Just quick one to clean out another selection from the camera of Mr Ian Brady. These two shots apparently date from 24 November 1956 (the alternative offered date is 15 December 1956), and what great photos they are!
This first photo shows 3606 hauling a 4 car Pullman set up Cowan Bank, with what appears to be an EHO trundling behind. I am always happy for esteemed readers to correct or add to this caption... going out on a limb to guess this could be the up Kempsey Day Train? Just a stab in the dark but I seem to remember these carriages being used on this service prior to being condemned in 1960. Glorious shot of a pig in its prime though.
This next shot perhaps eclipses the first? Here we have 3818 on an up Newcastle Flyer service. Gee it would have been something special to be line-side as it passed.
Anyway, this nearly ends my little cache of gems from the lens of Mr Brady. There are a few more trams around Glebe to sort through, then a special collection of industrial locos in operation around Port Kembla in August 1955. Will get them sorted and up here as fast as I can.
Cheers,
Don
PS for details on why I am displaying another man's (remarkable) efforts, please read my post from 12 October 2017.
I have just been digging through the family archives to find a small bunch of photos that I think I may have skipped over previously... and only because the majority are an unsightly orange hue. I was never much of a fan of the orange locos scuttling around Port Kembla, as they had:
(a) replaced those cute Porters
(b) orange was everywhere in the 60s and 70s when I was growing up
(c) their Port Kembla abode just stank of sulphur throughout the 60s and 70s and
(d) the head of the household was always cursing their radios (I am led to believe his electrical skills were the only thing keeping the radios on those locos working!).
But, now, looking back, they were sooo much better than those PB things now scuttling around the works.. So, here's a few snaps... not sure of the dates at all so I am just going to stick them up without a commentary. Lets start with D11 and D36, maybe around 1981.
D6 got into a bingle at some stage, which bent its frame nicely. This was worth two photographs.
In February 2016 I posted a blog showing one side of D6. Here is the companion shot - showing the other side.
And here is D6 and its slightly younger sister, D7.
Its not all about D6 folks.... here's one of D10 visiting the deceased remains of S 9131.
Class leader had its privileges, like dragging tourists around in near-condemned NSWGR rollingstock. I think this was from 1985 - quite possibly the slowest train chase I ever did.
Five years after that last shot it was D40's turn, with similarly superannuated carriages and no orange paint (we had been through the 80s, after all).
And then everything got painted blue, buildings, locos, certain workers who didn't move fast enough...
Time to sign off!
Don
