Where?

[Bryan]

Would not have believed the change.
I have worked around that station many times on track renewals.

[strang steel]

Just showed the photo to a friend and he believes the station is Wakefield Kirkgate, and it may be the 2 October 1971 when the SLS ran a rail tour to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway from Manchester. The tour stopped at Wakefield for 2 mins. Hope this helps.

Your friend needs to be bought several drinks, just from me for the thanks and relief on discovering where the station is. I had been half way round the country (internet-style) looking at suitable sites on Disused Stations and Google Maps, and poring over the slightest detail of the photo for clues.

Phew, I can relax.

[Boris]

Great job on a wet day done it dozens of times

[Andy W]

That was a top link to a top photo, Pinza. I always like seeing good photos of the real railway on a rainy day, there's so much more atmosphere.

60140, your mate deserves a drink from me too. That was some puzzle to solve.

[JASd17]

Yes, all part of the fun, even if you make a 'totally wrong punt'.

Keep them coming, I say.

I have just help to resolve a pictorial mystery in a recently published Carriage book, more on that later, I believe is the phrase.

John

[Deltic18]

Wow, that certainly taxed a few minds! Thanks everybody for their opinions and for the final, definitive answer.

[strang steel]

I found this photo on Flickr, which is interesting.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotorus/80 ... 376790978/

An unusual combination of rolling stock, and yet running with express headlamps. I wondered if more knowledgeable people than myself can provide more details?

[jwealleans]

I'm not sure it's unusual - isn't it a fairly standard 5 car set (twin BT-T, compo, twin BT-T) with a van front and rear?

The lamps only indicate that it's not stopping at all stations, it could be a semi-fast somewhere.

Do we know where it is, as a comment on the photo suggests that it isn't where the poster thinks it is?

[PinzaC55]

You know what the real star of the show is in threads like this? Not any of us who try to figure out where the photos were taken or when. Its the Internet. Somebody can post a photo on this site and seconds later it is available to anyone anywhere in the world with Internet access on a computer or smartphone. I was having a heated discussion with a friend recently who was going "Oh Internet this, computer that, what use is it?" so I quoted this as an example. I sold an item on ebay recently but the buyer had posted his address as (street name) St Johns and that was it - no postcode. I put the street name into Google Earth and in a second it came up with 2 places in the UK with the same street name. A second later using Street View I was looking at his house. Now when you think about it the Google servers are in North Carolina Finland and Belgium so that info has zipped around the world, been decyphered and zipped back to me instantly. I am sure that in a few years the OP of this thread will simply ask a remote computer to find out where the photo is and it will be done without further human interaction.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ntres.html

[manna]

G'Day Gents

The pic of Owen Tudor, looks as if it's just passed through Hatfield, on a down train.

manna

[strang steel]

I suppose that if we could find that formation in the CWNs, then we might be able to discover the working that the photo depicts.

EDITED: to say, it could be the 2:45pm Hitchin to Peterborough.

[Mickey]

The pic of Owen Tudor, looks as if it's just passed through Hatfield, on a down train.

100% correct manna, the signal gantry in the picture has been 'talked about' in the branch lines around Hatfield topic thread.

I have seen many of these photographs on flickr wrongly located obviously sloppy research.

[strang steel]

And the 2.45 pm Hitchin to Peterborough formation is given as BSK SK (twin) CK SK BSK (twin) in the 1958 book.

That would seem like a very good contender, with two bogie vans attached for reasons unknown.


Ooops, just realised that I am talking rubbish. It cannot be any train from Hitchin to Peterborough if it was photographed at Hatfield.

I think that I need to up my medication - NURSE !