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Harry' Andrew Barclay 1823/24 at Crossley's scrapyard in Shipley.17th June 1983 H scowcroft collection
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Dean Forest Railway, Norchard Station, near Lydney, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Wednesday 11th October 2012.
If you want to know about the heritage railway and its history, feel free to skip to Chapter Two: About the subject of Dean Forest Railway.
Chapter One: What is this photo about, and why I took the photo.
I am a photographer, but I am also a graphic designer. At that time I took the photograph, I was a very busy full-time single parent and full-time carer for my kids, so my career was put on hold. However whenever I have time to spare, I try to keep up my photography and graphic design skills by doing some projects when I can.
This was one of the graphic design projects I was doing. The project was to design a (non-existence) fictional CD album art, and I would prefer to take my own photographs, then import them into my graphic design work. The subject of the album art was about a fictional female singer-songwriter, whom had lived in an old industrial town, and wanted to leave so she could pursue her dreams of stardom.
For the album art design, I needed photos of old buildings, coal mines, and anything I can think of that would give the feel of a ran-down industrial places. Try to give the impression that the factories closed down, and that the coal mines have ran out of coal, all in black and white. The title of the album is called The Old Dying Town.
I was aware of some disused warehouses in Gloucester, and an old coal mine in Wales, those would made good background for the album art. I somehow noticed this heritage railway station not far from Lydney, in Gloucestershire, and stopped there, to see if there’s anything I can take photos of, for the design.
While looking around, and taking photos of the steam and diesel passenger trains, I noticed at the north end of the station, there was some kind of an out-of-the-way storage space for old rolling stock, like old carriages and boxcars. I think they kept the broken or damaged old railway vehicles there, maybe awaiting restoration, or to be broken up and used as spare parts.
So I took some shots, moved around for different viewpoints, try to get anything worthy of a background. I figured it would give the illustration of a railway scrapyard, and gives a gloomy feel that the fictional town lost its railway links. Hoping the photo would give the illustration of the town becoming a ghost town.
The photo was shot in 2012, and when I visited there in 2021, they were doing some improvements to this area, including building a platform.
Point of note: Those photographs were done with the camera set to Black and White, I did not take the photos in colour, and they were not converted into B&W by means of photo-editing software.
Chapter Two: About the subject of Dean Forest Railway.
The Dean Forest Railway is a 4 to 5 miles long heritage railway, still running vintage steam, and classic diesel trains, as a tourist attraction in the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire.
It started in 1799 as an idea for a horse-drawn tramway, linking the Forest of Dean to the rivers Severn and Wye, for the transportation of coal and iron materials.
Between 1800 to around the 1870s, it went through so many processes. Like building lines and branching out, changing company names, financial problems, rival companies, converting from horse-drawn tramway into steam powered railway, merging companies, change of railway gauge sizes, and so many other factors.
It became known as the Severn and Wye Railway during those years.
From around the 1870s onwards, in order to cope with financial difficulties, and to help with funding, they started fee-paying passenger services in addition to the goods carrying services. But ongoing financial problems, lack of traffic, and many other factors, continued up until around the 1940s.
After the Second World War (1939-1945), the railways in this area started to go downhill, mainly due ot declining coal industry in the area, lack of passengers, improvements in transportation elsewhere, and the nationalised of British railways.
Many stations and lines started closing down, or completely shut down, during the 1950s and 1960s.
Starting from the early 1970s onwards, a railway preservation society was formed to try to buy and save as much of the old railway, and run it as a heritage railway for tourism, and was then named as Dean Forest Railway.
At the current moment, the Dean Forest Railway is approximately between 4 to 5 miles long between Lydney and Parkend, with Norchard station as its home base, but they are hoping to extend the line to 7 miles in near future.
They run a range of mostly steam trains to 1960s diesel trains, with various carriages, and at least 5 stations.
For more in-depth details, simply Google “Dean Forest Railway” for a full history or for visiting.
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66044 with a single wagon in tow takes the crossover at Kingsbury Branch Junction running as 6Z32 Bescot to Kingsbury E.M.R. the shortest scrap run yet. Plenty of detritus litters the foreground with a trio of E.W.S. HTA's and 08730 tucked away in the corner as usual.
Lhoist rolls across the last trestle on the old TC before Rockwood. The scrapyard here has filled up quite a bit these last few years.
today I was at the scrapyard because I was nearby and decited to check it out. This is all I found. 31 Hubcaps, all complete and two wheels with good tyres for my Polo 86c. All for 40€ (the hubcaps were for 10€ the Wheels each for 15€)
SMS 797 looked to be a recent arrival at Wombwell Diesels on 25 May 1979. Inevitably it would probably at some point end up looking like SMS 655 next to it.
Befeza Zinc's plant switcher makes a quick trip over to the NS interchange. I've passed over these tracks many times in the last 8 years of shooting Lhoist, but this was the first time I've ever actually seen the train that runs on them. A cool surprise.
One of several views that I took across the vast breaking area at Wombwell Diesels on 25 May 1979. In the foreground are what look like window pans from the nineteen London Country Routemasters that arrived here the previous year.
Freshly arrived from Barry scrapyard British Railways Riddles 4MT 4-6-0 75069 stands in a line of other condemned stock at Bewdley.
75069 was built in 1955 at BR's Swindon works and entered traffic at Dover. It was fitted with a double chimney at Eastleigh in 1960, returning to traffic at Stewart's Lane. After just 11 years in service around London and the South Coast, the locomotive was withdrawn from service at Eastleigh in September 1966 and arrived at Woodham's in May 1967.
A metallic silver Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, seen at the end of its life in a scrapyard - Greenwich, 1990
More on the history of the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Silver_Shadow
Taken using a Nikon F-501 SLR camera with 75-200mm lens.
You can see a random selection of my photos here at Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/9815422@N06/random/
Just north of Aynho Jn. south of Banbury, 28th April 1990.
50026 'Indomitable' on the 09.15 London Paddington to Manchester.
The loco was withdrawn by the end of the year, but managed to escape Booths scrapyard, Rotherham, and into preservation.
After taking my ZX to the scrapyard yesterday I caught the bus home. I actually took two but the journey co-ordinated fairly well and I was lucky in only having to wait a few minutes for the first one.
I quite enjoy travelling by bus but rarely do as they're stupidly expensive. The 25 mile journey home cost £9.50! It probably would have been slightly less had I been able to get a through bus, but the two stages were run by different companies. I contrast the costs of public transport round here with the week long use it as much as you want ticket I buy in Malta which costs €21. Anyway....
It's nice to stare out of the window rather than having to concentrate on driving. I hoped I might notice some interesting cars but was getting a little despondent; until I saw this! The bus took a route through a housing estate which I never think of driving through.
I owned a Prinz 4 in 1980. I got it free as a non runner whose MOT was about to expire. The clutch had gone. It turned out the cable had come off....The only thing it failed its MOT on were both headlamps which were rusty. These proved difficult. I was living in London at the time and there were plenty of Prinz' in scrapyards but they all had either rusty lights, or the lights were missing. Eventually I got the glass off a couple without breaking it and glued baking foil onto the reflectors; then refitted the glass. It passed.
I really liked the car. I didn't do any long journeys in it but it was ideal for London. I reckon it would have been fine for longer trips too as the seats were comfortable and it felt quite happy at 65mph.
I was astonished to come across this one. I've never seen it on the road but that's hardly surprising since it's only covered 465 miles since it's first recorded MOT in 2015. It's got 31,000 on the clock which I'd guess is original. I'd also guess it's been restored, or at least resprayed. It looked lovely, and the bright colour really stood out on a dull winter's day.
Making its first appearance following restoration from scrapyard condition, BR Standard 2-6-4T No. 80079 approaches Arley with a Foley Park to Bridgnorth train during the Severn Valley Railway Spring Steam Gala, 16th April 1977.
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DMS 1249 at Wombwell Diesels on 25 May 1979. There are two things I particularly remember from that visit. One being the shock of seeing such young buses being broken apart - this one was just seven years old and was among the first few to reach the scrapyard though this would quickly increase into a steady flow. And the other thing was being told by one of the workers how easy it was to destroy a DMS and that within a few hours there would be nothing recognisable left and that the metal reclaim and yield was poor in comparison to other types. Wonder what Health and Safety people would say about working practices.....
66786 Cambridge University Railway Club catches the early morning sun passing Kingsbury Branch Junction with 6G80 04:23 Peak Forest to Small Heath aggregates, 66001 is just visible awaiting the empties to Immingham and a single power car from a Royal Mail 325 set, one of two that arrived by road, stands buffered up to a trio of hoppers all awaiting their fate.
Following the first mass withdrawals of RM`s in September 1982, North`s of Sherburn- in- Elmet east of Leeds took the first batch of RM`s for scrapping following initial parts reclaim. This was the sight that I found on 4 November 1982. It was so very different to RM`s being dumped at Aldenham for scrapping - that seemed fairly normal. But here in Yorkshire so far from London the reality of the policy to scrap RM`s as fully intact buses really hit home. Almost all of them were driven here and were so complete that only a set of blinds were needed to make most ready for service.