Mystery Photographs -
Selection 1 Updated
December 2011
First some
trains, including the odd brake van trip.
Twelve shots here for you, all somewhere up north we think…
Picture 1-1 Brian
Williams writes: "The wagons seem to be iron ore tipplers rather than
minerals. They are of the later type
with lower sides, and are somewhat work-stained, suggesting a date in the late
1950s/early 1960s. There are two
possible locations that come to mind.
One is the western edge of the
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Picture 1-2 Thank you to Dave Shell of Northumbria Rail Ltd for identifying Redmire Sidings
with
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Picture 1-3
Thanks to Mike Barnsley and Chris Knowles-Thomas for identifying
this Great Southern & Western Railway 0-6-0T. Chris adds: “CIE in the 1950s – the former
Cork Bandon & South Coast Railway Rocksavage Depot,
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Picture 1-4 Thank you to Jon Reeds, who identified Aysgarth on the NER Hawes branch. A similar view is here: http://www.thedales.org.uk/AysgarthStation
and you can rent it as a holiday cottage: http://www.wensleydalerailway.com/html/aysgarth_station_holiday_cotta.html
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Picture 1-5 A steam train heading towards a junction – an
LMS signal has been suggested. It’s odd
how the single line feeds into just one of the two "main" running lines.
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Picture 1-6 John
Hillmer and Chris Knowles-Thomas
both identified Aberystwyth station, ex Cambrian Railways and GWR. Chris
adds: “The clock tower in the background is on the GWR station building built
1923-26. The two green coaches are ex-LNWR, which had been converted to
camping coaches - M020460M (former WCJS) & M020464M. Last used as
camps at Borth, but when camping coaches ceased they moved to Aberystwyth where
the latter was used by the Friends of the Vale of Rheidol Railway, and the former
as offices by the Engineers Dept.”
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Picture 1-7 Box vans being loaded or unloaded in mountain
country – could we be outside the
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1-8 BR 4F 0-6-0 44096 Bury (26D)
shedcode, but where?
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1-9 BR ROD 2-8-0 63648… where…? The coal mine in left
background might indicate the Nottinghamshire coal field, which had modernized
loading facilities.
Picture 1-9
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1-10 BR Std 4 2-6-2T 80044 on a
tour. Thank you to Paul G for finding this on the Six Bells Junction site: http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/50s/590502re.html. If it is the
Pennine Rose tour, where was the photo taken?
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1-11 “Could this
be the Hadleigh Branch near Bentley on the GER mainline?”, asks Maurice Hopper.
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1-12 A North-Eastern Region freight, I’m
guessing. Does that arch bridge in the
left background provide a clue?
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