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BRITAIN’S LEADING HISTORICAL RAILWAY JOURNAL
Vol. 29
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No. 2
FEBRUARY 2015
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Vol 29 . No. 2
No. 286
FEBRUARY 2015
RECORDING THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN’S RAILWAY
Roses are red . . . and so are some locomotives
Right from the beginning of
Backtrack
an essential ingredient of
its content has been historic colour photographs – from pre-war
to around the first decade of the present century. One of the most
remarkable aspects of recorded railway history is the vast extent to
which railways have been photographed – and most particularly the
extent of it that has been in colour. Just look at the continuing growth
of the Colour-Rail catalogue over successive issues – more than 6,000
entries in its final edition last year – and that’s just a fraction of what
exists. Our pages have been graced by the colour work of some of the
leading practitioners in the field – names such as Dick Riley, Michael
Mensing, Geoff Rixon, John Edgington, Gavin Morrison, Derek Penney,
John Gilks to highlight but a few regular contributors – but also many
gems from camermen of perhaps not such general renown. What,
between them, they have covered – in terms of not only locomotives
and trains but also the railway ‘scene’ in its widest sense, and in
the geography of these islands – is wonderful and we should be so
grateful for what they achieved. And consider too that those colour
photographers pursued their pastime for no more than their own
satisfaction, with little expectation at that time of seeing their work
published or deriving financial reward from it; it was into the 1960s
before the railway periodicals began to have a colour picture on the
front cover but then not much more than that. It was the 1980s before
rapid advances in reprographic and printing technology brought
about the colour publishing world we now enjoy.
Colour photography of the contemporary scene continues,
obviously, and modern digital cameras offer new possibilities in
quality not least with the capacity to enhance, edit and generally
tinker with the image as captured. But as for historic photographs –
well, the curtain has been rung down; what’s been photographed has
been photographed and there’s no going back to take any more. That
leaves us to regret what’s
not
been photographed in colour – and that,
despite some outstanding pre-war gems which have appeared in
The
Big Four in Colour
and this magazine, is a lot. Even when it had become
available, colour film was simply not a practical and affordable option
for those who so profusely recorded the railway scene in black and
white. So we are left to reflect on the fact that very many potential
subjects just weren’t photographed in colour; then, of course, there
were all those locomotives which departed the scene before capturing
them in their colourful glory had even become a possibility. And that,
you would say, is that. And yet...
In the June issue last year we featured a colour picture of the
LNER D49 Class locomotive
Inverness-shire
in which the contributor,
David P. Williams, had employed the latest in computer wizardry to
carefully and skilfully transform a black and white photograph into
colour. In the caption Mr. Williams was clear about what he’d done
and there was no attempt by the magazine to pass off the image as
being from a genuine transparency. I’m always interested in trying
something new and seeing how it fares in the court of
Backtrack
opinion – and I was quite gratified to find there were no gainsayers.
Now the artist, encouraged by the outcome of his contribution,
has suggested we might like to publish some more of them in
BT;
he
has an extensive portfolio of work of which I’ve seen some examples
and there is certainly quality to compare with that of
Inverness-shire.
The use of one such computer-coloured image in support of
an article is one thing but I don’t know how you, the readers, would
take to them on a more regular basis. After all, it can be argued
that there isn’t really any difference in principle between these and
the historic colour postcards produced in the past by such as the
Locomotive Publishing Company which have often appeared in the
magazine and, indeed, have constituted features in their own right –
for example, the Scottish engines last July. Back then the absence of
colour photographs was addressed by talented artists applying brush
and paint to create pictures which, in their day, were highly regarded
for their accuracy by contemporary reprographic standards. Now
technology allows exponents of the craft to use computer ingenuity
to bring monochrome photographs to a coloured life they never had,
or at least the best attempt at representing what a colour transparency
would have been like. No doubt you’ll let me know what you think but
in the meantime here is a taster of what can be done.
Contents
On the Blackpool Line
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68
The Dugald Drummond ‘Down Under’ Myth
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70
Collisions in Fog
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74
The Railways of Bournemouth
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80
Water, Water, Everywhere . . .
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92
The First Railways to Selby – Part Two:
The Hull & Selby Railway
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87
Midland Goods Heritage
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96
Building the ‘Top Rail Journey in the World’
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100
Stations for the Lairds
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102
Sleeping Cars – Aspects of their History
and Development
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108
Helsby – A Cheshire Country Junction
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113
Life at Orpington Shed
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114
Do you need a Crossing to make a Point?
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116
More Men at Work
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122
Working the Fish
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124
Readers’ Forum
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125
LMS 4F 0-6-0 No.44571 carefully
descends the Lickey Incline near
Bromsgrove with a freight train
in 1961.
(Paul Riley/Colour-Rail BRM2013)
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ON THE BLACKPOOL LINE
above
:
Class 31 No.31 448 is working the 18.58 from Blackpool North
Photographs by
TOM HEAVYSIDE
to Manchester Victoria on 18th June 1988. Blackpool North used to
have sixteen platforms, ten of them for excursions in the heady days
of such traffic. The station was redeveloped in 1974, using eight of the
platforms on the former excursion side; now electrification is in prospect
by 2017. Only the landmark tower remains unchanged!
below
:
Class 37 No.37 228 brings the summer Saturday 13.59 Blackpool
North–Sheffield across the junction with the Fleetwood line at Poulton
No.3 box on 2nd July 1983. Passenger services to Fleetwood ceased in
1970 but freight traffic continued to the chemical works at Burn Naze
until 1999. Since then the line has been disused; discussions have taken
place on its future, without resolution.
Things are not what they were on the railways
to Blackpool. The line to Blackpool North (Talbot
Road until 1932) is now the principal route but
has lost the once important erstwhile main line to
Fleetwood. The ‘coast’ route to Blackpool Central
via Lytham remains, though much reduced in
status and terminating at Blackpool South after
the famous Central station closed in 1964. A third
route, the 1903 ‘New Line’ direct from Kirkham via
Marton to Blackpool Central, has gone completely.
above
:
A Manchester Victoria–Blackpool
North train judders away from Kirkham
station on 16th August 1980, recalling the
days of ageing Derby DMU ‘rattlers’ grinding
across the Fylde. Kirkham station had an
island platform, with a pair of fast lines
passing it on the north side.
below
:
This is Kirkham North Junction on the same date and what an important
location it used to be. The 15.05 Blackpool North–Glasgow Central is approaching
behind Class 25 No.25 186. Diverging to the left is the Blackpool South line, long
downgraded to local status and singled during the early ’80s. The Blackpool North
route curves to the right, but straight ahead ran the ‘New Line’ to Blackpool Central,
making a flying junction with the North line. Abandoned after the 1966 summer
season, part of its course is now taken by the M55 motorway.
Class 47 No.47 214 passes the long island platform at Poulton-le-Fylde with a train
from Blackpool on 2nd July 1983. When Fleetwood station was open, through carriages
conveyed on Blackpool trains were often attached and detached there. As can be seen,
there were also fast lines on the outside, though out of use by the time of this photograph.

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