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.
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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.
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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.
