Help wanted to identify location

[PETEECKFORD]

Would be pleased if any of you knowledgeable people can give any clues or hints to the location of this photo approximate date, loco types etc. There is a small reward for the best detailed answer!
[url]http://www.southern-images.co.uk/lightb ... SP0001.jpg[/url]

Many thanks for any ideas

Pete Eckford

[Dman-lewis]

Add [img]http://..........jpg[/img] for the image.

[R. pike]

Ipswich Goods Junction. 1940's?

http://www.lymmobservatory.net/railways ... nction.jpg

[hq1hitchin]

Might be completely wrong as don't know too much about the GE north of Shenfield, but it looks like approaching Ipswich station from the north in the 1930s? The train engine looks like a Gresley B17 and the tender engine on the approaching train is a B16 Claud with the tankie an ex GC N5?

[rob237]

Blatantly, Grantham North...pictured many decades ago - even before the Lincoln bay platforms were built!

The pair of through lines at the rear were lifted on the opening of the station entrance and booking hall, in April 1868...

Stationmaster Scampion's house replaced the row of low relief frontages (which were merely part of a film set) and St Wulfram's church was eventually constructed beyond, following the slewing of various telegraph wires...

Camera man located amidst the footings of the revolutionary North Box...
Mock up of which is clearly being displayed on Station Road...Roy and 61070 can confirm.

Cheers
Robt P.

[Flamingo]

Might be completely wrong as don't know too much about the GE north of Shenfield, but it looks like approaching Ipswich station from the north in the 1930s? The train engine looks like a Gresley B17 and the tender engine on the approaching train is a B16 Claud with the tankie an ex GC N5?

I don't think the approaching tank engine is an N5, the front part below the somkebox door is different and it looks to have small leading wheels, so 0-6-2T seems the wrong wheel arrangement. But I don't have any alternative suggestions - perhaps the Grantham experts can sort it out?

[Bill Bedford]

Might be completely wrong as don't know too much about the GE north of Shenfield, but it looks like approaching Ipswich station from the north in the 1930s? The train engine looks like a Gresley B17 and the tender engine on the approaching train is a B16 Claud with the tankie an ex GC N5?

The tank is a C14

[R. pike]

[quote="Bill Bedford"
The tank is a C14[/quote]

And the shunt signal is GE

[50C]

Should B16 read D16?

50c

[hq1hitchin]

Should B16 read D16?

50c

Sorry - quite so

[Mickey]

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[R. pike]

It's Ipswich.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52 ... .1,,0,4.32

[PETEECKFORD]

Hi everybody
Thanks for all the excellent suggestions- Street View is certainly a great ally in checking out info and so identifying that it was Ranelagh Road signal box visible to the left at the lower level, and to show that some of those terraces are still standing as they were in the 1930s. Any further info about the carriage types would be welcome. I have some other views from this era which I will post soon and would appreciate some more advice.
Thanks
Pete

[kudu]

Might be completely wrong as don't know too much about the GE north of Shenfield, but it looks like approaching Ipswich station from the north in the 1930s? The train engine looks like a Gresley B17 and the tender engine on the approaching train is a B16 Claud with the tankie an ex GC N5?

The tank is a C14

It's neither an N5 nor a C14. The smokebox door fastener is GE, not GC. The leading wheel doesn't look like a driving wheel. So an F4, maybe?

Kudu

[StevieG]

It's Ipswich.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52 ... .1,,0,4.32

If another view on this is needed, the semaphores all look genuine GER to me, and the curving right of the platform in the background suits Ipswich looking south (curve goes wrong way for a view southwards through Grantham).