Archive Photos

[ArtyP]

My Father, Richard Arthur passed away last November, I have inherited his photo / slide archive, attached are few... More to follow

• 55 015 / 40 159 at York 2 Aug 75, imagine the noise
  
  
• Big Bertha at Bromsgrove year unknown
  
  
• Group Shot at York
  • Dad is in the middle with Glasses and moustache, I'm at the front next the Loco, about to get a finger in my ear
  • This was 26 Feb 77, we went North, as everyone else went to WR for the last day of the Westerns
  • I can't recall any names, but I'm sure many were well known........
    
• Dundee 79,
  • 25 065 2G16 Dundee - Edinburgh
  • 27 012 2T53 Dundee - Queen St
  • 40 116 1T50 Aberdeen - Queen St
    
• Carlisle 12 Apr 86
  • Unit 1032 1Z25 Carlisle - Victoria - Long Thin Drag
  • 87 012 1S69 Euston - Glasgow Central
    
• 45514 Holyhead at Birmingham New Street, year unknown

Any ideas what to do with this archive and 50+ years of notebooks....

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Sorry for the loss of your father, but thanks for posting these memories.

 

[Magdalia]

My Father, Richard Arthur passed away last November, I have inherited his photo / slide archive

Welcome to the forum, and with my sympathy that you are here following the loss of your father.

Any ideas what to do with this archive and 50+ years of notebooks....

That depends on whether you want to do something yourself or whether you want to pass them on to someone else. Each has various options.

The important thing is that the photographs and notebooks don't end up in a skip, but survive to illuminate railway history and nostalgia.

You say 50+ years, and you have shared 2 pictures from the steam era, when do the notebooks start please?

A few pictures of some representative pages from the notebooks would help to show what information they contain.

 

[Ashley Hill]

I always enjoy seeing seminar shots from back in the day. Not just because of the locos or fashions but also the chance of seeing people you know. I stood in many seminar shots with various locos and enthusiasts back in the 80s but never see any of them published,shame really. No doubt there are 100s on social media.
Splendid photos,perhaps some more coming soon?

 

[Gloster]

Does it cover any particular area, theme, or preference? For example, if there were a lot of photos taken in Cumbria, then the Cumbrian Railways Association would make good use of them: their collection includes a number of out of area ones as well. If it was Scotland, then the Scottish Railway Presevation Society.

 

[Bevan Price]

If there are lots of good quality colour photos, the Colourail might be interested in buying some of them, otherwise possibly a publisher of railway books. Or maybe offer to a railway society such as RCTS.

Notebooks - depends on contents. If the identify photo locations, they should accompany the photos.
If he ever did train timing, the Railway Performance Society would probably be interested.
If they were just spotting notes, they are probably of rather limited interest.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

If they were just spotting notes, they are probably of rather limited interest.

Even these may have some interest in proving what was where and when, particularly in the pre-internet era...

 

[Big Jumby 74]

Even these may have some interest in proving what was where and when, particularly in the pre-internet era...

Agree. Provided train (time) detail is included as evidence. NapierChronicles for Deltic movements and Railgenarchive for all traction types being two that spring to mind. But both sites will be a mountain of work for their owners as it is, so the enthesis will be on the OP/owner of books to extract the info and submit accordingly via online, which can be extremely time consuming.

 

[WesternLancer]

I always enjoy seeing seminar shots from back in the day. Not just because of the locos or fashions but also the chance of seeing people you know. I stood in many seminar shots with various locos and enthusiasts back in the 80s but never see any of them published,shame really. No doubt there are 100s on social media.
Splendid photos,perhaps some more coming soon?

Yes, and I always think there will be people in the pics who don't have a copy of the picture but would like to have one due to their own memories of the time / event etc if only they knew the picture was out there.

Many thanks to the OP for sharing these images.

 

[EveningStar]

Big Bertha appears to be at Blackwell (in a cutting along with iron fence in front of the up side footpath), awaiting clearance for the descent back to Bromsgrove. And the photo predates the September 1947 renumbering to 22290.

 

[ArtyP]

A few more:

• 76 021 + 013 on the AC - DC Rail tour 16 Sep 78
• 37 111 on the Hadrian rail tour 29 Oct 77 @ West Hartlepool (L to R Ned, Phil, Spence, Gary, Stan, Cashy, Bolt, Mark, Charlie, Wellington)
• 37 027 0-27 BNS to Newcastle 21 Jan 78