On Shed September 2011 Edition
"Preserving the steam locomotive legacy...and more..on film"
September 2011 Edition.
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PFT/TSP = Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme / Toerisme en Spoorpatrimonium (Belgium)
PFT/TSP 26.101 is former PMPPW Ty2 3554 (Poland) (C) Marc Petit
Contents:
Welcome..and site news(Steam Tube Documentaries)
SteamTube Photographic Highlights
Steam Tube Video Highlights
On This Day In This Month In Railway History
Around the World in 80 Railways . No 16: Hanoi to Saigon
Surreal Journey-Dick Bodily
HS1-The Journey (C)"RLE Arup, Bechtel, Halcrow Systra/NCE"
Christian Wolmars August newsletter
Fanfare for The Settle and Carlisle Railway(Butterflyfilmsltd)
Men of Iron ( Windfall Films for Channel 4 TV)
Monster Moves (demandfive on YouTube) 2 Stanier 8Fs repatriated to UK
Software Rview- Dick Bodily-
---‘British Railways Steam Locomotive Sheds & Allocations’ (Engine Shed Society)
Diesel - Steam - Electric! Northern Europe DE FR UK EE LV, August 2 - 13 2011
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Welcome...and site news editorial
It is a pleasure to welcome you all to this September 2011 edition of "On Shed", the monthly magazine of "Steam Tube- The Home of Steam on the net".
We are pleased to have 661 members..a special welcome to those of you who have joined us in the last month........14,065 photographic images, and 3,115 videos.....(As a reminder, please be aware of copyright issues....only upload material that you are responsible for, or where permission has been granted...Otherwise, if in doubt, leave it out. Thank you.)
You will notice that TFC is constantly working at keeping the site fresh and interesting....
Steam Tube TV is one recent addition ...
We have been impressed with the quality of material being uploaded to Steam Tube, and are grateful to our regular contributors for keeping us well informed on mainline steam runnings and heritage railways galas and regular activities.Thank you.
With that in mind, Steam Tube Documentaries is another opportunity to tell a story, or retell history of say , a locomotive, or a heritage line....
Here is one such example uploaded by Richard Camp..
A short Railway documentary exploring why steam engines appeal to so many people and how they quickly vanished from the railways but made a strong return
Steam Tube would welcome more documentaries in the future......maybe we will have a competition...
You can access this channel from the Home Page..."Get a Steam Tube Channel"...this leads to a group of channels including "The Steam Room...Steam talk for Grown-Ups", Steam Tube TV, and the Photographic Clinic
And dont forget The Railway Chronicle
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On the subject of "putting something back", Malcolm Ranieri FRPS made these comments on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam railway website.......
Photographers - whats their contribution?
When agreeing to take part in Five minutes with… Malcolm Ranieri who, of course, spends a lot of time photographing locomotives and railways, asked if he could respond to a comment made by Kevin Jarvis in his Five minutes with… when he said that he begrudges the fact that photographers make large amounts of money out of photographing our locomotives and without necessarily putting anything back in.
As Malcolm points out, that is certainly not true of all photographers but feels that is a misconception and he makes two points.
Firstly, on the issue of making large amounts of money:
"As a published photographer and author since 1985 in the railway and other transport press, I can disabuse Kevin straight away in that railway photography far from a lucrative business. Railway photography is enthusiast-driven and editors can (and do) pick and choose what they publish because there is a ready supply of pictures. Therefore payments are correspondingly lower than in other forms of journalism. They dont compare with a commission, for example, in magazines like Country Life. A half page image in a railway magazine possibly pays up to £40 which would barely pay for the fuel for a trip to Scotland for instance!
"Most are enthusiasts enjoy railway photography as a hobby and its hard to begrudge them that! I accept there are a few who try to make money out of the hobby and dont put anything back, but thats not unique to railways. I wrote and illustrated the Halsgrove Publishing book on our railway not with a thought for profit but to celebrate and publicise the GWR and with the book now in its second year I have only just broken even - and that doesnt include the many hours spent putting it together, which was of course a labour of love.
"Its a shame Kevin doesnt read the specialist magazines any more because there are some fine photographs in them (including the 37s on our railway). But I do assume he reads the Cornishman and of course this website. Pictures are a vital part of both and appear with not a penny piece paid to the people who take them: they appear because the photographers want to support our wonderful railway."
Malcolm now turns to the point…without necessarily putting anything back in which, he believes, is an unfair judgement.
He says: "Once again I accept there are those who selfishly do not put anything back, but I believe they are far outweighed by those many enthusiast photographers who do. How does Kevin know photographers taking pictures of the 37s are not volunteers on other railways? Or shareholders; or travellers putting their hands in their pockets to support their favourite preserved lines?
"I realise Kevin means those who have images published, so Ill discuss that. If I use our own railway as an example, I dont think anyone can dispute the fact that photographers like Tony Bowles, who has been a volunteer since day one; Paul Stratford, (Fireman and restoration engineer); myself, (Stationmaster); Jack Boskett (Admin team and diesel department); to say nothing of Ian Crowder (editor of this website and PR officer) or Steve Standbridge (The Cornishman) and many others give their images not just to the railway, but often reinvest any earnings they might get from the magazines into the railway. I have certainly given countless images to many railways for use on all sorts of publications and railway merchandise - postcards, mats, mugs: you name it!
"At the very top of the ladder in preservation, there are many enthusiast photographers who are now key figures in the movement. For example David Williams, chairman of the Severn Valley Railway; Michael Whitehouse, chairman of the Birmingham Railway Museum at Tyseley (and at Festiniog/Welsh Highland) and of course, his father Patrick before him; Richard Jones, general manager of Bodmin & Wenford Railway; John Hunt, prolific photographer from steam days and now chairman of NELPG. All were notable photographers before becoming more deeply involved. I do hope Kevin is not inferring that such luminaries are not putting anything back in to preservation!
"Of course, generalisations are wonderful things and we all use them. But often they dont stand scrutiny and I hope Kevin doesnt mind my making these points on behalf of the railway photographers who are such a vital part of the railway movement."
You can read this interview with Ian Crowder HERE
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Foremarke Hall photo shoot possibility.
As of this writing, we are still awaiting a figure for a potential photo shoot at the GWSR with Foremarke Hall as the performing locomotive. Of course, numbers will play a big part as to this being feasible. So, the more, the merrier..and cheaper per person.
In the event of small numbers, the other option is for lineside passes for a particular day........
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Calendar entries...are still arriving...! The cut off date is 30th September 2011.
Our proposed book "Steam Tube 2012" needs entries....so, please feel free to nominate your preferred entries for possible inclusion in such a book.
In the meantime, enjoy this months edition of "On Shed", the monthly online magazine of
"Steam Tube (TM) - The Home of Steam on the Net"
Peter S Lewis (Shedmaster)
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SteamTube Photographic Highlights
Steam Tube Video Highlights
On This Day In This Month In Railway History
September
01/09/1905
The Witham (Essex) rail crash in England kills 11.
04/09/1905
William Dean , CME of the GWR (1877-1902) born 1840
07/09/1962
Last Cornishman express ran over the Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham route:
this and other express trains were re-routed via the Birmingham - Gloucester line.
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway operates over the section of line previously used when The Cornishman train ran in its heyday.
Currently the GWSR is coping with the effects of two serious landslips. Please support the Emergency Fund so that the railway can recover from these setbacks, and move on with its ambitious plans to get to Broadway, and , who knows, to Honeybourne in the future.
15/09/1830
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened.
During the ceremony, William Huskisson MP, became the first person to be killed by a train.
The Rocket 150 event held at Rainhill in 1980 marked the 150th anniversary of the worlds first inter-city railway and the Stephensons legendary Rocket locomotive.
Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7305.shtml
17/09/1909
Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester, England, steam the first Garratt articulated steam locomotive, built to the design of Herbert William Garratt.K Class No. K1 for the Tasmanian Government Railways North East Dundas Railway.
(MOSI is pulling out all the stops for the 100th birthday celebrations of one of Manchester’s most famous steam locomotives.
It is taking the K1, the first Beyer-Garratt produced by the Beyer, Peacock company, back to its birthplace in Gorton, Manchester, on August 17 to celebrate 100 years since it first steamed off the production line.
The anniversary has special resonance as the town of Gorton is also celebrating 100 years since it became part of Manchester, through its Gorton 100 celebrations.)
The Worlds First Garratt
17/09/1912
The Ditton Junction rail crash near Widnes, England, kills 15.
The Official Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke
19/09/1882
Oliver Bulleid, CME , Southern Railways (1937-48) born in New Zealand (d 1970)
At Nine Elms MPD
19/09/1906
14 die as a result of the Grantham rail accident on the Great Northern Railway, when a sleeping car train is derailed passing through Grantham statiopn at excessive speed.
The Official Report
24/09/1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident(England) kills 10 New Zealand soldiers.
25/09/1913
Death of Herbert William Garratt, English steam locomotive builder and inventor of the Garratt
locomotive type. (b 1864)
27/09/1825
The Stockton Darlington Railway opened. It was the first passenger rail service, the steam locomotive travelled at 10mph.
Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway c1825 painted in the 1880s by John Dobbin, . The image shows crowds watching a train on the bridge over the River Skerne in Darlington
27/09/1919
September 27 to October 6..Railway workers in the United Kingdom stage a strike, called by the National Union of Railwaymen.
During the First World War the cost of living increased rapidly. Fron July 1914 to September 1915, for example, food prices rose 37%. For the duration of the War the government was in control of the railways. Wages were increased, but at a slower rate than the risin in the cost of living. NUR and ASLEF responded jointly and forced the Board of Trade to award wage increases in September 1916 and April 1917. In March 1919 the coalition government indicated that it intended to review the War Wage, with a view to reducing it at the end of the year. The NUR and ASLEF started a second national railway strike in September 1919, which in nine days won both a change in pay policy and the reduction of the working day to eight hours.(Wikipedia)
28/09/1928
3rd class sleeping cars introduced on those British railways providing such a service.
28/09/1883
Formal opening of first electrified section of Giants Causeway Tramway in Ireland, utilising hydroelectricity.
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Around The World in 80 Railways. 16: Hanoi to Saigon
Total journey between these two cities is 1,070 miles, and according to the timetable, the southwards route to Saigon will take around a day and a half, depending on train type travelled.
Trains between Hanoi & Saigon are sometimes referred to as the Reunification Express by guide books or tourist agencies. However, there are now many trains on this route and no single train officially carries this name.
Between Hanoi and Saigon the scenery is amazing. Easily the best section is between Hué and Danang over the Hai Van Pass, where the train runs along the coast past bays and islands and through the hills. The fierce gradients slow the train down, necessitating an assisting locomotive at the rear.
Introduction to a railway-themed tour being hosted by Scott McGregor around Vietnam in 2010, organised by renaissance tours, Sydney Australia.
Railway crossing on the north side of the Hai Van Pass
DirtyPierreonTour on YouTube)
(satsumannoyaji on YouTube)
Next : Saigon to ??
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Surreal Journey
Some time back in the summer holidays of 1961 I went camping on the Isle of Man as a boy scout with our local troop. The journeys to and from the island involved many changes of transport and not just a little excitement and adventure, as well as quite a bit of rail interest. The whole experience of the two journeys still seems dreamlike and unreal to me half a century on, not least because on both occasions I had been deprived of sleep for twenty four hours beforehand, but also because of the weird things that happened on the way.
On Shed September 2011 Edition
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