Where are we

Was the "Devonian" still running in those days? I used to take it down to Bristol Temple Meads with my parents to stay with my grandparents in Avonmouth when I was little, but that was from Bradford Forster Square station. I don't remember much about it apart from my father reminding me to duck every time we went under a bridge
Steve

It certainly was!
 
I caught it regularly from 1968 for several years on trips to and from College in Bradford  to home.
 
Alec K

I thought mark I ends were maroon on early batches of maroon paint jobs - I'm certain there were some on the eastern region.....but I was very young when coaches weremaroon!.....

beavercreek

Dtsteam



{ Wimbledon }

I remember this well. All those buildings over the track have been replaced. To the left of them is a pub, long gone, called 'The Southern Arms' and the now old department store 'Elys' is just being built to the left. I lived in a road that was a cul de sac and ended just alongside the railway yard. The loft was always sooty!

You must remember this then I found a picture of the milk train I wrote about in a previous post!!
 

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You must remember this then I found a picture of the milk train I wrote about in a previous post!! 
 

 
Is this about to head over to the District side and go via the East Putney route and Wandsworth Town to the LMR transfer sidings at Clapham Junction?  If so, I remember the next stage - tankers and M-7 to Vauxhall for unloading at the dairy, then into platform 16 at Waterloo ready for another M-7 to take them back to Clapham.  A scene I saw played out often when travelling to or from school.
 
Re: Wimbledon-  after the down goods yard closed, didn't the S&T dept take it over for a while?

minimans

beavercreek

Dtsteam



{ Wimbledon }

I remember this well. All those buildings over the track have been replaced. To the left of them is a pub, long gone, called 'The Southern Arms' and the now old department store 'Elys' is just being built to the left. I lived in a road that was a cul de sac and ended just alongside the railway yard. The loft was always sooty!

You must remember this then I found a picture of the milk train I wrote about in a previous post!!
 

Well I have to confess that I moved to the Wimbledon house in the seventies when the steam days had gone but Wimbledon centre had not yet been redeveloped so it still looked like it did when the milk trains and the scene on the thread were taken. The goods yard was not redeveloped as a plain old service area until the eighties/nineties and there were some very forlorn old coal/ mineral trucks languishing in the goods area for many years as the grass grew up amongst them.
The house loft was really sooty when we bought it and had never had anything done to it for about 50 years! I just boarded over the whole lot as I could not get rid of it. Of course the soot always came through the boards.
Ironically there are steam excursions that pass through quite regularly now. We have since moved (2005) up to East Anglia but the picture posted in the thread still took me back a few years.

C&S

You must remember this then I found a picture of the milk train I wrote about in a previous post!! 
 

 
Is this about to head over to the District side and go via the East Putney route and Wandsworth Town to the LMR transfer sidings at Clapham Junction? 

No, I think it's empties on the way back

New Haven Neil


.....but I was very young when coaches weremaroon!.....

That shows you how young you were, they weren't maroon, they were green
 
 
Blimey, not only was that an awful joke, but it got posted twice

C&S
 

 
Re: Wimbledon-  after the down goods yard closed, didn't the S&T dept take it over for a while?

It all comes back to me now - yes, you're right.  Just where the standard loco was headed, in the 70s, that was an S&T yard.
 
It was about that time that the experimental 4 PEP units were introduced in silver - and there are still PEP open carriages running in some of the 4 car suburban formations today.
 
I'm beginning to feel old

Dtsteam

New Haven Neil


Lurve these pictures!

Can we have some more, please?

Oh, If you must !
Respect to Mike for Brackley Central, btw.
 

A very wild stab at the location of pic with 76052.

Could that be Acton Lane Power Station in the background, so Willesden???

only just found this thread but  love the photos
 
The pic with the red MK1 coach
 
The roof of the shed looks like Temple meads, The coach is a westcoast (Red with gold stripe) Mk1 brake ( no running number) the jubilee loco "Ulster" was used to haul the mailtrain from Bristol to Newcastle until 63 and behind it is a mk1 TPO
so im Guessing (well you can add all that together)
 
Tony

funandtrains


It could be Wimbledon it I'm sure a recognise the signal box from my current journey to work but can't remember if it is Wimbledon or one of the other stations between Clapham and Surbiton. It is certainly in South London as it the singal box is one of the Southern Railways Art Deco strandard designs.

Yes you are right Steve. The mineral wagons in the shot behind are where they sometimes (in the time I used to live in Wimbledon) stored the waiting local (I think this is correct) West Croydon train (now superceeded by the Tramlink line to Croydon). I think that it also went to London Bridge from Wimbledn but my memory fails me there.

beavercreek
 

I think that it also went to London Bridge from Wimbledn but my memory fails me there.

Other things may fail, but not your memory and, yes, it still does go to London Bridge - it'll be a green train (that's a Southern service), going round via Herne Hil, Tulse Hill etc
 
Funnily enough, Wimbledon must be one of the busiest stations in terms of trains per track on that line apart from Clapham Junction.  It's after Wimbledon on the down lines that the suburban lines start branching off.  I reckon during the rush hours, the SWT lines have a suburban service approx every 3 minutes each way, and a through fast every 5 - 6 minutes each way.  On top of that, you have the London Bridge & Thameslink services, the Croydon Tram, and four tracks of LT District Line.
 
Having a fitting for me anorak next week

Rhinochugger


 
Having a fitting for me anorak next week

Yeah Ian get one of the no sweat variety, you won't lose friends that way rolf:

I can remember sometimes, when walking home on a summers day, I would take the footbridge that ran over the line to join a little alley that ran alongside the railway yard offices eventually coming out near to the crossing on Dundonald Road (a Tramlink station is there now). It was a longer walking journey than going the Hartfield crescent way but more interesting. As I crossed the footbridge I would always pause to watch the activity on the lines. Yes, very, very busy was how I would describe it too. The signal  operators had their work cut out at rush hour!

Rhinochugger

New Haven Neil


.....but I was very young when coaches weremaroon!.....

That shows you how young you were, they weren't maroon, they were green
 
 
Blimey, not only was that an awful joke, but it got posted twice

No, they were varnished teak around our way!!!!......