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« Reply #90 on: January 02, 2018, 18:43:42 » |
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13 = Barnstaple Jn looking towards Waterloo, possibly 1970/1 before the major track rationalisation following closure of Ilfracombe line and Barnstaple Jn 'B' S'Box.
No.13 - Correct (sorry for the delay). Photograph taken in September 1970. Looking towards Exeter. The old Barnstaple Town branch went off to the left and you can see the river TAW bridge in the left distance. The station was quite a large junction, even at this time. It still had three platforms, the passenger service to Ilfracombe and freight services to Meeth as well as local goods services to the yard to the left of the photograph. |
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« Reply #91 on: January 02, 2018, 18:46:41 » |
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« Reply #92 on: January 02, 2018, 18:48:44 » |
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That shouts "Achna..." Ilfracombe at me. Educated guess
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« Reply #93 on: January 02, 2018, 18:54:06 » |
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No. 14 = Ilfracombe; probably 1970 in its last year before closure.
Note the waste ground on the left, previously the site of several carriage sidings.
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« Reply #94 on: January 02, 2018, 19:51:00 » |
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That shouts "Achna..." Ilfracombe at me. Educated guess
No.14 Correct. Photograph taken in September 1970 (same day as the Barnstaple Junction one above). A DMU▸ awaits departure back to Exeter St.Davids. If I remember correctly this was the last weekend of the (last) summer service to Ilfracombe. Unfortunately, the station, although still intact, looks a shadow of its former self. The vacant ground to the left, as AMLAG has stated, once contained extensive carriage sidings. At least there was still a run-around loop at the platform and that summer there was still a loco hauled (WARSHIP) through train from/to London Paddington (reverse at Exeter St.Davids). The signalbox at the other end of the station had closed earlier. The station and line to Barnstaple Junction closed 05 October 1970, a few weeks after the photograph was taken, the last train having run on 03 October 1970. |
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« Reply #95 on: January 02, 2018, 19:51:45 » |
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« Reply #96 on: January 02, 2018, 19:58:36 » |
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That must be the tiny goods yard near Kings Cross?!
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« Reply #97 on: January 02, 2018, 20:04:11 » |
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That must be the tiny goods yard near Kings Cross?!
or Berney Arms? |
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« Reply #98 on: January 02, 2018, 20:39:12 » |
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That must be the tiny goods yard near Kings Cross?!
No.15 - Correct (you're getting too good at these). Photograph taken in a very cold December 1969. Looking down from the North London Line (NLL) viaduct towards Kings Cross to the left. You can see the spires of St.Pancras station in the distance highlighted against a gloomy sky. The 6 lines on the left led to Kings Cross and were controlled by Kings Cross signalbox (only 4 lines now). There used to be another signalbox just below to the left called BELLE ISLE but I can assure you it was no lovely pacific island around there! The yard to the right is Kings Cross Goods Yard controlled by a signalbox just off to the right. If I had turned around and been there just 14 years before in 1955, I might have seen the final scenes being filmed for THE LADYKILLERS film (the scenes where all the criminals end up tossed off the tunnel top into passing goods train wagons). The goods yard itself was still quite extensive in 1969 and Kings Cross Top Shed was also located there. Just in-front of my photograph is where the HS1▸ lines now pass over the lines in a tube bridge.... How times change. At the time the photograph was taken I had been in the Watford Signal Gang as an apprentice for a mere 3 months. We were carrying out works on the NLL rationalising the number of signalboxes. Is it time to pause now or shall we carry on? Still have a number of photographs ready for guessing..... |
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« Reply #99 on: January 02, 2018, 21:02:27 » |
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Is it time to pause now or shall we carry on? Still have a number of photographs ready for guessing.....
If you are happy to continue posting these fascinating pictures (together with their detailed provenance), SandTEngineer, I rather think our readers will also continue to be very grateful for your work. Thanks, CfN.    |
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« Reply #100 on: January 02, 2018, 21:26:14 » |
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No.15 Image (c)2018 SandTEngineerI spent 3 years on a project as Designated Project Engineer under that lot a few years ago, Canal Tunnels dives down just in the front right fore ground. York Road viaduct is no more demolished and York road re-aligned as part of HS1▸ works. The concrete batching plant on the left is still there |
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« Reply #101 on: January 02, 2018, 22:43:14 » |
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No.15 Image (c)2018 SandTEngineerIf I had turned around and been there just 14 years before in 1955, I might have seen the final scenes being filmed for THE LADYKILLERS film (the scenes where all the criminals end up tossed off the tunnel top into passing goods train wagons).
Only just got round to looking at this one. My first thought, before reading your reply to the correct answer, was Mrs Wilberforce's house was in this general area! An all time favourite film of mine is The Ladykillers.  The house, at the end of Frederica St, off Caledonian Road, was a set built for the film. |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
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« Reply #102 on: January 02, 2018, 22:55:52 » |
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Thanks for posting that photograph BNM. The viaduct I was stood on is just off the left hand top corner. The tunnel entrance used in the final film scenes is just by the round brick structure to the middle right. A classic and iconic film that one is Edit to add: Also carefully note that the lines immediately behind 'Mrs. Wilberforces house' led up from the right hand side of my photograph, over the Kings Cross lines to Caledonian Road coal yard sidings on the NLL. This also involved a reversal just to the right of the colour photograph you posted, and over the aforementioned tunnel. There was a lot of railway around there in the past.... |
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« Reply #103 on: January 02, 2018, 23:06:43 » |
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Is it time to pause now or shall we carry on? Still have a number of photographs ready for guessing.....
If you are happy to continue posting these fascinating pictures (together with their detailed provenance), SandTEngineer, I rather think our readers will also continue to be very grateful for your work. Thanks, CfN. Thanks CfN. We will carry on for a little bit and see how it goes from there...... |
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« Reply #104 on: January 02, 2018, 23:14:17 » |
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A classic and iconic film that one is With a stellar cast. Alec Guinness' best Ealing Studios role in my opinion. And Peter Sellers & Herbert Lom together on screen for the first time. They would, of course, become more famous as the hapless Inspector Clouseau, and put upon Police Commissioner/Chief Inspector Dreyfus, in the Pink Panther series of films.  Must watch it again soon.  |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
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