MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Lineside and Station Sequences
Part Five
New Barnet for a Couple of Hours – 17 October 1959
and Two Cloudy Winter Days at Ponders End
24 October and 27 December 1959
A couple of weeks later and I was back at New Barnet for a couple of hours. Starting with two more BRCW Type 2s (Class 26) to complete three in a row with the last one seen on the way from Potters Bar to New Barnet two weeks before, all the rest of the photos I took were of steam. A good variety of classes too.
The final photos of 1959 were all taken from the footbridge at Ponders End on murky days –with poor composition and the need to open the aperture to f/4 with a 1/125th shutter speed, these are purely record shots. I wouldn’t have considered showing these to anyone else under any circumstances, but I understand some people like to ‘cop’ from photos on the web!
My notes show that I took two more photos on the first day, of another J39, 64958, on an up freight at 15:53, and L1 67734 on a down passenger train at 16:12, but I’ve never scanned them. The negatives are very, very thin.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
10:28 BRCW Type 2 No D5317 heads a stopping passenger train through New Barnet towards Kings Cross on 17 October 1959.
10:34 BRCW Type 2 No D5319 heads an express through New Barnet towards Kings Cross on 17 October 1959.
10:36 BR built A1 4-6-2 No 60120 'Kittiwake' on a down express at New Barnet on 17 October 1959.
10:42 LNER A3 4-6-2 No 60106 'Flying Fox' heads an up express through New Barnet on 17 October 1959.
10:53 BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92149 runs slowly through New Barnet with a down class E freight on 17 October 1959.
11:34 LNER B1 4-6-0 no 61179 speeds through New Barnet on a down express on 17 October 1959.
12:24 LNER K3 2-6-0 No 61830 shunts the goods yard at New Barnet on 17 October 1959.
12:36 LNER A3 4-6-2 No 60047 'Donovan' speeds north while a Cravens DMU led by E56413 sets off from New Barnet on its way to Kings Cross
on 17 October 1959.
15:40 LNER K3 2-6-0 No 61937 speeds an up Class E express freight through Ponders End on 24 October 1959.
15:43 LNER B2 4-6-0 No 61607 'Blickling', a Thomson rebuild of a Gresley B17, heads an express north through Ponders End on 24 October 1959.
15:47 LNER J39 0-6-0 No 64767 trundles south through Ponders End on a Class K pick up freight on 24 October 1959.
11:30 English Electric Type 4 pioneer No D200 heads an express to Liverpool Street south through Ponders End on 27 December 1959.
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