Title: steam engine question Post by: infoman on January 07, 2021, 08:37:11 Not being a steam person myself,I was watching a 1949 black and white film from Talking pictures on Thursday at 07:45am.
First it showed a steam engine and one coach arriving at Ashton? on a single line, would any one know where it is and the steam engine? Second a steam engine 61163(don't think that its correct) in the depot would any one know what the engine was and the depot? Thanking you in advance Title: Re: steam engine question Post by: Western Pathfinder on January 07, 2021, 09:33:52 61163 is listed as a B1 Thompson of LNER.
https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=90979. Title: Re: steam engine question Post by: grahame on January 07, 2021, 10:06:10 61163 is listed as a B1 Thompson of LNER. https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=90979. That picture - Neasden - Great Central. Web site desribes the program as "Narrated by Ralph Richardson. A Charming short film made in 1949 following London workers on their weekends in the country. Cricket of The Green, Picnics at the Lido, Boating, Bowling & Fishing." No onine replay I could find, but it does appear to be oft-repeated. See http://www.dvber.co.uk/TalkingPictures+TV/Our+Weekends+in+1949 which links to a series of snapshots (http://www.wellho.net/pix/rr1949_1.jpg)-(http://www.wellho.net/pix/rr1949_2.jpg) There was an Ashton station on the Teign Valley line - see http://disused-stations.org.uk/a/ashton/index.shtml - but that does not fit with an LNER locomotive. We have no confirmation that the program was all filmed at the same time / location and indeed the description hints at a series of weekends doing different things. Title: Re: steam engine question Post by: eightf48544 on January 07, 2021, 10:42:57 According to my BR Steam Locomotives - Complete Allocation History 1948 -1968
61163 was at Neasden from 1 jan 1948 until Jul 54 when it moved to Leicester Central it stayed at Leicester only until Nov 54 whence it moved to Colwick until withdrawal in Sep 62. Title: Re: steam engine question Post by: TonyN on January 07, 2021, 11:10:28 The Ashton Station picture shows a GWR pannier tank and autocoach so is likley to be the Teign vally line.
Title: Re: steam engine question Post by: TonyN on January 07, 2021, 11:38:53 Having found a picture of Ashton on the Teign valley line it does not look right the station building is to grand. None of the other Ashton's in GWR land had a station so it must be a longer name not visible in the picture.
Title: Re: steam engine question Post by: grahame on January 07, 2021, 11:57:23 Having found a picture of Ashton on the Teign valley line it does not look right the station building is to grand. None of the other Ashton's in GWR land had a station so it must be a longer name not visible in the picture. Agreed. I vote for Aston (not Ashton) Rowant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Rowant_railway_station - even though I was the nominator of the other Ashton earlier on. From "Lamberhust" on Wikipedia, Collective Commons license - see ((here)) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_Rowant_station_(1959).JPG) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/astonrowant.jpg) Title: Re: steam engine question Post by: TonyN on January 07, 2021, 12:02:46 Well done beat me to it by about 90 seconds.
Title: Re: steam engine question Post by: TonyN on January 07, 2021, 12:12:32 The next picture to the right in
http://www.dvber.co.uk/TalkingPictures+TV/Our+Weekends+in+1949/2021-01-07-0745_9881336806 (http://www.dvber.co.uk/TalkingPictures+TV/Our+Weekends+in+1949/2021-01-07-0745_9881336806) Shows Cyclists passing the same station building on what is now the Ridgeway path along the Chilterns. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |