MY LIFE IN TRAINS
My Story - Part Twenty One
Hadley Wood and one from Ickenham
After my experiment with Adox KB17 film, from now on I used FP3 and stopped worrying about grain! It was almost ten months before I took any more railway photos, after my A level exams and the end of school. I was pretty sure that I’d done OK in my exams, and I would be off to Leicester University in just over a month.
This time I went to Hadley Wood station, situated between two tunnels between New Barnet and Potters Bar. More diesels were around, including Deltics and Peaks as well as the English Electric Type 4s and Type 1s, and Brush and BR Class 2s, but there was still enough steam to keep me interested. Sorry about the motion blur - once again, my fastest shutter speed of 1/300th definitely wasn’t fast enough!
And for something completely different, the last photo in this set was taken near Ickenham while on a visit to my aunt, uncle and cousin.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
Pioneer LNER V2 2-6-2 No 60800 'Green Arrow' speeds north through Hadley Wood with a fast fitted freight at 11.54 on 1 August 1962
BR Type 2 No D5054 heads a northbound train of brand new brake vans through Hadley Wood station on 1 August 1962 - was this a good investment?
BR Britannia 4-6-2 No 70038 'Robin Hood' heads a Cleethorpes express out of Hadley Wood North Tunnel towards Kings Cross on 1 August 1962.
A Kings Cross bound express emerges from Hadley Wood North Tunnel powered by English Electric Type 4 No D258 on 1 August 1962.
LNER A3 4-6-2 No 60066 'Merry Hampton' heads a down parcels train through Hadley Wood on 1 August 1962.
WD 2-8-0 No 90165 drifts out of Hadley Wood North Tunnel with a southbound freight on 1 August 1962.
The Kings Cross bound Tees Tyne Pullman emerges from Hadley Wood North Tunnel powered by English Electric Deltic No D9017,
later named 'The Durham Light Infantry,' on 1 August 1962.
LNER Peppercorn A2 4-6-2 No 60528 'Tudor Minstrel' storms through Hadley Wood station on 1 August 1962 with an express from Kings Cross to Leeds. A 62B Dundee (Tay Bridge) loco, just ex-Doncaster Works.
The Kings Cross bound Yorkshire Pullman emerges from Hadley Wood North Tunnel powered by BR Type 4 No D169 on 1 August 1962.
The Kings Cross bound Norseman emerges from Hadley Wood North Tunnel powered by English Electric Type 4 No D272 on 1 August 1962.
An express for Kings Cross emerges from Hadley Wood North Tunnel powered by Deltic No D9004 'Meld' on 1 August 1962.
A southbound freight emerges from Hadley Wood North Tunnel powered by Brush type 2 No D5680 on 1 August 1962.
A northbound express powers through Hadley Wood station behind English Electric Deltic No D9010, later named 'The King's Own Scottish Borderer',
on 1 August 1962.
A southbound freight emerges from Hadley Wood North Tunnel behind BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92183 on 1 August 1962.
BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92186 takes the fast line at Hadley Wood on 1 August 1962 with a freight for the north.
A southbound freight - the 'Ashburton Grove Pullman' rubbish train - emerges from Hadley Wood North Tunnel behind English Electric Type 1 No D8049 on 1 August 1962.
A northbound express freight heads through Hadley Wood station behind English Electric Type 4 No D258 on 1 August 1962.
An express for Kings Cross emerges from Hadley Wood North Tunnel powered by Deltic No D9012 'Crepello' on 1 August 1962.
LNER A4 No 60015 'Quicksilver' powers a down express through Hadley Wood on 1 August 1962.
GWR King 4-6-0 No 6015 'King Richard III' heads a Birmingham express towards Paddington near Ickenham on 5 August 1962.
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