Polyrus' photos with the keyword: analogue

A general view seen in 1966. Not all of these locomotives escaped the cutter's torch, but most did! At least 213 were rescued for preservation, or to supply parts for others. 45699 'Galatea' was one of the latter but even that has long since been restored and been running on the main network again. An old scan from a long lost 35mm slide. Best viewed large. Explored!

Following on from my previous two images: 31625 is a Maunsell U class loco built at Ashford Works in 1929 and it was withdrawn from service by British Railways at the beginning of 1964. It arrived at Woodham's scrapyard at Barry in June of that year. After languishing in the sea air for almost sixteen years it was rescued for preservation and arrived on the Mid Hants Railway in 1980. Seen here outside the workshops at Ropley on the MHR in 1997, about a year after it first steamed in the 'preservation era'. A scan from a 35mm SupaSnaps slide. SupaSnaps were a low cost photo processing outlet on most UK high streets.

A scan from the original print. E828 (BR 30828), was one of the S15 class of 25 heavy freight locomotives and was built in July 1927 at Eastleigh Locomotive Works. Although designed for freight haulage, E828 and its classmates also hauled frequent stop local passenger trains when needed. This loco was withdrawn from service by British Railways in January 1964 and after a few months in storage at Salisbury it was sold for scrap to the Woodham’s Brother in Barry, south Wales and arrived there in June 1964. As with most locos (200+) sent to the same scrapyard it was eventually rescued for preservation and left there in March 1981 for restoration at Eastleigh Works. However, due to having to re-machine or replace most components restoration was not completed until 1993 and was then based on the Swanage Railway in Dorset. For the next nine years E828 was kept busy and was regularly seen on the national network hauling railtours until its boiler ticket expired in 2002. During that time it was probably my most photographed locomotive.

Hauling this unusual train is 'Trangkil' No.4 at Statfold Barn Farm Railway. A comprehensive multi-gauge private railway near Tamworth, Stafffs, during 2007. Trangkil was the last industrial steam locomotive built in Britain by Hunslet & Co. of Leeds in 1971. Trangkil was originally built to 750 mm gauge and supplied by Robert Hudson for use on the Trangkil sugar mill estate on the island of Java in Indonesia, where it worked for 33 years until made redundant by dieselisation and then was returned to the UK in 2004 to become part of the Statfold collection. During a thorough overhaul in the Statfold workshops this loco was re-gauged to 2’0” (610 mm). A scan from my original Kodak slide.

The Fairbourne Railway is a 12 1⁄4 inch (311 mm) gauge railway running for 2 miles (3.2 km) from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, to the end of the peninsula at the Barmouth Ferry railway station. The railway has four steam locomotives and one of the four, 'Beddgelert', seen here returning to Fairbourne with four coaches, is one of them. All four steam locos are half sized replicas of previous narrow gauge engines. In the background, across the Mawddach estuary, is "The Cardigan Bay Express" hauled by 7819 Hinton Manor! A scan from my Agfachrome 35mm slide, showing the juxtaposition of two completely different trains.