Great pics Bob
I passed Knottingley today, but not a single loco to be seen these days
I'd hate to see it like that Phil
... and Tinsley doesn't even
exist....
... like so many other great old Depots....
I've not been back since the early 90's and to think it's all gone
. I'll keep thinking of it as it was I think.
Somewhere are a load from one of my favourite depots - Shirebrook. We hit it one Sunday in the late 80's and it was crammed with various types. Someone sent me a pic the other day as it is now and it's very sad indeed.
Any hoo.... A few more from the vaults. Nothing very special this time. Just spent a while sorting through the attic looking for more of the Yorkshire stuff but can't find the box (there is a lot of clutter up there
). I'll get my brother (Gruntfuttock on here.......but he's not posted since last Summer) to scan a load of my 70's & 80's slides. If he can be pursuaded to post some of his, now you're talking for BR blue & hydraulic stuff!
Here we have 37235 heading south past High Street yard in Cheltenham. It dates from
July September 1979 and is among a batch of slides taken over 3 gloriously sunny days spent by the lineside (on BR property too) and I was getting paid for it
. The local council wanted to build houses in an adjoining orchard so as a young technical assistant I was posted trackside to look after some noise monitoring devices. Needless to say the houses didn't get built. The yard was in regular use for coal traffic and I even got to see the small industrial shunting the yard a few times, something which was rather difficult from the nearest road.
Gloucester Horton Road depot sometime in the early 80's (I wish I'd kept proper notes).
A few years later on and we see another 37 heading through Gloucester. Sorry, can't make out the number
.
c1984 and here is 47348 resting at Hereford Barrs Court station. The Hillman Avenger wasn't mine, I drove there in my Cortina mkIII (very Gene Hunt
). Always had a soft spot for this station and often found something interesting on the traction front at this stabling point.
OK, back to Cheltenham and without a loco in sight. From the classic blue period though (1979).
Still at Cheltenham on the same day and a look at the closed Honeybourne line. For those familiar with Cheltenham this is where the road down to Waitrose is now and the trackbed is where the "Sydney Harbour Bridge" cyclepath bridge is. The track was still down in 1979 although disconnected from the Bristol to Birmingham line.