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Sorry, I’ve not posted any new pictures this year, but my Photoshop Elements has crashed and refuses to work even after reinstalling.

I used to use Serif products when I had a PC, but they do not offer any MAC versions.

Can anyone recommend a decent photo editing programme that will run on an iMAC?

As this will be my last post until some time in the New Year, I thought I’d make it a multiple choice – of engines. The 2;59 pm Hull – Leeds is the subject, and you may have seen a couple of the pictures before.

The first shows 77010 piloting 60005, Sir Charles Newton, past Dairycoates on 12th August 1957. My friend, Ken Sharpe and I, had gone up to Dairycoates, hoping to photograph two D20’s on the double header, and caught these two instead…

Latest comment by BobM 16 days ago

Great post Colombo, these pictures bring back memories for me, we squashed many a ha’pny on those…

Apart from all the regular fish trains that used to work from Hull, some fish was attached to passenger trains. This was the case with the 2:59 Leeds, which always had at its head, up to half a dozen fish vans for the West Riding. What they smelled like in the leading carriages, I don’t know. Presumably, they were marshalled at the front fo r operational purposes, Paragon being a terminal station.

The fish vans used to be taken round from the…

I took this photo at Lincoln, during a Riley High School trip on 26th April 1957.

I little realised that, 50 years later, I would see a live steam model of the same engine going around the circuit in West Park.

I gave a copy of the photo to the owner of the model, who was almost reduced to tears, saying, "That’s my Pa’s old engine !".

Apparently, he came from Boston, where the engine had been allocated for many years, and his Dad had been…

A request for help/advice tonight.

I have been given access to some plate glass negatives, dating from the early 1930’s. Naturally, they are of railway subjects.

They measure 8 inches by 6 inches.

Whilst there is a Photo option in the Document (Reflective) mode of my scanner, and I can invert the negative image in Photoshop, the results are, as can be seen, somewhat mediocre.

Does anyone know of a negative scanner that would handle…

For those who are interested, I have posted details on The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Group of the next talk, which is on 60163 – Tornado.

In 1958, all the former ‘Director’ class 4-4-0’s, of the former Great Central, were moved from the Cheshire Lines area, between Manchester and Liverpool, to the Sheffield Area. They were used on various services, usually local stopping trains, but also on expresses, such as the Hull – Liverpool, via Sheffield. I tried to get photographs of all of them, even organising a shed visit to Staveley, where most of them were eventually stored. Unfortunately…

Every so often, at York, there would be a ‘crocodile’ of engines, moving from the shed around the back of the station. I’m not sure of the reason for this, but it could, I suppose, be one way of turning five engines at once, thus saving a number of engine movements.

These are two shots of the same crocodile in 1957/58.

The engines, from front to rear are;

B16/1 4-6-0, 61473, which appears to be doing the pulling,

B1 4-6-0, 61017, Bushbuck…