The original scan from which this image has been created suggests that the Jubilee 4-6-0 illustrated is 45697 *Achilles*.
The location totally defeats me, I have no idea whatsoever where the image was made. Do you?
John.
The original scan from which this image has been created suggests that the Jubilee 4-6-0 illustrated is 45697 *Achilles*.
The location totally defeats me, I have no idea whatsoever where the image was made. Do you?
John.
Dunno, but I'd put money on the platform paving being "Lancashire Flagstone" (not much help as the stuff was exported as far as New York although it wasn't often sold "down south") - just look how smooth the "grain" is on the stone.
Well if it was a Kingmoor loco at the time that would indicate possibly somewhere on the Midland/S&C closer to Leeds, the unusual leading coach and the special train number plastered on the guards van would suggest it could be Glasgow holiday special returning north from Blackpool or Morcambe. Could it be Dumfries, Kilmarnock, or Motherwell?
BF
Looks a bit like Wigan North Western - looking north from the main platform. The line curves away in the right direction with the radbridge underneath, but I've no idea if there used to be a signalbox there and I've no idea whether anything else matches...I'm probably way-off.
The signal box is neither a Midland nor an LNWR design, so I'd suggest it might be on an ex-Lancashire and Yorkshire line.
Andy Kirkham Glasgow
"John Turner" wrote
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The second coach has two lining bands above the windows, this was LMS practice not BR and the first coach appears freshly painted so could the photo be earlier, about 1951ish?
The paper stickers on the inside of the second coach look like W 136 which suggest this was a special.
45697 was shedded at Blackpool from September 1950 to January 1957 when tit went to Carlisle.Clive Mortimer
Could it be somewhere in Blackpool? I seem to recall some cooling towers like those in the background thereabouts. Am probably wrong but as Clive says there can't be that many places with such a large LYR box ( got to be
150 levers plus). I have a trackplan on one of the terminals at Blackpool (I think Central - was this the one near the footie ground made into a coach park - if so that is where our coach parked when we went to Blackpool for the day in 1977 on the day Spurs beat Bristol Rovers 9-0 with Colin Lee scoring four and Ian Moores 3......)Natalie Jones
It is indeed Blackpool Central. Although I can't lay my hands on an identical published view, the August 2001 issue of St**m Days has a large feature on special traffic to Blackpool. There's the standard overall view taken from Blackpool Tower on page 485 that clearly shows the details seen in
Steve Jones
Departing from Blackpool Central. Compare with photos. in the Foxline "Scenes from the past", Vol. 26 Parts 3&4, which covers the Blackpool Central line.
Bevan
Yes, its very early BR, note the BR livery coach has the left hand number that was changed to right hand after a couple of years or so and both it and the coach in LMS livery do not have the M suffix which was added to pre-group coaches when the BR Mk1s were introduced.
Make friends in the hobby. Keith Visit Garratt photos for the big steam lovers.
Just thinking out loud ... it's not Accrington is it?
Holland's (Pies) :-)
... just outside of Accy in Baxingdon, can't get them down here, bloody southerners don't know what's good for them.
Stanley?
Charlie
Oh the town is called Accrington? I thought it was Stanley :-)
BF
"John Sullivan" wrote
It's got to be the long defunct football league side - Accrington *Stanley*. Crikey, what year DID they go belly up?
John.
Like Kingston upon Hull?
"MartinS"
Bobby?
-- Cheers Roger T.
In article , John Sullivan writes
Black pudding.
i can't think of Accrington without thinking of Stanley.
and i can't think about Accrington Stanley without thinking of the advert for milk where the two little uns are discussing becoming footballers.
mutley
Yes Vocalist and writer of truly obscure lyrics e.g. "High Stars Suns Streams Through Awaken Gentle Mass Touch" or "Nous sommes du soleil". Also of Jon and Vangelis fame.
Cheers Clive
"Clive Summerfield" wrote
Any relation to Stanley? ;-)
John.
Accrington?
soleil". Also
Yup... I always had problems reconciling his lyrical style and ethereal voice with his coming from Accrington :-)
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