Rare Pictures You Have Taken

[sheff'd victoria]

On my Flickr page of Sheffield Victoria Station
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sheffield-victoria-station/

There are some very rare photos of Sheffield Victoria that people have taken , my question is have you taken a rare picture, for e.g the last train on a line before it closed or a passenger train on a very rare route that now you are glad you took it as there is nothing like it around ?

 

[4SRKT]

I need to get my old photos scanned in. I've got a lovely shot of the last Northern Ireland Railways 70 class DEMU in the year it was withdrawn. Also a shot of 2 of the 3 NIR EE Hunslet locos in service (one on push-pull passenger, the other on an engineer's train) on adjacent tracks at Lisburn in 1992. Also a great shot of D200 leaving York on the Whistler Finale tour in 1985, the first coach almost completely obscured by steam.

(((((the old layout at York station)))))

 

[ungreat]

On my Flickr page of Sheffield Victoria Station
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sheffield-victoria-station/

There are some very rare photos of Sheffield Victoria that people have taken , my question is have you taken a rare picture, for e.g the last train on a line before it closed or a passenger train on a very rare route that now you are glad you took it as there is nothing like it around ?

By gum me owd,that bought back some owd memories lad! Thanks for that,some cracking shots there!

I was born in Yorkshire and remember the Woodhead and 76's..nice to see them again

 

[mumrar]

I don't have anything of vintage, but still in the realms of rarity, there's a few.
http://www.trainpics.net/p39042342.html
On hire to Central Trains for 12 days from Silverlink, somehow 150120 ended up on the Cross-City line whilst all AC equipment was working faultlessly. Short term replacement for a unit failure.
I have similar to dig out, let me know if it's not what you're after. Wouldn't want to spoil your idea for the thread.

 

[43167]

317's at Leeds in 1998 when the Mk4 sets were grounded for about a week.

 

[43021HST]

I took a picture of 60005 going through Reading West with some tankers I dont know what tankeer turn it is but I have ssen it twice about midday on Saturday in 2008 I donot know wether a class 60 pulls that certain train. I would show it but I took it using a film camera and I dont have a scanner.

 

[37401]

somewhere on my PC lies a pic of a SWT 158 at Granthem and at Derby

 

[Mojo]

Got somewhere pics of Wagn 313s working for Silverlink County when their 321 fleet was grounded some time pre-2005.

 

[Greeny]

Please forgive my ignorance here. Somewhere I've got a photo which shows a steam loco with a pantograph. It is supposedly taken (postww2) in switzerland. Am I getting my leg pulled, or could it be genuine ?. I had dismissed it as a spoof until I seen an oil burning steam loco in the US on a tv documentary.

G

 

[90019]

Please forgive my ignorance here. Somewhere I've got a photo which shows a steam loco with a pantograph. It is supposedly taken (postww2) in switzerland. Am I getting my leg pulled, or could it be genuine ?

It's genuine, I've read about them before.
Can't think where though.

IIRC they used the electricity to produce the steam to power the loco, rather than coal. I think it was because coal was in short supply at the time, because of the war.

 

[GNERman]

virgin buffered HST's, GNER 89, D9000 hauling a 325 at Newcastle...

 

[theblackwatch]

virgin buffered HST's, GNER 89, D9000 hauling a 325 at Newcastle...

Surely as two of these were everyday occurrences for several years they can hardly be considered to be 'rare'? There will be hundreds of people with pictures of them.

 

[37401]

Surely as two of these were everyday occurrences for several years they can hardly be considered to be 'rare'? There will be hundreds of people with pictures of them.

Beat me to it :P

 

[Saltleyman]

On my Flickr page of Sheffield Victoria Station
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sheffield-victoria-station/

There are some very rare photos of Sheffield Victoria that people have taken , my question is have you taken a rare picture, for e.g the last train on a line before it closed or a passenger train on a very rare route that now you are glad you took it as there is nothing like it around ?

Hello "Sheffield Victoria"

You might be interested in this foto taken at Sheffield Victoria in the 1948 locomotive exchanges .

 

[37401]

Id give my right testicle to be born in the 50s so I could go see all those locos that are now only seen in books, I like this one most.

What remains of Sheffield Victoria and why on earth did they tare it down, good divertion if midland was out of reach

 

[SouthEastern-465]

Id give my right testicle

Whats wrong with your left one then?

 

[37401]

Whats wrong with your left one then?

Right one is my fave

 

[Crossforth]

317's at Leeds in 1998 when the Mk4 sets were grounded for about a week.

Any pictures that you can show us?

Surely as two of these were everyday occurrences for several years they can hardly be considered to be 'rare'? There will be hundreds of people with pictures of them.

Beat me to it

And me

 

[SouthEastern-465]

Right one is my fave

 

[Saltleyman]

here's another foto taken at Sheffield Victoria.

 

[Snapper]

Here's something rare - even unique:

http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/p41142596.html

 

[TGVDUDE]

Here's something rare - even unique:

http://paulbigland.fotopic.net/p41142596.html

fair play that is a gorgeous photograph! nice and shiny!

 

[37057]

Possibly the only electric loco to go west of Chester..?
Certainly the only 90!

90039 at Llandudno Junction, June 2005

 

[GNERman]

Surely as two of these were everyday occurrences for several years they can hardly be considered to be 'rare'? There will be hundreds of people with pictures of them.

Beat me to it :P

Thnkyou very much, they are rare to me and that's what matters

 

[43021HST]

Possibly the only electric loco to go west of Chester..?
Certainly the only 90!

90039 at Llandudno Junction, June 2005

How the hell did that get there, Why was it there?

 

[GNERman]

How the hell did that get there, Why was it there?

i saw an ews 86 at skipton being dragged by a 47 on a charter come to think of it...

 

[4SRKT]

i saw an ews 86 at skipton being dragged by a 47 on a charter come to think of it...

Although Skipton is hardly a difficult place for electric traction to reach! Admittedly an electric loco is rare to the point that in the 10+ years I've lived along the line I've never seen one.

 

[Chester025]

How the hell did that get there, Why was it there?

Quote from: http://www.nwrail.org.uk/nw0506f.htm

1D00 05:02 Birmingham to Holyhead on 25 June 2005 left Crewe hauled by a Class 57 with a Class 90 still attached to the train for some reason. Someone appears to have realised that Class 90s have never been checked for structure gauge on the North Wales Coast, so the 90 was detached at Llandudno Junction and left in the sidings. The 57 and the gold-buffered Driving Van Trailer returned with train 1A24 towards London. Later, 47 830 appeared to pick up the errant electric locomotive. Meanwhile, 47 854 ran well with a railtour to Llandudno and the Conwy Valley.

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This gives a bit more info: http://www.nwrail.org.uk/nw0506g.htm

 

[FlyingScot]

Possibly the only electric loco to go west of Chester..?
Certainly the only 90!

90039 at Llandudno Junction, June 2005

By gum I love ews class 90. In other words, brill.(claps hands)

 

[sheff'd victoria]

here's another foto taken at Sheffield Victoria.

Great picture

All gone now ( sob ) :cry: