Photos, videos and docs of Loose_Grip/Pete, with the keywords: "goods"

Digne-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence France 26th September 2019

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:49:28 +0000

The Chemin de Fer de Provence metre gauge line from Nice to Digne-les-Bains has seen better days. In the station yard the hand operated crane, unused for years, is disappearing into the undergrowth.

Bangor Station North Wales 1973

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:48:57 +0000

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Bangor railway Station, North Wales. Diesel Class 24 5039 on a west-bound sheeted freight waits on the signal while 5030 shunts a parcels train past the London & North Western Railway signal box at Whit 1973. The semaphore signals are still active but the platform-end water tank had just been felled. The remains can be seen to the left of the railwayman.

Bangor station is located between two tunnels, the one seen here takes the line westwards towards Holyhead.

Burnley Rose Grove Lancashire 1st August 1968

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:09:32 +0000

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Burnley Rose Grove, Lancashire outside the steam shed. Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48348 is on a coal train heading west, 1st August 1968.

Note the gaggle of enthusiasts on the cutting side in the background enjoying the view before the final end of steam on BR 3 days later when Rose Grove shed (one of the last 3 steam depots - out of sight to the right) closed.

Rosebay willowherb is forever associated with August 1968 in my mind and its alternative name of fireweed is very appropriate.

Great Central Railway Loughborough 30th September 2004

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:37:52 +0000

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GCR/LNER O4 63601 departs Loughborough station on a "Windcutter" minerals train Photo Charter - I worked the morning firing turn on the same charter & after handing over to the relief crew took the opportunity to take some photos myself.

This is a faithful reproduction of the train & the engine that would have passed through my home town, Thorne in South Yorkshire, when I was a child. 63601 was allocated to Frodingham shed in Scunthorpe in the 50s & early 60s and pulled endless coal trains on the GCR line between Doncaster & Scunthorpe

The engine belongs to the National Railway Museum & is on loan to the Great Central Railway, the only survivor in the UK of hundreds built before & during the First World War..