Sunday 9 March 2014

20-34. Southampton area 1928-9.

These are for the engine enthusiast rather than the calendar manufacturer. The first two show the process from original print to enhanced photograph. The original prints are 4 by 2 and a half or 4x3. Numbers and other details are written on the back. See in particular pictures 26 and 27 below for details on the back.

20. Southern E742A Camelot. D[own]. 3.45pm Sun 24.11.1929. "F.R., E.L." - unknown meaning.


21. E662I Dn 4.30. Sat. 9.6.1928. I is the power classification of the engine.


 22. GWR 3710 City of Bath. 26.5.1928. Dn 4.19 Special. Dull day.

23. GWR 3834 County of Somerset. Saturday 7.4.1928. Dull. 'Kids' passed away (sic)

24. B447 0.6.0. 2 domes  Btn [Brighton?]10.30. 11.7.1928. Class C2X Second dome: for top feed. Photographic details: Inf[inity] 100[th] Sec.


25. E418D U.S.8 up 10.45 Birk [Birkenhead]. An L12
Note: Photo details: Inf[inity].8  50[th] secs. Notice the clock: it is already 5 minutes late.
Here is the Birkenhead timetable. You will see that the route was Basingstoke, Reading, Oxford joining the Paddington-Birkenhead line further north via Birmingham Snow Hill, Wolverhampton, Wellington and Shrewsbury. The train consists of GWR carriages. The Southern engine would be changed to a GWR halfway. Timetable thanks to Geoff (I cannot see one in Bradshaw)

26. Ex LSWR  E744A Maid of Astolat  Sat 9.6.1928. Down Birkenhead, 4.25. Note the Southampton West (B) sign.

The back of this print: Date at the top. Engine number, 'A' meaning power type (passenger express). 836 has no meaning for me. Dn for Down, plus destination and time of departure. Below are camera settings: set at 100 feet, 5.6 aperture, exposure a fifthieth of a second. A light meter would have been essential.  It is worth saying that CH never saw the prints as I have been able to enhance them.

27. E755A The Red Knight plus 657I (hardly in shot) Down Spl 3.38 Whit Monday 28.5.1928

This is the back of the photo. You will see Dep for Depart, Dn for Down, Spl for Special. At the bottom are camera details: Inf[inity], 5.6 focal length, 100th  second exposure. He needed to know which settings worked best.

28. E452A Sir Meliagrance Depart Down 9.4.1928  Bank Holiday

29. "E487A (785) plus 134F.8 (230) [out of shot]. Down. Bank Holiday  9.4.1928."
The numbers in brackets are a bit of a mystery.

30. E744A Maid of Astolat Depart Down Birkenhead  4.29  26.5.1928

31. "E776A Sir Galagars Dep Down 10.40 (New place)  11.7.1928."
New place, anyone?

32. E524A Dn. 3.58. Very dull. 26.5.1928. Class H15.

33. E782A Sir Brian  Dn Dep  22.2.1928

34. E784A Sir Nerovens   Dn 4.2  Sat 19.10.1929.

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