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Unique Wickham Railbus no. 999507 (Laboratory 20) in British Rail Research Department livery on the Lavender line.
The “Elliott Track Recording Coach” was commonly referred to as the 'Wickham Railbus' and was built in 1958 by D. Wickham of Ware, Hertfordshire.
It was a self-propelled four-wheel railbus No: DB999507 with one driven axle and had a Meadows 97HP horizontal underfloor engine. It was used as a track recording car by the Chief Civil Engineer's Department from around 1958, before the BR Research Division was formed and was fitted with an early computer system supplied by Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd (Elliott Automation).
The Wickham was sold to the East Lancashire Railway in 1997 and later moved to the Middleton Railway on 11th June 2003. It is currently based at the Lavender Line in Isfield, East Sussex and is now privately owned.
www.traintesting.com/wickham_car.htm
The Lavender Line formed part of the Lewes to Uckfield Railway when it was opened on 18 October 1858. Within 12 months of its opening, the branch had been integrated into the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) to safeguard the company’s interests east of its London to Brighton main line. Ten years from its opening, Isfield saw through workings from Brighton to Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, via a new Uckfield–Groombridge link. The Bluebell Railway originally branched off the Lavender Line at Culver Junction, near Culver Farm between Lewes and Barcombe Mills. This junction closed in 1958 with the closure of the East Grinstead to Lewes line.
Following its closure in 1969 the track was removed in 1970 and the station at Isfield was neglected and became overgrown. After fourteen years of disuse, it was auctioned in June 1983 by British Rail and sold for £60,500 to Dave and Gwen Milham who restored the station and signal box and laid the first sections of track. Ownership of the station passed from the Milham family in 1991 and it is run by the Lavender Line Preservation Society.
The line was named 'The Lavender Line' with a historical connection in mind: A.E. Lavender and Sons were the local coal merchants who had operated from the station yard
Cardiff British Transport Police Line up OW55JUC B44 Renault Public Order Van POV, LX07AFO W81 Ford Transit Public Order Van POV and LX58EPE Vauxhall Van Cardiff Station Feb 2013
North Western Star Line Scania 1003 stands at Altrincham Interchange with branding on the roof panels for service 19 which linked the town with Sale and Manchester Airport.
Star Line Travel were a Knutsford based company who also had an operating unit at Manchester Airport, providing airside travel for flight crews to and from the city centre hotels.
The company was taken over by British Bus subsidiary, North Western who kept the bus side and offloaded the Airport unit to Runcorn based Selwyns Travel. This view shows the operation after the North Western takeover on this Wright bodied Scania, which was purchased with funding from GMPTE as part of the low floor initiative.
North Western later became Arriva and the bus survives to this day operating out of the former Merseybus depot at St Helens.
This is only the second Ponton I've ever got to see since I visited Mercedes-Benz's excellent museum at its home in Stuttgart, Germany. And the first presentable one - the previous one was a mere shell.
The Ponton ("pontoon") was a line of simple, rugged, reliable sedans for postwar West Germany and beyond, and helped rebuild Mercedes-Benz. The Ponton, the first unibody design from Mercedes-Benz, is the ancestor of all current Mercedes-Benz sedans, including the C, E, and S classes.
The 219 (chassis code W105) was an interesting model, built from 1956 to 1959. From the dashboard rearward, the car is identical to the 180/190 (W120), the original four-cylinder Ponton from 1953, complete with single-pane rear windows and the simpler instrumentation. But to the front is the longer nose of the 220, to house a bigger engine, a 2.2-liter single-carburetor 85-horsepower 6-cylinder. 27,845 were built. (Source: Wikipedia)
Grille detail, complete with Mercedes-Benz Stuttgart plaque.
Dumped outside at the Workington Dock & Harbour loco shed on 23rd August 1969 was Yorkshire Engine 0-4-0 saddle tank 'No.70' (Works No.2602 built in 1955).
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66422 with the Inverness - Mossend Tesco intermodal waits at Blair Atholl for 170452 to pass with 1H13 1333 Edinburgh - Inverness. It looked from RTT as though this ought to be a Scotrail HST working. Oddly enough, the following Glasgow - Inverness Scotrail HST set was terminated at Blair Atholl because of a train fault. 27th June 2019.
Northbound Soo Line train #201 crawls through Kentland, Indiana on July 2nd, 1987 at 10:30 am with Soo 788-787-743, 113 cars and Soo caboose #52. Train had mixed freight on the head end, a block of loaded ATSF hoppers (which was odd) and trailers & autoracks on the rear.
In this photo, Soo Line cupola caboose #52 is bringing up the rear, along with the autoracks and trailers like normal.
I may not have seen the NYC's Egyptian train, but I got 5 solid years of Milw/Soo trains instead....
Soo Line 1003 at Rubicon, WI. Trip was sponsered by the Soo Line 1003 and Historic Transport Preservation.
Unique Wickham Railbus no. 999507 (Laboratory 20) in British Rail Research Department livery on the Lavender line.
The “Elliott Track Recording Coach” was commonly referred to as the 'Wickham Railbus' and was built in 1958 by D. Wickham of Ware, Hertfordshire.
It was a self-propelled four-wheel railbus No: DB999507 with one driven axle and had a Meadows 97HP horizontal underfloor engine. It was used as a track recording car by the Chief Civil Engineer's Department from around 1958, before the BR Research Division was formed and was fitted with an early computer system supplied by Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd (Elliott Automation).
The Wickham was sold to the East Lancashire Railway in 1997 and later moved to the Middleton Railway on 11th June 2003. It is currently based at the Lavender Line in Isfield, East Sussex and is now privately owned.
www.traintesting.com/wickham_car.htm
The Lavender Line formed part of the Lewes to Uckfield Railway when it was opened on 18 October 1858. Within 12 months of its opening, the branch had been integrated into the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) to safeguard the company’s interests east of its London to Brighton main line. Ten years from its opening, Isfield saw through workings from Brighton to Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, via a new Uckfield–Groombridge link. The Bluebell Railway originally branched off the Lavender Line at Culver Junction, near Culver Farm between Lewes and Barcombe Mills. This junction closed in 1958 with the closure of the East Grinstead to Lewes line.
Following its closure in 1969 the track was removed in 1970 and the station at Isfield was neglected and became overgrown. After fourteen years of disuse, it was auctioned in June 1983 by British Rail and sold for £60,500 to Dave and Gwen Milham who restored the station and signal box and laid the first sections of track. Ownership of the station passed from the Milham family in 1991 and it is run by the Lavender Line Preservation Society.
The line was named 'The Lavender Line' with a historical connection in mind: A.E. Lavender and Sons were the local coal merchants who had operated from the station yard
50017 'Royal Oak' heading across the avoiding line at Gloucester with 1V76 0936 Liverpool to Penzance. 30th June 1984.
I developed some expired kodak 400tx (2010) in Rodinal 1:50 at 20c. I agitated once 3 mins for the first 20 mins and let it stand for further 30 mins. So 50 mins in total. From the negative I can see the exposure and develop time is about right.
HOWEVER, there's a layer of frost on the emulsion side. The scanned images appear all have such brain like pattern which makes me sick.
Anyway, is there any reason why it happened? is it caused by the film or my developing or both?
Such a shame, I liked a few pictures from this batch.
N463 in V/line Mk2 Corporate Livery (Now Mk3) races into Lara in full "Blood N Bone" Mk2 livery with an UP Geelong passenger service to Melbourne.
Both N463 and that 3 Car N set are in V/line's new Mk3 livery.
Friday 8th March 2013
The EMU Tokyo Metro 05'Series which called a Commuter Line passing Rawabuntu Bridge,Serpong.......
This DMU imported by PT KA Indonesia company from Tokyo Metro Company in Japan........
The Watercress Line is the marketing name of the Mid-Hants Railway, a heritage railway in Hampshire, England, running 10 miles (16 km) from New Alresford to Alton where it connects to the National Rail network. The line gained its popular name in the days that it was used to transport locally grown watercress to markets in London. The railway currently operates regular scheduled services, along with dining trains, real ale trains and numerous special events throughout the year.