| This collection is an introduction to my photographs taken from 1959 to 1963.
They moved house with me at least 30 times over 4 decades, along with the notebooks telling me what they were, and now I have scanned them using an Epson flat bed with film attachment, followed by processing in Photoshop. And now I've got a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV film scanner, I will have to scan them all again. It will be worth the effort - the improvement in quality is amazing. |
Future spotters wave to WD 2-8-0 No 90062 as it clanks through Ponders End towards Stratford on 21 August 1959 |
Great Eastern J15 0-6-0 No 65476 passes Ponders End heading north from Temple Mills with a Cambridge line local freight on 21 August 1959 |
Dover Marine Station: Battle of Britain 4-6-2 No 34066 'Spitfire' arrives with a Boat Train from London on 27 February 1960 |
North of Potters Bar Gresley A4 No 60028 'Walter K Whigham' nears its destination at Kings Cross with an express from Newcastle on 19 March 1960 |
A very clean WD 2-8-0 No 90063 heads an engineer's train south near Potters Bar on 19 March 1960 |
Pride of Stratford, Great Eastern J69 0-6-0T No 68619, the Liverpool Street station pilot, gets spruced up at its home shed on 17 April 1960 |
SECR N Class 2-6-0 No 31827 poses in the sunshine at Bricklayers Arms shed on 17 April 1960 |
My local line - Wood Street, Walthamstow, with N7 0-6-2T No 69707 heading for Liverpool Street on 24 April 1960 shortly before the electrics took over |
Away from its Southern home, Rebuilt West Country No 34010 'Sidmouth' gets ready for its next duty at Willesden shed on 30 April 1960 |
Shed bashing at Willesden on 30 April 1960, with Fairburn 2-6-4T No 42070 in the foreground |
Nine Elms shed on 3 May 1960 with King Arthur 4-6-0 No 30451 'Sir Lamorak' getting an extra polish |
Gaffer and workers talk on 7 May 1960 as Robinson A5 4-6-2T No 69814 waits on empty stock beside Kings Cross signal box |
