Nostalgia

Seeing all the great steam train images on here recently has been a bit of a nostalgia trip for me so today I decided to dig out some of my photographs from yesteryear and have a go at scanning a few.

The first two images are a pair of 060 saddle tanks that worked at Bold colliery up to the early 1980`s.
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This is 5690 Leander a Jubilee class locomotive passing through Collins Green Nr Warrington around 1980.
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A line up of condemned locomotives at Woodhams scrap yard in Barry south Wales Taken around 1970, Recognise the locomotive on the right anybody?
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Cliff these are wonderfel and REAL! I love the scans...forget how nicely rendered these old black and white shots could be.

I particularly like the colliery engines. People forget how recently these industrial engines worked. The WSR began operations with two Vulcans!

Thanks for showing us.

Andrew

Thanks Cliff, these are fascinating.

I believe those 0-6-0s were popular with the NCB. Wasn't Bold Colliery somewhere near Rainhill, where they assembled the cavalcade in 1980?

Think I cycled to Collins Green some time in 2005/6 for photography purposes, a long straight west to St Helens? Have you used a filter on that one as the boiler seems light?

Fascinating to see Barry Yard, was it a Woodham's official tour?

Andrew, you must take another look!

She looks different without deflector plates and other embellishments.

Regards
Peter

Hi Peter, Yes Bold is just down the rd from Collins Green towards St Helens Junction. There where three 060 saddle tanks based there, Whiston,Joseph and Robert, I believe all three are now in preservation with various society`s. One of them was part of the cavalcade at Rainhill but cant remember which tbh, I do have some good images from the event but I hadn't taken a shot of which ever one it was!, if I remember correctly I ran short of film

All the images are a bit faded now and have been revamped in PSP, I think I used the Orange filter for the Jubilee!.

Thanks for looking guys.

Hi Cliff,

It was Robert that featured in the cavalcade.

See the following clip at about 29 minutes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7305.shtml?all=2&id=7305

Peter

Yes Robert seemed to in the best condition out of the three of them. Did you ever see them working Peter?.

William, my steam-mad son, reckons both Robert and Wiston have escaped the cutter's torch and have been preserved at Foxfield Colliery.

Might be a great place to visit for some pics!

Andrew

Sorry Cliff, no personal recollections.

You might have read my last post before I edited it. I was just messing about, sorry.

A few weeks ago I stumbled on the clip referred to in the edited post, and thought it might answer the question.

I don't think I have seen any industrial steam, though I remember a big feature in 'Railway World' circa 1980 at Mountain Ash, South Wales as that system was being run down.

Peter

Peter thats a great find thanks for posting the link.

Andrew I know Whiston is at Foxfield as it was featured on "Trainspotting" (sky tv), didn't know about Robert though!. Have you spotted it yet btw?

I hate you, Brits. When I try to watch the video, it says "not available in your area". Duh! Do I live on Mars.

Cliff and Andrew,

These 3 links go some way to clearing it up:

Whiston at Foxfield, Robert at The Railway Age, Crewe subject to web-site updates.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/foxfield/steam_locomotives.htm

http://www.railmagazine.com/gallery/default.asp?album=7&image=62&pid=16

http://www.geoffspages.co.uk/raildiary/bnb/


I was a bit surprised to see mention of Smithywood Coking Plant as one of the four locations using steam in 1982 (second link).

This was about 4 miles from home when I was growing up in Sheffield. I was using a Kodak Instamatic in those days.

I was rather indifferent to steam then (and some might say photography too, but we all have to start somewhere).

Duke of Gloucester was the engine which kindled an interest in steam photography for me. I had gone to Bangor for a days cycling around Snowdonia with film camera (for it was 2004, August Bank Holiday).

A few older gents with cameras were standing around as I arrived and when I asked what they were waiting for, they replied it was a steam engine en-route to Holyhead. The Duke duly arrived and much excited snapping took place.

I could not fail to be impressed by the size (second only to a Duchess?), the smells and the noise as she (another masculine BR standard as a she!) simmered in the platform. The Brunswick green with red lining looked a treat, a classic livery.

Then came the moment...the signal cleared and the driver jerked the regulator open. She roared like a beast as the wheels spun, quickly corrected by the driver. The darkest cloud of exhaust billowed vertical and then the wheels spun again for a few moments before easing back to start the train moving. Then there was the orderly procession as the coaches followed engine into the West tunnel.

I watched in awe, standing there for a few minutes after the tail-light disappeared into the black. Tendrils of smoke curled out of the tunnel for all that time. And thats it, I was hooked.

Might be able to scan the negs, but they were shot on Ricoh, so not allowed?

Funny how that engine keeps cropping up!

Peter

Its a cracking video as well

pgweber wrote:
Might be able to scan the negs, but they were shot on Ricoh, so not allowed?


I don't think anybody would mind Peter, Three of the above shots are with a Cosina and the last one was taken with a Halina paulette. Great links btw.

Ricoh's used a k-mount so perhaps we can think of them as the Samsung of their day...

K.

And my Cosina was M42

When I bought my KR10 Super in 1985, the mags talked about the "Big Five";

Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Pentax, Olympus and then Ricoh was just outside aspiring to join.

Me and a pal at uni both bought KR10 Supers on the same weekend. I got the camera plus 50mm prime, plus a Hanimex 135mm f2.8 and a Cobra Auto 210 flash gun and camera bag. He got the camera plus 35-70 standard zoom.

I was very impressed with the XRX when it came out in 1987/88 and nearly bought one of those. And later I took a long hard look at an SFX.

The Hanimex lens was VERY plasticky and came to grief when I tried close up photography by turning the 50mm back to front and sellotaping it to the front of the Hanimex. The front and rear of the lens came apart under the weight. When I tried the technique again as shown in gallery shot 'Macro Mystery', I was more careful.