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Taken in about 1960
Clean ex-LSWR Beattie Well-Tank 2-4-0WT 30586 with a grubby BR Conflat at Wadebridge station yard, on a rainy day in around 1960, with the distinctive clock tower of the Town Hall in the background..
It entered service – looking very different – in 1875, and was withdrawn – together with the other two remaining members of the class – in December 1962. The other two have survived, but this loco was, eventually, scrapped in March 1964..
Wadebridge station lost its passenger service in January 1967, and freight services ended in 1978. Today (2025) this location is occupied by houses and a car park...
Restored from an under-exposed cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
See where this photo was taken
Taken on March 31st 1962
Ex-LBSC Billington E6 0-6-2T 32408 at Feltham loco shed, on a bright sunny day in March 1962.
The loco had entered service in 1904, and was withdrawn – with the other two remaining members of the class - in December 1962, and scrapped in February 1963. None of the class have survived.
Feltham shed closed in 1967, and today (2025) the site is occupied by an industrial estate.
Restored from a cyan-colour-shifted yellow-bleed original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
See - approximately - where this photo was taken
37431 'Sir Powys / County of Powys' departs Barmouth in August 1989.
Originally D6972 becoming 37272 prior to being refurbished.
Cut up at Wigan CRDC in August 2000.
The working is the Pwllheli to London Euston service. I'm assuming this is the afternoon working given the position of the sun.
Another 35mm slide which has been scanned. Purchased from Paul Robertson. Photographer not known.
Ref: img20250114_16020267 Cambrian
Taken in May 1962
Ex-LNER Gresley/Thompson A1/1 60113 ''Great Northern'' near Wortley, Leeds on a foggy day in May 1962.
This had entered service with the Great Northern Railway in 1922, as the first of the new Gresley pacifics..
It was - controversially - chosen by Thonpson to be completely rebuilt into the first of his new design of pacifics in 1945, and appeared in a unique dark-blue livery with red lining, and short cab. It was soon further modified, with a standard A3 cab and smoke deflectors, as seen here, and remained a unique member of its class.. It was withdrawn in November 1962, and scrapped.
Restored from a very-under-exposed unfocussed grainy magenta-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
See - very approximately - where this photo was taken
Taken on August 3rd 1968
Grimy ex-LMS Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 44874 at Lostock Hall shed on the day before the official end of regular steam on BR, with a selection of chalk messages..
The loco had entered service in April 1945, and – despite its condition seen here – was thoroughly cleaned up, with replacement number plate, and hauled one of the 'last day' railtours the very next day:
www.flickr.com/photos/rgadsdon/28761022016/
It was then withdrawn, and scrapped in April 1969… Eighteen examples of the class have survived, but not all of these have been restored..
The shed closed down in August 1968, and today (2025), the buildings have all been demolished, and the site is derelict, and overgrown.
Restored from an under-exposed unfocussed cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
See where this photo was taken
18/11/2006, loading fuel oil at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
Vessel's port side main deck and cargo manifold.
An oil products/chemical tanker, which was at this time being used as a bunkering vessel (possibly for Russian/Ukrainian fishing vessels operating in the area of Mauretania. The Captain and C/O were in fact Russian).
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
The ship's main mast & funnel.
An oil products/chemical tanker.
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
The chart 'room' - on the starboard side of the navigation bridge.
An oil products/chemical tanker.
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, loading fuel oil at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
An oil products/chemical tanker.
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, loading oil fuel at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
Port side aft, looking for'ard.
An oil products/chemical tanker, which was at this time being used as a bunkering vessel (possibly for Russian/Ukrainian fishing vessels operating in the area of Mauretania. The Captain and C/O were in fact Russian).
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
The ship's navigation bridge, steering position, main engine controls and radar.
An oil products/chemical tanker.
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, loading fuel oil at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
An oil products/chemical tanker, which was at this time being used as a bunkering vessel (possibly for Russian/Ukrainian fishing vessels operating in the area of Mauretania. The Captain and C/O were in fact Russian).
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
An oil products/chemical tanker, which was at this time being used as a bunkering vessel (possibly for Russian/Ukrainian fishing vessels operating in the area of Mauretania. The Captain and C/O were in fact Russian).
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, loading fuel oil at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
View for'ard from the Monkey Island.
An oil products/chemical tanker, which was at this time being used as a bunkering vessel (possibly for Russian/Ukrainian fishing vessels operating in the area of Mauretania. The Captain and C/O were in fact Russian).
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, loading fuel oil at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
Vessel's port side main deck and cargo manifold.
An oil products/chemical tanker, which was at this time being used as a bunkering vessel (possibly for Russian/Ukrainian fishing vessels operating in the area of Mauretania. The Captain and C/O were in fact Russian).
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
18/11/2006, loading fuel oil at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
An oil products/chemical tanker, which was at this time being used as a bunkering vessel (possibly for Russian/Ukrainian fishing vessels operating in the area of Mauretania. The Captain and C/O were in fact Russian).
Keel laid during September 1973, launched on 05/11/1974, & completed on 07/04/1975, by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, England (h904)
2,334 g.t. & 3,500 dwt., as:
'Pass of Balmaha' to 1985,
'Deltauno' to 1987,
'Lobelia' to 1990,
'Lobster' to 1991,
'Lotus' to 1994,
'Mare Titanium' to 1994,
'Taro' to 1995,
'Concorde' to 2002,
'Tenerife' to 2002,&
'Blue Ice' until sold to India for demolition.
Arrived at Alang on 21/05/2008, work commenced on 26/05/2008.
Taken on April 2nd 1966
Ex-LMS Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 45477 passing a set of typical advertising signs in April 1966, with RAF Turnhouse on the left..
The loco had entered service in 1943, and was withdrawn in August 1966, and scrapped in January 1967. Eighteen examples have survived, but not all of these have been restored..
The RAF base closed in 1996, and some of the site is now (2025) part of Edinburgh Airport.. The buildings on the left have gone, and two out of the three adverts on the right would be illegal today….
Restored from an under-exposed unfocussed cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
See where this photo was taken
30/07/2007, outward in the New Waterway, Hook of Holland, Netherlands.
Keel laid on 10/07/1982, launched on 15/11/1984, and completed on 19/12/1984, by Schiffswerft Diedrich GmbH, Oldersum, Germany (150)
499 g.t. & 1,562 dwt., launched as:
'Sanna', completed as
'Sea Ems', to 1996,
'Mari Line' to 1998,
'Desiree' to 2001,
'Sonja' to 2003,
'Sanna' to 2011, &
'MRW Sanna' until sold to Turkey for demolition.
Arrived at Aliaga on 30/07/2013, demolition began on 01/08/2013.
