Scrapbook Pic - Year?
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Scrapbook Pic - Year?
Looking through some scrapbook clippings I came across this very striking uncaptioned image.
Obviously the southern approaches to Grantham, but does anyone know the year?
Also the loco is 275? A magnifying glass on the cabside just results in dots unfortunately.........
Obviously the southern approaches to Grantham, but does anyone know the year?
Also the loco is 275? A magnifying glass on the cabside just results in dots unfortunately.........
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Re: Scrapbook Pic - Year?
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strang steel wrote:After blowing up the image the number looks like a very angled one, maybe a '4'?
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Loco is 2751 'Humorist', which was used to experiment with different blastpipe and smoke deflecting arrangements. Photo is late 30s - someone else will be able to give you a precise date no doubt...
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That makes much more sense, as I have now discovered 2754 was a D49
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Has to be Humorist with that horrible chimney. Yeadon says it carried that from Jan 1938 to April 1947.
Edit - looking again it looks more like the single chimney which was carried March 1933 - Jan 1934.
Edit - looking again it looks more like the single chimney which was carried March 1933 - Jan 1934.
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I agree - fig. 63 in RCTS 2A shows her in this condition in March 1933.jwealleans wrote:looking again it looks more like the single chimney which was carried March 1933 - Jan 1934
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Re: Scrapbook Pic - Year?
Thanks for all of your replies and confirming the loco as 2751 Humorist.
Towards the back of the scrapbook is another pic of the same loco, clearly shown as 2751.
However, can anyone home in on the year and location?
Towards the back of the scrapbook is another pic of the same loco, clearly shown as 2751.
However, can anyone home in on the year and location?
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That signal is of a quite unusual configuration.
I have a feeling I've seen it pictured before, captioned as Barkston : South Junction I think, which would make Humorist hauling an Up train.
I have a feeling I've seen it pictured before, captioned as Barkston : South Junction I think, which would make Humorist hauling an Up train.
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Double chimney without deflectors places the photo between July 1937 and January 1938 - Fig. 64 in RCTS 2A shows her in this condition.Iron Duke wrote:Thanks for all of your replies and confirming the loco as 2751 Humorist.
Towards the back of the scrapbook is another pic of the same loco, clearly shown as 2751.
However, can anyone home in on the year and location?
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Sorry "StevieG" but that signal was at the South End of Grantham Station adjacent to the Ruston & Hornsby factory on London Road/ South Parade in Grantham. It is signalling the Down Lines on the approach to the station.The locomotive (Humourist?) is on the Down Main.The site of the old factory is now two separate retail parks separated by Springfield Road. The part of the building shown in the photograph is now Jackson & Shipley a builders merchants and is still in use to this day. On the other retail Park there is a D.I.Y. Multi national with Orange signs, whilst further back their are some factory units,a garage and a few more retail outlets.StevieG wrote:That signal is of a quite unusual configuration.
I have a feeling I've seen it pictured before, captioned as Barkston : South Junction I think, which would make Humorist hauling an Up train.
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Hi Derek,
You identify the first picture very accurately, but StevieG's comments related to the second picture on the thread - do you recognise that?
You identify the first picture very accurately, but StevieG's comments related to the second picture on the thread - do you recognise that?
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Yes, that is definitely Barkston South. A D Thompson photo in the Oakwood book on the Lincoln-Grantham line shows the small wooden shelter on the platform curve towards East box, which is a match for that visible on the extreme left of the Humorist photo.StevieG wrote:That signal is of a quite unusual configuration.
I have a feeling I've seen it pictured before, captioned as Barkston : South Junction I think, which would make Humorist hauling an Up train.
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Thank you for the confirmation on the second pic.
Anyone have any information on the signal configuration?
I have been to Barkston many times (late 50's to 70's) in the past but cannot remember this signal, was it changed at some point?
Anyone have any information on the signal configuration?
I have been to Barkston many times (late 50's to 70's) in the past but cannot remember this signal, was it changed at some point?
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Interesting also to note that the front pair of carriages are an articulated twin - does this help anyone to identify the service?