Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: 1973

The Bridge Inn on the Hanley to Newcastle road alongside the Trent & Mersey canal in Etruria. It has long gone together with the famous Wedgwood factory that stood at the rear. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

Overshadowed by Sheffield Hallam University campus & new office blocks the former MIdland railway station on the left in the Sheaf Valley was very quiet on this strike day. The only railed transport in motion were Sheffield's Supertrams & Siemens-Duewag unit 121 is seen here heading to Malin Bridge. HFF everyone. Enjoy your weekend.

Deutsche Bundesbahn Class 50 2-10-0 050-042-1 Kriegslok simmers with several other locomotives around the turntable of this modern half roundhouse shed in the summer heat of 1973. Although I knew that DB steam was still in service in this area I only saw the smoke drifting across by chance alongside the road while hitch-hiking along the western side of the Rhein Valley. 50-042-1 was built in 1939 by Henschel (works number 24662) and at this time was shedded at Saarbrücken. It was withdrawn from that depot in March 1974 and scrapped by Metallum AG, Saarbrücken.

A scene that has changed out of recognition in the last 50 years! The Trent & Mersey Canal meandered through Shelton Bar steelworks and many a splendid industrial vista could be seen from the tow path. The gas holder, cables, pipework and scrap piles cannot hide the impressive Wolstanton church on the skyline.

LNER A4 pacific 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley waits in the bay at Scarborough station to haul the return railtour to York which will shortly arrive behind another Gresley A4, 60019 Bittern.

Bangor railway Station, North Wales. Diesel Class 24 5039 on a west-bound sheeted freight waits on the signal while 5030 shunts a parcels train past the London & North Western Railway signal box at Whit 1973. The semaphore signals are still active but the platform-end water tank had just been felled. The remains can be seen to the left of the railwayman. Bangor station is located between two tunnels, the one seen here takes the line westwards towards Holyhead.