Hi All

Just added 3 photos to the then & now section, but i do not have any now 
photos for these 3 pics, anyone able to oblige
A couple of photos taken from the goods yard behind the station showing in 
platform 8 a Claughton 4-6-0 and a tank engine
http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50477400.html
6867 LNWR Watford  0-6-2Tank pottering about with some LMS wagons
http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50477399.html
LNWR Coal Tank 7722 leaves Huddersfield with a single coach working to 
destination unknown, this part of the station is now filled in, and part of 
the car park,
http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50477398.html
The water tower on the extreme left of the photos is seen better here
http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p49322607.html

Neil

Hi All
Found 2 pics, though not exact location, the roof gives the only remaining
focal point and going in the opposite direction as 7722
60009 Union of South Africa
http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50481339.html
185126
http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50481338.html
Both Pics taken on the 27th July 2007
 LNWR Coal Tank 7722 leaves Huddersfield with a single coach working to
 destination unknown, this part of the station is now filled in, and part of
 the car park,
 http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50477398.html

Neil

"> LNWR Coal Tank 7722 leaves Huddersfield with a single coach working to
> destination unknown, this part of the station is now filled in, and part 
> of
> the car park,
> http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50477398.html
>

That coach looks like a saloon of some kind. Possibly a club coach.

Anybody any ideas?

John.

John Whitaker wrote:
> "> LNWR Coal Tank 7722 leaves Huddersfield with a single coach working to
>> destination unknown, this part of the station is now filled in, and part 
>> of
>> the car park,
>> http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50477398.html
>>
> 
> That coach looks like a saloon of some kind. Possibly a club coach.
> 
> Anybody any ideas?
> 

Looks like a 'family' or 'picnic' saloon - note the luggage compartment 
at one end. The compartment at the other end is possibly for servants 
... The loco is perhaps the station pilot which has just detached it 
from a train or is about to attach it. It is surely not moving, despite 
the caption, as both driver and fireman are studing the photographer.


Interesting that such activities lasted into LMS days.

http://www.fourtrack.co.uk/acatalog/lyfs.html

and

http://www.brc-stockbook.co.uk/LNWR_No182.htm

look similar, but now quite the same.

Charlie

>> "> LNWR Coal Tank 7722 leaves Huddersfield with a single coach working to
>>> destination unknown, this part of the station is now filled in, and part 
>>> of
>>> the car park,
>>> http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50477398.html
>>>
>>
>> That coach looks like a saloon of some kind. Possibly a club coach.
>>
>> Anybody any ideas?
>>
>
> Looks like a 'family' or 'picnic' saloon - note the luggage compartment at 
> one end. The compartment at the other end is possibly for servants ... The 
> loco is perhaps the station pilot which has just detached it from a train 
> or is about to attach it. It is surely not moving, despite the caption, as 
> both driver and fireman are studing the photographer.
>
>
> Interesting that such activities lasted into LMS days.
>
> http://www.fourtrack.co.uk/acatalog/lyfs.html
>
> and
>
> http://www.brc-stockbook.co.uk/LNWR_No182.htm
>
> look similar, but now quite the same.
>
> Charlie
>

Many thanks Charlie. Much appreciated, and hearty congratulations to the 
team who restored No 182. A superb job indeed.

John.

"neil"  wrote in message
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http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50477399.html
> LNWR Coal Tank 7722 leaves Huddersfield with a single coach working to
> destination unknown, this part of the station is now filled in, and part
of
> the car park,

Neil,

the single coach looks like a family saloon.  7722 could be about to attach
it to a train.


--
Paul Stevenson

For railway photos see ebay
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Hi All

Thanks for comments, i have put different caption on now for this pic

Neil

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"Paul Stevenson"  wrote in message 
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>
> "neil"  wrote in message
> news:FRnXj.13234$iD4.10504@newsfe09.ams2...
> http://www.huddersfieldsrailways.photos.gb.com/p50477399.html
>> LNWR Coal Tank 7722 leaves Huddersfield with a single coach working to
>> destination unknown, this part of the station is now filled in, and part
> of
>> the car park,
>
> Neil,
>
> the single coach looks like a family saloon.  7722 could be about to 
> attach
> it to a train.
>
>
> --
> Paul Stevenson
>
> For railway photos see ebay
> http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZpdsteveoQQhtZ-1
>
>

On 17 May, 10:38, Charlie Hulme  wrote:

> Interesting that such activities lasted into LMS days.

That  picture (and some of the others) is obviously from pretty early
in LMS days, as the loco retains the LNWR sockets for lamps, rather
than lamp irons.

kevallsop@holdthefrontpage.co.uk wrote:
> On 17 May, 10:38, Charlie Hulme  wrote:
> 
>> Interesting that such activities lasted into LMS days.
> 
> That  picture (and some of the others) is obviously from pretty early
> in LMS days, as the loco retains the LNWR sockets for lamps, rather
> than lamp irons.

Yes, defintely 1920s I'd say. The loco has a smokebox door number
plate: I think I'm right in saying that after early attempts at 
standardisation, the LMS were eventually persuaded to give up
fixing these (a Midland idea) to ex-LNWR loco smokeboxes from
about 1928, on the pretext that they created leaks, damage to
the door, or something of the sort.

Charlie

I was quite surprised to see ex-LNWR coal tank as
LMS 7722 working over at Huddersfield.

Throughout my childhood 7722 could be seen arriving
in and departing from the bay platform at Newton-le-
Willows as it worked to and from Bolton Gt Moor Street
with an ex-LNWR push & pull train set. It was then shedded
at Plodder Lane, Bolton.

Some time around mid-day it would travel the extra mile
to Earlestown and stable in the long siding by No 2 (East
Jn) signal box where the crew would clean the fire then
eat their lunch.

For years, my schoolboy friends and I would use the name
'Cocky Dick' for 7722 without knowing why, so I asked my
Earlestown signalman dad who often used the term himself.
He used to grunt or mutter something unmentionable and
then say no more.

It was my mother, Ena, who told me, when I was much older.
It seems that when she lived in a terraced house immediately
over the fence from the turn round siding, she used to lean
over and chat to the crew while they ate their lunch. One of
the regular Plodder Lane firemen was a young man by the
name of Dick Battersby, who's chat would be today be known
as 'chat up'! At the time she was already going out with my dad
and eventually married him, moving to the house where I was
born and still within sight & sound of the line between Newton-
le-Willows and Earlestown.

I soon noticed that 7722 (or sister engine 7727) always gave
two toots on the whistle when it passed by and my mother
would wave if she was in the garden. "Who was that" I would
ask and my mother would reply "It's Uncle Dick". One day, when
my dad got home from work, he asked me what I'd been doing.
Amongst other things, I told him I'd "waved to Uncle Dick on his
engine".

His face turned to thunder and he bellowed "You haven't got
a bl00dy Uncle Dick!"

30 years later I was the party leader on a Loco Club of GB
visit to Northwich MPD (8E) near the end of steam. I signed
in for the whole party at the request of the shed foreman,
who looked at my name and then asked "Are you Ena's lad
from Earlestown?" "Yes" I replied. He hesitated for a moment
then looked me up and down and asked "How's your mother?"


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