MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Lineside and Station Sequences
Part One
An Hour at New Barnet – 28 June 1959
Armed with my new Zeiss Contina camera, which my parents had bought me for my school trip to Kandersteg in Swizerland, I headed to New Barnet to try it out. You can see that I hadn’t mastered the three quarter front view, and that the maximum shutter speed of 1/300th wasn’t fast enough – good lens though.
I’ve adjusted the levels and contrast on these images, but most of them still have all the spots, scratches and hairs that old age confers! I’ve cropped the images, and often kept interesting bits of infrastructure, as well as the engines and trains.
If you followed My Story from the beginning, you will have seen one of these photos before. I’ve added the time I took each photo to the caption to give you some idea of the time period these were taken over. There would have been other trains that I didn’t photograph – definitely the regular stopping Craven DMU service to and from Kings Cross.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
10:55 My first railway photo with my new 35mm camera - Baby Deltic No D5908 calls at New Barnet with a stopping suburban train on 28 June 1959.
10:59 BR built Peppercorn A1 No 60128 'Bongrace' head an express through New Barnet on its journey to Kings Cross on 28 June 1959.
11:33 The second built of the English Electric Type 4s (later Class 40), No D201, heads a northbound express at New Barnet on 28 June 1959.
11:48 BR built Peppercorn A1 No 60129 'Guy Mannering' heads a northbound express through New Barnet on 28 June 1959.
11:52 BRCW Type 2 (more familiar in Scotland as Class 26) No D5305 heads a stopping passenger train through New Barnet
on the down fast line on 28 June 1959.
11:58 BR built Peppercorn A1 No 60157 'Great Eastern' speeds through New Barnet on the last leg of its journey to Kings Cross on 28 June 1959.
