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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2007 21:16:29 GMT
Hi I have just added some more slide scans from the period 1989-1993 to my fotopic site. Below are a couple of tasters for you!   Fotopic have decided to manually check the content of this gallery (they do sometimes) so I will publish the link as soon as they 'go live'. I hope you like them! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2007 6:59:44 GMT
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Post by version3point1 on Mar 4, 2007 15:20:36 GMT
Excellent excellent scans and brilliant exposures! They certainly remind me of what everything was like when I was still a little (much much smaller than I am now) girl! If only my film technique was as good...  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2007 17:42:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2007 20:21:52 GMT
Yes, the colours are nice and the 73s looked very stylish in their original guise - IMO the grey window surrounds do nothing for them, even if the interiors are better. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2007 21:07:01 GMT
Some more added... ...like this one...  Please note that the 1974 EBDY pic was not taken by me! David |
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Post by stanmorek on Mar 11, 2007 17:52:01 GMT
The Rayners Lane picture. The overbridge U6 in the background was removed late 2002. Only the abutments remain.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2007 19:02:58 GMT
And the connection into the siding has also gone...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2007 20:59:02 GMT
...and that 135mm telephoto lens always made tube trains look like caterpillars!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2007 21:07:00 GMT
;D Makes my little 56mm lens look like a dinghy in the Caspian Sea! Viewed from three miles up!
Excellent pics there, lots of memories...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2007 21:20:52 GMT
;D Makes my little 56mm lens look like a dinghy in the Caspian Sea! Viewed from three miles up! Excellent pics there, lots of memories... Don't worry - size isn't everything! ;D There are plenty more still to scan in that box. |
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Post by ant on Apr 21, 2007 3:34:43 GMT
Is it just me or is your page now unavailable? I clicked the above links and got 404's.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2007 9:12:59 GMT
Is it just me or is your page now unavailable? I clicked the above links and got 404's. I've just checked the links and they are all working fine for me. Perhaps someone else could check them for me? Thanks, David |
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Post by Oracle on Apr 21, 2007 9:22:54 GMT
Ok for me as well thanks
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Post by ant on Apr 24, 2007 21:43:38 GMT
Its working for me now. Great collection of shots there mate. Awesome stuff.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2007 22:15:11 GMT
I've just added a few more images to this gallery, including a couple of shots from the IoW during the changeover from 'standard stock' to 1938 stock. I spent very little time aboard the 1938 stock  ; I did have endless rides on the standard stock  This is my favourite picture, from August 1990:  I hope you like them! |
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Post by Oracle on May 6, 2007 22:43:25 GMT
Tbat is an interesting shot! It shows the pier shuttle I think that used the now disused platform at Ryde Esplanade. Here are two photos from about a year ago, showing a 1938 Stock train arriving on the former Up line, and another showing the red starter on the Down platform 2, protecting the crossover just south of the footbridge over the lin eto the Hovercraft terminal.   |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2007 6:13:28 GMT
Thanks for posting those contrasting pictures. At that time, the standard stock was working the Pier Head - Esplanade shuttle. It operated independently of the main service which was worked by the 1938 stock.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2007 6:36:53 GMT
Ryde Pier Head:  1938 stock on the pier:  |
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Post by Oracle on May 7, 2007 10:30:45 GMT
  Show the crossover and the disused platform. I wish they would resuscitate it but the problem may lie in the weakness of the pier. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2007 12:33:58 GMT
the problem may lie in the weakness of the pier. I have to admit, when I went onto the pier about 7 years ago I didn't exactly feel confident............. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2007 13:46:53 GMT
The pier didn't inspire confidence 17 years ago, when my pics were taken . You should have been on it when there were two trains passing! |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2007 14:02:36 GMT
I can imagine David.....I have a fear of water (particularly industrial canals) as I'm not a good swimmer.....if I could have got the ferry to the Esplanade I would...there's no way I'd have gone on that ropey old pier!!!!!!
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Post by Oracle on May 7, 2007 15:24:54 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2007 16:12:37 GMT
The pier didn't inspire confidence 17 years ago, when my pics were taken . You should have been on it when there were two trains passing! heh! RUMBLE RUMBLE SHAKE SHAKE RATTLE [something falls off] |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2007 11:50:05 GMT
Just one shot of ex-LT stock on the Isle of Wight so far on my site, in 1969 when semaphore signalling was still in use:-  Click on the image to go to larger picture with caption on my site. There are a few other shots on the pier at Ryde, in the same collection, during steam days. Loads more to add when I get the time! Regards, Geoff |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2007 12:22:05 GMT
Thanks for posting that Geoff, the matt BR blue didn't really do those trains justice (or any trains for that matter!). The steam pics are fabulous. Do you have any of the petrol tramway in operation? I showed my Mum your pics, she used to go camping on the island in the mid 1960s, she said it was a lovely place.
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Post by Oracle on May 13, 2007 15:10:55 GMT
Theere are still semaphores at St Johns Road! Or were! I love that signal box....what a windswept and loooooonely place (in best "Frazer" voice) it must have been at times. They probably still had paddle-steamers when the pic was taken...PS Ryde lasted a long time,
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2007 12:38:39 GMT
Thanks Davids! Unfortunately, I never took any shots of the pier tramway in action - with the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had! Here's a shot of PS Ryde arriving at Ryde Pier, taken the same day as the picture of the LT stock in July 1969:-  ANOTHER SHOT also includes PS Ryde some 5 years earlier when she still carried BR Southern Region livery. Regards, Geoff |
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Post by Oracle on May 14, 2007 12:52:19 GMT
Been on that Geoff! What a wonderful piece of marine architecture.
Looking back, in '65 when we stayed in Wroxall, the Ventnor Line was of course open as was that to Cowes via Newport. On the way back to Feltham we came back on RYDE, and then caught a 2 x 4-COR train fast to Waterloo. I took the boys down to the Harbour Station on Saturday and two platforms are out of use, P1 and 2, and the SWT ticket office no longer sells ferry tickets.
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