A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[CATD8H]

nicanary said:

I'm trying to work out whose 250LM that is. There was Ron Fry and also Jack Maurice. The Mini is the mystery - did one of those drivers also drive it ?

Indeed it is Ron (RON 54) probably at at a Castle Combe meeting in 1964 or 65. The Downton mini RGF 9) Both cars would have been unshackled ready to be offloaded in readiness for the days racing. RF is behind the wheel of the Bedford TK transporter (note the trade plates).. This was used as everyday transport to and from the car auctions.. The 250LM eventually was PX’d with “The Colonel” for a GT40 and did indeed complete in JM hands later on.. Hope this helps.

[Johnspex]

P5BNij said:

kmpowell said:

RichB said:

Indeed, there was something special about arriving into Paddington and getting a taxi from the rank alongside the platform - was it between 8 & 10, can't quite remember..

It was between 8 and 9:

Just off to the right there was also another ramp for parcels vans to access platforms 11 and 12. When I worked at Old Oak Common we had half hourly staff buses shuttling back and forth to Padd, some of the bus drivers were absolute lunatics, often trying to see how fast they could take that 90 degree bend at the top of the ramp.....

The taxi rank area has been used in several films and TV series over the years, including ‘Perfect Friday’ in 1970, ‘The Professionals’ in 1978 and ‘The Long Good Friday’ in 1979.

Edited by P5BNij on Monday 26th July 10:41

You seem to have done so much, seen so much, know so much, without any hint of sarcasm, irony, or criticism, can I ask how old you are and what age you started driving trains?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

XR said:

A screen shot from Randall and Hopkirk a few nights ago

I remember seeing it the first time in 1970 and thinking what a special little car it was. It was probably owned by one of the production team as it appeared in other series as did the GT6

They had TVRs casually parked in several episodes. We had a bit of a debate about this on the random TVR thread

[kmpowell]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

XR said:

A screen shot from Randall and Hopkirk a few nights ago

I remember seeing it the first time in 1970 and thinking what a special little car it was. It was probably owned by one of the production team as it appeared in other series as did the GT6

They had TVRs casually parked in several episodes. We had a bit of a debate about this on the random TVR thread

There were 2... a S1 Vixen that appeared in Episode 6 (Just for the Record), and the above S2 Vixen that appeared in Episode 10 (When did You Start to Stop Seeing Things?) as a main car, and Episode 20 (Money to Burn) which the screenshot above is taken. The S2 belonged to a crew member.

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P5BNij said:

kmpowell said:

RichB said:

Indeed, there was something special about arriving into Paddington and getting a taxi from the rank alongside the platform - was it between 8 & 10, can't quite remember..

It was between 8 and 9:

Just off to the right there was also another ramp for parcels vans to access platforms 11 and 12. When I worked at Old Oak Common we had half hourly staff buses shuttling back and forth to Padd, some of the bus drivers were absolute lunatics, often trying to see how fast they could take that 90 degree bend at the top of the ramp.....

The taxi rank area has been used in several films and TV series over the years, including ‘Perfect Friday’ in 1970, ‘The Professionals’ in 1978 and ‘The Long Good Friday’ in 1979.

Edited by P5BNij on Monday 26th July 10:41

There was public parking within Glasgow Central up to about 15 years ago I guess. The roadway access was from Hope Street and ran along inside the west wall of the station and is still there, as is the arched entry on Hope Street which is now blocked with a grille.
The parking area was between what are now platforms 12 and 13. I guess about 25 or 30 spaces if my memory is right.
It featured in several episodes of Taggart,among other things.
ETA: ISTR the exit was on Oswald Street.

Edited by Error_404_Username_not_found on Monday 26th July 17:43

[P5BNij]

Johnspex said:

P5BNij said:

kmpowell said:

RichB said:

Indeed, there was something special about arriving into Paddington and getting a taxi from the rank alongside the platform - was it between 8 & 10, can't quite remember..

It was between 8 and 9:

Just off to the right there was also another ramp for parcels vans to access platforms 11 and 12. When I worked at Old Oak Common we had half hourly staff buses shuttling back and forth to Padd, some of the bus drivers were absolute lunatics, often trying to see how fast they could take that 90 degree bend at the top of the ramp.....

The taxi rank area has been used in several films and TV series over the years, including ‘Perfect Friday’ in 1970, ‘The Professionals’ in 1978 and ‘The Long Good Friday’ in 1979.

Edited by P5BNij on Monday 26th July 10:41

You seem to have done so much, seen so much, know so much, without any hint of sarcasm, irony, or criticism, can I ask how old you are and what age you started driving trains?

Oh trust me, I can be sarky when the mood takes me! I’m 55, started on the railway in 1982 and joined the footplate grade in 1983 .

[RichB]

P5BNij said:

Oh trust me, I can be sarky when the mood takes me! I’m 55, started on the railway in 1982 and joined the footplate grade in 1983 .

So you never fired Carmarthen Castle hauling the Bristolian out of Paddington in the early '60s

p.s. I don't know if that engine pulled the Bristolian (Wiki says it was pulled by Warships in 1959 but I don't believe that) I used to go shopping with mum in Ealing Bdy and we'd watch the trains, I guess I'd have been 4 or 5 years old so 1960/61 and mum used to tell the names of the engines and the trains they were pulling. I can still remember them, mostly Castles, I can't remember her mentioning any Kings. Perhaps they were not being use on the Western main line by then, were they re-assigned to the Birmingham route via HIgh Wycombe?

[Johnspex]

P5BNij said:

Johnspex said:

P5BNij said:

kmpowell said:

RichB said:

Indeed, there was something special about arriving into Paddington and getting a taxi from the rank alongside the platform - was it between 8 & 10, can't quite remember..

It was between 8 and 9:

Just off to the right there was also another ramp for parcels vans to access platforms 11 and 12. When I worked at Old Oak Common we had half hourly staff buses shuttling back and forth to Padd, some of the bus drivers were absolute lunatics, often trying to see how fast they could take that 90 degree bend at the top of the ramp.....

The taxi rank area has been used in several films and TV series over the years, including ‘Perfect Friday’ in 1970, ‘The Professionals’ in 1978 and ‘The Long Good Friday’ in 1979.

Edited by P5BNij on Monday 26th July 10:41

You seem to have done so much, seen so much, know so much, without any hint of sarcasm, irony, or criticism, can I ask how old you are and what age you started driving trains?

Oh trust me, I can be sarky when the mood takes me! I’m 55, started on the railway in 1982 and joined the footplate grade in 1983 .

Sorry, I meant I wasn't being ironic. Sarcastic or critical, not you.
I didn't want you be under the impression I was having a dig.

[P5BNij]

RichB said:

P5BNij said:

Oh trust me, I can be sarky when the mood takes me! I’m 55, started on the railway in 1982 and joined the footplate grade in 1983 .

So you never fired Carmarthen Castle hauling the Bristolian out of Paddington in the early '60s

p.s. I don't know if that engine pulled the Bristolian (Wiki says it was pulled by Warships in 1959 but I don't believe that) I used to go shopping with mum in Ealing Bdy and we'd watch the trains, I guess I'd have been 4 or 5 years old so 1960/61 and mum used to tell the names of the engines and the trains they were pulling. I can still remember them, mostly Castles, I can't remember her mentioning any Kings. Perhaps they were not being use on the Western main line by then, were they re-assigned to the Birmingham route via HIgh Wycombe?

Alas I was born to late to be swinging a shovel on anything out of Padd! Warships did work The Bristolian though, it was a top link job for Old Oak men and I remember talking to some of the old hands about them when I was working there. I’m fairly sure that by 1960-ish the remaining Kings were all on the Brum and Wolves jobs, but they were replaced by the Western Class Diesel-Hydraulics on that route in September ‘62 .

Edited to add - somewhere in my hard drive I have a few photos of an Old Oak crew posing on the front of a D800 Warship at Temple Meads having brought The Bristolian down from Paddington.

Edited by P5BNij on Monday 26th July 23:52

[Yertis]

There's another interesting BBC documentary on iPlayer at the moment called "Engines must not Enter the Potato Siding" which describes the transition from steam to diesel and electric and its effect on enginemen. I get the impression that among some older enginemen driving diesels was not really considered to be the real deal .

[Tyre Smoke]

What a great title!

[bigothunter]

[anonymous-user]

bigothunter said:

Great film!

[mfmman]

Yertis said:

There's another interesting BBC documentary on iPlayer at the moment called "Engines must not Enter the Potato Siding" which describes the transition from steam to diesel and electric and its effect on enginemen. I get the impression that among some older enginemen driving diesels was not really considered to be the real deal .

I believe the view at the time was that the abilities (or not) of an engine driver and his fireman had a significant effect on the performance of a steam engine, so there were good crews and bad crews. A diesel performed the same regardless of how it was handled.

Equally a good driver drove the train in a manner that avoided uneccessary work for his fireman. No blowing off, slipping etc

[P5BNij]

mfmman said:

Yertis said:

There's another interesting BBC documentary on iPlayer at the moment called "Engines must not Enter the Potato Siding" which describes the transition from steam to diesel and electric and its effect on enginemen. I get the impression that among some older enginemen driving diesels was not really considered to be the real deal .

I believe the view at the time was that the abilities (or not) of an engine driver and his fireman had a significant effect on the performance of a steam engine, so there were good crews and bad crews. A diesel performed the same regardless of how it was handled.



Equally a good driver drove the train in a manner that avoided uneccessary work for his fireman. No blowing off, slipping etc

I’m currently sat in Wembley Yard having brought 6Z91 up from Stewart’s Lane at Battersea, just before departing from there a mainline steam charter went by me with ex-LNER B1 ‘Mayflower’ on it blowing off like a good ‘in, just minutes out of Victoria!

[mfmman]

P5BNij said:

mfmman said:

Yertis said:

There's another interesting BBC documentary on iPlayer at the moment called "Engines must not Enter the Potato Siding" which describes the transition from steam to diesel and electric and its effect on enginemen. I get the impression that among some older enginemen driving diesels was not really considered to be the real deal .

I believe the view at the time was that the abilities (or not) of an engine driver and his fireman had a significant effect on the performance of a steam engine, so there were good crews and bad crews. A diesel performed the same regardless of how it was handled.



Equally a good driver drove the train in a manner that avoided uneccessary work for his fireman. No blowing off, slipping etc

I’m currently sat in Wembley Yard having brought 6Z91 up from Stewart’s Lane at Battersea, just before departing from there a mainline steam charter went by me with ex-LNER B1 ‘Mayflower’ on it blowing off like a good ‘in, just minutes out of Victoria!

The enthusiasts will love it though! And I bet there's more than one fireperson (appropriate phrasing for today rather than what I assume was factually correct in the sixties and before)

To be clear, my knowledge is only from accounts in books written by people working on the railways/engines at the time, nothing more

[bigothunter]

mfmman said:

The enthusiasts will love it though! And I bet there's more than one fireperson (appropriate phrasing for today rather than what I assume was factually correct in the sixties and before)

Fireperson

[mfmman]

bigothunter said:

mfmman said:

The enthusiasts will love it though! And I bet there's more than one fireperson (appropriate phrasing for today rather than what I assume was factually correct in the sixties and before)

Fireperson

Pre-emptive telling-off avoidance

[Tyre Smoke]

mfmman said:

bigothunter said:

mfmman said:

The enthusiasts will love it though! And I bet there's more than one fireperson (appropriate phrasing for today rather than what I assume was factually correct in the sixties and before)

Fireperson

Pre-emptive telling-off avoidance

Not on this thread.

[hidetheelephants]

nicanary said:

The Mille Miglia top photo is from 1955. The Maserati #617 is that of Fedele Lampertico who failed to finish. I think the barchetta Ferrari could be a 212.

I think the Crossley-Burney was made in the infamous jam factory in Maidenhead.

You can't leave it at that; why was a jam factory infamous?

Error_404_Username_not_found said:

P5BNij said:

kmpowell said:

RichB said:

Indeed, there was something special about arriving into Paddington and getting a taxi from the rank alongside the platform - was it between 8 & 10, can't quite remember..

It was between 8 and 9:

Just off to the right there was also another ramp for parcels vans to access platforms 11 and 12. When I worked at Old Oak Common we had half hourly staff buses shuttling back and forth to Padd, some of the bus drivers were absolute lunatics, often trying to see how fast they could take that 90 degree bend at the top of the ramp.....

The taxi rank area has been used in several films and TV series over the years, including ‘Perfect Friday’ in 1970, ‘The Professionals’ in 1978 and ‘The Long Good Friday’ in 1979.

Edited by P5BNij on Monday 26th July 10:41

There was public parking within Glasgow Central up to about 15 years ago I guess. The roadway access was from Hope Street and ran along inside the west wall of the station and is still there, as is the arched entry on Hope Street which is now blocked with a grille.
The parking area was between what are now platforms 12 and 13. I guess about 25 or 30 spaces if my memory is right.
It featured in several episodes of Taggart,among other things.
ETA: ISTR the exit was on Oswald Street.

I used it a few times picking folk up off a late train; even proles like me could park(at some expense and only for ~half an hour) between 13 and 14 and the taxi rank was right there, now it's just bicycles I think.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Tuesday 27th July 13:58