before being let loose with the real stuff. I loaded my own cassettes with ex-RAF 35mm Ilford HP3 obtained cheaply from a London supplier. It was fast, incredibly grainy and very contrasty. I replaced it with a NIkkormat FT3 in 1976, bought with money earned as a freelancer. It took retirement to persuade me to switch to a Nikon DSLR.

Genghis · 26 June 2026

Today's selection:

michael080 · 26 June 2026

The bay S3/6 at the fourth photo spent its last days as a steam generator to preheat coaches.
The E52 (2’B B2’) is a nice catch. Built in 1924, it is the heaviest electrical engine ever built in Germany.
May I ask where these pictures were taken? I assume somwhere in the south west?

Genghis · 26 June 2026

michael080 said:
The bay S3/6 at the fourth photo spent its last days as a steam generator to preheat coaches.
The E52 (2’B B2’) is a nice catch. Built in 1924, it is the heaviest electrical engine ever built in Germany.
May I ask where these pictures were taken? I assume somwhere in the south west?

Saarbrucken IIRC I think it must have been 18 602.

Genghis · 27 June 2026

Early in the trip we headed north to Rheine. I had my first trip behind mainline steam that I could really remember, hence the tender number plate photo!

Pity about the colors on this: we didn't see many 011's. I'll have to have another go at it.

Genghis · 2 July 2026

A diversion: went to Appleby yesterday to deliver a loco and was lucky enough that this was on a tour:

Splendid and a credit to the maintenance team: no clanks, no leaks.

Genghis · 2026-07-17T06:14:33+0100

A diversion to Scotland where a collection of strange diesel types could be found (strange to a resident of Gloucester that is).

Well I suppose the 08 wasn't strange..........

Genghis · 2026-07-17T06:28:20+0100

The residents of Gloucester were more used to these:

At the time I took the last two photos, class 20s were rare visitors to Gloucester. A pair did appear one evening, to be sent straight back north as there would have been no driver at Gloucester with traction knowledge. Unfortunately it seemed that the crew didn't have route knowledge so mistook the signal on the main line for theirs when they were on the loop before Engine Shed Junction heading north. They opened up and ploughed through the stops at the end of the trap.

Genghis · 2026-07-17T06:36:34+0100

If I had one shot that I really wished it had been better focused it would have been this one. The small batch of class 48 locos. They were later reengined as standard (if there ever was such a thing) class 47's. I caught this one at Tinsley and really wanted the TOPS panel to show up.

There was a discussion on RMWeb that suggested that the 48's were never painted blue. So was this just wrongly labelled? I am not sure of the precise date.

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