Dave Holt
Western Thunderer
As I mentioned in a comment in Larry G's wonderful album thread, most of my B&W photos taken in the steam era have been misplaced although, hopefully, I might rediscover them someday.
However, a mere handful of my photos relating to rebuilt Bulleid pacifics are in my model file, so I thought I'd post them on here.
Please excuse the poor quality as these are scans of enprint(?) sized prints. Also, I didn't record the date of any of my photos, but these all date from the mid 1960's and were taken with a 35 mm view finder camera.
First, a loco in full working condition. 34040 has just brought the north bound Pines Express to Oxford and is in the process of being taken off the train to be replaced by a Class 47, if I remember correctly, for the onward journey to Manchester. The train, on which I travelled from Bournemouth Central to Manchester, was routed via Wolverhampton Low Level, Wellington and Market Drayton to Crewe.
Next we have a small selection of quite a lot of photos I took on my only visit to Woodhams scrap yard at Barry. I was rather timid and didn't venture too far from the hole in the iron railings I wiggled through in case I got caught by any workers. The yard was absolutely rammed with all sorts of locos at that time - perhaps 1965 or 6.
A general shot with a light pacific surrounded by western locos and a 9F.
One thing that surprised me was the range of completeness or odd bits that had been removed for different locos of the same type. It seemed quite random. One loco had had one of the lower slide bars removed but,otherwise, was quite complete.
Here we see 34010 in fairly typical condition, I suppose, whereas 34027 still has a full set of injectors and delivery pipes. Just the sort of high value, non-ferrous items you'd expect to have been whipped off pretty smartish. Bet they weren't still on by the time Taw Valley was rescued!
Dave.
However, a mere handful of my photos relating to rebuilt Bulleid pacifics are in my model file, so I thought I'd post them on here.
Please excuse the poor quality as these are scans of enprint(?) sized prints. Also, I didn't record the date of any of my photos, but these all date from the mid 1960's and were taken with a 35 mm view finder camera.
First, a loco in full working condition. 34040 has just brought the north bound Pines Express to Oxford and is in the process of being taken off the train to be replaced by a Class 47, if I remember correctly, for the onward journey to Manchester. The train, on which I travelled from Bournemouth Central to Manchester, was routed via Wolverhampton Low Level, Wellington and Market Drayton to Crewe.
Next we have a small selection of quite a lot of photos I took on my only visit to Woodhams scrap yard at Barry. I was rather timid and didn't venture too far from the hole in the iron railings I wiggled through in case I got caught by any workers. The yard was absolutely rammed with all sorts of locos at that time - perhaps 1965 or 6.
A general shot with a light pacific surrounded by western locos and a 9F.
One thing that surprised me was the range of completeness or odd bits that had been removed for different locos of the same type. It seemed quite random. One loco had had one of the lower slide bars removed but,otherwise, was quite complete.
Here we see 34010 in fairly typical condition, I suppose, whereas 34027 still has a full set of injectors and delivery pipes. Just the sort of high value, non-ferrous items you'd expect to have been whipped off pretty smartish. Bet they weren't still on by the time Taw Valley was rescued!
Dave.