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中国铁路红旗68型轨道车老照片

 

70年代的红旗型轨道车主要用于中国铁路工务段，适用于铁路基本建设、线路大修和工务部门在施工中运送工作人员和器材，也可作为调车机车使用。整体烤漆，双层侧拉窗。外形美观，运行平衡，内部舒适，保温及密封性能良好。

仓库里报废的红旗68轨道车内部驾驶室

70年代的红旗68型轨道车，是1968年制造的老式轨道车，型号为QD160型，估计和后期宝鸡生产的秦岭160型轨道车差不多，

主要技术参数

柴油机型号 6135K-5

柴油机额定功率 120KW(160PS)

传动形式 机械传动

轴距 4000mm

轮径 840mm

制动形式 空气制动及手动

最高速度 82km/h

最大牵引吨位(平直道) 250t

通过最小曲线半径 100m

轨距 1435,1067,1000m

轴列式 B

外形尺寸(长×宽×高) 9550×2740×3240mm

整车重量 约15t

红旗68型轨道车采用一台柴油机，自重15吨。可牵引3辆重车，制动风管限制牵引不能超过6辆，最多能牵引9辆重车。

70年代的圆灯老韶山1型电力机车

宝成铁路是从陕西省宝鸡市通往四川省成都市的铁路，全长668.2公里，于1958年建成，是我国第一条电气化铁路，也是沟通中国西北与西南的第一条铁路干线

宝成铁路从1970年代使用国产韶山1型电力机车，功率3780千瓦，早期的老芍药采用圆灯设计，转向架减震采用板簧，驾驶室采用纯实木制作。大闸也是用的蒸汽机车式的闸把。第一张图为宝成线电力机车三机牵引，韶山1型和法国进口的6G机车还有一台6Y2型机车重联牵引列车。

GBRf Class 66

GBRf Class 66 No. 66702 'Blue Lightning' eases 6S50 1216 Carlisle NY - Millerhill departmental from Abington Loop on 3rd March 2017. The train is scheduled to lay over in the loop for around 35 minutes to allow Virgin and Transpennine services to pass, but on this day Virgin's 9S55 to Glasgow Central was running late and so had to follow the freight, no doubt as far as Carstairs. The River Clyde and hills of the Scottish Lowlands provide a pleasing backdrop. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved

Ivatt Class 2 steam loco

The snow encrusted peaks of the Cairngorms provide a perfect backdrop to Ivatt Class 2 No. 46512 as it performs a run past during the 'In Search of Steam' photographers charter on 5th March 2017. The location is on the run-round loop just to the north of Broomhill station. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved

Chinese diesel DFH3 loco

DFH3 loco on a passenger train leaving Changchun station. I didn't take many photos of Chinese diesels on my first trip to China and this is the only one of a DFH3.

The DFH3 is nominally a development of the earlier DFH1 and was produced from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s. By the time production started, China had several years experience with real German hydraulics of class NY5 and this obviously influenced the design of the DFH3. The loco is basically the equivalent of the DB Class 221 or the BR "Western" designs with it's twin Maybach inspired 1000 kW / 1350 HP 1500 rpm engines and Voith style hydraulic transmissions. Around 300 were built by Sifang.

EL2 electric industrial locomotive

With another load of coal from the opencast pit at Pingzhuang, EL2 Bo-Bo electric no.7340 heads to the local washery.(built in the GDR by LEW Hennigsdorf) The opencast pit here and the electrics are no longer in use, but a number of deep mines are still active.

Kearsley Electric shunter

The day that Mr Jackson drove Mr Heyl and myself around Manchester to get pics of the emergency 'drags' after the 'Whisky and Soda' crash that required all passenger trains between Scotland and the LM region to pass through Manchester and Stockport! During that day, we chanced on Kearsley Power Station and asked if we could take some photos. They not only said yes, but turned on their overhead system and took us for a ride up to the exchange sidings on number 4 loco! Top men! Our two 'guides' are seen here chatting whilst we wander about taking photos! More to follow.....

class 08 diesel shunter

Coupling rods in the cab and part of my train, Target 30, south Manchester 'trip' working.
This day's working consisted of 25138, light engine Guide Bridge to Dewsnap, 9T30 to Trafford Park via the Fallowfield single line, back to Ashburys the same way, back up to Dewsnap for the next trip which included 08923, back to Trafford Park via Fallowfield - leave all but 08923 there - take the shunter to Reddish Shed, take the brake van back to Dewsnap and light engine back to Guide Bridge, followed by a few lunchtime beers in The Boundary Public House! A gratifying days work!

drivers cab 27001 electric locomotive

Metropolitan-Vickers Publication 1956 08
If you think that this is bit too technical, you should see the pages I've omitted!
Enjoy the cab view from 27001 which seems to have no bogies underneath, judging by the crossing gates being level with the cab!

87015 'Howard of Effingham' at Euston station

87015 'Howard of Effingham' at Euston - 26th September, 1982
After an exhausting weekend in Ireland doing GMs and Metrovicks, we were on our way back to Manchester via Crewe when they put this on the boat train. Well I couldn't turn down my highest mileage loco, so off we went to the 'smoke' via Bescot, Stetchford and Northampton! My 32nd run with it for a total of 3,834 miles! Seen here after the stock release.

class 87 loco at Heaton Norris Junction

class 87 loco at Heaton Norris Junction - 29th June, 1977
An early example of the tried and tested method of 'wrapping camera strap around wrist and hoping for the best', used as recently as April this year in New Zealand where it was literally a 'breath of fresh air' to be able to lean out of a train or be on an outside platform of a train - a long forgotten pleasure on the mainlines of this Health and Safety ridden country!

class 86 and crew at Manchester Piccadilly

86217 and crew at Manchester Piccadilly - late 1970s
After what Barking Bill said about 'a moment in time', I was reminded of this grainy 400asa neg that is now more important for the inclusion of the traincrew. Everybody seemed to look older than they actually were, or is that another sign of my own headlong (wine induced) rush into dotage?

class 50 diesel loco at Plymouth

50032 at Plymouth - 3rd July, 1976
An unwelcome loco at the time, but how things change! It's now an historic image of a pre-named class 50 with the 'low' BR emblems!

class 52 D1062 'Western Courier' at Kidderminster

D1062 'Western Courier' at Kidderminster, 2 days before the 50th anniversary of it's 'official' entry into revenue earning traffic!

The unobscured view isn't common, and shows the engine in all it's glory.
Kept wide to help the perspective and other bits round about including a decent bit of sky which justifies the reflections in the cab windows, and the angle, light and steadiness, this gets the prize I think.

class 56 with passenger train

1975 West of England Rover. Somewhere on the Newquay branch, I'm sure someone will give me a more precise location! The train was 1A15 according to the headcode on a previous photo at Newquay! Halcyon days.

The 'science' of hydraulic traction made it perfect for lines like this in pretty much all weather conditions. The tractive effort at the rail was nearly 50% greater in a 'Western' than a 'Deltic'! It's ultimately still down to the skill of the driver, a class 56 being a good example! They were awesome machines (didn't train 'em but I drove several!) that were often let down by poor driving!


Interesting perspective on this was the foreword to a book on Westerns, which could suggest bias! However, it explained the principal of how a diesel electric tends to sit on its haunches when really hauling ass setting off, as it were. As a result the front end lifted and got loss of effort to the point of wheel spin. Couldn't do this with a Whizzo although off hand I am not clear on this, perhaps it was down to the three axles per bogie being linked by cardan shaft preventing it. 
I think it was a John Vaughan book and I am sure someone will have a copy nearer to hand than mine is.
Bottom line was that a Whizzo could outdo any diesel electric and this is borne out by some of the stories such as restarting a stalled train on a gradient by pulling its own as well as propelling the one on front. A Peak on one of the South Devon banks is hazily recalled, which may be harder than being at the head of it all and doing a restart!
Needless to say even a Whizzo could have trouble such as Western Champion on the Newquay branch on wet track trying to get into a tunnel. There is a cracking You Tube entry of this loco doing the skids at North Queensferry incidentally.

british rail diesel calss 46

Another shot from one of Mr (Western Basher) Jackson's famous 'drive arounds'! A fine December day gives some good light to show up the detail on the loco!

BR class 52 loco cab

In Westbury sidings, second day of a marathon drive around in his Ford Capri! Almost convincing with the reflection blotting out any detail on the 'clocks' and the right arm obscuring the fact that it's in 'middle' gear (neither forward nor reverse!), which means someone had left a key in the console or it was 'jimmied' to leave the engine running for frost protection, plus the trainbreak is in either full service or shut down position, so it's going nowhere! Not a bad try for the era. I was nearly three years away from joining the railways and fourteen years away from becoming a driver but we seem to have put some thought into this!

overnight train to Plymouth

This was the evening we did 1056 to Oxford on the commuter, fully intending to return with it. We had a quick libation and returned when this ran in on the 1825 ex Birmingham! Change of plan, take 1057 to Reading and see what else is going into Paddington before we get the overnight to Plymouth (with 1065 to Bristol, then 1065 and 1063 (in tandem!) to Plymouth!).